“Unboxing” is a gear porn’s category, as “X vs Y comparision”, “no talking”, “all presets” etc…
I’ve never really been into them, but I have pulled them up a couple times to see what kind of power adapter something comes with.
And on a somewhat related note, I wonder when boxing videos will become a thing? Like, check out this cool synth, and now I’m gonna box it back up. It would be both fun, and challenging.
I’ve painfully watched a few to see what’s included, sometimes you don’t get “what’s in the box” from the manufacture/retailers site.
Otherwise why ruin your own experience. It’s like a boat, the best two days of owning gear is the day you get it and the day you sell it.
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“Will it blend,” though?
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Ever wondered if that synth you are selling came with power\cables\foam\silica gel??
Check out the unboxing video 
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Don’t get it either, my cut to the chase mentality I guess.
Oddly though I find mailbag videos relaxing, 
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After the excitement of a synth unboxing video…Car cleaning videos as a downer.
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Must say my video addiction — kinda like unboxing — are synth teardown and/or repair videos. I’d power watch Marcus Fuller videos, with tear downs of synths i’d never even heard of, all day long. (Though Fuller has slowed down and doesn’t post as many.)
I just posted a double teardown video on the two Behringer 2600s.
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I also appreciate synth demos multitracked with xyz only…
Unboxing video - after 15 minutes, oooh and here it is. In the next video I’ll turn it on.
And ‘reaction videos’ give me the same sick in the mouth feeling…
OMG WTF!!! who are these guys, who’s playing the drums? (usually the Beatles)
OMG WTF!!! Who’s playing the guitar? Is this live? (usually AC/DC)
FYI teardown videos, I like.
Almost as bad as what comes next, a ton of demos making the machine sound bland with badly produced loops that seem to get thousands of views and people saying wow this sounds amazing.
This is the contemporary culture we are living in, whether we like it or not. People demand online entertaiment on scale and not everyone is into movie series, podcasts or gear demos. And not everyone is talented enough to do a TikTok sketch, so all that stuff exists.
Though I always wonder what aliens or future archeologists (of data centers) would think about those countless videos with unboxing, reactions, soft-tapping or whispering, etc 
For me it’s ok. I would not watch it. It’s a format and like every format it could be parodied/exploited.