It’s kind of wild that there’s an entire YouTube niche in which people buy the latest expensive gadgets and then find creative ways to destroy them. JerryRigEverything is one of the bigger names, and he didn’t hold back when it came to a destruction test of the iPhone Duo .

In addition to subjecting the display to everything from a knife to chainmail armor, he removed the nanotexture layer and said that it kind of looks better …

The first piece of bad news he discovers is that the inner display begins showing scratches at just level 2 hardness on a 10-point scale. You can even create visible grooves with a fingernail. The good news, however, is that the nano-texture display does an excellent job at hiding imperfections when the screen is on.

The iPhone scratches at a level two with deeper grooves at a level fingernail. While the screen is on, these scratches just magically disappear, just like that center crease disappears. It’s like in the construction industry.…