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Lily Hevesh

Founder, Hevesh5 · 1 appearance on the record.

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Lily Hevesh designs and builds massive, intricate domino chain reactions, garnering over four million subscribers and billions of views on her YouTube channel, Hevesh5. She partnered with toy company Spin Master to launch her own precision-engineered toppling domino line, H5 Domino Creations, and was the subject of the 2021 documentary film Lily Topples the World.

12statements → 4claims → 3claims resolved → 67%fully supported → 4/5average certainty → 1.25/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated →

2 supported 0 partly supported 1 contradicted 1 not checkable as stated how the 4 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

4 assertions · 2 insights · 6 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 1 names no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Lily argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Hevesh: Warner Bros hired me in high school to train Will Smith
“I remember I was a senior in high school, and they contacted me, I believe it was Warner Bros. And essentially, they wanted me to be on set for two weeks, setting up these elaborate domino projects for Will Smith, and kind of teach him how to build dominoes, a…”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 19:32 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Hevesh: Retail stores sold no toppling-specific dominoes before our 2020 launch
“So it's important to note that there actually weren't toppling dominoes in retail. They only had game dominoes in stores.”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 28:37 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Lily Hevesh on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Lily Hevesh said on How I Built This that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Hevesh: YouTube channels with faces achieve significantly higher engagement metrics
“A lot of channels who showed their face and who were personalities had really high engagement. Like, the amount of comments they'd get, the amount of views per their subscriber ratio was really high, and I started to see this trend that being alive, like, livi…”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 10:41 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Disclosure
Hevesh's long-term goal is making domino art as popular as Lego
“My vision is to really future-proof domino art as an art form that's just as popular as Lego or another building toy.”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 35:58 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Disclosure
Hevesh prioritizes solo artistry over scaling a massive media empire
“In the interest of, you know, longevity, And keeping what I love doing, I now am focusing a little more on being the builder, being the artist behind the channel, and delegating the other stuff you know, like editing and the business end to other people, so I …”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 40:01 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Assertion Supported
Hevesh: Warner Bros hired me in high school to train Will Smith
“I remember I was a senior in high school, and they contacted me, I believe it was Warner Bros. And essentially, they wanted me to be on set for two weeks, setting up these elaborate domino projects for Will Smith, and kind of teach him how to build dominoes, a…”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 19:32 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Disclosure
Hevesh launched a domino agency to subcontract commercial projects to friends
“So we've started an agency, the Hevesh Five Domino Agency, where if companies want a domino art piece, I can hire you know, my friends who are domino builders, and we'll subcontract them to carry out the project through our company.”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 27:17 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Assertion Contradicted
Hevesh: Retail stores sold no toppling-specific dominoes before our 2020 launch
“So it's important to note that there actually weren't toppling dominoes in retail. They only had game dominoes in stores.”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 28:37 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hevesh: Early domino builders reverse-engineered designs from video screenshots
“At the time, people didn't really have a lot of tutorials, so I remember I'd have to, like, zoom in on screenshots of videos and, like, look at how people were building these structures and try to copy that to see, you know, if I can make a two-D pyramid or a …”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 4:42 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Disclosure
Hevesh: Campbell's Soup requested a commercial domino build at age 13
“My first business inquiry was when I was 13 years old. It was a spec commercial for Campbell's Soup, and they wanted me to build the soup can out of Domino's”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 8:07 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Disclosure
Hevesh shoots her domino topple videos with up to seven cameras
“Yeah, I film with between six and seven cameras. I got one GoPro camera on the overhead lots of different tripod stationary cameras, and I'll also be following it handheld.”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 16:50 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Disclosure
Hevesh's father serves as the full-time COO of her channel
“My dad is the chief operating officer. He's full time. He does everything related to the business, like taxes, financials, payroll, logistics, getting on conversations to see if an opportunity is worth pursuing.”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 25:54 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Insight
Hevesh: Toppling dominoes require a 2:1 ratio and square corners
“The size of the domino really makes a difference. It has to be a perfect two by one ratio, and the corners have to be really square in order to build them as tall as possible. If you have rounded corners, it's not going to be very stable”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 29:48 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh
Assertion Supported
Hevesh served as the sole judge on Dutch TV's Domino Challenge
“Yeah, it's called Domino Challenge, and this is literally Lego Masters, but with dominoes. And I was actually the only judge, but I was judging people based off of creativity and their construction technique”
Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 ▶ 33:20 HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
HIBT Lab! Hevesh5: Lily Hevesh Apr 27, 2023 27m
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