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10 Products That’ll Turn CAMPING Into GLAMPING!

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Ten glamping gadgets step into the Dope or Nope ring, and only the “prima donna” test survives.

Matthias, Tanner Malmedal, and Michael Badal are back at it on Dope or Nope, the unboxing and review channel Matthias built under his Hi5 Studios banner, and this time the target is the gap between roughing it and living it up outdoors. In “10 Products That’ll Turn CAMPING Into GLAMPING!,” the trio runs ten oddball camping upgrades through their studio setup, weighing comfort against absurdity before slapping each one with the channel’s binary verdict: DOPE or NOPE.

• The video pits ten glamping-focused products — spanning luxury comfort accessories, heating and cooking gear, leisure equipment, and tent upgrades — against each other for a DOPE or NOPE verdict.
• Matthias, Tanner Malmedal, and Michael Badal test the gear themselves in the Dope or Nope studio rather than out in the field, leaning on the show’s usual reaction-driven format.
• The episode plays up a running bit: rugged wilderness survival versus the hosts’ self-described “prima donna” taste for excessive comfort and boujee outdoor living.

The Setup: Roughing It Versus Living It Up

Dope or Nope built its audience on exactly this kind of head-to-head — strange products get unboxed on camera, tested live, and either earn the DOPE stamp or get tossed in the NOPE pile. For the glamping episode, the target audience is anyone who loves the outdoors but hates what “outdoors” usually means: bad sleep, no plumbing, and dinner cooked over a propane hiss. Matthias frames the whole thing around that tension between wilderness purism and comfort obsession, and Tanner and Michael lean hard into the joke that none of them actually want to suffer for a sunset view.

That self-aware “prima donna” framing isn’t incidental — it’s the engine of the episode. Every product gets judged not just on whether it works, but on whether it lets a camper skip the parts of camping that actually feel like camping.

Ten Products, One Rating System

The ten items cut across four rough categories: plush comfort accessories meant to replace whatever you’d normally sleep or sit on, heating and cooking apparatuses built to bring kitchen-grade convenience to a campsite, leisure gear aimed at making downtime feel like a resort stay, and add-ons that turn a standard tent into something closer to a hotel room. Each product gets unboxed, tried out on camera, and reacted to in real time before the hosts render their call.

It’s either DOPE… or it’s NOPE.

That verdict system is the whole appeal of the format — no hedging, no star ratings, just a gut call the moment a product proves itself or falls apart. It’s the same structure that’s carried Dope or Nope through years of unboxing videos, and it’s what turns a simple gear review into a bit with actual comedic stakes.

The Character Dynamic Driving the Bit

What separates this episode from a straightforward gear roundup is the chemistry between the three hosts. Matthias plays it relatively straight as the channel’s founder, while Tanner and Michael supply the comedic contrast — reacting to each glamping product as either validation of their soft-living instincts or proof that camping culture has officially lost the plot. The show leans into that dynamic across every product, using the “wilderness survival versus boujee comfort” gag as connective tissue between segments.

It’s the same character-driven approach that’s made Dope or Nope a recurring stop for viewers who want product reviews with actual personality attached, rather than a dry spec sheet. Fans of that same escalating-stunt energy have also shown up for other InfoSearched-covered challenge videos, including World’s Most Dangerous Escape Room! and World’s Largest Challenge!, both of which trade on that same mix of over-the-top setups and real-time reactions.

By the time the tenth product gets its verdict, the episode has made its point without needing to say it outright: glamping gear exists precisely for people like Matthias, Tanner, and Michael, and the next Dope or Nope haul is just a matter of which absurd category — kitchen gadgets, backyard gear, travel accessories — gets the unboxing treatment next.