One thing I noticed is that a lot of the ones that go really, really bad differ from the ones that don't cause serious injury mainly in terms of the amount of the flammable liquid the person spreads on himself and the size of the area the flammable substance is spread over.
The one used as an example in the OP video, the one in which the boy is standing in the bathtub, is a particularly awful one. That boy spreads hand sanitizer all over his torso, pretty much everywhere. Then, when his whole upper body goes up in flames, it takes quite a lot of time before his friends can get the flames stamped out.
If, like the less extreme ones, he had just put a small dab of flammable stuff on his body, it would still be stupid and dangerous as hell, but he would not have had his entire upper body go up in flames the way he did.
Even as I watched that horrifying video of the boy in the bathtub, I was thinking he was actually much luckier than it seems, because he could easily have been more severely injured or even killed. Thank goodness his hair didn't catch on fire, because it easily could have. It was long enough for the flames or at least a spark to reach it, and especially if he had any sort of hair product on it, even the tiniest spark could have sent his whole head up in flames!
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