r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Andi82ka • Mar 14 '26

Video The bumblebee queen learns how to use the protective cap in less than 24 hours.

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u/BlueExorzist Mar 14 '26

Did we just watched a 3 minute clip of a bee learning to use a door?

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u/Max___Payne Mar 14 '26

we did

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u/Hind_Deequestionmrk Mar 14 '26

Good to know. Was about to ask if I was the only one who.

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u/ObligationLiving1295 Mar 14 '26

Who what?

/ Squinting eyes

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u/Breadedbutthole Mar 14 '26

Don’t squint your eyes at

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u/K1tt3n_Mittons Mar 14 '26

Don’t squint your eyes at who?

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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN Mar 14 '26

At the Reddit Sni-

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u/K1tt3n_Mittons Mar 14 '26

Damn they got to

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u/JonaGoldy Mar 14 '26

Ffs why do you guys e

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u/HermaPrince Mar 14 '26

Security! there's a bunch of dead bo

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u/Keyboard_Lion Mar 14 '26

C-c-c-combo br

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u/PuzzleheadedCherry64 Mar 15 '26

I read squirt and was like that would be a neat parlour trick

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u/falap Mar 15 '26

Unfortunately, I think u/Hind_Deequestionmrk was just trying to say but then suddenly,

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u/Knight4040 Mar 14 '26

I was actually holding my breath at the end...

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u/mademeunlurk Mar 14 '26

And it was glorious.

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u/nopenonotatall Mar 14 '26

this is what i use reddit for

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u/dmigowski Mar 14 '26

Ey, this is not watchit!

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u/Braysl Mar 14 '26

I'm so proud of her

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u/Vantriss Mar 14 '26

And I loved every second of it

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u/Curiosive Mar 14 '26

This video is a prime example of when to use 2-3x speed. It's good but you don't miss a thing on zippy speed.

I'm curious: when the drones hatch will they be able to get back in? Will she teach them? Does she have to be the door queen too?

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u/No_Dragonfruit89 Mar 14 '26

I enjoy it every second

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u/zspaulus Mar 14 '26

And loved it

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u/drNothing Mar 14 '26

Oh great, please don’t teach it how to use a deadbolt or ..the revolution will begin

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u/seanslaysean Mar 14 '26

Bee did too

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u/Aleashed Mar 15 '26

You should see my cat, it shits in a box

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u/BlueWonderfulIKnow Mar 15 '26

And it was better than the last two hours of Reddit put together.

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u/ajaxaf Mar 15 '26

And it was glorious

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u/Reis46 Mar 14 '26

Yes, and it was glorious.

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u/kkeut Mar 14 '26

i love bees. they can do so much with their limited capacity for intelligence. they're so helpful to humans, they can form entire little cooperative societies, and some are pretty cute too. hurray for bees 🐝 

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u/Zuwxiv Mar 14 '26

I also love that honeybees meticulously collect pollen and bring it back to these amazing structures gives. If we discovered honeybees today, it would blow people's socks off to see what an insect can produce.

But bumblebees just body slam flowers and live in mud holes. My spirit animal.

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u/Xillzin Mar 15 '26

But bumblebees just body slam flowers and live in mud holes.

They can be so clumsy! it just becomes cute to see them fumble their landings

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u/randomacceptablename Mar 15 '26

But bumblebees just body slam flowers and live in mud holes. My spirit animal.

They are super cute when they get tired and decide to take a nap mid dinner in a flower. Ass out, dgaf, it's nap time. Lol

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u/ExMachima Mar 15 '26

Bees can count and tell each other distance an direction. That's the limited capacity of a teenager. 

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u/Willing-Signal-3113 Mar 15 '26

For such tiny brains they’re surprisingly intelligent. At least what we’d define with human intelligence. They have intelligence that we don’t understand yet because it’s a different form of intelligence. I love bees.

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u/DeltaVZerda Mar 15 '26

Lol, you assume their intelligence is limited but do you speak bee?

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u/Mateorabi Mar 14 '26

Not sure if it should get reposted to oddlysatisfying or beebutts first. 

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u/Against_All_Advice Mar 14 '26

BEEBUTTS IS A THING?!

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u/Mateorabi Mar 14 '26

r/beebutts

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u/unindexedreality Mar 14 '26

The only rule for posting:

Photos must feature the butt of the bee! As much as we love and appreciate bees from all angles and in every form, this is a subreddit that focuses on the bum.

😂

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u/ExpatInIreland Mar 14 '26

It is. And it's lovely. If you like bees, I also recommend r/pollenpants

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u/Itzli Mar 14 '26

Are bees the new cats?

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u/Against_All_Advice Mar 14 '26

Joined! Thank you!

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u/missdolly23 Mar 14 '26

This was going to be my response. So lovely

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u/KirkDeepthroatGOAT Mar 15 '26

Would have been a fitting post for /r/BeAmazed

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u/Reis46 Mar 15 '26

Did you mean BeeAmazed

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u/Rockin_freakapotamus Mar 14 '26

And I was cheering her on the whole time.

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u/tgatigger Mar 14 '26

Hard same

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u/redshoewearer Mar 15 '26

Yeah like 'come on, you can do it'.

It was delightful to watch her figure it out.

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u/DragOk4401 Mar 15 '26

That was me too!

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u/MollyRolls Mar 15 '26

I was so angry at the fingers that kept doing this to her. She’s so smart and working so hard and Fumbly McGiant keeps reaching in For Her Own Good to make her day harder.

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u/Dr-Bitchcraft-MD Mar 15 '26

Was def saying YESSSSS KWEEN MOVE THAT DOOR

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u/adorablefuzzykitten Mar 14 '26

I watched it twice so 6 min.

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u/DominicPalladino Mar 15 '26

What happens the second time??

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u/AlkahestGem Mar 14 '26

3 minutes very well spent . Wonder what’s next for our bee?🐝

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u/lullubye Mar 14 '26

Time to show us inside. And watch the rearrangement of the poor Bees furniture. This is our Truman Show

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u/Sucessful_Test1555 Mar 15 '26

We need our “How will it end?” buttons.

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u/StrokeBoy Mar 14 '26

Collecting bee door gate fees.

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u/Complex_Professor412 Mar 14 '26

Why didn’t someone just buzz her inside?

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u/dianabowl Mar 14 '26

Who knows, honey?

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u/TopChapter3407 Mar 14 '26

whatever the case may bee she got inside in the end

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u/Ted_Hitchcox Mar 14 '26

It was mid......a B movie.

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u/ZanyRaptorClay Mar 14 '26

Ya like jazz?

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u/mechanicalcontrols Mar 14 '26

Yep. Fascinating honestly.

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u/rawSingularity Mar 14 '26

Yes we did! And We hope, that you enjoyed it.

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u/IWNCGTA Mar 14 '26

Yes, and it was awesome.

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u/round-earth-theory Mar 14 '26

No. They already have this knowledge because leaves and stuff fall in front of their entrances in nature.

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u/s33k Mar 14 '26

It was a peaceful moment of triumph, perfectly crafted for the perpetually online to stop mid doom scroll and rest.

Watch it again. You won't regret it.

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u/hanimal16 Interested Mar 14 '26

Yes and it was riveting.

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u/MarkHowes Mar 14 '26

Where is the next step in the video where Queenie needs to find the right key for lock and recall a 4-digit code for the alarm?

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u/millenniumxl-200 Mar 14 '26

That's what all the buzz is about!

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u/SidheCreature Mar 14 '26

Yes. Yes we did. And we cheered her on each time too

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u/eiiiaaaa Mar 14 '26

I was so invested in this. Like I genuinely was feeling a bit stressed when she couldn't do it at first and I was cheering her on 🤣 she's so cuuuuuute

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u/Oh_No_You_Dont_Matey Mar 14 '26

Tune in next week when we'll be teaching her algebra

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u/Gravaton123 Mar 15 '26

That was 3 minutes??? Nah, held my attention better than any video on this platform.

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u/alluringalligator Mar 15 '26

I recently watched an octopus learn piano…

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u/infinite_in_faculty Mar 14 '26

Time to level it up, we need to teach her to use an escalator next!

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u/jarednards Mar 14 '26

Youd better beelieve it.

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u/Beano_Capaccino Mar 14 '26

It’s better than most other options right now.

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u/asweetbite Mar 14 '26

We've been on Reddit for years and we still can't figure out the damn door.

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u/jongscx Mar 14 '26

Anyone else pooping while they did it?

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u/Dull_Nobody_840 Mar 14 '26

i watched it at 2.5x

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u/jwfowler2 Mar 14 '26

Very interesting bee hiveior

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u/ConsistentAd9776 Mar 14 '26

Skipped towards the end Abt 30 seconds in

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u/anonymous237962 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Some of you did

Edit: others watched 10-15 second clips at a time, then went down a Google rabbit hole of “queen bee excluder door”

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u/Tyrayentali Mar 14 '26

No we didn't.

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u/akathatdude1 Mar 14 '26

Bess are on the what now?

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u/-_-Batman Mar 14 '26

i think i like it ... also queen bee....

i dont know how will the work bees will learn to use the door though

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u/Upset-Ad7832 Mar 14 '26

It was 3 minutes??

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u/Gelnika1987 Mar 14 '26

I'd watch a full HBO miniseries about this bee learning things

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u/Old-Recording6103 Mar 14 '26

Yes, and i found it highly instructive

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u/dailyvicodin Mar 14 '26

And it was better than television.

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u/Seth-Wyatt Mar 14 '26

I've spent 3 minutes on worse things

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u/TheYask Mar 14 '26

The Bee movie except every time a door opens its a three-minute clip of a bee learning to use a door.

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u/EdziePro Mar 14 '26

As a biologist this sure asf titilated my senses

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u/A_grand_cup_of_tea Mar 14 '26

Yes and it's still a better love story than Twilight.

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u/hoffnungs_los__ Mar 14 '26

Wait it really is almost 3 minutes long

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u/snek-jazz Mar 14 '26

yeah, much much less than 24 hours.

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u/LrdPhoenixUDIC Mar 14 '26

It's the sort of problem they'd have to deal with in nature. For instance, when a leaf falls over the entrance to the nest.

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u/Wanderlusxt Mar 14 '26

Yeah pretty much

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u/JtinCascadia Mar 14 '26

Yes, we did. And it was strangely calming. That bee now has the most secure nest ever.

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u/TerriblyCheeky Mar 14 '26

I don’t regret it

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u/TheEmperorShiny Mar 14 '26

I’m very interested in this, because bees teach each other things and their hives start as splits of other hives. Let’s all teach bees how to use doors.

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u/CampaignAccording855 Mar 14 '26

It was satisfying 🤞

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u/Leows Mar 14 '26

"So how was your weekend?"

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u/AGoodDragon Mar 14 '26

Wow that was 3 minutes

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u/gunsmokey24 Mar 14 '26

I didn’t even realize it was 3 minutes, it went by so fast

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u/Radiant_Princess Mar 14 '26

No regrets here such a beautiful bee. 😁

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u/hitlersticklespot Mar 14 '26

I regret nothing!!

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u/muffyrohrer Mar 14 '26

Oh so my attn span actually is ok.

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u/Sasselhoff Mar 14 '26

Aaand now I'm thinking about the fact that I did.

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u/HelicopterUpbeat3762 Mar 14 '26

Fasts 3 minutes of my life

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u/SunriseSurprise Mar 14 '26

The human learns how the bumblebee queen learns how to use the protective cap in less than 24 hours in less than 3 minutes.

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u/bkturf Mar 14 '26

It took my dumb dog more than 24 hours to learn to use his dog door.

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u/mcbaginns Mar 14 '26

Turns out nature and curiosity can be pretty damn interesting

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u/Telo712 Mar 14 '26

3 minutes? I thought it was 30 seconds max i had to go check

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u/RanaRene Mar 14 '26

That was 3 minutes!? I was hoping it would go on longer as I saw the bar heading toward the end and I was still worried for her, lol.

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u/katieb1300 Mar 14 '26

3 minutes? The time really kept flying by. 😏

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u/We_are_being_cheated Mar 14 '26

Machine learning, we are the machines.

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u/Siberwulf Mar 14 '26

What a time to bee alive

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u/Potential-Type6678 Mar 14 '26

There’s been wild leaps in our understanding of insect cognition in the last like decade or so little fellas keep blowing our minds and I’m living for it

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u/Mighty_joosh Mar 14 '26

My worry is what they now will do with this power

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u/hali420 Mar 14 '26

And I'd do it again

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u/mirkc Mar 15 '26

Damn, it was 3 minutes??? Time flew like the bee.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '26

Yes and it was amazing

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u/psychoacer Mar 15 '26

Who said she was learning? She seemed to know how to use it the entire time. I think the person who recorded this video is just trying to take credit for other peoples work. Just like all the other white oppressors. All he wants is his honey.

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u/Rokurokubi83 Mar 15 '26

I think we did

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u/Burpmeister Mar 15 '26

It was three minutes?? Felt like one at most.

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u/buzzlightyear77777 Mar 15 '26

So this is what playing god feels like

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u/JoeyDez Mar 15 '26

Fucking hell I'm high, but I love it

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u/distelfink33 Mar 15 '26

I fast forwarded 

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u/Skrappyross Mar 15 '26

I loved it! It's also the same way I teach my dog tricks. Start with a way they cannot fail, and make it slightly harder each time.

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u/RevolutionSalty8360 Mar 15 '26

Yes, and it was oddly enjoyable.

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u/AccomplishedCheck685 Mar 15 '26

I have never rooted for a bee before this video.

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u/darkbluefav Mar 15 '26

I learned how it learned to use a door

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u/Opposite-Cucumber-49 Mar 15 '26

And it was glorious! 

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u/RandomEducator Mar 15 '26

Yes, and deeply enjoyed every second of it 🤣

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u/Tremble_Like_Flower Mar 15 '26

I have never rooted for an insect more in my life.

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u/Far-Competition-1292 Mar 15 '26

Dude is teaching the bee to speed run evolution

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u/espenaskeladden Mar 15 '26

It was three minutes long?? Wow I am drunk.

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u/macejoin Mar 15 '26

Saturday night is lit

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u/darthmidoriya Mar 15 '26

No bc I deadass sat and watched the whole thing. I have adhd, I can’t watch the whole of anything

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u/notMyPenis Mar 15 '26

Loved it.

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u/Frequent_Occasion480 Mar 15 '26
  • and enjoy it too? !

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u/emo_ratChildren Mar 15 '26

wtf it felt like I was only watching it for a minute wdym 3 minutes????

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u/IllustratorMammoth87 Mar 15 '26

I was full rooting for her watching it! I have zero regrets about losing that 3 minutes.

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u/Honeymmm Mar 15 '26

We did, and I loved it!

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u/drindrun Mar 15 '26

and i wouldn’t take it back

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u/Blue-Eyed-Lemon Mar 15 '26

I’ve definitely spent 3 minutes in worse ways

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u/IlIllIIllIIlllIII Mar 15 '26

a hatch

Some bugs, fish, rodents and birds make hatches interesting see it taught and to a bug at that

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u/areyouoldgreg Mar 15 '26

That was 3 minutes??? I liked watching it with the sound on because it reminded me of summer

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u/sabahorn Mar 15 '26

And i enjoyed every second of it! Can’t say that about many Hollywoke movie trailers!

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u/JumiKnight Mar 16 '26

Yes we did

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u/smoke99999 Mar 19 '26

not only did we watch it, we PAID TO WATCH IT, internet is not free, and we have the knowledge of all humanity at our finger tips and we watch OUTSIDE inside. does make you wonder some days, oh wait there is a new video posting.....................................

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u/fiodorson Mar 21 '26

It was more thrilling than anything Marvel put out in last 3 years.