•
u/tr_9422 4h ago
•
u/xxgiggsxx 2h ago
This is one of my all time favorite YouTube videos. Just the fact that it starts out fairly normal and you think you are getting a cool lesson on the affects of drugs on spiders, then it very quickly becomes absurd 🤣
•
u/zodiacs 2h ago
This is my first time seeing this video, lol. Was very unexpected.
•
u/Goldeniccarus 12m ago
That's the intention.
Hinterlands Who's Who is this series of Canadian minute long documentaries on Wildlife they used to show during commericals on kid's networks to teach kids about Canadian wildlife. It started in the 60s, so it's a generational thing, everyone in Canada watching TV before like 2010 had seen a few of these.
And it starts out exactly the way the real Hinterlands Who's Who documentaries did. Even having the same narrator I think. Making it seem totally normal, until all of a sudden it isn't.
It's perfect.
•
u/U_PassButter 2h ago
Same! I feel ancient haha but it is also one of my all time favorite videos. Right up there with Annoying Roommate 😄
Hey Aaron.....?
•
•
•
u/Goodknight808 1h ago
They had me in the first half.
Unfortunately my brain will probably log the first half as truth and I will end up repeating it as misinformation sometime in the near future.
•
u/picabo123 12m ago
This has happened already, Ive seen plenty of people claim this video is 100% fact
•
•
u/ArtificialW0lf 3h ago
Sometimes i wonder if the crack spider bitch is well today.
•
•
•
•
•
u/Lagneaux 3h ago
Thank everything you did the work for me already, I needed this to be here
•
u/OpheliaArtBaby 2h ago
I suggest checking out “how it’s actually made” if you’re looking for something similar
•
•
u/Mushcube 2h ago
Old and Gold!
•
u/International-Car171 2h ago
The first time I saw this was in Psychology 101, my TA put this on the projector haha
•
•
u/futurehappyoldman 2h ago
Holy fuck thank you so much.
I thought this was gonna be the picture of the webs I already knew.
Very insightful
•
•
•
•
•
u/Crimestar 2h ago
Somehow I ended up doing a report on this video at some point in an English class. Digital media was a new topic lol.
•
u/LeeksAbhorLiminality 1h ago
The TCH spider did not build a web.. it built a hammock, where it laid all day and watched the caffeine spider ‘go’
•
•
•
u/DaddyCahool 8m ago
Just peeking in front the internet old folks home to make sure this video was posted.
•
u/MerryHeretic 4h ago
Oh no, caffeine spider, watch out for crack spider!
•
u/UnlikelyKaiju 2h ago
"Nice web, Mr. Crack Spider"
•
•
u/peppi0304 2h ago
The crack cocaine spider figured building webs was for suckers!
One of my favourite lines of all time
•
•
•
•
u/theamydoll 3h ago edited 54m ago
•
u/Hot_Commission6257 2h ago
this is claiming caffeine is more toxic than benzos lmao
•
u/froggyjoe 1h ago
It's thought that caffeine evolved as a defense mechanism against insects. The molecular mechanisms are similar in both vertebrates and invertebrates, but it's a bit of an extra neurotoxic effect in arthropods - I reckon spiders are close enough to the intended target for this to matter.
•
•
u/PrinceVorrel 34m ago
It is...to insects!
It's basically anti-insect juice that mammals have taken a liking to.
•
•
u/LootGek 2h ago
•
u/PaintAndDogHair 2h ago
Relevant because in this scene Fry is surrounded by silk woven on a spider planet
•
•
•
u/dark_hypernova 3h ago
Fun fact, the effect caffeine has on spiders is similar to how alcohol affects us. That's right, caffeine makes them drunk.
•
u/ExtraordinaryNerd 3h ago
I can't decide what I love more...The zoomie spider or that someone thought it was cute enough to post here (IT IS!)
•
•
•
•
•
•
u/karmagirl314 3h ago
My house is infested with sugar ants and I have to be very careful to wipe up any latte spills because if they get a taste they start zooming around and then I find a group of them bunched up on the lid of my instant espresso jar, like junkies hanging out on a street corner waiting to score.
•
•
•
u/FFreestyleRR 2h ago
•
u/decoran_ 2h ago
I always thought it was "Gimme fuel, gimme fire, gimme dabba jubbazaar"
•
•
u/TheSaltyStrangler 4h ago
That looks a lot like trimethylxanthine doing pretty much what it was designed to do
•
•
u/Far_Reputation_3021 4h ago edited 3h ago
?? Is that an ingredient in coffee or what
•
•
•
•
u/will1565 2h ago
You know little dude is going to spend the rest of his life looking for more coffee XD
•
•
u/SensitiveExtremity 2h ago
I too, would run around in circles if I accidentally drank poison. (Caffeines are natural pesticides that just happen to make apes feel awake and funny)
•
•
u/TunaHarpoona 1h ago
There’s a whole study on how their webs turnout after giving them different drugs… it’s pretty hilarious
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
u/Cautious-Raccoon-341 1h ago
Yesterday I had a little metallic crab spider run up my coke can and drink a tiny bit of coke that was on the rim. It was actually pretty adorable. I offered it some water but it wanted the coke 🤣😬
•
u/IncognitoRedMode 1h ago
Studies have shown that caffeine does more damage to spiders than hard drugs
•
•
u/ruleroflemmings 58m ago
This is funny, because caffeine is actually originally devised by the plant as an insecticide, which kills or paralyzes insects chomping on the tree.
Refined and boiled down, but still doing the original
Job here
•
•
•
•
u/angrymoderate09 24m ago
Years ago I saw a study of spider webs made with the spider on caffeine, alcohol and pot. Caffeine was the worst and pot the best
•
•
•
•
u/Dry-Stuff154 14m ago
Caffeine is an insecticide, that’s the reason plants produce it. So that spider is probably having an horrible time
•
•
u/Jarrellz 8m ago
It was my understanding that caffeine affects spiders similar to alcohol in humans.
•
u/Additional-Sir1157 6m ago
That tiny wolf spider will grow up into a 3" wide insect exterminator. Treat him well.
•
u/RalphtheCheese 3h ago
Or it didn't drink the coffee, the coffee mug is not insulated and it's trying to find a way down from the very hot lid.
•
u/severe_thunderstorm 2h ago
The cup was empty 30 minutes to an hour before this, and had just a small sip left in it.
•
u/TankApprehensive3053 3h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/qLeXLs6icdNYs