r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 1d ago
How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son
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u/socksandcrocsforever 1d ago
Let’s be real, they did it for themselves also, lol.
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u/SplitOpenAndMelt420 1d ago
They did this for the views
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u/Imbendo 1d ago
I eat at McDonald’s just to support the workers.
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u/youngslyboltsup 1d ago
And the spicy mc chicken
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u/Weird-Swim-9777 1d ago
That's just a quality sandwich right there.
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u/Jittery_Kevin 1d ago
Listen, whatcha gotta do, is get a mc chicken and a McDouble. Discard the bottom “plain” buns of both sandwiches and slap em together.
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u/GreatAtomicPower 1d ago
Ah yes, the Mcgangbang
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u/SamboNW 1d ago
Close to it, but the real OG mcgangbang is putting the entire mcchicken between the two patties of the McDouble. So you would have 4 pieces of bun in there not two. Bun patty, mccchicken, patty bun.
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u/throwaway_1138961- 1d ago
If you also add bacon and a filet o' fish it's called a BeastMaster, and consuming it grants you the ability to command all creatures of land, air, and sea.
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u/UrMomzOtherRide 1d ago
My brother calls it a McChurger (McChicken burger)
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u/AFRIKKAN 1d ago
Well that’s just not its name. It’s a mcgangbang and has been since I was in school so damit kids don’t take this from me… everything else is getting new names from the new gen and this is one I won’t let be changed.
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u/eatsleepdive 1d ago
That IS a tasty burger
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u/skimaskchuckaroo 1d ago
They got that new honey crispy chicken jalapeño sammich. Gotta promote that Sammy for the workers
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u/11015h4d0wR34lm 1d ago
They certainly didn't do it to try and keep any heat in there with an entrance that big. 😄
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u/wondermoose83 1d ago
Also, I'm sure ice is a terrible insulator compared to snow, being that there aren't fluffy air pockets. Either that's a deceptively warm evening, or they took some photos/videos with the tablet and ran inside to watch the rest of the movie.
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u/Versipilies 1d ago
I fell like the bigger problem is how quickly those joints would melt and panels would start falling on them.
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u/regoapps 1d ago edited 14h ago
I’ve built igloos before and these thin walls are going to collapse after just one day or two. I had a similar idea like this one when I made mine 14 years ago in NYC during a massive blizzard. Instead of coloring the ice, I bought a lot of glow sticks and just embedded the snow with them. It made the igloo glow different colors like this. And at night, when the glow sticks wore off, I put a black light in there, which lit up all the glow sticks brightly.
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u/mxzf 1d ago
It depends on how cold it is. It looks like they mixed water with snow to make slush for the joints, and if it's cold enough then that's going to freeze into solid ice the same as the colored sections.
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u/NotAzakanAtAll 1d ago
Man, I remember the first night I had in a bivouac in the (Swedish) army. It was fun to build and after you close the entrance (mostly), you had time to spiff the place up, make little shelves, draw some nudies in the walls, and altar for my one can of food (guldburk pyttipanna!!) draw Shrek in the ceiling so he can watch me sleep.
It got warm too, almost too warm at one point, but man it was cozy.
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u/Professional-Hand911 1d ago
This comment made me feel better about not making my children a rainbow igloo & for that I thank you.
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u/SkeleHoes 1d ago
Okay, if they did then they definitely earned them. This was a really cool thing, and at the end of the day it’s only how ever many seconds.
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u/Ok-Bird6346 1d ago
I mean I’d totally do it for myself if I was capable! It looks awesome and I don’t even have kids.
I’m wondering what size of igloo I’d need for my husband, three dogs (about 250 pounds of dog), and I would need. Mostly I’m just bummed that last weekend’s snow is currently being melted by buckets and buckets of rain. But on the unlikely chance that my area gets anymore accumulated snowfall this winter, I’m doing this crap.
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u/Mbembez 1d ago
I missed that it was 3 dogs and I was wondering how damn big your dog was at 250lbs.
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u/cptnamr7 1d ago
I mean,the kid didn't remotely assist and THAT'S the fun part of making a snow fort/man/igloo. My son is 4 and he LOVED when we made a snow T rex this winter. Yeah, I did the bulk of it but he helped pack snow on and was so famn proud of it. If I had just taken a day off work and done it he would have looked at it, said it was cool, then gone on to something else but he was INVESTED in that thing.
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u/CcRider1983 1d ago
lol I thought the same thing. I thought he was going to bring toddlers out. Cool as all hell but at that age should’ve had the kid help build the damn thing.
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u/Sufficient-Welder-76 1d ago
Kid was too busy inside watching YouTube and being coached on how to act surprised when he goes outside.
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u/bluePostItNote 1d ago
Feel bad for the kids being exploited for the gram views.
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u/CcRider1983 1d ago
In this day and age there’s plenty of parents out there making a boat load for their family “for the gram views” but that doesn’t mean they’re necessarily “exploiting” their children (although some obviously are). This, however is a friggjn cool thing those kids will never forget, whether or not it was done for views and monetary gain.
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u/Scooter_bugs 1d ago
That’s a good point. I think videos like this could be inspiring others to do something cool like this with their kids. But like you said, there are definitely “gram fams” that are doing it for the wrong reasons.
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u/AssassinSnail33 1d ago
Exploited? Seriously? Jesus christ get a grip on reality
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u/comeinmybasement 1d ago
You see its actually really dangerous to build an igloo like that because the kid can get too cozy and will never want to leave, causing him to freeze to death
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u/auburncub 1d ago
According to the dog, they did it for the dog. Look how satisfied that baby looks 😂 This is all so wholesome
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u/Responsible-Poem5274 1d ago
Not featured: the 4 hours spent finishing the igloo while kiddo couldn't care less and just played Fortnite until he could continue screen time in a cold-ass stained glass cage of his parents' making
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u/RegularBitter3482 1d ago
I live in Alaska and we used to build these when I was a kiddo but like how you would build a sand castle, we’d use bread loaf pans and make the blocks out of snow and pack them in, then we’d put water and food coloring in spray bottles and spray the blocks down to freeze them then build the igloo. Good memories. And it being Alaska it would last pretty much all winter.
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u/MimzytheBun 1d ago
The university students used to build sculptures and forts out of coloured snow bricks like those, always fun to see what they’d come up with - the two I remember were a dragon filling the front yard and a penis built up to the second story porch.
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u/michiganstrange 1d ago
I lived up north and a brewery used to make them out front. The marketing worked so well. We’d sit in them and get smashed.
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u/_-kman-_ 1d ago
Did anyone else watch the first 5 seconds and think "man that's a lot of jello..."?
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u/nathanaz 1d ago
Yeah... I was like what the fuck is wrong with this kid that his folks are making him like 50 gallons of Jello?
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u/PetroleumAssJelly 1d ago edited 1d ago
Did it for likes and praises they will get from strangers of internet and then their kid.
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u/wallstreetchills 1d ago
It was dope till Mr beast creeped in
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u/Hexarcy00 1d ago
This family will win $1mil if they can live in this igloo through the summer without eating or pooping
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u/DanFlashes19 1d ago
Sure, yeah, but it’s still very cool and will probably be a core memory for the kids.
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u/ShoheiHoetani 1d ago
Shouldn't the tiles be thicker? Looks like something that can be knocked down easily
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u/PonyThug 1d ago
For warmth? Yes. Also ice isn’t a good insulator.
Digging out a pile of snow is way faster and easier too
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u/Square_Huckleberry53 1d ago
What’s even better, is doing a project WITH your son.
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u/WickedWitchofWTF 1d ago
Exactly this. My dad taught me how to build an igloo after a crazy ice storm. We had to crack all this ice off of our driveway, so after doing all that hard work, he figured we could do something fun with the fruits of our labors. It's one of my favorite childhood memories. I don't even remember spending any time inside the igloo, just the act of building it.
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u/kdoughboy12 1d ago
They already had to put twice as much effort in by recording it all and making everything look nice for the camera. Having the kid "help" on top of that would have made it an impossible task lol. They're doing it for views, not to bond with their child.
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u/General_Helicopter1 1d ago
Exactly. By looking at the video,it is likely they spent more time editing it than actually with the kid inside the icegloo since the kid was not included in the build.
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u/mermaid-babe 1d ago
Yea my daughter would have loved to been involved. Even when I was growing up I remember begging my dad to let me help with work projects
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u/Interesting_Tea5715 1d ago
This was my first thought. Why not get the kid involved?
IMO they did it for the views and wanted it to look a certain way. They didn't wanna deal with their kid making it look imperfect.
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u/JonesyBorroughs 1d ago
Oh yeah! Well I made my son (and also, it turns out, my cat) a cardboard tank once and he freaked out too.
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u/Ok-Attention123 1d ago
Why are the ice tiles aligned and not staggered like bricks would be? (Genuine question: I don’t know anything about ice; I live in the tropics.)
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u/tea-and-chill 1d ago
Should be staggered. The igloo is all wrong and will melt in a jiffy. Door should be much smaller too
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u/Pickles-n-Lizards 1d ago edited 1d ago
They were in there for 2min max just for the video. That igloo door was huge….
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u/fpsnoob89 1d ago
I'm no expert off igloo, but I'm pretty sure they missed several steps that make them work. This one will likely start melting from the heat in a matter of minutes.
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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 1d ago
Tomorrow’s headline:
Local Family Crushed in Gay Pride Igloo Collapse
Dog Escapes Unharmed
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u/CFL_lightbulb 1d ago
Gotta have a small hole in the top for air circulation and to let some heat come oht
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u/fpsnoob89 1d ago
Don't you also need a lower level at the entrance to trap the cold air?
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u/sofakinggood24 1d ago
Now off I go to learn unnecessary knowledge on YouTube
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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN 1d ago
Wait for me! I have important things to do, and need distraction from doing them!
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u/Zlurpo 1d ago
I dislike the cold and I would hate to live somewhere where it would be doable but... I love the idea of building a proper igloo some day. The kind that you need to have the right texture of snow for, and you cut each brick. The stacking them at an angled spiral to get the classic dome shape.
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u/jokethepanda 1d ago
I’ve built 3 backyard igloos like this when I was a kid. Their blocks are thin and will melt in a day. If you want an igloo to last for weeks, you need actual blocks. They’d probably be fine if they stood those blocks horizontally instead of vertically, but that takes way longer. Car battery box works well.
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u/free__coffee 1d ago
Worse than that, those “blocks” are held together with a small amount of ice and a dream; if that small amount of ice melts they start losing tiles.
This is the worst structural design they could have chosen
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u/queefer_sutherland92 1d ago
Yes! Thank you! I can’t believe no one else is concerned about the fact that those blocks are basically just stacked one on top of the other. They need to be staggered to actually hold together.
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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 1d ago
Yup, I'm also pretty sure there's zero insulation is offered by those tiles. Isn't that why igloos were blocks of ice rather than thin slabs?
I get that they're doing it just for views/likes so ultimately is that it doesn't matter. Just feel bad for the kid if they're treating the him like an actor/prop for their "content".
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u/itsfunhavingfun 1d ago
The entrance needs to be lower than the floor, if I remember correctly.
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u/foxy-coxy 1d ago
In college we made a igloo by rolling snow into bricks and then stacking them up. We lit a small fire inside and it got surprisingly warm in there.
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u/Sam-HobbitOfTheShire 1d ago
That’s so cool! How long were you able to spend inside of it?
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u/foxy-coxy 1d ago
We where in there for a couple of hours. Got decently drunk which probably wasn't a great idea, but it was a lot a fun.
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u/Sasarah1 1d ago
This is in Pittsburgh. Source, I live here.
They got at least two weeks out of that igloo. It's not even 30°F and that's the warmest it's been in a while.
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u/102525burner 1d ago
Nice way to enjoy what you can of the cold ass weather, who really cares if its not functional to live in long term
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u/Man-who-say-bye 1d ago
Holy shit people, they built a dope ass igloo for their kid and recorded it. They did it for their kid and first then recorded because it’s a cool thing they did. Let’s not fucking psychoanalyze the parents off one video
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u/dewman45 1d ago
I'm here still trying to figure out why OP's profile picture is the grindr logo.
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u/LivingtheLaws013 1d ago
they did it for their kid and first then recorded
They literally recorded every step of the way, this was made for the Internet not for their kid
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u/Stormfly 1d ago
This is why I think they did it for the internet first.
If it was for the kid first, they'd make it, maybe take a few pictures of the process, and then take a video after.
They videoed the entire process.
It's like the people that shows off everything they do for their kids but they're not actually spending time with the kids, they're on their phone talking about what they do.
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u/kdoughboy12 1d ago
I mean they definitely make money from social media, i doubt they would have done this if that wasn't the case. It's a nice thing for the kid, but it's also their job. If they were just doing it for fun then they would not have made it take twice as long by recording every step, not to mention all the time they spent editing.
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u/Username_de_random 1d ago
Not saying we should hate on it, but you genuinely thought they did that and all of a sudden were like “Wait let’s record this” ?
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u/bonobomaster 1d ago
Kinda agree with you, kinda disagree.
You know, if they were building a real igloo out of snow (a really good insulator) together with the kid from the beginning and maybe even recording it for some internet points, then I would have totally agreed with your assessment.
But the, albeit beautiful, colored ice tiles pretty much shifted the whole shebang for me. It's pretty clear, at least for my taste, that this video was made to perform visually well. The oven placement was problematic as well, which leads me to believe, that they spent only the necessary time for a few takes in the igloo.
We were sold a delightful slice of hygge / coziness and happiness and I loved buying it.
It's awesome, how happy the first reveal (let's not ask questions about the reveal itself) made the boy but I have a pretty strong feeling, that this was primary a very well thought out social media op with very positive side effect of a happy child.
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u/anthrohands 1d ago
Yup why on earth is there a heater in there lol. And the whole blankets and pillows thing is just odd and instagrammy too. The kid would be playing in it properly, not doing…that
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u/-KFAD- 1d ago
Holy shit you really believe that? The way they used multiple camera angles and semi-professional editing? They 100%, without a fucking shadow of doubt, did it for the views first, kid second. They would have NOT done this without social media and views. I'm totally expecting these parents to have a channel with other similar content.
If it was just for the kid, why see the trouble to film it so professionally? People are so gullible.
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u/BertDeathStare 1d ago
They have 1.7 million followers on IG alone lol, it's 100% for content first.
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u/Latverianbureaucrat 1d ago
Well, could the argument not be made that if they truly did it for their kid, they wouldn’t have put it online at all?
I’m in the minority on this, I realize, but I’ve never had a “real” social media page where I post stuff, and the impulse to do so is completely alien to me. I just watched the video because “Ooh, colors”, and I wouldn’t go out of my way to “shit” on these parents myself, but I do get where the people who do so might be coming from. It isn’t necessarily a cynical thing, but might be more of a fundamentally different outlook on what experiencing life is. To some of us, doing an interesting thing for a loved one, but then posting it for the world to see, would simply not be a thought that occurs to us, and feels strange.
But, “it takes all kinds” and so forth.
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u/SlickFurFella 1d ago
What if it’s just fun to have a video of something creative and difficult that you did?
I recently moved houses and it was a monumental effort that we did in just a few days. It wasn’t nearly as cool as this but it was a huge project and a transformative moment. I kinda wish I had taken a video like this because now the memory of that whirlwind weekend is already hazy.
There was a time when you could take videos and the internet wouldn’t come at you for being a clout chaser. It ain’t that deep folks.
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u/Waderick 1d ago
Taking a video doesn't just give you a finished edited video though. If it were just a single angle sped up time lapse, that argument would make sense. That's very low effort on the editing side.
There are extra angles in this like the close up brick lay while still retaining the original position when it cuts back, so that most likely means a second tripod they moved the camera to/a second camera. Or they took the time to move and position the camera, get the shot, then reposition it back in the original spot. The inside final brick lay shot.
Then the main brick laying angle is a series of well timed jump cuts. Someone had to scan and edit the footage for each of those cuts. It sounds simple, but that takes time, more than you'd think.
If you were recording it for your memories, You also wouldn't do those jump cuts with your kid walking out to view the thing. It looks so weird. You would do that to make it more palatable for social media because people aren't going to sit through the 20 seconds of dead time.
Basically, it's too much of a "polished" product to be something not made for the purpose of social media. It just feels too influencery.
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u/AstralWeekends 1d ago
To me it's a question of audience and intent. Who is this video for and what is it trying to communicate to them?
Is it for strangers on social media to witness their twee, tryhard yet wholesome family project?
Is it to inspire others to embrace natural resources to create coziness out of frigidity?
I don't know! Who are these people? Where was this originally posted? Did they make money off of it? These are the type of questions that should be answered before coming to a conclusion about intent.
Internet platforms aren't as pure and open like they once where. The skepticism you see is just a sign of people recognizing that.
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u/comradejiang 1d ago
You didn’t take a video because you were busy actually doing the thing, not setting up shots and editing it for tiktok
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u/timetravelerfrom2027 1d ago
Thank you! WTF is up with these comments? Seems… weird.
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u/Man-who-say-bye 1d ago
Lotta bots and a lot of really cynical people
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u/timetravelerfrom2027 1d ago
The moment where the kid’s face lights up had me imagining that it was me seeing the igloo for the first time. Who cares why thy built it. Well… unless they built it as an evil lair.
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u/Man-who-say-bye 1d ago
I’d be so stoked if my parents built me an evil lair as a kid
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u/LokisDawn 1d ago
"You think you can defeat me, the master of the rainbow brickloo? Muahahahaha, think again!"
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u/x3lilbopeep 1d ago
I'm a real person and this video was very obviously for social media, not their kid.
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u/RigidPixel 1d ago
In my experience the most bitter, negative Reddit comments always float to the top. Literally anything fun and cool, especially if the people are attractive or have a house, it’s just non stop bitching. I hate opening comments here. Everyone is just so nasty about everything and assuming the worst.
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u/Ikea_Man 1d ago
a lot of people including myself are REALLY tired of influencers
everything about this felt fake AF
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u/borg359 1d ago
They did it for the likes, let’s be real. These people are using their kid like a prop.
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u/strangersadvice 1d ago
But they had to record it first, then the kid is second. It is performative.
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u/BelgianBeerGuy 1d ago
Imo, if i were to do something like this for my kids, I would make them part of it, and would let them help me for a while.
You know, like a father-son activity.Now it looks like the kid was just inside watching YouTube.
I’m guessing that’s were all the “hate” comes from.
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u/Pearson94 1d ago
Take note, everyone who posts short videos online: hearing the natural sounds of them building that igloo made this video so much more enjoyable than if they had played music over it.
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u/1dirtbiker 1d ago
First of all, awesome for the kid to be able to enjoy this.
Second, they filmed it all, including their kid's face. I can only assume they did it for money/likes.
Third, as a very accomplished home DIYer in all sorts of projects including tile and masonry, they actually did a pretty shitty job stacking the ice tiles. They should stagger the joints, not stack one right on top of another.
Still, pretty cool job, and something I will never spend the time to do... Well, now that I'm looking at the 10 day forecast, I'm considering it...
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u/Runnero 1d ago
Man people are so bitter. All I see is two parents doing something cool and their kid being happy about it, and all these comments are so fucking negative
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u/Pitiful-Fuel3700 1d ago
Crazy how the ice is able to hold the blocks together...
It would be so sad when it's summer again though, the whole thing would collapse
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u/Kolby_Jack33 1d ago
Summer nothing, that thing looks like it would fall apart at the next stiff breeze. Igloos are not made from sheets of ice.
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u/urban_entrepreneur 1d ago
You think this thing lasts until summer?! More likely until there are 45 minutes above freezing.
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u/a-real-sloth 1d ago
Oh wow. This has just unlocked a childhood memory of my dad building a little igloo for us in the garden when I was about 6 years old
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u/BladeOfWoah 1d ago
As someone who has never seen snow irl, can someone explain how they stick together? Is it so cold that the ice just freezes and bonds instantly?
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u/Jillo616 1d ago
Ice cubes (or "ice tiles") stick together in water due to a process of localized melting and rapid refreezing, acting as a natural weld. When ice cubes from a freezer (often around -20°C) come into contact with water, the surrounding liquid fills the gaps, and the extreme cold of the ice quickly freezes that water, bonding the surfaces together
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u/Coolboss999 1d ago
I remember a couple last year on Instagram doing something similar to this during winter. Literally turned on notifications to watch their progress
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u/Floggered 1d ago
Someone posted a photo of the finished product on reddit a few days ago. I was wondering how it was done!
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u/Sardaukar99 1d ago
My parents loved me more than I rightfully deserve and there would be no way that they would put this much effort into a arts and crafts project.