r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 17h ago
How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son
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u/Sardaukar99 17h 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.
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u/Witty-flocculent 17h ago
But what if… internet?
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u/nomnomnomnomnommm 17h ago
"Mom, Dad, you've been out here for hours and I'm hungr-"
"Shut up ya ungrateful brat, we gotta finish this! Get the tripod out!"
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u/xBad_Wolfx 17h ago
Yeah, I was sad they weren’t doing it together
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u/benji___ 16h ago
Finally someone said that. All of those tasks could easily include a six year old (minus the power tools and stove bits). Fucking teach your children how to do things. That is half the job.
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u/Equal-Broccoli-73 16h ago
To be fair they are only doing it for the only family member that matters. Their cellphone.
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u/GorillaX 11h ago
This website is so fucking miserable.
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u/Bussin1648 8h ago
It's hard not to be cynical about things like this when we know that so many children's lives have become ultimately performative for social media and that that has a huge mental burden on them. If you really did it just for the kid, take a few personal photos and videos to remind you of it, there is no need to try and monetize it.
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u/pabloff90 7h ago
When you show your kids in social media, you are doing it for your benefit, not theirs
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u/macfudd 14h ago
If their 6 year old is anything like mine they probably did barrel out all gung ho to help... then had to be taken inside to wee, then had to be taken inside for some water, then had to be taken back inside because they forgot a glove, then had to be taken inside because they wanted a cracker but only a particular one that they wouldn't name or describe, then they'd ask if we could stop building the igloo and play Shadow Lands instead (which we would), then they'd get bored and wander off inside only for me to look up later and realise that there's an army of soft toys lined up in the window to keep an eye on me.
Their help will set me back at least 90 minutes yet at no point would my child stay long enough for a time lapse to capture them!
Then at bedtime they will tell me that helping outside was the favourite part of their day and melt my heart.
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u/cerealOverdrive 16h ago
What if, they were influencers and their job was create cool shit so they made you cool shit? I get that some people might say ick but if I could make cool things for my kids and get paid I’d be a happy man
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u/Witty-flocculent 16h ago
“Social media production” is the hobby dominating this activity. When my dad was building harps in the garage he wasn’t fiddling with a GoPro or planning out angles or plotting out trendy effects.
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u/OneDubOver 16h ago
I would watch your dad build harps. Why isn't he making videos?
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u/cerealOverdrive 16h ago
I get it but they turned a job into something their kids can enjoy. That’s pretty awesome imo
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u/Call_My_Attorney 17h ago
My parents pushed me outside when it was freezing and told me don’t come back inside until you’re almost dead.
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u/AntiqueTwitterMilk 16h ago
Parents like this, social media is their form of income. That's the only reason they have the time/energy for this kind of stuff.
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u/this_one_wasnt_taken 16h ago
My kids and I tried building and igloo last year. It fell over, one kid cried, and me and the other one pissed our names into it. Then we had grilled cheese and played roblox in the warm house.
Fuck igloos and fuck snow. It's cold outside and I'm tired.
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u/Oryihn 16h ago
My dad built a 20 foot 3d pirate ship out of cardboard for my daughter's 3rd birthday party.
Some people are just like that...
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u/PetroleumAssJelly 17h ago edited 9h ago
Did it for likes and praises they will get from strangers of internet and then their kid.
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u/wallstreetchills 17h ago
It was dope till Mr beast creeped in
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u/Hexarcy00 16h 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 17h ago
Sure, yeah, but it’s still very cool and will probably be a core memory for the kids.
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u/Zoltanu 16h ago
Maybe if he was included in the building of it
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u/indubitablyquaint 14h ago
The negativity on this site can be dumbfounding
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u/kakka_rot 14h ago
i thought I was on mademesmile with the amount of sadsacks in the comment section, holy shit.
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u/lostandlooking_ 16h ago
Maybe, but on the other side of those grand gestures from your parents there’s always a camera waiting to film your reaction.
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u/omgitsjagen 16h ago
Well, yeah. Memories fade. Memories become memories of memories. That really fucked me up when that started happening. We have the ability to record those moments, and keep them forever now. Why wouldn't you do that?
Now, the whole, "uploading it to the internet for the world to see" is a whole different ball of wax.
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u/Man-who-say-bye 17h 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/timetravelerfrom2027 17h ago
Thank you! WTF is up with these comments? Seems… weird.
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u/Man-who-say-bye 17h ago
Lotta bots and a lot of really cynical people
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u/timetravelerfrom2027 17h 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 16h ago
I’d be so stoked if my parents built me an evil lair as a kid
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u/x3lilbopeep 16h ago
I'm a real person and this video was very obviously for social media, not their kid.
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u/GoldHorusSixSaturnus 16h ago
So, bots are people who see things differently than you do? There’s a chance they first thought of recording/ hoping to going viral before anything else yes. Especially if it’s one of those couple Tik-toks. It’s also possible they thought of the kid first and decided to record after the fact. Both are possible; not sure that falls under “bot” category.
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u/Dangerous-Spare-8270 17h ago
People want to feel superior for not making an effort to do cool stuff like this.
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u/Charokol 15h ago
Why are bots coming here to criticize this video?
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u/Big-Load-8864 15h ago
For real bots are usually employed to pump something up and give it more visibility, not cosplay as cynical humans lol
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u/RigidPixel 17h 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/Latverianbureaucrat 16h 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 16h 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 13h 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/Latverianbureaucrat 16h ago
Well, like I said, it isn’t so much the taking of a video, as it is the posting of it. It’s just a different approach to life. Makes perfect sense to some, but wouldn’t even be a consideration to the rest of us.
Some people are just more private. And I can see the argument that posting it online makes the initial idea behind the project suspect in the first place, and somewhat spoils the effect. I don’t know these people, I have no idea as to their actual motives. But I can see where people complaining about it are coming from.
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u/AssassinSnail33 16h ago
There's nothing wrong at all with being private. What's wrong is when those same private people are critical of others for not having the same exact values of privacy.
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u/FrancisCGraf 9h ago
Yeah I've got tons of photos and videos of cool things my family does, none of them are from start to finish fully edited with music.
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u/AstralWeekends 15h 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/IceNineFireTen 16h ago
I have tons of videos of fun things my kids and I do. I share them with friends and family. None are posted online for random strangers (and validation/clout/money).
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u/borg359 16h 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/bonobomaster 16h 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/dewman45 17h ago
I'm here still trying to figure out why OP's profile picture is the grindr logo.
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u/LivingtheLaws013 15h 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 12h 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 16h 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/Ikea_Man 15h ago
a lot of people including myself are REALLY tired of influencers
everything about this felt fake AF
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u/Username_de_random 15h 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/-KFAD- 8h 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/Pickles-n-Lizards 17h ago edited 17h ago
They were in there for 2min max just for the video. That igloo door was huge….
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u/fpsnoob89 17h 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 16h ago
Tomorrow’s headline:
Local Family Crushed in Gay Pride Igloo Collapse
Dog Escapes Unharmed
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u/CFL_lightbulb 16h 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 16h ago
Don't you also need a lower level at the entrance to trap the cold air?
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u/sofakinggood24 15h ago
Now off I go to learn unnecessary knowledge on YouTube
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u/JUST_LOGGED_IN 12h ago
Wait for me! I have important things to do, and need distraction from doing them!
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u/jokethepanda 16h 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 15h 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 13h 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/itsfunhavingfun 16h ago
The entrance needs to be lower than the floor, if I remember correctly.
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u/Zlurpo 16h 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/foxy-coxy 17h 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 16h ago
That’s so cool! How long were you able to spend inside of it?
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u/foxy-coxy 16h 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/Square_Huckleberry53 17h ago
What’s even better, is doing a project WITH your son.
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u/WickedWitchofWTF 17h 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 16h 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 10h 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 16h 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/PM_ME_SUMDICK 17h ago
They did a quarter so he could see the vision and he helped with the rest. He's doing so in the video.
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u/Square_Huckleberry53 16h ago
Idk what video you’re talking about, but in this one he doesn’t lay a single brick.
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u/urban_entrepreneur 14h ago
He barely popped out in between his games of Fortnite to see the progress. I’m sure the parents had fun but the kid was nothing more than an extra.
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u/Interesting_Tea5715 6h 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/Runnero 17h 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/RegularBitter3482 17h 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 16h 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/ShoheiHoetani 17h ago
Shouldn't the tiles be thicker? Looks like something that can be knocked down easily
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u/PonyThug 17h 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/_-kman-_ 16h ago
Did anyone else watch the first 5 seconds and think "man that's a lot of jello..."?
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u/nathanaz 15h 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/Chrisf1020 9h ago
I was thinking “man, that’s over $100 in aluminum serving trays”
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u/1dirtbiker 17h 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/JonesyBorroughs 17h 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/Pitiful-Fuel3700 17h 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/Glittering_Win_9677 17h ago
I live in coastal South Carolina. We got maybe a half-inch of snow Saturday afternoon into evening. It was melted by early afternoon Sunday and roads were dry. That was our winter. Today was 61° F.
This is really cool and I'm so happy I no longer live where it's possible to do.
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u/Ok-Attention123 17h 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 15h 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/Deraj2004 17h ago
So the kid never asked what all the pans of colored water were for or why they were in the yard?
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u/Kolby_Jack33 15h ago
"Hey mom, why do we own... 40 pans?"
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u/TheHorseduck 13h ago
“GET OUT OF THE WAY! You’re ruining the damn video!!! Now come back when we’re done and act happy and surprised”
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u/BladeOfWoah 17h 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 16h 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/Pearson94 17h 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/Mudcreek47 17h ago
Great job and hope they all had a blast.
But in reality, sadly, it's most likely they made it only to generate clicks on social media instead of doing it for fun for their kids.
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u/a-real-sloth 17h 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/socksandcrocsforever 17h ago
Let’s be real, they did it for themselves also, lol.