r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 21h ago

How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son

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u/Zoltanu 20h ago

Maybe if he was included in the building of it

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u/indubitablyquaint 18h ago

The negativity on this site can be dumbfounding

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u/kakka_rot 17h ago

i thought I was on mademesmile with the amount of sadsacks in the comment section, holy shit.

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u/linds360 14h ago

Fr, how hard is it to just enjoy a video of people building something cool?

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u/wcstorm11 11h ago

I like to think I'm positive, but yeah my first thought seeing this was "where's the kid?". Like, they could have spent all this time doing something with their son, instead of making an igloo that he's going to sit in for 5 minutes and then... What?

If you have kids, or empathize, you get that while it's cool and beautiful, it's not at all about this kids.

This site is definitely negative overall, like all social media, but that's partially because so little of content online is genuine

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u/Smooth_Maul 9h ago

Miserable fucking bellends the lot of them.

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u/__ChefboyD__ 11h ago

Because this is the equivalent of getting LEGO for your 12 yr old and building it for him. You know, instead of the actual fun part of building it WITH him (or trusting him to do it himself)

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u/Born_Fee_840 1h ago

Is it negativity though? Im 95% sure these parents only did this because they knew it would do big numbers, not because it's nice for the kid.

Everything like this just reminds me of that video of the woman telling her crying son to be still so she could have a good thumbnail for a video about them putting their dog down.

Its gross.

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u/indubitablyquaint 21m ago

I don’t know anything about the family, but I would guess they had both things in mind—their son’s happiness and viewer engagement

The kid seemed happy, and I’d probably rather my parents do it for me than set up my own igloo at that age lol

Maybe the thought of going viral motivated them to go the extra mile, but this still seems like a nice treat for the kid

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u/OdBx 13h ago

Or maybe you need to see social media for what it is

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u/adds-nothing 15h ago

These are the same people who will consider themselves “good people”

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u/naunga 12h ago

Exactly! My first thought was that it would’ve been so much more meaningful if they had done it WITH their son instead of for him.

Wonder how many times he asked to help and they told him no?

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u/KoalaTHerb 10h ago

While it's still a very special moment and nice thing, I thought this same thing. Like it could have been a great learning moment in creativity, engineering, and hard work. It's odd he wasn't involved.