Making the stinkiest chemical known to man

this video has been sponsored by brilliant.org ever since I started this channel I've been making stinky chemicals and some of my favorites have been things like putricine and cadaverine which are supposed to smell like a rotting body I've also made some other fun ones like butyric acid which smells like vomit and I've even recreated a horrible mixture that was developed by the US government all of these though are apparently nothing compared to something called thioacetone which is supposed to be the stinkiest chemical ever made everything that I've read about it makes it sound absolutely horrible and according to Wikipedia it's actually considered a dangerous chemical due to its extremely foul odor and its ability to render people unconscious and induce vomiting what's also kind of concerning is that the smell itself has been described as just fearful and it apparently has the ability to spread over large areas this was unfortunately experienced firsthand in 1889 when some scientists accidentally released a small amount of it the horrible smell was then able to quickly spread out over a large area of the town and it caused people to faint and vomit and it led to a panic evacuation there are even some claims that diluting the smell makes it worse and that it's possible to smell a drop of it downwind in seconds even at a quarter mile away based on all of this it really does sound like the worst smelling chemical ever but I honestly just don't really believe it even though all of these claims are coming from credible papers and reports it just doesn't seem possible that something could be that horrible all of this made me really curious though and I just felt that I had to know what it smelled like and to experience the horror myself sadly though I couldn't find anywhere to buy it from and it doesn't seem like anyone has made it in the last 60 years so if I wanted to see if it was actually as bad as it's claimed to be it was unfortunately looking like I only had one real option and I was gonna have to make it myself but anyway to get started the first thing that I had to do was figure out how to even make it so I went online and I did a bit of research and it seemed to be relatively straightforward from what I found the typical method was to start with just regular acetone convert that into something called tripthioacetone and then split that apart to release the supposedly terrifying thioacetone the only problem was that I couldn't find any real details on exactly how to do this and I guess this makes sense because I don't think anyone actually ever makes it however I then noticed on Wikipedia that it mentioned the people who first discovered dioacetone these were actually the same scientists who caused that disaster in 1889 and I figured if anyone knew how to make it it would probably be them so I just went back to Google searched 1889 and their names and their original paper was apparently the first result I was honestly kind of shocked by how easy this was to find except it took me way too long to realize that it was all in German with Google translate though I was hopeful that this wouldn't be a huge issue and I just copy pasted the part that I felt was important the result that I got was actually surprisingly good and I felt that it was more than enough for me to work with so now with a decent idea of what to do it was time to make the tripthioacetone based on the procedure it seemed relatively simple and pretty much all I had to do was get some regular acetone and bubble some hydrogen sulfide gas through it this alone normally wouldn't have been too bad but I apparently had to do it for 10 to 12 hours which kind of disturbed me this is because hydrogen sulfide is almost just as toxic as Cyanide and 10 to 12 hours meant that I was gonna have to make a lot of it the only somewhat good part is that making it is relatively easy and to get started I just needed a bunch of powdered iron and some sulfur what I had to do next was just mix these together so I dumped a bunch of the sulfur into a container along with some of the powdered iron I then quickly sealed it by screwing on the lid and I started shaking it around I had to do this until it looked like one uniform color and after a few minutes I felt that it was looking pretty good so I went and got a lid of a paint can and I carefully poured out a bunch of it I then did my best to spread it out a bit and clean it up and now it was time for the fun part to get things going all I had to do was blast a glass rod with a blowtorch and then carefully touch the mixture normally this would almost immediately trigger a reaction except for some reason it kind of didn't do anything this made me a bit worried that my eBay sulfur and iron were bad or something but that thankfully wasn't the case they finally started reacting together and combining to form something called iron sulfide and it was also letting off a lot of heat over the years I've actually done this reaction many times and it has always been one of my favorites the last time I did it on a large scale like this was when I made my own glow toys a few years ago and I don't think I'll ever get tired of it it's just kind of mesmerizing and I really like the sound that it makes after a while though the reaction was eventually done but it was still extremely hot and I had to wait for it to cool down when I came back to it about 30 minutes later it was looking pretty good now all I had to do was separate this crusty stuff from the lid and it was surprisingly easy I then started crushing it and breaking it into smaller pieces and that was about it what I had now was a bunch of iron sulfide powder which is kind of a stored form of the scary hydrogen sulfide gas to actually turn this into the gas though I'd have to put together a little gas generator so I dumped it all into a flask after that I took away the funnel cleaned up the joints using some paper towel and started putting together the rest of the setup to do this I added a stopper an addition funnel and an outlet for the hydrogen sulfide to leave the flask at this point the scary generator was more or less ready and it was time to put together the rest of the setup so I went and got another little flask and into it I added some acetone I had no idea how much I was supposed to be using though and I just randomly decided on 15 milliliters then on top of this I added the only other ingredient that I needed which was an equal amount of concentrated hydrochloric acid now with the flask fully loaded I got rid of the funnel and I slid in some glass tubing that was connected to the hydrogen sulfide generator I then sealed the middle one with a stopper and into the one on the right I added another gas outlet this one would lead to something called an inverted funnel trap which would hopefully destroy any hydrogen sulfide that made it through the system the fume hood that I was doing this in should have been more than enough to keep me safe but I just wanted to be extra careful so I just filled this Beaker with concentrated sodium hydroxide and at this point things were looking pretty good I then went back to the reaction flask added a bowl under it and filled it with water and ice it was going to take a few minutes to cool down though so while I waited I went back to the gas generator the last thing that I had to do was fill the addition funnel that was above it and I just poured in a bunch of dilute hydrochloric acid I then sealed it with a stopper but for safety reasons I didn't clamp it down this way if pressure were to somehow build up this stopper would just pop out instead of the whole setup exploding but anyway at this point it was pretty much good to go and I was technically ready to start I was honestly a little bit nervous but when I eventually felt I was ready for a potential disaster I carefully opened the Edition funnel the moment that the acid touched the iron sulfide it started reacting and releasing hydrogen sulfide gas all of this scary gas was then getting pushed out of the flask and through the tubing and into the reaction flask it was then bubbling through the acetone and the hydrochloric acid and honestly it really didn't look like anything was happening in theory though it was supposed to be reacting with the acetone and turning it into the trithyoacetone this form of it was still apparently really stinky but it was supposed to be much more tame and easier to handle the only part that made me a bit paranoid was that technically thioacetone was being made in this reaction it was just an intermediate though and it was supposed to almost immediately combine and turn into the tripthioacetone but still this meant that if I bubbled the hydrogen sulfide too quickly it was possible that some thioacetone could get pushed out of the flask this could then potentially Escape my setup and get pulled away by my fume hood and if we're as bad as the stories claimed it could be a big problem so the amount of hydrogen sulfide that I was making had to be very carefully controlled besides that though things were actually looking pretty good and I basically just had to keep it going until it was done which was apparently 10 to 12 hours the only sad part was that I couldn't leave it unattended and I had to watch it pretty closely the entire time for the next hour though it still kind of looked like nothing was happening and I started thinking that I might have been wasting my time however it then suddenly turned cloudy when I wasn't looking and I was really happy to see this I then kept it going and I definitely felt that it was getting cloudier and cloudier it was only when it hit the four hour mark though that I really started to get excited it wasn't super obvious but it looked like there was a bit of oil that was forming on the surface this was a really good sign because trythioacetone is supposed to be an oily liquid around the same time though I also noticed that the generator was running out of iron sulfide and it was getting a little too full so to continue I was gonna have to swap out the flask for a fresh one that was full of new iron sulfide I was also gonna have to do this every few hours and it was far from ideal to say the least with the fresh sulfide though I was able to keep it going and about an hour later when I slowed down the stirring I saw something even more exciting at first it was hard to see but there were actually some small Blobs of oil that were floating around then after another couple hours there were a lot more I was really trying not to get my hopes up but at this point things were looking pretty good so it was of course right at this moment that my brother came in and told me that he smelled something it kind of feels bad outside and this kind of made me panic so I quickly ran outside to investigate and it did smell but I couldn't figure out where it was coming from and I figured it was just sewage or Garbage or something but anyway I then went back to staring at the flask and adjusting the bubbling rate which was honestly getting painful at this point in the paper though it said that it was either 10 to 12 hours or until it stopped absorbing when I started this reaction I was really hoping that it would magically stop way earlier but I never saw any real difference so I just ended up going for the full 12 hours when it was eventually done though I felt that it was looking pretty good and the first thing that I had to do was get rid of the gas line I was a bit nervous about opening up the flask and unleashing some sort of Terror but it turned out to be totally fine I was able to just pop it out and replace it with a stopper and I didn't smell anything however I wasn't sure if this was just because my fume Hood was working really well or that I hadn't actually made any trithyoacetone but either way the next step according to the paper was to add a bunch of water to it so I pulled out the middle stopper and I started pouring in about 30 mils of cold water this was supposed to knock out a bunch of the oil and it definitely looked like it was getting cloudier I figured this would take some time though so I resealed the flask and I let it stir for a while as it sat there it seemed to be working and I was really happy to see some nice drops of oil forming however I was also getting a bit concerned because the paper made it sound like there would be way more a claim that there should be as much oil as acetone that I started with but that definitely wasn't the case it looked like there was a decent amount but it was nowhere close to 15 milliliters either way I then took away the stir plate and bowl and I also got rid of the gas outlet and the trap what I was left with was a raw reaction mixture and now assuming that I had actually made any tripthyoacetone I had to figure out how to get it out according to the paper all I had to do was steam distill it but this was something that kind of concerned me this is because steam distilling this reaction mixture is exactly how they caused that disaster in 1889 even though I was skeptical of the stories this still made me a bit hesitant to try it myself I didn't really have any other good options though so I decided to just go for it however at this point it was already around 2 A.M so I had to leave it overnight the next day I actually woke up feeling pretty confident but that was almost immediately destroyed the moment that I walked into the room I was hid with a really strong sulfur smell and I kind of panicked that there had been some sort of disaster when I checked on the flask in the fumehood though everything looked totally fine so it was nothing catastrophic but the question now was where was this mystery smell coming from well apparently when I touched the flask the day before an almost invisibly small Speck of liquid had gotten onto my glove I then thrown that glove into the garbage and just that spec was enough to make the whole room reek this actually kind of scared me and I started worrying that all the stories might be true and that I should absolutely avoid distilling it however there was also only one way to find out so I started setting it up for a distillation and unfortunately this meant that I was going to have to touch the flask again I wasn't super excited to do this but I figured that it would probably be fine if I just left my glove in the fume Hood but either way with the main part of the setup now in place I then added a heating mantle and a stir plate a thermometer and an addition funnel filled with water I also added the water cooling to the condenser and I set up a vial to collect the stuff that boiled over at this point it was pretty much good to go but I still wasn't feeling super confident I guess I'm ready to start the distillation there was nothing I could do about that though so I just switched on the heating and I nervously waited for it to heat up it actually ended up going way faster than I thought and within a few minutes it was already boiling and I started collecting something in the vial when I looked at the thermometer though it was only around 56 degrees Celsius and this told me that it was just unreacted acetone this made sense because I didn't expect a hundred percent of it to react and I assumed I'd recover at least some of it however as I kept collecting it I started getting a bit worried it just didn't seem to stop and it was slowly creeping towards the amount that I had started with the reaction clearly didn't go as well as I thought but I still had hope thankfully it eventually started slowing down and the temperature started Rising it then gradually crept up to 100 degrees Celsius and this was the beginning of the potentially scary part this was when the tripthioacetone was supposed to start vaporizing and I quickly swapped out the vial I then waited for something to start coming over and I was eventually greeted with a nice drop of Cloudy liquid this was actually mostly water but it was cloudy because the water vapor had carried something oily along with it in theory this should be the trithyoacetone and this process of distilling it from boiling water is called the steam distillation it's basically allowing me to distill it at a much lower temperature which reduces the risk of the tripthioacetone falling apart and ruining my life but anyway I then covered the flask to help the water come over and I just kept collecting it I also opened the addition funnel and I slowly added water at roughly the same rate that I was distilling it now going back to the vial I saw that everything that I'd collected up until now was just a hazy liquid as I collected more though it actually cleared up a lot and I started seeing some nice drops of oil what I also really liked was that unlike a lot of other oils which float on water this one was sitting at the bottom which told me that it was heavier this was a very good sign because tri-thioacetone is supposed to be slightly denser than water eventually it looked like I was basically just distilling pure water and I figured that it was probably done just to be absolutely sure that I got everything though I took away this vial and immediately sealed it and replaced it with a fresh one I then kept collecting the water but it didn't look like there was any oil in it so at this point I considered it done and I was honestly kind of shocked by how well it had gone it ended up being way more tamed than I thought it would be and at least as far as I knew there hadn't been a major disaster I then went and checked on all the oil that I'd collected before and it had combined into a really nice blob it was nowhere near the 15 mils that I was hoping for but if this were tripthioacetone it was still way more than I needed it was also probably pretty stinky and I was really curious to know what it smelled like however I was also kind of scared to open it outside the fume Hood so I tried just smelling it through the vial it actually doesn't smell bad at all it kind of smells like grape fruit candy I was honestly extremely surprised by this and I was also a bit confused about how something so stinky had become good so I looked up what it was supposed to smell like and I was actually kind of surprised by what I saw this because in very low concentrations it can apparently smell tropical with a grapefruit nuance but anyway what I had to do next was separate this purified oil from all the water so I went and got a pipette and I carefully tried to suck it all out I was doing my best to only get the oil but I also did end up getting a little bit of the water I then shot it into a much smaller vial and I attempted to get rid of the extra water it ended up being a bit of a struggle and I lost some of the oil doing it but I was able to get rid of pretty much all of it at this point things were looking really good and the only issue was that the oil was slightly cloudy because there was a small amount of water still in it so to clear it up I added some calcium chloride and I let it sit for a while about 10 minutes later it was looking way better but just for good measure I added some more calcium chloride then after another 30 minutes of waiting I carefully pulled everything out what I had now was a bunch of nice and Crystal Clear oil and according to the paper If This Were tripthioacetone it should freeze when it's cooled down so to test this out I put it into some ice water and I let it sit there for a while then when I came back to it about an hour later I was really happy with what I saw it had completely solidified and it had formed some really nice crystals the moment that I saw this I was basically 99.5 sure that this was some nice and pure tripthioacetone to be absolutely sure though but I was gonna have to run some tests so I quickly ran it on my machine that can do something called ftir and this was what it gave me it was basically a fingerprint of the chemical that I made and all I had to do next was find a reference one for the tripthioacetone I then did the super complicated and scientific process of just comparing their shapes and I saw that they were pretty much the same then just for good measure I also did an hnmr on it and I again got exactly what I was looking for okay so now I was a hundred percent sure that I had successfully made the trithyoacetone however before trying to turn this into the horrible thioacetone I felt that I had to know what this smelled like in its piriform it's supposed to only be a fraction of the terribleness but I had to get at least some sort of idea of what I was dealing with I kind of already smell it from here it's it's like just sulfury it reminds me a bit of durian fruit it just has a nasty sulfury rotten smell it's not that bad but now I'll open it and see if my opinion changes still not that bad it's what's worse is just it permeates out of the vial and just kind of leaves a weird sulfury smell in the area that's actually worse than it's pure form but it's still not that bad it really it's it's I yeah it's not that bad I'm returning so bad it's so bad when you smell it from there God do your nose no smelly I smell it it's not that bad oh that's the nastiest thing I've ever smelled I'm about to throw up no yeah actually yeah in general I'm pretty resistant to smells so it didn't bother me that much but having my friend react like this got me a bit worried this is because the thioacetone is supposed to be insane compared to this so there was no way I was going to be breaking apart the tripthioacetone in my fume hood or anywhere near someone who could be assaulted by it and in my mind there was only one logical thing to do I rented an entire Island so I'd be far away from any potential victims the only downside was that if it were horrible it would be way harder to get away but I figured I'd deal with that later when I eventually got to the island I took a quick little tour and I tried to find what I felt would be the best spot to do it when I eventually found something that I liked I went back and got all my supplies and I started putting together my setup this was thankfully really easy and the biggest and most complicated thing that I needed was just the table Ah that's good and besides this the other main thing was just a lab stand with a small flask attached to it with all this in place I was able to get started and the first thing that I had to do was put on a lab coat and some gloves this wasn't so much for safety though and it was just because I really didn't want to get stinky stuff on my hands or my clothes with all my protection in place I was able to pull out the triathioacetone which I thought transporting would be a horrible stinky experience however by sealing it in a Nalgene bottle and a larger vial I was actually able to completely block out the smell and it was totally fine that wasn't the case now though because it was time to open the file and I was immediately blessed with its wonderful smell yeah it still smells terrible I then got a glass pipe pad and I carefully sucked out a small amount of it I'm like we need to add very much like just this I ended up getting a bit more than I expected though which kind of scared me so I went back and pulled out most of it and left behind only a very small amount now with it all loaded I quickly resealed the tri-thioacetone and there was just one final thing that I needed it was a vacuum pump and all I had to do was connect it to the flask to do this I just spun around the adapter to make sure that the Grease made a good seal and that was about it I then turned it on and started sucking out all the air after about a minute I felt that I had a nice vacuum so I carefully turned the valve to seal the flask I then turned off the pump and pulled off the rubber hosing and at this point I was pretty much good to go it was now finally time to turn it into the thioacetone and in theory all I had to do was heat it up I was honestly a bit scared that I was about to create a disaster lots of confidence but again there was only one way to find out so when I felt that I was ready I very nervously started blasting it the goal here was to just heat it up until it got to at least five or six hundred C boiling this because at that temperature the tripthioacetone was supposed to crack and split apart into the thioacetone the vacuum was important because it helped keep everything sealed and it should also prevent the trithyoacetone from burning but anyway after blasting it for a while I eventually felt that it had gotten hot enough that's definitely a 500c okay there's a nice vapor in there huh I feel scared at this point I felt that things were looking pretty good but the flask was still really hot so I had to wait for it to cool down when I came back to it about 10 minutes later it was only slightly warm and I carefully took it off the stand now I guess this was the moment that I was waiting for and I really didn't know what to expect I guess all we need to do is turn it to let the air back in and open it I really thought that I was just going to be assaulted the moment that it was opened but even when I smelled the flask directly I didn't notice anything crazy huh it smelled pretty much the same as the original tripthyle acetone and considering how much I had been anticipating this moment I smell something I was kind of disappointed it was possible that I just had a broken sense of smell or something though so I asked my poor friend behind the camera for his opinion it really it does it does Sting but is it different than before no it smells like before it smells the same it just stinks nothing's changed so it didn't seem like I had actually made any thioacetone and I figured that it was because I hadn't gotten it hot enough to properly split it apart I was gonna have to have a bit more courage and to really blast it so that it for sure got to at least 500 degrees Celsius what was nice was that it still looked like there was a bunch of tri-thioacetone in the flask so I didn't have to reload it all I had to do was reattach the vacuum pump and suck out the air then about 30 seconds later I turned off the pump and pulled off the tubing I was now ready to blast it and this time I decided to use a real blowtorch and I would go until I was absolutely sure that it was hot enough okay I I think that that was hot enough and it's starting to like oh oh that's good what I started noticing was that it was turning orange at the top from what I read online this was actually a very good sign that thioacetone was forming this because thioacetone isn't very stable above negative 20c so it tends to start polymerizing and turning orange I was now very confident that I had actually made it and I was getting pretty excited what I had to do now was just wait for it to cool down but I was kind of worried that all the thioacetone would polymerize so instead I just pulled the entire thing off the stand and I did a quick test to see if it smelled no then after that I very nervously opened it up and I was mentally preparing myself for something horrifying oh unlike last time it actually smelled almost immediately and it definitely wasn't pleasant but it also wasn't nearly as bad as I was expecting it's I don't know if it's worse I then tried smelling the flask directly but I just didn't feel like it was that bad this whole time though I could hear my friend behind the camera suffering do you smell it yeah it reeks it's so bad I felt bad for him but I was also very surprised because he was not only far away he was also slightly upwind however I then remember that there were some claims that thioacetone actually smelled worse when it was less concentrated so I decided to try holding the flask further away to see if it would make a difference when it was up close it had much more of a chemical smell and it was kind of a slightly rancid version of a natural gas leak further away though I felt that it was more like garbage mixed with sewage and it was definitely a lot worse however I still didn't think it was that bad and I had a hard time believing that this was the chemical responsible for all the stories I then started thinking though that maybe I was just working with way too little of it all of the stories make it sound like this unbelievably terrifying chemical but at the end of the day it's just stinky and really potent to get a big result it would still need a decent amount of it and when I went back and read about that disaster in 1889 they were apparently working with a hundred grams of tripthioacetone which is absolutely insane I didn't have anything even remotely close to that but I put in most of what I had left which was probably around 0.25 grams I also felt that with a lot more I didn't need to use a vacuum and I just started blasting it just like before as I heated it the trythioacetone started fuming and then it eventually all started boiling unlike last time though all of the vapors started slowly turning orange and pouring out of the flask at this point though I still didn't smell anything because the wind was blowing it away from me however considering how much of it I was making I was getting a bit concerned but anyway I eventually felt that I had blasted it enough and it was time to test it out but let's go down a wind a little bit oh yeah you can spell it right here it was definitely a lot stronger than the other time but it was also kind of the same thing and I just didn't think that it smelled that bad one thing that I hadn't tested yet though was how far the smell could travel I'm gonna go deeper in the forest this was something that was a big part of all the stories so I tried going a bit further away however I quickly realized that I was probably the worst person to be doing this test because I clearly wasn't very sensitive to it yeah I think I can still smell it but it's not that bad so I asked my friend behind the camera for one final sacrifice up until now the wind had been strong enough that he hadn't smelled anything but that unfortunately changed for him when he got closer to the flask oh oh thanks what on 10 what is it now like 10 on 10. he was clearly a lot more sensitive to it than I was oh and it seemed to get even worse for him as he got further away oh what was it stop oh no I honestly thought this was kind of funny but then it looked like he was actually getting worried dude it still stinks we gotta turn we gotta stop this it then continued to get worse oh it gets stronger right here and I still wasn't really concerned until he got to the water oh it's gonna travel across the river it's gonna travel across the lake I'd honestly rented this island mostly because I thought it would be funny for the video and I didn't actually think the smell would travel this much however we weren't exactly in the middle of nowhere there were still a bunch of houses only a couple hundred meters downwind and I was genuinely starting to get worried kind of concerned that like somebody might call 9-1-1 it stinks besides its horrible ability to travel though I was also starting to realize one of the other big issues with thioacetone it doesn't it doesn't smell like it's coming from anywhere no it's 360 degree smell there was no clear direction that it was coming from and I could see how this could be very overwhelming also without knowing the source I could see how someone could interpret it as a gas leak or something else dangerous it also seemed to really stick around and even after several minutes it was still really unpleasant shut it down shut it down he's angry too eventually though the smells seemed to mostly go away and at this point I was done making the thioacetone however I was still somewhat concerned that someone would call the police and I really didn't want to have to try and explain what I was doing so I quickly dismantled my little Forest chemistry setup and I packed it all in my car I then transported all of the horribly stinky stuff back home and it was a somewhat unpleasant two-hour Drive but anyway in the end I had successfully made the mythical thioacetone and I'm very happy that I got to personally experience its horribleness it wasn't quite as overwhelmingly bad as I was hoping it would be but it made up for that by being almost unbelievably potent and I was genuinely surprised by how far it could travel I can totally see how a relatively small amount of it could terrorize an entire town and on that scale I wouldn't be surprised if at least a few people vomited or passed out so for the most part I think that it's pretty much as bad as it's claimed to be and it's almost definitely one of the worst smelling chemicals ever made in the future I might try making some other smelly chemicals but for now I think I'm gonna take a break from the stinky stuff instead I'm gonna try and focus on some less offensive projects like turning paint thinner into cherry soda before I go though I want to quickly mention another YouTuber named lab coats who technically made the thioacetone before me I only realized this after I had already filmed everything and was putting the video together but either way I think he deserves credit for being the first one to do it and I definitely recommend checking them out if you want another opinion also I want to give a big thanks to all my patrons for making projects like this possible enter brilliant.org for sponsoring this video If you haven't ever heard of brilliant it's a website with a whole bunch of lessons in things like math chemistry physics and computer science I think they teach them in a really fun way this is because all of their courses are fully interactive and I think it makes it feel a lot more like a game what I also like is that the lessons are very concise and I don't ever feel overwhelmed with information on 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Channel: NileRed

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Keywords: nilered, nile, red, science, chemistry, chemical, thioacetone, trithioacetone, stink, smell, stinkiest, smelliest, known, man, world, world's, odor, stench, worst

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Length: 43min 36sec (2616 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 23 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/ObamaEatsBabies]

Nile: it's not that bad

Cameraman: actually dying

[u/Polar_Reflection]

Bro rented an island to do the reaction. What a legend lmao

[u/I-Am-Polaris]

It's a miracle I didn't hear about a city being evacuated over a YouTubers science project gone wrong

[u/OptimalCynic]

/u/dblowe someone did it!

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I really think this needs a bit more testing.

Somehow I think you taking your creation, doing a collaboration with Smarter Every Day, I Did A Thing, and Mr. Beast would make for a super fund raising video.

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Alternate title: I found out Covid damaged my sense of smell