This is what happens to your hands when you put 690 rubber bands on a watermelon.
Watermelon rubber band buzzfeed.
At its peak toward the end of its 45 minute runtime the.
Thankfully they brought 500 elastic bands.
They broadcast the whole thing in real time using facebook live it was utterly.
When it does actually explode the footage is incredible.
On friday april 8 they streamed a video entitled watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time.
At one point on an ordinary friday more than 800 000 people were watching two buzzfeed employees trying to make a watermelon explode with rubber bands.
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Gav and dan forgot to bring a knife to the picnic.
Two employees at buzzfeed in the us decided to do a live stream of them trying to blow up a watermelon using rubber bands alone.
Buzzfeed had been trying this feature which was released to all users in december for a few months but it was not until a few weeks ago that they struck gold.
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Buzzfeed s watermelon live video attracts more than 800 000 viewers.
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Posted by buzzfeed on friday april 8 2016.
Watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time.
More than six million people have watched the video on facebook as they count each rubber band that they add to the watermelon.
Today two buzzfeed staffers performed an experiment where they used nearly 700 rubber bands to blow up a watermelon.
We ve somehow gotten talked into sitting very closely to this and i m nervous.
According to facebook more people tuned in at the same time to watch it live than any other video.