Thankfully they brought 500 elastic bands.
Watermelon rubber band buzzfeed.
Today two buzzfeed staffers performed an experiment where they used nearly 700 rubber bands to blow up a watermelon.
This afternoon buzzfeed exploded a watermelon with rubber bands in a facebook live video titled watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time you may have seen it.
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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.
Watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time.
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Posted by buzzfeed on friday april 8 2016.
On friday april 8 they streamed a video entitled watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time.
This is what happens to your hands when you put 690 rubber bands on a watermelon.
According to facebook more people tuned in at the same time to watch it live than any other video.
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.
They broadcast the whole thing in real time using facebook live it was utterly.
Hi i m chelsea and i m james and this is our watermelon that we re gonna try to explode using rubber bands and right now.
08 00 pm 08 apr 2016.
We ve somehow gotten talked into sitting very closely to this and i m nervous.
At its peak toward the end of its 45 minute runtime the.
Gav and dan forgot to bring a knife to the picnic.
Buzzfeed s watermelon live video attracts more than 800 000 viewers.
When it does actually explode the footage is incredible.
More than six million people have watched the video on facebook as they count each rubber band that they add to the watermelon.