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Watermelon rubber band buzzfeed.
Posted by buzzfeed on friday april 8 2016.
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.
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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On friday april 8 they streamed a video entitled watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time.
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.
When it does actually explode the footage is incredible.
This is what happens to your hands when you put 690 rubber bands on a watermelon.
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.
Buzzfeed s watermelon live video attracts more than 800 000 viewers.
They broadcast the whole thing in real time using facebook live it was utterly.
We re at 90 rubber bands and we re going.
Today two buzzfeed staffers performed an experiment where they used nearly 700 rubber bands to blow up a watermelon.
Watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time.
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.
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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.
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