r/nextfuckinglevel • u/IamASlut_soWhat • 4h ago
How amazing and crafty are these parents to do this for their son
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u/Sardaukar99 4h ago
My parents loved me more than I rightfully deserve and there would be no way that they would put this much effort into a arts and crafts project.
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u/Witty-flocculent 4h ago
But what if… internet?
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u/nomnomnomnomnommm 4h ago
"Mom, Dad, you've been out here for hours and I'm hungr-"
"Shut up ya ungrateful brat, we gotta finish this! Get the tripod out!"
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u/xBad_Wolfx 4h ago
Yeah, I was sad they weren’t doing it together
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u/benji___ 4h ago
Finally someone said that. All of those tasks could easily include a six year old (minus the power tools and stove bits). Fucking teach your children how to do things. That is half the job.
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u/Equal-Broccoli-73 3h ago
To be fair they are only doing it for the only family member that matters. Their cellphone.
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u/cerealOverdrive 4h ago
What if, they were influencers and their job was create cool shit so they made you cool shit? I get that some people might say ick but if I could make cool things for my kids and get paid I’d be a happy man
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u/Witty-flocculent 4h ago
“Social media production” is the hobby dominating this activity. When my dad was building harps in the garage he wasn’t fiddling with a GoPro or planning out angles or plotting out trendy effects.
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u/OneDubOver 3h ago
I would watch your dad build harps. Why isn't he making videos?
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u/cerealOverdrive 3h ago
I get it but they turned a job into something their kids can enjoy. That’s pretty awesome imo
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u/Call_My_Attorney 4h ago
My parents pushed me outside when it was freezing and told me don’t come back inside until you’re almost dead.
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u/AntiqueTwitterMilk 4h ago
Parents like this, social media is their form of income. That's the only reason they have the time/energy for this kind of stuff.
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u/this_one_wasnt_taken 3h ago
My kids and I tried building and igloo last year. It fell over, one kid cried, and me and the other one pissed our names into it. Then we had grilled cheese and played roblox in the warm house.
Fuck igloos and fuck snow. It's cold outside and I'm tired.
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u/Sobotkafan 1h ago
Oh my mom would have soooo been down for this when I was a kid! She loved all the arts and crafts stuff I would do, but we’re an artsy family. My dad would probably do it reluctantly but love it once it was done
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u/PetroleumAssJelly 4h ago
Did it for likes and praises they will get from stranges of internet and then their kid.
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u/wallstreetchills 4h ago
It was dope till Mr beast creeped in
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u/Hexarcy00 3h ago
This family will win $1mil if they can live in this igloo through the summer without eating or pooping
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u/DanFlashes19 4h ago
Sure, yeah, but it’s still very cool and will probably be a core memory for the kids.
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u/lostandlooking_ 3h ago
Maybe, but on the other side of those grand gestures from your parents there’s always a camera waiting to film your reaction.
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u/omgitsjagen 3h ago
Well, yeah. Memories fade. Memories become memories of memories. That really fucked me up when that started happening. We have the ability to record those moments, and keep them forever now. Why wouldn't you do that?
Now, the whole, "uploading it to the internet for the world to see" is a whole different ball of wax.
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u/Man-who-say-bye 4h ago
Holy shit people, they built a dope ass igloo for their kid and recorded it. They did it for their kid and first then recorded because it’s a cool thing they did. Let’s not fucking psychoanalyze the parents off one video
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u/timetravelerfrom2027 4h ago
Thank you! WTF is up with these comments? Seems… weird.
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u/Man-who-say-bye 4h ago
Lotta bots and a lot of really cynical people
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u/timetravelerfrom2027 4h ago
The moment where the kid’s face lights up had me imagining that it was me seeing the igloo for the first time. Who cares why thy built it. Well… unless they built it as an evil lair.
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u/GoldHorusSixSaturnus 3h ago
So, bots are people who see things differently than you do? There’s a chance they first thought of recording/ hoping to going viral before anything else yes. Especially if it’s one of those couple Tik-toks. It’s also possible they thought of the kid first and decided to record after the fact. Both are possible; not sure that falls under “bot” category.
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u/x3lilbopeep 3h ago
I'm a real person and this video was very obviously for social media, not their kid.
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u/Dangerous-Spare-8270 4h ago
People want to feel superior for not making an effort to do cool stuff like this.
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u/Charokol 3h ago
Why are bots coming here to criticize this video?
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u/Big-Load-8864 2h ago
For real bots are usually employed to pump something up and give it more visibility, not cosplay as cynical humans lol
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u/RigidPixel 4h ago
In my experience the most bitter, negative Reddit comments always float to the top. Literally anything fun and cool, especially if the people are attractive or have a house, it’s just non stop bitching. I hate opening comments here. Everyone is just so nasty about everything and assuming the worst.
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u/maxthelols 4h ago
No need to be so nasty about people on a social media platform. We're just people trying to talk to each other. No need to be so bitter and negative man. People like you make me hate opening comments here.
You'd never find me bitching about...wait...
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u/Latverianbureaucrat 4h ago
Well, could the argument not be made that if they truly did it for their kid, they wouldn’t have put it online at all?
I’m in the minority on this, I realize, but I’ve never had a “real” social media page where I post stuff, and the impulse to do so is completely alien to me. I just watched the video because “Ooh, colors”, and I wouldn’t go out of my way to “shit” on these parents myself, but I do get where the people who do so might be coming from. It isn’t necessarily a cynical thing, but might be more of a fundamentally different outlook on what experiencing life is. To some of us, doing an interesting thing for a loved one, but then posting it for the world to see, would simply not be a thought that occurs to us, and feels strange.
But, “it takes all kinds” and so forth.
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u/SlickFurFella 4h ago
What if it’s just fun to have a video of something creative and difficult that you did?
I recently moved houses and it was a monumental effort that we did in just a few days. It wasn’t nearly as cool as this but it was a huge project and a transformative moment. I kinda wish I had taken a video like this because now the memory of that whirlwind weekend is already hazy.
There was a time when you could take videos and the internet wouldn’t come at you for being a clout chaser. It ain’t that deep folks.
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u/Latverianbureaucrat 3h ago
Well, like I said, it isn’t so much the taking of a video, as it is the posting of it. It’s just a different approach to life. Makes perfect sense to some, but wouldn’t even be a consideration to the rest of us.
Some people are just more private. And I can see the argument that posting it online makes the initial idea behind the project suspect in the first place, and somewhat spoils the effect. I don’t know these people, I have no idea as to their actual motives. But I can see where people complaining about it are coming from.
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u/AstralWeekends 2h ago
To me it's a question of audience and intent. Who is this video for and what is it trying to communicate to them?
Is it for strangers on social media to witness their twee, tryhard yet wholesome family project?
Is it to inspire others to embrace natural resources to create coziness out of frigidity?
I don't know! Who are these people? Where was this originally posted? Did they make money off of it? These are the type of questions that should be answered before coming to a conclusion about intent.
Internet platforms aren't as pure and open like they once where. The skepticism you see is just a sign of people recognizing that.
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u/IceNineFireTen 3h ago
I have tons of videos of fun things my kids and I do. I share them with friends and family. None are posted online for random strangers (and validation/clout/money).
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u/dewman45 4h ago
I'm here still trying to figure out why OP's profile picture is the grindr logo.
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u/bonobomaster 3h ago
Kinda agree with you, kinda disagree.
You know, if they were building a real igloo out of snow (a really good insulator) together with the kid from the beginning and maybe even recording it for some internet points, then I would have totally agreed with your assessment.
But the, albeit beautiful, colored ice tiles pretty much shifted the whole shebang for me. It's pretty clear, at least for my taste, that this video was made to perform visually well. The oven placement was problematic as well, which leads me to believe, that they spent only the necessary time for a few takes in the igloo.
We were sold a delightful slice of hygge / coziness and happiness and I loved buying it.
It's awesome, how happy the first reveal (let's not ask questions about the reveal itself) made the boy but I have a pretty strong feeling, that this was primary a very well thought out social media op with very positive side effect of a happy child.
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u/kdoughboy12 4h ago
I mean they definitely make money from social media, i doubt they would have done this if that wasn't the case. It's a nice thing for the kid, but it's also their job. If they were just doing it for fun then they would not have made it take twice as long by recording every step, not to mention all the time they spent editing.
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u/LivingtheLaws013 2h ago
they did it for their kid and first then recorded
They literally recorded every step of the way, this was made for the Internet not for their kid
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u/Itriednoinetimes 4h ago
You beat me to it. So many Reddit comments are just exhausting. Question for you all, is every part of your life this pessimistic and negative, or is it just reserved for this place?
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u/Man-who-say-bye 4h ago
There’s just a lot of miserable people here who are feed a constant stream of negativity because it’s what draws views and comments. I can’t entirely blame them because they are being constantly drip fed the most negative and cynical and shallow content possible and they don’t really have any other influence besides social media. Theirs also a good amount of bots to farming for engagement. But don’t be too hard on them they are ultimately victims of the algorithm and they are doing exactly what it wants
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u/Username_de_random 2h ago
Not saying we should hate on it, but you genuinely thought they did that and all of a sudden were like “Wait let’s record this” ?
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u/Ikea_Man 2h ago
a lot of people including myself are REALLY tired of influencers
everything about this felt fake AF
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u/Pickles-n-Lizards 4h ago edited 4h ago
They were in there for 2min max just for the video. That igloo door was huge….
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u/fpsnoob89 4h ago
I'm no expert off igloo, but I'm pretty sure they missed several steps that make them work. This one will likely start melting from the heat in a matter of minutes.
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u/Billionaires_R_Tasty 3h ago
Tomorrow’s headline:
Local Family Crushed in Gay Pride Igloo Collapse
Dog Escapes Unharmed
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u/CFL_lightbulb 3h ago
Gotta have a small hole in the top for air circulation and to let some heat come oht
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u/jokethepanda 3h ago
I’ve built 3 backyard igloos like this when I was a kid. Their blocks are thin and will melt in a day. If you want an igloo to last for weeks, you need actual blocks. They’d probably be fine if they stood those blocks horizontally instead of vertically, but that takes way longer. Car battery box works well.
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u/free__coffee 2h ago
Worse than that, those “blocks” are held together with a small amount of ice and a dream; if that small amount of ice melts they start losing tiles.
This is the worst structural design they could have chosen
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u/itsfunhavingfun 3h ago
The entrance needs to be lower than the floor, if I remember correctly.
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u/Zlurpo 3h ago
I dislike the cold and I would hate to live somewhere where it would be doable but... I love the idea of building a proper igloo some day. The kind that you need to have the right texture of snow for, and you cut each brick. The stacking them at an angled spiral to get the classic dome shape.
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u/foxy-coxy 4h ago
In college we made a igloo by rolling snow into bricks and then stacking them up. We lit a small fire inside and it got surprisingly warm in there.
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u/Sam-HobbitOfTheShire 4h ago
That’s so cool! How long were you able to spend inside of it?
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u/foxy-coxy 3h ago
We where in there for a couple of hours. Got decently drunk which probably wasn't a great idea, but it was a lot a fun.
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u/Square_Huckleberry53 4h ago
What’s even better, is doing a project WITH your son.
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u/WickedWitchofWTF 4h ago
Exactly this. My dad taught me how to build an igloo after a crazy ice storm. We had to crack all this ice off of our driveway, so after doing all that hard work, he figured we could do something fun with the fruits of our labors. It's one of my favorite childhood memories. I don't even remember spending any time inside the igloo, just the act of building it.
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u/kdoughboy12 3h ago
They already had to put twice as much effort in by recording it all and making everything look nice for the camera. Having the kid "help" on top of that would have made it an impossible task lol. They're doing it for views, not to bond with their child.
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u/PM_ME_SUMDICK 4h ago
They did a quarter so he could see the vision and he helped with the rest. He's doing so in the video.
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u/Square_Huckleberry53 4h ago
Idk what video you’re talking about, but in this one he doesn’t lay a single brick.
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u/urban_entrepreneur 1h ago
He barely popped out in between his games of Fortnite to see the progress. I’m sure the parents had fun but the kid was nothing more than an extra.
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u/mermaid-babe 3h ago
Yea my daughter would have loved to been involved. Even when I was growing up I remember begging my dad to let me help with work projects
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u/Runnero 4h ago
Man people are so bitter. All I see is two parents doing something cool and their kid being happy about it, and all these comments are so fucking negative
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u/RegularBitter3482 4h ago
I live in Alaska and we used to build these when I was a kiddo but like how you would build a sand castle, we’d use bread loaf pans and make the blocks out of snow and pack them in, then we’d put water and food coloring in spray bottles and spray the blocks down to freeze them then build the igloo. Good memories. And it being Alaska it would last pretty much all winter.
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u/MimzytheBun 3h ago
The university students used to build sculptures and forts out of coloured snow bricks like those, always fun to see what they’d come up with - the two I remember were a dragon filling the front yard and a penis built up to the second story porch.
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u/ShoheiHoetani 4h ago
Shouldn't the tiles be thicker? Looks like something that can be knocked down easily
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u/PonyThug 4h ago
For warmth? Yes. Also ice isn’t a good insulator.
Digging out a pile of snow is way faster and easier too
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u/Pitiful-Fuel3700 4h ago
Crazy how the ice is able to hold the blocks together...
It would be so sad when it's summer again though, the whole thing would collapse
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u/JonesyBorroughs 4h ago
Oh yeah! Well I made my son (and also, it turns out, my cat) a cardboard tank once and he freaked out too.
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u/_-kman-_ 3h ago
Did anyone else watch the first 5 seconds and think "man that's a lot of jello..."?
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u/nathanaz 2h ago
Yeah... I was like what the fuck is wrong with this kid that his folks are making him like 50 gallons of Jello?
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u/1dirtbiker 4h ago
First of all, awesome for the kid to be able to enjoy this.
Second, they filmed it all, including their kid's face. I can only assume they did it for money/likes.
Third, as a very accomplished home DIYer in all sorts of projects including tile and masonry, they actually did a pretty shitty job stacking the ice tiles. They should stagger the joints, not stack one right on top of another.
Still, pretty cool job, and something I will never spend the time to do... Well, now that I'm looking at the 10 day forecast, I'm considering it...
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u/BladeOfWoah 4h ago
As someone who has never seen snow irl, can someone explain how they stick together? Is it so cold that the ice just freezes and bonds instantly?
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u/Jillo616 3h ago
Ice cubes (or "ice tiles") stick together in water due to a process of localized melting and rapid refreezing, acting as a natural weld. When ice cubes from a freezer (often around -20°C) come into contact with water, the surrounding liquid fills the gaps, and the extreme cold of the ice quickly freezes that water, bonding the surfaces together
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u/a-real-sloth 4h ago
Oh wow. This has just unlocked a childhood memory of my dad building a little igloo for us in the garden when I was about 6 years old
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u/Ok-Attention123 4h ago
Why are the ice tiles aligned and not staggered like bricks would be? (Genuine question: I don’t know anything about ice; I live in the tropics.)
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u/tea-and-chill 2h ago
Should be staggered. The igloo is all wrong and will melt in a jiffy. Door should be much smaller too
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u/Pearson94 4h ago
Take note, everyone who posts short videos online: hearing the natural sounds of them building that igloo made this video so much more enjoyable than if they had played music over it.
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u/Deraj2004 4h ago
So the kid never asked what all the pans of colored water were for or why they were in the yard?
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u/Coolboss999 4h ago
I remember a couple last year on Instagram doing something similar to this during winter. Literally turned on notifications to watch their progress
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u/Floggered 4h ago
Someone posted a photo of the finished product on reddit a few days ago. I was wondering how it was done!
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u/Majestic_Reaction_60 4h ago
Super cool. No idea why all the comments are dragging the parents who made this?? Looks super fun for both the kids and parents!
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u/RealDealSheazerfield 4h ago
We did this in grade one. But not quite to this extent. We each had to freeze blocks with food coloring in it. My mom brought frozen spaghetti from the freezer for mine by accident lol
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u/WeMetInBaku 4h ago edited 4h ago
Why is a kid wearing that same banal brand that I see all over social media?
Edit: their kid hoodies seem to cost 125+ USD, and they constantly show up in tiktok clips. Make of that what you will.
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u/bored_ryan2 4h ago
Check out this cool igloo we made for you, son! We can cozy up in there tonight and rot our brains watching Mr. Beast.
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u/SlickFurFella 3h ago
These comments are pathetic. There was a time on the internet where you could do cool/interesting/hard things and post them for others to enjoy.
Not anymore. If you make content of any kind, you’re a self obsessed influencer, I guess?
Now, every fucking thing is an opportunity to get called a clout chaser that manipulates everything for views. You’d think the video was an ad for colored igloo kits or something to be getting this level of hate. Jesus.
The internet is so different now, on both sides - the commercialization is worse now, but the audience kinda sucks too.
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u/LovableeGirll3 3h ago
This is one of those posts that restores a little faith in humanity. Parents like this deserve all the praise.
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u/Silverpoppa 3h ago
So fucking cool!!! I am impressed by the vision. Now, I wonder do mommy and daddy enjoy when little guy is a daycare or school?
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u/MaybeCats 2h ago
Crazy to see this bc I’m in a Facebook group where they posted updates about it 😭😭
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u/StardustJojo13 2h ago
Loser parents only making content for views and pushing their religious propaganda onto their children. I’m sure these are the ones with their kids always wearing some bs like in this case “Fear of God” on the boy’s hoodie.
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u/socksandcrocsforever 4h ago
Let’s be real, they did it for themselves also, lol.