We ve somehow gotten talked into sitting very closely to this and i m nervous.
Watermelon rubber band buzzfeed.
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According to facebook more people tuned in at the same time to watch it live than any other video.
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.
This is what happens to your hands when you put 690 rubber bands on a watermelon.
Watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time.
On friday april 8 they streamed a video entitled watch us explode this watermelon one rubber band at a time.
We re at 90 rubber bands and we re going.
When it does actually explode the footage is incredible.
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.
Posted by buzzfeed on friday april 8 2016.
Today two buzzfeed staffers performed an experiment where they used nearly 700 rubber bands to blow up a watermelon.
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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.
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.
More than six million people have watched the video on facebook as they count each rubber band that they add to the watermelon.
They broadcast the whole thing in real time using facebook live it was utterly.
Buzzfeed s watermelon live video attracts more than 800 000 viewers.