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The Slow Mo Guys Break Down Slow Motion Videos

Released on 04/22/2019

Hello I'm Gav. I'm Dan.

We're The Slow Mo Guys, and today, we're looking

at some slow-mo clips from the internet.

Lets get started.

[relaxed music]

This is Slow-Mo Water Balloons by Legendary Shots.

87 million views on Facebook.

Everyone's seen a balloon of water.

Yeah. Get dropped or popped.

And you never see it for this long with your eyes,

so that's why it's quite satisfying.

When they pop, the rubber's so much faster

than the gravity of the water

so you end up with, like, the shape of the water

just hanging in the air.

But in this, there's a lot of the balloon not popping.

[Dan] Yeah, equally as interesting.

Equally as interesting.

We have some very weird shapes, lots of ripples.

It's as if water had incredible surface tension.

You end up left with these really bizarre moments in time,

like when the glove is like, right up at the balloon,

it's almost like an umbrella.

Split-second moment in time that,

thanks to high-speed, we can see it for ages.

This video, it's nice and sharp.

A lot of high-speed cameras have

an optical low-pass filter, which kinda softens it.

I don't think this camera has one,

'cause it looks very crisp.

Kind of poor dynamic range,

so it looks like it doesn't have one.

They picked the right frame rate,

which I assume is just like we do,

the maximum frame rate at the highest resolution.

If you do that then, it also means that

you can go down from there always.

Yeah, they've also shot it square.

I'm not sure if that was shot like that,

or whether it's been cropped.

A lot of the high-speed cameras we used to use

actually have a square sensor,

and then you can just crop to HD.

Or, if you wanna shoot a full square,

you basically got the fastest Instagram camera.

I always think there's something,

that this is actually getting the balloons right.

We've done it a few times with different balloons,

and they've all got different levels of strength.

Sometimes they pop, sometimes they act differently.

Yeah, we've shot stuff where we tried to pop a balloon,

like on your head or something like that,

and it just wouldn't go.

They'll pop while you're filling 'em,

but then, when you're actually throwing it,

for some reason it bounces off,

and it all depends on just, like,

the quality of the rubber

or how long they've been in a drawer.

Mostly the second one for us.

Mostly the second one.

It's probably just been on the floor of the carriage.

This is Will Bulletproof Glass

Stop a .50 cal bullet by Fullmag.

Richard Ryan, met him, haven't we?

He's done a ton of great high-speed of guns,

lots of gun based stuff.

And you'll notice here that a lot of his footage

is really, really wide screen,

because on most high-speed video cameras,

if you lower the resolution, you gain frame rate.

And because the bullet is always sort of left to right,

it takes up very little of an HD frame.

You can just lose the top and bottom.

And he actually does a very good job in the edit,

sliding that up, and maybe showing it zoomed in again.

It's just sort of, the frame is filled.

This is obviously slow enough to see

a bullet traveling through the air,

which is an incredibly high frame rate.

But it also just shows you how quickly glass cracks.

Faster than the bullet.

Seems to be.

When we shoot stuff with bullets,

it's always good to have an exposure time

of at least 10 microseconds, just so it's not a total blur.

Because you can still shoot in slo-mo,

and if your shutter speed isn't right,

you'll have a ton of pictures

of just a very, very blurred bullet.

To reduce motion blur, you have to increase

the shutter speed which drastically lowers

the amount of light you have,

which means you have way less depth.

It's always preferable to have the bullet

sort of going left to right, as opposed to at an angle,

because it'll be in focus the whole time,

and usually the depth is, you know.

Very small. Really, really small.

He shoots a ton of his stuff completely solo,

sort of framing up on standing objects,

and then shooting the gun, triggering the camera himself.

It's very impressive.

Could you just hold the bullet in please?

[Gav chuckles]

This is Tattooing In Slow Motion by Smarter Every Day.

Actually, my favorite YouTube channel.

Destin makes these videos.

Legend. This is a great example

of showing something that everyone has seen,

but in a completely different way.

With any slow motion, I think it's pretty difficult

to shoot, especially with macro.

You've got such a fine amount of focus.

In slow motion, you need a lot of light

because each exposure time is so small.

Getting the focus is much more difficult

when you're in slow-mo and doing macro at the same time.

You've got, sort of, millimeters of depth.

So, Destin's done a great job here

of absolutely nailing that focus.

[Dan] Yeah. And not blinding

everyone with the lights. Especially the fact

that the needle is moving towards the camera.

You wouldn't necessarily notice,

but you wouldn't know exactly how hard it is

to get that sort of footage.

[Gav] You're really seeing two levels down,

on stuff that you just can't see with your eye.

I mean, you see those with your eye,

and it's almost like you're watching a blur,

like you're watching a vibration.

People get tattooed everyday,

but it gives you a completely new perspective on it,

which is really cool.

I've always wanted a tattoo,

but after seeing this video

I'm not sure I could take it. [Dan laughs]

This is Two Slow Motion Lightning Strikes.

Nature, once again, an excellent subject for slow-mo.

Lightning is very, very, very fast.

What is it, like, a third of the speed of light?

Like, a tenth of the speed of light coming down,

and I think 1/3 going up? Yeah.

We actually learned this

because we recently filmed lightning,

much faster than this clip actually.

Up to 103,000 frames a second.

You can't necessarily see

the travel of the lightning in this clip,

but you can see it lingering in the air long enough

to the point where you can tell it's in slow motion.

When the event in high-speed is so short,

it's very hard to find the clip.

If you're shooting 100,000 frames a second for 5 seconds,

your clip lasts like .05 of a second.

'Cause lightning's that fast.

It's very difficult to find where it is.

So, we actually used something called

image-based auto trigger,

which lets us know the exact frame,

and it triggered the camera itself

on the first frame of the lightning.

Yeah. So, you can very quickly

see where it was, save it, and move on to the next clip.

The last thing you want is to miss good lightning strikes

because you're still saving the previous one.

Also, it means that you don't have to

trim the footage so much,

and if you're saving 8 seconds of footage

just for one lightning strike,

you have to then save the entire thing.

Yeah. And wait for it to do that,

and then carry on.

You can just--

You don't wanna keep 3 million pictures of the sky

when only, you know,

a couple of thousand have lightning in them.

This is WTF Flat Ground Tricks, 1,000 frames a second.

Skateboarding. Skateboarding always

looks good in slow motion.

I'm noticing a lot about this footage.

There's a lot of aliasing,

which, to me, says there's no optical low-pass filter.

There's also sort of very dark areas,

and then very blown out areas like the guy's shirt.

[Dan] Yeah, super blown out.

And this is just an example

of earlier high-speed video cameras,

had a pretty lousy dynamic range.

So, bright stuff blows out way sooner,

dark stuff falls off way sooner,

so you end up with sort of very contrast-y looking footage.

Still, perfect to see what's going on here.

The quality of, light looks like it was evening.

Makes it more difficult to actually get stuff

when it's in the evening,

so you can definitely tell when the sun is lower.

I quite like it, a chill, sunny day vibe.

We did a video with Tony Hawk actually,

and Dan broke his wrist.

I did. Trying to impress him.

Trying to do some skateboarding

that I clearly couldn't do. [Gav laughs]

This is Veritasium's Slinky video, 2 million views.

Very cool, very simple demonstration

of how when you drop a slinky, it all compresses,

and the bottom doesn't move anywhere in space

until it's completely landed.

Physics. Physics, cool physics!

We shot this video as well. Yeah.

Just thought it was so cool.

Some of the stuff I like about shooting things

in slow motion is you get to see things

from a scientific perspective that you wouldn't normally

get to see necessarily, or it's more difficult to perceive.

And this is a really good demonstration of that.

Veritasium's an excellent educational channel.

Highly recommend it too.

This is a slow-mo clip of a bird having breakfast.

[Gav laughs] This is great!

[Gav laughs harder] It's great footage.

It's kind of a fail video, actually.

He puts it in his mouth and then he throws it away.

I honestly think animals are the best subject for slow-mo.

Yeah. Like something as simple

as that, you're like aww, it's amazing!

It also makes you wonder

how often animals fumble their lunch.

[Dan laughs] I mean, I was once filming

a bee drinking pollen from a flower,

and it fell out, sort of rolled out back

'cause it got drunk.

In slow-mo, you see tons of that.

That clip was probably a very short space of time as well,

because birds like that small tend to move very quickly,

and have a very high metabolisms.

So, that looks really fast.

And judging by the snow moving in the background,

it's probably only a few hundred frames a second, if that.

From maybe on a phone.

Because it's very snowy,

you got that nice flat light all around,

nice and bright looking.

So, even on a phone it looks good.

Pretty much like having a

perfect lighting situation. Yeah, nice bounce.

I think they got this, probably,

a lot of patience and maybe almost training the birds

to be able to be used to you.

There's almost no chance

[Dan] that this is the first time. Yeah.

This person has put food in their hand.

They've probably done that months before,

and maybe everyone's seen a bird eat,

but no one's ever seen it that slow,

dropping its food out of its mouth.

It's also very cute, and you can't,

like, make a bird do that.

[Gav chuckles] Aw, damn.

[Gav laughs] Alright, that's enough.

This is sneezing in slow motion

This is actually a really old video.

I think I saw this about a decade ago.

It's also really difficult to do.

When someone's sneezing,

it's an involuntary movement a lot of the time.

It's very difficult to actually capture that.

People will move forwards and backwards.

Particles are actually not too difficult in CG.

In a way, they're sort of, kind of out of focus.

It looks very real.

You might as well do it for real.

I've noticed also, the lip flappiness is real.

They've definitely done at least the movements.

I mean, there wouldn't really be any reason

not to do it for real, apart from getting the cameraman wet.

Frame rate wise, it's probably an easy thousand.

The lip flappage is-- Yeah, it's very--

Sort of in between 500 and 2,000 FPS.

I wanna say almost, this was an advert or something

for, like, washing your hands,

or like Kleenex, or something.

I can't remember what it was,

but it was something to do with germs.

It's perfect.

This is an Instagram video at the Hoover Dam,

7 million views.

Great demonstration of an updraft.

So it, with tall buildings like skyscrapers

and, you know, big flat walls like a dam,

the wind will hit it and go up.

There's nowhere else to go,

and it's sort of funneled upwards, isn't it?

I think this is so cool, 'cause it's literally

the complete opposite of what you expect.

Messes with your head a little bit

when you see physics working in the wrong way.

Even though it's working absolutely the correct way.

[Dan chuckles] This was definitely

shot on a phone. Yeah.

Someone was probably just like,

I'm just gonna pour some water off here.

Bloody hell, look what it did!

Whip your phone out! Yeah, it's pretty windy.

Let's try this. Yeah.

Which is what's cool about it, I suppose.

Maybe we should take our Phantom to the Hoover Dam,

see what goes up, see what goes down.

So, this is Venus Fly Trap In Slow Motion And Macro.

Is that slow motion?

Isn't that just normal frame rate?

You can see he's sort of slowed down

regular speed footage, which is why it's like ch-ch-ch.

The whole reason high-speed works

is that you're taking way more pictures

in the one second space, because if you don't,

you end up with pictures missing.

And if I was to swipe my hand really quickly like that,

and it was taking maybe 25 frames a second,

you get a picture here, maybe a picture here,

and a picture here, and then that's it.

But with slow motion, you take hundreds or thousands,

and you get a much more smooth image.

We can actually see what's going on.

It gives me more time to take in what's happening,

but you can get slow motion effects

with just any DSLR if you just

play back slower than you shot.

Like, you can record at 60 FPS, and play back at 24.

Yeah, as long as you play something back slower

than you shot it, it's slow motion.

This is the giant 6 foot water balloon made by us.

Yep! This was the video

that actually made our channel take off.

Our videos around that time were getting

about 20 to 30 thousand views per video,

and this got a million views in a day.

[Dan] Which back then was truly a big deal.

Yeah, I went on the news to talk about this video.

Currently, it has 177 million views,

which, as far as we're aware,

is the most viewed slo-mo clip on YouTube.

That's nice. Which is crazy.

It was me a jumping on a balloon until it popped.

[Dan] We has tried lots of different things,

jumping out of a tree.

Of all the things that I thought would happen,

I didn't for a second think that the balloon wouldn't pop.

Yeah. I just bounced off it.

You actually see me get air

as it sort of flings me back into the air.

[laughs] Yeah, I remember where

I was filming this one, unusually, in the beginning.

And you kept bouncing off of it.

Yeah. And I was like, no way!

This is unbelievable!

And that's what's fun about some of the things we do.

Sometimes we just don't expect that to happen.

This was one of the early videos

we filmed on the Phantom Flex,

which did 2,500 frames a second in HD.

Good old camera, that one.

One of the few clips where I'm actually doing the thing.

Yeah, it's mostly me doing the thing.

I thought I'd enjoy that one.

If there was anything I would do differently now,

I would probably jump from much higher.

I would be the one doing it, for a start.

Oh, well, you'd be doing it.

Yeah. I think you

were unavailable that day.

We'd started filming a different day,

and not managed to get exactly what we wanted.

And then-- Yeah, that's actually

a little fun fact about this clip.

At some point, it fades out and i says Some Time Later.

I think it was actually, like, three weeks later,

because you had been gone into the army to do?

Something. I had to quickly

finish the video, because the first time

I jumped on that balloon, it popped.

I had to trigger it slightly too early,

so you didn't see the everything popping out everywhere.

Basically, there's a reason now

that I just take care of the filming,

and he does all the stuff. However, the thing is

it made it so much better,

because it meant the balloon got much bigger.

Sure, the second time we did it,

it was a 6 foot balloon instead of a 5 foot balloon.

Yeah, but it also got a lot bigger as well.

'Cause it was a big balloon. No.

So, you're saying you made it better

by messing up the first time?

Yeah, yeah. A better video?

Yep. Okay, that makes sense.

Good videos, I think there's people

doing good work out there.

Yeah. In the slow mo field.

Tons of people with access to different equipment.

I think it just shows that you don't necessarily

need the world's greatest high-speed cameras

to make some genuinely interesting slo-mo footage.

There's a lot of phone stuff

out there as well. A lot of good phone stuff.

Yeah, and that'll only get better as technology moves on.

Starring : Gavin David Free, Daniel Charles Gruchy

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Two guys captured the speed of light on camera at 10 trillion frames per second

"the light is moving a million times faster than a bullet.”.

The Slow Mo Guys had to use a special camera

Gavin Free and Daniel Gruchy aka the “Slow Mo guys,” have filmed all sorts of things in, you guessed it, slow motion—everything from popcorn makers to giant water balloons to even tattoo guns . Each of their videos feels a bit like “Mythbusters. ” Just a couple of guys making science super fun.

Since light travels at an unfathomable 186,000 miles per second, Free and Gruchy had to reach out to CalTech for a camera that could capture “10 trillion frames per second,” which they said was “20 million times faster than the fastest we've ever filmed on this channel."

The team first shoots a beam of light through a bottle of milk water. Even though to the naked eye, it looks as though the bottle instantly lit up, the later footage reveals the light (a sort of blue ghost-like thing in the playback) travels from one side of the bottle to the other.

“Every frame seems to be ten picoseconds,” Free says. “And we're just sort of casually watching this go left to right through the bottle, but in reality the light is moving a million times faster than a bullet.”

Watch the full video below, which includes a few other fascinating slow motion experiments with light.

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American woman forced to change her name after learning what it means in Australia

Things are a bit different down under..

A woman is shocked to learn that her name means something totally different in Australia.

Devyn Hales, 22, from California, recently moved to Sydney, Australia, on a one-year working visa and quickly learned that her name wouldn’t work Down Under. It all started when a group of men made fun of her on St. Patrick’s Day.

After she introduced herself as Devyn, the men laughed at her. "They burst out laughing, and when I asked them why, they told me devon is processed lunch meat,” she told The Daily Mail . It's similar to baloney, so I introduce myself as Dev now,” she said in a viral TikTok video with over 1.7 million views.

For those who have never been to Australia, Devon is a processed meat product usually cut into slices and served on sandwiches. It is usually made up of pork, basic spices and a binder. Devon is affordable because people buy it in bulk and it’s often fed to children. Australians also enjoy eating it fried, like spam. It is also known by other names such as fritz, circle meat, Berlina and polony, depending on where one lives on the continent. It's like in America, where people refer to cola as pop, soda, or Coke, depending on where they live in the country.

So, one can easily see why a young woman wouldn’t want to refer to herself as a processed meat product that can be likened to boloney or spam. "Wow, love that for us," another woman named Devyn wrote in the comments. “Tell me the name thing isn't true,” a woman called Devon added.

@dhalesss #fypシ #australia #americaninaustralia #sydney #aussie

Besides changing her name, Dev shared some other differences between living in Australia and her home country.

“So everyone wears slides. I feel like I'm the only one with 'thongs'—flip-flops—that have the little thing in the middle of your big toe. Everyone wears slides,” she said. Everyone wears shorts that go down to your knees and that's a big thing here.”

Dev also noted that there are a lot of guys in Australia named Lachlan, Felix and Jack.

She was also thrown off by the sound of the plentiful magpies in Australia. According to Dev, they sound a lot like crying children with throat infections. “The birds threw me off,” she said before making an impression that many people in the comments thought was close to perfect. "The birds is so spot on," Jess wrote. "The birds, I will truly never get used to it," Marissa added.

One issue that many Americans face when moving to Australia is that it is more expensive than the United States. However, many Americans who move to Australia love the work-life balance. Brooke Laven , a brand strategist in the fitness industry who moved there from the U.S., says that Aussies have the “perfect work-life balance” and that they are “hard-working” but “know where to draw the line.”

Despite the initial cultural shocks, Devyn is embracing her new life in Australia with a positive outlook. “The coffee is a lot better in Australia, too,” she added with a smile, inspiring others to see the bright side of cultural differences.

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Woman's response to being called a 'natural beauty' has other women applauding

She makes a great point..

Maybe she's born with it. But maybe it just modern day cosmetics.

A woman named Tallulah Rose recently went viral after sharing a well-intentioned, but oh-so misinformed compliment men tend to give her. It left a lot of other women nodding in agreement, because it revealed what still seems to be a common beauty myth.

"I actually just, like, don't understand men and how their brain works sometimes because today I was just minding my own business when this guy comes up to me and is like ‘you are so elegant, you are such a natural beauty,'" she said in the clip.

Of course, Rose is positive any other woman would instantly know that the beauty men are responding to is anything but natural.

“I think a woman can take one look at me and be like … this is fake,” she said before breaking down the costs of enhancements she’s made.

“My jawline cost $10,000, okay? My lips are clearly done. My hair is $2000, my lashes are $200 every two weeks.”

"My jawline costs $10,000, okay?"

@tallulah.roseb/ TikTok

She then lifted her bangs to show a wrinkle-less forehead and immovable eyebrows, thanks to Botox or some other kind of anti-wrinkle injection. Plus, she has “enough makeup on to season a f***ing wok.”

Still, men will wistfully tell her “ 'they don't make them like you do these days.” to which Rose quipped, “yes they do with a needle and a scalpel!”

"They don't make 'em like you these days…yes they do! With a needle and a scalpel!"

Since sharing this hot take, Rose’s video has garnered over 12 million views on TikTok and has been shared across several platforms. Most of the comments came from women who have had their own fair share of this experience.

Some were just as hilarious as the original video.

"My husband was like 'please never get Botox' If I could raise my eyebrows at him I would have,” one person wrote.

Another added, ““I’ve had male friends remark how I don’t wear heavy makeup like other girls. I spend at least 30 mins a day putting my face on.”

Over on X, people were just refreshed by Rose’s honesty.

Hahaha, this is brilliant. She owns it all and i love it — вRι α. (@KARMASABLEEP) April 8, 2024

I kind of love her. I like that she's not pretending it's natural. I want to be her friend. https://t.co/3zrFtIcvFU — A💫 (@basedbambii) April 8, 2024

Love this reply found in the comments: “She's pointing out how ridiculous it is for men to say they prefer natural makeup/looks and then compliment a woman who has had so much work done. Men have no idea what natural looks like.” Also love her candor! 🫶🏼 https://t.co/cbyMuFO5c5 — 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𓃰 (@thingwithching) April 8, 2024

Rose told news.com.au that many men “genuinely can’t tell the difference between a natural woman and a woman that has had cosmetic surgery,” primarily due to seeing celebrities who have had work done and assuming that’s the standard. She’ll often ask male friends to name a celebrity crush, and “they’ll name someone that has clearly had work done but they are just quite clueless to it.”

And that is really where the important conversation comes in. Unrealistic beauty standards aren’t necessarily a new issue. But now the paradox of cosmetic procedures being stigmatized while at the same time not even acknowledged in much of what is touted as natural beauty puts women in an impossible position. They can’t naturally live up to these expectations, and then are labeled as fake if they do make efforts to look enhanced (which is the new normal…make it make sense).

Point is: Praising a woman for her “natural beauty” might be intended as a compliment. But for many, it’s neither true, nor a compliment.

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SNL sketch about George Washington's dream for America hailed an 'instant classic'

"people will be referencing it as one of the all time best snl skits for years.”.

Seriously, what were our forefathers thinking with our measuring system?

Ever stop to think how bizarre it is that the United States is one of the only countries to not use the metric system? Or how it uses the word “ football ” to describe a sport that, unlike fútbol, barely uses the feet at all?

What must our forefathers have been thinking as they were creating this brave new world?

The hilarious clip takes place during the American Revolution, where George Washington rallies his troops with an impassioned speech about his future hopes for their fledgling country…all the while poking fun at America’s nonsensical measurements and language rules.

Like seriously, liters and milliliters for soda, wine and alcohol but gallons, pints, and quarters for milk and paint? And no “u” after “o” in words like “armor” and “color” but “glamour” is okay?

The inherent humor in the scene is only amplified by comedian and host Nate Bargatze’s understated, deadpan delivery of Washington. Bargatze had quite a few hits during his hosting stint—including an opening monologue that acted as a mini comedy set—but this performance takes the cake.

All in all, people have been applauding the sketch, noting that it harkened back to what “SNL” does best, having fun with the simple things.

Here’s what folks are saying:

“This skit is an instant classic. I think people will be referencing it as one of the all time best SNL skits for years.”

“Dear SNL, whoever wrote this sketch, PLEASE let them write many many MANY more!”

“Instantly one of my favorite SNL sketches of all time!!!”

“I’m not lying when I say I have watched this sketch about 10 times and laughed just as hard every time.”

“This may be my favorite sketch ever. This is absolutely brilliant.”

There’s more where that came from. Catch even more of Bargatze’s “SNL” episode here .

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Dad and son had no idea their pet octopus would soon hatch 50 eggs. Cue wholesome chaos.

It's an epic saga that's wholesome, captivating and heartfelt all at once..

Their journey became the best nature show on social media.

What started as a wholesome father - son bonding activity quickly became a full blown TikTok sensation, all thanks to one octopus . Actually…make that fifty octopuses.

Cameron Clifford of Edmond, Oklahoma, had promised to get his cephalopod-obsessed 9-year old Cal their very own pet octopus. After making a call to a local aquarium, Clifford made good on that promise, and a California two-spot (or bimac) octopus, which they would name Terrance, arrived via mail order. Cue Cal’s instant tears of joy.

Only, in hindsight, they might have wanted to name him Teresa instead, because only two months later, Terrance’s already too-small tank was filled with dozens of eggs.

"We kind of estimate there was about between 40 and 70 eggs but every one that hatched, that I saw, I was able to catch and contain. It was exactly 50," Clifford told Good Morning America .

As Clifford explains in one TikTok video (using a posh british voice for the narration, making it even more National Geographic-esque), once female bimac octopuses lay eggs, that usually signals the end of their life cycle, and they stop taking care of themselves in order to protect their young.

@doctoktopus Terrance signals the end of her life-cyxle, but we have no idea how mich time we have left wirh her. #octopus   #marinebiology   #shrimpdaddy   #saltwateraquarium   #fyp   #cephalopod   #petoctopus   #aquarium   #octomom   #biology   #mom   ♬ Heartbeats - Remastered 2023 - José González

So, even though Terrance (who was eventually renamed Terry) could recognize Clifford and Cal, nothing could coax her out of her cave after the eggs were laid. However, latching onto their arms remained one of her favorite pastimes.

Terrance’s eggs were at first deemed infertile by several experts that Clifford talked to, which made her upcoming demise all the more tragic. When the unexpected miracle finally did happen, Clifford begged for other aquariums in his area to take the hatchlings. They all declined.

So naturally, he reached out to TikTok. He shared the previously private videos documenting their journey, including the insane saga of capturing each newly hatched octopus and putting it in its own incubated container, so that they wouldn’t eat each other. The Clifford home honestly became a bona fide marine biologist training center. Only with exponentially more puns.

Behold, "Clamsterdam":

@doctoktopus SOONERS DEFEAT DARWIN IN BIG 12 CONF. CHAMPIONSHIP 🏈 🐙 #octopus   #marinebiology   #shrimpdaddy   #saltwateraquarium   #fyp   #cephalopod   #saltwatertank   #aquarium   #octomom   #mom   #clambake   #poseidon   #tank   ♬ original sound - Shoptopus

Speaking of puns, viewers also helped give each of the octo-babies. Some examples include InverteBrett, Swim Shady, Bill Nye the Octopi, Sea-yonce and Jay-Sea…you get the picture.

Luckily, after Clifford’s account went mega viral, other aquariums, universities and research facilities agreed to give them homes, per USA Today .

Clifford might be out thousands of dollars—and hours—on his impromptu project, but he wouldn't trade it for the world.

@doctoktopus 😳 #octopus   #marinebiology   #shrimpdaddy   #saltwateraquarium   #fyp   #cephalopod   #petoctopus   #octomom   #biology   #saltwatertank   #mom   ♬ original sound - Shoptopus

"As far as regrets, there's so many," he told USA Today . "I wish I wouldn't have opened that valve that way and dumped all that dirty seawater onto my kids' white carpet. That's certainly a regret. But overall, no, it's been an absolutely fun experience, not just for me, but also for my kids."

And in case you’re wondering: Yes, Terrence is still, miraculously, alive. Though she is expected to die in the next several weeks, the Cliffords are more than prepared to be surprised. Again.

Though Clifford attests that one should probably refrain from have an octopus for a pet, he tells his followers that “you will learn a lot about yourself” by taking care of one.

“There’s always some valve or seal that’s not completely closed, and your storm resistant carpet isn’t rated for gallons and gallons of seawater. You’ll learn that seawater and electricity don’t always get along. You will learn new things and meet incredible people and will learn that wildlife is magnificent. But most of all, you’ll learn to love a not-so-tiny octopus like Terrance.”

Follow along on more of Clifford and Cal's octopus adventures on TikTok .

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Mom has the most hilarious response to her daughter's gay friend asking to sleep over

The mother handled it fabulously..

The courage to speak up to join in the fun.

Meet Mason Brian Barclay, a teen and self-described "very homosexual male." He recently wanted to attend a sleepover at his "new best friend" Houston's house, because teens are gonna teen. But he's a boy, and everyone knows boys aren't allowed to attend girls' sleepovers, because of cooties/patriarchal norms.

"I think the common meaning behind only allowing the same sex to share sleepovers is due to the typical interest in the opposite sex, when, in this case, I do not like the opposite sex," he explained in the text.

\u201cShe hates this picture but idc. I'm in love with your soul. You pretty cute too.\u201d — May (Taylor\u2019s Version) (@May (Taylor\u2019s Version)) 1500425804

Mrs. Shelton's response was so good that Mason tweeted it out and it went viral:

I TEXTED HOUSTONS MOM TO ASK IF I CAN STAY THE NIGHT FRIDAY HAHAHAHAHApic.twitter.com/Ovr74V869W — May (Taylor\u2019s Version) (@May (Taylor\u2019s Version)) 1505775519

"Hmm. Well my husband is hot. Should I worry?" she responded.

Evidently Mason found Mrs. Shelton's text hilarious. So does Twitter.

That took guts, and this mom acknowledged it *fabulously*! I wish you a fun night with your friends! Stay away from Houston's dad, now. 🤣💖 — Julie Martineau (@JulieBonjour) September 22, 2017

And others are just wondering if the sleepover is on, or not??

Wait. Did we ever learn the answer??? Lol — Zachary Zane (@Zachary Zane) 1505927113

Others need to know if Houston's dad lives up to the hype:

Wait, so how hot is her dad? — Milton Knowles (@TheGreatMiltini) September 21, 2017

This article originally appeared on 11.26.18

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