#nilered

some day nilered is just gonna stop showing up in my youtube shorts and ill slowly and knowingly nod to myself. his actions caught up to him at last

Every NileRed video is like "I've always wanted to take a napalm bomb and turn it into delicious chewie Lifesavers, but I never had the equipment to disarm one. However, I've managed to acquire a $3000 specialized machine from Alibaba and now I'm ready to get started"

In Nilered's making human kibble video, at the beginning he laments about humans spending 7 years of our lives preparing food. He says it's a waste of time; and this made me realize something about humans: we've completely lost the plot. Somewhere along the way we've lost what it is to be alive. Every plant and animal spends a large chunk of it's time and energy in the pursuit and consumption of food. Whether it's hunting, gathering, scavenging, photosynthesizing, or shopping and preparing, we all do it. But somehow as a species we've gotten so busy and self important that we think we're above and more important than needs every organism has. Genuinely saddening

Nilered's videos are so good because his narration keeps you on your toes. In suspense the whole damn time. "So i thought that everything would work out fine" when he's talking about mixing extremely dangerous chemicals together. Half the time it does work out fine is the thing but it's the implication that it might not that gets you.