Wow, thank you so much for your support, I'm glad you appreciate the work that goes into these time lapses. The money will be used to make future videos even better. :)
According to Social Blade in August 2020 (I started the watermelon time lapse project on August 15th 2020) I had around 1300 subscribers, so yeah, you are right :)
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that reversing the video doesn't bring the watermelon back. I'll ask my dad. EDIT: Dad says I'm right. But I suppose he could be wrong too...
I think the container is painted white inside and that's what peels up at the end. Compare what the bottom of the container looked like at the start to what you can see as it peels up.
Trying to quantify the amount of life you experienced in almost two years, and comparing it to the decomposing of one silly little watermelon. I hope you enjoyed those two years. This was cool. :)
It is amazing how long this particular family of fruit can stay unspoiled. My wife and I had a Chinese "winter melon" sitting on the kitchen table for more than a year. It underwent no noticeable change, and when we finally cut it up, it was as fresh and delicious inside as ever, ready to be cooked.
in a big timelapse like that, we wouldn't even notice if he stopped the record at some point, changed the SD and the battery and continued filming to cut it all together in the end. I think the rendering is more impressive.
Man saw the entire world taking shelter from a unknown virus and was like: "you know what would be cool as shit? filming a goddamn watermelon decomposing. That'd be sick." Legend.
@@Ateszika the Xbox series x and ps5 were brought out while this was decomposing, advancements in graphics cards, and there’s a lot more I just picked the ones that came to mind first
What was more difficult - Filming a watermelon rotting litterally to dust, or cleaning the Container? Thanks for your endurance and sharing the result with us.
@@vedantsridhar8378 I think flies and maggots would eat it and think, "This is to die for." Anyone else would eat it and just die. I assume the taste would be putrescent, the sixth sensation of the mouth after sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami
@@tuddgrimley8532 true. I also believe eating the whole spoiled 500 day old watermelon could kill you, but taking it in small amounts would cause food poisoning. When I suffered it a couple of years ago, it was terrible. It happened because I ate some very old food. Btw I accidentally deleted my comment
@@vedantsridhar8378 goes to show you, a lot of unpleasant sensations are only to save you from harm but then ppl like Swedish eat syrströmming which is just. rotten. fish. in a tin can. this civilization is odd
Had a watermelon for less than a week and it exploded. Was already rotting from the inside by then. The one in this video took over 200 days to "pop." wtf
@@maliciouslycryptic5529 nah most my comments get like 2 likes and then i have one comment that just says "sheesh that last one" which got 45,000 likes
You know, when you said “a whole watermelon” I didn’t expect to see the whole melon in the 4th dimension as well. This is the only watermelon I can say that I’ve fully seen.
I actually really wonder what people would answer if I asked them what the object at 2:20 is, without showing them the title of this video and somehow hiding the days and hours count? Would some people also say it's a strange kind of sweet, with the mold being just sugar? Would even one person among a pool of 10,000 people guess that it's a decomposing watermelon?
@@PhotoOwl Damn bro, I'm sure you have other surprises for us in the upcoming years😂 I'm writing to see a 10 years time lapse, that would be EPIC!! You would be in history bro
Haha, @ElVictorEmilio! It sounds like your dog was having a classic moment of curiosity mixed with caution. Those little hesitations can be so funny! Pets really do have the best reactions. What's your dog's name? 🐶
Yeah. Even the 10-day-old food in my fridge, which got spoiled smelled quite disgusting to me, just imagine how terrible the one-and-a-half-year-old watermelon must have been. The best I can imagine would be the smell of poop, but I can imagine it would be much worse than that.
@@vedantsridhar8378 it's honestly much better than poop. It would be a mix of strong alcohol and a heavy sweet smell, with a hint of earthy mold. Source: I've worked around food for a long time. Eventually you learn what these different things smell like. I'd take a rotten piece of fruit over something like a potato any day of the year. Those things smell like fish when they start actively decomposing.
It was very neat to see the stripes leave and return. And when the melon peed… man those were some times. Thank you for having the patience to film such a process.
that's honestly so fucking beautiful, the way it dries up makes it feel like an island thats losing all of its water and eventually becomes surrounded by a desert. very pretty.
Fun fact: depending on the environment, watermelons will actually start to ferment before exploding. Speaking from experience; we grew a bunch, left them on the counter undisturbed (we dont eat melons very often), and would only occasionally have one. Middle of the night we hear a hissing noise followed by a pop and the sound of liquid dripping; sure enough, the innards had fermented and there was juice dripping from everything.
The music makes me realize how poetic it is that the watermelon didn’t change at all in over a year but once it finally started giving in everything else happened so quickly
Imagine if I could "attach" a smell sample to the video...:D BTW this wasn't the worst, chicken wings is still number 1 on the smelly-scale. Unforgettable, it felt like I had the smell in my nose the whole day, I thought I got phantosmia. Luckily by the evening/next day it was gone.
Holy bro imagine like what we were doing and who we were when this man decided to put a watermelon in a container for 2 years. Thats is insane. Keep up the dedication bruh keep up that good work
So fun fact: The rinds on melons and gourds are so good at preserving the fruit that you have the terms “summer squash” and “winter squash.” Summer squash means you can eat it at any time during the summer and it will still be good, but it has a thinner rind so it will go bad sooner. Winter squash refers to when people had root cellars and would store their harvest in there. You harvest winter squash in the summer but if you store them in a dark, cool environment you can enjoy them well into the winter. These have super thick rinds. I don’t know when watermelon starts decomposing on the inside, but basically you’ll know if you take a bite and you want to spit it out. (Note: small children don’t have this learned behavior, please taste the juice or fruit first before giving it to a small child as they lack the experience to avoid rotten food.)
@@lindasano1552 Genetically modified fruit and crops can be incredibly natural. All GMO means is that it has been selectively bred for desirable qualities. Lemons are an entirely man-made species, therfore every lemon is GMO. Same with modern corn, it was bred to be big whereas ancient corn was small. Stop spreading misinformation that "GMO" means unnatural, that's a hoax by health nuts in order to sell expensive food and shady medicine.
@@FreshGarbage0 Bro, it's literally called Genetically modified organisam, it is not natural. There is something to be said about natural selection but such has limits, to go beyond those limits is unnatural, if the plant cannot reproduce on its own it is unnatural. You can breed different species of the same plants to get the desired results like larger fruit or a higher yield but the plant, much like dog breeds, will still be able to reproduce if it is natural. No most GMOs are not natural, why don't you stop parroting the main stream media.
I especially liked how the color faded and then came back, I wonder about the mechanisms there. Did the pigments just get overshadowed by something that eventual decayed letting us see them again? Or did a new layer of the same pigments become freshly exposed the second time around letting us see them again? Or something else altogether? Thanks for the video!
It became lighter because it was losing chlorophyll from no water. It turned dark green again because it dried out and shrunk like a balloon losing air
@@paigeconnelly4244 I see. I have some hygiene products that change color through winter and summer because they are from vegetation. So I thought it could apply to this.
I think it also depends on the environment he was filming in, which seems to be controlled well. I think it would rot in a quarter of the time if this watermelon was kept outdoors.
*It was certainly interesting to watch this watermelon go from fetus to pulverised juice. The fact that you spent two years doing this is pure commitment. I wonder what other foods you have brewing in the timelapse right now*
I was literally about to make this exact comment. Word for word. More than once I’ve gone to pick up a watermelon while stocking and had my hand go completely through the melon only to be hit by that rotten melon smell. Worst smell I’ve encountered while working a produce section has got to be Brussels sprouts that were sitting in a tub of water for two weeks. People kept pouring boxes on top without rotating anything. Just below the surface of the sprouts was hands down the worst smell I’ve ever smelled and it just got worse as it got deeper. Rotting dead bodies piled high in a sewer filled with ammonia. I can’t describe it any other way and I still feel like I’m underselling it.
Worst smell in produce hands down had a bad batch drop its guts in the chiller room it smelt like rotten watermelon for 2 days even through a deep clean Asparagus gets pretty bad aswell when not rotated or overstocked and left for too long
Whenever I see a soft spot on a melon at work, I give my work mates a side eye with a smirk before performing fist no jutsu on the damn thing. Just me? Just me…
@@greanch1234 oh that's interesting! By now I did realise, what I said makes no sense anyway, given how quickly much bigger things rot away, compared to this melon. Still it's really confusing to me, that this exists. Why would a melon need them?
I recently had a whole watermelon that I didn't touch. It already leaked after about 30 days. And when I wanted to throw it away, it fell apart completely. Maybe his room was very cold or so.
@@Gwynbleiddsanity or maybe the terrible smell of the decomposing watermelon is also thrilling. Because it's just not something you smell in everyday life. But yeah mask is a good solution.
@@Ecco502 Because it is a great demonstration of time. The rotten watermelon isn't beautiful. But the process, which is happening due to the time moving forward, is remarkable.
melons and squash last a loooong time due to their thick shells. Some winter squash you cut off the vine ancure for a while before you even eat them, plants are amazing, there are some long lasting fruit and vegetables that you can keep in a cool dry pantry for quite some time before it's inedible. Potatoes and onions also seem to last a very long time.
I became somewhat attached to the watermelon during the video. On the outside it seemed fine for a while but in reality we all knew what it would come to. To watch it deflate and mold in its own disgusting juices, really moved me, almost to tears.
Same for me, it was hard. That poor watetmelon has grown to be eaten and he end up like this. Stay in a box dying in his own blood. Why i said that ,i will not be able to sleep ;-;
Well if any food is left for long enough, it decomposes fully and dries up until it becomes sand-like. Even a leftover hamburger becomes sand-like, and that is what I discovered when I opened an old bag that I hadn't used for two years. There I found a package and inside it was sand, which was once a hamburger I bought but didn't have time to eat. Scary. Sometimes it becomes chip-like. In the end, everything becomes part of the soil. That is what hummus is. Big respect to nature, and the decomposers, for doing such a fantastic job at recycling nutrients. I just learned about the carbon cycle and the decomposers in my biology class, and I just love that topic. It keeps reminding me of this video.
It's not an full length video, it's just photos taken every set time. A second of video is like 7 days. At 30 frames per second, it's like 4 or 5 frames a day. You just need to take a photo every 6 hours or so.
Honestly, huge props to you on this. I worked in produce while in college, and let me tell you, there aren’t many things nastier than a rotting watermelon.
I don't know how much I can respect a guy who simply records stuff rotting away for YEARS. That stuff requires EXTREME dedication, and I just can't respect this guy enough. They deserve all of my respect, which probably might not even feel like enough.
Day 1: yum yum Day 150: stripes began to fade / slight color shift Day 470: let's take a leak Day 480: molding begins Day 500: *OMGOSH LOOK!!!* Day 520: 🤮🤮🤮 Day 600: death valley
That’s neat. We had these decorative mini pumpkins on Halloween, my son insisted on keeping one in his room. It didn’t start getting a little soft until the end of March. Much more resilient than I thought.
@@spirituser7354 since you want to be smart, cucurbits aka gourd family are a family of flowering plants with include many different plants from watermelons to cucumbers to squashes and pumpkins
That takes insane amount of dedication almost to two years. Don’t give up on any other stuff you have recorded. I’m staying tune and sharing this to over 11 people
It's hardly possible to "give up" on doing basically nothing for year after year after year! All he _really_ needs, are plenty of cameras, boxes, batteries, light bulbs, memory storage devices - and of course, perishable items set up all in one go, then just leave it all for as long as you choose. I don't really understand why there's all this hype around what he/she does??
I was at school when you put this melon and now am at uni, wow crazy to think it took this long to make! Keep the amazing content, you're doing something amazing and so unique =)
@@freedom6984 and yet people spend their lives trolling and hating others, forming groups to do so... and doing crime. They don't realize how insignificant they are.
I bet the smell was revolting. Still, I wish TH-cam had a smell feature too where you could smell the environment where the video was taken, that way I can know how bad it smelled.
То,.что вы разломали в конце - это называется доля сухих веществ в продукте. Т.е. это минеральная часть продукта, т.к. все органические вещества уже распались на простые химические элементы. Видео супер! Благодарю!
@@PhotoOwl I'm curious, do you have a 'how it's made' sort of video for your timelapses? I imagine you have a small field full of containers filled with rotting stuff somewhere, and I'd be interested to see how you manage all of them
It’s really interesting to think about how this is basically how dirt is formed. The reason the pulverised watermelon just looked kinda earthy is because yeah, dirt is just dead trees, animals and other stuff that has gone through that exact process.
@@georgiykireev9678 but I mean usually any fruit would start molding within a few days, max a month if left like that. Its very suprising how the melon lasted over a year. Shows how tough the skin around it is against microorganisms
Fascinating from an evolutionary perspective. Melons and gourds are adapted like time capsules, protecting the seeds as well as the moisture and nutrients needed to get those seeds a strong start for so long, maximizing the plant's ability to procreate through adverse seasonal change.
If there isn’t one already, I’d love to see a video showing where you do these timelapses / what your setup is like? Genuinely curious as to how and where you keep a camera on a watermelon, for almost a full 2 years lol!
@@achillxs7458 More than likely he has the camera set up on a tripod and has it set to take a photo every hour and then just changes the battery when it dies, you can get some time lapse cameras pretty cheap.
This time lapse was edited perfectly! Perfect speed, great visibility, and the real time crunching the leftovers was the cherry on top! Showed everything my mind was curious about! Thank you so very much for making this❤️
What a nice way to show how life decays and evolves.. Fantastic effort and dedication for the video.. much appreciated!! 🙏
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Wow, thank you so much for your support, I'm glad you appreciate the work that goes into these time lapses. The money will be used to make future videos even better. :)
Wow
@@PhotoOwl pin this comment
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fun fact: this timelapse was started before this channel even had 3,000 subscribers, I checked with the wayback machine
According to Social Blade in August 2020 (I started the watermelon time lapse project on August 15th 2020) I had around 1300 subscribers, so yeah, you are right :)
The amount of dedication
Its really that he made it before his channel blow
@@PhotoOwl holy crap that’s amazing
@@PhotoOwl Wait, so there's some longer than this one brewing already ?
I'm just imagining this guy has a massive warehouse with like 500 timelapse projects going on at once
My thoughts exactly the same
And the smell must be lovely
The same thought i was having
proud to be the one thousandth like
Like, “oh jerry the piece of toast is ready to be posted!” 😂😂😂
it’s really great that he reversed the process in the end so he doesn’t waste an entire watermelon
what a hero
No watermelon is harmed 🍉 in this video
Top tier comment
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that reversing the video doesn't bring the watermelon back.
I'll ask my dad.
EDIT: Dad says I'm right. But I suppose he could be wrong too...
@@experi-mentalproductions5358 no way
One watermelon wasted?!?!?
:'((((((((((((( me sad
chronomancers, am i right?
Almost 2 years for one video project. this is the only thing that can be called underrated even after millions of views
This dude is probably filming plastic decomposing as we speak.
oh god
Should hire queen elizabeth to film it
yes
He'll be there a while
That'll take yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrssssssssss
Dude you should give your cameraman a raise, standing this still for 2 years straight is really impressive.
@@tempet2026 It was a joke mate.
Funny
@@alzaeem79 ahh mb ^^’
@@tempet2026 Yeah no problem, happens to the best of us.
i know right? especially standing so still next to a rotting fruit, mad respect
The way it turned into an island and as if it was paper, just rips. This was oddly satisfying
Seriously like how and why did it also turn white on the back of the melon and the liquid
@@chair2355 maybe there was a paper cover below the watermelon?
@@chair2355 the white is mold idk what the liquid is it’s probably the old watermelon juice
I think the container is painted white inside and that's what peels up at the end. Compare what the bottom of the container looked like at the start to what you can see as it peels up.
@@Lewa263 yes you're correct
2:59 bro that shredded like paper.. You did an excellent job on this time lapse!
Because... there was paper
@@ilovedollssomuchit’s not paper….. it’s paint off of the bucket
I think it's safe to say that everyone was extremely suprised how long it managed to keep it's shape.
its*
Indeed
@@aquaneutral it's is correct (it is)
(edit: didn't see the second its lol)
@@pupper42 that’s not correct lol
@@pupper42 second
It’s so crazy how it lasted over a year, then the shell just barely broke and it’s all of a sudden just crumbled
It propably was already liquid inside for a long time
Sounds like me
@@rubenporras9865 damn
Shows how fragile lives is
@@rubenporras9865 sad
Trying to quantify the amount of life you experienced in almost two years, and comparing it to the decomposing of one silly little watermelon. I hope you enjoyed those two years. This was cool. :)
Personally, I envy the watermelon.
Silly little watermelon ha ha
Especially THESE last two years 💯
damn bro dont gotta humiliate me like that
It is amazing how long this particular family of fruit can stay unspoiled. My wife and I had a Chinese "winter melon" sitting on the kitchen table for more than a year. It underwent no noticeable change, and when we finally cut it up, it was as fresh and delicious inside as ever, ready to be cooked.
why did you wait that long without eating it?
They were filming a timelapse but they changed their mind, obviously.@@dinaldevanarayana4
who tf cooks watermelon
Why would you cook a melon
It’s winter melon, it is commonly eaten in Asia
I'm here wondering how heavy is the File after recording at 4k for almost 2 years non-stop lol
Bro u blew my mind , but I think he streams or something then takes the video?
Prolly takes pictures every day
@@FreestyleJan pictures hourly
in a big timelapse like that, we wouldn't even notice if he stopped the record at some point, changed the SD and the battery and continued filming to cut it all together in the end. I think the rendering is more impressive.
@@Zed9659 it's a time-lapse - it's not a video, but a series of photos owtj long delays between them, I think an hour in this case
I can't imagine how many cameras this guy has to do these long term projects simultaneously
great result as always!
Always good results
He must have some kind of a camera MUSEUM 👀
@degru5091 🤨
He could reuse the same camera and just take 1 photo of everything each day
@@25hrspastmidnight but then the photo angles would change slightly for every day
Man saw the entire world taking shelter from a unknown virus and was like: "you know what would be cool as shit? filming a goddamn watermelon decomposing. That'd be sick."
Legend.
i think he might’ve made the next few covids here too 😀
2 years of straight 4k...
And he was right !
or maybe a virus broke out from it??
8 seasons!!!
It clearly says that time is our the biggest enemy so appreciate your time and spend it humble
almost 2 years! it’s crazy to think how much technology has changed while this watermelon was decomposing.
and covid is still going on
@@kevin-deepsea86 naw we moved on to monkeypox now, get with the times grampa
But ngl I can't wait until ebola is cool again
@@insensitive919 Yeah, me and the bois were snorting Ebola, then got sad when we realized we weren’t gonna recover.
Like what technology? You cannot jist say some vague thing like that without providing an example
@@Ateszika the Xbox series x and ps5 were brought out while this was decomposing, advancements in graphics cards, and there’s a lot more I just picked the ones that came to mind first
I love how the dog at the end was like:
"Wow a box, interesting!"
opens the box, releasing the smell
"Nope, I'm out."
I meam the dog was a much more intese nose..so EWWWW no EWWW
i think that at that point it was so dry that the smell must've died down by then.
Prolly no smell
Dog's nose broke after smelling it
Later he was even scared of the box, but I wasn't able to film that
The fact it took over a year to start to develop mold on the outside is nothing short of insane
meanwhile, you look away for two seconds and your strawberry is mouldy as all hell
And then you don't eat your raspberries for a day or two..
Personally, I love learning about eukaryate organisms and general molds. I liked seeing the potential slime mold at the end, real cool stuff.
i mean the inside might've been fucked up we don't know😭
Especially given its water content. Man!
I've never seen a watermelon rebuilding itself after decaying completely, hats off to the farming technology for making such watermelons 🙏
What was more difficult - Filming a watermelon rotting litterally to dust, or cleaning the Container? Thanks for your endurance and sharing the result with us.
that dog cleared out fast after getting one whiff
It seems like the remains of the watermelon is pretty easy to scrape off.
He gonna throw that shit
Yes.
@@sandronozadze8509 fucken right
Imagine thinking this watermelon was here this whole time being filmed while you were dealing with your struggles for the past 2 years
Then imagine that right now there is a decomposing corpse on some random forest
@@video_camera ahah...yes..."random"...👀👀
@@video_camera Now imagine a famous youtuber recording said corpse for views
@@DanielMeraki That would be an irresponsible and distasteful thing to do, I sure hope that hypothetical youtuber does not do such thing
@@video_camera it would be a truly awful sight especially if it were to happening in a certain place in Japan in this hypothetical situation
"Hey what do you plan on doing with that watermelon sir?"
"I plan on spending the next 2 years making a time lapse of it rotting"
The music, with its meandering, wistful arpeggios, does a lot to convey the feeling of a watermelon rotting for two years. I've been that watermelon.
@@vedantsridhar8378 I think flies and maggots would eat it and think, "This is to die for." Anyone else would eat it and just die.
I assume the taste would be putrescent, the sixth sensation of the mouth after sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami
@@tuddgrimley8532 true. I also believe eating the whole spoiled 500 day old watermelon could kill you, but taking it in small amounts would cause food poisoning. When I suffered it a couple of years ago, it was terrible. It happened because I ate some very old food.
Btw I accidentally deleted my comment
@@vedantsridhar8378 goes to show you, a lot of unpleasant sensations are only to save you from harm
but then ppl like Swedish eat syrströmming which is just. rotten. fish. in a tin can.
this civilization is odd
Waterthony Melontano
@@sakesaurus If you prepare it the right way, which means opening the can underwater and thorougly cleaning the fish, it's not that bad.
I love how as soon as it "pops" it just gets exponentially faster at decomposing.
when did it pop
@@kai1ey 1:17
Had a watermelon for less than a week and it exploded. Was already rotting from the inside by then. The one in this video took over 200 days to "pop." wtf
plot twist: the liquid in a watermelon is acid
@@XENOS_Indie_Game_Dev it might have something to do with how much the watermelon moved or how much air exposure they got
Props to the camera man for having such dedication and standing there for almost 2 years recording
The camera man is an omnipotent 19th-dimensional being, this is nothing to it.
No,they just left the camera that's it
@@vaitkusd LMAO
@@sherlockholmes5714 💀
@@vaitkusd yeah he is indeed sherlock
It looks almost so surreal, when in the end it just detaches itself like some kind of paper, lol. Amazing video.
Props to the cameraman standing absolutely still and making zero noises for 2 years! Give him a raise!
And the pianist playing for 2 years straight
Underrated comment tbh
@@maliciouslycryptic5529 nah most my comments get like 2 likes and then i have one comment that just says "sheesh that last one" which got 45,000 likes
You copied someone else
@@iamPOWERhehe ever thought that maybe i just thought of it on my own? camera man jokes are common
When he was filming this, a whole pandemic happened. Kudos to this dude's dedication.
Reddit moment
perfect time why not
My theory: The watermelon died on Corona
This really puts into perspective how long that watermelon has been rotting XD
Sometimes I really can't tell whether people's comments are irony or not. I guess my expectations from humanity dropped too low.
You know, when you said “a whole watermelon” I didn’t expect to see the whole melon in the 4th dimension as well. This is the only watermelon I can say that I’ve fully seen.
Damn this is actually really deep
Wow, we've actually seen entropy.
I liked that watermelon, man. It was cool to experience even with 1 sense that's visual
Well, that's only if you consider time to be the 4th dimension. People say 3d + time instead of 4d for a reason.
i don't understand you...
now we know what happens when you buy a watermelon and forget about it's existence for like 1,5 years
I sometimes wonder why this channel doesn't post too often. Then it strikes me that it needs a lot of time to make this kind of videos lol
Yeah, these videos take a lot of time to make :) But I uploaded 7 videos in the past 2 months, there are some vloggers who don't post this often lol
@@PhotoOwl keep up the good work❤
@@PhotoOwl bet there's 5 more things decomposing right now
@@PhotoOwl I bet you have like a hundred videos in the "making" right now, respect
2 years on this time lapse!? The commitment is crazy! These videos are so interesting, keep up the good work!
Not quite 2 years but really impressive like mega impressive for the commitment I couldn’t do that
Only 20 months? 609 days? 2 years is 24 months.
@@fynkozari9271 close enough
What cam does he use to record this and how? Is he making one photo per hour? But the cam has to do it on its own cause he can‘t be there every hour.
@@ruvik1256 it'd probably be pretty easy to get a camera to do that
If you watch it in reverse- it’s an inspirational story about a moldy old tortilla, that turns into a delicious and beautiful watermelon…❤️
Your bio 😂 I’m assuming ➡️?
@@blairpham9429 based bio
@@justplay2508 reading it was a wild ride
@@UrPPhard crazy times
That “moldy old tortilla” looks like sum my friends would dare me to eat for five bucks
A pinch of soil comes together and comes to life, and when you wait long enough, it turns into soil again. My God, how great you are.
Pov: this persons friend comes over
“Hey what is that?”
“A 2 year old rotting watermelon”
“Why-“
“Because”
friend: *walks out door
"Science!"
I actually really wonder what people would answer if I asked them what the object at 2:20 is, without showing them the title of this video and somehow hiding the days and hours count? Would some people also say it's a strange kind of sweet, with the mold being just sugar? Would even one person among a pool of 10,000 people guess that it's a decomposing watermelon?
“Apparently there’s about 3 million people on TH-cam who wanna watch this shit”
WOW! You spent almost 2 years on this Timelapse! Please keep up the good work and just so you know, this turned out very interesting!
Thank you so much! Comments like this keep me motivated :D
Thanks for your dedication! Very interesting!
@@PhotoOwl I love all your videos!
Hi owl I love your videos, and it's crazy to think that watermelon was alive for almost 2 years anyways, have a great day
@@PhotoOwl Damn bro, I'm sure you have other surprises for us in the upcoming years😂
I'm writing to see a 10 years time lapse, that would be EPIC!! You would be in history bro
3:47 When the dog smelled that, it was like... "Nope I'm outta here" 🤭
she sniffed once and said oh hell naw 😄
imagine that wartamelon covered in shit😂
It would smell so bad
3:34 your dog was like: oh what is this it looks intrestnoo no no im out im out, no wait i will see again
Haha, @ElVictorEmilio! It sounds like your dog was having a classic moment of curiosity mixed with caution. Those little hesitations can be so funny! Pets really do have the best reactions. What's your dog's name? 🐶
Just the smell this man must have endured throughout this process alone is worth my like on this video! Interesting video!
Same
Yeah. Even the 10-day-old food in my fridge, which got spoiled smelled quite disgusting to me, just imagine how terrible the one-and-a-half-year-old watermelon must have been. The best I can imagine would be the smell of poop, but I can imagine it would be much worse than that.
@@vedantsridhar8378 it's honestly much better than poop. It would be a mix of strong alcohol and a heavy sweet smell, with a hint of earthy mold. Source: I've worked around food for a long time. Eventually you learn what these different things smell like. I'd take a rotten piece of fruit over something like a potato any day of the year. Those things smell like fish when they start actively decomposing.
@@Levacque oh god, potato’s are the fucking worst.
He probably has it in an unused room where he does theze experiments
It was very neat to see the stripes leave and return. And when the melon peed… man those were some times. Thank you for having the patience to film such a process.
Yeah!.. And then it turned into poo
And it farted a bit while peeing. What a video.
"and when the melon peed..." is not a sentence I'd think I'd ever hear.
"When the melon peed" I didn't want to hear such words ever in my lifespan.
that's honestly so fucking beautiful, the way it dries up makes it feel like an island thats losing all of its water and eventually becomes surrounded by a desert. very pretty.
That's a beautiful way to think of it. Thanks for the image you just put in my mind!
U don't have to swear for that
@@nikhilbellare9542 bruh ignore the swear then
One sniff of it and all the beauty will disappear.
@@nikhilbellare9542 I bet u didn’t even read the title yet…
The Watermelon turns into Drymelon. How nice! 😅
The contrast between the rotting fruit, the peaceful music, and the almost swearing title is semi chaotic and I'm here for it
Wait, I found the music to be sad. The music is trying to convey the sentence "RIP, poor watermelon." for me.
To me it symbolizes the cycle of life
I love chaos
Personally, I’m just grossed out
And this proves that the title has been changed
Fun fact: depending on the environment, watermelons will actually start to ferment before exploding. Speaking from experience; we grew a bunch, left them on the counter undisturbed (we dont eat melons very often), and would only occasionally have one. Middle of the night we hear a hissing noise followed by a pop and the sound of liquid dripping; sure enough, the innards had fermented and there was juice dripping from everything.
This
Was
😱🤣
yes
Astonishing
The music makes me realize how poetic it is that the watermelon didn’t change at all in over a year but once it finally started giving in everything else happened so quickly
in the inside it was probably rotting
@@Wm7forthewin bro...
@@Wm7forthewin life did came out of it tho
I dont think what comes out of the watermelon is supposed to be yellow.
shut up
3:22 slurrrrrp
Luckily video doesn’t capture smell! 🤢
Imagine if I could "attach" a smell sample to the video...:D BTW this wasn't the worst, chicken wings is still number 1 on the smelly-scale. Unforgettable, it felt like I had the smell in my nose the whole day, I thought I got phantosmia. Luckily by the evening/next day it was gone.
@@PhotoOwl oof
But tbh for just a minute I'd like to stand there and see how it would smell like. All out of curiosity.
@@PhotoOwl But is this number 2 for the smelliest?
@@vedantsridhar8378 true
Holy bro imagine like what we were doing and who we were when this man decided to put a watermelon in a container for 2 years. Thats is insane. Keep up the dedication bruh keep up that good work
I have the same feeling about trees.
Thank you! I will keep the content coming :)
Your comment was a headache to read, I don’t know what it was but had to read like 5 times before it made any sense 😅
Even@@PhotoOwlgot a puppy!
@@AChippendale :v damn, if we talk about trees we can really go far back for some of them.
"Fun" fact; that liquid is a nightmare to clean up when not in a container. Don't let people hide watermelons.
Speaking from experience?
cursed popsicle
@@fefek1 no no no no chill chill chill chill chill
working In a grocery store sometimes these pop cuz they're rotten in the bin and can confirm they are hell to pick up (and smell like it too).
Just wait long enough and it'll turn into a solid smh
Such dedication!
And the melon lasted a lot longer than I thought it would.
Friend: "Dude, why does your home always stink?"
This guy: "Science!"
Ok
Ok
Ok
Ko
So fun fact: The rinds on melons and gourds are so good at preserving the fruit that you have the terms “summer squash” and “winter squash.”
Summer squash means you can eat it at any time during the summer and it will still be good, but it has a thinner rind so it will go bad sooner.
Winter squash refers to when people had root cellars and would store their harvest in there. You harvest winter squash in the summer but if you store them in a dark, cool environment you can enjoy them well into the winter. These have super thick rinds.
I don’t know when watermelon starts decomposing on the inside, but basically you’ll know if you take a bite and you want to spit it out. (Note: small children don’t have this learned behavior, please taste the juice or fruit first before giving it to a small child as they lack the experience to avoid rotten food.)
I was thinking the watermelon was GMO and very unnatural, thanks for clearing that up. Although that still does seam like a long time.
@@lindasano1552 Genetically modified fruit and crops can be incredibly natural. All GMO means is that it has been selectively bred for desirable qualities. Lemons are an entirely man-made species, therfore every lemon is GMO. Same with modern corn, it was bred to be big whereas ancient corn was small. Stop spreading misinformation that "GMO" means unnatural, that's a hoax by health nuts in order to sell expensive food and shady medicine.
@@FreshGarbage0 Bro, it's literally called Genetically modified organisam, it is not natural. There is something to be said about natural selection but such has limits, to go beyond those limits is unnatural, if the plant cannot reproduce on its own it is unnatural. You can breed different species of the same plants to get the desired results like larger fruit or a higher yield but the plant, much like dog breeds, will still be able to reproduce if it is natural. No most GMOs are not natural, why don't you stop parroting the main stream media.
@@lindasano1552 🤓 "Wake up sheeple!" 🐸🌈
@@FreshGarbage0 ?
I especially liked how the color faded and then came back, I wonder about the mechanisms there. Did the pigments just get overshadowed by something that eventual decayed letting us see them again? Or did a new layer of the same pigments become freshly exposed the second time around letting us see them again? Or something else altogether? Thanks for the video!
It became lighter because it was losing chlorophyll from no water. It turned dark green again because it dried out and shrunk like a balloon losing air
Or the seasons changed
@@AriyaShademani that only applies to leave on green trees. And even then, the leave that turn yellow and brown never turn green again.
@@shivanichauhan1638 That's a really good hypothesis, that sounds very plausible.
@@paigeconnelly4244 I see. I have some hygiene products that change color through winter and summer because they are from vegetation. So I thought it could apply to this.
The light bulb lasting nearly 500 days or 12,000 hours straight before burning out would be a great marketing strategy
The fact that it took over 400 days just for something to physically happen outside of the watermelon other than color is insane. Super interesting
ya its crazy but even at 365 the inside was completely mold and nothing else
I think it also depends on the environment he was filming in, which seems to be controlled well. I think it would rot in a quarter of the time if this watermelon was kept outdoors.
@@lightflix true
@@thegiantjj no, not at all. Rather a bacterial slushee with a few seeds floating in it.
@@davidd2661 mold often is caused by moisture or happens faster because of it and a watermelon is a *water* melon
*It was certainly interesting to watch this watermelon go from fetus to pulverised juice. The fact that you spent two years doing this is pure commitment. I wonder what other foods you have brewing in the timelapse right now*
@Danilo this shouldn’t have made me laugh as hard as it did-
Why is ur comment all bold
some idiots do it to increase comment likes
@@videoawesomeness5234 cause
@@videoawesomeness5234 cause *why not*
as someone who works in a grocery store and has to handle rotting melons that break open, I can only imagine how the smell must have been
I was literally about to make this exact comment. Word for word. More than once I’ve gone to pick up a watermelon while stocking and had my hand go completely through the melon only to be hit by that rotten melon smell.
Worst smell I’ve encountered while working a produce section has got to be Brussels sprouts that were sitting in a tub of water for two weeks. People kept pouring boxes on top without rotating anything. Just below the surface of the sprouts was hands down the worst smell I’ve ever smelled and it just got worse as it got deeper. Rotting dead bodies piled high in a sewer filled with ammonia. I can’t describe it any other way and I still feel like I’m underselling it.
Worst smell in produce hands down had a bad batch drop its guts in the chiller room it smelt like rotten watermelon for 2 days even through a deep clean
Asparagus gets pretty bad aswell when not rotated or overstocked and left for too long
@@arnoarno1092 Putting your hand through a melon, hearing the melon vomit out its innards and then having the smell hit you - I too have done this
how about when the watermelon gets all over you because it turned into watermelon juice
Whenever I see a soft spot on a melon at work, I give my work mates a side eye with a smirk before performing fist no jutsu on the damn thing. Just me? Just me…
3:00 the watermelon turned straight into forbidden paper
I can't imagine what it feels like to be hoping someone will eat you, but an owl with a camera buys you instead
And then makes you drown in your own blood
Bfdi. Bfb. What. Scp cb.
@@VisoneVea bro ☠
fruits when photo owl approaches you: frick
i like how it held up just fine for a year and a half and then dissapered in a matter of days
Not quite half a year, 3 months.
@@fynkozari9271 wdym it held up for around 500 days that's a year and a half?
@@theoneandonly1833 its been a long month
@@theoneandonly1833 it started dropping at 473 days. Half a year = 182 days. So that far off still.
All that tension builds up in the structure of the watermelon
I’m surprised and impressed that the watermelon’s defenses lasted so long
Are those really defenses though? I figured it just takes so long for it to rot, because of how big it is
@@greanch1234 oh that's interesting! By now I did realise, what I said makes no sense anyway, given how quickly much bigger things rot away, compared to this melon. Still it's really confusing to me, that this exists. Why would a melon need them?
@@greanch1234 thanks a lot!
SubuhânAllah
I recently had a whole watermelon that I didn't touch. It already leaked after about 30 days. And when I wanted to throw it away, it fell apart completely. Maybe his room was very cold or so.
3:15 and that kids, is how watermelons are made.
💀 💀
It's crazy to see how long it actually keeps all the water inside. Thanks for your work! ❤
I was also very surprised. Thanks for watching!
@@PhotoOwl how do you not vomit from the smells radiating off the rotting time-lapse?
@@justuswoodiel305 masks
@@justuswoodiel305 probably got used to it or is wearing a mask
@@Gwynbleiddsanity or maybe the terrible smell of the decomposing watermelon is also thrilling. Because it's just not something you smell in everyday life. But yeah mask is a good solution.
The amount of dedication required for something like this is truly astonishing, and the end result was beautiful.
how was it beautiful lmao thats so disgusting
@@Ecco502 Because it is a great demonstration of time. The rotten watermelon isn't beautiful. But the process, which is happening due to the time moving forward, is remarkable.
@@ungessackhaar eh i dont think so but ok
@@Ecco502 It's fine, you can be wrong if you like.
@@TheLateLordKardok im not wrong its my opinion, that shit looks so disgusting there is nothing beautiful
damn didn’t realize watermelons lasted that long, some top notch content man keep it up.
I have yet to own a watermelon that actually lasts that long, all I've ever had started rotting at earliest after a month 💀💀
Imagine filming this in the Arctic. It would've been way longer
Well, they don't last that long, horrible things happen inside it, but it takes time to crack the shell
Put it in soil and it will rot away very fast.
@@uwu-bebs must of been pretty old watermelons then
Great watermelon smoothie recipe! Really enjoyed it!
It was so wholesome how the microorganisms decided to put the watermelon back together 🥰
yeah they were like
Ok boys , enough is enough we've had our fun, let's put Humpty back together again
😌 ah yes😌
"No ItS In rEvErSe!1!11!1!1!"
@@BerzerkDoug iTs A jOkE
@@BerzerkDoug
Thank you Mr Obvious
What would we do without your wisdom
That's so weird and fascinating how the liquid dried up into what almost looks like paper from the bottom side of it.
Pretty sure the white stuff was paint that he painted on the inside of the plastic box to make a white background
It's white spray paint
Yeah no, not what happened
@@OmenaOmega It's probably painted for that and so that the bin is more reusable and easier to wash
@@AllyTheProto why would paint be easier to wash off than melon? It would be the opposite. It’s just a white background.
This is probably the longest and one of the most disgusting timelasps im ever seen,
Keep up the good work
I’d say this is was one of the least disgusting
Try seeing one of the meat ones
try the raw chicken one thats by far the worst
@@kit-rg7ib The 3 eggs one is also horrible
Then you haven't seen a real human decomposing timelapse
@@gamingxinek6947 like that one kid in my basement
This was pretty epic. And what a beautiful little starburst at the end. Thanks for revealing the art in simple things. Cheers!
Wow, honestly I never knew watermelons are extremely resilient. This was an awesome video, thanks for sharing!
69 to 71 rqqq
Decomposing without oxygen takes longer.
It's likely that stuff was happening on the inside loooong before anything else happened outside
Weed bulbasaur
melons and squash last a loooong time due to their thick shells. Some winter squash you cut off the vine ancure for a while before you even eat them, plants are amazing, there are some long lasting fruit and vegetables that you can keep in a cool dry pantry for quite some time before it's inedible. Potatoes and onions also seem to last a very long time.
I became somewhat attached to the watermelon during the video. On the outside it seemed fine for a while but in reality we all knew what it would come to. To watch it deflate and mold in its own disgusting juices, really moved me, almost to tears.
Same for me, it was hard. That poor watetmelon has grown to be eaten and he end up like this. Stay in a box dying in his own blood. Why i said that ,i will not be able to sleep ;-;
Are y'all being genuine
@@xi6969 very, it’s been a month and I still can’t bring myself to watch it again
We can all relate to this watermelon
Just about to comment this lol
I can’t believe that watermelons can turn themselves into chips,truly impressive
Well if any food is left for long enough, it decomposes fully and dries up until it becomes sand-like. Even a leftover hamburger becomes sand-like, and that is what I discovered when I opened an old bag that I hadn't used for two years. There I found a package and inside it was sand, which was once a hamburger I bought but didn't have time to eat. Scary. Sometimes it becomes chip-like. In the end, everything becomes part of the soil. That is what hummus is. Big respect to nature, and the decomposers, for doing such a fantastic job at recycling nutrients. I just learned about the carbon cycle and the decomposers in my biology class, and I just love that topic. It keeps reminding me of this video.
@@vedantsridhar8378 until you do that with mcdonalds
Infinitely food
Imagine how many memories they have been through without cutting the footage for almost 2 years! What an adorable clip, so mesmerizing!
Prob they only need to take a snap every 1 hour, u don’t need to record all the time
It's not an full length video, it's just photos taken every set time. A second of video is like 7 days. At 30 frames per second, it's like 4 or 5 frames a day. You just need to take a photo every 6 hours or so.
3:05 That one football you find in a bush that has been frozen in time for 15+ years
Honestly, huge props to you on this. I worked in produce while in college, and let me tell you, there aren’t many things nastier than a rotting watermelon.
a rotting human
Besides rotten potatoes
@@RedF0XDelta yum vodka
Rotten onions are vile
To all whom say anything other than rotting white pumpkins, you are wrong, and I’m glad you haven’t had to pick up those devils.
I don't know how much I can respect a guy who simply records stuff rotting away for YEARS. That stuff requires EXTREME dedication, and I just can't respect this guy enough. They deserve all of my respect, which probably might not even feel like enough.
Yeah it's suprising he didn't even need to the toilet or eat any food. Dude's got some serious dedication
When it gets past 500 days, it looks like a mountainous island surrounded by a sea reflecting the sunset! It’s really beautiful!
*the red sea*
With huge black boats and planes
that post about sunsets and flowers being two different kinds of beautiful & then there’s this guy 😂 beauty in the eye of the beholder at best
Day 1: yum yum
Day 150: stripes began to fade / slight color shift
Day 470: let's take a leak
Day 480: molding begins
Day 500: *OMGOSH LOOK!!!*
Day 520: 🤮🤮🤮
Day 600: death valley
The light bulb burned out at 2:22, bro has some GREAT😃 light bulbs 💡
**friend coming over**
Friend: wtf is that smell?!
Photo Owl: Oh yeah, that's just the watermelon I've left rotting in a bucket for two years
**friend never comes over again**
@@yesfinallygot1 Actually, it's not 2 years. 2 years are 730 days. It took 608 days for that to fully mold.
@@LeoTheLioncorn
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@@LeoTheLioncorn ^^
@@LeoTheLioncornyou must be a real catch with new people
That’s neat. We had these decorative mini pumpkins on Halloween, my son insisted on keeping one in his room. It didn’t start getting a little soft until the end of March. Much more resilient than I thought.
I love to keep mini ones and let them dry out. In my experience they dessicate more often than molding and melting!
They are watermelons🍉, not mini pumpkins. 🎃
@@spirituser7354 i think they know that.
@@spirituser7354 since you want to be smart, cucurbits aka gourd family are a family of flowering plants with include many different plants from watermelons to cucumbers to squashes and pumpkins
@@paracame8162 pumpkins are related to watermelons?! I never knew that. They're basically bros, that's cool 😎
That takes insane amount of dedication almost to two years. Don’t give up on any other stuff you have recorded. I’m staying tune and sharing this to over 11 people
It's hardly possible to "give up" on doing basically nothing for year after year after year!
All he _really_ needs, are plenty of cameras, boxes, batteries, light bulbs, memory storage devices - and of course, perishable items set up all in one go, then just leave it all for as long as you choose.
I don't really understand why there's all this hype around what he/she does??
props to the cameraman, continued filming for 600 days as a ghost after dying of starvation 👏🎬
I was at school when you put this melon and now am at uni, wow crazy to think it took this long to make!
Keep the amazing content, you're doing something amazing and so unique =)
Makes you think how short life is
@@freedom6984 and yet people spend their lives trolling and hating others, forming groups to do so... and doing crime. They don't realize how insignificant they are.
@@freedom6984 Indeed, and how we too will decompose and return to the earth so that our molecules may feed watermelons yet to come
fancy meeting you here Saad lol
@@Zogerpogger we all think of ourselves as so much more yet for the universe we're just garbage that becomes nutrients for new plants and trees.
That was as fascinating as it was revolting. Excellent work!
I bet the smell was revolting. Still, I wish TH-cam had a smell feature too where you could smell the environment where the video was taken, that way I can know how bad it smelled.
@@vedantsridhar8378 might you, by chance, have a foot fetish?
Thats physically impossible
@@Fearlessfer69 🤓
yeah... i alomost vomited at my computer desk.
То,.что вы разломали в конце - это называется доля сухих веществ в продукте. Т.е. это минеральная часть продукта, т.к. все органические вещества уже распались на простые химические элементы.
Видео супер! Благодарю!
That was cool. Thank you for keeping stuff to rot in big boxes so we don't have to
Thanks! My pleasure :)
@@PhotoOwl I'm curious, do you have a 'how it's made' sort of video for your timelapses? I imagine you have a small field full of containers filled with rotting stuff somewhere, and I'd be interested to see how you manage all of them
It’s really interesting to think about how this is basically how dirt is formed. The reason the pulverised watermelon just looked kinda earthy is because yeah, dirt is just dead trees, animals and other stuff that has gone through that exact process.
Not really. Dirt is helped a LOT by air, water, sun and decomposer organisms.
Rock
Oh so that's why soil has nutrients lol
Me small brain
@@NoStencilBeSafe no thats not where the nutrients come from, the only thing the watermelon had to offer at that point is pretty much returning carbon
@@plat216 oh I see lol, guess I'll live without that knowledge for a while longer then
you're telling me this melon took almoat a year to start even visibly look too awful to eat? man, that's weird and amazing
@@vedantsridhar8378 because it was uncut
@@Damaiida3 oh yeah, I've cut into some NASTY melons that I thought were newer than they were
It definitely already looked wrong by day 100, with those pale spots
@@georgiykireev9678 but I mean usually any fruit would start molding within a few days, max a month if left like that. Its very suprising how the melon lasted over a year. Shows how tough the skin around it is against microorganisms
Fascinating from an evolutionary perspective. Melons and gourds are adapted like time capsules, protecting the seeds as well as the moisture and nutrients needed to get those seeds a strong start for so long, maximizing the plant's ability to procreate through adverse seasonal change.
It's kind of crazy that you can find something like that lying around in a jungle and have no idea that it used to be a watermelon two years ago
At certain points I was like...this looks gross and yet..fascinating! I couldn't stop watching. Thanks for creating this =D
Fascinating it took like atleast in my opinion about 2 months for it to start oooking a bit bad
When the liquid started to ooze I thi k I said ew every few seconds. Loved it lol
I tried skipping ahead a couple times, but I NEEDED to know how it got to that new stage every time and so I'd go back 😅
@@MiotaLee at least it didn't pulse like some timelapse decomposition videos
If there isn’t one already, I’d love to see a video showing where you do these timelapses / what your setup is like? Genuinely curious as to how and where you keep a camera on a watermelon, for almost a full 2 years lol!
It's a black box not camera , a camera can't possibly be on for that long
1 picture every hour or so
@@yinggamer7762 man whos gonna take a picture evry hour for 2 whole years , it's a black box don't argur it's even obvious when he took it out
@@achillxs7458 More than likely he has the camera set up on a tripod and has it set to take a photo every hour and then just changes the battery when it dies, you can get some time lapse cameras pretty cheap.
Only this man can say he’s torn a watermelon in half with his bare hands
Looks like a good allegory of life; everything is fine for a long time, and suddenly there's a point where everything starts going downhill rapidly.
I find that fitting, for a lot of cases
This time lapse was edited perfectly!
Perfect speed, great visibility, and the real time crunching the leftovers was the cherry on top! Showed everything my mind was curious about!
Thank you so very much for making this❤️
yea n disgusting too
This gotta be your most viewed video in a couple of months or so and I'm glad I watched it just minutes after its upload 😄
I hope you are right, that would be really cool :) And I'm glad you were here so early
Same lol
Maybe we could do a Time Lapse video of it gaining views, likes and comments.
Shoutout to the camera guy for standing there for 609 days to get us this footage. Mad respect.
ugh... he obviously set up a camera so that he wouldn't have to stand there, smh my head 🙄
(this is a joke, please don't r/whoooosh me)
@@froghaven wdym whoooosh, this is literally what happened smh my smh
Mad normie comment
@@froghaven #BruhMoment ed you instead!
@@froghaven r/woooosh
Mmmmmmmm, now it’s time for the taste test 😋🤤