My Strange Internet Addiction: Red Hot Ball Experiments

Dudes will see a copper ball glowing hot at 1,000 degrees Celsius, melting through objects, and think, hell yeah. 

Red Hot Ball Experiments sounds like some gruesome act from the BME pain olympics my friends and I would have watched during the good ol' days of dial-up internet, but these red hot ball experimental videos are far less sinister - these vids are just a ball burning through shit. 

I love watching oddly satisfying videos like pressure washing, objects getting crushed or blended, or shit getting engraved with a laser. Good times. I was hoping Red Hot Ball Experiments would fall into that oddly satisfying class of video and suck me right where I needed to be sucked, but there is something missing in these videos. 

I might have watched every video this account has produced and I've learned the ground rules  ... 

1. Every thick substance like a gel, mayonnaise, or even honey is going to sound like a fart or a queef when the hot ball is added to the mixture. I find farts and queefs to be top tier comedy, and I enjoy an ASMR video from time to time, but this is not the ASMR I needed. If I want to hear gas escaping from something, I'd tune into politics. 

2. Every liquid bubbles. That's it. Never do we get some crazy reaction, or explosion when the hot ball is added to a liquid. Even with gasoline, it simply looks like water boiling on the stove. I'm sure someone with more science knowledge would tell me it's the fumes of the gasoline that cause an explosion, but I was hoping for a Hollywood explosion like a car going over a cliff an the gas tank igniting, instead just bubbles. 

3. The hot ball isn't hot enough. Copper's melting point is a little over 1,000 degrees celsius, but we need a metal that can get hotter, because the ball can hardly slice through butter. 

BUT, butter is one of the more satisfying videos on the page. I'd put it up there with ice melting in terms of the best videos to watch. BUT, I'm not tuning in to watch shit that's supposed to melt, melt. I want to see this red hot ball cut through some crazy shit like titanium or cold hard steel. 

I need this ball melting through steel beams like jet fuel, or the acid blood from the movie Alien. Instead, we've got this red hot ball struggling to do damage to a pumpkin or a stack of Post-It notes.

The account has even tried pouring straight lava on to objects, and it never quite satisfies like it should. 

Maybe I'm jaded by the internet after being chronically online for the last 20 years, and now the only thing that makes me feel is some weird beheading videos posted on Jeff Nadu's twitter, but the internet needs to step its game up with melting videos. These current videos aren't cutting it, but I'm glad I went down the rabbit hole so you never have to waste your time on a sunny summer Sunday afternoon.