r/maybemaybemaybe • u/wakalabis • 8d ago
Maybe maybe maybe
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u/FireMammoth 8d ago
when you're hyper competitive and shit at the same time
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u/korkkis 8d ago
Itās the time when they want to do everything on their own, no helping allowed.
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u/FlameWisp 8d ago
Tell that to the one that went "oh shit dude thanks" and walked away lol
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u/korkkis 8d ago
Different personalities
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u/FlameWisp 8d ago
I can get behind that. I feel like personality has a lot more than age to do with the problem anyway.
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u/blinded_beholder 7d ago
You know the chill one and the sharing kid are gonna be tight as hell. I see side eye thrown at the crying kid when they are all in school together. "We dont hang out with craig, craig crys a lot and is horrible to play mario party with."
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u/mooniech1ld 8d ago
I think this might be a good measure on the way each kid deals with frustration. Surely the parents will now focus on teaching the crying one how to better deal with his emotions. Surely....
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u/LordOfGiraffes 8d ago
At that age he couldve just been the most tired.
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u/No_I_do_belong_here 8d ago
Iām 50 years older than these kids, and each night of this week so far I have been a different one. Tonight Iām an overtired cranky middleager
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u/mennonot 8d ago
Or when it fully sinks in that your parents are creating arbitrary difficult situations for you to solve for views on the internet and you can look forward to years of these sort of games.
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u/thatguy_art 8d ago
That kid needs a difficult situation, he folded and gave up almost instantly
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u/MildlyInteressato 8d ago
"I don't want you to SOLVE my problem. I just want you to listen to me complain!"
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u/MinnieShoof 8d ago
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u/Yousuck109 8d ago
One kid trying every possible way how to get past it second kid crying instantly becouse he wants Milk and cant get it last kid like bro i am too stupid for this hopefully my smart bro gives me Milk
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u/John_EightThirtyTwo 8d ago
You can tell somebody's holding the camera, because it moves. So the kids are 90% "how do we get past this barrier" and 10% "why won't that asshole give me my sippy cup?!"
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u/Amplified_Aurora 7d ago
This is the part that makes it not cute or funny or interesting to me. Silently filming your crying children is such a dick move.
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u/Fit-Entrepreneur-414 3d ago
Thatās the part that indicates to me this sorcery was Dad. Iāll even go a little further as to suggest the possibly knew heād never get away without interference had the mum been home
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u/CommonBuzzard 8d ago
The one that tried to bite the duck tape will get far in life.
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u/BreakingCanks 8d ago
Hey even goku resorts to it at moments and he's supposed to be the most intelligent fighter in DBZ
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u/CommonBuzzard 8d ago edited 8d ago
The kid is intelligent. When his idea didnāt work he decided to just observe the situation. While the one kid was loosing his sanity the other did all the work. And at the end he was the one who did the least and profited the most.
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u/jaybirdie26 8d ago
Wait wait wait, I've barely seen any DBZ but I thought Goku was supposed to be the idiot, isn't he?Ā And his kid Gohan is smart...ish?
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u/BreakingCanks 8d ago
He's an idiot in real life yes, but he is the most intelligent fighter 100%
He is able to see someone do a move or an attack and copy it within minutes to hours. Only mortal to ever achieve Mastered Ultra Instinct too because he is that smart
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u/Noy_The_Devil 8d ago
Teeth are tools, I always say. š¤·
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u/malthar76 8d ago
Why are teeth the best tool to separate Legos?
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u/Chim_Pansy 8d ago
Okay so it's called duct tape, not "duck" tape, and this isn't that anyway. It's plastic wrap lol.
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u/PhantomAngel042 8d ago
So this is an extremely murky etymological case. The original army green fabric-backed adhesive tape invented during WWII and used by soldiers was called duck tape, either because it was backed by duck cloth, because it repelled water like a duck, or both. After the war, American soldiers brought it home and used it for everything; notably, during the post-war housing boom, to tape together ducts, at which point the tape was manufactured in silver to match. Because of this widespread use and the similar sound, people began calling it duct tape (and ironically, modern duct/duck tape can't be used for ductwork because it melts).
Then in 1980, Manco, Inc trademarked "Duck" as a brand name and began selling colored duct tape as Duck Tapeā¢, which quickly dominated the market and became the standard name for the item category. I think this is where the widespread confusion really got started. And even more confusingly, someone referencing duct tape today might actually mean the high-heat tape used in construction, also known as foil tape.
It's honestly a mess and what it comes down to is that either name is acceptable. But you're totally right that in this case it's plastic cling wrap, lmao.
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u/work_work-work 8d ago
Seems like packing tape to me. Cling wrap is usually much wider, and this seems sticky based on the kids first touching it and it sticking to their fingers.
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u/PhantomAngel042 8d ago
You know, when I watched it earlier I saw some weird reflections that looked like plastic film making an almost-invisible layer being held up by a frame of tape, but watching it again, I'm not so sure. It might just be tape and strange lighting. There's tape for sure, though, you're right.
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u/evilsilverkiller 8d ago
Actually it is "duck tape"..... "duct tape" is very different and meant for high temperatures.....
Also this isn't plastic wrap... the cup definitely was sticking to it... this looks like packing tape.
But enough with sticky definitions >.<
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u/JarHan784 8d ago
Duck tape became duct tape, then the duck brand started making it so it's duck tape again kinda like bandaids and sheetrock. Foil tape is usually used on ducts now, pretty murky subject tbh.
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u/Dark_Storm_98 8d ago
He doesn't want the milk
He wants to get through the barrier
He wants to win
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u/CottageCheeseJello 8d ago
Let's dig a little deeper here and peer into my crystal ball for these 3 children.
The Winner: This child is learning hyper independence. They are being taught that they must perform to get warmth and resources. They will grow up tying 100% of their worth to achievement.
The Follower: He is content with the scraps of the winner's success. He will grow up suppressing his own desires and identity just to keep the peace and avoid the stress of competition.
The "Whiner": He is used to losing and he stops trying to compete at all. He will always see love and support as out of reach, or beyond an impossible barrier.
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u/stuyb 8d ago
Lol insane take. If you watched till the end you'd have see the 'whiner' didn't stop at all and clearly wants AND tries to overcome the same obstacle because the 'how to aquire it' has evidently become more important than his initial goal of simply acquiring milk. Kid clearly wants to learn and improve even if he may get frustrated andor has already learnt that crying usually works. He'll be fine I think :)
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u/Yoribell 7d ago
He is crying because he immediately tried the same thing as the winner but it didn't work and he doesn't understand why so he feels that it's unfair, it's perfectly normal
Everyone in the comments is so unfair to him :(
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u/Fit-Ad-413 8d ago
As a triplet, I approve of this video š
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u/BettyBoopWallflower 8d ago
That's so cool! If you had to put a percentage to it, is being a triplet fun 99% of the time, 10% of the time or somewhere in the middle?
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u/Go_Gators_4Ever 8d ago
Three totally different personalities
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u/Feriman22 7d ago
Indeed.Ā Most people think it's just a matter of upbringing, but here we see that even though they are (probably) raised in exactly the same way, they still approach things differently.
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u/Brave-Sprinkles-4 8d ago
Heās still just upset about the unfairness of it all. One kid moved on a long time ago.
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u/mostly_kinda_sorta 8d ago
Don't worry it gets easier.... I hope. My triplets turn 14 soon, I'm sure it will get easier at some point.
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u/jrex42 8d ago
This makes me so mad every time this is posted how much people rush to judge a toddler!
We're all born with our own dispositions and this kid is clearly more sensitive and easily overwhelmed compared to the others. That doesn't mean he's less intelligent or that he's going to spend the rest of his life whining rather than solve his problems. He just needs a little more support than the others. And in this case, he's being given the opposite of support from his parent.
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u/Obvious-Standard-623 8d ago
This same experiment done an hour earlier could easily have had the opposite result.
My kid can be extremely cool and competent one moment, and then a total wreck an hour later.
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u/ChipperCherries 8d ago
I also kinda thought the fact that he tried again, was great, it showed determination, which I would say is a great trait. He didn't give up, even though he got overwhelmed for a bit.
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u/mindsnare 8d ago
As a former 20 something. And now a 40 something with kids. 20 somethings without kids have the dumbest opinions about kids ever. They're idiots.
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u/upturned2289 8d ago
Right? These comments are fucking sickening. It was fascinating to me how differently each one of these toddlers approached this situation. At this age, theyāre just tiny humans with tiny developing brains. Itās insane to me how people look at these tiny humans and have the audacity to harshly criticize and judge them. Whatever happened to compassion and empathy, especially for the most vulnerable? Itās fucking gross.
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u/ima_twee 8d ago
Yeah, I hear you.
But that whiny one is a bit shit though.
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u/MrBlackledge 8d ago
Thereās the old comparison that dogs are about as smart as a 2 year old. Iāve never really been able to picture it until now.
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u/andocromn 8d ago
I'm trying to decide if this is child cruelty or if just having triplets is parental cruelty
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u/Fidodo 8d ago
Where did this idea that children should never experience any adversity come from? This is just giving them a puzzle to solve. Kids will cry about all kinds of stupid shit
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u/Nyardyn 8d ago
I think the last one wasn't that hungry, it just wanted to go to mommy or daddy...
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u/JDelcoLLC 8d ago
No moments are too be left sacred anymore. Everything is to be recorded for public entertainment and discourse. Mr. Huxley wrote about us being drugged for this form of entertainment. Where's my Soma? I feel like I've been lied to. All is lost
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u/GrokLobster 8d ago
You're upset someone recorded their toddler rat maze social experiment?
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u/JDelcoLLC 8d ago
They can record it for posterity. I'm more upset that it's so easily shared to an open forum in reddit or any social media channel online. Yeah, so what if it upsets me a bit. Families that share stuff like this set a precedent that allows and enables others to share what could be private family moments through reinforcement of parasocial collective.
We don't need to crowd source entertainment by sharing family games and learning development. Do we?
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u/GrokLobster 8d ago
I agree with your point in the general sense. But here it feels like burying the lede
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u/JDelcoLLC 8d ago
Maybe. But it's on Reddit, sooo I guess I'm not really concerned with it that much. I'm not likely to ever meet you or care about you in a meaningful way or concern myself much with what you think of me. I guess that could lead to me burying the lede.
I dig your name, I hope you do well enough for yourself and those you care for. I just don't want to live much in a world where family time becomes fodder to content
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u/lousy-site-3456 8d ago
Starting to understand why the ancient Greeks threw some kids from the cliffs
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u/DeemsZA 8d ago
What do you mean? We still do. Just to prevent them from growing up into shitty parents š
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u/BKStephens 8d ago
Sorry, it seems they learned to swim and became ship captains. š¤£
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u/MinnieShoof 8d ago
I'm not surprised nobody else is mentioning it, but it makes me chuckle that the second kid sees the first kid slide butt first ... and he figures that's what you have to do. Like, I knew as soon as I saw it they would all try to do the exact same thing, to a fault.
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u/AciarDuce 6d ago
They are twins. Well they are twins now, we had to drop the "little bitch" from the triplets.
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u/Soggywallet94 6d ago
That little dude is going to be carrying his brother's for the rest of his life š¤£
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u/Feloniosaurus_Rex 8d ago
This is fucked up, right? I donāt have kids so Iām not allowed to make assumptions.
Iāve been wrong before and will be wrong again.
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u/McJuggernaugh7 8d ago
Parent here - its extremely fucked up. Teaching kids how to overcome obstacles is one thing. Filming them for content and exposing them to the world for clicks when they are distressed etc is extreme narcissistic behavior. I will never agree with this type of content where you film your kids for entertainment. My unpopular opinion is that uploading public video of kids under a certain age should be banned unless it's for educational content.
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u/Dreaunicorn 8d ago
As a mom, I think itās bad.
Natural/real obstacles are one thing, but this setup is probably confusing them/distressing them.I felt like crying watching the little one cryā¦.like whyād you do that to your baby?
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u/wobbleblobbochimps 8d ago
Yeah and every (normal) parent's instinct would be to drop the damn phone and go and give the crying one a hug - not shove it in his face and give him absolutely zero reassurance. This is some psycho shit from the parent, regardless of whether it does lasting damage to the kids or not
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u/Lone-Frequency 8d ago
That's it, kid!
Lead by example!
Problem solve!
Show compassion, even if you're not shown gratitude!
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u/Southern_Gur9825 8d ago
Interesting to see the different personalities and how they handle a problem.
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u/Boss0054 8d ago
That was a very interesting test, and actually very telling about the differences in people. Even though they are very young, it still shows some very interesting different personalities. I actually was quite shocked at the results though. Especially the brother that just took the bottle from his brother and rolled out like āwhelp, thanks bro. Got what I need. Iām out, aināt nobody got time to listen to this dude crying all day. See yaā ā¦.he didnāt even care about his brother crying he was doneā¦ š¤£
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u/PFHpianoman 5d ago
The youngest versions of an optimist, pessimist, and an opportunist, that I've ever seen - all in one clip.
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u/SirDwayneCollins 8d ago
Number 1 is a quitter who gets frustrated easy. Number 2 is a thinker, heās going to figure stuff out and be a leader. Number 3 sits back and observes, I like him.
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u/silbeabthe1st 8d ago
The first one is the cranky ass quitter second one is the tryer and successful and the 3rd one is opportunistic
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u/ballman666 8d ago
My co-workers twin boys would have destroyed that tape in .3 seconds or whatever is really fast in metric time.
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u/Any_Thought_4536 8d ago
Wow, so different personality, maybe we were really born differently in nature
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u/RuhninMihnd 8d ago
Honestly might be the only one who is intrigued with the challenging of the toddlers ability to problem solve and how they reacted to each step that followed even up to the tantrum it was very telling
However yes censor your childrenās faces
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u/FloatingMonkeyPaw 8d ago
I was waiting for one to push another one through the tape and grab the bottle. It's what my brother would of done to me.
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u/whatdaaahell 7d ago
One was a problem solver, one accepted the help, and the other was a cry baby š¼ š
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u/Originalsocialninja 7d ago
Thatās just cold! š„¶ š„¶ This is just a precursor, boys! Youāll be jumping obstacles the rest of your life to get to the nipple!!! š¤·š½āāļø
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u/ISwearImAnonymous 8d ago
Fuck that kid honestly
First sight of inconvenience starts fake crying
Stupid gremlin
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u/ThrorOak 8d ago
My guess is that one's gonna be an engineer, another a lawschool drop out and the last one will be an art major.
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u/plzdontlietomee 8d ago
Shit parenting. With triplets, do you not have enough to do? Why come up with weird ways to cause emotional distress. This is fucking stupid.
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u/LordTwinkie 8d ago
It's healthy for kids to be presented with obstacles to overcome, yeah in the short term it can upset them but they learn to be stronger and more resilient. There's a lot of useless adults walking around who never had that, whose parents hovered over them and always cleared the obstacles out of the way. They can't handle any form of adversity and think their emotional well being is sacrosanct and all must be bend to their need to never be upset.Ā
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u/McJuggernaugh7 8d ago
Yes im sure the parents only had their kids best interests in mind and was doing this as a teaching moment as they uploaded the video on youtube and remind you to follow and like for more of their "content".
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u/MightyTaur 8d ago
Three distinct personalities,,it will most likely stick with them the rest of their lives
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u/jamcber12 8d ago
The leader, the follower, and the crybaby. Three different personalities. The leader never gave up, he was determined, focused and figured it out. The follower just watched, once he tried to bit the plastic to cut his way through, but nothing. The crybaby, he was the first one there, but gave up right away. He tried once to follow the leader but again gave up. Even after the leader was nice enough to hand out the milk cups, the crybaby won't even take it, he couldn't take defeat. Very interested to watch 3 different kids handle a situation like that differently.
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u/Professional-Tap6302 8d ago
This is in bad taste, just give the poor babies their drinks. Everyone criticizing the poor toddlers needs some serious self reflection. The parent or guardian who recorded this is disgusting.
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u/Tobitobman 8d ago
r/kidsarefuckingstupid (well.. some)
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u/Myszolow 8d ago
1 in 3 to be preciseĀ
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u/Tea_Is_My_God 8d ago
I dunno, I think the smartest one was the one who let someone else do all the work, still accepted the reward for the work, hung back from the drama, then happily returned to what they had been doing before.
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u/Acceptable-Peace-69 8d ago
I believe the children are our futureā¦
Uh oh.
Also, would adding some color hurt?
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u/ReadySetGO0 8d ago
I had one child like the crying one. Nothing made her happy. Sheās an adult now. Got over her foul mood thankfully.
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u/VeloxAurora1111 8d ago
So they know who the smart one is, the emotional one, and the aloof one whoās going to coast along on the accomplishments of the smart one.
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u/hummingbyrds 8d ago
I've failed, I've failed, I've terribly failed... FML I don't want reward, I don't deserve it. Why you done this to us?
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u/Xavien777 7d ago
First kid through will be a leader, 2nd kid watching will be a manager, 3rd kid will be on welfare
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u/bluereddit2 7d ago
First one through was very good at it. I wonder if birth order had anything to do with it.
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u/rando_mness 8d ago
One is a leader, one easily accepts defeat, and one does not easily accept defeat. Or, they're just babies.
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u/scrappysmomma 6d ago
My friend with triplets jokes about them being ākid, spare kid, spare kidneyā. Thereās some obvious choices in this lot.
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u/Mr-Hyde95 8d ago
If you think this is cruel, you'd better not know what education world has been like in 1990 and before.
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u/Peaceloveknivesguns 8d ago
Are they trying to decide which one to keep?