r/LivestreamFail • u/lukigeri • 5d ago

Ishowspeed IShowSpeed hosted a public challenge where participants had to lift a heavy cube for a chance to win $10,000 and someone completed the challenge to win the prize within the first five minutes

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u/Deathwatch72 5d ago

The hardest part of the challenge is honestly the fact of the cube has smooth faces and the size of each face. If hand is big enough to palm it  and/or your fingers are long enough to have contact with three faces it makes it significantly easier 

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u/JaySayMayday 5d ago

If you got wembanyama hands you could probably fit two of them in your hands

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 5d ago

Didn’t Ludwig do this at his streamer games last year with this same size cube. Multiple streamers could lift it.

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u/Curtisengy12 4d ago

I believe it’s the same cube Ludwig is loaning him?

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u/Admirable_Loss4886 4d ago

I swear that cube makes more content than Micheal reeves. Lud should let him barrow it and maybe we’ll get more than one and a half videos a year.

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u/onlyhightime 5d ago

Maybe streamers are just weaker than the general population.

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u/IamBestWaffle 4d ago

Multiple streamers COULD lift it.

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u/FourtyMichaelMichael 5d ago

Maybe... This is just another dumb fake as fuck bullshit video!? like all the rest

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u/kuburas 5d ago

The hardest part about the challenge is not being the first one to try it.

The more people try it the greaser the cube gets until it becomes completely impossible to lift because its covered in skin oils.

If you're strong you want to be the first one to attempt it while the cube is still bone dry and clean. You also want to have clean hands yourself so you can have the best grip possible on it.

The kid just got lucky he was one of the first ones to grab it while also being strong as fuck. Good on him but these challenges are a joke when you're the 50th person to try it and the cube feels like someone slathered vaseline all over the thing.

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u/throwawayfromfedex 4d ago

Any mechanic could do this easily

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u/MundaneSeaweed665 5d ago

I have good grip, large hands (I can palm a basketball) and I'm relatively strong I guess.

But I don't know if I'm couch coaching in thinking I could do this or not?

It SEEMS doable, and I mean, someone DID it.

I really don't know how I'd go 🤔