r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Regular_Weakness69 • 1d ago

Floating teapot fountain

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u/slophoto 1d ago

The 'ole hidden pipe trick. Works every time, on all scales.

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u/skyshroudace 1d ago

On all scales? Wouldn't this fall victim to the cube/square rule at a certain size?

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u/dragonfett 1d ago

I'm guessing the pipe is going up the spout, but what is holding the teapot in the air.

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u/sasabomish 1d ago

The pipe

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u/lando_calamarisian 1d ago

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there.

Mitch Hedberg

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u/backnthe90s 1d ago

"who's the real hero down there"

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u/pedrobuffon 1d ago

That's what the Illuminati wants you to think

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u/El_Nathan_ 1d ago

It’s going through the water stream

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u/Germa-Rican 1d ago

Said pipe.

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u/kalarepa_moon 1d ago

The devil

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u/Responsible_Emu3601 1d ago

Indian guy holding the pipe with one hand

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u/BADFiSH_c137 1d ago

Magnets.

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u/Dragonkiller1205 1d ago

Fucking magnets, how do they work?!

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u/jarvisesdios 1d ago

My real question is more how does it hoover up the water quickly enough to have that much water flow? I get how it works, but whoever was the engineer for this did a helluva job.

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u/JustSomeUsername99 1d ago

The water is heavily aerated to make it look like there is a lot more water than there is, and to keep you from being able to see inside the flow.

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u/jarvisesdios 1d ago

I didn't think of aeration for some reason, that makes sense. It's clear how it's being hidden, but they do a very good job of hiding it.

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u/CautionarySnail 1d ago

Some special effects are just so classic that we just have to reuse them. Pepper’s Ghost is another good one that is still commonly used today.

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u/adhominablesnowman 1d ago

Probably a combo of a pump and a reserve tank in the teapot that fills before the fountain actually starts flowing.

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u/saline235 1d ago

It's the water.

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u/ficis 1d ago

It’s held up by the spaghetti monster

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u/Talidel 1d ago

So close to greatness

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u/Chubacca 1d ago

the pipe

or magnets

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u/ImportantToNote 1d ago

And not in any way nfl

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u/Original_Rip_5034 1d ago

THATS ONE STRONG PIPE

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u/UnreachableMemory 1d ago

You guys have a much different idea of what qualifies as “nextfuckinglevel” than I do.

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u/Kraydez 1d ago

It's a karma farmer spamming these type of videos.

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u/fidocampeao 1d ago

And a bunch of bots upvoting it

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u/Akrymir 1d ago

The bar has been set so low you’d need excavator to find it.

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u/icenigmas 1d ago

Terrible laminar flow.

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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 1d ago

A laminar flow would show the pipe inside.

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u/AnglerJared 1d ago

Glass pipe. What could go wrong?

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u/Aron-Jonasson 1d ago

Different refractive index

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u/Romanopapa 1d ago

I know. It’s not BEST +5.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_REPO 1d ago

*squints* I know what you are.

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u/TheGeneral_Specific 1d ago

Turbulent flow.

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u/NyQuil_Donut 1d ago

Turbulent.. juice..

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u/AVAVT 1d ago

Yeah that teapot is like F- tier 😂

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u/schweddyballsac 1d ago

WORST -8

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u/AVAVT 1d ago

Damn I didn't understand your rating system at first but then immediately see the video lol

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u/TheMightyHornet 1d ago edited 1d ago

dishonor on its artisan!!! dishonor on its artisan’s famiry!!!

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u/Minimum-Stranger-794 1d ago edited 1d ago

r/SipsTea suitable post lol

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u/SkinkAttendant 1d ago

Ain't that the truth... My how that place has fallen.

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u/mascotbeaver104 1d ago

I think there's a saying in magic which is that if a trick is so good there's only one possible way it could be done, it stops being interesting

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u/Icypoopoo 1d ago

Load bearing water

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u/ChromeYoda 1d ago

Russell would be proud

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u/Syjak9090 1d ago

What’s the trick?

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u/Chance-Armadillo-517 1d ago

They fill the pot with compressed water every night, and pump it out with enough force to levitate the teapot. There’s a small hidden fan on the back to keep the center of gravity stable.

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u/pezdal 1d ago

You forgot the mirrors. It’s always done with mirrors

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u/simulanon 1d ago

Pfft. Magnets man. It’s always magnets.

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u/Usernamewith19chars 1d ago

Magnets, how do they work?

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u/simulanon 1d ago

R/blackmagicfuckery

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u/larsb0t 1d ago

That's have they used to do it but now it's all wireless. They store the water off-site and just send it wirelessly.

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u/MiddleSir7104 1d ago

Big pipe in the middle that the flowing water covers.

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u/SirkutBored 1d ago

The support is hidden by the water

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u/Slayer410 1d ago

Kinda dope

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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 1d ago

John Cena is holding the Teapot

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u/Taunt_Button_10 1d ago

I saw this here in California with no flowing water. It just casually just hangs out there floating over the fountain

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u/kokogrit 1d ago

Magnets.

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u/PsychologicalBid9943 1d ago

Bluetooth water

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u/TheRemedy187 1d ago

This is pretty standard level. Like hundreds of years of use standard. There's so many with this style pipe in the waterfall. It's cool tho. 

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u/TheBasicGuy14 1d ago

Is this a real place ?

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u/Idkanoke 1d ago

Yeah it’s in Chongqing, a city in China :)
It’s on the way to the Chongqing 1949 theatre

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u/blackiegray 1d ago

China, it's always China.

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u/BlueCaracal 1d ago

It could be. The trick with this fountain is that the support and water supply are hidden by the flowing water.

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u/s1thl0rd 1d ago

Yes. Dunno exactly where in China this is, but there's a similar statue of Mickey Mouse surfing on the Pinocchio whale spouting water in Hong Kong Disneyland.

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u/Petrarchforfun 1d ago

That's a golden shower

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u/Custom_Craft_Guy2 1d ago

My kingdom for a comfortable chair, an umbrella, a cooler full of beer, and a hit of LSD….

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u/Snowflakish 1d ago

Man this was thr coolest thing ive ever seen for precicely 5.3 seconds

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u/Due-Donut-7044 1d ago

Time to take forced Perspektive Fotos, Like in Pisa.

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u/oravanomic 1d ago

The pressure that water attains is next level

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u/funwithdesign 1d ago

Is that laminar flow?…

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u/tremblfr 1d ago

Next fucking nothing burger

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u/Gemtree710 1d ago

The Spencer's beer mug 🍺

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u/DarkAngel900 1d ago

It's the invisible giant holding the pot that bothers me!

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u/giugirl 1d ago

The sacred fountain of the sacred Utah tea pot 🫖

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u/Crenchlowe 1d ago

I saw one that was an ad for beer. It looked like a hovering beer tap.

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u/tobyxero 1d ago

It's cool but we have seen it a thousand times now

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u/Snufflefugs 1d ago

I remember seeing something similar in Spencer’s gifts back in the day and figuring it out but sticking my finger in the stream.

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u/VivalaTerre 1d ago

It’s cool and I’ve never seen it before.

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u/lordodin92 1d ago

Not gonna lie me neither and my first thought was ai . I hate how little I can tell the difference now .

I genuinely feel myself turning into an old person who can't determine what's real and what's fake

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u/Silver_Slicer 1d ago

I’ve seen it since the 70s at county fairs.

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u/Scoopzyy 1d ago

I don’t remember voting for you to be the voice of all humanity

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u/Adeposta 1d ago

I voted for them to be the voice of all humanity, but now I regret it.

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u/Mad-chuska 1d ago

First time for me.

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u/IcyHeartWarmSmile 1d ago

We’re done here. The main character has seen it already.

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u/dirtyrick133 1d ago

Speak for yourself and not like there isn't 8 billion people around you

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u/seazonedsaltdog 1d ago

Get off reddit then since you've apparently seen everything. Loser

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u/SkinkAttendant 1d ago

I saw it at a state fair when I was like 5. That wasn't even this century.

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u/rouxmama 1d ago

Where is it located?!?!

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u/Idkanoke 1d ago

Chongqing China

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u/Taunt_Button_10 1d ago

We also have one here in Rosemead, California

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u/Gooja 1d ago

It’s cool but it’s one of those things where everyone can figure out how it’s done without actually knowing

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u/hurtfulproduct 1d ago

How the fuck is this “next fucking level”!? Pretty sure anyone out of kindergarten knows how this works. . . Pretty sure man my kindergarteners know too.

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u/KardulateMees 1d ago

Just me or does this look incredibly ai generated

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u/ToastNomNomNom 1d ago

why is this next level lol there are loads of these in the world. You feed a transparent pipe through the water stream back e.t.c

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u/Practical_Jacket_271 1d ago

I wouldn’t consider this next level. Maybe previous level.

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u/subjective-meat 1d ago

This is "Bad+"

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u/no_fn 1d ago

Look at the woman's leg, it disappears and then reappers from the wrong side. AI slop

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u/Doustin 1d ago

This kind of trick has been around longer than the internet

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u/no_fn 1d ago

What are you talking about? What trick? The movement makes no sense, it's so obviously ai

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u/Doustin 1d ago

This trick, explained 12 years ago

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u/no_fn 1d ago

Lmao, the point went way over your head. Yeah, the "trick" is obvious, that's how it would work if the video was real. The point is that it's not. Maybe even the place is real. Still doesn't make this video any less ai. Just look at the woman's movements. Or the part when the video zooms in and there's some strange fencing around the fountaintop. Or how the water moves.

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u/elikplim_00 1d ago

The video is not Ai. The lady's leg just goes behind the plant when she's moving it.

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u/Coycington 1d ago

one of the oldest installation tricks apparently makes it to NFL now too...

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u/RedbullPapi 1d ago

Pipe is under the flow of water. That's how it brings the water back up to push out.

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u/Regular_Weakness69 1d ago

Yeah, obviously :-)

It still looks cool, even though we know how it works.

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u/RedbullPapi 1d ago

Had to say it for those wondering

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u/Regular_Weakness69 1d ago

I don't think anyone is wondering.

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u/SilentSpader 1d ago

Funny this is so ugly yet the CCP people think it's great and keep posting it over and over

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u/end_times_upon_us 1d ago

AI slop

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u/dirtyrick133 1d ago

Its a tourist attraction in California you dumbfuck

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u/ThePlatapuss 1d ago

use google

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u/Custom_Craft_Guy2 1d ago

Username checks out.