Hey guys I just bought this cool cylinder from some guy in the flea market parking lot, not sure how it works but when you take the lid off it makes your camera all grainy, super cool!
Hey guys, I have an update, and there's a few lies going around in the notes so I figured I'd clear those up while I was here:
First of all, no, I did not "confirm it was was fake" on Twitter, I originally posted this video to a private but fairly big discord, someone there took it and put in on Twitter and later told everyone it was a joke because they were getting quite tweeted too much. That person is not me, I don't even have a Twitter
Second. Apparently this is something called cesium, it's super radioactive and that's why the container is so heavy and thick. I ended up having a really bad burn on my hand after I messed with it for a few more days, they ended up having to take some of the muscle off of it and a ways up my wrist to try and save my arm, this is what it looks like when I unwrap the bandages (I'm not going to show the hand because it looks WAY worse🤢 and I don't want to make yall puke)
Anyway, be careful what you buy from strange guys at flea markets! They might just be trying to kill you!
I don't know if this whole thing in the original post is real or not but i had the same initial reaction as @therealchickensoup in notes.
As an explanation of the mentioned incident:
Tl;dr version of the video - apparently, there have been these cases where empty capsules from old medical machines have been "misplaced" or outright just left behind like this in various places all around the world (usually in abandoned war zones or when there wasn't enough money to pay a specialized cleaning crew so the stuff just got abandoned and forgotten) and every now and then they get rediscovered by random people, causing death or serious life long consequences to hundreds of people before they are contained.
As for why it does that weird stuff on camera, it's most likely because of SEE - single event error - an effect radiation has on electronics where, if a particle hits a sensor (like camera's photo chip), RAM memory unit, or processing core with enough energy, it disrupts normal function of the device temporarily, in this case by creating that visual snow. Other example that comes to mind is this short video from Rosetta space craft landing at the surface of the comet. It's camera was created specifically to withstand the radiation of the open Space and yet it still filmed tons of "snow" aka heavy particles flying all over the place.
My theory about why the cilinder vid looks different from this is that unlike the comet with particles going every direction from all possible sources in the whole universe, hitting the camera mostly at an angle, the cilinder is the only source of the radiation around and instead of messing up with pixels in line as those nuclei fly through, they hit the thing sqare on and only ever disrupt a singular pixel at the time. But like tens of thousands of them every second by the look of it. Which is a lot.
So yeah, the original post seems legit (in which case RIP) but even if it wasn't, the message it conveys is a serious one. That cilinder is not an object of honor. It does not contain anything valued. Don't buy random unexpectedly heavy metallic items of unknown origin from strangers. If something suspicious like this seems to be glowing in dark or is warm to touch without an abvious reason or if it upsets your phone's camera or causes a discoloration of white paper when you set it on, GET AWAY FROM IT, DON'T MOVE IT, DON'T THROW IT TO SOME OTHER RANDOM PLACE, DEFINITELY DON'T SELL IT ON A FLEA MARKET, CALL 112 OR 911 OR FIREFIGHTERS AND TELL THEM THAT YOU HAVE A SUSPICION THAT YOU MAY BE IN A POSESSION OF SOME RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL AMD YOU NEED HELP ASAP, THEN CALL YOURSELF AN AMBULANCE AND TELL THEM THE SAME THING
Hopefully no one following me or reading this post has to ever do any of those things, but in case you do... I hope that i was clear about how dangerous this shit is.
News, everyone! It's been made into a video by the same guy who did the one on the Goiânia incident
Tl;dr It's fake, the original video was first posted on twitter by a rubber pony fetish account because op was bored. However, PLEASE watch the video in full, it's an entire rollercoaster
























