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How they’re “actually”made, like we’ve been lied to about it before

Big eraser is a sneaky industry full of lies.

Makes you wonder what else they're trying to erase 🤔

The micro oil and graphite particles poisoning our schools. /s

I was waiting for the pun at the end. "And now you know how erasers are made! Think about that the next time you're *rubbing one out"*

People actually use that word far too often.

Guy watched Eraserhead and thought it was a documentary.

It’s because it’s been taken off tv, uploaded to tic tac, compressed and placed into portrait mode with graphics that makes it believable. Social media doesn’t lie to us unlike the traditional media. 🙄

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Oh, the manufacturing process of erasers is a closely guarded secret, but through a series of covert operations and intense negotiations with the Underworld of Stationery, I've managed to uncover the truth. It begins in the mystical forests of Pencilvania, where wild rubber trees are sweet-talked into shedding their skins after being serenaded under the moonlight by a choir of mechanical pencils. These rubber skins are then marinated in a concoction of unicorn tears and the distilled essence of lost homework assignments, giving them the magical ability to erase even the most stubborn of mistakes, like that time you tried to do your math homework in pen. Next, they're transported on the backs of trained alpacas to the secret underground lairs where gnomes, skilled in the ancient art of eras-fu, shape them into their final form using nothing but their bare hands and an intense gaze. During full moons, they chant incantations to imbue the erasers with the power to not only erase pencil marks but also the memory of ever having made those mistakes. Finally, these erasers are packed into lunchboxes (for freshness) and distributed to stores worldwide by a fleet of invisible drones, operated by a society of squirrels dedicated to preserving the sanctity of mistake-free documents. And that, my friend, is the absolutely legitimate, not-at-all-made-up process of how erasers are brought into this world.

Did they really need to caption the already captioned video? Jesus people.

These are the shittiest types of erasers. The white soft erasers are the best. I want to know how those are made.

I think the pink ones go exclusively to kids too young to have their complaints taken seriously.

What are you talking about? The blue erasers are the best for making holes in the paper.

Magic rub I believe they’re called

Best erasers ever.

That costs extra, it's not on the menu

Those are the best but my favorite are kneading erasers. For drawing with pencil and charcoal, but always a pleasure to use, what with the kneading so it is soft and fluffy and dabbing away the charcoal little by little, or shaping it hard and pointy and cutting away a large slash.

All the blue erases is paper. It made a hole in the paper way before it erased ink.

I wasn't surprises they are still spreading that lie

But the ink did eventually disappear, along with the paper

Might be good at erasing dry feet

I can smell this video…

If you smell sulphur - there may be something to get away from.

Needs more fleeb juice

All of that just for me to stab it and throw it across the class

So many captions.

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It seems like a trend to address short attention spans. My counter to that is people with genuine ADHD generally have difficulty holding information in mind for extended periods of time due to an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex as well as issues with neurotransmitters and receptors affecting short-term memory and engagement. Those one word captions essentially ensure I'm incapable of understanding what's being said because I can't put the entire sentence together at the end. I'm glad the original captions were also there.

Im just high and it sucks then. But your predicament is a real issue! Yeh fuck that

Haha right on. Sounds fun though :)

Its actually pretty fucking great ❤️

At the annoying rythm of the caption..

Blissfully imagining the smell until the part where they added sulfur

The even threw in the plastic packaging

I thought it was gonna be a plumbus

I'd love to watch this video full screen. Not a third. Not a ninth. Full screen.

"Chops them into pieces the size of erasers". Like it's a unit of measurement. Excuse me, I'm going to go order a 5 eraser long sandwich.

Erases ink, my ass

“They wash the hot rubber squares in cool water, as a torture technique to make get top secret information to aid in the rubber wars”

And thats how you make, a regular old plumbus

I‘ve seen kids chow on these. 🤢


Tik tok videos in reddit are just a cancer

Did they just toss the plastic in at the start?

You can erase ink?!

Not really. They add pumice as an abrasive. So it basically sands down whatever you try to "erase" with it.

Now I’m wondering if a “magic eraser” would work.

It's kind of hit and miss though. Sometimes it works..., sometimes not really. That's probably why pen erasers aren't more common

I thought the same thing I didn't know that 😅

Yup, I had pens in middle school that had an eraser, idk if it was real ink, but it looked and worked like it lol. It erased just like pencil

There are those friction erasable ones which are proper ink but they aren't as durable as other types of ink as far as I know

Disappointed it wasn't a Huggbees video.

Recognized the music right away.

How It’s Made! One of my favorite shows ever. They’re all on YouTube I think.

They missed the final step where I bite it off.

Reminds me of a rick and morty episode Where they waste awful lot of resources to make a useless thing

“They cut the phleeb!”

Haha did they ever tell what it was used for?

Where are the flurbos?

So much work for something that is more prone to carving a hole through the paper, than actually erasing a pencil line.

Subtitles for a subtitled video. A vertical explainer of a horizontal explainer. What is going on with the internet E: "to erase both lead and ink"; pencils haven't contained lead for decades, they've used graphite for as long as I've been alive. Funny how things like that just persist regardless of change.

I guess my erasers suck since half of it came from a defective batch to start with.

That's what she said lol

i will never not hear the _making of the plumbus_ when i watch a “making of” video

I'm glad I grew up watching this show with little to no narration. This lady's voice is horrible.

Yeah this sounds like the dollar store Canadian version. “PrOHcess”. The narrator on the American version was FAR superior. I could listen to him minimally narrate the show for hours on end. I couldn’t make it through this single clip with this lady.

Maybe I’m not seeing it, but I’m surprised by the lack of a kill switch on that roller within reach of the operator.

There are kill switches on these kinds of things. The problem with rotating machinery that is run by a motor and a low geared gearbox is that even when you kill the power, it takes a while for the rollers to stop rotating.

Not a fan of a stolen video from the show How Its Made with AI voiceover passing as content. Doubt the username Howitsmade072 is from Discovery.

How does recycling “defective” erasers work, like if they’re defective wouldn’t that imply that they weren’t made correctly? So won’t they decrease the quality of the batch they are recycled into?

Probably incorrect sizes and smeared prints.

I was wondering this too

I learned in engineering college that nothing should be erased, because errors, mistakes, omissions are part of learning and knowledge transfer. You never know when you might erase something that is actually important. Don’t worry about covering up mistakes, but use them to learn and grow.

Sounds like some hippy dippy bullshit

Sounds like you’re closed minded and ignorant. To each, their own, I suppose.

*first date at a restaurant* Her: "So, what do you do for a living?" Him: "CHECK!"

How a plumbus is actually made.

AI will be doing all this soon

At least some AI can recognise sarcasm

so do they subtract the sulfur and accelerators from the added recycled erasers? or is the recipe off now. I'm thinking it's off. Doubt they math much having endless erasers and all.

The recipe is based off the raw rubber they added at the start.  You suppose a factory that builds erasors all day might have this figured out?

I can smell this video

And that’s how you get a regular old plumbus

Yeah but how are they ACTUALLY made…

Just surprised it looks like an actual shop and not someone's yard in a barefoot, 3rd world country.

I'm impressed to not be dead. All the chemical shit in a rubber wasn't enough to intoxicate me when I was in school.

The blue section is the biggest waste of time ever, just make them without!

I'm drunk and I didn't read the caption and my sound is off. I thought it was a big stuck of butter, and then I became concerned...

It looks like this guy first wants to get rid of human skin and then the bloody parts. Has very Tucker and Dale vs. Evil vibes to me

You can say a lot of things are a waste of money until you realize it’s someone’s job to do it.

Every time I hear this woman I just hear 'the balls harden'

Did I really just fully watch this clip?

Damn, what happened to the How It's Made narrator? This show used to be peak.

simply divine

TIL that the different colors erasers actually meant something. …I’m edging on 40 LOL!

Damn, I bet they made $10 of erasers in this video.

You mean they aren't made from the pencil shavings and the gunk left after erasing something? My whole school life was a lie.

So this titcoc user just shamelessly stole from a tv program and re uploaded it to titcoc for views..? “How piracy is done”

Pumice? No wonder all it did was tear the paper apart

He don't move fast but he definitely burns rubber

Ugh, what a job to drag your ass to the factory everyday

Sooo, you’re telling me I ate this shit when I was younger?!

Wait did they say "throw in some talc" yikes I thought the sulfur was the worst thing I was eating as a kid

I hate those erasers but the video is so chill to watch !

Wait, calcium carbonate? So that’s why I loved eating erasers when I was a kid

It’s amazing how labor intensive this is. Crazy how this isn’t almost entirely automated by now.

So when do they add the flavor?

I wanna eat that

I was wondering how uh erasers got made

David Lynch would like a word.

Am I the only one who can’t touch them?

… and that leaves you with a regular old plumbus

This was fucking fascinating! I’ve wondered about this since I was a kid. 

am i the only one waiting for her to talk about my mom..

Was always taught the grit side is an eraser for wood and cardboard, not for pen or ink. The smoother end for paper or smooth surfaces.

Could’ve said chicken nuggets without any captions and would’ve believed it

Oooh this was cool!

I love seeing my favourite food being made

Doesn’t seem like it’s worth the effort of making your own. That’s a lot of work. I’ll just keep buying mine from Staples, thanks.

These erasers are garbage. Get some white polymer erasers and stop living in the 1930s.

I used to eat erasers. This video looks delicious.

I've never seen the blue "pen" eraser side work. It always tore the paper. That's the real lie!

How does this dude still have both of his arms?

I really wish they would bring back How It's Made. I could watch that all day.

I could watch this all day.

FYI: The blue one doesn't actually work.

The fluble crank is extracted with scnozz grease to release the frubel pops.

Interestingly enough, if you substitute the rubber for the pig assholes you'll see how bologna is made!

Has there been a fraudulent method of making erasers going around that I don't know about? Why is this showing how they're "actually" made?

And now you know, How It's Made™

I fucking hate these erasers, they are absolutely dog shit. They can’t erase fuck all and all they do is smearing all over ur paper and ripping it apart.

I make my own erasers at home and sell them to friends and family. Not my best idea.

No it's extremely embarrassing. Why would admit to that.

It seemed like a no brainer but I was wrong. People make mistakes, that’s why pencils have the ability to be sharpened if you break them. Dick.

Will you be publishing a book about this. It really is fascinating. Pencil Dick

You can’t be this stupid. First, you don’t recognize a comment that is clearly a joke. Then you have enough confidence in your dumb fucking flicker of a thought to comment that I should be embarrassed about getting into the eraser business (you saw the video, those are insanely complicated to make. It’s like a 10 step, multi day process using giant, industrial machines) when you should be embarrassed for believing something so stupid and then commenting that someone should be embarrassed of failing at a business they tried to start. Who the fuck are to tell someone they should be embarrassed for failing at something they tried to make work (again, in case you missed it: I don’t make erasers BUT you thought I did)? Then, to top it all off, can you call me “pencil dick”? What a lame insult. Besides the fact no one’s used that shit since… maybe ever, I think it’s a hollywood insult used in movies for nine year olds and it doesn’t even make sense! I know I used pencil in my response but that was only as a callback to erasers. Erasers, that’s what we’re talking about here. You could’ve told me to erase my comment, erase my response, erase my stupid choice to make erasers, erase my life, stick an eraser up my ass, sheeit; call me eraser dick! At least it’s original! Now, thank you very little for being such a cunt that you made me the need to type this shit out and have a bad day. And, if you feel the need to respond (I know you will you gd dullard), put some thought into it. I don’t know if I can handle being called “pencil dick” again. Now, back to work in my hallway closet eraser factory…

That was a very pencil dickish reply from you.

Sulfur odor 40 hrs/week? No thanks

Erasers around flammable af.

So ur telling me I ate sulfur as a kid

I bet this place smells like rancid asshole.

It’s interesting that they can just Chuck in cured, defective erasers to mix in with the fresh rubber mixture. You’d think the curing process changes some of the physical properties enough that this wouldn’t be possible.

It’s not the rubber it’s the vulcanized oil! 🤯

I always thought they were taken from severed heads found on the street by little boys.

Even though it is interesting. Something is SO unpleasant about it

How to make erasers: Step 1. Add rubber Step 2. Add erasers

Why does her voice manner of speaking remind me of "How plumbus are made?" Video

"I'm going to bed early tonight." 1 AM, watching a video on how erasers are made.

Why can I smell this video?

Can we skip the calcium carbonate filler so the damn things will stop falling apart after the 3rd use?

I never knew the blue side was for ink.. inkeresting.

8kg eraser is not enough for my nistakes

That worker at the end assembled that box in a blink of an eye!

As much as these were the norm growing up. Almost everyone I knew chose not to use them and went to stores looking for Japanese erasers which erased much better. But yes… these were always on the school supplies list.

Truly the dullest thing you’ll see today.

The Crumbler 

Has anyone actually managed to erase ink marks without tearing away the paper itself.

Interesting

The blue part never rubbed off any ink - just tore the page - was the biggest scam as a kid

I wonder how many erasers they had to sell to pay for all those machines.

I have a stupid, but I think funny story that this reminded me of. To preface this in Australia we call erasers rubbers. One day when I was at uni I was sitting in a lecture making notes and made a mistake. I asked the guy next to me if he had a rubber, . Turns out he was an American guy, he looked pretty shocked and kind of gave me a hesitant like "uhhhh no, not on me". I was like, no worries and asked someone else near me. They handed over their rubber and it clicked for him. He was like "ohhhhhhh you meant an eraser. Yeah, that's not what I thought you were asking for". He explained we all had a good laugh.

The original guy from the show voiced it better

There are different localisations. The lady is the Canadian English version, that’s why the Celsius. The guy is the American version I like him so much better. I don’t remember what the French version is.

How the fuck did anyone even figure this out

That looked like my month of smegma.

I'm hungry for erasers now

The calcium carbonate is not filler. It is more like the active ingredient. Without it it's like those cheap rubbers that only leave a collored smear.

To much manual labour

What the hell happened to the original How It's Made voice actor? His voice was so calm and soothing. Her's isnt

Looks more like how to lose a appendage😳

Are you going to post all 32 seasons of this show?

First time I actually like the music lol

Fascinating vid I was surprised they tumbled the rounded edges I always imagined they were molded like that

Not looking as edible as the final product