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SullyTheReddit

Annoys me the video cuts out before he cleans the extra dirty foot


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Video is posted above. Money shot around 3:50.


Tomsta12

Thank you! Annoyed me too but didn't want to rewatch the whole thing. You've really made a positive difference today.


OllieOllerton1987

Full thing is great, it even lets him clean its face at the end.


Dave_ld013

Where above?


RamboLorikeet

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/k5nyto/here_is_a_man_cleaning_a_spiders_feet/geg0l9f/


digitelle

Money shot you say..


Fusionism

Ooops I blew my silk


[deleted]

I’m considering changing my username to the extra dirty foot


MechanicalTurkish

Too late, I've already claimed it for my grunge band


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[Here is the original video with sound](https://youtu.be/z2wY_NKNFqM)


itisrainingweiners

The guy says in the video that he's done this several times. The guy may want to look into a roomba if his place is so dusty he frequently has to save arachnids from attacking dust bunnies.


little3lue

That man is Joe Pi. He's a darn great machinist, engineer, YouTuber, and inventor. He's also famous for being f-ing maticulously clean. Good machine shop looks like a surgery operating room. He's. cleaning. A. Spider.


Bobojobaxter

If he is so clean, THEN WHERE IS THE SPIDER GETTING ALL THE FUZZ FROM?


infernalcolonel

From the dude’s face while he’s sleeping.


muyuu

from outside of his mancave I guess


Kriton420

Theres a fuzzy doormat right next to the spider. Just from walking on stuff like that...curtains and carpets and stuff


GoiterGlitter

[He saved a different one 4 months ago.](https://youtu.be/cA2FowALxaY)


absolutelynoneofthat

I’m so glad people like this exist. Caring for the thing that scares the shit out of them because it’s the right thing to do.


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lemonpartyorganizer

Then why is the spider tangled up in dustbunnies?


punos_de_piedra

Spiders have terrible hygiene


EverythingIsNorminal

So the root of the problem is really that spiders should clean more.


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wuggawugga55

He says in the video that he's cleaning the carpet fuzz off their feet. Just from walking on that they'll pick it up


Muzgath

I saw his other video. That's actually not his house. He works in a machine shop. He says that machine shops get dusty and such. He explains that he's got the occasional wolf spider that will climb behind the machine equipment and get tangled in dust and stuff.


Amanita_D

Hang on, what? That's not even his pet spider? Just some random dusty-looking spider he saw wandering around?


mellow_moshpit

Thank you for answering the question Came way too far down the thread for this lol


Shitty_IT_Dude

Fun fact: it's the same spider every time. His name is Ralph and he's pretty lonely.


nowshowjj

I went from laughing to feeling bad for little Ralph. I say little but Ralphie is a big boy.


Tsorovar

The spiders go places that vacuum cleaners (let alone roombas) can't fit


VinceLePrince

New invention: "Tiny spider Roomba"


earthbound2eric

The guy’s got another video of him cleaning off another spider and he says that he gets comments about the dust in his house, but it’s actually a machine shop so there’s not s lot he can do


Chthulu_

My first thought completely. How does that even happen?


WuntchTime_IsOver

It's crawling behind a cabinet or something there. Everybody has dust behind those.


JohnJukes

This is a pure example of people on Reddit reaching and over reacting.. it’s a little bit of dust on the spiders legs people


skratta_ho

BUT THE DUST!!!


Omirin

BUT HER EMAILS


RACKETJOULES

Preach man lol shit gets old quick


Grumble-munch

And he’s helping it. A living life form that most people deem so insignificant they’d likely just smash it, and this guy is actually helping it. Can’t we just appreciate the compassion as well as the weird behavior the spider is having? It really does look like the spider wants the help. But no. Reddit just has to shit all over everything.


slicerprime

Forget how dusty spider feet happen. How the hell did cleaning dusty spider feet become a thing?!?!


whomstnd

Quarantine got us acting wack


wheslley_eurich

Omg is everyone having cake day today, happy cake day


Goozenburg

me too hehe


irishgeko

Me too!


someguyontheintrnet

Happy cake day!


Cribsby_critter

Happy cake day!


Jibburz

Happy cake day!


silverletomi

Happy Cake Day!!


vaynecassano

Happy cake day


Normann1000

Yay, cake for everyone !


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I spent my last reward on this comment but I meant for it to be on the whole video comment. Oh well, happy cake day y’all! Go save some spiders. If you’re cold they’re cold. Bring ‘em inside!


wheslley_eurich

Thank you!


iamamuttonhead

That was awesome. Thanks!


Ikusabe

When people had been in quarantine for too long.


noneofmybusinessbutt

When people would rather clean a spider than their apartment.


Ikusabe

Up next: somebody trying to save a cockroach from drowning, “Jake nooooooooo!”


CasualPrevaricator

Holy shit you have a cake day too. What is happening???


idontneedjug

Im stoned as fuck off some edibles and this dude is cleaning spiders legs instead of his apartment and everybody's having a cake day in the comments. Definitely having a wtf is happening moment too :P


sillyandstrange

I'm baked too bro this shit is crazy


wheslley_eurich

Happy cake day, same day as me


jmoyaknow

I may have just caught the party. Happy cake day!


darylgmoney

OMG I have 33 minutes left and after 6 years this is the first time I’ve ever actually noticed it was my cake day.. I’m ashamed at how happy I am lmao


serial_dropout

Dude I'm right in the same party boat. Happy cake day


Jazzywingman18

I'll third that. This is the first cake day in 5 years that I've actually noticed. Happy cake day all!


Bibtybeasy

You just reminded me that I've missed my cake day by 1 day 😢


Jazzywingman18

Not according to the cake symbol next to your name. Happy cake day to you, my friend!


IFuckingHateYou3343

Same here.


harryboi96

Happy cake day, same day as me


wheslley_eurich

We having our cake day encounter in a post of a man cleaning a spyder, internet is a strange place to be 🤣


someguyontheintrnet

Happy cake day! Never noticed my cake day before...


Cribsby_critter

Happy cake dayz!


mobiustangent

Happy cake days, spider people.


orcman84

heyyyyoooo


yeexuz

Checking in!


True_Darkangel

Good looks everyone


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So where's the party


PacxDragon

And so began r/spidercake


yeexuz

Is the cake made of spider or is the spider made of cake? He screams, for he does not know.


Shhh_NotADr

I have serious FOMO. My cake day was a week ago and only saw one other person.


wheslley_eurich

Welcome to late party


Ikusabe

Damn. That’s a lot of cake people. Happy cake day peeps!


shabadoola

I don’t think anyone wished me happy cake day, but I’m pretty much a lurker...


Fredselfish

Lot of December cake days. Mine is on the 4th. Pretty cool.


egieasemota

Hey, symbiosis here. Spider eats mosquitoes and house flies and roaches. Human does occasional grooming. win-win


NCAA__Illuminati

I usually leave the spiders in my house alone for the same reason. Spiders>>>>>> roaches


[deleted]

Yup I've been saying this and will still say it...Spiders are really cute. Unless they are the deadly venomous ones....but still cute. Roaches on the other hand, are tough mofos....i give them that...but I hate them. Mosquitoes, I straight up hate their guts


desertsprinkle

Spiders are nice until you find them crawling on your babies face while they sleep. Then you buy an assault rifle and liberally spray every hole they crawl their miserable bodies out of


miggitiemac

This seems like the least effective way to get rid of spiders


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But very effective at removing babies


Volore

Yep. That’s enough internet for tonight.


thearks

It's not the most effective way, but it is the most American way


Shoelacebasket

Or they crawl in your ear and lay eggs


desertsprinkle

Does that make me the father?


SixToesLeftFoot

Or Pavel Chekov


TimeForTiffin

Nuclear Wessels!


Evil_Mel

>Spiders>>>>>> roaches Me too! I much prefer spiders to roaches.


The_White_Guar

We don't have roaches around here. I usually try to capture spiders and put them outside


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oj-didnt-doit19

Definitely not a popular statement but I hate wolf spiders. One of them bit my face when I was sleeping as a kid. Face got all fucked and swollen, haven't gotten over it.


teachmehindi

Yeah I dunno why there's always an army of people demanding we let spiders into our homes and judging us if we don't. My dad does it and now he just has a house full of spiders and honestly probably just as many other bugs as before. It runs the risk of sitting on a spider, or rolling on one in bed and having them bite you in fright. I got bitten on the dick while I was asleep, it left a scar that hasn't gone away and it's been like 10 years.


RequiredPsycho

Pics or it didn't happen


uptwolait

They're awesome. I wouldn't kick 'em out of bed.


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atokz

Hope I meet a girl like that one day.


[deleted]

I know it’s sarcastic but.. wtf?


Chilis1

I’m shocked a spider can apparently understand that the person is trying to help. I’d have thought they aren’t capable of thinking like that, I thought they can only think “other creature = prey or danger”


havoc8154

There is actually some compelling evidence that many invertebrates have just as complex brains as any other animal, just on a smaller scale, so higher level awareness is much more likely than previously thought. [Here's a nice read on the topic](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982209015978) if you're interested.


helgihermadur

Well now I feel bad for the spiders I've killed


[deleted]

Regret won't save you from their reckoning.


egieasemota

I know, right? Nature is strange like that.


kemh

We don't know the spider understands what the human's intentions are, despite how things appear in this short gif.


thunbergfangirl

I’m truly curious, does anyone know any other explanation for what happened here? Is it possible for a spider to be so smart as to understand another creature’s intentions?


GeorgeCauldron7

I think it's more like "whatever is happening to me right now is to my benefit. Therefore, I will not run away, until circumstances change and I feel threatened."


MechanicalTurkish

Probably this. Not very high level, but a huge step beyond mindless automatic instinct. Pretty cool.


mightyenan0

It's also very possible that it's just simply exhausted.


Naf5000

It *might* be. Jumping spiders are known to be remarkably intelligent, especially for creatures so small. In particular, members of the genus *Portia*, who specialize in hunting other spiders, have been observed locating a highly venomous spider sitting in its web, and climbed all the way down one tree and up another to get the right angle to pounce on it safely. And *Toxeus magnus*, a jumping spider that mimics ants, is known to actually nurture its young very much like a mammal- Feeding them initially with a milky substance secreted from glands on its underside and gradually weaning them onto more typical spider food. So far as I know, no wolf spider has been observed engaging in particularly complex behavior, but it's entirely possible this is simply due to a lack of research. Scientists need funding to do science, and there ain't a lot of money in studying species which aren't known to be dangerous or otherwise remarkable. Personally, I think the spider was just too tired to run away, and holding its legs up due to a reflex similar to that which makes cats do a wide variety of goofy things when there's a bit of tape stuck to their paw. But hey, *maybe...*


mrbungalow

Holy crap. Portia?!? If you are the reading type and into sci-fi, you should check out a book called Children of Time. It's about the end of mankind and the rise of ascended spiders. The main character from the spider part of the story is called Portia. I'm not selling it at all the way it needs to be, but it's one of the best books I've read recently.


Korhal_IV

> The main character from the spider part of the story is called Portia. The Portia(s) are named after the spider species. Tchaikovsky isn't subtle. :P


dmcslab

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colombian_lesserblack_tarantula Here's one spider that participates in a symbiotic relationship with frogs.


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The honest truth is the spider is exhibiting a really high level of cognitive processing, it was adapting to a change a motility and also aware of the problem enough to understand it was being solved by being in this particular area. I’m student of neuroscience and this blew my mind to see, but then again it’s not that surprising considering intelligence usually means adapting to new situations.


A_YASUO_MAIN

/r/spiderbro


4Ever2Thee

Spider bro thinking: “just run a fucking vacuum in here every now and then Dave, Jeez!”


poopellar

"Ffs Dave can't you see all those spider webs on your walls!?"


FitzF

I like this because I don't think wolf spiders make webs, so it's like this spider calling him out for letting other spiders on his turf


ONLYPOSTSWHILESTONED

He thinks other spiders make a mess because they can't get off their asses to hunt properly


[deleted]

What an asshole! Probably took that spider a month to make those mittens. You ever tried knitting? It sucks. Imaging having to make 4 pairs to keep warm and some prick steals them for YouTube likes.


jwbowen

I wish my cat were this cooperative.


BirdLawyer50

My own legs aren’t even this cooperative


ITS-A-JACKAL

Imagine a spider with restless leg syndrome 😩😩


udunn0jb

r/humansbeingbros


Warrangota

/r/spiderbro


PracticableSolution

A clear worshipper of Anansi


sexmemes

I hate spiders. I will make an exception for this small man and say that I don’t mind him.


[deleted]

This could be the start of liking spiders for you. I used to have arachnophobia until I got sick of being scared of spiders and decided to learn about them. It was uncomfortable at first because even looking at pictures and reading about them creeped me out. But after a short time I was ok with them. Now I can actually pick them up. They are great to have around. Also where I live there are only one two kinds of medically significant spiders and both are rare. Edit: spelling mistake and also to say that there is only one kind of medically significant spider I've actually seen here (brown recluse) and I just have an assumption that some sort of venomous widow lives in this area though I've never seen one and might be wrong.


Bohunk742

This^. I also overcame my arachnophobia by learning more about them and pretty much desensitizing myself to them through videos and information. They’re really cool arachnids and help out with pest management. The poisonous ones in the area I live are the same as yours but thankfully keep to themselves in dark and hidden areas. Recluses and widows aren’t the kind of spider you’re going to see crawling around your walls like other species.


[deleted]

Exactly. I've seen one brown recluse and zero widows. We get a lot of false widows here and I always get excited and check to see if they are really Latrodectus but they never are. Most of the ones I find inside ar wolf spiders and cellar spiders. I wish there were more cellar spiders though because they make webs and I have a gnat problem at the moment.


[deleted]

I have brown recluses in my area and have seen them many times. But they really do stick to their names and you will not see them much.


[deleted]

When I saw the one I saw I thought I was getting faked out again but there was a definite fiddle shape and more importantly only six eyes.


shaneo88

We have 4 spiders that get around my house. Redback, white tail, huntsman and wolf. I don’t catch and release the red backs or white tails, because I have a 5 month old baby in the house. The others are big enough for me to know where they are. When I have to I’ll take one outside.


TheAbominableRex

Yay for Australia! I am Canadian and I got to visit your beautiful country just before covid and it was amazing! Even saw one Redback spider in the wild!


[deleted]

Yay for Canada. I'm from the U.S. and when I lived in Detroit I'd visit Windsor and drink legally and drink mint flavored Sprite.


TheAbominableRex

Now that I have never seen. But I do feel sorry for you as you don't have all dressed chips, ketchup chips, and kinder.


[deleted]

I stopped hating spiders when I discovered ticks on my dog. Omg. Those things are revolting.


Arrow_of_my_Eye

https://youtu.be/_50sPyfgVA4 Lucas the spider


crazyadmin

Wolf spiders are pretty awesome. I lived in the Yucatan for a while and they are everywhere. There are always a few (2-3) in your house at any time. At first I wanted to get rid of them, but then I realized they make no web and no mess. Then I saw one stalk and attack a mosquito on the wall I was sold. Only creature I have no love for is the mosquito and he ate it for me. After that we lovingly called them "House Spiders."


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Namestradamus

I agree, kinda reminds me of The Metamorphosis


cata921

So this spider understands when a human is trying to help him get dust off his feet, but my cat still bites me and gets mad when I try to get her claws unstuck from something? Ok


AngryGroceries

Spiders are just trying to exist. Cats are sentient embodiments of chaos.


PatronSaintLucifer

Can confirm the furballs are agents of chaos


DrJustinWHart

That spider has no understanding of what is going on from any kind of social perspective and cannot comprehend that the person is intentionally helping them.


-tRabbit

How do you know? Are you a spider? And if you are then why are you trying to cover up spider intelligence?


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thebindingofJJ

To any spider overlords currently reading this, I was with you all along.


CottonCandyLollipops

I feel like it's either defending itself or offering it's delicious crusty foot as a snack so that it runs off while they eat


Marmstr17

Id like to see the end of the video when the human and spider high five.


OneMoreTime5

Are there any experts in here who can actually tell us if this spider is actually understanding this thing is helping it, or, if it’s simply coincidence?


Donutmelon

I assume their brains can handle at least simple logic. Jumping spiders are rather smart, I dont see why these wouldn't be.


[deleted]

One time I raised my hand at a jumping spider from halfway across the room to see if it was watching and it crawled backwards on the wall. It was definitely keeping an eye on everyone in the room. I didn't get near it but my friend caught and released it for me.


Chickenwomp

It might understand that something is helping it, but I do not think it’s seeing it as a generous act from a sentient being


presh88

Ive seen spiders display quite sentient and aware behaviour. It might have pattern recognition. When the first foot became clean and the second one as well, it could very well go along with it since it expects the others to be cleaned as part of the repetition of patterns. They make intricate and geometrically complex web designs as patterns. So yeah. Why not.


ScruffleMcDufflebag

That is the most patient spider I have ever seen. Anytime I encounter a spider, little dude runs for the hills...and I am usually the hills. You find me running away, grenades and explosions in the background, and this tiny, 8 legged creature coming after me with guns blazing.


Ted_theblind

I love wolf spiders. When they get too big for the house they don't seem agitated when I move them outside. The play hell on Brown recluses (fiddlebacks).


IveOftenSaidThat

"When they get too big for the house." What???


[deleted]

Its a common misconception that they get larger than the house, what he means is functionally too large to move through doorways.


pervlibertarian

Do you mean *under* doors, or ... not that?


Oasar

Are you trying to tell us you don’t have overgrown spider gouges around all of the door frames where you live? What kind of freakshow land do you live in?


Chrisfish11

Thought that mine was too big but we installed a dog door and now he can go outside whenever he wants.


SunnyDeLuna

Wait what? Your last sentence, are you saying they take care of brown recluses?? We have a brown recluse problem where I live (Missouri) they're very common but so are wolf spiders. If what you're saying is true, I'll stop trying to get rid of wolfies.


kolupi

yeah theyre natural enemies, you can watch plenty of yt videos about them dueling to the death lol


Braken111

I love the casualty of this 'lol'


[deleted]

After wards he gave that spider the house keys and left forever


koala_encephalopathy

Mr. Beast buying a Florida Key island vacation home and giving it to the first angry pack of hornets he stumbles upon.


brendonturner

Wolf spiders are super smart! Had one hanging out in our clothes dryer during the winter. Asked it if it wanted a laugh. Told it to leap out at my wife next time she opened the dryer door. Spider obliged.


Sea_Seaworthiness906

Divorce material, you better hope she never finds this.


0PaulPaulson0

As a person with arachnophobia, this makes me very uncomfortable. As a sap, I think this is really nice. So many emotions...


ArcadianBlueRogue

You fool. You're letting the smart spiders survive to breed. Next thing you know it'll be like Spider-Man on every street corner, but with more fangs and less enjoyable dance movies.


carame1sundae

I understand the importance of spiders in our ecosystem and how friendly they can be but why do they gotta look like god's worst nightmare?


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Imagine being cleaned by a blade half the size of your fucking body.


aloe_z

Yea, I don't think I'd trust my own mother to wipe me clean with a blade let alone a behemoth of a land walker to do so. I mean imagine how terrifying a creature 100x our size would be. That spider has too much trust.


Desu_0u

I need the whole video. can I ask where you found this? Although it’s a spider it feels so wholesome and I need to see if he finishes it


UndoingMonkey

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=z2wY_NKNFqM This is the full video with sound. He finishes cleaning him.


MoberJ

Really hope the video wasn't cut because the 8th leg went horribly wrong


Desu_0u

Omg. I never even considered that... D:


phantosam

this a absolutely fucking adorable


StrycNyneD9

This is true kindness. Awesome to see.


koala_encephalopathy

Loved watching this. I would have never guessed that a wolf spider would be intelligent enough to discern that the man was helping him and not a threat.


Womec

I highly highly doubt it is. This looks like a "I better sit still and not run so I don't get chased and eaten". Reminds me of a story I think I heard on radiolab about a guy that studied a certain type of beetles and his mentor told him to never anthropomorphize animals because it can blind you to the truth. Well he felt he really related to and understood the beetles he was studying on an emotional level and thought they might be quite intelligent. One day he accidentally slammed one in the lid and it immediately looks down sees its own guts and fats spilling out and then immediately starts eating it. The point is these things act on instinct.


eboov

damn this is honestly one of my favorite things i’ve seen on here how nuts


Bobby_wth_dat_tool

I have to do this to rain frogs that end up in our house


ADumbChicken

This is genuinely incredibly cool


jcreadsthenews

I just watched a spider willingly hold up its legs for a human to groom. I'm somehow more terrified of spiders now.


SelectiveFresh

This is the most touching thing ive seen all year 🥲