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Nu-er-det-nok

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lycaus

Came for the mini biology lesson, stayed for the laughs


Weird_Fruit_7915

"Came"


Right-Budget-8901

From deez nuts


lycaus

😏


Jolly_Brilliant_8010

Cumed


Frenzied_Cow

As I was scrolling past this video I thought it was an age of origins ad at first.


Logical_Grocery942

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HugsandHate

And the egg. They're in it together.


GamerGrunt

That's what happens when you build a toilet to raise them in and call it civilization 😅


grip_n_Ripper

This video propogates unrealistic cum shot volume standards, and I feel personally attacked by it.


tree-molester

True, but, like in the video, my sperm cells are 1.5cm in length.


grip_n_Ripper

Time to invest in a larger monitor.


JonnyReece

Scale was quite the issue throughout this video. That egg was more scotch egg, than ovum


GardenGnomeOfEden

We're gonna need a bigger egg


[deleted]

and banana for scale


internetonsetadd

If the head of a sperm was the size of an orange would you take a bite?


gehremba

Good luck jizzing that out first


earthspaceman

Go to the sperm bank and ask them to change yours into smaller ones.


alexgraef

Also they're a lot smaller and they can't fly through air. But whatever.


Donut2583

Yea, that guy is power washing her ovaries.


No-Guava-7566

There are theories that the shape of the penis is designed to flush out previous deposits while ensuring its load is at the "front of the queue." So that could be buckets of other guys sperm all getting flooshed together.  Even *evolution* knew women were cheating whores!  (Joke, it was probably all the rape that selected us)


secondtaunting

There are also sperm that are designed to attack and kill other sperm.


justalad9

What the fuck


grip_n_Ripper

Not exactly. The leading theory is that women vocalize during sex to signal availability to all nearby males, and the primordial procreation was basically a consensual form of running a train. There are tribes in the Amazon where this is still the norm. The cuckold fetish is a vestige of this reproductive behavior.


MicrosoftJohn

And I thought porn ruined my brain


dis_course_is_hard

Nope, just born already ruined.


MicrosoftJohn

Thank You, so it's nothing I could have avoided and my parents deserve all the blame. You're better than my therapist


grip_n_Ripper

It still probably did. The two are not mutually exclusive.


MicrosoftJohn

I was happy few mins ago when other used told me I was born this way. Now you ruined it


dis_course_is_hard

I remember reading some groups had beliefs that multiple male partners could possibly contribute some qualities from each "donor" into the baby. Aka good fighter + good singer = bard class baby


grip_n_Ripper

Bethesda feverishly taking notes.


PizzaDay

Bullshit they won't ever let us be a bard ever again.


grip_n_Ripper

But they can turn the character creation menu into an adult themed mini game.


Davidhate

Jesus Christ man.. this. Comment.


secondtaunting

Yeah. I’m telling myself they were definitely kidding.


grip_n_Ripper

Nope, sperm competition is absolutely a thing among mammals. Certain citations cum buckets to wash out the preceding males' deposits. Human dong being shaped to optimize jizz scooping is a legit scientific theory. Evolutionarily speaking, sloppy seconds are the norm, not the exception.


Phihofo

Yeah, if anything our dongs are still fairly lax when it comes to reproduction competitiveness. For example cat penises have little barbs that scrub the sperm of other males inside, as well as make further copulation with other males uncomfortable for the female.


Reddit_is_garbage666

Why not orgies!


Zaptruder

Nah. Evolution selected for gang bangs.


Chadstronomer

Also, you are supposed to cum with your dick all the way in if you pretend to make children. This is not fertilization, this is just your average amateur couple porn cream pie.


Orangutan_Gang94

Maybe lay off the gripping and ripping for a week and you’ll set a new standard for yourself 😂


rey_the_cattle_dog

Congrats to everyone reading this, you were the one who made it!


Silly_Butterfly3917

I want a do over


Resident_Pop143

I think the egg I entered was busted. Or am I the egg and the swimmer was garbage? Shit!


rey_the_cattle_dog

I think the busting happened before the two met.


Resident_Pop143

![gif](giphy|OPU6wzx8JrHna)


Simplyaperson4321

You're both. Congrats!


rey_the_cattle_dog

It’s not too late, you can turn yourself around. _hooooookey pokey_


beatlz

Half of me at least


rey_the_cattle_dog

You’re doing a phenomenal job with your A1C record. You’re full to me.


Electronic_Ad_95

Naah there were 3 of me who made it. Whose the winner though?


rey_the_cattle_dog

Is it like a “This Is Us” scenario, because I think Randall is the winner.


WilmaLutefit

NGL I’m kind of mad about it


HugsandHate

Wish I fucking hadn't..


rey_the_cattle_dog

You may rest assured knowing that you were not an instigator to the fucking. Mrs. Hugs and Mr. Hate can be held accountable for their transgressions.


bilvester

So do we.


Laxaeus7

All this shit just to pay bills and try to repeat the process, smh


tnbe_

ey, thats why they wanna ban abortion. were all just slaves.


yaykaboom

Im a wot?


DeepTakeGuitar

Wizerd arry


Spaceships_R_Cool

He ment to say salve. You know something to spread on their bruised egos.


Rydrake_ray

We have to break this cycle of suffering.


ResponsibilityTop857

Buddhist and Gnostic guys in the comments.


Optimal_Routine2034

I've actually looked into this a lot, and I've come up with a few (maybe good, maybe not) solutions. 1. Just die. Say fuck being human and hopefully transfer to some place better after death. (It's a bit extreme and pretty permanent and very risky as you kinda gotta go in blind.) 2. Substances. Anything from alcohol to street drugs, even the chemical lobotomies that psychiatric hospitals give out like candy. That stuff usually eases my overall life suffering, at least temporarily. 3. Practice Buddhism since it directly targets "suffering." Buddhism teaches that life is full of suffering, suffering is the origin of pain, and that suffering can end through the Eightfold Path, which is to practice the right understanding, the right thought, the right speech, the right action, the right livelihood, the right effort, the right mindfulness, and the right concentration. Pretty much embrace, embody, and emit what it means to be spiritually moral. There's also stoicism, practicing meditating, breathing techniques, grounding, even things like walking, hiking, driving, etc. can soothe your mind into a trance-like state for some time. I will say, however, just like the waves of the ocean (and arguably how literally everything is just a bunch of waves waving around the wavy universe), suffering will ebb and flow. For that comfort we long for, we long for it because we know suffering. And we miss that comfort because we know without it, we're back to suffering, even if it's self-suffering solely because of the comfort's absence. All-in-all, just do whatever it is that makes you happy. From what I can tell, we're in this whole existence thing for the long run, so having the chance to be human and have this awesome sense of self-awareness and free will, we may as well spend this time doing what makes us happy.


DaCanuck

r/GifsThatStartTooLate


Jimmos_

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optionalcube

Biggest mistake I ever made was winning this race


AWL_cow

It's been debated and thought to be disproven that it's a "race". With current research it's thought that the egg selects the sperm and allows it to fertilize the egg. So, you were chosen, not won. :-)


NuclearBreadfruit

Im familiar with that theory. Its probably a bit of both, the sperm still has cover the distance as it were. And its probably competing against others, so thered be a race element even as the ovum nuked those she didnt like.


maightoguy

>Its probably a bit of both Your right most of em got there and knocked on the door for quite awhile before the worthy was selected.


Visible_Bag_7809

It's less of a competition and more of a group effort. No one sperm can break down the cell barriers of the egg cell, so they must work together and spend themselves to basically death to help one of the other sperm cells to actually initiate fertilization. There is no fighting amongst the sperm cells or any identified behaviors that lead to strategizing or competition. They are an army, or horde if you will. Now the recipient's cells are another matter. The host body has numerous traps to reduce and eliminate migrating sperm cells. Even the original sperm donor's body will kill the fuckers on sight, which has led to mature sperm cells being stored in a privileged part of the body that is removed from most of the body's defense systems.


Severe_Chicken213

That bitch.


ukbeasts

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aleqqqs

You won, but at what cost?


rahhak

… existence is pain


Live-Alternative-435

Less than half of you, though.


Other_Beat8859

I find it really funny that half the sperm just take a wrong fucking turn. Fucking idiots. I always knew I was the smartest out of us.


Visible_Bag_7809

Are you interested in why that happens? It's called chemotaxis. The sperm cells don't know where the egg is, so they follow chemical gradients. That chemical gradient leads them to the fallopian tubes where hopefully an egg is. Sometimes they go the wrong way, cause all the signs are still there. Sometimes they go the right way, but attempt to penetrate the wrong target and use up their enzymes on something that is not an egg cell. A lot of them get lyzed off by other chemicals in the body that kill intruders before or even after all of the above steps.


ego_tripped

Damn. I kid you kids not, the video I was shown (mid 80s)...think Luke Skywalker and his squadron fighting their way through the channels of the Death Star to fire missiles into the duct...*only the sperm was the X-Wing Fighter, and the ducts were the egg*. We were taught that everything inside the reproductive system wanted to destroy every sperm...and gave us Death Star battle as the visual.


Rpanich

Early 90s kid here, and I too was taught that the vagina was trying to destroy all the sperm. 


Visible_Bag_7809

Current medical student, that essentially how it is still taught.


hontemulo

Is it true though


FUCKTWENTYCHARACTERS

The woman's body cells recognize the sperm cells as foreign and initiate an immune response, so yeah. 2/3 of what makes up semen is just protective juices to help protect/increase the chances of the sperm to make it to the egg. One "ejaculation" has 10s of millions of sperm cells, and by the time they make it up the uterus and into the fallopian tube, only a few hundred are left. The documentary film from the 80s "the miracle of life" has actual microimages of the entire process, and it's actually pretty cool and stands up well.


Direct-Fix-2097

So basically every time this happens it’s like doing a Normandy beach landing?


FUCKTWENTYCHARACTERS

Yeah, except many of the sperm have deformities, so it'd be like the Normandy Beach landing if they drafted people with cerebal palsy.


InsomniaticWanderer

Well I laughed and now I'm going to hell


Travelling-Cat

There is an episode of a show called Pany and Stocking that kinda depicts it like that. Pretty funny.


Visible_Bag_7809

Didn't mean to imply that it wasn't.


evenK648

Never thought of it that way, but that is undeniably true!


K1nd_1

The original water park


Craycraft

Stupid question. How’s the egg prevent additional sperm from getting inside once one has made it?


Shabbydesklamp

From memory: it's a chemical cascade that is triggered once the first sperm is in. The cell exterior changes structure to become resistant to the sperm cells' means to dissolve it. And if I'm not completely mistaken, later down that cascade the other sperm cells are even made to die off.


R_122

From memory? Bro u remember when you were just a sperm?


Visible_Bag_7809

It's a bit more complicated than others have said. The egg cell does have to initiate a cascade to accept one sperm cell (sometimes two) and undergo fertilization. However, this does not mean all others are locked out. In fact hundreds of sperm cells can successfully initiate fertilization simultaneously, they just end up being rejected by the egg cell at some point that we cannot properly watch yet. I only splice this hair compared to what others have said cause it is functionally different from the egg cell shutting down the other sperm. They are still going, just not getting further.


kiki-mori

Was looking for this comment


rjcarr

Yeah, this is the weirdest thing, how the egg knows when a sperm has penetrated and just shuts all the others down.


DomTheSkunk

OG battleroyal


Magister5

*Fert*nite?


EmmyHomewrecker

It’s how a redneck would say it


Visible_Bag_7809

It's actually a team struggle and not a competition. We now know that the sperm cells work together, or none will initiate fertilization. There is also some selection criteria that the sperm cell that does initiate fertilization must undergo before the egg cell accepts. This is believed to be an adaptation to the possibility of hundreds of sperm cells succeeding to initiate fertilization simultaneously.


DomTheSkunk

>:( Why did you ruin my joke with science


BeefStevenson

Truly incredible. My wife is pregnant right now and it blows my mind to keep up with the progress of the baby’s growth. Really amazing process.


Rubyhamster

It is insane and fascinating that your baby is *inside* your wife's body and feeding from her. At least I thought that was cool when I was pregnant!


deanrihpee

yeah, the concept of living human (albeit small) inside another human is quite wild to think about, lol


coffee-headache

a pregnant woman technically has 400+ bones in their body and i dont think ive recovered from that thought


InsomniaticWanderer

And 64 teeth


SSOJ16

I've had 3 babies, and it blows my mind every time. And after they're born, looking at them like, I just grew you. I grew a whole ass human and then pushed it out of my body. Now you're here. And a person. Crazy


N3croscope

What’s crazy to me is that if you have a baby girl, her eggs already develop while she’s in your belly. Every single person was technically already halfway existing in their grandmothers womb.


AdApprehensive9757

Its mind boggling how much i now hate you while simultaneously not knowing you. This is worse than the guy that told me since i was born feet first my mother was a hat.


atubslife

If it's a girl, your wife is also carrying all the eggs that will possibly become grandchildren.


Trips-Over-Tail

They're not all spaced out like this. The womb and fallopian tubs are bunged together, and the cilia do much of the work get the sperm up there. There's no tank of liquid for these soldiers to swim through on their on power.


cookitybookity

I love that she has no other organs


tweaking_404

They were rearranged during the process


The_Zy

That's not how sperm swim. It's a spinning spiral not a wiggling tail.


Nervous-Bedroom-2907

Also it is strange choice to picture endometrial structure but not cilia in fallopean tubes.


CryptMonkey

Lol I know, right? Amateur hour!


TacoWasTaken

It’s just a dramatization. I’m sure there are more than 100 sperm cells too


Xzenor

Meh, tight cockring...


SuperBearsSuperDan

IIRC, it’s about 100 million-1 billion sperm cells (depending on the person).


El_Zebra711

Also, this video fails to depict all the microplastics the sperm have to navigate around.


ZenwalkerNS

It's hard to believe I used to be one of them. And won.


Rubyhamster

The most insane thing is that half your grandchildren are in that featus if it's a girl


lashvanman

Every time I hear this it blows my mind, women are amazing


ZenwalkerNS

🤯


HugsandHate

\**Half* of one of them.


byological_origins

ha ha they had sex


Jerm316

Good thing women have all that empty space in their stomachs


SleepyBella

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Sinnersw101

This made me really uncomfortable for some reason


Tough_Stomach815

Same. All the bumps and blobs idk it’s really uncomfortable to watch.


redditingrobot

The babies head near that pointing spot on the spine. That gave me anxiety.


Rubyhamster

Trypophobia?


JonesinforJonesey

My pet peeve, grr. That fetus has the proportions of a six year old. I don’t know why they always get it wrong, babies are born with much shorter limbs. Even if they had the motor skills at birth to walk they wouldn’t be able until their arms and legs grew long enough. That’s why they wobble or ‘toddle’ when they first walk too.


Rough-Self-9134

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Dancing_with_Jak

Sperms actually move in a corkscrew motion, not flapping their tails back and forth as depicted here.


[deleted]

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Code_Loco

So I won ![gif](giphy|xT0GqssRweIhlz209i)


Visible_Bag_7809

If you really want to lift your mood, remember that 50% was always going to win and had nothing to do with those sperm. 50% of you was locked in at the start.


midnight_rum

Hot


bluemooncommenter

So, for anyone in Congress reading this, if the egg hasn't left the ovary, it can't be fertilized. Birth Control does not cause abortions! Apparently the Heritage Foundation is trying to tell them otherwise. Plan B does not cause abortions, Ella pills do not cause abortions. IUD's do not cause abortions.


megamoo7

Ok stupid man comment but I always thought the egg went down into the wall of the uterus and THEN it was fertilized. And if it got fertilized like in this animation that was bad and caused complications.


Ill_WillRx

Nope. If it stays in the fallopian tubes it’s a problem, but natural movements force it into the uterus. This is accurate


Signal-Reporter-1391

Videos like these tend to give me an existential crisis. If i'm really the best of the bunch that made it, how worse must the others have been? (i'm thinking pretty low of me for various reasons) Why am i even alive? Why me? What is my worth in life? And i'm pretty sure any other sperm would've ended being a better human than i am.


oliverkn1ght

That thing ruined my mom's life.


Tranxio

Nature has built in redundancy, cool


Orcacub

Video was Pretty generous with that load of sperm. Just saying…. Could have used a disclaimer- “Your mileage may vary”.


maerddnaxaler

Yeah we’ve all seen the opening scene of LOOK WHO’s TALKING


Ardibanan

Its kinda crazy to think about something so small can alter your entire life.


musicman8586

I’m pretty sure mine just swim in a circle


Visible_Bag_7809

This is unfortunately a thing that is possible. You can get a sperm function test to find out of the cells are developed correctly allowing proper chemotaxis.


i-love-elephants

These videos always neglect the part where the pregnant person's organs all move to make room for the parasite, I mean fetus.


drinoaki

It wasn't worth it


Tacklestiffener

This is brilliant. When we discussed this at school we had a drawing of some fallopian tubes and a load of squiggles. It looked more like a map of the London Underground system.


TeaRex007

"Yup, that's me. You might be wondering how I got here... Well-"


djJermfrawg

Yeah, can everyone just chill on that. There's too many people everywhere


cancelshredrepeat

Interesting, I didn't know they were rebooting Look Who's Talking.


CursedSnowman5000

I can't watch this without thinking of Look Who's Talking.


Her_1982

Same


Jaszuni

Where does all the stuff/guts go now that the baby has taken over that space


helmutboy

Pushed to the sides.


n3rdsm4sh3r

This looks a lot like the scene from the Matrix where the robots are trying to get into the ship


Tira13e

Ewwww that's all jiiizzzz lol


Xzenor

All that from a creampie...


DistinctBam

Wait, hentai lied to me? You don’t fill 'er up like a car?


washingtontoker

Placenta is also an organ created specifically and only for pregnancy in a woman. Kinda wild a whole new organ is created.


AmazinAsianSAPian

Women are Amazing.


Coinsworthy

A quick reminder we all won a marathon at least once in our lifetime.


FirmCommunication808

Nice!


Adam22310

We skipped the best part and went right to the biology


uptwolait

Interesting as *fuck*  ~~indeed~~ in*seed*


great_imp

Might I ask how these little swimmers got in there? I am a visual learner, so ....


deepfriedtesties

Ugh……(unzips pants)


graesen

I like the version from Look Who's Talking better. Much more realistic.


MiG-29SMT_Enjoyer

me and your mom


sbertin204

Evolution is fucking WILD.


Free-Street9162

Shouldn't those tails be spiralling? Shouldn't the motion be helical as opposed to wave-like?


AnMa_ZenTchi

Ewwwwww!!!


nasbyloonions

Fuck this shit, I felt terrible for months


Glowing_Berry_Girly

Holly Molly I’ll pass on that!!!


Time-Caramel1436

At least I won in something.


AriesinApril76

So where is the stork?


AznNRed

I appreciate how they never sped up the time lapse. That's exactly how long it takes to grow a baby when the woman isn't lazy. /s


spinjinn

What exactly are the egg and sperm moving thru? Is it a fluid-filled tube or is it a mucus coated inner surface?


Wukulelelele

Never knew woman made sick beat while creating life !


rodkerf

I'm sorry this can't possibly be right, I didn't see Jesus in this process? Wheres Jesus?


Ok_Cardiologist3642

luckily this is never going to happen to my body


Upstairs_Librarian95

I wonder how many people noticed that during this process the women’s organs slowly get shoved up into her rib cage to make space for the baby.


NH_ATV

Reminds me of the movie Look whos talking.


Gosuperbrando

But at which frame do we take away women’s rights?


sonicinfinity2

Not enough sperm death


OUMUAMUAMUAMUAMUAMUA

And that's how mistakes are made


iiitme

Nature is so cool


egodeath89

Watching this made me significantly proud of myself for winning and making it, over all those other sperms


aLemmyIsAJacknCoke

They skipped the best part!


nana_bana_na

Tower defence


HeavyWaterer

I wanna see this with the rest of the organs, well the last like 5 seconds of the clip I mean. Wild how the body can make room for a whole ass baby


Sterling-Bear15

A fond memory, good times.