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Hi Noel
I am absolutely unsurprised that a decent hunk of Noel's fan base is into taxidermy and bones
Count me out but you guys do you
It definitely makes sense but I will not be partaking
I am one of these people. I look at it as a piece of natural art and if you process specimens either skulls, wet specimens, or mummification it is also a way of respecting and recycling something that would not get used otherwise.
i did not think i would get on here today to see noel roast the shit outta my only hobby lmaooo
seriously I just went to an oddities fair recently. got a toad coin purse/bag, best condition I've seen. I also just jarred some dead wasps I found at my cousins house during Easter
I really thought I learned my lesson about eating and watching Noel’s videos
thank you for reminding me i just made ramen ill b back in 20
literally everytime i think it might be fine and nope
Lmfaoo right 😭
thank you for the warning omg
Haven’t eaten in 3 days so this shouldn’t be a problem
“I thought there would be a Shopify store, or at least an Etsy store for human skin.” - Noel
the bottle the person with the “wet specimen” rat was in is from Michaels. I’d just imagine going to Michaels and being like “hmmm I wonder what bottle I want to put this dead rat in.”
I literally work at Michael’s and would have never thought that someone would use it to hold a dead rat 😂😂😂 thanks for pointing that out lmao
I’ve actually gone to Michaels specifically for this
And the fact she picked the heart shaped bottle is cracking me up. Dead animal? Yeah that deserves an uwu heart bottle!
@@rexana_rexana it was prob their pet
Well, it's not like there's special stores that sell dead thing jars...
Noel looks 50% high and 50% like he’s about to cry
And I’m 100% here for it
It is 4:20
Yeah my guy definitely just woke up😂😂
Happy 4/20 💚💚
Pretty sure he’s just filming first thing in the morning.
you dont smoke, then lol
You look like you’re on the verge of tears
I would be too if my TikTok videos did better than my passion projects
He just might be
isnt he
I feel he's high af 🥴
Hit the blunt too hard
Most “human” leather is actually just sheep or pig. Usually people like to claim that scraps like that are from bookbinding, but actual human skin books are incredibly rare, there are only around 20 books in the world that are scientifically confirmed to be made of real human skin.
3 weeks late ik, but ask a mortician has a very cool video on human-bound books!
As a biologist, it was so funny to watch this because every time you said "who? Why?" I was like, me. I'm the person who likes specimens, ethically sourced specimens are important especially butterflies since most of them are endangered species. Weird I know, I like to collect interesting skull specimens because I use them for education at my job. Weird stuff for little weird biologists.
Lol geology major same, it would be a tad difficult to analyze the anatomy of a bee while it's still alive
That’s your job so that’s cool & educational lol
I want to go into biology! You don’t have to relay your personal information, but can you give me any advice for going into my studies? How to find a hands on career I enjoy and can live off of!
I’m curious as to what an ethically sourced animal or insect is :v like what makes its death ethical /gen
Yea im 19 and I've always been blown away by preserved animals even the most disgusting ones I just want to have a collection i don't know why
"Bone-in stuffed animal"
I laughed so violently at that statement it scared my cat on the other side of the room
I was looking for this
Owning “human products” is pretty effed up. There’s people selling that shit who definitely just robbed a grave or worse posting on FB saying its “ethically sourced, trust me bro”. It gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
yeah, and it puts the whole group that they share that on at risk. Unless they both have a permit to sell and own, it sucks. I don't even think it's grave robbing, it might be worse... exports from china, prisoners and shit.
theres tonnes of discourse about it. lots of creepy black market shit out there, and also a lot of older educational scientific specimens (which are popular in the community) are made from the bones of enslaved people. and plenty more weird shit ofc
the thing is most older human "products" (irks me to call it that lol) are most likely made from former slaves and indigenous people
there was this guy on tiktok with a human spine collection where most were probably exactly that. Spines of indigenous people who did not consent to being dug up and hung up in his weird collection
This is just tumblr drama rehashed
@@marl3ymarl3y86 ?
how is tiktok gonna allow vids of actual human leather but take down vids of full grown adults in slightly revealing clothes
I think when they say bugs are ethically sourced it means they're not members of an endangered species or collected in large enough quantities to harm local ecosystems
probably. with butterflies and moths if you wait for them to die/find them dead their wings are going to be broken. no perfect butterfly is going to be found dead, and im not sure if raising them yourself helps it
i know of at least one company that sells butterfly art which is made of butterflies they raise in a conservation and collect once they die. idk how ethical it is but i know that's at least one version of the 'ethical' label
@@marvinsanders7930 is say that’s pretty ethical. the insects are allowed to live full natural lives without having to worry about predators or having enough food. it sounds like a pretty decent life.
When people are talking about ethics in respect to the trading of dead animals & animal parts, it usually means the specimen is not an endangered species or otherwise poached/collected illegally. It's a really big deal in insect mount trading because people are poaching endangered insects from the wild.
I used to work at a nature center that had a decent sized collection of taxidermy. All ethically sourced native species. However, nothing prepared me for the freezers full of all the “To be taxidermied” specimens that we had in the basement lol. Had to put a few birds or raccoons in there occasionally. Desensitized me to dead animals pretty quick.
But if you wanna see really cool wet specimens, look up diaphonized wet specimens. Really cool stuff.
YES diaphonized wet specimen are so cool!
I hear for those who have to cremate kittens, you go from gently lying them down in the furnace to wallopping them against the back of it pretty quick
@@braidena1633 outta pocket bro. what do you gain from that
i can smell the basement from here--
Lmao, my elementary school used to have a wall full of taxidermied dead birds, squirrels, beavers etc. They had to throw them out cause it got made illegal where i live
As someone who is doing their honours on insects in art, I can say people do get very passionate about ethical sourcing of insects for taxidermy or whatever. Theres like whole procedures about where you get your insects and generally killing the bugs yourself is frowned upon. Most of the time they come from bug farms which honestly just sounds super weird
well, pinning wild specimens is a requirement if the ones making the collection want them for research, but from experience even them are very badly criticised. Which I understand. I've had people ask me to send them bugs from my country and be surprised when I ask them for research paperwork tho, so fake researchers do exist.
WHY ARENT THERE HORROR MOVIES ABOUT BUG FARMS ?!
I'm an entomology major right now in college, and it's required in many of my classes to create bug collections (of bugs we collect and kill ourselves). We've been warned that we need permits to collect in certain areas, but killing the bugs isn't frowned upon at all?
@@ebonyalexis32 There are! "La nuée" for example.
@@jamiebeach1881 God that must make life so much easier. I dunno if the difference is like a discipline thing or a country thing? (based off your reply im guessing you're probs not in Australia) but I know that if I tried to collect a bunch of bugs and killed them for my project my Uni's ethics board would probs just murder me on the spot lol
I do think there's more of a stigma around using dead creatures for art vs. for like study and whatnot but idk if anyones really looked into that
my mum found a butterfly in the backyard and was taking photos because she could get really close and it wouldn't fly away. she showed my dad and he informed her... it was dead. i saw the butterfly and the idea popped into my mind to put it in a frame, ive never done this before, but now there is a dead butterfly inside a frame on my shelf. it looks cool and i can appreciate the beauty of life up close and honour this pretty butterfly after it had passed away. thats my experience
I have several framed butterflies as well
A hoodie made of Noel would just be a RL NFT
*an (this dude edited it after i said that u guys r so slow)
The internet has rotted the brains of today's generation
@@nataliev846 ur literaly wrong Nat
😭😭
@@bunkerjoe2226 Can you funge human leather?
This reminds me of a guy I talked to for a couple weeks who told me that he has a taxidermized pheasant that he not only shot and killed himself, but also ate the meat of, posted up in his bedroom. As weird as that sounded to me, I was brutally curious as to what it looked like, but I never got a chance to see it.
When you phrase it like that, it sounds like an "every part of the buffalo" approach. Ngl I'd probably be proud of that too if I were him
@@PBthesquirrel Yeah, it's weird to me because I don't have a personal interest in hunting, but I can see how it's cool!
You def are considering taxidermy-ing something or someone.
Just curious, is it uncommon where you live for people to hunt? Where I'm from its wierder to have taxidermy that you DIDN'T shoot and eat
@@KaylaGillery yeah, I dont like hunting either. In fact, I have only held a gun once (for like 10 seconds, didnt even shoot) and it gave me so much anxiety. But hey, to each their own
every video from noel is just a "try to continue eating dinner" challenge
I lost
I'm scared of myself for the level of immunity I've developed towards these kinda things, I've been having a good breakfast while seeing Remi floating in his windex hotub
my taxidermy rat is called remy lmao
@@indiugh 💀💀
"Windex hot tub" I was not supposed to laugh, but I did 💀
Today in my vet science class I learned that all of the catalogs that have horse bridles and use horses as models are actually all taxidermy. Imagine doing that with people
Definitely not wholly true but I’m sure it has been done
@@Sarah-rf2fr well a lot of them are. All is a bit of an overstatement
i love how much this comment solidifies in my mind that you are a true fan of noel's lmao
I'm not sure where exactly you're getting your education,but most product ads having to do with horse tack in probably the past 10 years have all been living models that are just edited photos. Ie dover, smartpak, Stateline to name the big suppliers all use living models.
@@Nik-gc9vl i guess the ones that my teacher showed me were older, but she told us that they were all taxidermy.
i actually like taxidermy and i do it myself too, i care about the insects being ethically sourced because killing animals just to make an art project out of them is disgusting to me, but yeah i think taxidermy is cool and i wish more people saw it as an art form and not a creepy hobby for psychopaths
@@onelusciouslad7841 i challenged a moose to a battle to the death. Our eyes locked and a mutual understanding was reached. I won. But in the final moments that we shared together, a bond was formed. He was a warrior and I am forever grateful to have shared the battlefield with him. I taxidermied his corpse to keep not as a trophy, but as a reminder to always be relentless in my pursuits. I learned a lot that day. Until we see each other again my friend. I miss you everyday
@@onelusciouslad7841 people dont hunt for “art”, people hunt for food. And if they happen to get an impressive kill of a large one they might want to keep a piece of it to remember it.
Ive been interested in taxidermy but people already find me weird so I don't want to tell anyone that lol
@@theDeathangel76 your comment has consumed my mind completely. ever since ive read it, it has been all i can think about. astonishing. hats off to you
@@soldemers7809 Yeah- but I don't think people can eat and taxidermy an insect... She isn't talking about hunters but about people like Hirst who straight up kill animals JUST for the art project. Sometimes, you aren't being personally attacked.
Wet Specimen is a sick band name.
did y’all know if you have an old piece of furniture from the US’s slavery days, it might’ve been made out of enslaved people’s body parts? some chairs have been found with slave hair inside of them for padding and some sofas had human leather too. it used to be hella common, and compared to using enslaved babies for crocodile bait, it was considered tame.
not that I'm doubting this sort of atrocious thing, but i've never heard of it. Got a link to an article (or just tell me a title)? ugh...that's so grim.
greatful for my poor ass latin american family
@@lostpelican1883 www.newsweek.com/furniture-restorer-finds-200-year-old-chair-filled-human-hair-slave-1622452?amp=1
Disgusted but not surprised..... a lot of things from the slavery era are straight up nightmare fuel
@@lostpelican1883 I know they did stuff like this for medicine, ie how George Washington's teeth likely contained some teeth from slaves (but were not entirely that, and likely also contained lots of ivory teeth, a mix), so it really wouldn't be impossible. However, they likely would not have killed the slaves for this, as they did pay good money to buy them.
Love this. Right up my street. I got in to taxidermy, dead things over lockdown. I have wet specimens, skulls, entire skeletons. There's a beauty in taxidermy that's like a frozen a moment in time. None of my pieces were hunted, but ethically sourced can mean various things : they were found in the woods, or stillborn, donated from zoos, sometimes roadkill, or taken (a lot with bugs) from a captive population as to not take from the natural environment.
Some wild animals are culled each year to keep the population under control in certain areas and given to local taxidermists.
Hey, fellow vulture!
yess love vulture culture !! i know a conservationist (i think thats the term/job title, but they just pick up roadkill for a living and sell the bones from it), and ive gotten some really nice bones, mostly from deer since its all from roadkill. ethically sourced bones are suuuper important imo, i literally scoured all their info and asked a ton of questions before buying. also from working at a funeral home, i know like three taxidermists. they obvi didnt taxidermy humans (noel should give them the business idea though), but i kinda find it funny that those two businesses go hand in hand almost
@@getsouped Yeah I think they do go somewhat together, we don't run from death like a lot of society does, I find death genuinely interesting, our societal ideas around it and how they change, ritual practices, the way people mourn in different countries, the biological and chemical effects of death on the brain, it's all fascinating but needs to treated with so much respect and care. I applied for a job in a crematorium once. I would have been preparing people for viewing etc and helping with services. Hoped that I could offer a person, dignity and peace at the end but I didn't get the job which I was actually really glad about. It turned out about 6 months later that the cremation manager had been cutting corners and cremated multiple individuals at the same time. I just can't get my head around that. The lack of respect. He was supposed to be the caretaker for those people in their final moments and he failed them catastrophically. The resulting ashes produced and then given to family were mixed. Just think about how that'd feel if that was your mum, child, partner etc. He gave me a big lecture in that interview about respect and it gave me weird vibes, then I read the newspaper a few months later. Jaw on the floor. Stomach in my mouth.
I once pickled a deer spine in a jar when I was a kid. I was supposed to change out the liquid after a day but was too scared to open the lid and have to smell that foul odor so I hid it in my closet for up to a year. I told no one about it. Each day was harder bc I knew it only gets more pungent from there. It was kinda like the monster in my closet.
what kid is just casually pickling deer parts in their closet?
in case noel ACTUALLY reads comments: i collect animal bones because i like animals but am not responsible enough to keep live ones. and, like religion, it helps me come to terms with death. also probably stems from childhood trauma lol. great video, noel. love your content 👏
@Nonaya Bidness sounds like something a serial killer would say
For a second I thought you meant live bones and I was like how does that work
@Nonaya Bidness pretty sure OP isn't drilling holes in people's heads. Also Dahmer didn't butcher dogs because he thought he was too irresponsible to have live ones lmao. Dahmer's rattle was literally a pail of bones and he butchered a dog's carcass. Not sure if that was his way of coping with death... I think he just liked butchering live things lol.
Collecting bones/taxidermy vs decapitating a dead dog and putting its head on a fence- kinda different energy 🤷🏾♀️
@Nonaya Bidness why even bring this up lol
@Nonaya Bidness oh for sure, liken childhood trauma to a literal serial killer. Nice work man.
my mom’s dog had puppies and one of them died, my stepdad tried to bury it but the ground was frozen, so he just put it in the trees and covered it with leaves. A year later I came across a fully intact, mint condition puppy skeleton. I named him Lazarus and I reconstructed his head and I’m working on the rest. I’d already dabbled in painting animal skulls i’d found but he’s my best specimen
Since you were curious, the insect pinups are often highly coveted and very rare. Lots of large beetles/moth species are endangered and are virtually non existent in nature. It is important to ethically source these so that hunters don’t go to remote areas and destroy what is left of natural populations. I think moths are beautiful and you should def check out some of the larger ones that I believe are art (atlas moth is one of my faves). The tik toks creators probably just share the passion for collecting insects, but in my lab we have a huge collection of native and non-native insect pinups for education. I think it’s important we are able to collect these dying beauties sustainably so that people of the future can look back on the beauty and importance insects hold.
I genuinely hope u read this cuz entomology is something I rly am passionate about!
My dad was stung by a scorpion once. It was nothing serious, but it hurt like a bitch and pissed him off. So he killed the little one and put it inside a jar full of rubbing alcohol. Then he put it on display in our living room. The people who visited our house were always a little put off by the thing, while my father loved to brag about the story. Me and my mom thought it was hilarious, so we kept the jar for years.
being so petty towards a bug, i love that. some shit i would do fr
Im so intimidated by Noel to the point where i like the video when the first ad is still on
Omg man, deadass you have the best editor on youtube, the sound effects and song bits he plays are just perfect.
Noah's the best
Noel: " I thought why don't I use my brain"
Me: wonder what that's like
as someone into "vulture culture" (you should look up that tag next time, lots of interesting stuff!) who literally used to get angry with other children for stomping out ant hills and now rescues insects with usually nothing more than my hands, this video feels like i got sniped
this is too real
If someone doesnt turn me into a wet specimen when i die i will be so pissed.
Can you make a grilled cheese sandwich tutorial?
I don’t know how
I think the most interesting 'wet specimen' I've ever seen, was diaphonized animals in jars. They look like see-through glow-in-the-dark skeletons, and they were always baby animals and fetuses.
I love diaphonized animals they’re so beautiful and so hard to do so I have made respect for people that can create those
I saw some of those in a shop in Melbourne that all sorts of oddities. A friend of mine had a preserved tattoo in glass. Was kinda cool.
I'm trying to find a course for that O: it's so cool!
When i was younger my mom had a HUGE collection of dead butterflies it kinda creeped me out but one day they all just disappeared and we’ve never talked about them again.
I dream about them sometimes..
As someone who collects dead things this was hilarious to watch, great vid Noel.
The reason I like to collect oddities is a fascination in death. I don't kill things and I don't like hurting things, but death is constantly surrounding us and it has such negative connotations. Without death we wouldn't have life and all that philosophical stuff. Collecting oddities and appreciating oddities can be scary and off-putting at times but I also see it as accepting the natural process of death.
Imagine seeing a cow falling from the sky in Philadelphia LMAOO
The Bald Man is back.
Always a good day when Noel posts
Always
I lived next door to an at-home taxadermist for a few years. Whenever I saw roadkill that wasnt all smashed up, I would text him what it is and where I saw it. One time he brought home a dead baby horse! (I didn't want to look at it, but my sister went to their house to check it out)
i’m super into oddities, have been as long as i can remember meaning like, 8 years old or so. i was a weird kid though to be fair, my dream job as an 8 yr old was to be a forensic anthropologist. always been fascinated with anatomy and the abnormal, i sound like a serial killer but hear me out. i currently only have a collection of ethically sourced insects but i definitely want to expand. i go to oddity conventions as well as any shops i can find while traveling. for me the appeal of specimens is the art of them. it takes hella work to preserve them in such a manor and i see beauty in that. but also i am just so fascinated by the story behind certain pieces, for example I met a woman who sells pieces of human brain that had alzheimer’s and you could see the physical effect it had. there’s also collections of very old medical equipment i find fascinating because of the story it tells and the history behind it.
aHH same same
Owning deadthings is dope af
I have a few taxidermied bugs and I just think they're neat
I have never personally done this but my high school science teacher had a baby deer in a jar and the jar read “pickled Bambi”
I decided to wait until I was done eating to watch this, best choice I’ve ever maid
i was looking for something to watch while eating my food but the thought of human leather is making me lose my appetite😭😭
tell me why that happened to me i deadass didn’t even finish the meal
never watch noel while eating i’ve had to learn that the hard way multiple times
Here’s the thing about things like human leather: it’s never ethically sourced. I can never trust a person who just owns human leather and doesn’t talk abt the aspect of possibly owning the skin of a black american slave, for example.
it’s wednesday and somehow noel still ruined my saturday 🤠
As someone who knows a lot of entomology majors. The bug thing depends. I'm taking an insect collection course right now, and we have to collect insects and preserve them in alcohol. Unfortunately, this means putting them in straight up ethanol and drowning them while they get super drunk. Depending on the person some collectors try to only find already dead things. Some people I know that have to collect bugs for classes take the more gentle route and put them in the freezer so they get cold and fall asleep before they die.
I wasn’t ready to hear “taxidermy grandpa” today, thank you Noel. Thank you.
hearing you transition into wet specimens and bugs made me laugh so hard because i tick every box you mentioned. i make my own wet specimens, and i have a wall thats entirely preserved butterflies. i took the time to make sure the place i bought em from was ethical 😭
Growing up with a father who was a biology teacher, it was normal to open the cabinet over the summer holiday and find his jars of wet specimens that he'd taken home for the break.
When it comes to ethically sourced stuff, it's also about preserving wildlife. These creatures are ecologically necessary to an environment and if a trend catches on where they're harvested from the wild for pretty art, it's a major problem. I only collect butterflies but I always get them from insect farms or museums/zoos, so the specimens I collect never impact the wild.
Taxidermy is way less popular these days than it was a century ago. It's not going to impact populations enough to matter. Cars are a bigger threat to whatever species you're worried about.
@@angieemm Yeah but it's still better to use farmed insects than wild caught ones imo. Some are threatened or even endangered in the wild.
I would care about ethically sourcing the bugs, but only if they are particularly rare bugs. You don't wanna see people killing endangered animals even if its just a beetle. And if this stuff got trendy it could really damage a population.
It's a way to create art out of dead things sourced ethically means you found it dead, and to add another layer of life to something that's beyond it is beautiful
I don’t own any specimens myself but I’m so used to the concept of it that I honestly forgot Noel’s surprised and confused reaction was a reaction people have to it lol
I have strong feelings towards insects like that. I love entomology and insects/arachnids and ethically sourcing is very important. Scams are possible with saying something is ‘ethically sourced’ when it’s not.
hilarious and also ludicrous to me that noel thinks the person specifying their calf was ethically sourced was in any way weird / funny / surprising
“i had to do a little bit of digging”
yeah so did she
I have all my former reptiles in alcohol jars, and my coworker (vet tech) has claimed all the interesting specimens that parents choose not to biopsy (a giant eyeball that was removed, stillborn kittens, a jar of assorted animal testicles, etc.) and I also have several preserved bugs that I found dead (a giant hercules beetle, several cicadas from the recent cicada bloom, lots of earwigs) and also the tick specimens that my vet office was so kindly sent by a company that manufactures tick/flea preventative medication. I never kill anything for my jars, but as a kid, I visited the Mutter museum in Philadelphia and fell in love with wet specs. I don't really think of it as much weirder than, say, pressing flowers.
as a collector of ethically sourced/vintage taxidermy and oddities, i really wish more people saw it as the art form that it is, and not a creepy hobby that only people that like violence or are going to turn into serial killers participate in. it's a way to honor the life that whatever animal/insect that is preserved after it's death once had, and a way to come to terms with death as well, and see the beauty in both life and death.
yes! i do taxidermy with roadkill/ dead finds/ things my cat and dog have brought me. ppl are so freaked out by it even though i make it very clear i have nothing to do with the death, i've had ppl literally call me a serial killer and cut me off because of it!
I'm sorry but I have to disagree. Not on the violent serial killer point, but on the rest of it. You are not honouring the life an animal lived. If you were, you would let it live that life then die and pass on as it should. You're telling me you'd feel honoured to have your body stuffed and put in a glass box for strangers to ogle at after you die? The beauty of death doesnt come from keeping dead bodies around, it comes from accepting the cycle of how all things live and fade away. Trying to preserve a corpse is, imo, a direct opposition to accepting the process of death.
It's been a while since I had a pure fight response to something noel has shown on this channel. The 'wet specimens' would be sent flying down a football field with the touchdown kick i would deliver to them if ever seen in real life. Love it.
Is anyone else amused that the color grading of this video is so warm and friendly?
I’m real tired rn from college classes but that image of that cow getting thrown off a 30 story building had me absolutely busting up
“It’s n u t s to keep that on a shelf”
Noel talking about a taxidermy squirrel
always a special day when Noel posts
Weirdest shit I've seen was dissolved wet specimens. It was just the floating bones and skin of dead animals in jars, then they dye it and make it all colourful, putting them in fancy perfume bottles and long jars. They dissolve the innards, outer skin and it's the rest so just the skeleton and some membrane are left over.
One tiktok account had hundreds, of rats, snakes, cats, birds and insect skeletons, all in tie dye colours in fancy jars around their home.
Every time I hear a Minecraft noise (mostly the cow moo) in one of Noels videos, I get so much seratonin. It makes me so happy
I raise tarantulas (currently at 100+ species). I encase them in resin when they pass so I can continue to keep them. Tarantulas live for a long time (10-20 years) so I grow rather attached to them. In my case, I’ve raised my tarantulas from tiny slings the size of a grain of rice. So it’s kind of a point of pride to be able to show someone the 6inch long tarantula I raised even if it’s dead and in resin.
As a biologist wet specimens are the most important resource for studying animals in different stages of life and animals who have gone extinct. Darwin created a collection of wet specimens that are used to this day for medical science.
Edit: they aren’t human wet specimens it sounded like they were lol
I've thought about getting into taxidermy because my step-dad would stuff different animals and once you see what all goes into it, it's less creepy and serial killer-y, and more artistic lol... there's a thin line between a lifelike mount, and a mutilated puppet thing. Although it's always strange seeing dead animal bodies inside the freezer next to pizza boxes
I have a bee in resin in a little jar with moss and fake flowers in it on my desk. The woman that I bought it from found the bee on her driveway and wanted to preserve how beautiful he was. I love to see things like this! Something about it speaks to me!
We’re gonna make a bus seat outta your leather Noel
My first thought when clicking this video:
“All tik tok accounts are creepy though?”
“bone-in stuffed animal” is the best way to describe taxidermy
It started around 3rd grade, I got a turtle shell, it smelled horrible. I also got a bunch of butterflies in frames, a scorpion, and then a baby alligator skull, then another baby alligator skull. Then when I was about 11 my sister took me to a literal shop full of those things. Full of jars of dead things and I didn’t want to leave. I don’t own any of that now but this video reminds me of when I was a creepy child. Thanks Noel
Oh I had a case full of beetles too, forgot to mention. I would poke them with like needles just to hear the crunch. I just remembered I did that and now I’m questioning my sanity
I feel seen watching this video from you! I'm not into taxidermy made to look like it's alive but I do have skulls that I make art into and am looking to get more into it to freak people out who aren't on the same wave length as me. When I see a cool oddity I feel like a kid on its birthday 🎂
noel being more edgy is my kinda noel. he never goes to far but its so funny
I've been fascinated by oddities for years, I have my own collection of little dead things and I like to take macro shots of dead animals. A big part of it for me is being able to observe an animal so incredibly up close in a way that you would never get to when the animal is alive, really getting to take in the full beauty and intricacy of creation.
the reason people have strong feelings towards artists saying they ethically source their insects is because more often than not they’re lying especially when their specimens are in such good condition. most insects don’t age well when they die from natural causes. So it’s mostly the blatant lying because in the hobby it’s more common to have specimens bred to be framed.
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Agreed
Since we're being weird, noel you've got nice teeth. I felt I should comment on it.
This reminds me of that gravedigger, Anatoly Moskvin. That’s a bewildering search for anyone that hasn’t heard of him 😅
In my biology class, my teacher has all of these Jarred oddities. They're not even hers, it's all from the previous teacher. My favorite is this little board that has butterflies on it
This video just confirms that TikTok was a mistake
whoa whoa whoa not so fast. It has allowed weirdos to out themselves so we know who they are and we can keep our distance :]
Ed Gein would have thrived on Tik Tok
I’ve heard the term “Curiosity Cabinets” used before for like a place to store bones, various forms of taxidermies, pinned bugs, and other very strange oddities of the sort. I have a pal who has one and their prized specimen is a taxidermied baby duckling.
Happy 420 Uncle Nole hope ur blazing today
I actually had a roommate that had a “wet specimen” of a deer fetus. He had a jar that sat on our mantle and even a picture of himself holding it when he was a baby… creepy, but we all thought it was funny.
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I actually get taxidermy, I couldn’t do it myself but on a scientific level it’s pretty cool. The best vets in the world are probably like that lol they’re not afraid of it. Also it’s kind of like how everyone used to live before food was readily available to buy, and people hunted to feed themselves.
my mom used to work at a pet store in her early/mid twenties; she really loved the bugs and she told me they got a tarantula one day and she got to watch it like shed its skin- ironically this shedding happened where the skin was like intact afterward and she decided to scoop up this dead skin tarantula that looked real, put it in a plastic tub and kept it i think to even today- so from like mid 90's to now. used to freak me out as a child
noel playing his song "rat race" at the end of a video about dead rats is really the icing on the cake for me
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maybe its time to actually ban tiktok this time…
I collect bones and preserved insects, would love to own some vintage taxidermy one day too. Just bought an otter skull from a local shop :) I don't do it for any deep reasons I just think they''re neat and I want to live in a natural history museum. Also as an entomologist, count me as someone who really cares about insects, so ethical collection matters a lot to me. Mostly in the sense of reducing stress to the bug and making sure nothing is endangered etc.
My girlfriend is a professional nerd (scientist) and she says it’s actually bad to not ethically source bugs since it can fuck up the biodiversity to just kill a bunch of a species and other boring stuff so yeah that’s why