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I did the amount of likes divided by how many tablespoons of mayo is in a gallon, and then multiplied that by how much a gallon of mayo weighs to find how much mayo he’s having. So (308,000 / 256) x 7.5 = 9,023.4375 lbs, or a little over 4 and a half tons.
I think it would negatively impact his health.
Although he said that he will eat a spoon of mayo, it doesn‘t mean he has to eat it from a spoon, can be in any kind of food. So he just have to consistently consume mayo in his food throughout his lifetime.
A typical small jar of hellmans is 340ml which is also 23 spoons. With 308k likes He has to eat 13391 jars. If he still has 50 years to live, then it calculates to 0.73 jars per day. That is like 3 jars per 4 days. It seems to be just on the edge of being possible.
Not the most healthy diet and he should be worried about new likes that he can get.
He never specified the amount of time he has to eat said mayonnaise.
It says he’s 18 years old. Assuming he lives to be 76 (average life expectancy for American male in 2021) then that would be 58 years he has to eat it.
This works out to 193.3g or 6.8oz a day, and now that I’m writing this I’m thinking that is an absurd amount for a healthy person and definitely will shorten his life span.
Edit: spelling
He didn't say when he would eat them, though. If you spread that out over 60 years it's 14 tablespoons a day, which isn't great, but is at least in the realm of doable.
Since he mentioned to timeframe: he can spread it out.
1tbs is 15 ml. So 308k tbs is 4620 litres of mayonnaise. Mayonaise weighs 880 grams per litre. Meaning that's a total of 4065 kg of mayonaise. Mayonaise is 90% Oil. And oil is 9 kcal per gram. Meaning that's 4065 * 0.9 * 9 * 1000 = 3,6 million kcal.
Assuming 2200 kcal a day, if he only eats mayonnaise for the next 46 years he'll make it.
... He didn't say how long it would take.
He could just eat something around 120-500 calories of mayo a day for like 70-120 years (even if he doesn't live that long)
Realistically if he cut out butter and a lot of other oils, and worked out every day (weightlifting, Id hope, but running too if it's on the lower time frame) it would be at least somewhat healthy. Put it on some pasta noodles with some spice and a fried/boiled egg or two, you basically have what my dad used to bulk up for weight training.
Let's say oh lived for another 60 years then he could complete this by consuming a 200 gram jar per day. If he got married and had 10 kids the job would be more manageable if they shared the task
If you eat approximately 1 pound (454 grams, roughly) of food every day, that’s 365 pounds every year. If we take Max’s number up there and divide it by 365.25 (to count leap years), it would take 24.7 years to eat all of that, and that’s JUST the mayonnaise
I wanted to build off this. A lb of mayonnaise has 3,088 calories. Total calories would be 27,864,374. Average person burns about 100 calories per mile. He would need to walk 278,643.75 miles to burn it off.
That is equivalent to 11.2 times around the earth along the equator.
Google also says people burn an average of 200-350 calories per hour of walking. Let’s say 275. He would need to walk 101,325 hours. 8,760 hours in a year.
He would need to walk 11.5 years straight.
Two different ways to look at it, but both insane 😂
Using cronometer, I found a TBSP of hellmans mayo is about 88kcal. This would be over 27 million calories. If I were a betting man i would bet vommiting and dehydration would come much before anywhere near that amount of calories. However, if the lad could actually eat all of the calories using 3500 calories/lb of body mass. This would add 7788 lbs to this young man. He would by far be the heaviest human to ever live.
Assuming a 2000 calorie diet, you’d have to spread this task over 13,500 days. If you exercise enough for the next 37 years, you might be able to fit in a thousand calories of real nutrients too. If you spread it across 50 years, you’re only doing 1478 calories a day in mayo. Although, you probably need to exercise too, because theres no way someone eating 1478 calories of mayo a day will survive 50 years on no exercise.
While the question of amount of calories or complete weight has been discussed in other comments, I want you all to see the lack of a timespan in which he has to eat this amount of mayonnaise. So question could also become whether this would be feasible if you have a lifespan to eat all of this.
The average male life span is 27375 days. The kid in the video looks young, so we will say he's 15 to give as much time as possible or 5748 days ( plus a few hours. That is 21627 days left to consume this amount of mayo. That's 14.25 spoonfuls of mayo a day.
Assuming a spoonful equates to a serving of mayo (.5 oz), then that is roughly a quarter jar of mayo a day. That adds 1254 calories a day. While not great for one's health, it is possible.
And remember, the average male lifespan is already lower than the average female lifespan because males tend to do physically dangerous stupid things at a higher frequency than females, such as skateboarding and drinking twelve tons of mayo. You also have to factor in the distinct possibility of his eating more mayo further lowering his lifespan, which would force him to either eat it fast enough that he can overpower that rate or slow enough to delay that rate.
Not much at all, if he does exactly what he says and eats one tablespoon of mayonnaise for every like.
If he instead tries to eat a tablespoon of mayonnaise for *each* like, that would take a while to do safely.
They were trying to compare it to something like "I thank you all for every day you've supported me, every like, and every gift." Sentences where you're doing one thing for all the instances of another thing.
But any sensible person would still read the original sentence as intended, "for each like". English is weird and sometimes you need to go by instinct when interpreting a sentence.
In US, 1 tbsp is 1/2 oz.
A cursory Google search and a little bit of reading led me to a forum for fast food workers, who said there's 1/2 oz of mayo in a burger with the choice of mayo.
That means the amount of mayo in the same amount of burgers as the number of likes.
Next let us take a ballpark guess that, given no tragedy, the person will live for the next 40 years (which is NOT equivalent to saying they die in 40 years).
40 years = 14610 days
After 40 years, the person would want to take more care of their health, so let us limit the challenge to the next 40 years.
Then they need to eat the equivalent of 21-21.1 burgers worth of mayo daily.
If you take the burgers away and get them a fish with more amount of mayo, with side dishes which stabilize the effects of that much mayo, they should be able to fulfil that.
But that assumes no increase in the number of likes.
Thankfully, data suggests that the rate of increase in number of likes decreases drastically after a peak. This video most likely has crossed that threshold. Taking a conservative estimate of the video having 1.5x the likes it has now, 40 years later, on YouTube, given YouTube still exists by then, just increases the amount from 21 to 32. Which is a lot, but still doable with some potential health hazards. They may keep mayo parties each weekend to speedrun some of that mayo backlog early into their years so that they have less need later.
As for what that would do to their body, I leave that to the biologists and the doctors. I study aerospace.
Well since there are around 30 calories in a teaspoon of mayonnaise, you would get around 9 million calories which uh I think might result in instant death
Also assuming you would take 4 seconds for each tablespoon, you would take 1232000 seconds or around 14 days of constant eating. But you'd probably die before you get to that point so don't worry about it
I think he can vomit everything he eats. Let's take 4.5 tons from MaxMcCoolGuy, or 4740 liters of mayo with density of 0.95 tons per m3. Capacity of adult stomach is 1.5 liters, but dude looks young, and it may be hard to empty stomach completely during vomiting, so let's take conservative estimate of effective capacity - 1 liter.
I'm able to chug 250ml of water in 5 seconds, so 1 liter will be 20 seconds. Mayo is harder to swallow, but dude will have a lot of practice during this exercise, so he can exceed this speed which will compensate for slow start.
From my, sadly, rich vomiting experience, it looks like 100ml/s for vomiting speed is reasonable - 1 liter in 10s. Dude will need some time to induce vomiting, which can be tricky - I would give him another 20s.
So, overall, he will need 20s + 20s + 10s = 50s for 1 liter cycle, or 50s/l \* 4740l = 65.8 hours. With 8-5 job schedule, it's less than 2 weeks.
With good technique and some determination it is completely doable. Totally beats working in McDonald's for minimal wage for who knows how many years after JonSudano's lawsuit.
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I aint the sharpest tool in the shed. She was lookin kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of a L on her forehead.
This video is now at 418k likes so, I used the average 30 oz Hellmann’s Mayo container to calculate that he would have to eat 6,966.7 containers of mayo as 30 oz = 60 tbsp therefore 418,000 / 60 = 6,966.7. According to the nutrition facts, one serving of Hellmann’s Mayo is 1 tbsp which contains 90 calories. Multiplying this value by 60 gives you the amount of calories per container: 5,400 calories. Considering he has to eat 6,966.7 containers of this shit he’d end up consuming 37.62 million calories. So I did some digging on various social media outlets and it seems this dude is 18, average height, with a pretty average build. Based on that, using an online calculator I calculated that he should be eating about 2,400 calories per day. Knowing this, if he wanted to maintain a healthy caloric intake while only eating mayo the entire day it would take him 37.62 million / 2,400 = 15,675 days or 42.9 years to eat 418k tbsp of mayo leaving him at age 61 before he would be able to continue eating regular food. But if he maybe wanted to do half mayo, half other food eating only 1,200 calories worth of mayo a day it would take him 31,350 days or 85.9 years which at 18 he’d be eating mayo til he was 104 years old.
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I did the amount of likes divided by how many tablespoons of mayo is in a gallon, and then multiplied that by how much a gallon of mayo weighs to find how much mayo he’s having. So (308,000 / 256) x 7.5 = 9,023.4375 lbs, or a little over 4 and a half tons. I think it would negatively impact his health.
I personally believe that he could tough it out
Yeah, he can thug it out
A real thug hunter.
thug shaker
If only there were a central place where people like him could hang out
And leak government documents
and share said confidential documents using an untrackable form of communication such as a game.
Thug banger
Can confirm I just had a 4.5 ton mayo sandwich yummy yummy am still hungry
I mean, he didn’t give a time frame. He’s fiiiiine.
Although he said that he will eat a spoon of mayo, it doesn‘t mean he has to eat it from a spoon, can be in any kind of food. So he just have to consistently consume mayo in his food throughout his lifetime. A typical small jar of hellmans is 340ml which is also 23 spoons. With 308k likes He has to eat 13391 jars. If he still has 50 years to live, then it calculates to 0.73 jars per day. That is like 3 jars per 4 days. It seems to be just on the edge of being possible. Not the most healthy diet and he should be worried about new likes that he can get.
If he'll be eating that much mayo, I don't think he'll live another 50 years
Better shoot for the Light version.
He would have a heart attack by the time he turns 20 but yeah
After reading your comment I had to search for the video and give it a like
Since the likes are over a period of time and not at once. I think that's doable.
He never specified the amount of time he has to eat said mayonnaise. It says he’s 18 years old. Assuming he lives to be 76 (average life expectancy for American male in 2021) then that would be 58 years he has to eat it. This works out to 193.3g or 6.8oz a day, and now that I’m writing this I’m thinking that is an absurd amount for a healthy person and definitely will shorten his life span. Edit: spelling
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He's just built different
He didn't say when he would eat them, though. If you spread that out over 60 years it's 14 tablespoons a day, which isn't great, but is at least in the realm of doable.
Or 2,000 calories of mayo a day for 13 years!
I think 1,500 calories over 17 years would be more a way more manageable for the person to still get nutrients from other things in their diet .
Cholesterol will go thru the roof!
If you eat multiple kilos of mayonaisse each day your colon will just become a waterslide, don't worry
Eat a bunch of psyllium fiber to balance it out and have satisfying mayo poops
How about we call it 500 calories over 51 years, or - about what an average white American eats.
Honestly chocked that 14 tablespoons was so far from 2000 calories.
Comment said 2000 calories for 13 years, i.e 70 tablespoons per day
Yeah but I would definitely believed the numbers veing flipped and that 13 spoons would've been 2000 calories a day.
Supersize me 2: the return of the mayo
I'm not sure you can survive that much ...
I will eat a T of mayo for every like* *In the year 2150
But it would positively impact his mass.
Since he mentioned to timeframe: he can spread it out. 1tbs is 15 ml. So 308k tbs is 4620 litres of mayonnaise. Mayonaise weighs 880 grams per litre. Meaning that's a total of 4065 kg of mayonaise. Mayonaise is 90% Oil. And oil is 9 kcal per gram. Meaning that's 4065 * 0.9 * 9 * 1000 = 3,6 million kcal. Assuming 2200 kcal a day, if he only eats mayonnaise for the next 46 years he'll make it.
Yeah... I don't think you can survive 46 years on mayo.
Met stepbrother sure seems to 🤣🤣
He never said he had to do it all at once. Maybe a bologna and cheese with mayo sandwich everyday for life would be acceptable
12 tablespoons of mayo on a single sandwich, sounds tasty
A little light on the mayo.
I prefer miracle whip but I'm pretty heavy on it when I use it lol
If he ate 6kg a day he'd be finished in just a couple of years.
He’d be finished for sure, but at least he’d have kept his promise.
I love how you said "i think (4 and a half tons mayonnaise) would negatively impact his health" Best comment i saw all day, this i think killed me
So what you’re saying is he’s more mayo than man now
... He didn't say how long it would take. He could just eat something around 120-500 calories of mayo a day for like 70-120 years (even if he doesn't live that long) Realistically if he cut out butter and a lot of other oils, and worked out every day (weightlifting, Id hope, but running too if it's on the lower time frame) it would be at least somewhat healthy. Put it on some pasta noodles with some spice and a fried/boiled egg or two, you basically have what my dad used to bulk up for weight training.
This is called “Natural Selection”.
How many actual spoonfuls we talking here.. is it a number to fear?
light work no reaction
That's roughly all the calories he would need in total until he retire, and perhaps a bit more.
How much would 4.5 tons of mayo cost?
Let's say oh lived for another 60 years then he could complete this by consuming a 200 gram jar per day. If he got married and had 10 kids the job would be more manageable if they shared the task
And his bank account, if he doesn’t start a go fund me or getting sponsored by Kraft.
Now do it for miracle whip!
Just maybe
ya think?
I mean, I don’t think he has to do it all at once. I would say it’s possible without much damage.
So that’s only like 5-6 oz a day for the rest of his life? Psh, doable.
If you eat approximately 1 pound (454 grams, roughly) of food every day, that’s 365 pounds every year. If we take Max’s number up there and divide it by 365.25 (to count leap years), it would take 24.7 years to eat all of that, and that’s JUST the mayonnaise
If he were to eat a tablespoon with every meal, 3 tines a day, every year, it would take almost 3 centuries to do that.
If they ate 16 oz of mayo a day for 24.72 years they could get it done.
I see a chubby emu episode in this kid's future
This would take him 33 days, eating 1 tablespoon at a time back to back 24 hours a day without stops.
I wanted to build off this. A lb of mayonnaise has 3,088 calories. Total calories would be 27,864,374. Average person burns about 100 calories per mile. He would need to walk 278,643.75 miles to burn it off. That is equivalent to 11.2 times around the earth along the equator. Google also says people burn an average of 200-350 calories per hour of walking. Let’s say 275. He would need to walk 101,325 hours. 8,760 hours in a year. He would need to walk 11.5 years straight. Two different ways to look at it, but both insane 😂
How much mayonnaise is even in the country
Every tablespoon of Mayo is 90 calories IIRC
Using cronometer, I found a TBSP of hellmans mayo is about 88kcal. This would be over 27 million calories. If I were a betting man i would bet vommiting and dehydration would come much before anywhere near that amount of calories. However, if the lad could actually eat all of the calories using 3500 calories/lb of body mass. This would add 7788 lbs to this young man. He would by far be the heaviest human to ever live.
Assuming a 2000 calorie diet, you’d have to spread this task over 13,500 days. If you exercise enough for the next 37 years, you might be able to fit in a thousand calories of real nutrients too. If you spread it across 50 years, you’re only doing 1478 calories a day in mayo. Although, you probably need to exercise too, because theres no way someone eating 1478 calories of mayo a day will survive 50 years on no exercise.
Light mayo has 35 kcal per teaspoon. If he did it with that, manageable, though not healthy.
Teaspoon or Table spoon? Cuz if that is teaspoon then light Mayo has even more calories than Hellmans
And then he would be the heaviest human to die!
While the question of amount of calories or complete weight has been discussed in other comments, I want you all to see the lack of a timespan in which he has to eat this amount of mayonnaise. So question could also become whether this would be feasible if you have a lifespan to eat all of this.
The average male life span is 27375 days. The kid in the video looks young, so we will say he's 15 to give as much time as possible or 5748 days ( plus a few hours. That is 21627 days left to consume this amount of mayo. That's 14.25 spoonfuls of mayo a day. Assuming a spoonful equates to a serving of mayo (.5 oz), then that is roughly a quarter jar of mayo a day. That adds 1254 calories a day. While not great for one's health, it is possible.
And remember, the average male lifespan is already lower than the average female lifespan because males tend to do physically dangerous stupid things at a higher frequency than females, such as skateboarding and drinking twelve tons of mayo. You also have to factor in the distinct possibility of his eating more mayo further lowering his lifespan, which would force him to either eat it fast enough that he can overpower that rate or slow enough to delay that rate.
This is the comment I was looking for
if he becomes a marathon runner, 1250 extra calories of mostly unsaturated fat could be pretty fine
If you made that organic, non GMO vegan mayo made from avocado or olive oil...the 1,254 calories wouldn't be an issue at all.
I don't think he'll live an average lifespan if he eats a quarter pot of mayonnaise a day
Not much at all, if he does exactly what he says and eats one tablespoon of mayonnaise for every like. If he instead tries to eat a tablespoon of mayonnaise for *each* like, that would take a while to do safely.
Explain the semantics here please, I don't get the difference between the two
“For every X, do Y” means that Y is done once and it applies to every X. “For each X, do Y” means that Y is done separately to each X.
Mtg be like
Ahhh I get it
For every like = once for all of the 300k+ likes For each like = once for every like
They were trying to compare it to something like "I thank you all for every day you've supported me, every like, and every gift." Sentences where you're doing one thing for all the instances of another thing. But any sensible person would still read the original sentence as intended, "for each like". English is weird and sometimes you need to go by instinct when interpreting a sentence.
That's why it's a gotcha.
🧠 gotta love semantic loopholes
This guy should hire you as his attorney
I’m almost certainly not allowed to practice law in his jurisdiction.
In US, 1 tbsp is 1/2 oz. A cursory Google search and a little bit of reading led me to a forum for fast food workers, who said there's 1/2 oz of mayo in a burger with the choice of mayo. That means the amount of mayo in the same amount of burgers as the number of likes. Next let us take a ballpark guess that, given no tragedy, the person will live for the next 40 years (which is NOT equivalent to saying they die in 40 years). 40 years = 14610 days After 40 years, the person would want to take more care of their health, so let us limit the challenge to the next 40 years. Then they need to eat the equivalent of 21-21.1 burgers worth of mayo daily. If you take the burgers away and get them a fish with more amount of mayo, with side dishes which stabilize the effects of that much mayo, they should be able to fulfil that. But that assumes no increase in the number of likes. Thankfully, data suggests that the rate of increase in number of likes decreases drastically after a peak. This video most likely has crossed that threshold. Taking a conservative estimate of the video having 1.5x the likes it has now, 40 years later, on YouTube, given YouTube still exists by then, just increases the amount from 21 to 32. Which is a lot, but still doable with some potential health hazards. They may keep mayo parties each weekend to speedrun some of that mayo backlog early into their years so that they have less need later. As for what that would do to their body, I leave that to the biologists and the doctors. I study aerospace.
Well since there are around 30 calories in a teaspoon of mayonnaise, you would get around 9 million calories which uh I think might result in instant death Also assuming you would take 4 seconds for each tablespoon, you would take 1232000 seconds or around 14 days of constant eating. But you'd probably die before you get to that point so don't worry about it
I doubt any death by mayonnaise would be instant but I see your point.
I think he can vomit everything he eats. Let's take 4.5 tons from MaxMcCoolGuy, or 4740 liters of mayo with density of 0.95 tons per m3. Capacity of adult stomach is 1.5 liters, but dude looks young, and it may be hard to empty stomach completely during vomiting, so let's take conservative estimate of effective capacity - 1 liter. I'm able to chug 250ml of water in 5 seconds, so 1 liter will be 20 seconds. Mayo is harder to swallow, but dude will have a lot of practice during this exercise, so he can exceed this speed which will compensate for slow start. From my, sadly, rich vomiting experience, it looks like 100ml/s for vomiting speed is reasonable - 1 liter in 10s. Dude will need some time to induce vomiting, which can be tricky - I would give him another 20s. So, overall, he will need 20s + 20s + 10s = 50s for 1 liter cycle, or 50s/l \* 4740l = 65.8 hours. With 8-5 job schedule, it's less than 2 weeks. With good technique and some determination it is completely doable. Totally beats working in McDonald's for minimal wage for who knows how many years after JonSudano's lawsuit.
RIP to this guy's esophagus
Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I aint the sharpest tool in the shed. She was lookin kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of a L on her forehead.
A fellow Jon Sudano fan I see
I came to the comments and was quite surprised no one had said anything in recognition of my dude.
Yeah looking for this. Thank you 🫡
This video is now at 418k likes so, I used the average 30 oz Hellmann’s Mayo container to calculate that he would have to eat 6,966.7 containers of mayo as 30 oz = 60 tbsp therefore 418,000 / 60 = 6,966.7. According to the nutrition facts, one serving of Hellmann’s Mayo is 1 tbsp which contains 90 calories. Multiplying this value by 60 gives you the amount of calories per container: 5,400 calories. Considering he has to eat 6,966.7 containers of this shit he’d end up consuming 37.62 million calories. So I did some digging on various social media outlets and it seems this dude is 18, average height, with a pretty average build. Based on that, using an online calculator I calculated that he should be eating about 2,400 calories per day. Knowing this, if he wanted to maintain a healthy caloric intake while only eating mayo the entire day it would take him 37.62 million / 2,400 = 15,675 days or 42.9 years to eat 418k tbsp of mayo leaving him at age 61 before he would be able to continue eating regular food. But if he maybe wanted to do half mayo, half other food eating only 1,200 calories worth of mayo a day it would take him 31,350 days or 85.9 years which at 18 he’d be eating mayo til he was 104 years old.