Did you know there are people with year-old watermelons just sitting around their houses?

We sure didn’t, and we’ll admit that this video does nothing to explain why this seems normal to some. Who has the counter space for a giant, rotting fruit anyway?

When Nita Gill posted a video of herself cutting open her past-its-prime watermelon in 2016, our first question was “Why?”

Well, because it’s the Internet.

Our second question, of couse, was “how gross is this going to be?”

Gill bought the melon the previous year when she was going to carve it for a video. It was the perfect melon – green, round, and fresh. But the melon didn’t get used for the show and she and her family went on a trip afterward, leaving it behind.

The watermelon sat in her fruit bowl for a while even upon her return, and then all of a sudden she realized that it wasn’t rotting in any obvious way.

Once it was a few months old she thought to herself: “Let’s just see what happens.” Admittedly, this is not the thought we would have had.

Now, if you stopped us on the street and asked if we wanted to see what the inside of a year-old watermelon looked like, we would have to pass. But for some reason, when the video is right here, we can’t help but watch it.

Are things going to crawl out? Will it be creepily well-preserved? Will Gill try to eat it if it looks ok? (Hey, it’s the Internet, can you really blame us for asking that last question?)

Gill’s video begins with a celebration of the watermelon’s first birthday.

Ok, sure.

Gill exclaims:

“Have you ever celebrated the first birthday of a watermelon? I know I haven’t! And yes, you heard it right, I said the first birthday of a watermelon, not celebrating a first birthday with a watermelon.”

Umm, no.

To celebrate, she even shows us a photo of the melon when she got it – like a baby photo, but far more ridiculous.

As it does for all of us, the time has taken a bit of a toll on our mature melon when comparing it to it’s “baby” photo.

It has some earned some scars (ditto!), it’s a bit less heavy (though we can’t say an extra year has that effect on us), and it has changed shape a bit (ditto!).

Over 59,000 people have inexplicably watched this video over the last three-and-a-half years and we can see why by some of the comments:

“[W]ell I’m interested because I have one right now and was curious just as she is. Haven’t opened mine yet but it’s become an experiment for me as well.”

Really, more than one person?

“I have one too! I need to do a video like this. Mine is actually in better shape than yours for some reason and I’m in Arizona ha ha.”

We’re so confused right now.

And there are plenty of people who are aging melons (accidentally or not) who just haven’t reached the one-year “milestone” yet:

“I think mines 6 months it’s starting to feel a little soft and the whiter parts look yellower…im afraid to open it. Maybe i should just smash it.”

Or maybe just throw away or compost your rotten melon!

“mine was about half a year old and when i opened it was all mush.”

What a shocker.

So, why the first “birthday”?

Well, Gill noticed a bit of mold growing on it – and what better solution than to release that into your home by cutting it open with the knife?!

Here she goes?

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Source: Nita Gill via YouTube