How Ridiculous builds a paint volcano for its clothing line
The chain-whip title comes with a substantial detour: pneumatic dye blasts, UV printing and a Perth-wide hunt for flannel shirts.
Why this story? One of the most watched videos since yesterday, with 393,504 views.
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Video summary
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- 0:31Stanford introduces a pneumatic metal volcano designed to spray colour over rows of hoodies.
- 3:47The full-sized volcano's first launch produces uneven coverage, sending the team back to the mixture and pressure settings.
- 7:15An indoor experiment uses spray guns and folded shirts to create striped designs.
- 8:27Herron introduces UV fabric printing, followed by a warehouse rig involving objects, shadows and smashed furniture.
- 12:47Gaunson sends the crew around Perth to collect inexpensive flannel shirts.
- 16:21The collected shirts are cut into squares and assembled into insulated patchwork jackets.
Brett Stanford's volcano has no lava in it. Instead, the How Ridiculous contraption is supposed to fire colour over rows of hoodies, turning a field into an enormous, rather unpredictable printing workshop.
The upload drew roughly 394,000 views since yesterday. But anyone arriving for the glass-ball destruction promised by its chain-whip title should know what occupies much of the video: a behind-the-scenes look at making the team's own merchandise. It is also a promotion for that clothing line.
Stanford starts small, testing a miniature volcano before taking the full pneumatic metal rig outdoors. The first launch leaves too much clothing untouched. "This has not worked. I mean, there's some rippers, but there's a lot of nothing," he says. Thinner ink and adjusted air pressure give the next attempt better coverage.
Derek Herron takes a different route, building a warehouse "UV smash room". Chains, washers and other objects help create patterns on fabric, with furniture-smashing folded into the process before exposure under ultraviolet lights.
Scott Gaunson's project swaps machinery for shopping bags. The crew searches Perth's discount stores, op shops and warehouses for inexpensive flannel shirts, which are cut into squares and sewn into insulated patchwork jackets.
The comments reflect both sides of the upload: some viewers flag the long wait for the title's promised stunt, while others suggest still more elaborate ways to splatter clothes. One recurring idea brings the two halves together: put the giant whip to work flinging paint.
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- Channel
- How Ridiculous
- Subscribers
- 23,900,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 3,962,367
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,082,220 (on a normal day: 708,676)
- Video published
- November 6, 2026
- Video views so far
- 543,209 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 393,555 (on a normal day: 377,257)
The numbers
The video attracted a substantial audience since yesterday, although its viewing pace is close to the channel's usual level for regular uploads.
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Who comes up with the patchwork flannel project in this How Ridiculous video?
Gaunson sends the crew shopping for flannel shirts to turn into patchwork jackets.


