Twitter discourse began brewing in the lead-up to the event. It’s easy to say, “If a guy did that, he wouldn’t be my man,” when the guy in question is not your man.
And now, Twitter has discovered a claustrophobia-inducing cave diving site called “The Devil’s B*tt,” where divers have to remove their oxygen tanks to pass through a very tight squeeze.
A 2025 meme developed around the infamous case of a caving incident that went about as poorly as you could ever imagine. (Though, to note: there is a difference between exploring super-narrow cave tunnels, and going scuba diving into an underwater cave. But for now, just consider that both are very risky).
Do the words “Nutty Putty cave” mean anything to you? You’ll either immediately know what I’m talking about, or you haven’t heard the tale of John Edward Jones — an avid cave explorer and father-to-be who chose to explore a place in the Nutty Putty cave system called The Birth Canal. He got stuck in a tight wedge of the cave — upside down! — and lost his life after 27 hours, leaving behind a wife and an unborn son. It was tragic, avoidable, and an instant internet legend due to the extreme circumstances surrounding this poor fellow.
That’s where the caving memes come in. From the safety of their computer desks, memers are judging John Edward Jones and having a laugh at his expense, saying that he probably shouldn’t have gone exploring tight cave passages while his wife was super preggers. Hindsight is 20/20, isn’t it? The internet sure does love to joke about super serious things after a sufficient amount of time has passed. Plus, with all due respect to the victims, crawling into an 8x10 tunnel just for funsies isn’t relatable to most people, and they react accordingly. And the cave passages have properly intimidating names: this week’s just happens to be the particularly hilarious, on-the-nose title of “The Devil’s B*tt.” Incredible naming conventions are going on here!
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The most recent discourse around the cave diving phenomenon started with @TheFigen_’s post about The Devil’s B*tt, featuring a hair-raising video of a cave diver, sans oxygen tank, squishing themself through a very tight squeeze.
That resulted in the below QT, in which @CrocodileCam declared that this kind of behavior is unacceptable relationship-ologically. Let’s check out some of Twitter’s reactions to this statement!
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Here's what people were saying in the QT's…
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So yeah, the good folks at Twitter do not want to date all you cave divers out there! Don’t even think about it! If anything, they’re just ready to play the softly weeping widow, wiping her tears away with stacks of $100 bills, after your untimely cavey demise.
Here’s what I think these people are forgetting, though: you don’t often date someone in the long-term without knowing who they are. Their BFs, GFs, and partners probably have at least some level of awareness about the types of hobbies they hold, the thrill-seeking they embark upon, because these people aren’t tight-lipped about their goals. It’s an interesting subject to talk about, right? It might be one of the main ways these cave divers spend their weekends — either planning or going on dives.
A lot of people were saying that these divers and climbers have d*ath wishes, but maybe they just have a higher fear tolerance than most — that’s the case with Alex Honnold, actually. He’s been studied by neuroscientists, and they believe he’s a “super sensation seeker.” He’s scientifically built different, is basically what they concluded. His brain doesn’t activate the fear center the way most people’s brains would, hence his enjoyment of activities that would have most of us quaking in our boots. Honnold got his noggin studied because he’s rather famous, but presumably, there are plenty of other people who also have brain chemistry just like his. They, too, are out there giving their partners a fright, and they're probably not even breaking a sweat while they inch through the Sharp Toenail of Terror or whatever.
Things like cave diving or free soloing also not the only kind of risky activities one considers while dating. Just think about people who date firefighters, cops, even bouncers, wrestlers… the list goes on. Their day-to-day lives involve a ton of risk. Would you avoid dating someone who’s a logger, a roofer, or works in construction? Probably not. But just know that those are jobs with inordinately high fatality rates. The only reason people on Twitter aren’t complaining about that is because it’s a bit less glamorous; it’s certainly less high-profile than what these cave-divers and building climbers are doing. The results of these are public, while someone who succumbs to a logging accident would probably not have the entire internet (and Netflix viewers!) seeing it play out. Plus, working as a roofer doesn’t look scary all the time — sometimes these people are just working on a 2-story roof when an incident occurs with a tool or with a tumble off a misplaced ladder.
Much to consider! Sound off if you’ve ever broken up with or swiped left on someone because of their risk-taking tendencies. After all, Twitter has just proved that we all want to peek into the dating lives of cave divers and building climbers… and then judge them for it so hard.
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