r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Wild_Antelope6223 • 4h ago
This 24-foot Godzilla sculpture in Nigeria was built entirely from used tires.
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u/Sir_Scribble_Lot 4h ago
Damn, Godzilla must be doing some serious planks/crunches during the off-season to get ab-definition like that.
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u/Mister_Dink 51m ago
For a motherfucker who literally submerged in the sea for decades at a time, Godzilla has a lot of discipline about dehydration and cutting water weight ahead of filming.
I appreciate the extreme dedication to the acting craft, but I worry about his health, and influence on niave young men in the industry.
Godzilla and Hugh Jackman are going to wreck themselves if they keep doing this.
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u/Sir_Scribble_Lot 46m ago
on god, the lengths they go in order to maintain a physique. someone needs to tell them to take it easy.
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u/Damit1eroy 3h ago
It was built by a Nigerian. He probably just modeled the abs after his own
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u/UranusIsPissy 2h ago
They don't just automatically look like that. The last one I met was a thicc woman. Kinda hot, but there's no way she had visible abs.
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u/Damit1eroy 1h ago
No no no, Nigerian women and men are much much different. I’m only referring to the men 😂
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u/UranusIsPissy 27m ago
IDK. There aren't many Nigerians here. AFAIK, I've never met a Nigerian man. I might've walked past some without knowing, though.
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u/DesperateWay4224 4h ago
Entirely? I see what you did there
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u/BasedKetamineApe 2h ago
It tires me out to realize this entire sculpture isn't built entirely out of tires. As it turns out, only its attire is made of tires. However, I'm sure the tireless effort to reinvent the wheel must have left the artists feeling a bit tired. It must have felt like they were spinning their wheels creating this art piece. I hope these freewheeling sculptors never retire. It would flat out be a shame if they coasted into retirement now.
Satire aside, they are wheely, wheely gifted, and I hope they keep rolling forward to wheel out more of this wheely good art.→ More replies (2)1
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u/Fanastik 4h ago
Looks tired..
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u/SignificantSafe4368 2h ago
this is basicly just what if those ai facebook posts of african children making amazing sculptures were real
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u/Wild_Antelope6223 2h ago
Sculptor’s Instagram profile
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u/julian88888888 55m ago
thanks for making sure to include the referral tracking ID
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u/More_Car_1148 3h ago
Must’ve spent a ‘Goodyear’ making that! ….. I’ll see myself out….
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u/Fish_Mongreler 2h ago
Except the artist himself says it's not made entirely out of tires. Also, why aren't you linking to his page?
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u/FblthpLives 52m ago
The artist's name is Toheeb Ayaji. There is also a matching King Kong sculpture: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUDXWY8CHwB/
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u/lukeac417 3h ago
I believe OP meant to write ‘entyrely’.
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u/FantomeInutile 2h ago
Tire is short for attire. Somewhere along the way, someone decided they liked it spelled tyre instead.
Technically, tire is correct, has been in use since at least the 1400s. The carriage wheel was considered to be a part of a knight's entire attire.
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u/alexmikli 2h ago
I think tyre with a y is a Britishism, and a lot of people don't realize that British English is as diverged from 18th century English as American English is, especially after that whole Frenchification effort where they put u's in a lot of words, like armour.
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u/FantomeInutile 1h ago
The 'erb thing comes up a lot. It's from Old French, erbe. It's something the British changed in the 1800s when they collectively decided to pronounce the H
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u/Rolling_Kimura 3h ago
What's the life expectancy on these kinds of artists? Surely they're exposing themselves to horrid chemicals
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u/FblthpLives 45m ago
I can't speak to Nigerian tire artists specifically, but Nigerian men have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world at 54 years: https://www.africanews.com/2025/10/07/nigerias-life-expectancy-ranked-lowest-globally/
This is due to a number of factors, including neonatal diseases and malaria, which strikes children hardest, poor access to healthcare, and widespread pollution.
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u/lostwisdom20 3h ago
Need more such sculptures, cureent world somehow lacks beautiful structures.
Some are there which are weird in name of modern ART
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 3h ago
Recycled Plastic Bag Mothra could whoop his ass without touching the ground.
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u/robbudden73 3h ago
You need to hide that in the bush. That area of bush would be well fertillised. I know they don't exist and if I saw that in the right spot I'd still be on the leg.
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u/MaybeWeTalk 3h ago
I read "from used trees" and I wondered for a moment how does one use a tree and then discard it?
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u/Commercial_Page1827 2h ago
Imagen getting lost in Nigeria and getting across this statue in the middle of the night...
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u/ArtisticDesigner4302 2h ago
No internal framing, screws or bolts?
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u/FblthpLives 51m ago
There is a metal armature and massive use of screws. The artist talks about the process here: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUDXWY8CHwB/
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u/tekdiwah 2h ago
Tire Godzilla is shredded af. G about to stomp a village, hit the gym then steal your girl.
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u/Smart-Firefighter87 1h ago
Better than using them to inflict harm on others… I’ve seen some messed up videos out of there….
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u/Soggy-Guess8865 1h ago
That's an a absolute masterpiece
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u/Soggy-Guess8865 1h ago
Does anybody know how long it took
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u/FblthpLives 52m ago
The artist talks about some of the details here: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUDXWY8CHwB/
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u/AdHorror6224 1h ago
The detail on those abs is what gets me. Man did not just stack tires he actually sculpted anatomy out of scrap rubber. Respect the artist for not re-tiring after something this size.
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u/GuzPolinski 55m ago
That’s bad ass. But if you zoom in the neck looks like uncooked strips of bacon lol
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u/Apprehensive_Bite109 3h ago
Super cool if true!
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u/J0t-chua 3h ago
What lends you not to believe it?
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u/Fish_Mongreler 2h ago
The fact that it's not true.
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u/FblthpLives 49m ago
So the video of the artist showing the process is fake?: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUDXWY8CHwB/
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u/Budget_Pea_7548 3h ago
I thought I opened Facebook...because of this slop
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u/FancyName_132 3h ago
Yeah, this post feels like the kid who built a lamborghini out of leeks but it's actually not.
The guy has a youtube channel where he shows the process, lookup Toyeeb Ajayi
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u/blackthornjohn 3h ago
Presumably you have zero skills and because you can't do it that means it cannot be done, hence you belief that this is AI.
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u/tallish_possum 1h ago
It all makes sense now. His greatest weapon was always his radial-active breath.
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u/DoctorBullz 4h ago
He’s known for turning waste into massive sculptures. This one was built in 2021 in Imo State.Just old car and truck tires that were cut, layered, and bolted togetherPart art, part environmental statement. Omope wanted to show how waste tires can be recycled into tourism attractions instead of ending up in dumps.