Watch the Most Important Livestream of 2016: Pedestrians Navigating a Puddle

Life presents many obstacles, and how we deal with these obstacles is often said to be what defines us as human beings. Well, that and laughing at each other's struggle and misfortune. So it was only a matter of time before these two elements were combined into something like #Drummondpuddlewatch, which is currently streaming live on Periscope and offering an unfiltered window into the human psyche.

Someone who works at a marketing company in Newcastle, England has set up a camera in front of what looks like one of the largest, seemingly inescapable, un-crossable puddles in Drummond Park. Everyone who has come across it so far has tried, in their own unique way, to get over it and not go another route. There have been bros brazenly doing running jumps over it, concerned-looking people using nearby foliage to climb around it, and at one point a distraught-looking elderly lady whose plan of attack was just to look at it, turn around, then look at it again, for about five minutes.

Sure, watching a puddle for hours might not seem that exciting, but it's a bizarrely compelling look into the human condition. Like the guy who ran through it, getting soggy in the process, just so he could help his girlfriend go around the edge.

The running comments section has predictably presented a wide range of remarks, spanning the aggressive ("fuck off attention seekers") to the malicious ("would love it if someone slipped off the side and landed face first in the puddle"), right through to a few clever satirical takes on the situation ("I'll be voting Puddle2016").

So if your 2016 is going badly for whatever reason, why not tune in and revel the simple pleasure that is watching people come really close to falling in a massive puddle.

UPDATE: Not long after #Drummondpuddlewatch started trending, it completely sold out. Now, instead of unsuspecting office workers worried about getting their socks wet, the live-stream is full of news crews, policemen and students with novelty lilos. The puddle has gone mainstream and therefore is no longer fun.