When Shark Week Lied to Everyone: MEGALODON LIVES | Billiam

[@Choatemister]

Is Billiam played by an actor? Where’s the disclaimer that he is or isn’t a real person?

[@thecynicallizardgarlock4121]

Well considering he’s so handsome he might be Moth-Man 🤔🤔🤔

[@vrdaddy2667]

I thought this was going be about the time they said Michael Phelps was going to race against a shark.

[@cdpr4876]

The funny thing about these mockumentaries is that the cgi has aged so poorly it’s almost impossible to take them seriously.

[@arcticdino1650]

I want a series about mothman and his little submarine

[@TheLejonktopusFiles]

Yes

[@Hessed3712]

I’m sorry, his submarine?

[@arcticdino1650]

@@Hessed3712 watch the video

[@anonymousoff-brand7538]

for some reason, instantly made me think "mothman as one of the beetles."

[@octogonSmuggler]

He has a submarine??

[@haileyfoster4530]

i did a short babysitting/nannying job after graduating high school and the two girls i watched were watching shark week shows one morning and i naturally had to point out that at lot of it was really dramatized. the girls understood and also felt bad for the sharks, since they thought it got mean sometimes. fast forward like a week later and they showed me their own "shark week spin off fake documentary" about land sharks that they filmed with a friend. genuinely the best.

[@CalamitasCalliope]

Awww that's so cute

[@Saibellus]

deeply wholesome AND educational uwu

[@Youarewhatyoueatsonic]

If sharks aren’t extinct by the time they’re older, they could do a great job helping to protect the species

[@princessravendiamond4288]

It's funny, there are actually three species of small sharks that do come on land at night (or rather "walk" through tiny water channels on the edge of a beach)

[@carolgeorgeson9632]

Those are some smart girls

[@lisapeesalemonsqueezah3241]

My favorite of these movies is sharknado where the sharks are being tossed around in the sky and are still attempting to eat. It's the equivalent of you being sucked up into a hurricane, seeing some chicken nuggets and being so completely unconcerned with the fact that you're in a tornado that all you can think about is those nuggies.

[@peabrain6872]

Thos nuggits

[@AdumbDriver]

No, those are evil sharks they live in the clouds, feed primarily on birds and shake their evil sky shark fins to make tornadoes which they then use to hunt humans.

[@jackscott602]

Well how else you eat nuggets?

[@richardtherichard26]

Bro if I’m lifted in the air by a hurricane im probably not surviving the landing regardless so I might as well grab some pre-death nuggies. 😂😂😂

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

So, 100% scientifically accurate. If they're dino nuggies that is

[@andreworders7305]

The author of Jaws spent a long time trying to repair the damage his book did to the shark’s image.

[@kronemerj]

Honestly ? Good for him. I still think jaws is fun as fiction but it sucks how many people treat the depiction of sharks in it a a realistic one

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

It's been like forty-five years since I read it, but I remember the book as being a much better, more balanced story as far as how the shark is depicted. I never liked the movie, but I did enjoy the book. Perhaps I'm not remembering the book well, but it was the movie that stirred up all the fear.

[@andreworders7305]

@@TheEudaemonicPlague The book is kind of shit from what I’ve heard. I should probably try reading it for myself at some point.

[@adrammelechthewroth6511]

Yeah. I personally hate Jaws.

[@adrammelechthewroth6511]

Movies that villainize animals worse than scum. But the people who make them are even worse.

[@guy_arsonist]

Maybe megalodon saw a boat and was like, "whoa what's that?" And just gave it a little nibble? A little bite. A chomp, if you will

[@brandiyount5365]

This comment had me wheezing.

[@kariissmol9172]

wittle cuwute shawky

[@GaMeRfReAkLIVE]

I little bit of an exploratory bite if you will

[@Alex_in_Wonderland111]

But, didn’t you hear though? Meggydon kills with extreme prejudice

[@mr.onethirtyeight5088]

A chomp is a big ass bite, no? Like CHOMP!!!

[@firecrow100]

Billiam WHEN are you gonna review EVERY episode of animal planets THE MOST Extreme

[@Duncaster]

Dude that was my shit growing up

[@astrowolvez]

Oh god I HATED that show.

[@firecrow100]

Noooo, I loved that show so much, those funky lil green graph guys

[@startedtech]

absolutely, fucking loved that show as a kid

[@firecrow100]

Would be an interesting review for sure

[@starlightmellie]

i loved river monsters as a kid bc it did dramatic reenactments to hook you but the actual content of the show was jeremy wade having the utmost respect for the fish he caught and he would constantly advocate for the preservation of their habitats as well as respect for the legends and the culture of the people who often were his guides and/or housed him when he would go to these places

[@Eshtian]

I still remember the episode he cried when he accidentally killed a rare fish

[@NoahDaArk]

That show was the freaking best let me tell you!

[@colinv.2691]

@@Eshtian which fish?

[@Eshtian]

@@colinv.2691 it's been so long I don't remember I do know the myth they were talking about was about a little kid who had a shiny belt/something playing in a river who got killed by the fish because of the shine. Ya that sounds crazy when I say it but it's the best I got The fishing area was by some cliffs though if that helps.

[@KevinRAAMAAAGE]

He also brought a lot of the villagers peace, that it wasn't a magic monster of any kind, just a gnarly, mean as sin, fish. They then could learn how to avoid being attacked, because species could be confirmed

[@TheAxeManLP]

Meggydon😍😍

[@Skud_paimon]

Hi checkmark

[@devinkupka8319]

Megatron

[@frigimoloch7897]

Ark Moment

[@thesharkkiddo8703]

New word to add to my vocabulary

[@The_Stumbler]

Meggydom?

[@evelawless5480]

"Are you food?" "No." "Oh, sorry." Fucking dead.

[@WhiteRaven696]

So were they.

[@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk]

Well that went dark

[@connorscott6479]

Not as dark where they are going…

[@storymodestart]

I need you to tell me the show name you got for your little intro vid with i need to watch it and i cant remember.

[@LaloSalamancaGaming69]

Im worried to go at water cuz im food

[@grantlauzon5237]

18:16 Wait… “the serial killer of the seas”? It’s a carnivore. Wouldn’t that make all carnivores/omnivores serial killers?

[@theangryholmesian4556]

According to vegans yes.

[@MechaShadowV2]

@@theangryholmesian4556 I was about to say that.

[@theawesomeone6856]

Orcas are the actual “serial killers of the seas”, and the sharks are their b**ches. Hmm... imagine a 60 foot orca?

[@Predator20357]

@@theawesomeone6856 Now that’s a Whale Eater! Sadly Orcas look like idiot whale pandas, if they looked as cool as Sharks then you bet there would be 50 documentaries about them

[@nignamedmutt7270]

Are fish cannibals? Edit: Just remembered that sharks actually are cannibals(at least great whites, idk about other sharks off the top of my head) When great whites are in fetal form, they'll devour each other until there's only one left, which will be the one that's born. So I can say yes, sharks are cannibals, but are other fish who just eat fish for their own nutrition for simply eating other fish?

[@WolfGoddess77]

In terms of shark bites, I remember seeing this article about a woman who was pretty badly torn up, and as she was being put into the ambulance, she yelled out "I still love sharks!" That's some positive press if I've ever seen it.

[@Topdoggie7]

Obviously she knew the shark didn't mean it.

[@PokeBoy-ec5xc]

I remember seeing in the news a republicans who was shot, and as they were wheeling him to the ambulance he shouted to the cameras “I still love guns!” It’s the most American moment I could recall and everyone clapped

[@Sm0k3turt]

@@PokeBoy-ec5xc This is hilarious as parody but actually HAPPENS

[@Jane-oz7pp]

Rodney Fox got almost ended by a shark incident, and immediately dedicated his entire life to protecting them and educating people about the reality of sharks.

[@Cavegeckosol]

The biggest disappointment in my life was the realization that real scientists put paradigm-shifting discoveries into scientific journals and don't reveal them for the first time ever on popular daytime TV networks.

[@stitchfinger7678]

Its hard to turn "Rats perform 21% better in memory games if we give them koolaid an hour before" into a TV show Most science IS important, but it ISNT interesting for the common man

[@SophiaAstatine]

A bigger disappoint than scientific journals destroying science itself by forcing people to pursue the most publishable topics?

[@ald7282]

@@stitchfinger7678 idk man, i want to see a doc on how if you put little stilts on ants, they can't navigate back to their house because they count their steps.

[@MinatheRaichu]

@@stitchfinger7678 tbh, I'd probably still watch a bunch of rats hopped up on Kool-aid doing puzzles. I'd imagine it's kinda like the puppy bowl. But with rats

[@Blewlongmun]

@@SophiaAstatine I would like a source on that, sounds interesting or wrong. Most scientists don't peruse being published as an achievement, it's kinda their job to publish discoveries all the time. I just don't see why science journals would narrow their topics, or why public interest matters to them.

[@babybush164]

"Randall, there are sharks in the water" "This is an ocean, you're gonna find sharks in the water"

[@stardragon7893]

*Collin kicks open the door of his room and goes to edit footage*

[@yourmomsuxdik4free]

I deadass had a vivid nightmare with this guy from barnyard following me around with hyper realistic features saying "there's gonna be cows outside." And chasing me around with an axe playing a death game of hide and seek. I know you didn't ask but I thought it was funny

[@bonbon5994]

@@yourmomsuxdik4free having a nightmare like that seems concerning. You doing ok?

[@kiera_rdh6697]

It’s hilarious that the idea that there are two Megalodons is a “pretty huge claim”. Like….. Do you people not understand how reproduction works? There has to be more than one of these animals if you think the species has lived to modern day lol

[@theghosthero6173]

It's a classic problem of every cryptid studies... They claim to have seen an individual somehow still alive alone

[@lmaobox4068]

@@theghosthero6173 I mean turtles can live 500 years Although I’m pretty sure it's been more than 500 years so far

[@killerkitten7534]

@@lmaobox4068 I think there’s also a shark that’s lived for around 500 years. But as you’ve pointed out it’s been significantly longer than 500 years since the megaladon existed.

[@highadmiraljt5853]

@@lmaobox4068 Yeah, but even turtles need partners

[@Never_heart]

It's a weird trend among cryptids. Any time it comes to claims of an ancient species surviving, despite referencing lazarus taxa, they rarely talk about a population of the animals in these claims only individuals. Like the concept of 'late surviving' means an single individual has lived straight through since the KPG extinction.

[@tigerwolf2243]

"I mean that's a pretty huge claim." The base claim is that Megaladons are in the ocean today. I think a much bigger claim would be that it's one Megalodon with a 3 million year life span, not that there's more than one

[@gwendalynnwatkins1296]

Kind like how some people claim that Nessie is just one single plesiasaur that's survived for thousands of years

[@smrtfasizmu7242]

@@gwendalynnwatkins1296 not thousands, millions. In a lake that didn't even exist when they went extinct.

[@hedgehog3180]

Yeah like if you discover one member of an extinct species it's basically bound to be true that there are more because like they need to breed.

[@paranoia1080]

@@smrtfasizmu7242 and locals call people that don’t believe in Nessie delusional💀

[@universalpower419]

@@smrtfasizmu7242 Nessie is a strong fella, give him credit.

[@F0rtuneLT]

i feel like in order to really understand why megalodon lives was such a bad idea, is to realize that that a majority of the people tuning into shark week were kids, who usually couldn't tell the difference between fact and fiction even the cgi, to anyone old enough, we can tell yea that's obviously fake, but to a kid its just good enough to fool them

[@manospondylus]

That makes it even worse

[@rocket_sensha4337]

Well at the time my then 40 years old uncle absolutely fucking bough it.

[@onebackzach]

I remember being able to tell that a lot of the "evidence" in the megalodon and mermaid documentaries were obviously a bit off and probably edited when I was a kid, but I still sort of believed the conclusions because it was presented in such a legitimate seeming way, and I trusted the "scientists". Finding out they were hoaxes kind of messed with me, and I imagine that it probably did damage to the reputation of documentary makers and researchers in my mind. Thankfully I think it mostly just taught me to think more critically about things, even when they were presented by someone with qualifications. However, for people whose critical thinking skills halted at age 16 and who consider reading facebook articles to be research, that could pose a problem.

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

I have friends who believe megalodon still exists to this day.

[@samkeiser9776]

When this aired on Shark Week, I lived with my at-the-time step family. While me and the rest of my blood siblings realized soon enough that it was a fake documentary, my former step family bought it a lot harder. Idk if they still believe megalodon exists

[@magencrisis1682]

The "REAL Mermaids" documentary drove one of my middle school classmates completely nuts about the topic. She'd get into huge arguments with the other kids about why mermaids were actually real, and of course, said that she'd seen it with her very own eyes in Animal Planet which was "a very serious channel about real-world nature". I didn't have cable TV at the time and I always thought she had hallucinated it or made it all up.

[@re1010]

"with her own eyes" Yeah,I think your teacher wasnt a real teacher.

[@m0istur]

Ngl, even as a kid I knew it was fake. But either way, it was interesting to see the idea of what mermaids could have been and how they lived their lives if they were real at point besides just swimming under the sea

[@roisinnighabhann9752]

This girl was me 🤣🤣 I mean not literally but I too was convinced by (mermaids: the body found ) back then .

[@michelelyons9410]

Frankly, I would blame this child's confusion first on her parents, who allowed her to watch this entertainment program without explaining that it was just a story, like any movie. Second, why did no teacher or other adult in your school sit the girl down and explain things to her? It was adult neglect in both cases. Of course a very young child will not be able to tell the difference between fact and fiction---that is the role of the adults in her life to teach her. I feel sorry for this girl, she probably got a lot of ridicule for something that was not her fault. But that does not mean that the program should not have been made or was not entertaining. It means that adults are supposed to act as adults, which seems to be too much to expect today.

[@aishahbrunette1742]

Bro I thought I hallucinated that document😭 and I’m with that girl I was convinced they were real

[@Todomo]

“science” tv channels need to clarify when they’re making fictional programs. when i was little i was obsessed with the natural world and so i loved learning about cool new creatures the earth has to offer. i remember the megalodon and mermaid ones. why not just clarify that it’s for entertainment only?

[@evancook2507]

Money.🙂

[@anna-flora999]

For the clicks

[@theblazingpegasus9151]

Dawg u don't understand the point of em making up that shit huh

[@ajaniking111crystalbeat3]

They put it before and after the program. Anyone not noticing deserves to believe it.

[@anna-flora999]

@@ajaniking111crystalbeat3 so everyone missing these few moments for whatever reason just deserves to be scammed?

[@TheRogueCommand]

My weird take from this is "if sharks had hands they wouldn't have to bite people" which is useless scientifically but now I'm imagining giant, curious shark-mermaids grabbing people like dolls and it's both terrifying and oddly endearing to picture.

[@Horcrux_maker]

Sounds like something Junji Ito would draw,love it!

[@dirtysploof5890]

thatd be way scarier lmao That shows a lot more conscious thought behind it, if you know what I mean. Like, I've taken bites of food that ended up being gross cause I wasnt paying attention to what it was. I've never picked up some broccoli, thoroughly examined it and THEN decided I didnt want it. I hope this makes like a bit of sense

[@smol-one]

I mean...human babies do, typically, have hands and everything still goes in their mouths.

[@lilbil212]

"Polaris Breach" high-key sounds like the name of an anime or monster attack

[@cienkitv2854]

Or a fighing game special move

[@pikapal91]

It sounds like a rejected name for Tifa’s limit break in FF7.

[@MemesToa]

@@pikapal91 I wonder if that’s what Dolphin Blow was originally called?

[@miragenite1]

Warframe ult

[@anonymousoff-brand7538]

indie space exploration game.

[@lynnkayee1015]

Watched that special with my grandma and she had the same reaction as the first time we watched The Blair Witch Project - "Lets go find it." Incredibly gullible but insanely brave, she was. And now that I think about it, apparently not too concerned about my safety.

[@Nachtrae]

You were perfect sized bait, after all.

[@towelclipz]

Amazing

[@PartnershipsForYou]

Lynn I hate to be the one to say this. Your grandma had dementia

[@Trigger__Happy]

That’s a great grandma right there, takes a cryptid like no problem

[@yipyap6161]

Perhaps you were bait?

[@RM10Prod.]

You should talk about the awfulness that was: ...Finding bigfoot...

[@nuteniumtokyo7172]

How did that show get so many fucking seasons god damn

[@WraithLK]

@@nuteniumtokyo7172 cause it was a very entertaining show, even though it’s based around fiction

[@RM10Prod.]

@@nuteniumtokyo7172 because it turns out that people screaming into the woods is entertaining (Edit: I guess)

[@GenericProtagonist118]

Grinding Figboot

[@syd6964]

I used to watch that show religiously. It got old eventually but im ashamed to say it took a little bit too long for me to get tired of it

[@TotallyNotSkylerVT]

"Shark attack survivers attacking back " That single line made me laugh until my stomach hurt because I couldn't get the image of a group of people punching and biting the sharks back out of my head. Like full on street fighter on them.

[@jakeybby8527]

Half of them are missing an arm here a leg there lol

[@catb2716]

my favorite fake documentary is still the dragon one hands down

[@Puncherjoe1]

I remember watching that when I was a kid and even then thinking "This is some bullshit"

[@catb2716]

@@Puncherjoe1 hah I which I had that much common sense as a child. I got in trouble for writing an essay about it in elementary school when we were supposed to pick "non fiction" topics

[@SR.PlayAlot64]

That was like the only one to do it right

[@sensibleGamer]

At least that one made it CLEAR it was a fake "what if" documentary. But I think it was the test for if they could possibly get away with what would come next

[@HovektheArtist]

Not gonna lie, the dragon documentary had me in the first half

[@garrettreish5644]

I find it funny how people who claim that Meggydon is still alive don't factor in the rest of the ecosystem and how a super predator of that size would effect prey items. The time Meggydon was alive, whales evolved to be fast and small in order to avoid large predators. Yet when Meggydon died and disappeared from the fossil record, whales started getting big because there was no predator to worry about. We don't need sightings to be rejected or believed in order to say that Meggydon is alive or dead, we just need to look at the ocean's ecosystems

[@fellipedasilva99]

Obviously totally agree, but isn’t true that the ancestors of sperm whales were quite big and apex like Megalodon? I believe they competed with megalodon for prey. But that might of been when megalodons started to get smaller (around 30-40 feet) because of the cooling oceans.

[@AnakinS86]

@@fellipedasilva99 megalodons are widely believed to have gone extinct from a lack of whales, due to a krill shortage because of an ice age, and competition with other predators, including the great white. But another competitor was a carnivorous whale, which like you said was a precursor to modern sperm whales, although it had a way more fucking cool name, “ Livyatan” basically a play on Leviathan.

[@allthingsanime7413]

they actually went extinct because of bigger whales i beleive not because of the smaller ones those were their preferred prey well they were still more medium sized not like dolphins but still smaller ones

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

BuT wE HAvEn't eVEn ExPlOReD 20% oF THe oCeAn.

[@dunning827]

Meggydon

[@TyrantRex22]

I would pay actual money for a box set of Learning and Junk with Professor Billiam

[@DarkVileScream]

Comes with a 6 pack of empty White claw cans

[@TyrantRex22]

@@DarkVileScream hell yeah

[@joecarson8281]

I used to commercial fish, so I'm very familiar with sharks. One day a guy I work with now, came into the office and was telling me he saw a documentary on the discovery that megalodon was still around. He insisted it was true, it was on Discovery. I had great respect for this guy, and I had the task of telling him Santa wasn't real.

[@HusbandofLois]

That’s probably the biggest sad thing about all this, there’s going to be plenty of people who should be well-informed enough to know better trusting this shit because of the source. In all these years there hasn’t been much justification for these theories other than “it was on Discovery/Animal Planet”, and now Ancient Aliens is doing the exact same shit. I’d love these shows fully as fun little things if they weren’t convincing people who definitely have the knowledge to know better of this crap

[@joecarson8281]

@@HusbandofLois Exactly. It's like War of The World's all over again. I remember seeing a show like that on The CBC in Toronto about a bunch of terrorists on a ship with a nuke. It was presented as a newscast. It was scary until I realized it was getting dark outside but not on "the news".

[@HusbandofLois]

@@joecarson8281 That’s really interesting, here in the UK there’s laws against that now because of the amount of times people have fallen for fake shows presented as real news footage. These days you can only show it if it’s being presented in a way that makes sure you know it isn’t real, like you’ll only see it on a TV in a scene rather than on your actual TV screen. I’m assuming other countries haven’t had the same problems and haven’t ended up putting similar laws in because of that

[@joecarson8281]

@@HusbandofLois We don't have laws like that, hence Megaladon and they have one about mermaids. People trust TV too much. I did till 1983.

[@BettyWhiteTheVibratorSlayer]

But the cookies were always gone 😳 did Santa eat them or did megalodon?

[@biospark4758]

South Louisianian here. I’ve never heard of a voodoo shark called the “Rookin.” It sounds like they bastardized the story of the Rougarou (most comparable to a werewolf) and made it about a shark, since the names sound kinda similar

[@jangofresh1019]

Hello, fellow South Louisianans. Same.

[@Sharkman4569]

Another follow Louisianan and yet I have never heard of the Rookin

[@kyler1092]

I live in Louisiana too, and I have also not heard of the rookin.

[@justapickedminfan]

North Shorer here, and I think it sounds made up

[@anonymousoff-brand7538]

wereshark! (especially cool if you combine in some of the older things of the same name, which were really weird)

[@avro683lancaster7]

"Eating anything and everything with extreme prejudice" totally isn't an oxymoron

[@coolcat408]

It honestly sounds lile they were going for "they eat everyone, and they're REAL racist about it"

[@nobodyinparticular9640]

Who's talking about me??

[@mochiman6307]

tiger shark mo

[@mospusthespider1246]

“There is no way a whale did this” There is no way a SHARK did that

[@LaloSalamancaGaming69]

Bruh the fact that no shark could do that would be more terrorizing and believable than a super gigachad shark that hides from us

[@PartyC4nnon]

The idea of shark attack survivors fighting on BEHALF of sharks makes me so, so happy

[@miamislice3280]

Sharkholm syndrome.

[@Topdoggie7]

The ocean puppers just nibbled the wrong food.

[@jadenhumphrey8778]

@@Topdoggie7fr

[@emmagrace5196]

“Maybe meggydon hide too? Where are you meggydon?” is single handedly the funniest clip I’ve ever seen.

[@annay.w.9544]

I agree 😆

[@howiegruwitz3173]

Not real. Mermaids are tho

[@Dielawn69]

It'd be funnier if they said "the meggydon is meggy gone"

[@NootalieWalf]

Dead meme but rlly it lives rent free in my brain

[@Victoria-lq6gw]

@@NootalieWalf What is the reference from?

[@tazlinarhetoric4543]

It really is terrible how much people demonize sharks considering most of that blind, vehement fear and rage stems from 1 or 2 true shark facts + a lot of myth, ignorance, and hastily drawn conclusions

[@hamishstewart5324]

While sharks like great whites have been known to attack people, these attacks are usually the result of either curiosity (as they figure things out with their mouths) or mistaking people for seals or turtles. Really, only two shark species are consistently dangerous to humans, these being the bull shark and oceanic white tip.

[@aiyasartrefuge1395]

@@hamishstewart5324 the curiosity part made me sad :( they jus wana know what we are :((((

[@nearpath8785]

From almost everyone who's been bitten by a shark is pretty sure sharks think we taste gross, they bite once and as soon as they taste anything they cough it back out Surfers and divers just happen to look kinda like seals

[@infinitezion2029]

Same happened with Hyenas when Lion King came out, it's crazy just how easy people can hate something after learning false or exaggerated info and how hard it is to then change their mindset even when presenting actual facts.

[@hyperion3145]

@@infinitezion2029 Snakes as well, the majority of bites from venomous species come from people actively trying to kill or chase them out. Additionally, stingrays were found with their tails cut off after Steve Irwin died.

[@isetmfriendsofire]

If you think these "documentaries" are frustrating, try explaining to someone (who believed them) that they weren't real in present day when you don't have your phone on you to verify.

[@liftingvids6780]

That’s horrible I feel bad for you

[@Princess_Celestia_]

You think that's frustrating? Try explaining to someone (who believed them) that those "documentaries" where fake while providing them evidence from websites that show they are fake only to be met with "facts" from conspiracy websites written up by people that still think the old film "Cannibal Holocaust" was an actual snuff film....

[@isetmfriendsofire]

@@Princess_Celestia_ ...are you okay now, though?

[@Princess_Celestia_]

@@isetmfriendsofire I'm better then okay, I just found out about the smoking gun I needed to prove to my friend once and for all that fake documentary "Cannibal in the jungle" is fake. I just need to find that "documentary" in full so I can show him the disclaimer that proves its all bs. So far I've only managed to convince him of the possibility that it's fake. You wouldn't happen to know where I might find that documentary at, would you? All I've found so far has been out of context clips and none of them show the 3 second disclaimer I need.

[@GrEaTDemOnBlade]

@@Princess_Celestia_ My man, i was SUSPENDED in class around 2007 because the Dragon documentary came up in conversation, where my teacher ADAMANTLY defended it as world news of the discovery of REAL dragons. Being a smart-ass fucking kid i couldn't stay quiet and let it go... nooo. To top it all up, at the time in my country, nobody else was really watching content like that so i was alone there defending my case against a dumbass teacher and a bunch of gullible kids buying her bullshit.

[@joanderson6880]

I remember watching this mockumentary when I was a kid and being terrified of being on ferries for at least two months after the fact. Like, we literally went on a vacation via the ferry like a week later and I'm pretty sure I spent the entire boat ride in a state of panic thinking that Megalodon was going to ambush us from below

[@Kimosabes2hot]

Megalodon doesn't exist anymore because Michael Phelps beat them in a race

[@jaywheeler1093]

The difference between Michael Phelps and Hitler is Phelps could finish a race

[@joshshin6819]

@@jaywheeler1093 the Jews would like to argue the difference of Phelps to Hitler.

[@jakeking974]

For a fact of how impactful Jaws is: my mother was terrified of water for years. She overcame that to become a lifeguard, where she met my dad. And fuckin Jaws almost screwed that up.

[@parjai97]

@WindTheBrave plotwise maybe

[@josephbilderback4549]

@WindTheBrave I understand where you're coming from, Jaws is my favorite movie and Spielberg my favorite director, but I think even he would agree that the plot is like a b movie script

[@Rahnonymous]

That was pretty much everyone at the time (especially if you lived in South America or Mexico)

[@tred6292]

It’s just like how the “History” channel is now trying to lie to everybody by saying that Aliens built the Pyramids.

[@princessnovainacottage3326]

History channel is weird they're like oh old cultures couldn't possibly be intelligent enough to do this but talk like Nazis as if they were some superpower when in general they were highly stupid in how they plotted war

[@longforgotten4823]

Of course the aliens created the pyramids…. The modern researchers get paid to apply modern concepts to pass cultures in violation of every historic method possible.

[@eastdakota6954]

god, my grandpa was obsessed with the idea of aliens. i can't tell if he was trolling me or if he actually believed that aliens built the pyramids

[@JohnC420.]

Wait so u mean to tell me they've been lying to me so aliens didn't build the pyramids shit my life is a lie lol

[@a-rat-in-your-walls]

Reminds me of a meme I saw that had a picture of the pyramids and the Easter Island Heads captioned "JUST BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE DIDN'T MAKE IT, DOESN'T MEAN IT WAS ALIENS"

[@agisuru]

"My favorite [Shark Week shows] were always the Mythbusters specials" And you probably aren't alone. Mythbusters was kind of always an outlier with regard to Discovery Channel programming, significantly better than the vast majority of its other serialized shows. Honestly, Discovery Channel probably owes a significant portion of its reputation to Mythbusters alone.

[@spcneary]

I absolutely hated the way that whole situation went down. I watched the original airing, and it NEVER specified it was a FAKE documentary. It took me almost 20 minutes to realize what was going on I was losing my shit on my couch lol.

[@GrayeIra]

Little child me had no idea. I felt so played when i figured it out later

[@gyrfalconc.300]

I’m with you all; I saw it when I was 10, and I was confused as to why it seemed so off for a documentary

[@miaroberts4259]

I was 9 and a huge science nerd....so I never picked that up until like a couple years later lol

[@drrigel63]

@@miaroberts4259 same I was a science nerd as a kid too😭 when I learnt later that tHe mEg was ExTincT I was soo shocked because discovery channel lead me to believe all that fake stuff :(

[@MechaShadowV2]

I mean, it would have hit the news everywhere.

[@Chooopy]

"We need to stop the megalodon before another attack happens" I'd say 3 million years since the last attack is a good indication that it has already stopped.

[@lizabethhampton4537]

I saw a post once that shat on the concept of "shark infested waters" because the sharks already live there and the humans are infesting the waters.

[@frousteleous1285]

Yeah, infestation is used because it insuates they're "pests" but we don't even live in the flippin water. Lorty. These make me dad.

[@nearpath8785]

It's like an ant infested ant hill Where else would they be?

[@PeterGriffin11]

@@frousteleous1285 I'm really intrigued to learn how internet articles make you a father.

[@hyperion3145]

@@PeterGriffin11 He's so proud of his rage post that it has legally become his child

[@macrussell78]

@@PeterGriffin11 Such misinformation infuriated him so much that he became a loving father...So some good came out of all this.

[@Chewbaccafruit]

I remember a short story where a researcher finds megalodon teeth that are unfossilized. Over about ten years, a handful are found that are dated to 200-12,000 years old. Then he spends years looking for it. They realize that megalodon survived, but became extinct about 150 years ago because whaling removed so much of their food from the ocean. It went from science fiction to a poignant story of conversation. So many people wanted this thing to be real, but we ourselves finally killed them off without ever knowing they were there.

[@jakeybby8527]

Lol that story was probably wrote by the discovery channel so full of shit😂

[@Youarewhatyoueatsonic]

@@jakeybby8527short story’s aren’t necessarily meant to be real

[@yeasstt]

@@jakeybby8527 short story. As in a short fictional story

[@muffinsdawg]

200-12,000 years is a huge gap

[@norml.hugh-mann]

​@@muffinsdawgboth are too recent...it was MUCH longer ago

[@bostin1472]

Fun fact: megalodons are still extinct.

[@kolkeet]

Nuh uh, Jason Statham was in a real documentary about them

[@_boogatti_]

Fun fact: The people who think megalodons still exist don’t understand how the ocean works

[@flaccidpancake8282]

NuH UHH, mOSt oF tHe OceAn Is sTiLl uneXplOrED

[@WraithLK]

Apparently you never watched The Meg

[@nuteniumtokyo7172]

@@_boogatti_ Fun-er Fact: if the megaladon did still exist they would NOT be a secret

[@vertiathegreen9858]

If megalodon was still alive, whales would be smaller and faster to try and escape. The fact that whales can be giant and slow since they're too big for anything to eat is evidence enough.

[@LautaroArgentino]

I don't think so, there's already enormous predators in the ocean like orcas and sperm whales.

[@MrByars]

@@LautaroArgentino even fully grown orcas would have a very hard time killing a full grown whale, which is why they resort to killing their calves. Plus, sperm whales are specialized for soft bodied prey and dont have the adaptations to take on giant whales

[@LautaroArgentino]

@@MrByars What I'm saying is I don't think megalodon would put enough evolutionary preasure on whales to make them evolve to be smaller. Enormous whales coexisted with megalodon already, as well as other cetaceans which also hunted whales. Megalodon probably went extinct due to cetaceans and smaller sharks outcompeting it, and yet whales kept on being the giants they are.

[@ToaArcan]

@@LautaroArgentino Megalodon didn't force whales to get smaller, they were already smaller. They didn't start huge, they evolved from a creature the size of a cat, and have been gradually increasing in size ever since, as long as there's nothing stopping them. Early giant whales were predators themselves, but species like Basilosaurus are little over _half_ the size of a Blue Whale, with a maximum estimate of 20 metres, but more likely in the 15-17 range. Another giant predatory whale, Livyatan, was about the same size, capping out at about 17.5 metres, putting it in the same ballpark as its modern relatives. Livyatan is actually an interesting case when it comes to Megalodon discussions because it was a contemporary of the giant shark, and would've eaten the same diet. Whereas the modern Sperm Whale has a very narrow jaw and is specially adapted for slurping up squid, Livyatan was described as "hyper-predatory" or "macroraptorial", and it would've happily fed on any other whales it came across. But those whales _were_ smaller. The standard for ancient baleen whales (And wastebasket taxon because of that) is Cetotherium, which topped out at about 15 metres long. So similar in scale, but still dramatically smaller than the modern titans. Smaller and faster baleen whales still exist, of course. But that giants like the Blue Whale were able to emerge at all points to a lack of giant predators putting pressure on them. It's not that whales were always huge, got small while Megalodon and Livyatan were chomping on them, and then got big again, it's that they were steadily getting bigger and once the macroraptorial predators died out, they were able to dramatically increase in size due to a lack of pressure.

[@LautaroArgentino]

@@ToaArcan maybe there is some correlation, I'm no expert by any means but didn't whales truly get to be gigantic after the global climate cooled down, before animals like megalodon are thought to have gone extinct? My understanding of it was that megalodon went extinct because of climate cooling, which also allowed whales to grow enormous due to more abundance of food. And then since megalodon couldn't adapt to the new ocean climate it got outcompeted by cetaceans like orcas, and smaller sharks.

[@NorthEevee]

All of Discovery's faux-science actually was the reason I moved over to National Graphic. It was a great substitute around 2013 to 2014, but one show I missed from Discovery was River Monsters with Jeremy Wade. Somehow that show was both hella entertaining and rather informative.

[@Cryothia]

River Monsters was great

[@efu2046]

Jeremy Wade is awesome. Imagine fishing a 3 and a half meter long catfish out of a murky raging river, man's got balls even tougher than steel

[@stonersiren]

river monsters is sooo good when stoned omg

[@SirBlackReeds]

Isn't National Geographic also starting to lose credibility?

[@NorthEevee]

@@SirBlackReeds I think their TV channel has been since a few years back, though their magazine seems credible, still.

[@tankinator451]

I used to find all the unfounded fear around sharks funny until this summer when a whale shark was spotted off a beach near me in New England, which is rare as they typically aren’t seen this far north. Well it turns out this was enough to close the beach it was seen at, and when I went out on a paddle board to get a closer look, a life guard on a jetski came out to yell at me for “endangering” myself. The maddening part is that it was a WHALE SHARK, a filter feeder who poses no danger to anything larger than a plankton. I’m pretty sure someone just heard “50+ foot shark species” and panicked

[@vampiricn1ght]

The funnier thing is that during a more recent Shark Week, there was a Doc about a bootleg Crocodile Hunter looking for info about Megalodon. He went diving near bullsharks to look for fossilized teeth that may have been unearthed. The funniest part is that he finds a bullshark tooth, surfaces and is like "Look at this! Look at this tooth! Could this be a meg tooth?!" with the narrator parroting this before the actual specialist looks over and goes "Nah man, that's a bullshark." Then bootleg Steve Irwin just deflates and is disappointed his tooth wasn't Megalodon's

[@victoriashevlin8587]

Now *that's* entertaining...

[@kyletan3220]

That reminds me of the plot for “maneater”

[@MinatheRaichu]

Don't take the lord's name in vain.

[@joeyw.7131]

@@MinatheRaichu bro what

[@MinatheRaichu]

@@joeyw.7131 Steve Irwin

[@masterrafferty4065]

"when shark week lied to everyone" You're gonna have to be more specif- oh I see which one.

[@themesoceneofficial8559]

“It’s not their fault that they have a bite-force of.. *Rip your leg open*”

[@user-kg2lp8jz2r]

Like a bear ,or a wolf,or a eagle They all are just eating and you cant say that they are an extreme problem, way less evil

[@avacornthelastponybender8583]

"It's not the sharks' fault it has a bite force of rip your arm open" I need this on a T-shirt

[@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes]

In the past, what media labels “shark attacks” were called “shark accidents”.

[@Rabbit-the-One]

I like that

[@ethansloan]

Discovery (or someone with more self-awareness) should do another "speculative documentary" that speculates what a nature documentary made in the distant future might be like. Imagine it's the year 3000, and some cheesy, barely-educational network is making a speculative documentary about extinct animals that "may still be out there" that shows wildly inaccurate info about present-day animals.

[@efu2046]

I'd watch this. Imagine them explaining a platypus or a panda lmao

[@user-jn1wm3tb8v]

The Panda: Beast of the Jungle Titanic in size, this thirteen foot tall monster lives in the thick jungles of Japan. They feast off a small harmless species called the Bamboo. Their large claws could easily rip open human flesh. Every year at least 3000 people died by their paw. Inside their mouth stood two large hollow tusks used as straws to suck the flesh out of innocents.

[@cienkitv2854]

*shows bat skeleton* "This is the fingerboy.It used it's fingers to suck souls out"

[@TheLejonktopusFiles]

The cheata a big flying creature that likes to eat lions

[@TheLejonktopusFiles]

Lions are weasel like creatures they mostly hide from cheatas

[@nikolascoffey6453]

If meglodon still existed as it did in the piliocene, it would be a widely known animal that would be hunted pretty regularly by the cultures that live near them. Hell imagine coastal cultures who use meglodon teeth as tools, use megladon leather in everything and eat meglodon meat and maybe even grant spiritual significance to the creature they'd hunt regularly.

[@istvanbrooks5319]

I'm going to borrow this for a dnd session

[@nikolascoffey6453]

@@istvanbrooks5319 nice, the items and world building would be so fun. Like imagine a megladon sharktooth club or megladon leather armor. Or going on coordinated hunts with harpoons and canoes (like a lot of indigenous peoples did when they hunted whales)

[@istvanbrooks5319]

@@nikolascoffey6453 that would be great!, the ocean in my world is actually perfect for megalodon, it's shallow, only about 300 meters deep until suddenly going down on thr borders with other nations, the ocean is also warm and filled with large and small prey for it

[@sheilagravely5621]

Did they tell you they eat megladon meat alot Nik??

[@rennidenni7792]

@@istvanbrooks5319 Also, sharkskin is kind of like one-way sandpaper. So, it could be a useful tool in carpentry.

[@brad1426]

Something that's really interesting about the Louisiana bayou shark, is that there have actually been bull sharks that swam from the Gulf of Mexico into the Mississippi River. Bull sharks are not freshwater sharks, BUT they can survive in freshwater and can actually be found in it!

[@ArchangelSteve]

The amount of these clips and pictures I've seen being presented as actual proof of Megalodon's existence in top ten videos on KZbin is fucking depressing.

[@GardeniaCreations]

Billiam: "Animal Planet made a lot of fake documentaries." Discovery Channel: *Proceeds to somehow top the Mermaid debacle.*

[@BugsyFoga]

Shark jumping Sharks should definitely be a phrased used more often .

[@eloquentpotato6435]

If we want a week dedicated to aquatic animals that ACTUALLY kill people, why not have a “Hippo Week”?

[@strb3305]

A week where they just show footage of your mum (Sorry)

[@lenny7773]

Can't believe that megalodon was a white supremacist, smh ...

[@taliajung1553]

I know! I really expected better from one of child-me's favorite sharks /j

[@SpaghootiSnek]

Megalodon went into hiding in Argentina with all of his Nazi buddies.

[@coolgreenbug7551]

We should have seen it coming, with his cousin “Great White” shark

[@murderalphabetinc.5162]

tbf, if I had a move with a cool name like "polaris breach", I'd yell that out like an anime protagonist.

[@kennethsatria6607]

It literally sounds like a Digimon special attack.

[@ezraparish1138]

Me: feels bad Me: Sees science boy yelling at bad science Me: feels less bad

[@edwardgarcia409]

Billiam doing random things like shoving a shark gummy in a White Claw with no reason nor context always put a smile on my face.

[@joeyteter9383]

“Voodoo Sharks” sounds like the Louisiana branch of the Street Sharks

[@exiegelastweekgamer1571]

"Voodoo Shark" sounds like something The Asylum made.

[@joeyteter9383]

@@exiegelastweekgamer1571 haha yea that works too

[@noctisocculta4820]

@@exiegelastweekgamer1571 It's from Jaws 4: Revenge.

[@Magmafrost13]

30:17 as if the whole thing wasnt stupid enough as-is, they're seriously suggesting that one lone surviving megalodon in the whole world is MORE likely than there being more than one? LIke... no? If megalodon was still around (which it of course isnt), it'd be as a population, the idea that there's only one left is even more ridiculous

[@Peregrina]

Unless it's the last of it's kind in modern time, though I doubt that too.

[@manabie1228]

"To show you how a real Megalodon have been found". "We break this boat in half".

[@PunchCounterpunch_Lizzy]

“And repaired it with only flex tape”

[@lizardlegend42]

"We sawed our reputation in half!"

[@ballsdeep7056]

We saw our brain in half!

[@connorcoker5112]

@@lizardlegend42 flex tape can’t fix that

[@groundbird4904]

@@connorcoker5112 flex seal 💪

[@NitherSpit]

Anybody remember old shark week where they'd go to commercial, but they'd have like a little shark trivia question on a tv underwater and some shit? They did cool programming like learning how golden scalloped hammerheads got their pigment and things like that? I wish they'd do a massive archival type release, I'd buy a ginormous box set with programs sorted by year.

[@MasterCrowtamer]

Billiam should talk about ZooBooks, I only have vague memories of them so it would be perfect for him to cover.

[@camerongrow6426]

I loved those things as a kid.

[@edstevenskw5542]

Read them throughout my elementary school day

[@Weirdanimalboy]

My mom never bought them for me :(

[@Rabbit-the-One]

Or animorphs?

[@caldineescogroft8831]

I like how they talk about megalodon like an individual creature and not like a animal species like "the megalodon is a monster that go to McDonald's and ony ask one big mack👹👹👹"

[@robertborland5083]

With extra whale on the side, of course.

[@hyperion3145]

@@robertborland5083 Implying Big Mac isn't actually a whale

[@caldineescogroft8831]

@@hyperion3145 no whale is to expensive is more probable that is chinese whale

[@darkdeifan]

yeah yeah, like “wow you are saying there are TWO of them?!” bit, like that only a single individual has lived for two million years is the more reasonable explanation

[@gummy2955]

My wife left me for megalodon

[@sunakohari8718]

you guys are so naive, ofc megalodon still exist, my boyfriend has one in his bathtub and he lets me play with it from time to time and yes, it's a really mean fish

[@rawrdino7046]

Wish mine have one. He just has a dwarf minnow

[@HHTwice]

@@rawrdino7046 tell him to man up and chow down on YOUR fish

[@Rabbit-the-One]

That's so cool

[@Rabbit-the-One]

@@HHTwice yeah? You think you posted a good one there? That'll show the soyboys? Careful, don't let dad see you cry or he'll get the belt again.

[@Moony1568]

Cringe

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

What threw me off in the megalodon doc was the picture of the whale bitten in half. I kept wondering where all the birds are that are supposed to be picking at that massive carcass.

[@demongirl8389]

I remember "shark week" and "nature's deadliest" had me scared cuz they portrayed the animals like as if they were after you lol. AND HOLY SHIT I remember how the mermaid design scared my so badly when I was a kid lmao.

[@minifridge337]

>named william >obsessed with sharks and dinosaurs growing up, particularly dinosaurs >grew up in south Florida i hate to break it to ya buddy, but I think you are actually just me

[@user-gn4ts8jb7n]

Juding by the second, I think he is every 3-8 year old boy

[@nowheretogobut9430]

When identity Theft isn’t malicious but accidental!

[@LaloSalamancaGaming69]

Nonono he is called 🅱️illiam

[@sorryifoldcomment8596]

Profile pic checks out too, shit.

[@greenhowie]

Haven't drunk alcohol in a while but now I'm going to buy a crate of white claw, get hammered and watch bad documentaries. Organs are for the weak.

[@sarcasticfanstic]

Is white claw good or what, all the youtubers that I watch are always drinking it

[@TheApey]

@@sarcasticfanstic It's marketing shit.

[@charliedickson1443]

@@sarcasticfanstic it’s not bad, but it doesn’t taste like much. Unless you’re on a diet beer is the better choice

[@CJayEvermoure]

I feel like he needs to do the one where they "dissected a T-Rex"

[@soltandvinegar]

Fun fact that I saw in an aquarium: More people die from chairs every year than die from sharks.

[@gavinbrown216]

Another fun fact in a similar vein, more people die from vending machines than lightning

[@echidnalinda5917]

More people die from dog attacks than all species of reptile each year.

[@savannahlevy97]

@@echidnalinda5917 wow

[@Gasmaskmax]

more people have died in cockroach eating contests than have been killed by hammerhead sharks

[@TheLejonktopusFiles]

@@Gasmaskmax cockaroach WOT THE HECK

[@gav668]

"[a shark] big enough to take down a whale" interesting idea considering whales could only get to Whale Big, modern sizes because megalodon & co. took an evolutionary oof to the face as it was outcompeted by species that required less energy going towards Shark Big

[@3s7acad0]

Tbf "Polaris Breach" sounds like a super from a fighting game

[@ajaniking111crystalbeat3]

Oddly enough. Son is working on one. Lol

[@storytellingsnek5255]

Sharks are the ultimate misunderstood villain who wasn't even a villain to begin with.. probably explains my love of Bucky Barnes.

[@coolgreenbug7551]

THE WINTER SHARK

[@MajiggerRose]

Man, this opening hit hard. For context, I loved sharks as a kid. My favorite was the Mako shark that I got a plastic toy of. When I got that toy, the Mako shark was Near-Threatened. In 2007 it was Vulnerable. Today, it's Endangered. I have fond so memories of watching "Jaws" with my family when I got a little older and I even read the book. It never changed my feeling about sharks or other animals because I recognized it as fiction. But when I discovered the Mako shark's shift into endangered status in 2019, my memories of it are tainted. I still have that little Mako shark figurine all these years later get reminded regularly. Unlike some animals, no captive breeding program could save them if their numbers get too low. They can't survive in aquariums, much less be encouraged to reproduce. Once they're gone, they're gone. All we'll have left is teeth, pictures, and figurines. Thank you for bringing attention to this crap. I hope more people will wake up and that we can do something about it.

[@avarisclari]

As a dinosaur and shark lover, it made me weirdly giddy when you referenced the Goblin shark, my favorite shark.

[@gavinbrown216]

And they rightfully earned that name

[@echidnalinda5917]

They are objectively best shark

[@monkeytime3169]

You said, "as a dinosaur," and I automatically assumed you were an actual dinosaur

[@GhaniKeSawah]

Goblin sharks eh? that's new most people just think they're weird

[@LPVince94]

That bit about them smearing Meggydons reputation killed me 🤣

[@EksaStelmere]

When I was a kid, there used to be a dumb thing I did with friends. There was this steep drop-off a ways from the shallows. We would dive off that ledge, touch the bottom, then swim back up. Once, I did this and, as soon as I kicked off the bottom, I hit something. I looked up and, with assistance from the sunlight, I saw a decently-sized shark swimming away. Not sure what kind it was, but I was in awe. For all the gruesome imagery related to sharks, I still can't see them as anything but majestic.

[@natkatmac]

As a fellow shark enthusiast, I enjoyed every minute of this video.

[@humouroushawk]

I see you drinking from that dr robotnik glass from the same sonic glass set i bought from Spencer's 10 years ago 👀

[@billiam]

That’s where I got it ten years ago!

[@TheLejonktopusFiles]

@@billiam omg ur the same person

[@kingdavis8386]

​​@@billiamcan you tell me the name of the song at 32:14 please ?

[@B1998-u6i]

What really gets me is Megalodon is mostly agreed to be 50-60 feet long. They can't even bullshit the monster shark right lmaoooo Also, does anyone remember the Yeti one? That was the line for me, bullshitting a fake sensational horror movie about people who ACTUALLY DIED

[@MrTroodon_Official]

Actually atm the estimations are even smaller, 10 meters in length on average with a max of 15. Although this estimations may even become smaller later on.

[@B1998-u6i]

@@MrTroodon_Official oh wow that makes it even worse lol

[@PiratePrincessYuki]

Thanks for this. As a marine biologist who is researching (trying to) Great White mating and birthing (never recorded before) shark week overshadows my research.

[@dubuyajay9964]

:(

[@definitlynotbenlente7671]

It is frustrating that people beleve sensationalism over real evidence

[@kazzakyle5010]

Bruh you drink whatever alcohol you want, don’t let people pressure you into drinking the piss water that’s called beer just cause it’s apparently more "manly"

[@Awesomeness785]

Piss water? That's being generous. It's liquid rust

[@felonyx5123]

Eh, "piss water." I get not liking beer, but there's a whole range of fun and interesting, potentially off-putting flavors to be disgusted at. Weak piss stuff exists, but there's also stuff that tastes like licking a pine tree, beer that's like the bad kind of creamy stomach medicine, beer that's deliberately sour and yoghurt-y, and so on. Like or dislike whatever you want, but that's the most shallow and generic criticism out there.

[@rawrdino7046]

I don't understand how people can like beer I tried it 2 times I'll stick to the fruity stuff

[@machina5]

Sake for me. Unfiltered sake is the best stuff.

[@babybush164]

Beer is just warm yeast water

[@irisnora1525]

"sharks are not bloodthirsty animals! They don't attack on purpose!!" Sounds like something a shark would say if you ask me 🤨

[@user-kg2lp8jz2r]

This is not a joke shark's are one of the most diverse efficient and old species of animals save them

[@ballsdeep7056]

There is one shark among us

[@imparanoiiid]

Seems kind of sussywussy right ?

[@ViewbobTrue]

@@user-kg2lp8jz2r ok SHARK

[@clifton4566]

Yeah this is big shark propaganda, and what's the biggest shark? You guessed it, the megalodon.

[@cultreader9751]

My favorite shark related story is that as I got my older sister into sharks. So much so, she wrote a newspaper article about the proliferation of "fake documentaries" ( as she put it) of Shark Week 2014. She cites me as the reason for her interest in sharks.

[@boscorner]

That's so sweet!!

[@daytripper1023]

I still remember watching this when it first aired. I had it on while I was working on a college project. I wasn’t watching the screen closely, which hilariously led to me believing that this was a real documentary. I told my best friend about it and had him over to watch the rerun. We both had a good laugh when we saw how terrible the CGI was when we were actually paying attention.

[@samantha__jayne__]

So my one of my biology professors has actually been on shark week multiple times and tbh, that gives him more street credit around campus than any other professor I know. Including my other professor that works with lasers! What can I say, sharks are cool!

[@robertborland5083]

Those folks need to work together sometime.

[@samantha__jayne__]

@@robertborland5083 I’d watch the laser sharks documentary

[@abihops8204]

“Where are you Meggydon” had me in stitches

[@jenmadkins]

Bruh the mermaid documentary came out when I was in middle school and I can remember watching it and going to school the next day where several of my classmates interrupted my English teacher to talk about mermaids and how there’s 100% “PROOF” they’re real

[@amach3639]

Here’s a real fun fact for you, I don’t know if anyone else remembers this but around the time the Megalodon documentary was shown they actually had an autograph signing with the cast of the documentary in the Riverhead, Long Island aquarium. And guess what, they still tried to present that the documentary was actually real.

[@UltravioletNomad]

"If I could make money by making people mad, I would." You just put into words the current state of social media, politics, tech giants, and civil engineering.

[@gunfiend5175]

Dude sharks are rad as hell, I love em. Its sad some of them are almost extinct..

[@GenericProtagonist118]

It's because real life cartoonish supervillains exist and they convinced people that good is dumb.

[@invaderzimzim4561]

Yeah poachers are awesome

[@kittycatmeowmeow963]

@@GenericProtagonist118 lol!😆

[@kittycatmeowmeow963]

Sharks are rad, but I still think octopuses are cooler.🐙 But that's just me.