The Alien Took One Look At The Human Pet And Nearly Had A Heart Attack | HFY | A Short Sci-Fi Story

[@jimprice9703]

You can learn everything you need to know about a culture by how they treat their elderly, their children and their animals.

[@donaldscholand4617]

After the aliens departed, Buster looked at his human and said, "Do you think they bought it?" 😊 The human replied, "Hook, line and sinker! They'll never knew what hit them!"

[@rustycowell7264]

Its a good thing they didn't see our pet Bears, Orcas, Lions, Tigers, Wolves, Elephants or swimming with great whites, They would think we are insane, Oh right we kinda are

[@apsarasangreal84]

Haaa!!! Jumping outta perfectly good airplanes....

[@markmaher4548]

​@@apsarasangreal84That depends if you want to earn your wings & Maroon lid. UNTRIQUE PARATUS!

[@lazyprinny3265]

Cooking ourselves lightly just to look better

[@vladyvhv9579]

They did see our pet wolves. Albeit the dog mutation variants.

[@dgurevich1]

Honestly, I think the most terrifying would be chimps. Not gorillas, chimps specifically. Joe Rogan ain't wrong.

[@NavyVet9702]

With the choice of the voice of the narrator, I was half expecting it to turn into an ad for a Ford F-150.

[@thereader5099]

Kinda boring...

[@cynforgiven1221]

Much better than most of the AI narrators that are used though.

[@mrdino6391]

​​@@cynforgiven1221there are other KZbin channels that narrate these kinda stories like agro squirrel narrates, sin text, net narrator

[@gusty7153]

oh god it does sound like an f150 commercial

[@apsarasangreal84]

I know, right.... mee-ow

[@doodlePimp]

This story felt like it was not only read by an AI but also written by one.

[@theMPrints]

cause it was....

[@Ponchoman13]

Ok, so I'm not the only one that recognized that. Just doesn't sound "right."

[@sgdeluxedoc]

Yeh.. I noticed that the story didn't have the basic constructs like tension, release, and mystery.. (like, what's going to happen next). Essentially , it was dull. A story that had no reason for existing... Gotta be an AI that wrote it...

[@maxxcarver5502]

​@@sgdeluxedocWhat made the dog so interesting to the aliens in the first place!?? That's my biggest question. They never said.

[@chialeux514]

Absolutely. One way to tell is you have a bit of a story-line, but at about halfway point, it's followed by a large recap of what happened.

[@s3p4kner]

To add that dogs in their native form, wolves, have been part of the Human story for at least 10-12,000 years as far as the Indo-European sphere is concerned, which was around the time of the Younger-Dryas disaster. The unimaginable hardships that forced 2 species to come together, in spite of obvious hostility toward each other, and agree not to kill each other, but accept food in exchange for a place in the others pack is a testament to Humanities unique Empathy, Pragmatism and Resilience. It was not the result of romanticism, or softness [be still your cries of "But it's so CUTE!"]. There's a place for empathy, but in balance with mercy and compassion, and they're not the same thing. Notice I didn't say the Wolf joined the Human pack? It worked both ways. Then we turned them into Chihuahuas.

[@kevinkocher9347]

The merryweather meme origin of dogs

[@maxxcarver5502]

So my biggest question is..... What made the dog so interesting in the first place!!??? 🤷‍♂️

[@lincolnhodge2371]

judging by the thumbnail , it would be because he is a good boy

[@KallenMalefic]

Realistically, dogs should not be pets. They are born killers, hunters, literally made for that. Yet we took them and give them belly rubs.

[@VadulTharys]

Imagine if they had found out about war dogs.

[@marcoscaba3846]

This is actually a great story. The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau seems to be a major source of inspiration for this story. The narration is very similar to what Cousteau would say during his shows. The crew of their ship "The Calypso" really pioneered our current understanding of nature and need to protect it.

[@terryhayward7905]

At last a positive comment that I totally agree with. I guess that we are of the minority commenters that understand empathy.

[@marcoscaba3846]

@@terryhayward7905 We may be few but we're still in the fight.

[@fictionjunkie]

I like how instead of humans being overpowered or somehow having more advanced weaponry than space fairing races, it's cultural anthropology bringing a paradigm shift.

[@procrastinator9]

The over-use of the words "vast" "endless" "countless" "tapestry" "innumerable" etc., in these HFY stories makes me think they are nearly all AI generated tripe.

[@jonathandixon209]

Same. I was just starting to wonder that. It would both be incredible that AI could create it, but also shows obvious deficiencies. They repeat phrases and interesting twists to story structure. I'll stick to human-read channels as they tend to pick stories that at least don't have these failings.

[@KaiHenningsen]

@@jonathandixon209 Whatever it is, there are so many channels with the exact same style of over-floral language and AI-generated visuals, someone is clearly farming here.

[@mikeloeven]

@@KaiHenningsen The stories themselves come from reddit but the youtube channels take them and use AI for narration and visuals. HFY is pretty popular and there are a few channels that cite sources and have permission to do the narration but many dont and just rip them wholesale so you want to focus on the channels that cite the author and have permission and if you see the same story narrated on a site without proper citations report the fuck out of it

[@procrastinator9]

I'd say the lack of twists is evidence of AI. These stories are so ham-fisted in their obviousness that they are either written by a 5th grader with a thesaurus or they are AI. And most of these are based on such a stupid premise that it is clear that someone simply typed in to a program "write a story in which humans are awesome." In the dozens I've tracked, so far only the one in which the Humans are called "Those who Run" has any art and irony and humanity. That one is clearly written by a real human artist. @@jonathandixon209

[@jephninety5434]

Definitely AI generated, plus some word choices are exactly what you get from spell-check: peaked instead of piqued, as in “Their interest was piqued.” also the word “four" for “fore”. Admittedly, this was from the auto-generated written dialog generated from the verbal dialog.. Alswo, the story is so predictable and simplistic. Not to mention repetitive.

[@EstebanGuitarez]

33 minutes to tell a 12 minute story padded with effusive Ai dribble.

[@DataStorm1]

hmm, think it was notably about 3 minutes of content, and nowhere the title was anywhere close of descriptive.

[@fjanson2468]

@@DataStorm1 If even that, I've never heard so much compassion, empathy, understanding, diversity, and pointless drivel in a single story.

[@DataStorm1]

@@fjanson2468 yeah, a lot on HFY is just padding and padding over padding... over superfluous padding and that is even over ginormous superfluous lengthening padding, and even then its not enough, for it has to be general hubbub what is not even story. There are few good ones that come from it, like the "snap" story on hfy (just search "hfy snap" and you'll find it)... tho you must like dark stuff...

[@jeffhall4228]

I think I felt my testosterone levels fall listening to this. Flower power.

[@vladyvhv9579]

It's sappy, but at least a change of pace from the "oh no, some alien species pissed off the humans again".

[@atathesteelcrownedqueen8070]

😂

[@JohnSheffield1963]

Tourists often come away with impressions from the places they visit that the people who live there would find naive or incomplete. I don't think this is any worse than a lot of the first contact stories where the aliens come away from it with either a desire to exterminate or enslave humanity, or find humans superior or unstoppable.

[@captainamerica6525]

Hmmm, maybe they didn't quite get to the empathy and emotional bonds of a komodo dragon.

[@DavidWilsonsays]

The Predator Gaze's report was highly praised for it's thoroughness and comprehensive documentation, then promptly filed under ecological impact study. Engineer Bloknor thought to herself sounds like a nice place. She looked out her cabin window at the planet as the Resource Guzzler settled into orbit and then into contact with the surface. As the Resource Guzzler began chewing up the first few miles of the outer crust she couldn't help but feel sad but the feeling was brief as she realized just how stinking rich she was about to be.

[@spencermeldrum566]

I wonder if they spotted the chicken batteries and cattle slaughterhouses. Hmm.

[@labelledamedumanor4876]

If they did, they might have been somewhat disgusted, but what do our alien friends eat themselves?

[@Jack-pm1ve]

Did they ever mention what the signal was that tracked to the dog?

[@vision-of-dog]

No, but apparently it had a high value of "interestingness"

[@fabricioazevedo2361]

Probally a microchip for pets...

[@Sheeettt-y2z]

Imagine they just caught an enraged tiger with bloodlust.

[@ekimaulthar2044]

"Another team from the Predator's Gaze explored the Northern Polar region, Where they found an old bearded human who was able to inexplicably able to get his antlered herd animals to pull his sled through the air."

[@OwaissaAltheaDickey]

Hey ET...if ya think the wolf is scary, you should see my Chihuahua 😂😂😂❤❤❤❤👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@s3p4kner]

UN: All alien explorers are to be sent to Australia henceforth. Let them get all teary eyed about our symbiotic relationships with apex-predators over there and tell them not to tough anything, not even the plants.

[@LisjeVal]

My husband always held that pound for pound, the domestic housecat is the most efficient predator on the planet, yet we welcome them into our homes. Actually, one of our cats I argued would be the best home defense against an intruder. If someone got hit with him full face, they'd turn and run! I agree however, this story is ridiculously wordy.

[@s3p4kner]

The cat is built to ambush and wrestle it's prey, the dog runs it down with jaws clamped. It's like comparing a sprinter to an MMA fighter. Watching our cat leap at our German Shepherd, fangs at the throat and front paws wrapped tight around the neck ... yes cats are efficient XD Though I've never had one that would endanger itself against home intrusion, they have Human slaves for that, no?

[@robertescalante1154]

Yes! Another sci-fi channel. I'm liking these audio books. ^_^

[@VitaNocturno]

Find another one that's better. This one's got either horrid grammar or is just an AI.

[@dartmart9263]

The Galaxy goes on to embrace the Empathy Movement. Then they are all conquered by a new race of aliens. :)

[@littleblackcat2273]

So what did they think about the human animal bonds wtih chickens, sheep, goats and cows?

[@jimtaylor4302]

Never did learn what made the dog stand out of all the animals on Earth. And when they ran into the man and dog on the walk, why did they speak to the man instead of the dog ? Maybe the dog has a different view of the relationship. I have been seeing a number of ads on TV asking for donations to save animals; usually from the abuse of humans. Or they could have landed close to a slaughterhouse and viewed the animal-human relationship. Heck, they could have observed the interaction of mosquitoes and humans for some real interaction. Instead they saw 1 happy man and dog.

[@markalan3108]

well thank goodness the Giorgulins didn't witness a feral hog hunt in the southern U.S.

[@CareyBilley]

It's truly sad that humanity doesn't understand it's own uniqueness and responsibility as the dominant species and how everything is symbiotic to the other on Earth and when you cause the death of an aspect of Earth's biodiversity you hurt and effect everything else in the process. Peace, Love, Understanding and Accountability are how humanity and the planet grows and evolves, the Earth will do it with us or without us so we should grow and evolve with it.

[@hodin2023]

Before i finish listening to the video, I'd say they did not spend enough time on earth to get a true feel for how we as humans interact with each other. Perhaps this is many hundreds of years into earths history.

[@kinngrimm]

good they they didn't visit a slaughter house after seeing animal transporters going there: "actually we got to go ... fast" The ripples through eons would be rather different.

[@LS-uv9gg]

My god, this was hideous.

[@cindaschuster6725]

Great story! 💙👍🏼

[@rogeliozamora9264]

Kinda reminds us of two things: "The human mind, once stretched by a new idea, will never go back to its original dimension." - Oliver Wendell Holmes The First Cosmic Law: the Law of UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS; where everything created by God is created out of love. And love that fosters unity, understanding, compassion, empathy, and the service to others - since we are all CONNECTED one way or the other.

[@jamesboothjr8783]

Very interesting story I have really enjoyed this one thank you and please keep them coming

[@cantharelluscibarius2244]

i just love how their contact was written lol no govenrment involved just PGC: *Randomly warps in* Random humans with their pets: WTF ALIENS ARE REAL??? PGC: hello there we come in peace don't worry! *points at pet* Could you please explain this thing in particular? Like not your hhistory or anything we don't care but what about this animal? Human: ... I mean... huh.. sure? *Does so* PGC: Okay thanks great bye! *leaves without elaborationg a single bit...*

[@patrickkayser]

profoundly empathy champions profoundly empathy champions profoundly empathy champions cosmos legacy profoundly empathy champions legacy bloom

[@lincolnhodge2371]

well the predators gaze sounds like something that triggers spidermans spider sense or a pedos special move in an anime . or a hostile scout ship i think the name of the ship should be the observes gaze

[@brookerickettson4950]

Every time this story says “Predator” I cannot help but think of the sci-fi Hollywood species of alien hunters. It would have been a vastly different movie franchise if those came to Earth looking to study the different life forms , not hunt challenging species. Then brought empathy to the universe inspired by a human and their dog.

[@mikep9690]

A few of these stories are worth listening to but the majority are just crap , either written by an AI or a 12 year old . Bravo 👏 to the 12 year Olds, I hope you got an A .

[@VitaNocturno]

If this is original content, then say so. If it's from Reddit, also say so. If this is something you had an AI dump out and voice, you owe it to viewers to **say so**

[@GerryDT]

I liked this.

[@AlexMaurin-qx2xb]

here comes a terran pit bull, he's about to culturally enrich your planet.

[@wilsoncrunch1330]

...and hat about the animals we eat instead of make pets from. I would think the aliens would have found a conundrum with the differential attitude between pet and food animal.

[@chrismoss8409]

Luckily, they did not look land in Australia

[@gvuedgjnfri]

They were amazed by the biodiversity of earth, I wonder what they would have thought if they would have showed up before humanity started the 6th major Extinction event of the planet.

[@DarkHorseSki]

Failed captions... sigh. Not really much of a sci-fi story... particularly not a HFY one. Plus, how could the aliens ignore the harvesting of animals? How could the aliens not see when humans have animals fight each other? How could they not find the humans who get intimate with animals?

[@fabricioazevedo2361]

Lots of animals forge interspecies bounds. Dogs and humans are not that rare. Try crows and wolfs.

[@shadowflame2247]

I'd like to read these, rather than listening too them, Can I get a link to a site I can read it on?

[@willtabacchi1408]

This story begs a second part where the concept of pets spread though the galaxie .

[@vladyvhv9579]

Coyote: See? I told You having humans domesticate wolves would pay off. God: Ok. Fine. You win that bet. (hands Coyote $1)

[@scotte2815]

Oh dear god! I weep that they didn't include another 20 minutes of dialog about how their sensitive but highly trained ears were used to enhance their skill of exploring the vast expansive grandure of the huge and very very big universe that expanded endlessly before them as well as behind them and beyond even the range of their advanced and sophisticated sensor arrays that are carefully arranged on their specialized ships dual that allows then to scan the vast expanse of the cosmos Blah, blah Blah

[@tleecollins9070]

They need to observe the Tundra wolves hunt reindeer and bison.

[@vd00]

A bit disappointing! I was waiting for the other shoe to drop any moment now, but no...

[@sam11182]

I have played the game "PREY" from Bethesda. In it, the only enemy you fight is the Typhon. The Typhon have 0 mirror neurons and the are rather advanced but they are just endlessly drifting space and they attack all planets. Mindless kinda. Just destroy. And here you have the aliens reaching out. So different XD

[@CasaDelGato]

I notice there is no link to the original story and author.

[@SciFiTales1]

I am the author and I own all the rights

[@CasaDelGato]

@@SciFiTales1 Ahh, that's why I couldn't find it on Reddit. I'd love to read the story, guess I'll have to attempt to read the rather messy transcript.

[@marshalln79]

Who had the heart attack?

[@labelledamedumanor4876]

I reckon whoever authorised the mission after receiving the results of the crew.

[@terryhayward7905]

You love your dog, cat, rabbit, horse, goat, whatever your animal friend is. You love your close family, your close friends, even the people that you work with. You love from a distance, celebrities, singers, actors. Yet for some unexplainable reason, you, ( the collective, not personal you ) hate and despise the people of a different country merely because they have a different colour of skin. How does that make ANY sense at all.

[@problu9586]

Beings able to explore galaxies at will would probably choose to ignore modern Earth and its inhabitants as being of no consequence, not worth any closer look.

[@RodWick]

The AI that wrote this is WOKE as Foo

[@JohnSheffield1963]

This isn't any more flawed or incomplete than a lot of the "humans are to be feared" stories floating around here. Tourists often come away with impressions from the places they visit that the people who live there would find naive or incomplete.

[@gvuedgjnfri]

7:16 so they could detect a dog and its emotions from space and that was strange enough for them to investigate?

[@saccherrirhysha2660]

When my Amazon heard my roomates say birds aren't real, "WT&."

[@chialeux514]

Sadly, the heart attack proffered in the click-baity title never happened. Cardiac failure would have to wait until the Jourgoulins found out about Man-Chicken love. But then it would be too late - much, much too late - to unsee THAT.

[@atathesteelcrownedqueen8070]

I swear every one of this narrators videos way over uses some word, or set of words. It’s like it gets stuck in a loop almost, this wasn’t as bad as some of the others but this is definitely not my favorite channel for sci-fi.

[@patrickandrews8714]

Pet store specimen collection sites!

[@howlingcommandose]

Bad AI written story. Too much repetition.

[@sgdeluxedoc]

For this kind of story, you just have to have a real person narrating. The AI voice kinda ruined what was a really good storyline... err... Check that.. it turned out to be a terrible storyline!

[@Denpachii]

This got rather booring. Dropped around 15:00 in. Poorly titled. Narration was good though.

[@eriksherwin]

def ai

[@sandralouth3103]

AI voice is annoying.

[@Cohen.the.Worrier]

yawn

[@danwells9525]

Please learn to spell 'piqued'! ☹

[@huynguyen-bm3rz]

Ok

[@rajanne2947]

The Jorgulans didn't come across the pig and cow slaughter houses? The chicken farms where birds can only stand straight in 4 square inches? Where male birds are culled? The French cuisine utilizing overfed young geese and lambs?

[@omerkursadnarinoglu3818]

If aliens came like that they will be suprised. We as humans quite pacifists and don't seek conflict at first sight right? RIGHT? Nope buster would be send to take a taste at first sight. Come on we are a race that can live in Australia afterall

[@CareyBilley]

Yep, they didn't mention humanities fear of everything it doesn't understand and historical bloodlust towards killing each other over perceived differences that don't actually exist.

[@welshpete12]

Reading the comments shown here . Gives us any understanding of the limits of general education in the US . Which stifles the intellect .

[@warpedweirdo]

Another lame story, written by someone or something with little or no analytical ability.

[@fredrich1706]

Couldn’t listen more than 10 minutes. I hate ai stories and voices.

[@gracecollins8415]

These stories aren't entertaining anymore, they are thinly disguised lectures and l, for one, am already fed up to the back teeth with diversity. In fact I suspect ''diversity'' is more likely to end us than any AI.

[@CareyBilley]

You have what I call willful ignorance with a pinch of bigotry.

[@malcolmanderson6735]

More AI trash

[@pauldirac808]

Just thinking the same .

[@XxSoraMifunexX]

Pretty much the entire second half of this was just repeating "they learned how to show empathy and this changed the universe", like, 20 long-winded times. I was waiting for a punchline that was never coming. I'm alright with an AI _NARATOR_ , but what was clearly an AI story too just never reached a peak. Weird, almost like being creative is a human thing or something.

[@JohnSheffield1963]

After listening to several of these, I am more interested in learning to use these A.I. tools. When I last worked with speech synthesis, the voice quality was much lower, but I keep running into poorly designed pronunciation libraries.

[@hellikerhelliker1159]

Love the story bruh keep up the good work you got my sub

[@johnhillbilly8625]

are you a year ten school student trying to write the story all the extra words that just annoy like danced in a ballet it is so annoying I teaches rave on about this stuff and it turned every kid in the class of stories