TikTok's Terrible Mermaid Conspiracies

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[@notanarmadillo]

I’m no marine biologist, but as far as I’m aware, dolphins can make more than just the one noise

[@kassadydavis7191]

Also one of videos literally just sounds like a humpback(?) whale. Exactly like some type of whale p

[@lukehubbard9676]

K k k k k, waaa wa wa kkkkk aaaahhg WAAA WAAA, OOOOOOA A A A K K K K K K K, OOOOOOOOUUUUOO

[@yobekorb]

Yess I picture an intelligent one with a British accent name Jarvis. With a Monocle and a top hat.

[@Beenman2210]

No there is only 1 type of species of dolphin, whale, seal, etc. and these animals have no differences in sound whatsoever among individuals

[@jennajuice743]

@@lukehubbard9676 lol there’s a translate to English button under your comment 😂😂

[@JohnGenericName]

I love how they say "No way that's a dolphin, that sounds like a siren!" Like they never think "Hey, maybe we came up with those legends about sirens to explain why dolphins sound fucking wild."

[@keylimetea]

They do sound weird

[@LaakeaM21]

Or better yet the assumption that they, people who are trying to prove sirens exist because supposedly they've never personally encountered one, would just Intuitively know what a siren sounds like

[@TheAbigailDee]

Well actually, dolphins aren't real and when they think it's dolphins it's actually sirens.

[@SolaceMcfly]

@@TheAbigailDee don't you tell me dolphins aren't real😤

[@OushiY]

Actually the first thing I thought was ice sounds coupled with open water.

[@galatea742]

I’m professional mermaid lol. My tail is made of silicone and was as expensive as hell! It is a brilliant experience when you make a child’s day though!

[@bigasspockets]

Hi, how do you get into professional mermaiding? I’m interested but I have never even thought of this as a possible profession before 😄

[@sleepragent_]

@@bigasspockets lol I had no idea that was a job

[@caitlinjopepe541]

@@bigasspockets I can't tell you what they do, but I've seen pro mermaids at an aquarium before. They had a whole routine, full tails, it was fun.

[@2doot]

Man, I want to be one so bad. I even have my own tail, fabric instead of silicone though. I wish I was a stronger swimmer, though. Seems to kind of an important skill to have as a mermaid-for-hire :P

[@xXAcidBathXx]

Hey I remember this! As a kid I really wanted to be a professional mermaid, closest thing I’d get to a real one!

[@Dr.Sunshine_MD]

i love how she’s like “i’m your local mermaid 🧜‍♀️” and then she’s like “i don’t know if mermaids are real. Do you guys think mermaids are real?” like damn that’s a strange identity crisis

[@gravymilk8244]

not completely sure abt if she does this as a job but i do know that there are some people that work as "mermaids" by putting on silicon tails typically at an aquarium (i believe) for entertainment purposes. but if she doesnt have that as a career thats very weird lmao

[@hedgehog3180]

She's Descarte's greatest apprentice.

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

I’d like to thank the Creators of Luca for inventing Mermaids and Italians

[@akkar8726]

It’s a miracle that the genius of Pixar exists to create the existence of mythical water babies and sweaty pizza monkeys.

[@tbwentmia]

ratio

[@gabrielsantos2430]

@@tbwentmia I ratio your ratio.

[@bobdoplay66]

I think someone is trying to make Italians in real life

[@tbwentmia]

@@gabrielsantos2430 Damn 😔

[@CurrentTheMerboy]

I can confirm merpeople are real, I'm typing this underwater on my splashtop.

[@Shizuzuka]

Damn ratting your whole species out for clout

[@CurrentTheMerboy]

@@Shizuzuka We have to resort to this to tell you all you need to keep the ocean clean. #teamseas

[@egyptiangodlibi1013]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TimeForDunston]

Thank you for this, for a second I thought you were one of those types of people, but then you mentioned your splashtop and I laughed.

[@beastie420]

OMG TELL AERIAL I SAID HI 👋🥰💖💝

[@esobelisk3110]

I love how he’s like “this doesn’t sound like a dolphin. must be a siren!” Like, buddy, if that was a siren, you would be dead. That’s literally the entire point of the singing.

[@gr33ngirlsea]

I'll bet the dolphins are where the myth of sirens might have come from! (And obviously, birds, too.)

[@cynister7384]

​@@gr33ngirlseaWasn't it like sailors seeing manatees or something?

[@muffinghostie]

⁠@@cynister7384no that’s more mantees than sirens. Sirens used to be depicted as bird women different from harpies it just changed throughout history to be also a human fish person.

[@princessaria]

One funny thing to me is that the origin of the “siren” myth wasn’t even that they were sea creatures. They were originally said to be bird women, described similarly to harpies. It wasn’t until the late 7th-early 8th Century that there were documented descriptions of them as part fish, and even then, most descriptions retained the part-bird origin story. It wasn’t until the Middle Ages that they were closer to universally thought of as mermaid-like creatures.

[@internetsafespace]

What we do in the shadows had the part bird siren lady!!!

[@calowenby1654]

Oh man, harpies used to scare me a lot when I was younger. I remember thinking of most mythical creatures as really cool and being surprised at how genuinely scared I was when I thought about harpies.

[@someoneidk308]

That makes much more sense to me! Many birds are wonderful at mimicking human speech, and they can release either very pretty or horrendous birdsong. I can definitely see people taking some weird occurrences in the woods and going "yeah let's gtfo the birds are going to murder us all"

[@achingjack]

man, it would be cool to see a creature design, maybe a movie or game monster, that combined the bird-like siren and the fish-like siren. I'm imagining some elements of speculative evolution where they pick traits of each of those that make the most sense for surviving from meal to meal and behaving the way sirens are supposed to

[@bugdrawsportraits]

that depends on the culture, in mine sirens are just regular looking women near forest rivers and streams - ghosts of women who were killed by men or killed themselves because of them, and they lure men to drown. Bird-women sirens are from Greek mythology. I guess English should only use "mermaid" for fish-women, instead of mixing up the sirens in there. :D I just remembered fish-woman siren (mermaid? lmao) was a thing in China too. Yeah, basically, I think they should maybe just stick to using "mermaid" for sea related creatures, but I've seen people saying "siren" is the bad one that lures with her song, and "mermaid" is basically the same, but she's cute and Ariel like and just chills there.

[@samr9483]

It would be funny if some of these are people wearing mermaid tails and just going swimming, haha. I swim with a mermaid tail sometimes and it's a lot of fun! I would find it hilarious if I ended up on some kind of conspiracy theory video though

[@CurrentTheMerboy]

Hullo fellow mer!

[@carolinainterprets]

I'll make a conspiracy about you

[@erinniccoinn1gh]

be the unsolved mystery you want to see in the world

[@klop4228]

Of course you swim with a mermaid tail. How else is a mermaid supposed to swim? Nice try pulling the wool over our eyes, MERMAID. Wake up, sheeple, mermaids are real!

[@floralfae16]

Hey me too! It's honestly so much fun

[@nopeitschammy8937]

Translation for the second mermaid clip at 2:30 "Sa video na ito, nakuhanan ang isang nilalang lumalangoy sa dagat" "In this video, a (sea) creature was spotted (filmed) swimming in the ocean" At 3:09 "Kumakampay pa ang kulay kahel na buntot nito" "Swinging its orange colored tail" (the clip is originally from a famous TV show here in the philippines. It's called ' kapuso mo jessica soho ' where they cover all kinds of stuff like the supernatural to helping people in need) I really tried my best translating the lines I hope this helped!!! c:

[@HollyHummingbirdriver]

What language is it?

[@adamb6130]

@@HollyHummingbirdriver tagalog

[@Daye04]

You're the real MVP!

[@beth4928]

Thank you!

[@billysbrokenhands2747]

Lmao, I guessed as much. I’m not even an expert, & I know it’s either a dolphin or porpoise (could even be a dugong, the video is too low quality to tell).

[@cosspider4876]

FUN FACT: The dolphin noise, commonly used to bleep curse words, is actually an Australian bird, of course it is, making its mating call. So when you here the dolphin noise it is a horny bird.

[@a-bird-lover]

it's a kookaburra noise sped/pitched up, and it's not really a mating call, just a general call for communication

[@hupla2185]

Anyone wanna talk about how she can just vanish like that? How do we know she’s not trying to use mermaids as a front to hide the fact she’s CLEARLY a chameleon person?

[@sid6261]

I would like to mention that all of the videos and pictures she’s using are ones that I obsessed over in 3rd grade back in the early 2000s. They’re old as hell and have also been debunked as not real lol. It crushed my childhood me’s heart but it’s funny to see all of them again

[@eminempreg]

The one thing I love about being a kid in modern times 80s- present. Is that almost all of us had a mermaid phase

[@loralea3142]

yea I kept waiting for the Fiji mermaid to pop up with its creepy little monkey face sewed onto a fish

[@keylimetea]

Bro same but like 4th grade

[@washedblue]

I don't understand how this happens in the year 2021 given a quick Google search will debunk almost everything, but oh, to be young and still believe in the Loch Ness monster again

[@TheAbigailDee]

This be breaking my heart ALL OVER AGAIN

[@lilym7105]

as someone currently working on a BoS in Marine Bio, mermaids are.... very improbable. For them to have not been well documented they probably would not breach the surface often and be deep sea creatures, and therefor would not be mammals. The chance for a non-mammalian vertebrate to evolve to strongly resemble a land mammal is very unlikely as they do not need the same limb formation in order to be mobile, instead using fins. Arms would create a lot of drag and would be inefficient for movement; a waste of energy. And while the ability to use tools and pick things up is generally beneficial, evolution is not intentional and the stages in-between short fins and long arms would be weeded out (arms/legs did not appear until after animals started moving to land). Of course a lot of this is simplified and I may have left some things out (and most people know these things logically), I have spent more time than I should have thinking about the viability of mermaids in my life. Now, what is surprisingly oftenly mistaken for mermaids are manatees and dugongs, of the order Sirenia (named so because of mermaids). At 2:30 I am very sure this is a dugong. Now I encourage anyone who is interested to of course do their own research, the ocean is cool! I'll get off my soapbox now

[@doubtful_seer]

So… what you’re saying is… fish are mermaids?!

[@sydneywilliams4796]

Thanks for this. It’s pretty interesting to hear the rough reasoning behind why this wouldn’t be a thing

[@doggytheanarchist7876]

Nice try ma'am. ;-) I almost bought it. But we all know that mermaids are the offspring of those humans Who got r***d by dolphins while on vacation. And coz they were so embarrassed about it they just threw their babies into the sea, and never ever took it to Jerry Springer.

[@-Desire]

Okay this is genuinely interesting and informative, thank you!

[@jamestomato1744]

No no stay on your soapbox, we need more people like you and less people like those out-of-their-mind mermaid conspiracy theorists.

[@aftism_]

Fun fact, if mermaids were real, they wouldn’t be slim, and they would most likely live around the depth of whales! They’d be midsize to plus-size, because the fat on the body would work the same as flubber on whales or seals/sea lions. If they had little fat on their bodies, they’d die of hypothermia. They’d also live around the depths of whales and other large ocean creatures for the same reasons large ocean life live deeper in the ocean. Instead of colorful fish tails, the tails would feel closer to the fins of dolphins and sharks. (Or maybe if you had a mermaid suit made out of silicon that feels like human skin)

[@royalblanket]

Dummy thicc mermaids

[@aftism_]

@@royalblanket oh yeah, you get it dude, thicc mermaids

[@bogwife7942]

i liked this better as a tumblr post...

[@aftism_]

@@bogwife7942 who said I ripped this from tumblr?

[@MariaTex3]

MEGA MERMAIDS that live deep deep in the ocean. Giant mermaids the size of the Kraken. Open your eyes, people!!!

[@srujanas.p.3392]

My lady really watched that mockumentary and thought the fictional part was that humans are apes 😂

[@megl.9470]

Jarvis bashing the sirens' song choices is a whole personality type

[@evee3164]

Damn three bots, one after the other? here’s a comment to break ur curse bestie

[@pizzajoke3561]

Yeah I’m just going through and reporting all of the bot comments. Dunno if they’re actually removed after you do that, but it can’t hurt

[@pizzajoke3561]

Just refreshed, they apparently are not actually removed, but hopefully KZbin people actually notice the ~100 spam alerts I sent them for every single bot comment on the video

[@teathesilkwing7616]

Jarvis? You mean jarfish?

[@miad6160]

@@teathesilkwing7616 I hate that this made me laugh

[@elusivemayfly7534]

“Jarfish Johnson,” lol. The judges would have also accepted “Starfish Johnson” or “Shark Fins Johnson.” That last one sounds like an old-timey mobster name.

[@shinymetagross1666]

Mess with Shark Fins Johnson and you'll be swimming with the fishes

[@FrenkTheJoy]

@@shinymetagross1666 I don't know you, but I think that might be the funniest thing you'll ever say.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

@@shinymetagross1666 LOL! Love it!

[@familyaccountgilbert7781]

Shark Fins Johnson is one of the shark mobsters in Shark Tale.

[@Tw0Dots]

@@FrenkTheJoy is that a compliment or an insult

[@clowchan]

Fun fact: a lot of old timey sailors (think 1400s-1500s) thought manatees and dugongs were actual mermaids. And judging by the videos here - the same thing is happening here with some people oops

[@BubbleBunnyy]

I find it so funny when people are like “it’s a THEORY we came from apes” like.. you do not understand a scientific theory. Also we still are apes even now lol.

[@Emihasdreamstoo]

Humans are really trying hard to put ourselves on the pedestal of non-animals…

[@DriscolDevil]

Gravity is just a theory, that's how we know it's fake.

[@hedgehog3180]

Exceptionally annoying apes too.

[@olive-ridley6080]

as a marine biologist - tiktok makes me so angry. it's not just crazy ocean conspiracies, but also people going viral for harassing marine mammals (which is extremely illegal in the US), spreading lies about certain marine species, or grossly misrepresenting issues with commercial fisheries (which granted many are flawed, but it's not as black-and-white as everyone on tiktok wants to claim). but most of these videos are either people in silicon tails, obvious hoaxes, or literally the coast guard rescuing someone from the water (3:45). I just got to the one at 10:10, that's literally not the only noise dolphins make. oh my god. they make so many sounds.

[@FlowceanSoul]

Tiktok angers me so much when it comes to marine life and fish in general. The way they treat sharks absolutely infuriates me too, I’ve seen too many videos of them acting like sharks are just MANEATERS when they’re literally not. I absolutely hate how much misinformation is spread around on there and people just soak it up as if it’s even true. Not to mention the blatant abuse of pet fish and people treating them like absolute TOYS. Just disgusting.

[@pulatelephonics]

@@FlowceanSoul tik tok is a hub for stupidity

[@codyboyles7708]

when I got to the bit about the dolphins I was just like. yes that is what dolphins sound like that is a noise that they make.

[@FlowceanSoul]

@@nuttbag6658 I LOVE AVNJ!!!!

[@olive-ridley6080]

@@codyboyles7708 yeah, there was another one later on that sounded like whales singing too. I don't think you would hear dolphins singing out of the water on a boat like that though, especially with the amount of noise boats make, but the sound can easily be edited over top of the video. I work out on boats and I've been definitely unintentionally closer on those boats a bunch of times to all sorts of cetaceans than I'm comfortable with hah and I've never heard any of their vocalizations from above the water. You would definitely be able to hear them and capture audio underwater though, but the sound wouldn't pass up between water and air, which have two very different densities, and sound that clear. sorry that was way more of a comment than I meant to write haha, I just get so annoyed at bullshit on tiktok

[@clairemartin5257]

Idea! Jarvis throws away everything he’s built and done to become Jarfish Johnswim, OUR local mermaid

[@superstellarhere]

how about jarfish johnfin???

[@clairemartin5257]

Hey oh! That’s pretty good :))

[@DetectiveJones]

12:26 Hes trying to pass it off as "well set him free" as a good cause but in reality this man is sacrificing that crab to whatever demon is chasing him

[@imperialguard451]

absolutely wild that they’re including videos that are just people happily swimming in those silicone mermaid tail things.

[@CurrentTheMerboy]

Probably not silicone - those are really expensive and only really for professionals. Most are probably people in fabric tails.

[@anoramactir]

People have thought manatees and dugongs were mermaids in the past... the second video definitely looked like one of those, and mermaid tail swimsuit bottom things are readily available on the internet. My local renaissance faire has mermaids you can meet every year that are humans in very cool costumes... I assume, anyway! THAT SAID watching the donation total go up the entire time this video was running has been awesome! ..BTW, in The Odyssey sirens are actually bird-women who live on a cliff above the ocean. They got conflated with fish-people much later.

[@comradevalence]

You're trying to tell me that there's an animal called a dugong that inspired the Pokémon Dewgong Why haven't I ever heard of it help

[@ssharkbait]

That’s why in the show What We Do in the Shadows the siren is just a weird chicken woman. I thought they were just being different.

[@fancypenguin2092]

@@comradevalence ummm actually the animal was based on the pokemon 😳

[@anna_banana414]

ive heard that the myth behind the reason the sirens went from bird women to fish women was because when hades kidnapped persephone, the sirens wouldn’t help look for her so zeus turned them into fish women. but then the story also gets reversed because there another saying that they were fish FIRST, and they wanted to help look for persephone so they asked to be given wings like birds so they could fly around and look easier lol. as a mythology nerd i just felt like sharing though

[@one_smol_duck]

the mermaids at the faire are real

[@emmathomson2584]

That sound he’s hearing out on the boat could literally be a machine moving 100km away. Sound carries extremely well in cold weather & across water.

[@aliveslice]

Except it's all staged

[@Orioncrowborne0808]

It is all staged,but the sounds they used for siren calls are whale songs,hmm,almost like humans were inspired by ocean animals and the sounds they make 🧐

[@spazpaz]

2:24 as an australian jarvis saying “this is so hard to follow” was SPOT on

[@First-name.Last-name]

i so badly want to know what this woman thinks skeletons look like bc I know she's not trying to convince me that's a decomposed mermaid

[@arson3921]

I would like to take this time to mention that, uh... Sirens aren't mermaids. Sirens are a greek mythological creature that aren't even fish, they're grotesque creatures that live on rocky coasts and sing songs that cause sailors to crash into the rocks and then they eat the corpses. Also there are many theories as to the origins of mermaid stories, but one is that they come from the first encounter with manatees because manatees have the most biologically similar vagina to humans which might have caused early sailors to believe they were part human. You read that correctly, the most common theory as to why mermaid stories exist is because some random sailors fiddlesticked manatees.

[@mastermarkus5307]

I have some doubts about sailors getting THAT close to manatees and then coming up with the half-woman, half-scaly-fish people 🤣. But yes, in Greek mythology, Sirens are specifically BIRD-women. In art of the time they usually have bird bodies but the head of a woman.

[@maximummax7232]

Hey, if you're a lonely sailor on a long sea trip...

[@odellelottering9375]

Yeah sirens are different to mermaids. I think that's what I appreciated about What we do in the shadows. It's such a weird and funny series and not at all educational but they had a siren in one episode and it really was just a bird lady with an alluring voice that ate victims. So. They were accurate at least

[@kat8559]

Yeah i always hear the manatees thing but nobody ever has a source they just say it like it's true and i'm supposed to believe it without reviewing the scholarship on the issue.

[@Bsperry]

Also the knees! I don't know exactly what it is but their tails look like human legs wrapped in a sleeve of flesh

[@anemooooos]

Ngl if someone's gonna be up close and personal with a siren it's definitely gonna be you, Jarvis.

[@odellelottering9375]

I read this before that part of the video so I just scrolled past. But I came back because he just said it and now this makes sense and is funny

[@lev668]

ngl if someone’s gonna be up close and personal with adele, it’s definitely gonna be jarvis

[@VesperEmm]

at 5:49, I think that was one of the works of an artist who combines monkey & fish remains to create a mermaid. I wish I could recall their name, but it looks like their work.

[@jaynedoh7823]

P.T. Barnum?

[@sparklestarspompomunicorn]

7:53 but jarvis _there are many benefits to being a marine biologist_

[@GarfieldPhone]

I know an artist who makes found footage style art typically with cryptids and stuff, he made a mermaid piece for MerMay 2021, in the post clarifying it was edited like all of his other posts but people took it and posted it claiming it to be a real photograph without his consent, really awful how people will steal the work of artists to spread lies.

[@msjkramey]

Whats their handle? That sounds really cool

[@codytoeung5089]

Same, I'd like to see

[@fantastical-daydreamer]

OH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT TREVOR HENDERSON :00

[@GarfieldPhone]

@@fantastical-daydreamer n...no? Not all found footage art is trevor Henderson bro. To be fair they are friends but either way cmon bro

[@GarfieldPhone]

@@msjkramey I'm so sorry, KZbin keeps deleting it for some reason. Its tra_aivedlaV backwards

[@anthrohuman8272]

Dugongs, which are a sea creature, are often mistaken for mermaids because they have a bi-lobed tail. It’s actually thought that they are where the myth of the mermaid came from 🧜‍♀️

[@Undivided_X]

Sadly the dugongs are dying out because of degradation of seagrass meadows.

[@imuttx]

ain’t that a pokemon

[@Undivided_X]

@@imuttx the pokemon Dewgong is based on the real-life dugong.

[@puddle3551]

Dugongs are thicc as hell as im here for it

[@Mossprite21]

I just look up what a dugong looks like and they are very cute and I love them. I thought they would look more like the Pokémon but I am not disappointed

[@hatsterical2475]

5:20 As an Australian, I'd like to say you're doing pretty freaking good with your accent. Better than a LOT of people I've heard trying to mimic us.

[@digitaal_boog]

5:43 that’s a monkey torso stitched onto a fish. It was in ripleys believe it or not

[@ThatCybertChannel]

Not gonna lie... I think I'm just hear for the jumpscares too. The comedic timing is chef's kiss.

[@austinwhitmore8174]

wrong 'hear'

[@austinwhitmore8174]

@@TheReal_Pumpkian nope

[@TheReal_Pumpkian]

oh hi

[@TheReal_Pumpkian]

@@austinwhitmore8174 sry

[@emptysekai]

"hear" 💀💀

[@atree9284]

“Brazilian coastline” ah yes thank you for clarifying this, because that’s very specific and not at all too big. Not at all. This is a perfectly fine location that anyone can go to!

[@Killerbangs4]

damn bots

[@irishempire9811]

Its a very small area of land, the same size of Chile's coastline, not big at all

[@Tw0Dots]

“So where do you live?” “North America” “Canada? USA?” “America” “What part”? “Idk man, the state with all the people in it.”

[@toothfairy10133]

"where do you wanna meet up today?" "the city" "alr see you there :)"

[@Mamoreno0215]

I'm guessing this woman went to Disneyland once as a kid, met Ariel, and automatically believed that mermaids are real

[@katyfry2659]

4:27 hashtag REMAINS????

[@maryanysiadi4576]

Love how mermaids, sirens and gorgons are all different mythological entities and how a person who is supposed to know the difference... Doesn't.

[@HexagonThatReallyLikesVinegar]

Mermaid = Fish Lady Siren = Singing Fisg Lady that commits murder Gorgon = Lady with snake hair that also commits murder

[@hithere5136]

@@HexagonThatReallyLikesVinegar sirens were originally bird ladies actually

[@homogei]

​@@HexagonThatReallyLikesVinegar siren and mermaids are synonymous in spanish. made my time learning english a living hell

[@weedwhackeraccident]

That's like an unholy combination of the classic "Sirens are fish women like mermaids" and "Medusa is the race, not the name" misconceptions

[@cursed-cat9126]

If mermaids were ACTUALLY real, there'd be a breaking news article of one them choking and dying on a long peice of Dragon Tail chewing gum in 2013

[@alinazuka9143]

your profile is so silly billy

[@cursed-cat9126]

@@alinazuka9143 thank you :333

[@clockworkpanda8]

10:15 those high piched chirp sounds are not dolfin sounds thats a cookabara bird on like 20x speed. Its what people use for dolfun sounds in bad movies. Look it up if you dont trust me.

[@Eyeball44]

Aussie girl: “He already knows it’s not a dolphin” Fisherman: “it’s Dolphins singing”

[@lauriex8832]

3:12 I got your back, Jarvis. The language they're speaking is Tagalog. The woman who did the voice over was Jessica Soho, the host of the popular TV show in the Philippines (Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho). It's quite common for KMJS to cover fake footages sent by people on the internet. I mean, one time, someone sent a footage of a woman puking out frogs so the KMJS team and a few investigators went to said woman's house to investigate, only to come to the conclusion that it was all staged.

[@fossposs6408]

i think i remember seeing the frog episode when i was a kid lmao

[@avatarchristine]

wow glad to see some fellow pinoys here! not surprised by the amount of "mermaid footage" from the philippines in this video either, we are in an archipelago after all lol

[@e.d.5766]

This is the equivalent of someone trying to prove to you that werewolves are real by showing you videos of their dog.

[@nicolec5472]

If anyone is gonna be up close and personal with sirens, it’s gonna be you bro! 14:23

[@bruna7534]

This "remains" are actually from a local artist, he made a couple of them and photographed, this white one is the most famous. I don't remember his name but it's easy to find. It's literally a sculpture

[@gspurr2386]

Why do people call Mermaids "Sirens" when Sirens are half women, half bird who, like Mermaids, lure men into the ocean with their singing and eat them?

[@CurrentTheMerboy]

The terminology of humanoid sea creatures is quite spotty. Even just saying mermaid I consider innacurate, as it acts like mermen dp not exist. Personally, we prefer merpeople or merfolk.

[@mastermarkus5307]

'Cause people are wacky and conflated the two somehow. The same thing happened with fauns and satyrs. Now people think of them as the same, but in Greek mythology, satyrs are humanoid creatures with horse ears, a horse tail, and apparently a constant erection.

[@joujou264]

None of these wackos have done any actual research on the shit they believe. They just do "research", AKA, typing "real mermaid" into KZbin.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

I don't know, but it's been a thing for at least decades that people think of sirens as basically mermaids that seduce people with songs. It's not these stupid tiktokers' faults.

[@TableClothPersona]

@@FrenkTheJoy Yes!! when i was little everybody thought that sirens were just "evil" mermaids! its definitely not the tiktokers faults lol, it's been like that for a long time

[@basementdwellercosplay]

The thing is if it was a siren call, he would throw his phone and start going into the see. That's their whole thing trapping men with their voices

[@th223inoue]

There's a lot of "mermaid sightings" in the Phillippines due to the prevalence of "dugongs" aka seacows. Their shadows look very much like humanoid mermaids swimming.

[@maple22moose44]

about the sirens (8:56), they are from greek mythology, and they lived on a pair of islands and their songs were to lure in people as prey. The songs sounded completely different to different people as well

[@avo8479]

Jarvis, that first clip was in Tagalog (one of the major languages in the Philippines) and it just says “You can see something moving from its butt like it’s swimming”, which really is as dry as you’d expect

[@roguestowl2280]

thanks for this! I was wondering what language that was and what they were saying.

[@fruitbranch]

pretty sure i"ve seen that episode before. wasn't that whole mermaid claim debunked?

[@lauriex8832]

@@fruitbranch Definitely

[@mariahjohnson9784]

In middle school, I had a notebook that was filled with mermaid and werewolf notes. We passed it back and forth for an e tire school year. I was the mermaid and I routinely made up spells and charms that I thought mermaids would use. We filled up multiple notebooks. It was so fun!

[@CurrentTheMerboy]

You might like tail-swimming then - there's a pretty good sized community of people that wear costume tails and swim in them, living out their mermaid and mermen dreams. :)

[@prettysparklez1195]

That sounds fun as hell I'd do that now tbh

[@rider338]

I like how mermaids are something no person or underwater robot has ever gotten lucky enough to see is spotted a multitude of times by a guy with a phone on a crabbing vessel

[@goblinbabe6664]

guys I think the mermaids got jarvis

[@Bound420.mp4]

He got a second channel

[@joshlangan1659]

Jarvis is the siren, and the sound is just him trying his best. Sure got my attention!

[@jesstheawfullyhideousmess4922]

shhhh no one's supposed to know about that

[@lordjacesearcy9382]

if mermaids existed, they would be whales, actually. The tail shape, being similar to dolphins, implies that mermaids would be cetaceans, the same family as toothed whales and mysticeti

[@zeeclirio2080]

Yeah and it doesn't make sense for them to be half human (mammal) and half fish ! I always thought that we needed to represent them with a tail that's more like cetacea's

[@Queen_Cnidarian]

Sonce thay have teeth, they woukd probably be odonteceties.

[@jamestomato1744]

Great now I'm imagining Jarvis just on a boat one day going "Don't know why I'm on a boat but here I am", and then just hears a siren singing Rolling in the Deep but with an operatic voice, and Jarvis just diving into the sea and relentlessly swimming to the source of the vocals.

[@ursulap.6722]

Literally LOLed at 15:00

[@SpaceStationJukebox]

just from a scientific standpoint, mermaids would look terrfiying. Look at every other mammel that is found in the ocean, mermaids would look nothing like humans. Most likely they would have to carry a lot of fat to keep warm, their skin would be thick to protect it from constant contact with water, they wouldn't have long flowing hair, and they would have some form of hunting tools (sharp teeth, claws, etc.) they wouldn't look like what disney want to portray.

[@DriscolDevil]

There is nothing scientific about this. They live in a fantasy world. A lot of these people are also flat earthers and think adrenachrome is extracted from kids tortured by celebrities. It's funny to laugh at, but there is a dark side to these delusions and it often ends in violence. Tiktok makes this worse by pushing this stuff specifically to people that are vulnerable to it. We saw this exact same thing happen with youtube, hence all the strange rules and algorithm stuff that people just complain about now.

[@TheColossalMixel]

Mermaids already exist, it’s called women that can swim

[@teathesilkwing7616]

Proof that one of these “women” exist?

[@ussinussinongawd516]

@@teathesilkwing7616 your mom

[@stardust915]

Yay I'm a mermaid!

[@hannahmilby4870]

Major props to Jarvis on that really good Australian accent

[@macdaddy5880]

If those had been sirens he would have jumped in the water and tried to swim to them before dying on the pointy rocks they sit upon. Literally that’s how the legend goes. Sirens sit surrounded by deadly sharp rocks in the water. They sing and boats and sailors nearby try to get to them because they are in a trance and infatuated with them. But then they die on the rocks and the sirens eat their bodies.

[@digapygmy70]

When my youngest sister was a kid, my other sister invented a game called Mermaid Hour to keep her happy when she was bored (basically that there was a special hour where you could turn into a mermaid). But she ended up becoming convinced it was real, and when she figured out that it wasn't, she nearly killed our other sister lmao

[@skylerricketts7392]

dang what was the game that sounds lit

[@omachao6856]

She WHAT

[@dunkey759]

Ma'am, she did what?

[@flaviac6556]

turn into a mermaid? how?

[@fynnknight558]

Sorry uh Is that last line an exaggeration?

[@lilyrice2841]

The first "mermaid" us probably a really light colored orca, judging by the saddle patch on it's back, also yes, orcas can be brown or cream colored, not just black and white!

[@GhostieAndLeslie]

yeah or a dugong

[@dasdasdaxzvea]

@@GhostieAndLeslie Or a manatee

[@hunter5w6]

ngl sea creature noises when you’re on the water at night can be scary as FUCK. y’all ever been on a dock and heard a *_manatee_* just *_breathing??_* shit sounds like a horde of zombies I’m so serious

[@queercandy1]

"sirens are known for luring sailors in with their beautiful singing" the video: "AAAAAAAAAAAAA"

[@Soapstone_]

If anyone is gonna get with an Alien Vampire, it's gonna be you Jarvis.

[@JoltSpark99]

Along with donating to team seas. You can take action yourself by going to clean ups in your area, just picking up trash as you see it. And practice leave no trace policies. ALSO KEEP PICKING UP YOUR DANG TRASH! LIKE forever! Not just once. Also! Write to you Legislators! Vote for people who care about the environment! Donate to native/indigenous communities! There’s lots of things you can do!

[@livispuzzled]

@@samarnadra Same. I live near a few rivers but the nearest ocean is three hours away, and the nearest great lake is five

[@Elegant_Sausage]

@@samarnadra I live in Southern Utah, so I can't clean up lakes or oceans. I am a rockhound though, so I'm out a lot and I always bring a bag for garbage that I find on my hikes. Thats great for my little area, but like you said, donating is really the best way that I can help. I gave what I could! Will give more when I can.

[@LostMoonRaider]

Guarantee for a fact that the "mermaid" at 7:35 is from a video on youtube from like 2013, claiming to have found a real "mermaid corpse".

[@splishh]

11:12 y'all got any adele? LMAOOOOO

[@vimerveilles]

Dude there are so many mermaid performances that look straight up real. Like making realistic prosthetics that are swimmable? Straight up art.

[@FortuitousOwl]

I know that you can buy realistic mermaid tails and people get payed to be mermaids like in aquariums and stuff with the fake tails even if I saw what looked clearly like a mermaid it’s gonna take a lot more to convince me it isn’t just a fake tail lol even though most of these don’t even look like mermaids.

[@lydialuton4402]

EXACTLY

[@ahuman2372]

You especially can’t trust videos or pictures lmao technology is like really good at the moment

[@jamiehatesyou9175]

8:26 they were most likely hearing the sounds Orcas/killer whales make to communicate with each other

[@DavidExPoint]

So they said "this is dolphins singing" to which I thought "oh so they're gonna say that dolphins must be the root of siren myths" and then they said "those AREN'T dolphins those are sirens" and I was like "wait what"

[@joshdelaney949]

Did Jarvis just post twice in the past 24 hours wow this is almost gold channel level treatment

[@elusivemayfly7534]

Truly PREMIUM!

[@alynnidalar]

do you guys not remember the old days of the internet where people had livejournals and stuff about their quest to like visualize being a mermaid so hard that they would actually become a mermaid one day and they'd post about how much water they needed to drink and how they were growing scales and such i swear this was real, I cannot be the only one who remembered this

[@sumlem]

KZbin mermaid potions!!

[@CurrentTheMerboy]

Yeah stuff like that is kinda loony... If people really want to live out dreams of being a merperson, you can swim in costume tails, but forming a weird shifting cult is really bizarre.

[@thatsthespirit3523]

@@jordan-dv8wu this cracked me up

[@camillastacey4674]

Ah livejournal, happy memories. I didn't know about the mermaid side of it though.

[@FrenkTheJoy]

Wow lmao when I was like 6 I thought if I focused really hard I could turn into a cat. But I was 6.

[@NauticalFish]

I'm constantly baffled by how a video less than 20 minutes long made by an independent creator with less than 2m is immeasurably better than most major productions and comedy KZbin channels

[@veloc.raptor9136]

My favourite are the "is this proof? i dont know decide for yourself" then shows you a 2 second video of a beluga whale swiming in the distance in a muddy water under shaky cam.

[@user-vo1ik6qd5e]

I must say Jarvis, you look ravishing in that shade of blue

[@yourbootyholeisyourbeautyhole]

funny story: i'm a religious jew, so i was brought up with the idea of "question everything" but to an extreme extent. extreme enough that in sophomore year of high school, one of my judaic teacher's spent a whole period having us discuss how if mermaids exist, would they be kosher, or instead considered a human and thus not kosher, or if it wasn't considered a human, would it count as kosher due to the whole "fins and scales" rule for kosher fish. i miss judaic studies 😭 i thought i never would because having those extra classes made the school days really long (8am because of morning prayers and breakfast for those who don't eat before prayer, and ended around 6pm 😴), but thinking back on all the strange discussions, rabbis who responds to questions with more questions in hopes of a good debate, and how to approach things in the metaphysical sense _juuust_ in case things like ghosts are real (ex: "ouija boards don't work, but avoid using one JUST IN CASE", or "if it's possible for a house to be haunted, then who would truly be the owner?"). thanks jarvis now i want to go back to high school. thank u but also frick u

[@maximummax7232]

So did y'all conclude if mermaids are kosher? I'm invested now

[@yourbootyholeisyourbeautyhole]

@@maximummax7232 no real conclusion, but the majority of us went with the "too human-like to eat" opinion

[@snakes2622]

I'm also Jewish and remember having a similar discussion with my siblings on a long car ride... I'm feeling nostalgic now too

[@mastermarkus5307]

Agree with that, especially if they have human-like intelligence. Honestly "too similar to humans" is one reason I don't like the thought of eating whales.

[@crafting_joy]

i think if mermaids did exist like hypothetically speaking they prob would be closer to whale or dolphin or like seals or something like having blubber and being more mammalian. i feel like they wouldn't have fins and scales like maybe one or the other (prob just have fins no scales) as for kosher if they did have both then it would just be the bottom half with the top prob getting ruled out. i feel like in a hypothetical world where mermaids exist and had fins and scales and had were not capable of higher reasoning and were the equivalent of an animal even if they were technically kosher by rules of halacha they would prob be ruled rabbinically not kosher, in my opinion, again in a very specific hypothetical world.

[@nisrineidou9682]

My 11 year old self would of definitely been so happy to know mermaids are real tho lol 🙄 . I m glad TikTok wasn’t a thing back then , H2O was enough

[@BeckettLA]

"Why is he talking to a duet like it's a facetime call?" "Why did he shoot this when just getting out of the shower?" Jarvis, you don't have to explain that you're not on TikTok, that part is very obvious the way you talk about it 🤣🤣🤣

[@erikm8373]

A part of me really wants to say "it's perfectly fine to believe there is still some bit of previously undiscovered magic and wonder left on this hellhole of a planet" but another part of me wants to say "you guys actually believe this stuff?"

[@misfortunesmiley7392]

Mermaids are literally just fish because there's no way they'd look anything like a human due to the ocean's environment lol

[@embercarrot]

14:32 why do they capitalize every letter

[@lightninjohn5651]

6:42 I remember watching the dragon counterpart of that mermaid documentary and thinking it was real when I was a kid

[@mothboy420]

I mean dinosaurs were just dragons

[@mossgrows6540]

jarvis: the sirens need to get with the times jarvis: references a 10 year old song

[@dejaj2574]

*20

[@rippspeck]

@@dejaj2574 Rolling in the Deep is from 2010.

[@glittery_cucumber]

​@@rippspeck It's Gonna Be Me by NSYNC is from 2000

[@AaronYorkYT]

I watched H2O as a kid so I can’t confirm if they are a real mermaid until I hear one of them say Chloe

[@kezkai]

Cleo* fake fan smfh

[@AaronYorkYT]

@@kezkai you caught me slippin. That was on me.

[@NebulaDarkness]

Wait till she learns what mermaiding and professional merfolk are. The clip at 5:13 is literally a fin some of my friends own.

[@vixtor7131]

13:57 Imagine if its some woman trappped in the middle of the ocean just screaming for help 💀

[@NosebleeddeGroselha]

Normal mermaid content creators: “Making a pretty tail with sylicone!” “Come pick up seashells at the beach with me 🐚” “Ocean themed DIYs ✨” “Tips to help saving marine life 🐠” Phebe: “ay das not dolphin das marmayd hah conspiracy **jumpscare** marmayd go brrr”

[@jacobhorak4578]

Congrats on getting The Ocean as a sponsor Jarfish!

[@iTzNikkitty]

Lady is literally a 16th century sailor mistaking a Dugong for a mermaid.

[@mayalewis2956]

Whats funnier is seeing people who have well made mermaid tails usually for mermaid shows and such or just fun and photography film thier own stuff then seeing some random tiktoker who saw them believing it was real

[@bunny_btch]

It brings me so much joy to see people come together to help the environment! please donate whatever you can~ sincerely, a teen worried about the planet lol 🙃

[@giannipiccioni8411]

@let's watch ! Jarvis please remove this spammer

[@gollygod]

You're profile pic being Kokomi while talking about the environment, especially the ocean, on a video about mermaids is the best thing

[@celty228]

You wouldn’t happen to run a church of nya, would you?

[@emptysekai]

@@gollygod your*

[@glowvxn]

omg so true kokomi bestie ,,

[@diamondpolice710]

Maybe the true ocean was the friends we made along the way

[@Notquitekris]

No surprise it’s an Australian posting about mermaids the show h2o was a PHENOMENON here. It’d actually be a pretty good candidate for a commentary video.

[@iliyaans1058]

7:20 did she really just say that evolution is considered fiction and not mermaids??