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[–] [email protected] 229 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)
[–] Enkers 99 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damnit, I'm going to see this everywhere now, aren't I?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Is kerning the spacing between letters?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Between any typographical characters, but yeah, basically 🙂

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today

[–] brbposting 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago

I can't wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Oh wow, thats very interesting!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Didn't see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago... Thanks for the info

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

i will never see butterfly depictions the same again

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Neat, the alive ones look way more similar to moths.

[–] [email protected] 161 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, they're still kinda goofy looking when alive.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago

"Wait don't take the photo I'm not rea..."

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 weeks ago

But he's mentioned in the fish's name.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

He looked so much younger then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Boris Johnson?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

From the thumbnail I thought this was a naked ass

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So I don't need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Then you need to gain bone structure

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?

Me when I have water

Me when I'm a human living in the modern world

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The name information is incorrect.

Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.

Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. [...] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus

The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, "binomial name" is not always the same as "proper name". There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that's the Family) above. "Fatheads" sounds insulting, and "Toadfishes" aren't toads.

I wouldn't have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the "proper name" so poorly that I first read it as "Psychrd Lutes". And the second reading, I misread as "Psychiro Lutes", due to the weird "R" that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you're trying to emphasize how it is spelled.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago

Aliens do an Earth drive by, use a tractor beam to yank a human specimen through the mesosphere, log the name of the species as blisterface and fly away.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago

But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How can it be in pain, and be a corpse?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Those were its last words

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.

Stardew valley lied to me!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Stardew lied a lot lol. Starfruit for example, only looks like a star in cross section, but i guess the actual starfruit is hard to represent in pixel.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

This is a "you" vs "the guy she tells you not to worry about" meme format

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

I feel like if there's anyone out there who would use this new information to make right by the Blobfish, it's him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe those blobfish are magic. I'll hope for them!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Good od Earthworm Jim....memories and RIP Shiny

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Makes you wonder if you're blobby because you're in the wrong environment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Perhaps I do belong isolated in the deep dark sea.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

What worst, is i found the depiction in children's book. It's kinda sad the myth doesn't get corrected as much because people justify it as entire different thing.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I spread this information anytime I can find it to be relevant. This and the incorrect myths about goldfish memories and short lives are so annoying to me. I love my fish friends

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

I had no idea, now I'm just sad.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So what's Ted Cruz's excuse for looking like figure A?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He decompressed. Clearly he was meant to be at the bottom of the ocean

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

We can fix this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I had no idea too but then came across a random Vox video about high pressure where they mentioned it.

I then did a little research and wrote the article below:

https://tohippo.com/the-blobfish-is-not-as-ugly-as-you-think/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Source please or I'll stick to my previously unchallenged image of ugly blobfish

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Blob fish, and fancy blob fish,.

Gottit!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

"stop depicting blobfish like this, and blobfish isn't what it's called"

That specific one, as depicted, is blobfish. Blobfish is not a species, it's an individual. Like Greenboots.

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