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As a Kraken myself, I can confirm that they are real. Me and my mates go and have fish and ships on Friday's, after a long day of work.

The Kraken is still friendlier than the Karen.

"Giant squid." "Never been seen alive." "Until Japan." Of course, it has to be Japan.

I hope Krakens exist. We need more terrifying ocean creatures.

Him: “we’re all responsible adults here” All 15-19 year olds: we have been summoned

Thoughty2 ''We're all mature adults here''. Me: 52 years old and made me a whole life from displaying infantile and immature behaviour

"The chodes of the squid world, if you will." No. I will absolutely not.

As soon as we changed from sail to noisy engine-driven seagoing vessels, the sightings of large unidentified sea creatures started to dwindle. I think the noise from the engines scares them off. That and the sheer volume of traffic combined with all the modern-day pollutants wouldn't have helped either.

“I *JIZZ* can’t handle infantile humor” Ayo😂

I like how Thoughty2 looks like he could be an officer in the WW1 era British Army

There might also be so-called "extinct" creatures out there. Cetus as a dolphin with a hound's head sounds a lot like a mosasaur to me.

“The Kraken is one of the largest beings ever imaged by man.” H.P Lovecraft’s Azathoth: I sleep

"we're all adults here" me, a 15 year old who laughs at funny noises: yes, yes we are.

*Homer:* ... but she had 12 tentacles for legs! *Some Greek dude:* That's wild. Alrig- *Homer:* And a cat's tail! *Some Greek dude:* Uhh... sure? So anyway, what did she- *Homer:* I'm not done yet! She had 6 dogs heads around her waist and 6 loooong necks with human heads... *Some Greek dude:* I'm kinda losing the mental image here... *Homer:* WITH SHARK TEETH!

When you mentioned whales I thought about that whale that washed up on the shores of Oregon in 1970 and the attempts of the locals to dispose of it. Apparently, possessing a hillbilly IQ, some state official figured packing the whale full of dynamite would be a good idea and everyone went along with it. To top things off a bunch of people went down to the beach to watch. Things did not go well. It's well worth doing a video of this and I believe the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sent a reporter to cover it and apparently the blown up whale covered him and a lot more as well. Another example of natures way of pointing out the not so bright.

6:10 Him:nowadays,we have a new word for sea monsters, leviathans Subnautica players:

I'd like to have Thoughty's voice as my GPS navigator. With all the wit and quips

What's a kraken's favourite meal? Fish and ships

i love this guy, he makes his videos entertaining and informational, but doesn't make them overly scary, i like that.

I wish we did more research in our oceans because this stuff is absolutely amazing!

"Eating there flesh...and no not in a nice way " I am dead lmao

Thoughty2: “we’re all responsible adults here” 16 year old me: Guess I'm an adult today

Even Sassu Wunnu was a sea monster (aka Ea, aka lord of the dept) it has head of a serpent, the body of a sunfish, has the ears of the basilisk, the base of it's feet are claws, From its nostrils mucus trickles and it's horns are twisted into three curls. Even a norvegian musician, Varg Vikernes wrote a song about it in he's band called Burzum called "Ea, Lord of the Depths"

Your videos are so good Thoughty2, love them! I have watched loads so far and can't get enough

"Im drinking significantly more water every day" liquor has water

The legend of the Kraken was always something my Dad liked to talk about, saying we didn't know half of what was in our oceans. It was so cool to watch the Giant Squid Documentary ,with real photographic evidence of its existence; before he died. My Dad was a bit like Thoughty 2 ( but way cooler)! He always had a brain full of fascinating information ,on expansive amounts of various topics, and he told a fantastic story! Now all i have is thoughty2.......ty sir, I love your vids!

He looks like he could be on the Geico commercial where they say We can't keep you from becoming your parents but we can save you 15 mins 😆

Great content thoughty2, informative and entertaining. Keep up the great work

Lol I misread the title as “Does the Karen really exists?” and I was like bruh this Karen looks weird until I read the title again...

"Kinda reminds me of one of my exes" Too bad for them ladies, daring to leave such a gentleman like you, my good man!

I love watching your videos. they're full of history which I love. you always make me happy and more curious.

I've never seen the word "chode" used so aptly. Well done sir 👏

Imagine being a 17th century sailor, coming up on a giant squid 40+ feet long, dying but still alive floating on the surface, and it’s tentacles lazily grip the hull of the ship. I’d be freaking the fuck out, throwing the cats at it.

This man himself is a mythical creature. I can't imagine seeing him doing what regular people do.

i really like your style of videos. Its interesting, educational, and im laughing real hard on them :D nice job

Great presentation!

I can’t believe my favourite KZfaqr is a lumberjack who can’t pronounce microscopy.

_"After cunning Linnaeus . . . "_ . . . I see what you did there - subtle . . .

That gave a laugh "marine pokedex" hahahaha, love it!

"Marine pokedex" Best thing I've heard

I like how because they’re fish, they just aren’t considered monsters. FUCK THAT! Them Oarfish things just proved Sea Serpents are 100% REAL. Lol

"You either start dying or get kraken" - Cowboy Morty

As far as I'm concerned, the oarfish IS a sea serpent, even though it's a fish! Fabulous creatures! And I definitely see the giant and colossal squid as kraken. Even if there is no larger species in the ocean, I consider these big enough to qualify! Great video, as always!

Not many people can change my mind, but I've really changed a lot of my opinions on stuff because of you. Thank you bro! 😁

The sponsorships are getting stealthier. It straight up still looked like I was learning something lol.

"We haven't completed the marine PokéDex..." 😆😭😁

I love your content - greetings from Philippines. More of these contents, kind Sir!

Can you imagine being old timey sailor and seeing a giant squid pop up to the surface. I wonder if they could pluck someone off a low sided ship?

Fun fact. It was thought in the past that giant squids could reach 40, or even 60 meters in length, based on the size of scars found on sperm whales. However, it is now understood that those large scars were made by normal size squids on juvenile whales, who then grew up to their adult size, correspondingly increasing the size of their scars.

When he said "We're all mature adults here." I was already giggeling. I'm 32

5:56 Dory trying to find Marv and Nemo

Love the videos (and that 'stache!). I've only found them recently and I'm dreading the day when I catch up to production. One teensy little correction though. Residents of Newfoundland pronounce it as "NEW-fin-land" or even "NEW-fin-lan" not "new-FOUND-land". I know it's spelled that way, but, much like Worcestershire, it's not pronounced the way it's spelled ;) Thanks again for all the videos. They've helped me maintain my sanity and sense of humour as I transition to WFH.

of course it does. if the kraken isn’t real how did they shot pirates of the Caribbean?

Two things to consider. 1, with how little we know about these two species of super squids, it's entirely plausible that we've entirely missed an even deeper sea variety. 2, this is even easier to accept when you realize just how LITTLE we actually know about the ocean

man...i love to listen to your stories!!!

I love this channel and never expected to laugh so much that below the belt joke was hilarious

Lord of The Pun indeed

I watch these because it feels like I have a British teacher who's actually interested in the subject they talk about. Makes it even more enjoyable to learn new stuff

Things seem to be much larger if you are afraid of them, or if you want to make your monster encounter story more exciting.

I think that Giant Squid is the most likely candidate on Kraken monster :D Squids can be pretty agressive, they fight with other predators (like sperm whales), they even attack people (even small ones can attack human if you're in the wrong place). They are clever enough to learn some behavior, so if there was very huge giant squid few centuries ago (it's possible without intensive fishing and polution like these days) and it maybe happened to be close when some ship sanked and fed on drowning people, so it learned that ships are great lunch boxes. So maybe it actually caused ships to sink, but it moved around most used ship trails in the ocean and fed on people who were unlucky and crashed with their ships. There was so much of ship transport around the world, battles on the sea, goods and food transportation, exploration, traveling and also fishing, so with this much traffic over many centuries is likely there were some animals who used it as oportunity to get easy meal.

"the chodes of the squid world, if you will" Well that is a sentence I never thought I would hear....

Giant squid and Colossal squid are crazy . Colossal has hooks instead of suckers

I accidentally read the title like "Does karens really exist?" I was like Ah man sadly they do exist :(

Thank you sir. As always good show.

The myth of the mermaid stretches so far and wide. In Southern Africa, when a “mermaid” supposedly takes you to the depths, you emerge as a powerful shaman with mystic powers.

If you think about it, those old ships were not of particularly large size. A giant squid of sufficient size could reach up and pull down the bow, thus swamping it, thinking it was attacking a whale. Just a thought for Thoughty2.

I love it how he used "Colossal" and "Titan" in the same sentence.

Thanks to the anime golden kamuy, I knew what the second half of the Ainu name for their creature was going to be, because kamui is the suffix applied to many of the various supernatural or atypically behaving species' members of the animals encountered...that's actually kinda cool, in my book, since I was watching it to be entertained, but, ended up learning quite a bit about the history of the Ainu and the island of Hokkaido.

When I was a child, I remember there was one in the natural science museum in my city, preserved in a formaldehyde tank. It terrifies me as much as it fascinates me.

7:35 I was sipping my water then when he said this I spit it everywhere!😂😂😂

Brilliant video and a fabulous sponsor!!

"Only around 10% of the true number." So you're saying there's still a chance?

My tired ass read the video title as “Does the Karen really exist?” Lol I was like yes she does

thanks for the video man

The choades of the squid word 😂😂😂 Great videos 👍

Imagine what else is on the oceans deep down where we don't know much about or it isn't explored yet...

I feel reminding myself that almost everyone from those days were intoxicated for the better part of the day would explain a lot.

Your humor is amazing

From what I can tell, King Sverre never mentions the Kraken swallowing ships whole, rather he explains in detail how it hunts fish. I admit I haven’t read all of it, but I did write the chapter about the Kraken, so who knows, maybe that’s mentioned elsewhere.

“Fabulous is more rewarding and gentle” *glances at video saying that punishment is, in fact, better than reward*

Yes it's called the colossal squid, It's just that the longer a story has been around the more it gets exaggerated because people would forget the details then other people would come and fill in those details with their own imagination. Mokele-mbembe is a good example of this, Tray the explainer goes into depth about it.

9:35 You dated Cthulhu?!

9:18 SUOMI MAINITTU, also I love the way you called pohjala "ohjaa"

Mostlikely, any "sea serpents" reported over the years have been the terrifying oarfish! terrifying because it's about as long as cited sightings have said, and it's face is nightmare fuel!

“Marine pokedex” lol you never disappoint

My tip is that the legends of the Kraken come from a mixture of collossal squid carcasses being dragged up from the bottom of the ocean where they usually reside, by spermwhales, which they fight sometimes... and, well... whale ding dongs. They're pretty damn huge, pink, look like tentacles and whales for some reason like to stick them out of the water... People probably found pieces of a collossal squids that fought a spermwhale and lost, either drifting in the ocean, or on the beach, pieced that together with sightings of whales, and just though "It must have been a giant creature with tentacles that was about to attack us!"

Yes the Kraken exist...it's a very smooth spiced rum...

Thoughty2 clearly gets his vast knowledge from our lord and savior Cthulhu.

No, but my friend did star in Pirates of the Caribbean while Davy Jones's crew was raiding the ship for a colossal 3 seconds laying on the floor with his face sucked off.

Only one thing was missing, the story of that WWII British naval officer that got stranded on a raft with 3 shipmates. Only to be awaken by one of them being pulled down by a giant tentacle. Now that everyone was awake when the tentacle came back for 2nd they were able to fight it off. But not before leaving distinguishes scars on the officer. Photos exist of the officers many decades later still having the scars.

Love all your videos

What's that little white spot on the right at 0:53?

A Turtle can confirm that the kraken does in fact exist

Your my fav KZfaqr this year

😂😂 i swear you lowkey the funniest KZfaqr ever love your channel from south Africa 🇿🇦

I dont know why but I got really excited when he mentioned the cape of good hope as I live like 15 minutes away.

"socially distance with miles of empty ocean between them" Boy does that sound familiar...

I love myths like this so much

19:20 Oh my gods, I'm so happy you included Iku-Torso!! The "Pohjala" is simply said as it is written, btw!! (Rough translation of Pohjala is the bottom-la)