Salmonids in game: "URAAAAAA" Salmonids in lore: "There's no greater honor than sacrifice."

“The theory mr.grizz is an actual bear is dumb”….. well that didn’t age well .

"Salmonids are not afraid of death." is such a raw sentence I swear.

"I think the theory that Mr. Grizz is an actual mammalian bear that eats golden eggs is just... dumb" *Splatoon 3 has entered the chat*

About the pet salmonid in Splatoon 3, NO. It's not a pet at all... It's a BUDDY. He's just following us trough our adventure.

damn considering the splatoon 3 trailer i guess the chaos ending really shook up how inklings and salmonids culturally perceive each other. i'd like to believe the smallfry is like a 50 yr old war veteran who regrets not letting himself get eaten during the great squid war and the inkling is just "hee hoo funny fish guy"

"Some smallfry can pilot flying technology" The flyfish: *aggressive button mashing*

splatoon’s world is always a bit darker than i think it is! seriously great video! thank you

Now that Splatoon 3 has been announced, I feel weird about having a pet “adult” salmonid. Can’t wait to give it an unnecessarily long name though.

At 5:02 it was mentioned that the Salmonoids can literally become a part of a Griller and doing so is the ultimate honor. Flash forward to Splatoon 3 and if you clip the camera into a stunned Griller, you can see actual, modeled vegetables floating alongside some Chum in a pool of their ink inside! Crazy attention to detail.

Wow sometimes you don’t really think twice about a design... I had no idea what the Griller was, but it’s obvious now... it’s a fucking grill, and the Salmonids are literally being grilled I guess, so what’s with the stream of ink then? Is that like... fish oil? For gameplay purposes the Salmonids have to leave ink, but fish don’t really make INK, do they? The octarians have more advanced tech so of course the Flooders are robots, but the Griller contains living beings so... is the stream of ink actually their body fluids being leaked out because the grill is crushing them? Hmmm Whatever the case... I just find that so disturbing

Fun fact: in the PNW (where I grew up), native culture surrounding salmon is that you have to return their bodies to the streams and rivers so they can reincarnate in big ol' cycle of life! So it's similar to real life beliefs

Knowing they "aren't afraid of death" makes me want a inkling-like salmonid even more while also making me want that less

Noted, I will now be naming my salmonid OC “that fucker down the street who stole my chocolate bar once”

salmonids being the only creature seen to use ink that isn't ink-based biologically is interesting as hell

YES I also had the theory that golden eggs are an insanely powerful source of energy, that or they're literally gold and mr grizz is processing them to get richer, either way he's hoarding resources. I always saw mr grizz as a capitalist and after this video 'eat the rich' hits differently lmao

I think Splatoon 3 will expand on Salmonid stuff, since the player character is shown to have a smallfry who is their pet/friend in the trailer

HONESTLY....... i love the small obscure details of splatoon, it gives the otherwise bright and loud game this slight darker undertone, it's so cool even if i do feel just a little bad for slaughtering hundreds of salmonids now lol,, you're truly doing the fandom a service by bringing all this info to light thank u for ur blessing 👌

The splatoon 3 trailer: legit having your first friend as a small fry. (Edit: OMG thanks for 206 likes) ((edit number two: OMG iDK HOW YALL CAN DO YOU TY FOR 370 LIKES))

7:41 *nervously laughs in a Post-Spaltoon 3 world*

THE PET ONE DIDNT AGE WELL AT ALL

7:30 WELL ACTULLY ABOUT THAT

‘We wont see any salmonids in inkopolis square.’ Lil’ buddy: 👁👄👁

I have a weirdly specific headcannon: based on there designs, outfits, music, and overall aesthetic, I like to imagine that, (if the game had actual voice acting) they would have sort of, deep south hillbilly swamp voices. the best example I can think of is the swamp folk from Fallout 3.

I think my favorite take on "Salmonlings" is the one featured in the comic Cephaloparade by HorseFeathers. They're called Evolved Salmonids and are basically the result of Octarian genetic experiments. They're like merpeople, with a humanoid top and a tail on the bottom, and they don't transform. You can find a good comic dub of it on KZfaq by yume's studio.

"please squid girl let me go I have a dog And 3 kids"

10:45 maybe the salmonoid just has a humiliation kink?

In the reveal trailer for Splatoon 3 the Inkling at the beginning has what seems to be a Salmonlid as a pet. I want to know how and why. I hope the Salmonlid and Inkling are just friends traveling together or something.

9:05 finally someone who agrees with me on this. I honestly think only cephalopods have evolved the shifting trait ya know?

We are legit getting a smallfry for a pet in splatoon 3

the theory about spawning/ocean salmonids looking different is actually most likely true. in the trailer when we get a close up view of the small fry buddy, you can see that not only is its top beak-shaped mouth lip thing gray (similar to that of an ocean salmon) but its hazmat suit thing is also gray instead of yellow. both of these are bright colors dulled down to a grayer color, meaning that the small fry isn't in a spawning stage (yet)

I honestly like the idea on the salmonid on a leash picture , in the sense of befriending a salmonid and not having it as a pet , just imagine having a salmonid friend , and while people say that "but salmonids can eat inklings " your dog/cat can eat you too , yet we have them as pets , it would be easyer to have a salmonid friend since its a more sentient creature so it would likely know how to do things by itself unlike a pet so it would be easy to live with one , althought the hard part would be to befriend one

“Personally I think the theory that Mr. Grizz is an actual mammalian bear who eats the golden eggs is uh… dumb.” WELL DO I AND PROBABLY A FEW HUNDRED OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SOME NEWS THAT YOU’VE LIKELY ALREADY HEARD FOR YOU!

I’d also like to bring up that the Grillers also have Octarian tracking technology but yeah I don’t really like salmonlings either

Sir. I'd like my gold star please for the viewing pleasure of listening to this video.

The crazy thing about this video is that it basically predicted the entire plot of Splatoon 3.

I can't wait to have a smallfry buddy in Splatoon 3 :) This is a huge speculation but... I think that the golden salmon eggs ARE going to be a plot point in Splatoon 3 because of the lil buddy. Why else would we have a lil salmonid friend?

"the devs are likely saving this as a plot point of splatoon 3 or something" THEY PREDIFCTED SPLATOON 3 LMAOOO

LOTS to take in from this... personally i always saw the salmonids as kinda smart yet mindless since you could easily point a weapon at them and they wouldn just keep moving towards you but always had that feeling in the back of my head that there was more to them. Especially considering the whole circle of life and honor thing they got going on. It's kinda nuts. Looking death straight in the face with no fear.

5:09 The words “Salmonids are not afraid of death” sends shivers down my spine

Damn this made me realise that in the mothership wave the hele helmets have the golden eggs in them which should confirm they can be used as a power source, but maybe they just have the golden eggs in the helmet as a light and it's powered by something else

7:34 uhhhhhhh

"I think the theory that Mr. Grizz is an actual mammalian bear who eats the eggs is dumb" I feel so bad for you now

Thank you for teaching me that salmonids don't fear death and are canonically okay with their flesh being sold for inkling consumption. You've definitely earned my subscription.

Lore: it's illegal :) Splatoon 3: *There is no law!!!*

10:15 don't worry he's just got a humiliation fetish

7:45 surprisingly accurate

7:40 With Splatoon 3's context. Spoiler for anyone who hasn't played story mode. I think that Mr. Grizz probably did eat a few eggs here or there, but mostly gathered them up to power up the rocket and to power up the thingy that let him turn sea creatures into mammals.

"Mr Grizz being an actual bear is dumb" "he's not eating them, but using them for something else" I love these comments coming here after splat 3

7:31 lol that aged well

" i personally think mr grizz being a real mammalian bear eating the golden eggs is uh.. dumb. splatoon 3 : well yes but actually no

Little buddy Smallfry is a COMPANION, not a pet, and based on the new sunken scrolls they're a Smallfry that got separated from their school and probably would've died if they hadn't met and befriended Agent 3. Not a pet. a buddy.

6:15 The developers DID reveal what Golden Eggs do in Splatoon 3. I love that you just guessed that a year ago. And spoiler: Mr Grizz IS a real mammalian Bear, and he uses the eggs for something that needs alot of energy.

7:20 you got that completely correct! In fact, in splatoon 3 -- Spoilers -- The eggs are used to power a giant rocket into space so Mr. Grizzo can coat the world in goo fuzz. That's why he hired the player to collect the golden eggs

FINALLY SOME MORE INFO god I love the salmonids, and this made me love them more. They’re just a really refreshing addition to the world. I have been looking for a channel like this for a while, so glad I stumbled upon this!

9:58 "We probably aren't going to see salmonids in inkopolis" big run ensues

That part when you said that the golden eggs were used as a source of energy was spot on, now that the splatoon 3 story mode is out

finding out that your fanon salmonid society and lore match up with the canon is the best feeling ever

9:57 Now, how does this line feel with the Splatoon 3 reveal trailer?

(SPOILERS FOR S3 STORY MODE) I thought lil buddy was just journeying with us to find their spawning grounds. That when we reached space and lil buddy glow floated up they found home. Because they could never find their true spawning ground, they chose to maul a bear to death and became apart of the universe itself. That's my headcannon, and I cried bc I thought they were dead before they jumped back into my arms. Love you lil bud, you're still stardust, life, and death to me < 3.

Now that Splatoon 3 has come out Your speculation about Grizz was pretty on point.

Your comments about Grizzco are delicious in September of the year 2022

Ever since S3’s release, I’ve rewatched this and laughed at how many correct guesses were made in this video.

And so here we are, 2021, and it's been confirmed we get a lil' salmon I'd buddy in splat 3! No idea where it's gonna go, but hey, I can't wait for it.

Hey, I just made a dumb theory about Golden Eggs: Mr. Grizz is actually Tartar and he's using the eggs to power NILS (I know, I know, he charges absorbing sunlight but you know, something THIS big can't be powered ONLY by sunlight)

Salmon run, a game mode so iconic that it got a parody mention in a Team Fortress 2 Mann vs Machine mission.

"i think taht mister grizz being a real grizly bear and eating the golden eggs is kinda dumb" oooooooooh. if only she knew. IF ONLY SHE KNEW

cant believe how accurate you were with predictions for splat 3, grizz and the eggs as energy source. keep up the good work!!

Hold on, the golden eggs may be raised in order to be used as little buddies? Like, they’re being domesticated to work beside the inklings and octolings.

I think that Mr. Grizz is actually a greedy octarian leader and hires you to get golden eggs for him to build more octarian stuff, because the salmonids won't trade them. So basically, if the inklings and octolings stopped working for Grizzco, the octarian menace would get super weak without their golden eggs which they secretly use to build their big, strong, boss machines.

So uh. About Mr. Grizz and those Golden Eggs.

“Inklings and salmonid can’t be friends.” Splatoon 3 trailer: are you sure about that?

...ya know the fact that we’re gonna have a pet small fry in splatoon 3 leaves me very confused because of this video like they’re very clearly intelligent so like...did our little Buddy WANT to be our pet? Or is the small fry not our pet at all? Are they our friend? Can they do things for us in the story mode????

Flyfish: I use missiles Steelhead: I throw bombs Drizzler: I rain down ink Stinger: I use a laser Maws: _e a t_

yea... mr grizz is actually a bear... but he uses them to make goo so-

Ya know, despite the Salmonid’s having big hillbilly energy, I find it really cool that they have the cultural mindset they do. It’s interesting and keeps them for just being hillbilly fish stand-ins

I hope in splatoon 4 or a dlc, we will be able to explore an actual salmonid society that is fully separated from inklings and see what the salmon think of the whole conflict.

This video is a year old but this has inspired me to make a salmonaid maws boss oc in the future. His name will be "greatest pogger of the deep sea; apprentice of Jerma"

Me who seen splatoon 3 trailer and knows for a fact there is a possibility that salmoned and inklings can be friends

In the first minute and 34 seconds you've already earned my respect and the title of CEO of Splatoon lore

Now that splatoon 3 is out and having beat Story mode I think it's very clear that Mr. Griz used the Golden eggs to power the rocket

Excellent work! Came here from your Splatoon Iceberg tweet and I look forward to seeing your video on that!

As a Splatoon fanatic, when you first start playing you think of it as a bright colorful goofy game, but the amount of lore involved it amazing

your theory about mr grizz aged incredibly well

i love how much this person predicted

Being a salmon run player and hearing " *Salmonoids are NOT afraid of death* " gave me chills....

7:28 really hits different after completing Splatoon 3's story mode

*_[Splatoon 3 Spoilers]_* _" Personally, I think that the theory that Mr. Grizz is an actual mammalian bear that eats the golden eggs is, uuh... _*_dumb_*_ "_ Nintendo: Oh, my sweet summer child

4:09 this is actually true for real salmon, I live in an area where salmon come by often, and there's an area called the locks (its kind of like a dam) but once every year salmon swim up the dam just to get back to where they were to lay their eggs. Just like how you stated they are willing to kill anything including each other in order to get back there. Except that our salmon dont arm themselves in cooking utensils to fight each other, they just like push and shove each other.

I think that when Japanese developers speak about conflict in their games being essentially 'non-political' [not the wording nintendo's staff have used with splatoon to my knowledge, but the spirit of that is potentially embodied when they speak of 'the inklings aren't necessarily the bad guys for taking golden eggs, they just do their own thing (which is implied to be 'morally neutral')' etc], it is incredibly important to keep in mind that Japan has a large history as an imperial nation and has a relationship with imperial-motivated conflicts. Nintendo as a corporation is not perfect; it is a corporation and seeks money as its bottom line, and may use cultural communication such as this at times to attempt to gain more money. Further, Nintendo employees are not perfect, as they are human beings who have been shaped by the world around them and have the potential to knowingly or unknowingly spread that imperialist rhetoric. I don't necessarily think what we have right now is a malicious act that targets a group of people impacted by Japanese imperialism, but it does rub me the wrong way when the claim is made that "golden eggs are so precious to the salmonid that they will not even trade them" is meant to coexist with the claim that "it is not wrong when golden eggs are taken from salmonids", and further justified with the narrative "perhaps the salmonids advanced first". In isolation these may hold up, but when considering the context of Nintendo within the wider world it can become something sinister and that's not something that should go unnoticed or uncriticized.

9:57 "So yeah, we're probably not going to see Salmonoids walking around Inkopolis any time soon." Well, I guess Splatsville is technically a different place, but that still did not age well. (thank you for these videos, this information would likely remain inaccessible to English fans if not for your efforts).

A friend recommended me your channel recently and I made a playlist to binge all splatoon videos. I just watched this first one and I already love it. I've never really come across splatoon lore channels

10:05 obviously, it's a kink thing.

still about to be walking my pet steel-eel down the street 😎😎 But dang, I never knew the interviews had bits of lore in them! Guess I'll have to start looking forward to them for now on! Otherwise, Awesome video! Glad to know more about my enemies!

A thing I have heard, is that the golden eggs are used by Grizz for energy, but they hatch into salmonids that have a good chance to become boss salmonids, like steelheads having explosive saliva, scrapers being smart, or rarely, they hatch in to goldies, which are acctualy what lay the golden eggs, they are just given to other boss salmonids to protect, since the goldies trust them. THIS IS ALL SPECULATION THOUGH.

this game goes into a lot of stuff about different races and culture and morals its kind of cool for a game about cephalopods playing glorified paint ball

I feel like if order won the splatfest, it would have probably resulted in the Salmonoids being integrated into Splatoon Society and resulted in a Rome like society with Grizzco Industries using their wealth and power to buy out enough companies to end up as a ruling figure and would have introduced an inking & octoing working alongside a Cohoot to compete in Coliseum like tournament. At least that's how I think it would have gone if order won

Mr frizz being a bear is dumb That didn’t age well…

It's so fascinating, having stumbled across this video and all the speculation about golden eggs, given the info that we get from Splatoon 3's story mode.

holy shit they called it!! I'm not spoiling anything about 3 but wow you were spot on