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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

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

*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!

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

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 😆

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

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...

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!

Does the Karen really exist? Yes, and she wants to speak with your supervisor

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

"Marine pokedex" Best thing I've heard

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

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

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

Humans:*believe in sea monsters* Whales:"I'ma end this man's whole career"

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

I’m a minor. I’m legally required to laugh at juvenile humor.

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!

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

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

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

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!"

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

9:35 You dated Cthulhu?!

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

5:56 Dory trying to find Marv and Nemo

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! 😁

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

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.

The guy on frames 16:17 and 17:07 is Dr Clyde Roper, I’m his grand-nephew. He is a leading expert on giant squids, so crazy this was a random video i clicked on!

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

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

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

Dunno if Krakens exist, but Karens certainly do, and they're scarier!

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.

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!

Phil McKraken. Cmon guys? *inhales* Thoughty we need to talk, y-y-your humour is fuc- WAIT KZfaq DON'T TELL ME OFF PLZ PLZ

I went for a vacation once to this lake and there was said to be a 5m long Wels Catfish living in it. No one has really seen it, but they would find dead fish that had big chunks of their bodies bitten off. Local biologists have examined those and concluded it was a catfish that somehow managed to live to be about 100 years old. Its brain was pretty much f*cked at this point, that's why it attacked other fish in the lake. So yeah, if a catfish can grow to 5x its normal size, why not a 25m squid?

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

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

I would like to argue that a lack of rum is the trouble that binds all seafarers together. Independent of time and purpose, there is never enough rum.

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.

A Turtle can confirm that the kraken does in fact exist

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

We were lucky enough to grow up around boats and when we would go out to see to go doughnutting, my Dad used to rock the boat and shout "it's the kraken!"

I’m surprised he didn’t mention Jörmungandr from Norse mythology.

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.

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

is it me or does every time he says "hey thoughty2 here" I always hear "hey forty-two here"

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

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.

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

I know the Kraken exists. She lived next door to me on Miami Beach! I guess she slept in her tub of water when she wasn't scaring people off the beach when they saw her coming.

I read in a history book that said they made up aquatic monsters to scare off any competition between fisherman and to get attention, you'd probably think they did not believe a monster like that exist's but we are talking abt people who burned a whole island because they forgot to put there campfire out😂

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

I remember being a kid imagining of a giant squid. Especially when scars where found on sperm whales of the battles they had with their pray. Then.... As a teenager I got to see evidence of these once thought of "non-existing creatures" which gave me a spark back of creativity for exploration and imaging the things yet to discover is still constant possibility. The universe and biological life alongside geologically amazing areas/mixed with the ever possible chance of discovering ancient human treasures..... This is what makes life so amazing.

That description of Scylla was horrific. But, hey, I've woken up next to worse after 8 pints.

Whole lotta innuendo in this one 😂

"And no, not in a nice way." Ha ha. Took me a second.

And we are exploring space when there's still so much we didn't know in the sea

The reason the sea serpent isn’t a monster anymore is because we already discovered it