This comment had me wheezing.

wittle cuwute shawky

I little bit of an exploratory bite if you will

But, didn’t you hear though? Meggydon kills with extreme prejudice

A chomp is a big ass bite, no? Like CHOMP!!!

So were they.

Well that went dark

Not as dark where they are going…

I need you to tell me the show name you got for your little intro vid with i need to watch it and i cant remember.

Im worried to go at water cuz im food

Obviously she knew the shark didn't mean it.

I remember seeing in the news a republicans who was shot, and as they were wheeling him to the ambulance he shouted to the cameras “I still love guns!” It’s the most American moment I could recall and everyone clapped

@@PokeBoy-ec5xc This is hilarious as parody but actually HAPPENS

Rodney Fox got almost ended by a shark incident, and immediately dedicated his entire life to protecting them and educating people about the reality of sharks.

I still remember the episode he cried when he accidentally killed a rare fish

That show was the freaking best let me tell you!

@@Eshtian which fish?

@@colinv.2691 it's been so long I don't remember I do know the myth they were talking about was about a little kid who had a shiny belt/something playing in a river who got killed by the fish because of the shine. Ya that sounds crazy when I say it but it's the best I got The fishing area was by some cliffs though if that helps.

He also brought a lot of the villagers peace, that it wasn't a magic monster of any kind, just a gnarly, mean as sin, fish. They then could learn how to avoid being attacked, because species could be confirmed

Bruh the fact that no shark could do that would be more terrorizing and believable than a super gigachad shark that hides from us

How did that show get so many fucking seasons god damn

@@nuteniumtokyo7172 cause it was a very entertaining show, even though it’s based around fiction

@@nuteniumtokyo7172 because it turns out that people screaming into the woods is entertaining (Edit: I guess)

Grinding Figboot

I used to watch that show religiously. It got old eventually but im ashamed to say it took a little bit too long for me to get tired of it

Thos nuggits

No, those are evil sharks they live in the clouds, feed primarily on birds and shake their evil sky shark fins to make tornadoes which they then use to hunt humans.

Well how else you eat nuggets?

Bro if I’m lifted in the air by a hurricane im probably not surviving the landing regardless so I might as well grab some pre-death nuggies. 😂😂😂

So, 100% scientifically accurate. If they're dino nuggies that is

Awww that's so cute

deeply wholesome AND educational uwu

If sharks aren’t extinct by the time they’re older, they could do a great job helping to protect the species

It's funny, there are actually three species of small sharks that do come on land at night (or rather "walk" through tiny water channels on the edge of a beach)

Those are some smart girls

I remember watching that when I was a kid and even then thinking "This is some bullshit"

@@Puncherjoe1 hah I which I had that much common sense as a child. I got in trouble for writing an essay about it in elementary school when we were supposed to pick "non fiction" topics

That was like the only one to do it right

At least that one made it CLEAR it was a fake "what if" documentary. But I think it was the test for if they could possibly get away with what would come next

Not gonna lie, the dragon documentary had me in the first half

Nuh uh, Jason Statham was in a real documentary about them

Fun fact: The people who think megalodons still exist don’t understand how the ocean works

NuH UHH, mOSt oF tHe OceAn Is sTiLl uneXplOrED

Apparently you never watched The Meg

@@_boogatti_ Fun-er Fact: if the megaladon did still exist they would NOT be a secret

Sharkholm syndrome.

The ocean puppers just nibbled the wrong food.

@@Topdoggie7fr

Sounds like something Junji Ito would draw,love it!

thatd be way scarier lmao That shows a lot more conscious thought behind it, if you know what I mean. Like, I've taken bites of food that ended up being gross cause I wasnt paying attention to what it was. I've never picked up some broccoli, thoroughly examined it and THEN decided I didnt want it. I hope this makes like a bit of sense

It's a classic problem of every cryptid studies... They claim to have seen an individual somehow still alive alone

@@theghosthero6173 I mean turtles can live 500 years Although I’m pretty sure it's been more than 500 years so far

@@lmaobox4068 I think there’s also a shark that’s lived for around 500 years. But as you’ve pointed out it’s been significantly longer than 500 years since the megaladon existed.

@@lmaobox4068 Yeah, but even turtles need partners

It's a weird trend among cryptids. Any time it comes to claims of an ancient species surviving, despite referencing lazarus taxa, they rarely talk about a population of the animals in these claims only individuals. Like the concept of 'late surviving' means an single individual has lived straight through since the KPG extinction.

I agree 😆

Not real. Mermaids are tho

It'd be funnier if they said "the meggydon is meggy gone"

Dead meme but rlly it lives rent free in my brain

@@NootalieWalf What is the reference from?

Half of them are missing an arm here a leg there lol

Kind like how some people claim that Nessie is just one single plesiasaur that's survived for thousands of years

@@gwendalynnwatkins1296 not thousands, millions. In a lake that didn't even exist when they went extinct.

Yeah like if you discover one member of an extinct species it's basically bound to be true that there are more because like they need to breed.

@@smrtfasizmu7242 and locals call people that don’t believe in Nessie delusional💀

@@smrtfasizmu7242 Nessie is a strong fella, give him credit.

Obviously totally agree, but isn’t true that the ancestors of sperm whales were quite big and apex like Megalodon? I believe they competed with megalodon for prey. But that might of been when megalodons started to get smaller (around 30-40 feet) because of the cooling oceans.

@@fellipedasilva99 megalodons are widely believed to have gone extinct from a lack of whales, due to a krill shortage because of an ice age, and competition with other predators, including the great white. But another competitor was a carnivorous whale, which like you said was a precursor to modern sperm whales, although it had a way more fucking cool name, “ Livyatan” basically a play on Leviathan.

they actually went extinct because of bigger whales i beleive not because of the smaller ones those were their preferred prey well they were still more medium sized not like dolphins but still smaller ones

BuT wE HAvEn't eVEn ExPlOReD 20% oF THe oCeAn.

Meggydon

Its hard to turn "Rats perform 21% better in memory games if we give them koolaid an hour before" into a TV show Most science IS important, but it ISNT interesting for the common man

A bigger disappoint than scientific journals destroying science itself by forcing people to pursue the most publishable topics?

@@stitchfinger7678 idk man, i want to see a doc on how if you put little stilts on ants, they can't navigate back to their house because they count their steps.

@@stitchfinger7678 tbh, I'd probably still watch a bunch of rats hopped up on Kool-aid doing puzzles. I'd imagine it's kinda like the puppy bowl. But with rats

@@SophiaAstatine I would like a source on that, sounds interesting or wrong. Most scientists don't peruse being published as an achievement, it's kinda their job to publish discoveries all the time. I just don't see why science journals would narrow their topics, or why public interest matters to them.

That’s probably the biggest sad thing about all this, there’s going to be plenty of people who should be well-informed enough to know better trusting this shit because of the source. In all these years there hasn’t been much justification for these theories other than “it was on Discovery/Animal Planet”, and now Ancient Aliens is doing the exact same shit. I’d love these shows fully as fun little things if they weren’t convincing people who definitely have the knowledge to know better of this crap

@@HusbandofLois Exactly. It's like War of The World's all over again. I remember seeing a show like that on The CBC in Toronto about a bunch of terrorists on a ship with a nuke. It was presented as a newscast. It was scary until I realized it was getting dark outside but not on "the news".

@@joecarson8281 That’s really interesting, here in the UK there’s laws against that now because of the amount of times people have fallen for fake shows presented as real news footage. These days you can only show it if it’s being presented in a way that makes sure you know it isn’t real, like you’ll only see it on a TV in a scene rather than on your actual TV screen. I’m assuming other countries haven’t had the same problems and haven’t ended up putting similar laws in because of that

@@HusbandofLois We don't have laws like that, hence Megaladon and they have one about mermaids. People trust TV too much. I did till 1983.

But the cookies were always gone 😳 did Santa eat them or did megalodon?

Lol that story was probably wrote by the discovery channel so full of shit😂

@@jakeybby8527short story’s aren’t necessarily meant to be real

@@jakeybby8527 short story. As in a short fictional story

200-12,000 years is a huge gap

​@@muffinsdawgboth are too recent...it was MUCH longer ago

That makes it even worse

Well at the time my then 40 years old uncle absolutely fucking bough it.

I remember being able to tell that a lot of the "evidence" in the megalodon and mermaid documentaries were obviously a bit off and probably edited when I was a kid, but I still sort of believed the conclusions because it was presented in such a legitimate seeming way, and I trusted the "scientists". Finding out they were hoaxes kind of messed with me, and I imagine that it probably did damage to the reputation of documentary makers and researchers in my mind. Thankfully I think it mostly just taught me to think more critically about things, even when they were presented by someone with qualifications. However, for people whose critical thinking skills halted at age 16 and who consider reading facebook articles to be research, that could pose a problem.

I have friends who believe megalodon still exists to this day.

When this aired on Shark Week, I lived with my at-the-time step family. While me and the rest of my blood siblings realized soon enough that it was a fake documentary, my former step family bought it a lot harder. Idk if they still believe megalodon exists

I don't think so, there's already enormous predators in the ocean like orcas and sperm whales.

@@LautaroArgentino even fully grown orcas would have a very hard time killing a full grown whale, which is why they resort to killing their calves. Plus, sperm whales are specialized for soft bodied prey and dont have the adaptations to take on giant whales

@@MrByars What I'm saying is I don't think megalodon would put enough evolutionary preasure on whales to make them evolve to be smaller. Enormous whales coexisted with megalodon already, as well as other cetaceans which also hunted whales. Megalodon probably went extinct due to cetaceans and smaller sharks outcompeting it, and yet whales kept on being the giants they are.

@@LautaroArgentino Megalodon didn't force whales to get smaller, they were already smaller. They didn't start huge, they evolved from a creature the size of a cat, and have been gradually increasing in size ever since, as long as there's nothing stopping them. Early giant whales were predators themselves, but species like Basilosaurus are little over _half_ the size of a Blue Whale, with a maximum estimate of 20 metres, but more likely in the 15-17 range. Another giant predatory whale, Livyatan, was about the same size, capping out at about 17.5 metres, putting it in the same ballpark as its modern relatives. Livyatan is actually an interesting case when it comes to Megalodon discussions because it was a contemporary of the giant shark, and would've eaten the same diet. Whereas the modern Sperm Whale has a very narrow jaw and is specially adapted for slurping up squid, Livyatan was described as "hyper-predatory" or "macroraptorial", and it would've happily fed on any other whales it came across. But those whales _were_ smaller. The standard for ancient baleen whales (And wastebasket taxon because of that) is Cetotherium, which topped out at about 15 metres long. So similar in scale, but still dramatically smaller than the modern titans. Smaller and faster baleen whales still exist, of course. But that giants like the Blue Whale were able to emerge at all points to a lack of giant predators putting pressure on them. It's not that whales were always huge, got small while Megalodon and Livyatan were chomping on them, and then got big again, it's that they were steadily getting bigger and once the macroraptorial predators died out, they were able to dramatically increase in size due to a lack of pressure.

@@ToaArcan maybe there is some correlation, I'm no expert by any means but didn't whales truly get to be gigantic after the global climate cooled down, before animals like megalodon are thought to have gone extinct? My understanding of it was that megalodon went extinct because of climate cooling, which also allowed whales to grow enormous due to more abundance of food. And then since megalodon couldn't adapt to the new ocean climate it got outcompeted by cetaceans like orcas, and smaller sharks.

Well considering he’s so handsome he might be Moth-Man 🤔🤔🤔

Yeah, infestation is used because it insuates they're "pests" but we don't even live in the flippin water. Lorty. These make me dad.

It's like an ant infested ant hill Where else would they be?

@@frousteleous1285 I'm really intrigued to learn how internet articles make you a father.

@@PeterGriffin11 He's so proud of his rage post that it has legally become his child

@@PeterGriffin11 Such misinformation infuriated him so much that he became a loving father...So some good came out of all this.

While sharks like great whites have been known to attack people, these attacks are usually the result of either curiosity (as they figure things out with their mouths) or mistaking people for seals or turtles. Really, only two shark species are consistently dangerous to humans, these being the bull shark and oceanic white tip.

@@hamishstewart5324 the curiosity part made me sad :( they jus wana know what we are :((((

From almost everyone who's been bitten by a shark is pretty sure sharks think we taste gross, they bite once and as soon as they taste anything they cough it back out Surfers and divers just happen to look kinda like seals

Same happened with Hyenas when Lion King came out, it's crazy just how easy people can hate something after learning false or exaggerated info and how hard it is to then change their mindset even when presenting actual facts.

@@infinitezion2029 Snakes as well, the majority of bites from venomous species come from people actively trying to kill or chase them out. Additionally, stingrays were found with their tails cut off after Steve Irwin died.

"with her own eyes" Yeah,I think your teacher wasnt a real teacher.

Ngl, even as a kid I knew it was fake. But either way, it was interesting to see the idea of what mermaids could have been and how they lived their lives if they were real at point besides just swimming under the sea

This girl was me 🤣🤣 I mean not literally but I too was convinced by (mermaids: the body found ) back then .

Frankly, I would blame this child's confusion first on her parents, who allowed her to watch this entertainment program without explaining that it was just a story, like any movie. Second, why did no teacher or other adult in your school sit the girl down and explain things to her? It was adult neglect in both cases. Of course a very young child will not be able to tell the difference between fact and fiction---that is the role of the adults in her life to teach her. I feel sorry for this girl, she probably got a lot of ridicule for something that was not her fault. But that does not mean that the program should not have been made or was not entertaining. It means that adults are supposed to act as adults, which seems to be too much to expect today.

Bro I thought I hallucinated that document😭 and I’m with that girl I was convinced they were real

Probably because they make It seem like reputable experts agree with looney tune quacks in post editing. These shows are often passed as "science documentaries" to the actual experts and not revealed they are nonsense and give more time to the crazies with the expert there seemingly agreeing due to editing and that kinda thing Ruins experts careers

Now *that's* entertaining...

That reminds me of the plot for “maneater”

Don't take the lord's name in vain.

@@MinatheRaichu bro what

@@joeyw.7131 Steve Irwin

THE WINTER SHARK

Little child me had no idea. I felt so played when i figured it out later

I’m with you all; I saw it when I was 10, and I was confused as to why it seemed so off for a documentary

I was 9 and a huge science nerd....so I never picked that up until like a couple years later lol

@@miaroberts4259 same I was a science nerd as a kid too😭 when I learnt later that tHe mEg was ExTincT I was soo shocked because discovery channel lead me to believe all that fake stuff :(

I mean, it would have hit the news everywhere.

Yes

I’m sorry, his submarine?

@@Hessed3712 watch the video

for some reason, instantly made me think "mothman as one of the beetles."

He has a submarine??

Honestly ? Good for him. I still think jaws is fun as fiction but it sucks how many people treat the depiction of sharks in it a a realistic one

It's been like forty-five years since I read it, but I remember the book as being a much better, more balanced story as far as how the shark is depicted. I never liked the movie, but I did enjoy the book. Perhaps I'm not remembering the book well, but it was the movie that stirred up all the fear.

@@TheEudaemonicPlague The book is kind of shit from what I’ve heard. I should probably try reading it for myself at some point.

Yeah. I personally hate Jaws.

Movies that villainize animals worse than scum. But the people who make them are even worse.

*Collin kicks open the door of his room and goes to edit footage*

I deadass had a vivid nightmare with this guy from barnyard following me around with hyper realistic features saying "there's gonna be cows outside." And chasing me around with an axe playing a death game of hide and seek. I know you didn't ask but I thought it was funny

@@yourmomsuxdik4free having a nightmare like that seems concerning. You doing ok?

History channel is weird they're like oh old cultures couldn't possibly be intelligent enough to do this but talk like Nazis as if they were some superpower when in general they were highly stupid in how they plotted war

Of course the aliens created the pyramids…. The modern researchers get paid to apply modern concepts to pass cultures in violation of every historic method possible.

god, my grandpa was obsessed with the idea of aliens. i can't tell if he was trolling me or if he actually believed that aliens built the pyramids

Wait so u mean to tell me they've been lying to me so aliens didn't build the pyramids shit my life is a lie lol

Reminds me of a meme I saw that had a picture of the pyramids and the Easter Island Heads captioned "JUST BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE DIDN'T MAKE IT, DOESN'T MEAN IT WAS ALIENS"

It honestly sounds lile they were going for "they eat everyone, and they're REAL racist about it"

Who's talking about me??

tiger shark mo

According to vegans yes.

@@theangryholmesian4556 I was about to say that.

Orcas are the actual “serial killers of the seas”, and the sharks are their b**ches. Hmm... imagine a 60 foot orca?

@@theawesomeone6856 Now that’s a Whale Eater! Sadly Orcas look like idiot whale pandas, if they looked as cool as Sharks then you bet there would be 50 documentaries about them

Are fish cannibals? Edit: Just remembered that sharks actually are cannibals(at least great whites, idk about other sharks off the top of my head) When great whites are in fetal form, they'll devour each other until there's only one left, which will be the one that's born. So I can say yes, sharks are cannibals, but are other fish who just eat fish for their own nutrition for simply eating other fish?

River Monsters was great

Jeremy Wade is awesome. Imagine fishing a 3 and a half meter long catfish out of a murky raging river, man's got balls even tougher than steel

river monsters is sooo good when stoned omg

Isn't National Geographic also starting to lose credibility?

@@SirBlackReeds I think their TV channel has been since a few years back, though their magazine seems credible, still.

THE ONE AND ONLY….. MMMMMEGALODOOOOOOON

Money.🙂

For the clicks

Dawg u don't understand the point of em making up that shit huh

They put it before and after the program. Anyone not noticing deserves to believe it.

@@ajaniking111crystalbeat3 so everyone missing these few moments for whatever reason just deserves to be scammed?

Or a fighing game special move

It sounds like a rejected name for Tifa’s limit break in FF7.

@@pikapal91 I wonder if that’s what Dolphin Blow was originally called?

Warframe ult

indie space exploration game.

:(

It is frustrating that people beleve sensationalism over real evidence

I like that

@WindTheBrave plotwise maybe

@WindTheBrave I understand where you're coming from, Jaws is my favorite movie and Spielberg my favorite director, but I think even he would agree that the plot is like a b movie script

That was pretty much everyone at the time (especially if you lived in South America or Mexico)

A week where they just show footage of your mum (Sorry)

Like a bear ,or a wolf,or a eagle They all are just eating and you cant say that they are an extreme problem, way less evil

With extra whale on the side, of course.

@@robertborland5083 Implying Big Mac isn't actually a whale

@@hyperion3145 no whale is to expensive is more probable that is chinese whale

yeah yeah, like “wow you are saying there are TWO of them?!” bit, like that only a single individual has lived for two million years is the more reasonable explanation

My wife left me for megalodon

You were perfect sized bait, after all.

Amazing

Lynn I hate to be the one to say this. Your grandma had dementia

That’s a great grandma right there, takes a cryptid like no problem

Perhaps you were bait?

The difference between Michael Phelps and Hitler is Phelps could finish a race

@@jaywheeler1093 the Jews would like to argue the difference of Phelps to Hitler.

That’s horrible I feel bad for you

You think that's frustrating? Try explaining to someone (who believed them) that those "documentaries" where fake while providing them evidence from websites that show they are fake only to be met with "facts" from conspiracy websites written up by people that still think the old film "Cannibal Holocaust" was an actual snuff film....

@@Princess_Celestia_ ...are you okay now, though?

@@isetmfriendsofire I'm better then okay, I just found out about the smoking gun I needed to prove to my friend once and for all that fake documentary "Cannibal in the jungle" is fake. I just need to find that "documentary" in full so I can show him the disclaimer that proves its all bs. So far I've only managed to convince him of the possibility that it's fake. You wouldn't happen to know where I might find that documentary at, would you? All I've found so far has been out of context clips and none of them show the 3 second disclaimer I need.

@@Princess_Celestia_ My man, i was SUSPENDED in class around 2007 because the Dragon documentary came up in conversation, where my teacher ADAMANTLY defended it as world news of the discovery of REAL dragons. Being a smart-ass fucking kid i couldn't stay quiet and let it go... nooo. To top it all up, at the time in my country, nobody else was really watching content like that so i was alone there defending my case against a dumbass teacher and a bunch of gullible kids buying her bullshit.

Hello, fellow South Louisianans. Same.

Another follow Louisianan and yet I have never heard of the Rookin

I live in Louisiana too, and I have also not heard of the rookin.

North Shorer here, and I think it sounds made up

wereshark! (especially cool if you combine in some of the older things of the same name, which were really weird)

Comes with a 6 pack of empty White claw cans

@@DarkVileScream hell yeah

I'm going to borrow this for a dnd session

@@istvanbrooks5319 nice, the items and world building would be so fun. Like imagine a megladon sharktooth club or megladon leather armor. Or going on coordinated hunts with harpoons and canoes (like a lot of indigenous peoples did when they hunted whales)

@@nikolascoffey6453 that would be great!, the ocean in my world is actually perfect for megalodon, it's shallow, only about 300 meters deep until suddenly going down on thr borders with other nations, the ocean is also warm and filled with large and small prey for it

Did they tell you they eat megladon meat alot Nik??

@@istvanbrooks5319 Also, sharkskin is kind of like one-way sandpaper. So, it could be a useful tool in carpentry.

I'd watch this. Imagine them explaining a platypus or a panda lmao

The Panda: Beast of the Jungle Titanic in size, this thirteen foot tall monster lives in the thick jungles of Japan. They feast off a small harmless species called the Bamboo. Their large claws could easily rip open human flesh. Every year at least 3000 people died by their paw. Inside their mouth stood two large hollow tusks used as straws to suck the flesh out of innocents.

*shows bat skeleton* "This is the fingerboy.It used it's fingers to suck souls out"

The cheata a big flying creature that likes to eat lions

Lions are weasel like creatures they mostly hide from cheatas

“And repaired it with only flex tape”

"We sawed our reputation in half!"

We saw our brain in half!

@@lizardlegend42 flex tape can’t fix that

@@connorcoker5112 flex seal 💪

"Voodoo Shark" sounds like something The Asylum made.

@@exiegelastweekgamer1571 haha yea that works too

@@exiegelastweekgamer1571 It's from Jaws 4: Revenge.

Hi checkmark

Megatron

Ark Moment

New word to add to my vocabulary

Meggydom?

Dude that was my shit growing up

Oh god I HATED that show.

Noooo, I loved that show so much, those funky lil green graph guys

absolutely, fucking loved that show as a kid

Would be an interesting review for sure

It literally sounds like a Digimon special attack.

Wish mine have one. He just has a dwarf minnow

@@rawrdino7046 tell him to man up and chow down on YOUR fish

That's so cool

@@HHTwice yeah? You think you posted a good one there? That'll show the soyboys? Careful, don't let dad see you cry or he'll get the belt again.

Cringe