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psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 weeks agoThank fuck for this copypasta. I remember the hate of sunfish in reddit and didn’t know there’s a smack down of a reply. I remember watching a ocean documentary years ago and they filmed that thing just zip away when threatened, so in my mind they definitely isn’t useless. It’s a lovely looking fish and just like blobfish, it’s been misrepresented by shithead.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I was the same. Just pissed me off that people took what was meant to be a humorous rant and pretended it was factual.
When I ran across tea and crumpets’ rebuttal, I saved a copy immediately.
It kinda became a thing I did. I was a mod of r/goodlongposts for a while, and the rant copy pasta would get caught by the bot a lot, so I’d post the rebuttal. I eventually wrote my own for the koala pasta, then discovered it had already been done. There’s a panda one and a mosquito one as well. I used to have one for wasps, but I seem to have lost the file at some point. Skeeters and wasps were more for those times when they’d come up as beginning being hated in general, as I never saw any copy/pasta regarding them.
But, last time I went to the beach, I actually ran across idiots wanting to charter a damn boat to go throw rocks at the things. Which was stupid on multiple levels. But it shows how bad info can spread, so I always feel justified in pasting in the better info.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Humerous rant or not it seems reasonable to assume its basic claims about the animal are factual. It seems really fucked up to make shit up about an animal in order to rant about it.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Agreed completely.