I mean, they’re still kinda goofy looking when alive.
Blobfish
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Wait don’t take the photo I’m not rea…”
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But he’s mentioned in the fish’s name.
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
He looked so much younger then.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Boris Johnson?
ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 months ago
From the thumbnail I thought this was a naked ass
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So I don’t need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Then you need to gain bone structure
Fandangalo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?
Me when I have water Me when I’m a human living in the modern world
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The name information is incorrect.
Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.
Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. […] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus
The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, “binomial name” is not always the same as “proper name”. There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that’s the Family) above. “Fatheads” sounds insulting, and “Toadfishes” aren’t toads.
I wouldn’t have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the “proper name” so poorly that I first read it as “Psychrd Lutes”. And the second reading, I misread as “Psychiro Lutes”, due to the weird “R” that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you’re trying to emphasize how it is spelled.
alucard@feddit.org 2 months ago
That’s not entirely correct either, because apparently “blobfish” can also refer to the wider Psychrolutidae family, also known as fathead sculpins, meaning that other species from the Psychrolutidae family get referred to as “blobfish”. So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.
I never said what you’re accusing me of saying. When Y corrects X, it is possible to say that Y is wrong without saying that X is right.
Even when I referred to it once as “blobfish”, that was to state its binomial name, not to state that “blobfish” was correct. OP used the term “blobfish” in exactly the same way. It’s logically impossible for OP’s post to be “more accurate” than mine.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Aliens do an Earth drive by, use a tractor beam to yank a human specimen through the mesosphere, log the name of the species as blisterface and fly away.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.
CassiniWarden@infosec.pub 2 months ago
How can it be in pain, and be a corpse?
Maalus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those were its last words
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I feel like if there’s anyone out there who would use this new information to make right by the Blobfish, it’s him.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe those blobfish are magic. I’ll hope for them!
ninthant@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.
Stardew valley lied to me!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Stardew lied a lot lol. Starfruit for example, only looks like a star in cross section, but i guess the actual starfruit is hard to represent in pixel.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I always assumed the Stardew starfruit was a special fruit that just happens to share a name with our starfruit.
Unknown_0671@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
true. I think the star representation is fine because eating it the slices are basically stars so its valid artistic license.
as for blobfish, u can argue its dead when u catch it but aquarium and ponds exist so that’s kinda sus
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
This is a “you” vs “the guy she tells you not to worry about” meme format
WaitThisIsntReddit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Makes you wonder if you’re blobby because you’re in the wrong environment.
Opisek@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Perhaps I do belong isolated in the deep dark sea.
Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I spread this information anytime I can find it to be relevant. This and the incorrect myths about goldfish memories and short lives are so annoying to me. I love my fish friends
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 2 months ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Good od Earthworm Jim…memories and RIP Shiny
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
What worst, is i found the depiction in children’s book. It’s kinda sad the myth doesn’t get corrected as much because people justify it as entire different thing.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had no idea, now I’m just sad.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
So what’s Ted Cruz’s excuse for looking like figure A?
exixx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He decompressed. Clearly he was meant to be at the bottom of the ocean
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
We can fix this.
nilo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I had no idea too but then came across a random Vox video about high pressure where they mentioned it.
I then did a little research and wrote the article below:
BaronessBarf@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
I wish people brought this energy to the meat industry
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Source please or I’ll stick to my previously unchallenged image of ugly blobfish
Squirrelanna@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“stop depicting blobfish like this, and blobfish isn’t what it’s called”
That specific one, as depicted, is blobfish. Blobfish is not a species, it’s an individual. Like Greenboots.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Aww :[
coaxil@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Blob fish, and fancy blob fish,.
Gottit!
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“Big Ugly” propaganda here. Only rely on their instagram selfies :P
ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Moisturised, Flourishing.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
First picture was just bad hair day.
VerbFlow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought that the Grandma Blobfish quest from Half-Genie Hero would age badly, but I didn’t know how badly
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 months ago
In the same vein, stop drawing dead butterflies
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Damnit, I’m going to see this everywhere now, aren’t I?
BorgDrone@lemmy.one 2 months ago
Yep.
You’re welcome.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thanks for making me one of the 10000 today
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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Interesting!
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
That bottom depiction really makes it obvious that butterflies never have their wings like that
MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I can’t wait to ruin this for every single person I know going forward. Thanks!
undeffeined@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Oh wow, thats very interesting!
Delzur@vegantheoryclub.org 2 months ago
Didn’t see that coming. In retrospect, I should have noticed that a long time ago… Thanks for the info
bmpvy@feddit.org 2 months ago
i will never see butterfly depictions the same again
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Neat, the alive ones look way more like moths too.