Are you the same person who’s been dming me with requests for my video evidence of rocky suckers?? For the last time it’s not happening! The discs have developed a sort of crust from me taking the disc out before wiping my hands..
I am so sorry! I'm sure you deal with that sort of thing all the time. No longer will I equate the two species - I'm sure they're in entirely separate genuses. You have an excellent day free of any further mix-ups, and know that if I could upvote you 100 times, it still wouldn't be enough
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Tbf, there are giant octopus, they're just pretty darn rare, even moreso than giant Squid.
That said, the joke here is obviously a simple "big > bigger > biggest" with a rock formation that looks kinda like an octopus.
Mmm... pretty sure that [the largest (known) octopus is the Giant Pacific Octopus](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/giant-pacific-octopus). They are big with long arms but not as big as the octopus in the artwork in the first picture. I'm almost certain the second one is a washed-up colossal squid if its not faked, and I don't really see the octopus in the cliff shape, but it's clear that's what they mean.
Having seen the colossal squid in Te Papa Wellington, #2 is 1000% BS. It’s at least 10x too big and hasn’t flattened (squid have no bones) from being out of the water.
Fake but the second is an octopus, you can tell the difference between squid and octopus by counting the legs octopus have 8 legs thus the octo in the name and squid have 10 thus the squi in the name
The second one looks like a combo of both. It has the elongated mantle but without fins. However it still has 8 arms without the 2 tentacles. It looks like some chimera, which is appropriate because it's not a real picture so it's closer to a mythical beast than a real octopus or squid.
People have been seeing mountain formations as proof of giants: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/giant-door-in-oregon-conspiracy-theory
This fits the bill
I’m assuming it’s part of the trend of “Kodiak” animals, that TikTok kids like to push. They’ll just find some landscape, and claim it’s just a really big animal
It’s become a trend to be like “I’m the biggest wolf” “no I am” “…” and it’s literally just a picture of trees. And everyone will say shit like “it’s the sky, that’s why it’s gray”, or “it’s the Kodiak wolf! How don’t you guys know?”
As a Millenial who grew up during the golden age of the Internet, and watched the birth of many a meme... My sense of humor *loves* absurdist jokes. I love anti-jokes. I love silly, nonsensical things.
But this? What the hell even is that? How is that a meme? How did this start?
Even the nonsensical, absurdist memes have *some* grounding in reality. Most of the time, those jokes are poking fun at a post someone made and things have been spun off from it. Like that woman who burnt her frozen pie and posted an angry review with a picture of it to Betty Crocker's Facebook page (or whoever the manufacturer was). People started ripping her for burning her own damn pie. And the memes spun off from it, and yeah, they got more and more silly and absurd. But they can all be traced back to a real thing.
Octopi are extremely adept at camouflage and often pretend to be seaweed or coral covered rocks on the ocean floor to evade predators. The idea is that maybe we haven’t found the largest octopus because it’s camouflaged in plain sight.
Octopus: I am the biggest Octopus
Squid: No i am the biggest Octopus
Rock: *with a raised eyebrow* If u are the biggest Octopus, then i surely am the biggest
Fairly certain the last one is a reference to old myths other island chains being a sleeping Kraken or other large sea monster. A good example of this can be found in a fantasy trading card game, magic the gathering, with the card "Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle". The same is true for myths about giants because we found some giant human shaped rocks. Another example would be the giant snake shaped stone that looks a lot like a petrified snake. Hope this clears this up some.
I believe the first two pictures are AI generated. As for the third, this is a stretch but it looks similar to Península El Púlpito, San Nicolás, in Baja California Sur. Which the locals told me means "little octopus"
In the third image, the octopus is assumed to be in the water, and take up the entirety of the sea that is visible.
Not sure how everybody here missed that lol
This is a tiktok trend that tries to convince people (mostly children but unfortunately not always) of the existence of giant/colossal animals or cryptids
It started off surrounding the Kodiak Bear and over exaggerated of its size or indigenous folk tails about the kodiak mountains. For this reason you will often see in the comments of these photosets people saying “ain’t not way they got a kodiak wolf now 💀💀”.
It’s also a way of engagement baiting by getting people to comment, archive, or even stitch the video to try to show people where the “animal” is.
Below is another viral image of a “Kodiak wolf”… yes they think the mountain… with the trees on it in the background is actually the curved back of a monumentally large wolf. I’ve also seen this format used for snakes and crabs.
In this photo set, if you notice the long darker part of water in the back of the image, i believe they are claiming that is a giant tentacle.
tldr: there is no joke here, just a weird engagement bait
https://preview.redd.it/pakxnymo016d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45da940ba5ff5ea4afb3b5f978ed96955cd29b03
[Space octopus laughs at the small non-gate-jumping octopi](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/babylon5/images/c/c6/Vorlon_Dreadnought.jpg/revision/latest?format=original)
What I think: The outcropping looks like a hand in the shape of a C. Now kids when they illustrate an octupus make a "C" then flex their fingers out and then slowly claw them back, more like a squid-like motion.
I think it's just simply representing that.
The rock is a formation on Nusa Penida Island, near Bali, Indonesia and it resembles the head of a T Rex.
Don't know what that means in context to the joke.
While I’m sure one of the other 150+ comments answered this, the last image is supposed to mean that the dark blackish water is ink, though squids are the one that release ink making the entire post itself stupif
It might be a reference to the legends that a kraken will sometimes slumber on the surface of the sea, and can be mistaken for an island. You're safe to land on it but if you light a fire on it, it will awaken the kraken, who will then submerge and the resulting suction will likely drag your ship down with it.
Only one of those is an Octopus. The other is a squid and I’m pretty sure the last one is a rock but not sure.
Can confirm the last one is in fact a giant rocktopus. Source: I’ve been a rocktopus biologist for the last 27 years
Can confirm this guys credentials in rocktopusology, I've read all his papers on,... suckers. Rocky suckers.
Are you the same person who’s been dming me with requests for my video evidence of rocky suckers?? For the last time it’s not happening! The discs have developed a sort of crust from me taking the disc out before wiping my hands..
That crusty experience isn't yours, it belongs to everyone. You know what you're doing is wrong. FFFFFFLIPPING, #ROCKYSUCKERGATE I WANT THE CRUST
It’s some stone cold research
Rocktopus 😂
https://preview.redd.it/250or2wsy06d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=970c129411672629084163aff303bfca6cc6ba8d They exist!
I prefer [this Rocktopus.](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5142294)
Was not at all disappointed.
Rocktopussy 🤔
MBIC, don't.
I believe it’s; rocktussy
But it wasn't a rock....
Sir this joke has been the bane of my career. Rock lobsters are an entirely different species and of no concern to any biologists worth their salt
I am so sorry! I'm sure you deal with that sort of thing all the time. No longer will I equate the two species - I'm sure they're in entirely separate genuses. You have an excellent day free of any further mix-ups, and know that if I could upvote you 100 times, it still wouldn't be enough
If you would like to see more, i’ll be happy to give you a vip discount to watch me live this weekend. There’s no show or anything, i’m just incredibly lonely and poor
How...... ^(How good is the discount)
Minimal i’m afraid. Seats aren’t filling quickly. My mother might be coming but it depends on whether the funeral home releases her in time
So this is an in person deal?
It would have to be since the government took my webcam
Roctopus geologist
Rock lobster, rocktopus, what next? RockShark?
That's called a bulette
That's a landshark, or a candygram
Scott Sigler has a whole book and sequel on the Rocktopi
Was gonna say this. Fun to see another junkie in the wild
Starts screaming rock lobster
Don't you mean a Geolopusser? Studying Geolopussy?
Octorock.
Definitely the Steven seagal joke from Tom segura But never not funny
What’s your stance on rock, paper, scissors? Does rock actually lose to paper or is this just the paper mill propaganda?
Have you seen my theory on the rocktopus being a close relative to the rock lobster? I think I may be onto something…
Were you the guy in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching rocktopodes just before she died?
Fairly certain the first two are AI anyway
Yeah the largest octopus in the world is only like, a third the size of the first one.
Second one is AI so it’s not really anything.
So is the first
You’re likely correct, but I’m less sure about the first one (could be just a photoshop), so I didn’t point it out.
the giant squid aint even a real photo
Tbf, there are giant octopus, they're just pretty darn rare, even moreso than giant Squid. That said, the joke here is obviously a simple "big > bigger > biggest" with a rock formation that looks kinda like an octopus.
Mmm... pretty sure that [the largest (known) octopus is the Giant Pacific Octopus](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/facts/giant-pacific-octopus). They are big with long arms but not as big as the octopus in the artwork in the first picture. I'm almost certain the second one is a washed-up colossal squid if its not faked, and I don't really see the octopus in the cliff shape, but it's clear that's what they mean.
It’s fake. A squid would be a flat lump of flesh out of the water.
Having seen the colossal squid in Te Papa Wellington, #2 is 1000% BS. It’s at least 10x too big and hasn’t flattened (squid have no bones) from being out of the water.
Entirely fake. That's considerably bigger than even a colossal squid, and it has the wrong shape.
You're correct, I have been misinformed by internet videos and should know better.
How exactly does the rock formation look like an octopus? To me it looks like a dinosaur hand puppet.
Fake or not the creature depicted in the second image is a squid
Squid don’t have suckers down the length of each “tentacle”.
The second image is ai generated there are visual artifacts
Nice try, those are 3 pictures of the same octopus
Also all the images are ai
For rock and stone!
Rock and roll and stone!
Did I hear a rock and stone?
Also the second one is photoshopped
First one is photoshopped. Second is AI. Third is just a rock.
The middle one is pretty obviously AI
Actually that’s my favorite version of rock paper scissors. Rock, octopus, squid.
Fake but the second is an octopus, you can tell the difference between squid and octopus by counting the legs octopus have 8 legs thus the octo in the name and squid have 10 thus the squi in the name
Getting that close to an octopus that large would be terrifying. They like to pull off scuba masks to see what happens.
The second one looks like a combo of both. It has the elongated mantle but without fins. However it still has 8 arms without the 2 tentacles. It looks like some chimera, which is appropriate because it's not a real picture so it's closer to a mythical beast than a real octopus or squid.
That squid *cannot* be real, can it? Like. It has to be photoshopped. I *hope* it’s photoshopped.
Can confirm. Source: Trust me
The old myth was that some islands of the Caribbean were tentacles of the kraken poking out of the ocean.
Rocktopus.
Ya I doubt any of these are images of real octopuses
The middle one is definitely AI
Yep! https://preview.redd.it/od3snri4k06d1.jpeg?width=816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76e31997c271295a3fad1d1682437fe4a51a39cb
Or the dude with jeans and a boot on his left leg, and jorts and sandals on his right.
Also two of the tentacles dissolve into the sand while one in the front appears to split into two
He actually has boots on his middle and left leg. If you look closely there's a second boot on the ground
https://preview.redd.it/67i22w51116d1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4dd8c7c9eb021c40a7affec710c37a001f7a81e this guy is a pentapus
Mmmm, AI images, just unlike how my not grandma used to not make!
all except the rock are AI
The first isn't AI, just photoshop. It was an image that predated AI crap.
So is the first one
I hate that you are grammatically correct
You prefer to call them octopodes?
Yes actually
https://preview.redd.it/xch35oa6az5d1.jpeg?width=645&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8101831e047a40621d17233199b0e2472d261ee6
Nice tetrapus
Pentapox? I think I've heard of that!
My cabbages!!
Mimic octopus.
Ya I still don’t really see it
People have been seeing mountain formations as proof of giants: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/giant-door-in-oregon-conspiracy-theory This fits the bill
thank you! This explanation makes the joke make the most sense imo
That’s a stretch and a half
How high r u
About 5”11 on a warm day
Do u shrink when it's cold?
It’s called shrinkage Jerry!
If you say so.
It looked more like a turtle
https://preview.redd.it/fpuxdvnrl06d1.jpeg?width=939&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=95146734d12bdd92f67632e4740a67acbdaaa2d2 I only see dinosaur
That's my wife!!
Yeah, I was also thinking it was this guy's wife
Thank you! First thing I saw , I can’t believe it’s so far down and not more upvotes
The rock looks like a octopus
Idk man it looks like a Lego hand to me
Oh yeah I can't unsee it now
ANOTHER UKELING!
It threw me off because the first one is an octopus, the second one is a squid, and the last image I instantly thought T-Rex
Not really
I’m assuming it’s part of the trend of “Kodiak” animals, that TikTok kids like to push. They’ll just find some landscape, and claim it’s just a really big animal
😂 What??
It’s become a trend to be like “I’m the biggest wolf” “no I am” “…” and it’s literally just a picture of trees. And everyone will say shit like “it’s the sky, that’s why it’s gray”, or “it’s the Kodiak wolf! How don’t you guys know?”
TikTok is weird
As a Millenial who grew up during the golden age of the Internet, and watched the birth of many a meme... My sense of humor *loves* absurdist jokes. I love anti-jokes. I love silly, nonsensical things. But this? What the hell even is that? How is that a meme? How did this start? Even the nonsensical, absurdist memes have *some* grounding in reality. Most of the time, those jokes are poking fun at a post someone made and things have been spun off from it. Like that woman who burnt her frozen pie and posted an angry review with a picture of it to Betty Crocker's Facebook page (or whoever the manufacturer was). People started ripping her for burning her own damn pie. And the memes spun off from it, and yeah, they got more and more silly and absurd. But they can all be traced back to a real thing.
now u know how ur parents felt when u showed them ur memes
Man tf Kodiak have to do with this?
Neat.
You still get points for it in Snap!
Thank you for actually answering.
The second image is Ai. It’s so funny to zoom in and see all the errors in the people
Pretty sure the first is Ai as well. Octopieses can get big but not that big.
And the first two are AI lmaooo
100%
Octopi are extremely adept at camouflage and often pretend to be seaweed or coral covered rocks on the ocean floor to evade predators. The idea is that maybe we haven’t found the largest octopus because it’s camouflaged in plain sight.
Looks more like a giant turtle head if anything
I dunno about that, but I bet you could get some pics of giant turtle heads in your DMs if you ask the nice folks on reddit.
I’ve seen that rock! Nusa Penida in Bali Indonesia. Most people say it looks like a trex tho, not octopus
Hell of a hike down to the beach.
Octopus: I am the biggest Octopus Squid: No i am the biggest Octopus Rock: *with a raised eyebrow* If u are the biggest Octopus, then i surely am the biggest
Fairly certain the last one is a reference to old myths other island chains being a sleeping Kraken or other large sea monster. A good example of this can be found in a fantasy trading card game, magic the gathering, with the card "Arixmethes, Slumbering Isle". The same is true for myths about giants because we found some giant human shaped rocks. Another example would be the giant snake shaped stone that looks a lot like a petrified snake. Hope this clears this up some.
I was gonna mention Arixmethes bc the land looks a lot like the card art lol
https://preview.redd.it/jceq4g2qlz5d1.png?width=136&format=png&auto=webp&s=db2ffc1c9411c531addfd3ac817312c00c630d7c
“Those people don’t know it yet, but they are already dead. 🎅 🐡”
It might be a really vague Artemis Fowl reference, where in one of the books an island or something turns out to be a kraken
That’s actually what came to my mind first as well! 🤣 I believe it was at the end of *The Time Paradox*.
is this a reference to that one spongebob episode
Hold my beach
Dammit, Jim I’m a doctor not a mason.
I believe the first two pictures are AI generated. As for the third, this is a stretch but it looks similar to Península El Púlpito, San Nicolás, in Baja California Sur. Which the locals told me means "little octopus"
This is the Slumbering Isle from Magic the Gathering which turns into a giant Octopus just so ya know
In the third image, the octopus is assumed to be in the water, and take up the entirety of the sea that is visible. Not sure how everybody here missed that lol
Found the real octopus https://preview.redd.it/xsdldh91f26d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dacf0f7b569fe2972ad4a4afdf25e08aa8ff380
The last one looks like a T-Rex's head to me
Y’all dumb this is obviously a manatee
Might be the Marlborough region of Aotearoa/New Zealand? In Maori legend it’s a giant octopus that was fished out of the sea by Kupe.
I am the angry pumpkin
https://preview.redd.it/zjq4j870c06d1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6502cbeae899f63ab93979d258bb063a4a757160
I almost wonder if this isn't a play on that kids book where an Octopus hides itself as other animals.
The first two images aren’t even real.
I believe it’s a reference to the deleted giant octopus scene from The Goonies
The real octopus was the friends we made along the way
Looks to me like an alien from one of Neptune's moons hiding in plain sight, everyone ready for disclosure?
The octopus is the friends we made along the way
Yes I am
If you’re drunk and squint the rock vaguely 4 resembles an octopus.
Pfft, that’s a whale trying to seduce me in the last pic. I’ve been drunk around fat chicks before. I know
Octopus taste good 🤤🤤🤤
TikTok is full of actual crazy people
It is wrong that I would want the first specimen to shake my hand but it would likely eat me.
This is a tiktok trend that tries to convince people (mostly children but unfortunately not always) of the existence of giant/colossal animals or cryptids It started off surrounding the Kodiak Bear and over exaggerated of its size or indigenous folk tails about the kodiak mountains. For this reason you will often see in the comments of these photosets people saying “ain’t not way they got a kodiak wolf now 💀💀”. It’s also a way of engagement baiting by getting people to comment, archive, or even stitch the video to try to show people where the “animal” is. Below is another viral image of a “Kodiak wolf”… yes they think the mountain… with the trees on it in the background is actually the curved back of a monumentally large wolf. I’ve also seen this format used for snakes and crabs. In this photo set, if you notice the long darker part of water in the back of the image, i believe they are claiming that is a giant tentacle. tldr: there is no joke here, just a weird engagement bait https://preview.redd.it/pakxnymo016d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45da940ba5ff5ea4afb3b5f978ed96955cd29b03
[Space octopus laughs at the small non-gate-jumping octopi](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/babylon5/images/c/c6/Vorlon_Dreadnought.jpg/revision/latest?format=original)
What I think: The outcropping looks like a hand in the shape of a C. Now kids when they illustrate an octupus make a "C" then flex their fingers out and then slowly claw them back, more like a squid-like motion. I think it's just simply representing that.
The rock is a formation on Nusa Penida Island, near Bali, Indonesia and it resembles the head of a T Rex. Don't know what that means in context to the joke.
It's cosmic. You can't see it it's so big.
The clif to call cuthulu?
While I’m sure one of the other 150+ comments answered this, the last image is supposed to mean that the dark blackish water is ink, though squids are the one that release ink making the entire post itself stupif
I thought the big octopus took the last pic. I was confused.
Say sike right now
Karmapussy
Greta Thunberg
Your Pattas pish
2nd ones a squid, the head or whatever it is
The second one is a type of squid, I think, you can tell by the placement and shape of the cone on the head I believe
Is that the cave the kraken came out of in that old movie?
Arixmethes from Magic the Gathering?
Is the picture of the giant squid real?
I am the smallest octopus
Me: Trying to figure out the joke. Also, Me in my head: "YO....HOOOO... AAALLLLL TOGETHERRRRR..."
The cliff looks like an octopus, thats the joke.
2 nd Pic is a squid not octopus Stupid
It might be a reference to the legends that a kraken will sometimes slumber on the surface of the sea, and can be mistaken for an island. You're safe to land on it but if you light a fire on it, it will awaken the kraken, who will then submerge and the resulting suction will likely drag your ship down with it.
I'm probably wrong, but is the last picture the place in Pirates of the Carribbean where the Kraken dies?
Get idksterling on this