In the criminal justice system, shark based offenses are considered especially heinous. In California beaches, the dedicated surfers who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Shark Victims Unit. These are their stories.
*cut to two lawyers interrogating a shark* "You say you weren't at *insert beach here* at the time of the murder. But THESE *slams photos on desk* PROVE OTHERWISE" *the shark is literally dead. A shark can't survive in a police station.*
the emphasis on the term “serial killer” is even more laughable when you realize that in order for someone to be classified as such, they have to have claimed at LEAST 3 victims which debunks this awful title immediately…
3 victims AND there has to be a common thread between the victims (e.g., all victims were blonde women like with Son of Sam). A double-whammy of debunking.
That’s such a misunderstanding of the morality of nature (it’s amoral. It’s supposed to be. Morality is a sapient animal thing and we’re very bad at handling it) it is like actually stunning. Anthropomorphizing animals like this is dangerous and rude to the animals and nature in general
Ik lmfao. It sucks because they have some really interesting studies sometimes, and then they do it one time and they're like "welp we're done" or a storm comes and theyre like "dang i guess we can't do that now" and they just never have any accurate information. I'm going into marine biology and those kinds of things are super interesting. And they just completely skew all of it and barely show anything. I don't like shark week for the dramatization to be honest. If it's a documentary I'd like to learn something. Sometimes they'll show a very interesting behavior that I've never seen before, or a very obscure shark I haven't heard of, and I learn something. I do like that they're promoting the fact that sharks aren't just dangerous killing machines, like that one with Gordon Ramsey in Asia televising the illegal collection of shark fins. That's educational and raises awareness. But most of them are just LOOK AT THIS KILLER SHARK!! ITS SO EVIL!!!
it's giving "the student that paid absolutely no attention during class and then has to write an essay and create slides to present in front of everyone" vibes
Fun fact; when sharks bite things, like the metal cage from the first shark in the Most Wanted Sharks show, it's often because they're curious and often will bite things in their surroundings to figure out what it is. That's also why most shark attacks happen, the shark has no idea what the human is and is just trying to figure out what it is and doesn't realize that biting the human will hurt it or even kill it. Also the splashing plays a role too as that can scare the shark and sharks when scared will sometimes bite as a way of defense. Sharks are more afraid of us than we are of them. Also we really body shaming sharks now? What if Lucy just doesn't want kids? I think she's fine the way she is and it's no one else's business why she don't got kids.
Sharks don't have hands. Really their only feeling sensory organ is their mouth, and as a predator it's their natural instinct to bite things to be exploratory. It is literally the same thing as a cat play-biting you or chewing on some crinkly plastic, only sharks are much bigger and have more teeth so it's more dangerous for us.
i had to pause the video and take a lap around my room at that one. not only are we ascribing MORALITY to ANIMALS, but we are also assuming they can tell time???? all the clocks at the bottom of the ocean are stopped 💀💀
Doesn't need to be like 3 kills to be considered a serial killer for a person. I thought from the name it would be about a bunch of deaths but two? Could be intresting sure but not the way they did it.
Well coordinated migrations and mating seasons shows to me they have some understanding of time. However the idea of a culculating pre-meditating murder from an animal seems rediculous
And ironic part more people die from lighting every year than sharks. Lighting kills 28 people per year just in the US and average shark related deaths per year is 6 worldwide.
isn't the whole point of shark week supposed to be to raise awareness about the fact that sharks have been painted in a bad light for decades and aren't nearly as much of a threat as people make them out to be? I feel like the serial killer one just takes that and chucks it out the window.
Money. The lowest common denominators of society would rather watch a sensationalist piece about "E V I L S H A R K S !" rather than actually learn about sharks.
I think they do that more nowadays than they used to. I don't really keep up on it much, but I watched the Jackass crew's Shark Week special and they were all talking about how sharks are just trying to exist. One guy even got bit by a shark, but only because they were purposefully doing something dumb (trying to literally Jump the Shark), and they all acknowledge that it wasn't the sharks fault.
Gotta love humans they believe everywhere is theirs even places they cant live in it. Note:Yes, I said they because I am a reptile that try to invade world.
I have to admit, I was expecting a lot of things out of this video, but National Geographic body-shaming a lady shark and claiming her ugly fin is why she can't get a boyfriend was... uh... not one of those things.
My brother’s a surfer and while he was paddling he accidentally hit a shark in the face. The shark left him alone. Wow it’s almost like sharks aren’t raging blood thirsty predators
Not like i think sharks are blood thirsty murderers, but its probally the best place to have hit the shark. If one does bite you and doesnt let go people suggest you bop it on the nose or stab it in the eye. If he hit it on the tail it might have gotten spooked and bit in defense. Either way glad your brother is okay.
For years, Eddy advocated for the rights of the unverified. Then suddenly he gets the blue check, and he’s all “ohhh sharks I’m better than you.” What the fuck? Smh, unfollowed
As someone who studies sharks and tries to educate and spread awareness, I really appreciate your video on this. Discovery is sadly no longer about education and is more about mislabeling these animals as mindless killers because that's what brings in the views. It's a shame but sadly people support the lies and continue to make conservation and education efforts more difficult
As an aspiring Herpetologist, I feel that. It’s kinda similar with snakes too. There was one Discovery show where a dude was trying to get eaten alive by an anaconda. The problem is that anacondas don’t eat humans and the “angry” anaconda was simply defending itself from what it perceived as a dangerous animal. It’s kinda frustrating that some “nature” shows are perpetuating harmful stereotypes about animals that lead to them being killed.
@@adoramay9410 There's been no documented cases of anacondas eating people anyways!!! Theres a single story that's dubiously factual, thats IT anacondas preffer slow moving prey they can ambush they don't chase people!!! Snakes don't chase things that's never been a thing with snakes the only "chasing" is when rattles snakes will try to hide in peoples shaows amd will follow them but I've never seen actual proof of this
@@artsyscrub3226 tbf every modern nature documentary is David Attenborough telling about how he saw the last real tree as child like an alt-universe Lorax.
same thing with spiders, they get painted so often as evil little monsters that are just lying in wait to bite and kill anyone and everyone, and every single spider is dangerous. none of that is even remotely true and it frustrates me to no end. it'd be nice if we could just collectively get our heads out of our asses about scary animals and just learn about them
I thought Shark Week's purpose was supposed to unvilify sharks. Make people realize that they're just animals and they're to be respected but not feared. Like any other animal.
That was over 20 years ago when Discovery networks weren't just the worst. They threw out science and education nearly entirely by 2006 after TLC blazed a trail of ignorance when it proved there was money in trash reality shows after it had shifted from educational content to reality in 2001.
Really? In my experience it's always been the exact opposite; just a way for people to be like "woah look at the scary shark lol I hope it doesn't eat anyone"
it is shark week is owned by discovery not national geographic. what eddy watched was Disneys attempt to rip off shark week. (i believe they call it shark fest or something else stupid) but eddy did in fact not watch any shark week content
I’m glad that he did a documentary about sharks and made them out to be what they actually are, just animals and actually talked to professionals and not people who know nothing about sharks.
Yeah those are the type of shows I watch during shark week not like what's on here. There was one about how sharks are getting harder and harder to find where they used to be abundant so they'd film there due to global warming and its effects on everything, man-made problems, and everything else that was pretty interesting
When Eddy started doing his own voiceover, I genuinely didn't notice and only even bothered to question it when I heard "hot f*ckable shark" and I experienced a very wide range of emotions
i thought it was real too but when i heard "hot fuckable shark" instead of realizing it was eddy making a joke i just thought the producers were really fuckn weird
Even at that point I was suspicious but still not sure until he started talking about kissing the shark, and I had to go back and find when the switch happened
Lived in LA my whole life, spent too much time at the beach to count. I can think of one time in my life that a shark attack in a season even warranted an announced warning to beach goers
@@beastofbussycreek Yeah I've never heard a beach shut down because one or two people got attacked by sharks, because costal people aren't idiots and relize the sharks aren't gonna hurt them if they just leave the sharks alone People who live by the beach aren't scared of sharks, i bet you're way more scared of the weather right now than a single shark
the truly funny part to me is that to be considered a “serial” killer, 3 lives must be claimed. even if they were correct in it being a singular shark, it’s just a repeat offender at best.
@@jayedgar1384 It's not a murder, though. Sharks are literally incapable of performing "murder". They can kill you, yes, but that doesn't qualify as murder in anything but a colloquial sense at best. I wouldn't be so pedantic if one of the main points of the video wasn't that sharks can't really murder you. They are wild animals and, as animals, they are simply doing what they must (or what they see as necessary) to stay alive. "Murder" on the other hand is usually defined as "the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought" (Merriam-Webster) and is specifically a crime. That means it's an activity that is defined by the law. Since human law can't really apply to sharks, they can't really be guilty of murder. To put it otherwise, it's like accusing a cliff of being a murderer because people just can't help but try and get close to the edge to take selfies. Cliff has nothing to do with their ensuing tumble into the great unknown. Cliff's a good guy, he did nothing wrong! On the other hand, if killing other species for the purpose of feeding WAS qualified as murder, guess which species of nearly 8 billion individuals would immediately have to get the chair?
I'm coming to realize that a lot of these shows seemed scientific and educational but we had more luck emailing a marine biologist ourselves than listen to these shows.
in the past, shark week actually was more educational. it's been garbage for years, but there was a time when it wasn't full of sensationalized bullshit.
I know when I was a kid it helped me become more passionate about the ocean and about animals in general and now I'm about to start actually making a difference when it comes to that so at least it did something. I might be looking at it through nostalgia glasses but it used to be less egregiously horrible
Most marine biologists will beg you not to do this-they’re normally pretty busy, and get swamped by “email an X” assignments for school, etc. There is a lively marine bio population on Twitter (& probably Instagram); great place to learn more and interact with experts.
@Lord Ass Very few marine biologists are paid to answer email. They’re paid to do research-often from the government money they successfully petition for and win. Expecting people to respond to hundreds of emails a week, something that takes time to do well, is absolutely unreasonable. And I imagine you’d be hugely offended if anyone told you that you should spend hours a week on your job, answering email, but not being paid to do it. 🙄
As a geneticist: There is no too small piece in genetics as long as there’s just one piece of dna at the shark tooth, the police would have been able to extract it via pcr. They were just like f you we will not check a shark tooth for dna for your weird show and so the producers were like, we will just say it it was too small 🤷🏼♀️😂😂
I was so confused i was like "but i watches in forensic files they took the tiniest drop of blood and identified the killer? Why is a shark tooth too small?"
I find it more likely they got the Dna results and it turned out it was two different sharks so instead of telling the truth they lied about it being too small
For the first one I'm imagining some guys in a business meeting saying "Gen Z is a key demographic. How can we get them instrested in Sharks? The second one is the same thing but for fans of true crime documentaries. It is so funny how much it seems like that guy is planning a murder and is trying to find a way he can plausably frame a shark for it. Also I'm never going to forget the phrase 'hot fuckable shark'
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear paola
So I frequently use RUclips kinda like background noise, but I was listening to this, and I'm not kidding when I say I thought it was a real narrator at first, then I realized what he was saying was weird, then I realized it was Eddy. He fooled me for sure.
The reason "Brandon the dog trainer" ended up being the host of this show is probably because everyone in the industry who knows anything about sharks would turn this garbage down. It does nothing but hurt the industry as a whole. Thank you for pointing out the absurdities of these shows rather than continuing the false naratives.
Somewhere in a board room they were discussing how they get people to pay attention to their shark shows and someone said “well people like social media influencers and true crime” so they forced it
It would have been way more interesting to do an actual true crime story about people needlessly killing sharks, which literally does happen because of great porn like this, and it would actually be informative, educational and interesting.
I’m a fish biologist and I screamed through this whole video 😭 the sad thing is you could frame these things in an educational videos. Have shark researchers/biologists break down and explain viral shark videos. Use the surf beach attacks as a springboard to talk to the researchers on things like the migration patterns and how the way great whites hunt and how to best avoid run-ins with them. Explain why they’re important members of the ecosystem despite their occasional risk to people. I guess thats not as sexy as a fuckable shark tho 🤷♀️ Thank you for another awesome video!
As someone who was a HUGE shark girl as a kid, Shark Week was quite literally more exiting than Christmas to me and I have so many great memories of watching it all week, learning so much, and loving these super awesome animals, but as I got older I was less and less inclined to watch because it was becoming SO commercialized and focused on “big killer great whites” and celebrity appearances, and LESS about the research and appreciation which is what drew me in originally. It’s so sad :/ I don’t even bother watching it anymore. I still love sharks, and I always will, but it’s just disappointing that something that started out as a week of shark love and destigmatization has turned so cheesy and embarrassing to watch. Great vid Eddy
I think it did help a lot of future conservationists and biologists find their passion but yeah they are really attempting to undo all that shit but I guess they don't need the planet to survive as much as the need that moneyyyyyyy
I grew my love for sharks as a kid from books in the library. I lost interest in them from watching these kid of shows and getting so frustrated at frustrated at the misinformation. Sharks are incredible. They're way more misunderstood then we give them credit for
as a marine/fisheries biologist, this is my favorite video of yours. the amount of non-scientists who think they know more than me because of random trivial reasons kills me. there's a lot of dishonest and manipulative documentaries about marine biology related fields, not just on Discovery Channel, and it's honestly terrible.
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RUclips. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention. I love his videos.
@@FukaiKokoro I've seen some of his stuff, he looks like he does a good job keeping a healthy distance from the animals he's observing, which is really great. NOAA's currently working on drone guidelines for protected marine species, but it doesn't look like what he's doing is influencing their behavior, my only worry with his content would be copycats who aren't as careful about ensuring they're not disturbing the wildlife. Ugh educational content can be so hard for that reason ahaha, it's a bummer, but I really like his content.
I love the shows that are like “in the 2015 deaths by sharks were double. Here we’re gonna answer why?” Then you find out that it went from 1 to 2. Also they said it was pollution
Putting aside how sharks don't have the mental capacity to be intentionally evil (dolphins do, don't think about it too much) and that there is absolutely no reason to believe that one shark killed two people, but serial killers have 3 or more individual kills. The shark wouldn't even be a serial killer. You've got a shark with maximum two kills, without malice. I need a documentary on serial killer vending machines
I listen to this cool podcast called Ologies, in which the host interviews experts in very specific fields, and her episode about sharks was so sad because it was basically an hour of debunking all the egregious lies shows like this perpetuate about sharks 😣😔
that thing about the "shark diva devouring an aluminum cage" is so ridiculous cuz like - biting shit is how sharks investigate. It's not like they have arms or hands, so the only thing they can use is their mouths
I’ve worked with sharks before specifically the dogfish which is the smallest type of shark (they’re adorable and I suggest looking them up). I have gotten so many people coming up to me asking if they will be eaten or attacked by a dogfish even though they are 3-5ft long and pretty skinny. One of our dogfish had and injury similar to the one the shark slash had and that was likely because someone caught a shark, freaked out and ripped the fish hook out instead of properly taking out the fish hook cause they were afraid. That shark has permanent neurological damage because that wound got infected and the infection spread to his brain. He was also only 2ft long when we found him. These tv shows cause very literal harm to these animals and I don’t think shows like this should be even allowed to exist.
"If I showed a dolphin TikTok, it would kinda know what it is" lol this killed me. I was just watching a doc yesterday in class and dolphins can recognize symbols and patterns so I feel like ur right in a sense
That serial killer shark show was DEFINITELY the brainchild of some coke-addled boomer who was like "Sharks are in! true crime is in! what if we made a true crime show about sharks!?!"
Honestly I think it’s kind of gross that Discovery and National Geographic are pumping out these kinds of shows that misrepresent sharks so much. Like these are companies that pride themselves on being accurate about the animal world yet they willingly disregard that sharks are super hated and at risk from these kinds of public perceptions.
I took a marine biology class a few years back and learned that sharks don’t eat people and almost always mistake humans for sea lions and sea turtles. The silhouette of a surfer on a board from beneath the surface of the water looks similar to animals in their diet. It’s frustrating when people say they are killers because they’ll eat members of their own species before knowingly eating a human
I never liked how they demonize sharks. Sharks are really not that bad, and also many shark species endangered. It just bothers me when people are trying to save these animals, but people just keep dramatizing them. This just makes people not want to save them. Sharks are a very important species and I just hope none of them end up going extinct. 🦈❤️
Sharks are STUPID FISH who just want to eat TASTY SEALS AND FISH. They don't go out of their way to eat gross humans. They don't have hands, so they have to examine things with their mouth. Dolphins should be the ones being demonized. They know exactly what their doing when they kill things
6:08 made me howl laughing. Calling a shark in the ocean “on the loose” is so funny. Bitch it LIVES there. I’m not on the loose in my own apartment. If it was on the streets of like Orange County? Then we can call it “on the loose”
Dramatized death on TV, especially from these older mainstream TV shows, is definitely not handled correctly. I never realized how disrespectful it could be until I saw a documentary about the Norwegian flight Partnair Flight 394, which my great-grandfather was co-piloting. I knew the plane crashed but seeing a CGI recreation and an actor badly playing my great-grandfather screaming was so off-putting. The episode is even called Blown Apart, like, how disrespectful can you be? Definitely hate how these old networks dramatized death for views. Great vid though, eddy! glad to see you post:)
I feel the same way about true crime shows and podcasts which cover recent stories. They claim to be respectful then choose salacious titles and luxuriate in small upsetting details. It reopens wounds for everyone who knew and loved the person under discussion in real life. Even if they don’t listen to the podcast some of them are so big it’s impossible to avoid completely! NPR did a podcast about a murder in my neighborhood (multiple people, including a child, were killed) and there were radio ads and signs on busses and it was so painful for everyone to have to relive that.
I quite enjoyed ACI back in the day but looking back at it now its kind of messed up how overly dramatic and sensationalized it was, especially after the first couple seasons. Thankfully there's quite a few youtubers that cover these topics in a much more respectful manner today.
I remember seeing a clip of a show that claimed that great whites loved heavy metal because it makes them come to eat the food where they put the speakers Nevermind that sharks have an excellent sense of smell and have electroreceptors to find prey, they like metal because "sharks and metal makes sharks cooler and scarier."
I heard that they like heavy metal because some sounds are similar to that of fish thrashing in pain, but they could also want to just investigate the sound? Either way, smart animals that deserve better
9:15 Perfect choice of clip, Eddy. I love when RUclipsrs under the same "commentary" umbrella do these out of context cutaways. They are all so unbelievably funny.
Honestly the moment I realized the narration was a joke was when he said "fucking." I might've been tricked even longer if he hadn't used that word lmao
there's so much vilification and fear-mongering about sharks ever since Jaws came out and it's done SO much harm to the shark population. I really appreciate you calling it out here, Eddy. sharks are enormously important to marine ecosystems and, just as the New Zealand shark expert said, shark attacks are pretty much always accidental. sharks aren't interested in eating people; they just sometimes mistake people for seals and take a bite. The fact that sharks tend to swim away after a single bite should be proof of that; if they were really killing people in order to eat them, then all the people attacked by sharks would, y'know, *get eaten,* not just be bitten and then abandoned (as they usually are). It's just an unfortunate truth that one bite is often enough to kill people regardless. Most shark attacks are from great whites, tiger sharks, and bull sharks, which all frequent shallower waters and are all known to be aggressive, but there are over 500 species of sharks in the ocean, and lumping them all together as equally dangerous is incorrect and, for a television show, irresponsible. A bull shark isn't an angel shark isn't a sand shark isn't a nurse shark, and even the most dangerous species are just following their instincts to get by. I wish these guys got the kind of appreciation that land predators like big cats get, because they're really actually amazing creatures. ANYWAY good video i liked it very much
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RUclips. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention.
And like, if I was swimming in the ocean and saw a shark anywhere even close I would personally be scared shitless. But that doesn’t mean sharks are psycho killers. Like if i saw a bear outside i would also be terrified but that doesn’t make me like bears any less. Just bc an animal is kinda scary doesn’t make them any less important
The main cause of death by shark is not being eaten, it's bloodloss, due to how large and jagged their mouths are. The shark literally realizes its mistake and swims away almost immediately after a bite, unfortunately creating time for the human to bleed out before they are rescued. And yet somehow, they're totally vicious maneaters...
I as a child who grew up on Animal Planet and Nat Geo was pissed, and still am pissed, that shark week turned into this horrible anti-shark garbage. They’re not monsters or psychos, they’re literally just wild animals. If a horse killed somebody people wouldn’t call for the slaughter of all horses, they’d just go “oh thats a bad horse” but if any shark bites its immediately a “maneater”. They’re wild, beautiful creatures that deserve more respect. They’re like ocean dogs, they have no hands so they put things in their mouthes. Only issue is that sharks have sharper teeth.
But Eddy, two of those attacks were on the SAME DATE, two years apart. Obviously that day must have meant something to the shark -- perhaps a lost baby shark do doo do doo do do?
I will have you know that i was drinking while reading your comment but then i got to baby shark do do do do and almost spit out my drink from laughter.
I gotta say, THANK YOU FOR STICKING UP FOR SHARKS, ALSO. They are wonderful animals, I fell in love with them as a kid going to a marine biology day camp (I live on something like the deepest bay in the world, so there's a lot of marine bio education here.) They are SO important to the ecosystem, and even if they weren't it is iNEXCUSABLE how they are treated not only by media, but by fishermen and finners. People are often abhored at things like the seal hunt up here, which ironically, the overfishing/killing of sharks contributes to. Part of the reason the seals are culled (humanely, and specifically not mothers with pups or pups) is because the cod up there is so depleted, and it's the seals main food source. Meanwhile there's not enough sharks and large whales to eat the seals, they get overpopulated and starve. In the ocean, it's ALL connected, so we need to be understanding of that.
Yep it really throws off the balance of the ecosystem to take out all the natural predators... and yet humans always manage to mess these things up time and time again despite knowing the consequences. Obviously the less human interference in the ocean the better, so I find it rather backwards to solve the problem of “we killed too many animals” to be “let’s kill even _more_ animals”, so I also find the mass slaughtering of seals to be abhorrent... I wish people would just leave the sharks and seals alone and let nature sort itself out. The ideal solution would be to kill _less_ wildlife, not more.
the best part of all this is that i grew up with shark week, i remember the mermaid bullshit, and as a kid old enough to only believe things when given proof but too young to know about primary sources, i totally believed the mermaid schpiel. but yeah i saw all of these growing up
it's been proven that sharks actually don't like the taste of humans. if they attack it's because they're literally starving and are desperate, feel threatened, or make a mistake.
The way they try to create a compelling narrative from barely any interesting info and desperate elements reminds me of my essays and papers from college
Haha i mean..it's also perpetuating the shark fear even though it's as rare as lightning Also I'm FROM Santa Barbara, Lompocs beach is super popular local surf spot, as much as sands or deveroux if you're in goleta, that fake surfer guys full of shit I've surfed there, ive been going in the water in SB county for 15 years haha, nobody's scared of sharks This isn't like the tip of South Africa Also the bites are ALWAYS exploratory haha, they don't attack humans, just bite, think it's gross and leave They aren't the man eating lions of Savo They're goddamn endangered species haha demonizing them is f*cked
I used to watch Shark Week every year, but it’s gotten old. Leaving that aside, speaking as someone who’s majoring in biology, it’s also not very scientific; it’s overly dramatic and just…not great. I understand the shows need to have some entertainment value to keep people hooked, but this isn’t the best way to do that. The whole point of Shark Week originally was to stop people from being so afraid and hateful towards sharks after the first Jaws came out - a noble goal. But it has devolved into absolute garbage TV, that plays up the danger and treats sharks like monsters. Can they be dangerous? Yes, obviously. But they’re just predatory animals, not the mythical creatures that are hungry for human blood portrayed in these shows.
Hi, same boat as you! You might've already been aware of the other shark-TV-a-thon, but if not, National Geographic has since started their own "Sharkfest" that is on par with their scientific standards for the most part. Focusing more on the appreciation and respect these animals deserve. It is not the sensationalist drivel of Discovery Channel, that's for sure.
I stopped watching shark week because they showed an episode of one those wildlife guys, using his blood and the blood of tuna fish to see which the shark will "attack". It was bullshit and basically made the guy state that sharks will definitely attack people. Not the whole, a shark doesn't know what mammal they are smelling, so they gotta touch it to make sure it is the correct one to eat or they are stuck with a low calorie meal that'll leave him feeling sick.
9:48 I can't even imagine being asked to be interviewed about watching your friend die of a violent shark attack *in front of your eyes*, and they decide to immediately follow that with gorey mockup footage. Absolute vultures.
"Once again, the killer shark stays one step ahead of the investigation" I don't think I can describe the laughing fit that came over me after hearing this sentence
I mean very rarely you get an animal with a taste for humans like the biggest case of the two Tsavo Lions who fed on the Arab slave trade and then turned on railway workers. That pair had developed hunting strategies specifically for humans which is why it was such a big deal. But sharks aint like that, people just forget they dont have ands and must use their mouths to explore their world which is why you see them biting at diving cages. So most bites are them seeing what something is and due to the power it causes deaths. But if they actively wanted to kill someone you would see way less survivors from shark bites.
@@rottytherottski522 The only animal species i can think of that hunts humans is polar bears But sharks arent polar bears, you bop em in the nose and they fuck right off sharks are giant babies, like most fish are
I did my dissertation partially on this! With one section on how giving animals human personalities (whether negatively or positively) can be damaging for their conservation. The selfie obsessed shark got me laughing 😂
Thank you for talking about this! Jaws and the concept of shark week in general has always been just so damaging for sharks. Like most sharks attack surfers because from under water they look like sea turtles, and once they realize "oh shit, not a turtle" they spit us out because we aren't very appetizing!
As a person who was born and raised in Lompoc and grew up living by Surf Beach (I sadly moved recently, but still), I can tell you right now that not that many people cared as much as the show says and actually it was pretty normal for people to just be there chilling. It was in no way "deserted", lol.
Facts I live in portlincoln South Australia we’ve had multiple shark attacks and deaths and almost every time surfers are back in the water by the end of the day.
This illustrates all my frustrations about modern nature documentaries. It's not just the Shark Week programs but I find that nature docs aren't actually educational anymore. They force it to be narrative and dramatic and Nature is dramatic enough without all the bullshit and lies.
sharks are actually incredibly peaceful creatures when they arent threatened or hunting. human beings kill so so many more sharks a year than they kill us. theyre sweet creatures and its so upsetting to see how media portrays them as horrible monsters. if people just left them alone then there would barely be a problem. sharks rarely attack people and when they do its either because they feel threatened, or mistake them for food (which is pretty rare because sharks dont like the smell of our blood and know we dont have enough meat for them to eat). sharks warn people when to get out of their waters but people dont listen. its heartbreaking. sharks are wonderful creatures and deserve so much more than the horrible reputation they get.
exactly!! adding on to this i hate when people try to judge sharks by human or even just mammalian standards of sweetness or docility, we need to judge them by their own behaviour not ours. they just want to be left alone by the strange apes that wont stop doing board tricks on their roof and getting in their home with weird goggles smh
I study marine sciences and a couple of weeks ago I went on a diving trip to Fuvahmulah where I was diving everyday with 7 to 15 tiger sharks and let me tell you: they aren't gonna eat you (unless you make them)
I saw a video of a tiger shark having a bit of a go at someone... after they'd put the smell of food in the water where there was no food, stayed close to the source of the smell, and kept bonking the shark with sticks and petting it. *facepalm*
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RUclips. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention. His videos are amazing and very beautiful. He’s changed a lot of minds of sharks.
when you first called Lucy fugly in your fake narration i thought it was from the actual documentary and got extremely offended on her behalf lmao. also love how not even animals are safe from traditional gender roles and the sense of entitlement some people have to know why you haven't fulfilled those expectations (yet).
@spindletea the program also called that aluminum munchin’ shark a ‘diva’ for just being a shark. I would say that’s ascribing some stereotypically feminine characteristics to a shark
I love whales and sharks I’m obsessed but CANNOT under any circumstances watch whales and shark docs because they inevitably GRAPHICALLY cover the fishing and murdering of them. Like what part about “I like these animals and want to watch several hours about them” and “yeah I wanna see them horrifically killed” seem like venn diagram with a lot of overlap???
Exactly!!! I watched a seal documentary years ago and the only thing I remember was the image of a poacher standing next to a pile of gore. Teaching everyone about poaching is very important but they need to learn how to convince people without blood and guts
Yes, about 250 people die from falling coconuts, and about 12 people are bit by sharks with about 7 of them being fatal. More people are killed by dogs. Hippopotamuses are incredibly dangerous and kill 500 humans a year! But they’re not vilanized, because they look cute or dopey. I wish these shows properly educated about how important sharks are to our survival. How sharks and whales create oxygen for us. It truly breaks my heart. Sharks don’t have vendettas, and they don’t eat human flesh!
Same with me for docs about sloths! I love the furry little guys to metaphorical death but im already well aware that people eat them, declaw them, sell them as pets to tourists, abuse them for a roadside "pet a sloth!" Con, ect. I dont need you to remind me that they are mistreated and abused.
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RUclips. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention. And he dosent show any murder of animals.
legit the whole point of shark week is to raise awareness about the villainization of sharks in the media but then docs like these are still considered as a parts of it. exhausting tbh.
I live in Lompoc and worked at my schools aquarium which included sharks, when we heard about national geographic coming to document surf beach we were excited since Lompoc doesn’t get any recognition other than the occasional rocket launch from VAFB. When this came out we were livid. As someone who curated sharks and their pups (babies) for two years and had advocated that sharks are being killed in the millions and vilified by mainstream media, I laughed on first watch and then seethed that some pompous ass could use these sharks as just another gig. Glad you made this video
"the shark remains one step ahead of the investigation" this is literally just a crime drama centered around some shark, and its still better than half the shit ive seen on netflix.
This is making me think of that scene from Strange Wilderness where the narrator say, "Menacing and terrifying. The shark has been menacing and terrifying for over a decade."
As an avid Lucky Dog watcher, as soon as you said Brandon McMillan I had to do a double take. Definitely see the correlation between giving dogs a second chance by training them and vilifying sharks.
He probably didn't know much about sharks, I've seen another comment speculate that he was brought on because everyone who'd be qualified for this role knew for sure that the show was utter rubbish.
That first shark doc is like the "hello fellow kids" of Shark Week. Also, this painting of sharks as super dangerous predators is not doing any favors for the preservation of shark species. Many that were plentiful are now vulnerable or endangered, and I can't help but think that the dramatization and anthropomorphization of sharks and shark behavior is contributing to that.
from what i heard about 90% of shark species is endangered, and many are not likely to survive next several years. it is very sad because all living creatures are valuable and should be respected.
"Sharkano" is especially funny to me because it's clearly aping off of the recognizability if "Sharknado," a movie made by Asylum pictures, which owes much of its success to aping off the recognizability of mainstream movies. I.e. making a movie called "Transmorphers" so people would accidentally rent it from Red Box.
3:33 sharks usually aren’t aggressive unless they think you are food or if you’ve already done something to make them feel threatened, at least that’s what I know.
A lot of sharks are actually generally very gentle, these types of “documentaries” do nothing but make people fear them and kill them. I straight up hate this kind of thing SO much
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In the criminal justice system, shark based offenses are considered especially heinous. In California beaches, the dedicated surfers who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Shark Victims Unit. These are their stories.
*cut to two lawyers interrogating a shark*
"You say you weren't at *insert beach here* at the time of the murder. But THESE *slams photos on desk* PROVE OTHERWISE"
*the shark is literally dead. A shark can't survive in a police station.*
*DUN DUN*
*CHOMP CHOMP*
*DUN DUN*
@@genericname2747 I'm fucking dying of laughter 😂
This made my day, thank you so much
the emphasis on the term “serial killer” is even more laughable when you realize that in order for someone to be classified as such, they have to have claimed at LEAST 3 victims which debunks this awful title immediately…
3 victims AND there has to be a common thread between the victims (e.g., all victims were blonde women like with Son of Sam). A double-whammy of debunking.
That’s such a misunderstanding of the morality of nature (it’s amoral. It’s supposed to be. Morality is a sapient animal thing and we’re very bad at handling it) it is like actually stunning. Anthropomorphizing animals like this is dangerous and rude to the animals and nature in general
yeah the only possible motive was breakfast lunch and dinner and even then most sharks think humans taste like beyondseal so they leave us alone
@@Lucifersfursona ask dolphins 😕
@@jerrysmooth24 cant blame them, have you seen how much fat is in seals? they must taste amazing, by comparison a bony human is gross
You have to admit, it’s kind of incredible how they can make entire shows about absolutely nothing.
It feels like a film study course's final project for the semester. Combine Sharks with Seinfeld.....aka a shark show about nothing
There is so much interesting stuff in this world (and outside of it) I don't know why they make this garbage.
do you remember that mermaid show from animal planet?
Ik lmfao. It sucks because they have some really interesting studies sometimes, and then they do it one time and they're like "welp we're done" or a storm comes and theyre like "dang i guess we can't do that now" and they just never have any accurate information. I'm going into marine biology and those kinds of things are super interesting. And they just completely skew all of it and barely show anything. I don't like shark week for the dramatization to be honest. If it's a documentary I'd like to learn something. Sometimes they'll show a very interesting behavior that I've never seen before, or a very obscure shark I haven't heard of, and I learn something. I do like that they're promoting the fact that sharks aren't just dangerous killing machines, like that one with Gordon Ramsey in Asia televising the illegal collection of shark fins. That's educational and raises awareness. But most of them are just LOOK AT THIS KILLER SHARK!! ITS SO EVIL!!!
it's giving "the student that paid absolutely no attention during class and then has to write an essay and create slides to present in front of everyone" vibes
Fun fact; when sharks bite things, like the metal cage from the first shark in the Most Wanted Sharks show, it's often because they're curious and often will bite things in their surroundings to figure out what it is. That's also why most shark attacks happen, the shark has no idea what the human is and is just trying to figure out what it is and doesn't realize that biting the human will hurt it or even kill it. Also the splashing plays a role too as that can scare the shark and sharks when scared will sometimes bite as a way of defense. Sharks are more afraid of us than we are of them.
Also we really body shaming sharks now? What if Lucy just doesn't want kids? I think she's fine the way she is and it's no one else's business why she don't got kids.
Sharks don't have hands. Really their only feeling sensory organ is their mouth, and as a predator it's their natural instinct to bite things to be exploratory. It is literally the same thing as a cat play-biting you or chewing on some crinkly plastic, only sharks are much bigger and have more teeth so it's more dangerous for us.
The way they treat Lucy, so uncalled for. Smh
I didn't know this but it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the fun facts!
I guess I'm a shark then
Lucy is a fucking queen, and nobody can tell me otherwise. She don’t need no man
I love the concept of sharks understanding the calendar year and planning to kill on the same date every two years. Incredible
read this comment just as they said "so we go two deaths exactly 2 years apart... do you think that's strange?" lmao
i had to pause the video and take a lap around my room at that one. not only are we ascribing MORALITY to ANIMALS, but we are also assuming they can tell time???? all the clocks at the bottom of the ocean are stopped 💀💀
@@vesperfromtheinternet5588 LMAO maybe Dory decided to to gang up Bruce. i mean. she can read after all.
Doesn't need to be like 3 kills to be considered a serial killer for a person. I thought from the name it would be about a bunch of deaths but two? Could be intresting sure but not the way they did it.
Well coordinated migrations and mating seasons shows to me they have some understanding of time. However the idea of a culculating pre-meditating murder from an animal seems rediculous
Trying to eradicate all sharks because of shark attacks is like trying to remove all of the clouds in the sky because lightning kills some people
And ironic part more people die from lighting every year than sharks. Lighting kills 28 people per year just in the US and average shark related deaths per year is 6 worldwide.
isn't the whole point of shark week supposed to be to raise awareness about the fact that sharks have been painted in a bad light for decades and aren't nearly as much of a threat as people make them out to be? I feel like the serial killer one just takes that and chucks it out the window.
Money. The lowest common denominators of society would rather watch a sensationalist piece about "E V I L S H A R K S !" rather than actually learn about sharks.
I think they do that more nowadays than they used to. I don't really keep up on it much, but I watched the Jackass crew's Shark Week special and they were all talking about how sharks are just trying to exist.
One guy even got bit by a shark, but only because they were purposefully doing something dumb (trying to literally Jump the Shark), and they all acknowledge that it wasn't the sharks fault.
yeah shark week has been painting sharks as villains for a long time
@@cwahlb1 Planet Sharks actually is pretty good
That's what it used to be. 30 years ago.
one time Eddy called me “baby shark” for 40 years
They must have named the song after you
And people say romance is dead 🙄
Holy cow you're back. Thank you for making more vids!
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY MY BOY ANOTHER JAKE
Man. At least you're more than half-way through those years
i love it when they describe the sharks as "loose" in the water as if that isn't their home. where they live.
Gotta love humans they believe everywhere is theirs even places they cant live in it.
Note:Yes, I said they because I am a reptile that try to invade world.
there are SQUIRRELS LOOSE IN THE PARK!!!!! 💀
@@beepatpenTHERE ARE LOOSE DANGEROUS BIRDS IN THE SKY!!!
@@beepatpen TREES HAVE GONE LOOSE IN THE FOREST
I have to admit, I was expecting a lot of things out of this video, but National Geographic body-shaming a lady shark and claiming her ugly fin is why she can't get a boyfriend was... uh... not one of those things.
@cablecow15 can you imagine how devastated she’d be?
@@MichaelHaneline she’d eat that guy :)
@@gillianjurgens2089 and then be violently sick because they didnt evolve to eat humans :(
The thing that gets me is the “badass” narration, like this shark is about to murder their paparazzi.
NatGeo is fake
My brother’s a surfer and while he was paddling he accidentally hit a shark in the face. The shark left him alone. Wow it’s almost like sharks aren’t raging blood thirsty predators
Shark probably went: oof ouch owie my face :(
@@thunderclanliveson1 :( this makes me really sad for the poor toothboi
@@johnstanley3939 especially since my brother is jacked lol
Local shark gets attacked by bloodthirsty man!!!
Not like i think sharks are blood thirsty murderers, but its probally the best place to have hit the shark.
If one does bite you and doesnt let go people suggest you bop it on the nose or stab it in the eye.
If he hit it on the tail it might have gotten spooked and bit in defense.
Either way glad your brother is okay.
“shark gangs”. Just imagine a shark drive by and shark drug dealers
Dealer sharks are fine, its the loan sharks thatll get ya
…. I should have known
@@thephantom2man underrated comment
Basically Shark Tale (2004)
i saw two sharks bump fins, and say "good looks man" now I'm wondering if it was a smooth shark drug deal
For years, Eddy advocated for the rights of the unverified. Then suddenly he gets the blue check, and he’s all “ohhh sharks I’m better than you.” What the fuck? Smh, unfollowed
literally smh-ing my head. crying and pissing and cumming rn.
@@PointlessDrummer "I'm literally crying and shaking r n." - Markiplier
He's forgotten his roots. Hate to see another big celebrity get such an ego.
Alas another celebrity falls to the empire of the Blue Checkmark.
Nice job paying into the Shit Machine, Eddy. Lmaooo Enjoy that checkmark. UwU 💕
As someone who studies sharks and tries to educate and spread awareness, I really appreciate your video on this. Discovery is sadly no longer about education and is more about mislabeling these animals as mindless killers because that's what brings in the views. It's a shame but sadly people support the lies and continue to make conservation and education efforts more difficult
As an aspiring Herpetologist, I feel that. It’s kinda similar with snakes too. There was one Discovery show where a dude was trying to get eaten alive by an anaconda. The problem is that anacondas don’t eat humans and the “angry” anaconda was simply defending itself from what it perceived as a dangerous animal. It’s kinda frustrating that some “nature” shows are perpetuating harmful stereotypes about animals that lead to them being killed.
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There's been no documented cases of anacondas eating people anyways!!! Theres a single story that's dubiously factual, thats IT anacondas preffer slow moving prey they can ambush they don't chase people!!! Snakes don't chase things that's never been a thing with snakes the only "chasing" is when rattles snakes will try to hide in peoples shaows amd will follow them but I've never seen actual proof of this
What's worse is animal planet is not much better all their shows now are veterinary shows, like that's cool but i want animal documentaries!
@@artsyscrub3226 tbf every modern nature documentary is David Attenborough telling about how he saw the last real tree as child like an alt-universe Lorax.
same thing with spiders, they get painted so often as evil little monsters that are just lying in wait to bite and kill anyone and everyone, and every single spider is dangerous. none of that is even remotely true and it frustrates me to no end. it'd be nice if we could just collectively get our heads out of our asses about scary animals and just learn about them
I thought Shark Week's purpose was supposed to unvilify sharks. Make people realize that they're just animals and they're to be respected but not feared. Like any other animal.
It was, originally. It has since devolved into the crap covered in this video in the decades since the first Shark Week in 1988.
That was over 20 years ago when Discovery networks weren't just the worst. They threw out science and education nearly entirely by 2006 after TLC blazed a trail of ignorance when it proved there was money in trash reality shows after it had shifted from educational content to reality in 2001.
Really? In my experience it's always been the exact opposite; just a way for people to be like "woah look at the scary shark lol I hope it doesn't eat anyone"
no it's the complete opposite, shark researchers despise shark week because it has been even worse for shark's reputation than Jaws was
it is shark week is owned by discovery not national geographic. what eddy watched was Disneys attempt to rip off shark week. (i believe they call it shark fest or something else stupid) but eddy did in fact not watch any shark week content
The Chris Hemsworth shark doc is actually really good! It doesn’t vilify sharks and he’s respectful and actually speaks to proper experts
I’m glad that he did a documentary about sharks and made them out to be what they actually are, just animals and actually talked to professionals and not people who know nothing about sharks.
Yeah those are the type of shows I watch during shark week not like what's on here. There was one about how sharks are getting harder and harder to find where they used to be abundant so they'd film there due to global warming and its effects on everything, man-made problems, and everything else that was pretty interesting
Justice for Lucy, our girl didn't deserve to get body shamed and dragged for her choices.
are you saying Lucy deserves to have a......
BABY SHARK
DOO DOO DOO DOO DOOO DOOOOO
Wait until you learn about Deep Blue, she’s a chonk.
When Eddy started doing his own voiceover, I genuinely didn't notice and only even bothered to question it when I heard "hot f*ckable shark" and I experienced a very wide range of emotions
i thought it was real too but when i heard "hot fuckable shark" instead of realizing it was eddy making a joke i just thought the producers were really fuckn weird
yeahhhh it took me a moment too lmao
@@snoixalicious or into furries
@@protogen-posting as a furry, arent we all just really fuckn weird though?
Even at that point I was suspicious but still not sure until he started talking about kissing the shark, and I had to go back and find when the switch happened
I laughed so hard at the "if I had to kiss a shark, and no one is asking me to, it would be Zapata"
He's holding himself hostage
Lmao, scrolling down comments and I see this. I’m reading this and the video is saying this line specifically.
Having lived in a beach town, two shark attacks in one season definitely isn’t enough to turn a beach into a ‘ghost town’ and I am very confused
Yea that's some bs. The guy they interviewed is probably a kook
no literally same a shark swam right by me the other day but i still swam there the next lmao
Lived in LA my whole life, spent too much time at the beach to count. I can think of one time in my life that a shark attack in a season even warranted an announced warning to beach goers
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Yeah I've never heard a beach shut down because one or two people got attacked by sharks, because costal people aren't idiots and relize the sharks aren't gonna hurt them if they just leave the sharks alone
People who live by the beach aren't scared of sharks, i bet you're way more scared of the weather right now than a single shark
the truly funny part to me is that to be considered a “serial” killer, 3 lives must be claimed. even if they were correct in it being a singular shark, it’s just a repeat offender at best.
many authorities do recognize a minimum of two rather than three
Either way, its fvcking stupid
fun (?) fact: the fbi actually changed their definition of serial killer to 2 murders in like 2005
“Repeat offender” Makes a murder sound like someone’s son who got caught doing graffiti
@@jayedgar1384 It's not a murder, though. Sharks are literally incapable of performing "murder". They can kill you, yes, but that doesn't qualify as murder in anything but a colloquial sense at best. I wouldn't be so pedantic if one of the main points of the video wasn't that sharks can't really murder you.
They are wild animals and, as animals, they are simply doing what they must (or what they see as necessary) to stay alive. "Murder" on the other hand is usually defined as "the crime of unlawfully killing a person especially with malice aforethought" (Merriam-Webster) and is specifically a crime. That means it's an activity that is defined by the law. Since human law can't really apply to sharks, they can't really be guilty of murder.
To put it otherwise, it's like accusing a cliff of being a murderer because people just can't help but try and get close to the edge to take selfies. Cliff has nothing to do with their ensuing tumble into the great unknown. Cliff's a good guy, he did nothing wrong!
On the other hand, if killing other species for the purpose of feeding WAS qualified as murder, guess which species of nearly 8 billion individuals would immediately have to get the chair?
I'm coming to realize that a lot of these shows seemed scientific and educational but we had more luck emailing a marine biologist ourselves than listen to these shows.
in the past, shark week actually was more educational. it's been garbage for years, but there was a time when it wasn't full of sensationalized bullshit.
Oh shit why have I never thought to do that?
I know when I was a kid it helped me become more passionate about the ocean and about animals in general and now I'm about to start actually making a difference when it comes to that so at least it did something. I might be looking at it through nostalgia glasses but it used to be less egregiously horrible
Most marine biologists will beg you not to do this-they’re normally pretty busy, and get swamped by “email an X” assignments for school, etc.
There is a lively marine bio population on Twitter (& probably Instagram); great place to learn more and interact with experts.
@Lord Ass Very few marine biologists are paid to answer email. They’re paid to do research-often from the government money they successfully petition for and win. Expecting people to respond to hundreds of emails a week, something that takes time to do well, is absolutely unreasonable. And I imagine you’d be hugely offended if anyone told you that you should spend hours a week on your job, answering email, but not being paid to do it. 🙄
As a geneticist: There is no too small piece in genetics as long as there’s just one piece of dna at the shark tooth, the police would have been able to extract it via pcr. They were just like f you we will not check a shark tooth for dna for your weird show and so the producers were like, we will just say it it was too small 🤷🏼♀️😂😂
I was so confused i was like "but i watches in forensic files they took the tiniest drop of blood and identified the killer? Why is a shark tooth too small?"
I find it more likely they got the Dna results and it turned out it was two different sharks so instead of telling the truth they lied about it being too small
Fun fact: Someone who kills two people is called a multi-murderer. It takes three to be categorized as a serial killer. 🙃
@Water Bottle Well, you got me there. 😂
The kills also have to be spaced apart. if you kill three people in a single shooting, you‘re a mass murderer not a serial killer.
@@killitwithfire5377no your a shark 🦈
So the shark isn’t a serial killer. So the whole thing is wrong. From the start lol
@@carmenmercedes9903I’m commenting on serial killers and how people use the term incorrectly! Sharks aren’t serial killers, like you said! 🙂
Eddy really said, shark body positivity. Truly a trend setter
lucy is a pretty shark y'all just have too high of standards.
Is this what inter-sectional means?
i know this is just a light hearted joke but body positivity is so much more than a trend. I think it should be seen as basic self care, ya know?
@@heavenly2k Body positivity is the opposite of self care
@@gui3402 no, it’s not
For the first one I'm imagining some guys in a business meeting saying "Gen Z is a key demographic. How can we get them instrested in Sharks?
The second one is the same thing but for fans of true crime documentaries. It is so funny how much it seems like that guy is planning a murder and is trying to find a way he can plausably frame a shark for it.
Also I'm never going to forget the phrase 'hot fuckable shark'
Hot Fuckable Shark 😂🦈
eddy recognizing that sharks have been unjustly vilified for decades now feels so correct. hats off to you, king
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear paola
sharks are not that bad actually......we k1ll way more than them.
Fr ask any Aussie and they'll talk about how we cull so many sharks
Wolves and snakes are also demonized unjustly so much
Eddy's fake narration is so believable
So I frequently use RUclips kinda like background noise, but I was listening to this, and I'm not kidding when I say I thought it was a real narrator at first, then I realized what he was saying was weird, then I realized it was Eddy. He fooled me for sure.
Yeah I only really registered it was eddy when he started going super over the top
@@MelissaLawrence2002 Yeah I still hadn't caught on when he called that shark "fuckable".
It's because the narration was made up to begin with.
I’d get so confused when the natgeo narrator would start slamming f bombs
The reason "Brandon the dog trainer" ended up being the host of this show is probably because everyone in the industry who knows anything about sharks would turn this garbage down. It does nothing but hurt the industry as a whole. Thank you for pointing out the absurdities of these shows rather than continuing the false naratives.
Somewhere in a board room they were discussing how they get people to pay attention to their shark shows and someone said “well people like social media influencers and true crime” so they forced it
That honestly makes a lot of sense
It would have been way more interesting to do an actual true crime story about people needlessly killing sharks, which literally does happen because of great porn like this, and it would actually be informative, educational and interesting.
eddy’s narration is so good i thought that discovery legitimately called a shark “fuckable”
Fr 😭💀
I was so confused, I seriously thought that it was real.
I mean…discovery totally would call a shark fuckable
ME TOO HELP
And “fugly” XD
I’m a fish biologist and I screamed through this whole video 😭 the sad thing is you could frame these things in an educational videos. Have shark researchers/biologists break down and explain viral shark videos. Use the surf beach attacks as a springboard to talk to the researchers on things like the migration patterns and how the way great whites hunt and how to best avoid run-ins with them. Explain why they’re important members of the ecosystem despite their occasional risk to people. I guess thats not as sexy as a fuckable shark tho 🤷♀️
Thank you for another awesome video!
As someone who was a HUGE shark girl as a kid, Shark Week was quite literally more exiting than Christmas to me and I have so many great memories of watching it all week, learning so much, and loving these super awesome animals, but as I got older I was less and less inclined to watch because it was becoming SO commercialized and focused on “big killer great whites” and celebrity appearances, and LESS about the research and appreciation which is what drew me in originally. It’s so sad :/ I don’t even bother watching it anymore. I still love sharks, and I always will, but it’s just disappointing that something that started out as a week of shark love and destigmatization has turned so cheesy and embarrassing to watch. Great vid Eddy
I think it did help a lot of future conservationists and biologists find their passion but yeah they are really attempting to undo all that shit but I guess they don't need the planet to survive as much as the need that moneyyyyyyy
Same! Early years of shark week made me love sharks. It's shameful what it has become
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I grew my love for sharks as a kid from books in the library. I lost interest in them from watching these kid of shows and getting so frustrated at frustrated at the misinformation. Sharks are incredible. They're way more misunderstood then we give them credit for
lmao so true. shark week is like a national holiday in my family, but it’s gotten less interesting overtime.
Beginning of the show:
"Sharks kill to eat."
Middle of the show:
"What was the motive?"
13:42 ONE STEP AHEAD??? I ain’t ever seen a shark that can step
I mean, zebra sharks
as a marine/fisheries biologist, this is my favorite video of yours. the amount of non-scientists who think they know more than me because of random trivial reasons kills me. there's a lot of dishonest and manipulative documentaries about marine biology related fields, not just on Discovery Channel, and it's honestly terrible.
Got any recommendations for good documentaries to watch?
Ayyyy we're out here in force
@@nickl2854 anything David Attenborough is always fantastic if you haven't already seen them
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RUclips. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention. I love his videos.
@@FukaiKokoro I've seen some of his stuff, he looks like he does a good job keeping a healthy distance from the animals he's observing, which is really great. NOAA's currently working on drone guidelines for protected marine species, but it doesn't look like what he's doing is influencing their behavior, my only worry with his content would be copycats who aren't as careful about ensuring they're not disturbing the wildlife. Ugh educational content can be so hard for that reason ahaha, it's a bummer, but I really like his content.
I love the shows that are like “in the 2015 deaths by sharks were double. Here we’re gonna answer why?” Then you find out that it went from 1 to 2. Also they said it was pollution
Putting aside how sharks don't have the mental capacity to be intentionally evil (dolphins do, don't think about it too much) and that there is absolutely no reason to believe that one shark killed two people, but serial killers have 3 or more individual kills. The shark wouldn't even be a serial killer. You've got a shark with maximum two kills, without malice. I need a documentary on serial killer vending machines
Eddy caught me absolutely slacking with that fake narration. I can’t believe how i far I went thinking it was real
I definitely believed the fugly part 😆🙈
I only started doubting around fuckable
@@giselle8924 Congratulations, you played yourself. How's anyone even supposed to know wtf that means lmao
Same 😂
As soon as I heard him refer to Zapata as "fuckable" it dawned on me 😂😂
I listen to this cool podcast called Ologies, in which the host interviews experts in very specific fields, and her episode about sharks was so sad because it was basically an hour of debunking all the egregious lies shows like this perpetuate about sharks 😣😔
Oh, thank you for sharing this podcast.
thanks for the rec! this sounds like it could be hella fun to listen to :)
I LOVE DAD WARD
I love ologies!
Oh shit... thank you so much for exposing this podcast to me.
that thing about the "shark diva devouring an aluminum cage" is so ridiculous cuz like - biting shit is how sharks investigate. It's not like they have arms or hands, so the only thing they can use is their mouths
I’ve worked with sharks before specifically the dogfish which is the smallest type of shark (they’re adorable and I suggest looking them up). I have gotten so many people coming up to me asking if they will be eaten or attacked by a dogfish even though they are 3-5ft long and pretty skinny. One of our dogfish had and injury similar to the one the shark slash had and that was likely because someone caught a shark, freaked out and ripped the fish hook out instead of properly taking out the fish hook cause they were afraid. That shark has permanent neurological damage because that wound got infected and the infection spread to his brain. He was also only 2ft long when we found him. These tv shows cause very literal harm to these animals and I don’t think shows like this should be even allowed to exist.
Awww poor baby! Is he in your care permanently?
That is so sad. BTW, I agree, dogfish sharks are adorable.
I thought lantern sharks were the smallest. In any case, sucks to hear that poor dogfish got hurt so badly, poor li'l guy.
I looked them up. So smol, so tiny, I’m in love 🥹
I absolutely love sharks and wish they were treated with more respect and love.
Little did we know that when they said the sharks were the “most wanted” they meant people wanted them…carnally
this comment has me in tears omg
There are horny single sharks in your area
If I could pin this comment on this video I absolutely would, fucking losing it laughing at people wanting sharks carnally
Jesus
John Constantine would agree
The look on Eddy's face when the narration said "bad girl performance" was way too real
"If I showed a dolphin TikTok, it would kinda know what it is" lol this killed me. I was just watching a doc yesterday in class and dolphins can recognize symbols and patterns so I feel like ur right in a sense
That serial killer shark show was DEFINITELY the brainchild of some coke-addled boomer who was like "Sharks are in! true crime is in! what if we made a true crime show about sharks!?!"
It's also literally the plot of jaws in most aspects.
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A serial killer is designated after 3 murders so regardless this show was always f**ked.
this sentence truly is the sentence
Honestly I think it’s kind of gross that Discovery and National Geographic are pumping out these kinds of shows that misrepresent sharks so much. Like these are companies that pride themselves on being accurate about the animal world yet they willingly disregard that sharks are super hated and at risk from these kinds of public perceptions.
"Probably the most terrifying predators"
Not even close, they can be easily defused by a gently nose bump 😂
I took a marine biology class a few years back and learned that sharks don’t eat people and almost always mistake humans for sea lions and sea turtles. The silhouette of a surfer on a board from beneath the surface of the water looks similar to animals in their diet. It’s frustrating when people say they are killers because they’ll eat members of their own species before knowingly eating a human
I didn't take a marine biology class and I knew this
I never liked how they demonize sharks. Sharks are really not that bad, and also many shark species endangered. It just bothers me when people are trying to save these animals, but people just keep dramatizing them. This just makes people not want to save them. Sharks are a very important species and I just hope none of them end up going extinct. 🦈❤️
ikr your more likely to d13 from most other predators, and sharks are unlikely to attack or k1ll a person.
@@ddjsoyenby Exactly, mosquito’s are more deadly then sharks.🦈
@@sugar_cookie18 Don't forget vending machines, falling coconuts, beds, trampolines, etc. The list goes on.
Sharks are STUPID FISH who just want to eat TASTY SEALS AND FISH.
They don't go out of their way to eat gross humans. They don't have hands, so they have to examine things with their mouth.
Dolphins should be the ones being demonized. They know exactly what their doing when they kill things
@@genericname2747 focus on the rape problem, they do that to people way more often than they kill
6:08 made me howl laughing. Calling a shark in the ocean “on the loose” is so funny. Bitch it LIVES there. I’m not on the loose in my own apartment. If it was on the streets of like Orange County? Then we can call it “on the loose”
Dramatized death on TV, especially from these older mainstream TV shows, is definitely not handled correctly. I never realized how disrespectful it could be until I saw a documentary about the Norwegian flight Partnair Flight 394, which my great-grandfather was co-piloting. I knew the plane crashed but seeing a CGI recreation and an actor badly playing my great-grandfather screaming was so off-putting. The episode is even called Blown Apart, like, how disrespectful can you be? Definitely hate how these old networks dramatized death for views.
Great vid though, eddy! glad to see you post:)
I feel the same way about true crime shows and podcasts which cover recent stories. They claim to be respectful then choose salacious titles and luxuriate in small upsetting details. It reopens wounds for everyone who knew and loved the person under discussion in real life. Even if they don’t listen to the podcast some of them are so big it’s impossible to avoid completely! NPR did a podcast about a murder in my neighborhood (multiple people, including a child, were killed) and there were radio ads and signs on busses and it was so painful for everyone to have to relive that.
I quite enjoyed ACI back in the day but looking back at it now its kind of messed up how overly dramatic and sensationalized it was, especially after the first couple seasons. Thankfully there's quite a few youtubers that cover these topics in a much more respectful manner today.
I remember seeing a clip of a show that claimed that great whites loved heavy metal because it makes them come to eat the food where they put the speakers
Nevermind that sharks have an excellent sense of smell and have electroreceptors to find prey, they like metal because "sharks and metal makes sharks cooler and scarier."
I think we should try this experiment with like. hyperpop or something. I bet sharks would love that
@@tentinybees let's try smooth jazz
@@ashikjaman1940 I vote for sea shantys
I heard that they like heavy metal because some sounds are similar to that of fish thrashing in pain, but they could also want to just investigate the sound? Either way, smart animals that deserve better
I mean I’d love heavy metal too if everytime I heard it I got a lil snacky snack
9:15 Perfect choice of clip, Eddy. I love when RUclipsrs under the same "commentary" umbrella do these out of context cutaways. They are all so unbelievably funny.
Eddy's fake narration had *no* right to be so believable- my jaw dropped in shock before I realized I'm just dumb... 🙈
Bruh same haha
Same, thought about it for wayy too long
Honestly the moment I realized the narration was a joke was when he said "fucking." I might've been tricked even longer if he hadn't used that word lmao
@@BababooeyGooey Me too! That was the point where it just clicked 🤦♀️
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there's so much vilification and fear-mongering about sharks ever since Jaws came out and it's done SO much harm to the shark population. I really appreciate you calling it out here, Eddy. sharks are enormously important to marine ecosystems and, just as the New Zealand shark expert said, shark attacks are pretty much always accidental. sharks aren't interested in eating people; they just sometimes mistake people for seals and take a bite. The fact that sharks tend to swim away after a single bite should be proof of that; if they were really killing people in order to eat them, then all the people attacked by sharks would, y'know, *get eaten,* not just be bitten and then abandoned (as they usually are). It's just an unfortunate truth that one bite is often enough to kill people regardless. Most shark attacks are from great whites, tiger sharks, and bull sharks, which all frequent shallower waters and are all known to be aggressive, but there are over 500 species of sharks in the ocean, and lumping them all together as equally dangerous is incorrect and, for a television show, irresponsible. A bull shark isn't an angel shark isn't a sand shark isn't a nurse shark, and even the most dangerous species are just following their instincts to get by. I wish these guys got the kind of appreciation that land predators like big cats get, because they're really actually amazing creatures. ANYWAY good video i liked it very much
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Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RUclips. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention.
@@FukaiKokoro I just looked him up, looks like he gets some awesome footage and speaks really well about it! thanks for the recommendation :)
And like, if I was swimming in the ocean and saw a shark anywhere even close I would personally be scared shitless. But that doesn’t mean sharks are psycho killers. Like if i saw a bear outside i would also be terrified but that doesn’t make me like bears any less. Just bc an animal is kinda scary doesn’t make them any less important
The main cause of death by shark is not being eaten, it's bloodloss, due to how large and jagged their mouths are. The shark literally realizes its mistake and swims away almost immediately after a bite, unfortunately creating time for the human to bleed out before they are rescued. And yet somehow, they're totally vicious maneaters...
I as a child who grew up on Animal Planet and Nat Geo was pissed, and still am pissed, that shark week turned into this horrible anti-shark garbage. They’re not monsters or psychos, they’re literally just wild animals. If a horse killed somebody people wouldn’t call for the slaughter of all horses, they’d just go “oh thats a bad horse” but if any shark bites its immediately a “maneater”. They’re wild, beautiful creatures that deserve more respect.
They’re like ocean dogs, they have no hands so they put things in their mouthes. Only issue is that sharks have sharper teeth.
Nature docs are fake tho
But Eddy, two of those attacks were on the SAME DATE, two years apart. Obviously that day must have meant something to the shark -- perhaps a lost baby shark do doo do doo do do?
I will have you know that i was drinking while reading your comment but then i got to baby shark do do do do and almost spit out my drink from laughter.
I gotta say, THANK YOU FOR STICKING UP FOR SHARKS, ALSO. They are wonderful animals, I fell in love with them as a kid going to a marine biology day camp (I live on something like the deepest bay in the world, so there's a lot of marine bio education here.) They are SO important to the ecosystem, and even if they weren't it is iNEXCUSABLE how they are treated not only by media, but by fishermen and finners. People are often abhored at things like the seal hunt up here, which ironically, the overfishing/killing of sharks contributes to. Part of the reason the seals are culled (humanely, and specifically not mothers with pups or pups) is because the cod up there is so depleted, and it's the seals main food source. Meanwhile there's not enough sharks and large whales to eat the seals, they get overpopulated and starve. In the ocean, it's ALL connected, so we need to be understanding of that.
Yep it really throws off the balance of the ecosystem to take out all the natural predators... and yet humans always manage to mess these things up time and time again despite knowing the consequences. Obviously the less human interference in the ocean the better, so I find it rather backwards to solve the problem of “we killed too many animals” to be “let’s kill even _more_ animals”, so I also find the mass slaughtering of seals to be abhorrent... I wish people would just leave the sharks and seals alone and let nature sort itself out. The ideal solution would be to kill _less_ wildlife, not more.
the best part of all this is that i grew up with shark week, i remember the mermaid bullshit, and as a kid old enough to only believe things when given proof but too young to know about primary sources, i totally believed the mermaid schpiel. but yeah i saw all of these growing up
it's been proven that sharks actually don't like the taste of humans. if they attack it's because they're literally starving and are desperate, feel threatened, or make a mistake.
ah, internet
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@@nomasmedia2053 shark just thought it was a tasty seal, but it was a smelly human
@@genericname2747 innocent tiger shark thought he was getting a tasty chad sea turtle, but it was actually a funky virgin human on a surf board 😔
I hate how sharks are demonized by shake week when in reality, their just neutral, lovely fish
And there important for its ecosystem
@@Orcinus-s4z and they're slaughtered en mass, 100 million sharks killed per year compared to the average 6 humans killed by sharks per year
They come In so many unique different shapes and colours that I feel that people don’t see due to the demonization of them.
tbh 700 sharks was fascinating, i could not believe the complexity of their feeding patterns within one localised zone like that
The way they try to create a compelling narrative from barely any interesting info and desperate elements reminds me of my essays and papers from college
I've spoken to several sharks and I think they picked up the concept of the internet pretty well
Thank you for your service
As a shark thank you for your service
@@fart63 I thought you were a fart
The phrase “full diva” being used to describe a shark biting a cage made me laugh extremely loud
At one point I couldn't tell which one was the narrator 😂
Makes me think of fuckin Yu-Gi-Oh cards lol
Haha i mean..it's also perpetuating the shark fear even though it's as rare as lightning
Also I'm FROM Santa Barbara, Lompocs beach is super popular local surf spot, as much as sands or deveroux if you're in goleta, that fake surfer guys full of shit
I've surfed there, ive been going in the water in SB county for 15 years haha, nobody's scared of sharks
This isn't like the tip of South Africa
Also the bites are ALWAYS exploratory haha, they don't attack humans, just bite, think it's gross and leave
They aren't the man eating lions of Savo
They're goddamn endangered species haha demonizing them is f*cked
“full diva”
“videos of this bad girl performance”
*bullet is a material gworl*
I'm sure Lizo has definitely gone "full diva," in that exact description.
Sharks are such incredible and beuatiful animals and it's horrible that they continue to be sensationalized as evil killers. Thanks for this video
I used to watch Shark Week every year, but it’s gotten old.
Leaving that aside, speaking as someone who’s majoring in biology, it’s also not very scientific; it’s overly dramatic and just…not great.
I understand the shows need to have some entertainment value to keep people hooked, but this isn’t the best way to do that. The whole point of Shark Week originally was to stop people from being so afraid and hateful towards sharks after the first Jaws came out - a noble goal. But it has devolved into absolute garbage TV, that plays up the danger and treats sharks like monsters. Can they be dangerous? Yes, obviously. But they’re just predatory animals, not the mythical creatures that are hungry for human blood portrayed in these shows.
Hi, same boat as you! You might've already been aware of the other shark-TV-a-thon, but if not, National Geographic has since started their own "Sharkfest" that is on par with their scientific standards for the most part. Focusing more on the appreciation and respect these animals deserve. It is not the sensationalist drivel of Discovery Channel, that's for sure.
@@Deej210 I’ve heard of it before but I don’t think I’ve ever watched it. Do they usually do Sharkfest around the same time as Shark Week?
@@gingergamergirl98 I think so? At least that's what I remember
@@Deej210 I’ll have to check that out this year, then. Thanks for the recommendation :)
I stopped watching shark week because they showed an episode of one those wildlife guys, using his blood and the blood of tuna fish to see which the shark will "attack".
It was bullshit and basically made the guy state that sharks will definitely attack people. Not the whole, a shark doesn't know what mammal they are smelling, so they gotta touch it to make sure it is the correct one to eat or they are stuck with a low calorie meal that'll leave him feeling sick.
9:48 I can't even imagine being asked to be interviewed about watching your friend die of a violent shark attack *in front of your eyes*, and they decide to immediately follow that with gorey mockup footage. Absolute vultures.
As someone who studies sharks and has worked with them, I was screaming this entire video. Those documentaries are absolutely comical.
Can’t forget about the time when they just flat out lied to their viewers about Megalodon. With fake shark attack footage and everything.
Oh god I remember watching that and rolling my eyes _a lot_ lol
Mermaids too they really tried that shit twice
@@LumpfishPal or the one where they claimed that fire breathing dragons actually existed and lived along side dinosaurs.
The amount of people who still think Megalodons exist,,, so shocking
Hey man kid me loved that megalodon show lol
I didn’t expect to say “please stop sexualizing the sharks” today, but here we are
"Once again, the killer shark stays one step ahead of the investigation"
I don't think I can describe the laughing fit that came over me after hearing this sentence
The idea of animals getting held accountable for anything, much less criminal events, is absolutely mind boggling.
I mean very rarely you get an animal with a taste for humans like the biggest case of the two Tsavo Lions who fed on the Arab slave trade and then turned on railway workers. That pair had developed hunting strategies specifically for humans which is why it was such a big deal. But sharks aint like that, people just forget they dont have ands and must use their mouths to explore their world which is why you see them biting at diving cages. So most bites are them seeing what something is and due to the power it causes deaths. But if they actively wanted to kill someone you would see way less survivors from shark bites.
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The only animal species i can think of that hunts humans is polar bears
But sharks arent polar bears, you bop em in the nose and they fuck right off sharks are giant babies, like most fish are
I did my dissertation partially on this! With one section on how giving animals human personalities (whether negatively or positively) can be damaging for their conservation. The selfie obsessed shark got me laughing 😂
Thank you for talking about this! Jaws and the concept of shark week in general has always been just so damaging for sharks. Like most sharks attack surfers because from under water they look like sea turtles, and once they realize "oh shit, not a turtle" they spit us out because we aren't very appetizing!
Sharks aren't the most terrifying predators. Corporations are.
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Society
Truuuueeee
and popular youtubers who decide to use fans like tinder.
so true
As a person who was born and raised in Lompoc and grew up living by Surf Beach (I sadly moved recently, but still), I can tell you right now that not that many people cared as much as the show says and actually it was pretty normal for people to just be there chilling. It was in no way "deserted", lol.
also yes it did startle me just hearing my home town get talked about so much
Yo same! It’s definitely not deserted lol
Hey I’m also from Lompoc lol. I was pretty surprised when that surf beach was brought up
Facts I live in portlincoln South Australia we’ve had multiple shark attacks and deaths and almost every time surfers are back in the water by the end of the day.
This illustrates all my frustrations about modern nature documentaries. It's not just the Shark Week programs but I find that nature docs aren't actually educational anymore. They force it to be narrative and dramatic and Nature is dramatic enough without all the bullshit and lies.
I really thought the "fugly shark" line was part of the show for a second, literally blends in fine. what a garbage show
sharks are actually incredibly peaceful creatures when they arent threatened or hunting. human beings kill so so many more sharks a year than they kill us. theyre sweet creatures and its so upsetting to see how media portrays them as horrible monsters. if people just left them alone then there would barely be a problem. sharks rarely attack people and when they do its either because they feel threatened, or mistake them for food (which is pretty rare because sharks dont like the smell of our blood and know we dont have enough meat for them to eat). sharks warn people when to get out of their waters but people dont listen. its heartbreaking. sharks are wonderful creatures and deserve so much more than the horrible reputation they get.
exactly!! adding on to this i hate when people try to judge sharks by human or even just mammalian standards of sweetness or docility, we need to judge them by their own behaviour not ours. they just want to be left alone by the strange apes that wont stop doing board tricks on their roof and getting in their home with weird goggles smh
1:00 this is like those videos of Netflix from another dimension where everything has shmunguss in the name
I study marine sciences and a couple of weeks ago I went on a diving trip to Fuvahmulah where I was diving everyday with 7 to 15 tiger sharks and let me tell you: they aren't gonna eat you (unless you make them)
that's awesome!! what was it like?
I saw a video of a tiger shark having a bit of a go at someone... after they'd put the smell of food in the water where there was no food, stayed close to the source of the smell, and kept bonking the shark with sticks and petting it. *facepalm*
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RUclips. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention. His videos are amazing and very beautiful. He’s changed a lot of minds of sharks.
Sounds amazing
when you first called Lucy fugly in your fake narration i thought it was from the actual documentary and got extremely offended on her behalf lmao. also love how not even animals are safe from traditional gender roles and the sense of entitlement some people have to know why you haven't fulfilled those expectations (yet).
It´s even vierder considering in many sharks includibg great whites females are actually the bigger and stronger.
@spindletea the program also called that aluminum munchin’ shark a ‘diva’ for just being a shark. I would say that’s ascribing some stereotypically feminine characteristics to a shark
Lucy is an ace icon
@@Romanticoutlaw so true!! 🖤🩶🤍💜
Gender roles are literally just part of being a wild animal.
So my main takeaway from watching this video is that the zodiac killer was, in fact, a shark. It all makes sense now.
I love whales and sharks I’m obsessed but CANNOT under any circumstances watch whales and shark docs because they inevitably GRAPHICALLY cover the fishing and murdering of them. Like what part about “I like these animals and want to watch several hours about them” and “yeah I wanna see them horrifically killed” seem like venn diagram with a lot of overlap???
Okay eddy just made a Venn diagram joke I’m done
Exactly!!! I watched a seal documentary years ago and the only thing I remember was the image of a poacher standing next to a pile of gore. Teaching everyone about poaching is very important but they need to learn how to convince people without blood and guts
Yes, about 250 people die from falling coconuts, and about 12 people are bit by sharks with about 7 of them being fatal. More people are killed by dogs. Hippopotamuses are incredibly dangerous and kill 500 humans a year! But they’re not vilanized, because they look cute or dopey. I wish these shows properly educated about how important sharks are to our survival. How sharks and whales create oxygen for us. It truly breaks my heart. Sharks don’t have vendettas, and they don’t eat human flesh!
Same with me for docs about sloths! I love the furry little guys to metaphorical death but im already well aware that people eat them, declaw them, sell them as pets to tourists, abuse them for a roadside "pet a sloth!" Con, ect. I dont need you to remind me that they are mistreated and abused.
Have you ever checked out TheMalibuArtist? Here on RUclips. He’s amazing and he’s definitely doing the right thing for sharks. He films marine life with drones like sharks, dolphins. He definitely deserves more attention. And he dosent show any murder of animals.
legit the whole point of shark week is to raise awareness about the villainization of sharks in the media but then docs like these are still considered as a parts of it. exhausting tbh.
One step forward two steps back. Except they're shooting themselves in the foot
“Look at this shark attacking is being we are harassing it with cameras and cages, isn’t that so scary and supernatural?”
Yesss, welcome back Eddy sir. Missed ya
He wasn't really gone any longer than usual
*Eddy
Ya
I agree
@@ayoitscat yea, but it’s always nice to see him again :0)
I live in Lompoc and worked at my schools aquarium which included sharks, when we heard about national geographic coming to document surf beach we were excited since Lompoc doesn’t get any recognition other than the occasional rocket launch from VAFB.
When this came out we were livid. As someone who curated sharks and their pups (babies) for two years and had advocated that sharks are being killed in the millions and vilified by mainstream media, I laughed on first watch and then seethed that some pompous ass could use these sharks as just another gig.
Glad you made this video
“SHES NOT GOING FULL DIVA..she’s a shark!” I’m dying!!! 😂
"the shark remains one step ahead of the investigation" this is literally just a crime drama centered around some shark, and its still better than half the shit ive seen on netflix.
It makes me so sad that shark week went from solid informational content to WatchMojo Top 10 Sharks lists
This is making me think of that scene from Strange Wilderness where the narrator say, "Menacing and terrifying. The shark has been menacing and terrifying for over a decade."
As an avid Lucky Dog watcher, as soon as you said Brandon McMillan I had to do a double take. Definitely see the correlation between giving dogs a second chance by training them and vilifying sharks.
He probably didn't know much about sharks, I've seen another comment speculate that he was brought on because everyone who'd be qualified for this role knew for sure that the show was utter rubbish.
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Yesh they probably offered him some money and he just read off a script, which is what it sounds like
That first shark doc is like the "hello fellow kids" of Shark Week. Also, this painting of sharks as super dangerous predators is not doing any favors for the preservation of shark species. Many that were plentiful are now vulnerable or endangered, and I can't help but think that the dramatization and anthropomorphization of sharks and shark behavior is contributing to that.
from what i heard about 90% of shark species is endangered, and many are not likely to survive next several years. it is very sad because all living creatures are valuable and should be respected.
14:45 What is Drew doing on your suspect board, Eddy?😂
glad to know eddy's back and loves his mom
Hell Yeah
"Sharkano" is especially funny to me because it's clearly aping off of the recognizability if "Sharknado," a movie made by Asylum pictures, which owes much of its success to aping off the recognizability of mainstream movies. I.e. making a movie called "Transmorphers" so people would accidentally rent it from Red Box.
Sorta but also there is a real "sharkcano" which is an underwater volcano that is just home to hundreds of sharks
3:33 sharks usually aren’t aggressive unless they think you are food or if you’ve already done something to make them feel threatened, at least that’s what I know.
A lot of sharks are actually generally very gentle, these types of “documentaries” do nothing but make people fear them and kill them. I straight up hate this kind of thing SO much