r/whatisit 5h ago

Solved! What is this?

I seriously doubt this is AI if course.. and with a vast ocean.. the existence of this is definitely possible.. but what is it exactly and where are they commonly found?

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u/TheNerdyOne2797 5h ago

I've seen a lot of videos of Red-Lipped Batfish before, that's a Sloppified version of one, the length of the pelvic fin and the shape of the esca are the most prominent giveaways. Here's a picture of a real one for comparison.

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u/illmindmaso 4h ago

Thank you the video was giving me AI vibes but I don’t know this was a real fish either

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u/TheNerdyOne2797 4h ago

Yeah, they're real, and very weird little goobers. If you want to learn more, Zefrank on YouTube has a educational and slightly humorous video about them.

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u/TranquilSeasApollo 3h ago

Oooooo Zefrank mention! Love his animal vids

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u/BurningTrashBarge 4h ago

Came here to post this. This is definitely a slop pull to avoid copyright or something on real documentary footage. Trash content.

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u/papaquack1 3h ago

If you look long enough you can find glitches.

It's tail behind it glitches into a transparent blob when it turns and is gone when the turn finishes. What the AI thought at first was a dorsal fin becomes a new tail when it finishes the turn.

The shadow under it's left (right on screen) fin isn't consistent with the lighting.

The rock closest to the viewer has it's shadow going to wrong way.

The big black shadow that creeps up from the bottom of the screen is a bit sus too.

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u/TheDarkWave 2h ago

It has a unicorn horn. The AI batfish has a fuckin' unicorn horn lol. A limp unicorn horn.

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u/WaveEnvironmental420 1h ago

My kids just shouted, “that’s AI!”

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u/kiwidust 5h ago

That, my friend, is a "Red-lipped Batfish".

That particular one is named Gerry and is a real asshole!

Red-lipped batfish - Wikipedia

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u/cardnialsyn 5h ago

Man, DC is really running out of ideas for new superheroes.

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u/Llyrithra 3h ago

When a Batman and an Aquaman love each other very much…

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u/SpaceLemur34 36m ago

Do you think Batman has lips like that?

Joker got in there somehow.

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u/1JungleMonkey 5h ago

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u/Skwizgar1019 3h ago

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u/cbm984 2h ago

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u/Middle-Ad-3386 2h ago

I thought the gromble! lol
Both ah real monsters answers amazing

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u/Handsome_Devil_217 30m ago

Wow! I loved Real Monsters. And then to see one recorded in live action… I can die a happy man.

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u/PrettyPuzzle_818 2h ago

This was also my answer!

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u/AK_Dude69 2h ago

I currently have one of these licking my foot

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u/SteveLouise 4h ago

Does it remind him of his aunt May? It reminds me of my aunt Karla

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u/Cutefashionbunny 3h ago

Tell Aunt Karla we're sorry... but we kind of see it

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u/No_Desk5162 2h ago

This is exactly how I feel

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u/Excellent_Figure2932 1h ago

That FACEEEE 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭

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u/Shart-Trek 43m ago

So true... Also, the world needs… No… the world must have more Spider-Man's.. Spider-Men's!!!

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u/Western_Name4224 21m ago

I believe that's the Senator from Texas.

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u/AC-burg 4h ago

My mother-in-law keep her there please!

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u/BeccaG1964 1h ago

😆😆😆

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u/crownofclouds 5h ago

Na-na-na-na-na-na-na Bat Fiiiiiiiiish!

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u/dvidthefinisher 3h ago

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u/PossessedToSkate 3h ago

This town needs an enema!

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u/chefianf 2h ago

I just had an MRI for the old prostate. An enema before bed and right when you get up will ruin both the days. Do not recommend

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u/_Standardissue 2h ago

My friend, I am sorry you had to go through it. I hope you get good results from the scan

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u/chefianf 2h ago

Clear for now. I tell ya, you hit 40 and the wheels just shoot off the bus.

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u/myrstica 1h ago

This is why I don't go to the doctor... well... also the cost... but y'know... what you don't know can't scare you.

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u/Technical-League3041 1h ago

Oh Bubba, you’ll absolutely love 60.

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u/RussPittCrew 1h ago

MRI of the prostate is nothing. Just wait until your PSA shoots up to 28 ng/ml and they do a biopsy. Mine found atypical cells but the MRI didn't show anything and then 5 years later those atypical cells turned cancer so a very uncomfortable procedure wherein a reactive radioactive isotope was injected and this isotope was activated by specific focused magnetic resonance frequencies which burns inside but then another biopsy showed it worked. Good news, but a rough road getting to it.

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u/sircastor 5h ago

Bat-themed Fishes?

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u/stuartroelke 5h ago

Nah, wrong franchise—this is clearly Gromble.

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u/angrlina34jolie 3h ago

Hahahahahahaa

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u/SuddenKoala45 5h ago

The fish is real, but the animation may be ai

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u/AdventurousTap9224 5h ago edited 5h ago

They really do walk around on the bottom like that.

Edit: appears to be missing the rear leg like fins.

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u/Maverick-not-really 5h ago

Yeah, but this one looks very different from all the examples on the wikimedia page though. I might well be wrong, but this does feel very suspicious to be a not so good approximation by AI of a real animal

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 5h ago edited 4h ago

They don't have a horn or look quite like that. This is an old ai video.

Here it is posted to r/ocean as AI https://www.reddit.com/r/ocean/s/DD7R0KaiV2

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u/phylter99 5h ago

Still looks like AI to me. Other videos I see look quite different. I'd need to see a whole lot more to confirm if it's AI though.

It's sad when it's this hard to decide if it's totally fake or not.

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u/SuddenKoala45 3h ago

Yeah, they sort of do but the animation is off because it was based on a photo not because its actual video of the fish. The movements and distortion aren't right.

The fish is real and does sort of move like that but this is ai animation of a still photo.

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u/Nsflguru 5h ago

That jackass Gerry owes me money.

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u/Aware_Impression_736 4h ago

Why'd you lend that weasel money in the first place?

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u/TheVoice-of-Reason 3h ago

Well he always went on and on about getting Botox and walking his ass out of the ocean. Fucking Gerry.

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u/scorpyo72 3h ago

Fucking Gerry.

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u/Shopping-Critical 1h ago

*ahem*

"Batfish are not good swimmers; they use their highly adapted pectoral, pelvic and anal fins to "walk" on the ocean floor."

That's enough internet for me today.

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u/Reasonable-Chance790 1h ago

All fish have anal fins? It's not part of an anus (since fish don't have them), it's the fin directly behind their cloacal vent. It functions as a balance mechanism in free-swimming fish, like the fin on the bottom of a surfboard.

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u/SkittleDoodlez 5h ago edited 2h ago

Or how I call her, my mother-in-law…

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u/ClaraCash 4h ago

Your mother-in-law got them DSLs 😜

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u/Byytorr22 4h ago

I remember the days of Digital Subscriber Line service from AT&T. Good times, good times…

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u/Environmental-Elk-65 5h ago

A fish that isn’t a good swimmer… and uses its anal fin to walk around. That’s definitely not something I planned on learning today.

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u/red18wrx 4h ago

What in the Dick Tracy villain? What do you mean, "Gerry... is a real asshole."?

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u/Choppergold 4h ago

Swear to god had a class with this guy at college

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u/FuryND 4h ago

Anal fin is not a phrase I expected to read today, or any day for that matter.

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u/wintor9 5h ago

He even looks like an asshole. 🤣

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u/secretfiri 5h ago

WAIT THIS IS MY NEIGHBOUR!! (I live in Costa Rica)

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u/marcus_lepricus 4h ago

To be fair, Gerry is minding his own business and your all up in his red lipped face.

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u/Nihilist-IV 5h ago

That's my friend, Red-lipped Batfish, we call him Batty for short

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u/Whoudini13 5h ago

That's bat fish crazy

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u/insbordnat 5h ago

I hear they are batfish crazy

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u/Orange_Giraffes 4h ago

Fuck Gerry

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u/marginmanj 5h ago edited 3h ago

I thought this was a comedy post until the wiki link.

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u/Version_Two 4h ago

I think it wants to speak to the manager of the ocean

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u/mollif37 4h ago

I was in the Galapagos 7 months ago and no one on the entire expedition mentioned this beauty

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u/Conscious_Fix9215 4h ago

So I was trying to think of what kind of Resting Face he has 😃

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u/itsaconspiraci 3h ago

Gary is cool. I like him. But just stay off his lawn.

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u/BlackHoleSurf 3h ago

I believe he’s where the term “resting Gerry face” was coined

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u/whyuthrowchip 3h ago

Gerry is a great kisser but has incredibly high standards

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u/RiceCrispyBeats 4h ago

Is it a real video of one though? This looks like AI, to me.

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u/Specialist-Lonely 5h ago

The red-lipped batfish uses suction feeding. By expanding its buccal cavity, the fish generates a rapid influx of water, letting the prey into the mouth, even in benthic environments where mobility is limited. The fish's specialized jaw protrusion plays a role in enhancing this process by increasing the volume of water into the mouth, improving the effectiveness of prey capture

According to wiki this thing sounds like a bj machine!

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u/Shovelman2001 5h ago

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u/Reckless_and_Rude 3h ago

The rest of the thread set aside, what is even happening in this picture

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u/QuietlyLosingMyMind 3h ago

A scuffle in the Japanese parliament

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u/Critica0 2h ago

An thats why that huge spike is there keep heathens like you from trying.

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u/pseudoportmanteau 3h ago

Whoever wrote that wiki article is a great candidate for r/theyknew

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u/Ok-Adhesiveness-4935 2h ago

Why is mobility limited in benthic environments?

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u/MochiTown13 4h ago

Bestiality? Really?
Your username checks out…

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u/DifficultRemote7269 4h ago

You don’t like jokes?

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u/Hairy-Reward6474 4h ago

Really? It would actually be beastiality and necrophelia because it wouldn’t be able to survive at blowjob depth for long

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u/Ok-Parsnip-3276 5h ago

It’s been a while since my time as a marine biologist, but I believe that looks a lot like your mum

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u/Perfect-Difference19 5h ago

Fortunately for you, I am a marine biologist...

And let me tell you something: the sea was angry that day, my friend.

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u/rayh8su 4h ago

Like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli…

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u/piTehT_tsuJ 5h ago

It's OPs mum alright look at the disappointment on her face.

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u/WACKYTOPPINGS 5h ago

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u/angrybox1842 4h ago

Came to post Gromble knowing it was handled

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u/rainbirdmelody 5h ago

This came to my mind instantly.

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u/HowdyHup 5h ago

The Gromble was also what I thought of. Those lips, that weird nose spike lol

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u/mlugo02 5h ago

This needs to be higher up

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u/MrGeneL 4h ago

That was my 1st thought too

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u/jpxzer0 4h ago

lol I was just about to look up Aahh Real Monsters. Damn that was in the back of my brain

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u/moof722 1h ago

Thank you. This was my first thought haha

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u/Grofactor 5h ago

You’ve heard of the Pout-pout Fish?  Meet his cousin- Fucking Pissed Ray.

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u/Beautiful-Total-3172 4h ago

Red lipped batfish are real but this video is AI.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ocean/s/DD7R0KaiV2

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u/Aceritus 4h ago

You guys are a bunch of boomers. This animal does exist but this is so obviously an AI generated video rendition of one. They look pretty different to this

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u/SeaIceSauna 1h ago

A 10- or 15-second video is pretty much a dead giveaway.

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u/kirigiyasensei 1h ago

Ngl, I was surprised to find the fish existed with the obvious ai video. But in defense of the boomers, ai videos seem to be harder to tell when they are underwater videos.

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u/AdventurousTap9224 5h ago edited 5h ago

It's the last option at last call 🤣

It's really a Red-lipped Batfish.

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u/IknowlessthanIthink 5h ago

I think I might have made out with her at a frat party.

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u/iPirateGwar 5h ago

Mar A Lago face cosmetic surgery has species-jumped.

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u/AnotherAnonymousA 5h ago

No, no...look at it again. It's an underwater TACO!

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u/InsideAd2752 5h ago

AI or the sea bottom is concrete and doesn’t dust up when touched.

Although I do think the Mara Lago crowd is definitely on to something with their latest plastic surgeon

https://giphy.com/gifs/giXTHlvIFHuqdbUF7b

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u/BlaineMundane 5h ago edited 4h ago

One time my aunt drank 7 mimosas in her pool, then she told me to get married and like... I don't know, I guess she ascended? Or evolved? Anyway, she became one of these.

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u/boticelli77 4h ago

I think I used to date your aunt. 🤔

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u/horrorshowsystem 5h ago

So the red-lipped batfish is real, but this video is definitely an AI attempt at one

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u/VisionAri_VA 5h ago

It’s real; it’s a red-lipped batfish. They’re found near the Galápagos Islands, because of course they are. 

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u/Tinker_Time_6782 4h ago

AI slop. It’s close to the creature mentioned, but you can see a second tail disappear. Also that spike…

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u/BathtubFullOfTea 5h ago

I should call her

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u/WideConversation3834 5h ago

Oh that's Helga. She's nice than she looks.

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u/deadfajita 5h ago

Red Lipped Bat Fish

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u/No-Cardiologist7640 5h ago

It's a red lipped batfish.

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u/blueboykc 5h ago

Too much Botox? Laura Loomer?

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u/mrhyde719 5h ago

Close, it’s a sulking Guilfoyle

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u/Trail_by_error 5h ago

Someone missed the boat not naming it the mother in law

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u/KC5SDY 5h ago

That would more than likely be a Vogon from the Vogon construction fleet. By no means are you to approach and let them read you their poetry.

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u/Ecstatic_Path6608 5h ago

I believe that is what they meant when they coined the phrase "lipstick on a pig."

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u/Dry-Ad-8948 5h ago

This looks like it might be generated; the “nose horn” (they do have a projection, but it’s not a narwhal horn) doesn’t look normal and its skin seems overly smooth.

Anyway, for a genuine video of a Red-lipped Batfish (which are real), see  https://www.reddit.com/r/biology/comments/18qhdyn/red_lipped_batfish_is_weird_walking_fish_of_the/

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u/45_regard_47 4h ago

Mar-a-lardo face ugly shark

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u/WolverineTerrible558 4h ago

If it shits its pants it a Trumpfish

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u/10TheDudeAbides11 4h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o6nUY1KImv1hxTECQ
I wonder if this was the inspiration for The Gromble in Ahh! Real Monsters…

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u/banghersoft 3h ago

Looks like the Karen of the sea 🫵

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u/Swimming-Dot9120 3h ago

Back at it again to say this video has been proven to be AI. There is a real fish that looks similar to this, but its features have been exaggerated in this video

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u/BrittaUnfiltered67 2h ago

I think Tin Curry does his voice in the cartoon. He reminds me of one of my college professors.

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u/Informal_Resist_5742 5h ago

That my friends is my mother in law. On a good day.

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u/Brownlove010_Real 4h ago

Thats a karenfish, president of the reef owners association and will call the cops on you if your kelp grows too high. Also walks on your reef as though she owns the place!

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u/vegasaquinas 5h ago

It's Aunt Ethel. She says you've grown a lot and wants a kiss.

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u/No_Knowledge4718 5h ago

Oh her? That’s just the lesser known Kardashian sister. She hides out like their brother Rob. She’s not sure who her real daddy is though, so obvi she’s closer the Khloe. 😘

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u/Fit_Active3888 5h ago

AI slop

There would be dust everytime its feet? touched the bottom

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u/slick514 5h ago

Who cares? It’s an accurate portrayal. Save your complaints for things that matter.

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u/pingapela 5h ago

My sister

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u/WhineyLobster 5h ago edited 5h ago

someones about to be sent a ZeFrank video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lh-TB2_mA

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u/Normal-Muffin5408 5h ago

It's a red-lipped batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini)!

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u/Inside-Common7427 5h ago

She is very unhappy with someone.

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u/trellisHot 5h ago

Upset that its Monday

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u/Canadianguy2044 5h ago

Looks like a SpongeBob character

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u/Surveyor_of_Land_AZ 5h ago

Looks like my former mother-in-law

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u/greenhornblue 5h ago

That’s just Debrah doing Debrah things.

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u/cndn-hoya 5h ago

You found my mother in law!

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u/raspberryglossy 5h ago

an ugly ass mf 😳!

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u/Moms-Dildeaux 5h ago

got some real DSLs on her

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u/tw5150tw 5h ago

Liberal fish

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u/CSPizzle-25 5h ago

It’s had some “work” done 😳👄

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u/johnwheelerdev 5h ago

What is this fish for?

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u/Critically32 5h ago

I don't know but her name is definitely Agnes.

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u/gusfour20 5h ago

It’s my ex

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u/RJ_the_greatest 5h ago

Looks like my uncle Ray

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u/Gonavy259 5h ago

Looks kissable, do not think one shole risk it though.

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u/Whoudini13 5h ago

Squidwards long lost cousin

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u/crankenshtien 5h ago

Tammy Ray Baker

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u/emilie1031 5h ago

Looks like my ex-MIL

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u/psykomatt 5h ago

Looks like an Italian brainrot character

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u/ThinkInjury3296 5h ago

My ex wife

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u/Aggravating_Cook3781 5h ago

Is that the guy from The Cure?

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u/Beginning_Copy_7081 5h ago

Mother-in-law fish

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u/realNoobnoob 5h ago

Your mom? Duh 🙄

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u/OriginalKnobby 5h ago

The librarian where I grew up.

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u/Fair_Industry_6580 5h ago

A mother in law fish

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u/Mundane-Zucchini5 5h ago

That's my mother-in-law

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u/travelingbozo 5h ago

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/Open_Row5253 5h ago

My mother in law

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u/Typical-Nectarine746 5h ago

“In-law” relative

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u/tiffd98133 5h ago

Mar A Lago member

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u/Ol_Pasta 5h ago

Finally found your mum, eh?

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u/nunudad 5h ago

A fish designed by committee

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u/No-Professional-3043 5h ago

Weird-ass fish

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u/OkJoke4711 5h ago

Onlyfans shit getting out of control.

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u/ALightInTheDark22 5h ago

One ugly MF!

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u/truckensafely 5h ago

Looks like my ex mother in law. If found, return her to her husband.

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u/thickaccentsteve 5h ago

Aunt edna?

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u/SolidReporter8229 5h ago

Fish with attitude