"stop depicting blobfish like this, and blobfish isn't what it's called"
That specific one, as depicted, is blobfish. Blobfish is not a species, it's an individual. Like Greenboots.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
"stop depicting blobfish like this, and blobfish isn't what it's called"
That specific one, as depicted, is blobfish. Blobfish is not a species, it's an individual. Like Greenboots.
Moisturised, Flourishing.
First picture was just bad hair day.
"Big Ugly" propaganda here. Only rely on their instagram selfies :P
Aww :[
Source please or I'll stick to my previously unchallenged image of ugly blobfish
Blob fish, and fancy blob fish,.
Gottit!
Makes you wonder if you're blobby because you're in the wrong environment.
Perhaps I do belong isolated in the deep dark sea.
How can it be in pain, and be a corpse?
Those were its last words
What worst, is i found the depiction in children's book. It's kinda sad the myth doesn't get corrected as much because people justify it as entire different thing.
I thought that the Grandma Blobfish quest from Half-Genie Hero would age badly, but I didn't know how badly
Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?
Me when I have water
Me when I'm a human living in the modern world
I wish people brought this energy to the meat industry
So I don't need to lose weight, I just need to live somewhere with 1,470 psi of pressure.
Then you need to gain bone structure
Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??
I feel like if there's anyone out there who would use this new information to make right by the Blobfish, it's him.
Maybe those blobfish are magic. I'll hope for them!
Aliens do an Earth drive by, use a tractor beam to yank a human specimen through the mesosphere, log the name of the species as blisterface and fly away.
But a photo of a normal-looking fish has extremely limited entertainment value.
Remembers me....
Boris Johnson?
From the thumbnail I thought this was a naked ass
Can we. for once, not bring Trump into everything?
But he's mentioned in the fish's name.
He looked so much younger then.
The name information is incorrect.
Psychrolutes is the genus, not the species.
Psychrolutes is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the fatheads and toadfishes. [...] There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus
The binomial name of the blobfish is Psychrolutes marcidus. But realistically, "binomial name" is not always the same as "proper name". There are a lot of animals whose common names include misconceptions, or even insults. Just look at the information about Psychrolutidae (that's the Family) above. "Fatheads" sounds insulting, and "Toadfishes" aren't toads.
I wouldn't have even bothered looking this up, except that the artist wrote the "proper name" so poorly that I first read it as "Psychrd Lutes". And the second reading, I misread as "Psychiro Lutes", due to the weird "R" that looks like none of their other Rs. I read it correctly the third time, but I have to wonder at the wisdom of not writing it clearly when you're trying to emphasize how it is spelled.
That's not entirely correct either, because apparently "blobfish" can also refer to the wider Psychrolutidae family, also known as fathead sculpins, meaning that other species from the Psychrolutidae family get referred to as "blobfish". So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP's post more accurate than your comment.
So blobfish != exclusively Psychrolutes marcidus, which makes OP’s post more accurate than your comment.
I never said what you're accusing me of saying. When Y corrects X, it is possible to say that Y is wrong without saying that X is right.
Even when I referred to it once as "blobfish", that was to state its binomial name, not to state that "blobfish" was correct. OP used the term "blobfish" in exactly the same way. It's logically impossible for OP's post to be "more accurate" than mine.
So what's Ted Cruz's excuse for looking like figure A?
He decompressed. Clearly he was meant to be at the bottom of the ocean
We can fix this.