Every year in April, I used to check whether someone had uploaded a new video of a giant squid. I was always so excited! When I was growing up, these things were mythologized nearly to the same degree as unicorns or dragons, so seeing them, even in tatters and bobbing across the surface of the water like a mess of smelly pool noodles, was a nearly religious experience.

I quit this year because AI videos are all that I can find. I don’t need chopped up videos of giant squids stating that they’re “colossal squids” in uncanny AI cadence written by an AI and edited by an AI. I don’t need AI-produced replications of giant squids swimming or melting. I just want to find out whether any more scientific expeditions have filmed a creature I used to consider a legend.

We live in an era beyond objective, filmable truth, and that pisses me off.

Bigfoot was the second shooter at JFK's assassination so he had to go into hiding but was subsequently killed by the CIA

This is because we have seen a lot of new tech that makes cameras water resistant/proof and technological advancements in submarines. No one's made a new backwoods proof camera yet.

Oh god, the future is going to be full of cameras and images of giant squids.

I wonder how this graph will be affected by AI image generation

Whoa, I would have never guessed bigfoot onlyfans was so unpopular - at last it's a steady following.

(But it makes sense competing with giant tentacles.)

And ufos too.

And ghosts too. You'd think we'd all be up to our eyeballs in ghosts videos by now but no.

We all know why of course. Ghosts are just lazy. How can I be expected to believe in a group who clearly don't believe in themselves?

Edit: also bigfoot: "no way, those MFs will make we work a job. You ain't catching me with that!"