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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Carcinisation 🦀🦀

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

SCP-6010-A instances that were previously human retain a human level of consciousness and all memories formed before the transformation.

the SCP Foundation has the help you need, in Crab Sign Language, or CSL for short

This SCP had me rolling lmao

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Given enough time, the probability of carcinization being mentioned in any given conversation approaches one. This is known as metacarcinization.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Okay, but where is any credit to the original artist? They seem like someone I want to see more comics from.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got it via text message from a friend, but tineye says https://www.reddit.com/r/HotPaper/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Too bad they're on every site I plan not to visit ever again (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bottom-right of the first panel has "@HotPaperComics" written.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My bad, didn't see that

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This makes no sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

tl;dr: Crabs are the perfect life form and we all yearn to evolve into them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

... a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan

Applies to crustaceans only. :(

So it'd be like talking about lifes "many attempts at making a cow" and showing a bunch of bull like animals with horns.

Similar lifeforms, once put in a similar environment for a long period of time, tend to develop similar features.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love the joke, but technically carcinisation is only about non-crab crustaceans and their divergent evolution into crab-like forms, and it’s not referring to the evolution of other organisms at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s a charader? and what did it win?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh, Charmander is a Pokémon from the videogame Pokémon. In the video the titular animals evolve into different, stronger animals.

They fight battles and after winning enough of them it triggers their evolution.

The joke is that instead of evolving as they do in the videogame, they instead follow the meme concept of carcinisation and all evolved into a crab shaped Pokémon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Why are they all attacking the kid?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's a bit of a horror movie trope, where the protagonist is an 'other' and slowly swarmed by a group of identical or similar enough beings.

The implication being that their difference is not wanted and/or that they know too much about the situation which could be a threat, this further ties into the carcinisation joke because everything else has become a crab except for this one child.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got it, thanks for the explanation!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seriously never in any way came into contact with the pokemon series? It’s been huge with kids in the late 90s / 2000s and is still a massive franchise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I know what Pokémon is, but I’m not familiar with any of the animals at all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know what that is, I don’t know what a charander is and what it won.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, it's a reference from the original generation of the Pokemon games. Charmander is one of three pokemon the player can choose between at the start of the gameto take on the adventure. Pokemon "evolve" after winning enough battles against other pokemon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ahh! Got it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This feels like an other XKCD comic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Awww. That’s kind of endearing!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Flying krabby isn't real. Flying krabby can't hurt me!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Dammit, that one took me a minute lol.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

crab rave intensifys

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Crab people

Crab people

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

that's the pokemon randomizer experience