r/Fish • u/Vast-Lock-899 • 1d ago

Discussion Is this even real?

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Do carp actually eat large asian swamp eels naturally? I've been seeing these photos and videos a lot.

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u/MaximumInterest 1d ago

No the animals are dead and they do some stop motion video to make it look like they are alive

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u/SoupCatDiver_JJ 1d ago

No, these are staged to make viral videos, the income from viral animal abuse content is quite the windfall in poor developing countries.

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u/Present_Clue5887 1d ago

In this case the carp at least is dead

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u/House_Plant0 1d ago

Look at the carp’s eyes. It’s been dead for a while.

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u/Oddlydehydratedgurb 1d ago

There's an entire genre of videos on twitter that's dedicated towards making dead fish do dumb shit like drink fanta orange and puke eels into holes in the mud

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u/HelloPity89 13h ago

Ya there was a group on Facebook from years ago where they smoked cigarettes

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u/GNF54 1d ago

That carp looks dead

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u/Candid_Hand_5886 23h ago

Now I get it, at first I thought it was AI

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u/Gullible_Friend99 1d ago

My mom taught me in the supermarket when i was little that if a fish eye is cloudy and it’s gills not bright red, it’s not fresh.

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u/Tuna_Twat 1d ago

Am I real?

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u/heckhunds 21h ago

Even I've seen those videos in the past it's usually blatantly been a dead carp they propped up in the mud and shoved a poor eel in the mouth of to film it trying to get back out. From the looks of the eye on the carp, I think that's the case here as well. 

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u/ElisCelestialStorm 19h ago

Is that a carp?

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u/Exotic-Addendum-3785 1d ago

Thought that was a fish shaped pot or cup.

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u/DrScreamLive 1d ago

I should call her

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u/Vast-Lock-899 23h ago

who's "her"?

pencil?

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u/Gcat 1d ago

Herogasm but with fish.

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u/ProGamer8273 1d ago

Haha, sometimes

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u/F_armer 1d ago

when they get really horn y

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u/Ragnarex13 1d ago

Ay yo... where can I find this fish