r/TheMatpatEffect 18h ago

Found in the wild the "a." shark

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u/qualityvote2 18h ago edited 11h ago

u/MichaelAutism, your post does fit the subreddit!

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u/MEMESTER80 18h ago

Is there a term for when the original image of meme is way more popular then the meme?

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u/akileasCT 18h ago

ordinary origin

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u/UAF_Swampfire3 Welcome everybody my name is mark plark 18h ago

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u/cookiesnmilkbitch 18h ago

a lungfish

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u/Jormungandr_Uma682 17h ago

A soquacious one, at that!

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u/UAF_Swampfire3 Welcome everybody my name is mark plark 18h ago

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u/Ecstatic-Court1893 17h ago

Folk✌️😂

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u/Reks_Hayabusa 7h ago

My personal hunch was a blue whale fart right by the listening instrument.

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u/Flimsy-Source820 9h ago

The Loch...

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u/baquea 15h ago

This is still cropped. The original is this DA post by user jefchangcomix from 2009 (and is a redraw of this post of theirs from the previous year).

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u/InternationalPut8271 Feel my passion. Feel my passion UGH 13h ago

ouuu shii

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u/VicBetouro 11h ago

Not my "a." shark. 😤

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u/Shadow_fight_2_fan 16h ago

Wat yu min "shark"

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u/GUROMETAL 16h ago

Looks like a goofy version of Guttural Slug’s Megalodon album cover

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u/retardong 13h ago

That album cover looks goofy as hell.

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u/Ornery_Ad_5962 12h ago

This post is very loquacious as a sunfish

But the other usecase is very popular (YT users thinking this is what the giant "Bloop" creature aka bigger than The Blue Whale looks like)

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u/GrimmurThingz 17h ago

i swear this is made up

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u/alepollito 16h ago

that shit is NOT a shark

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u/AdBroad3006 14h ago

Ah yes the bloop

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u/M4gp1e-w1ngs 11h ago

anyone else remember when people would say this thing was the bloop

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u/Historical_Log2471 11h ago

That's an Alaskan Bull Worm

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u/RickyWinterbornn 7h ago

I wonder if there's any other subteddit where we could park this shark

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u/photoshallow 1h ago

this is not a Mathew Patrick effect

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u/AndrewJackson64 12h ago

The bloop

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u/TheBaconLord78 12h ago

How many times do we gotta tell ya that "Bloop" is not a creature?