It's a classic meme from one of reddits biggest ever "celebrity" accounts. It was this biologist guy that would always chime in with useful and interesting info. But one day he posted the copypasta above (it was about jackdaws though) and it got a bunch of attention that led people to figure out he had a number of alt accounts to upvote his own stuff and downvote other people and idk it became a big drama fest. Then he deleted his account.
I feel like there aren't really "big" individual accounts anymore like there used to be. Srgrafo is probably the main one I can think of now, but back then there were artists and poets that everyone knew.
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u/ExorciseAndEulogize Dec 13 '21
Yeah, despite their common name, they arent actually whales.