Nathan Radke

And of course, you're not going to be surprised.

There are also some issues with the meme itself.

OK, well, what are some of these issues?

Well, the first thing is Google Earth images aren't live.

No, exactly.

They get updated every four years, but you can't use them for up to the minute surveillance.

And also, if you look at a Google Earth image, if you do a little tiny bit of your own research and you look at a Google Earth image of that part of the U.S.

coast, you don't see that serpent head image, unsurprisingly.

In fact, the image is a composite.

What the serpent head appears to be is that there's an area of the world between South America and Antarctica.

And there's this underwater landform caused by continental shelves that sort of vaguely looks like a serpent head.

And so somebody assembled this image deliberately in order to put it online to generate some heat.

And that's basically all we're looking at here.

But I will say, there is a long and interesting history of sea monsters that does tell us something about ourselves.

I mean, when you scroll down to the comments section, the ratio of believers to nonbelievers is pretty heavily tilted towards nonbelievers.

Because there's lots of people flooding the comment section to do a little well actually.

But of course, the thing is, when you interact with a social media post, even if you're disproving it, you're giving it life.

Posts thrive off engagement.

Doesn't matter what the engagement is.

A comment is a comment.