Nathan Radke

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 comments 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.

Yeah, that's absolutely true.

And it's easy to see why sea monsters have always figured prominently in folklore and myth.

I mean, if you think about where humans live, we tend to live near bodies of water.

Those bodies of water are going to be really important for food, for transportation.

They're going to seem like they have moods.

They're going to like basically our entire civilization is in some way going to be associated with these bodies of water.

And it wouldn't have been uncommon nation times for ships to go off to sea and just never come back and generally not even leave a trace behind.

And so in addition to the sadness of loss for the people who lose somebody on those ships, that's wildly unsatisfying.

I mean, for a modern example, look at the amount of attention that was paid to MH370 when it went missing over the South China Sea.

Oh, the Malaysian air flight.

Exactly.

I mean, remember, there was so much heat generated over that.

And there was so much wild speculation, even from like mainstream media.