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[-] Jolteon@lemmy.zip 75 points 3 months ago
[-] regrub@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago

Carcinisation 🦀🦀

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 3 months ago
[-] kernelle@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

SCP-6010-A instances that were previously human retain a human level of consciousness and all memories formed before the transformation.

the SCP Foundation has the help you need, in Crab Sign Language, or CSL for short

This SCP had me rolling lmao

[-] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 months ago
[-] kherge@beehaw.org 23 points 3 months ago
[-] Sordid@beehaw.org 31 points 3 months ago

Given enough time, the probability of carcinization being mentioned in any given conversation approaches one. This is known as metacarcinization.

[-] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 21 points 3 months ago

Okay, but where is any credit to the original artist? They seem like someone I want to see more comics from.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 24 points 3 months ago

I got it via text message from a friend, but tineye says https://www.reddit.com/r/HotPaper/

[-] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 11 points 3 months ago

Too bad they're on every site I plan not to visit ever again (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit)

[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Bottom-right of the first panel has "@HotPaperComics" written.

[-] littletranspunk@lemmus.org 1 points 3 months ago

My bad, didn't see that

[-] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

This makes no sense to me.

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago
[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

How do they keep doing this

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 19 points 3 months ago

They don't have their finger on the pulse of the nerd zeitgeist, they are the zeitgeist.

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

That's the second time in ten minutes that I bumped into a relevant xkcd this morning!

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

tl;dr: Crabs are the perfect life form and we all yearn to evolve into them.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

... a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan

Applies to crustaceans only. :(

So it'd be like talking about lifes "many attempts at making a cow" and showing a bunch of bull like animals with horns.

Similar lifeforms, once put in a similar environment for a long period of time, tend to develop similar features.

[-] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

What’s a charader? and what did it win?

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Oh, Charmander is a Pokémon from the videogame Pokémon. In the video the titular animals evolve into different, stronger animals.

They fight battles and after winning enough of them it triggers their evolution.

The joke is that instead of evolving as they do in the videogame, they instead follow the meme concept of carcinisation and all evolved into a crab shaped Pokémon.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why are they all attacking the kid?

[-] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's a bit of a horror movie trope, where the protagonist is an 'other' and slowly swarmed by a group of identical or similar enough beings.

The implication being that their difference is not wanted and/or that they know too much about the situation which could be a threat, this further ties into the carcinisation joke because everything else has become a crab except for this one child.

[-] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Got it, thanks for the explanation!

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

You seriously never in any way came into contact with the pokemon series? It’s been huge with kids in the late 90s / 2000s and is still a massive franchise.

[-] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I know what Pokémon is, but I’m not familiar with any of the animals at all.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I love the joke, but technically carcinisation is only about non-crab crustaceans and their divergent evolution into crab-like forms, and it’s not referring to the evolution of other organisms at all

[-] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 10 points 3 months ago
[-] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

I know what that is, I don’t know what a charander is and what it won.

[-] Kwakigra@beehaw.org 12 points 3 months ago

Oh, it's a reference from the original generation of the Pokemon games. Charmander is one of three pokemon the player can choose between at the start of the gameto take on the adventure. Pokemon "evolve" after winning enough battles against other pokemon.

[-] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Ahh! Got it.

[-] Crassus@feddit.nl 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This feels like an other XKCD comic

[-] Mastengwe@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Awww. That’s kind of endearing!

[-] RandomStickman@kbin.run 14 points 3 months ago

Flying krabby isn't real. Flying krabby can't hurt me!

[-] LeeNeighoff@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago
[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago
[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

crab rave intensifys

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Dammit, that one took me a minute lol.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 points 3 months ago
[-] GigaWerts@lemmy.eco.br 7 points 3 months ago

that's the pokemon randomizer experience

[-] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 6 points 3 months ago

Crab people

Crab people

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