My fav take on the Orcas Attacking Boats thing is that this is just… like, what they’re into this year.
Orcas have fads and trends.
A few years ago, for a season, they liked to wear a dead salmon on their head. For fun.

Orca memes are on another level.

@Graham_LRR They only do this sort of thing orcasionally.

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Orcas are the Tik-Tokers of the animal world. If you don't understand their memes, it's entirely due to your own lameness.

@Graham_LRR one evening François Orceau showed up wearing a yellowfin instead of a salmon, ruining the fun for everyone else and effectively ending that season's coldest fashion
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I read about the fish hats and it's so weird. They seem so human. Maybe they're trend setters and next year models at Paris Fashion Week will be sinking yachts.
@Retrosponge @Graham_LRR The fish hats are the zoomer ramen haircuts of the orca world
@niphette @Retrosponge @Graham_LRR sure grandma let's get you back to bed

@Retrosponge @Graham_LRR Given the orcas, it sounds like there isn't anything human about memery!

"Humanity" is wayyyy overrated.

@Graham_LRR so many orca TikToks right now. It’s on another level of meme saturation.
@Graham_LRR Orcas with dead salmon as headgear was a thing - https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/killer-whale-orca-trends - question really is if Orcas have memes is this just a thing or a case of a spreading meme of piss offedness with humans and their noisy boats?
How Young Killer Whales Became Hooligans

Yes, orcas have viral cultural trends, too.

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@moncur_d @Graham_LRR I reckon they know boats kill orcas so they’re acting in self-defence. Or something.
@DarkMatterZine @moncur_d They know this. An older orca in the pod got hit by a boat and attacked the propeller. Then the others basically went, “oh is this what we’re doing? okay, fun!”

@Graham_LRR they are expressing free will

…y

@Graham_LRR Orcas are just bored teenagers. 🤣

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Yeah, that’s my take too. I also read it seems to be all adolescent orcas, specifically.

Perhaps it’s not entirely unlike our own teen peer-emulation fads, daring each other to shoplift or doing dumb TikTok challenges.

@Graham_LRR Five years from now, one orca to another: “Man, remember how we were all so into wrecking yachts a while back?”
Other orca: “That was *so* 2023.”
@Graham_LRR I remember when they tied an onion to their belt, as was the style at the time.
@Graham_LRR Please post photo of orca with salmon on head.
@Graham_LRR Thank you! Oh, that's wonderful! Humans aren't the only fashion victims lol.
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