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Just another day in the ocean...

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#funny #crab #jellyfish #cute #joyousjoyness

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Came upon this while listening to St. Paul and the Broken Bones. Perfect.
Thank you!

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Astonishing! Never seen anything like that before: a crab riding a jellyfish… 🙂
Nice to see! Thanks for sharing.

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This isn't one of those scorpion riding a frog stories, is it?
@joyousjoyness not crab, but crap. This is not real video footage, but 3D graphics composed over video of some moving water. Sadly people seem to believe it's the real thing.

@Tom_ofB @joyousjoyness

... or is it possible that someone stole your curiosity and you have been been lashing out ever since?

@revphil or are people gullible and fall for the simplest manipulation? @joyousjoyness

@Tom_ofB @joyousjoyness

Yes, folks are often gullible.
Your lashing out is not helping anyone.
How can this dynamic be improved?

A) If you know better than kindly redirect
B) if you need to counter opinions offer proof
C) consider how you are being perceived

Thanks for your consideration

@Tom_ofB @joyousjoyness

No it’s real, the crab is a blue crab found on the US East and Gulf coasts and yes there are jellyfish in salt and brackish water. (I used to catch crabs just like that one as a kid.)

Also the audio is obviously outside, you can hear traffic in the background. Here’s the original insta, it’s from a guy in South Carolina (US East coast). https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ2nFPkNNTg/?ig_mid=5F52B034-C3AC-48C4-8049-8CE156F2E407

Bill Duncan on Instagram: "Not sure what’s going on here but it’s a crab 🦀 riding a jellyfish 🪼 🤷🏼‍♂️ #beaufortsc"

528K likes, 3,109 comments - billduncan472 on May 19, 2025: "Not sure what’s going on here but it’s a crab 🦀 riding a jellyfish 🪼 🤷🏼‍♂️ #beaufortsc".

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@joy no, the crab and jellyfish are computer generated @joyousjoyness

@Tom_ofB @joy @joyousjoyness
I think you are mistaken.

I can buy that this might be manipulated - ie the crab has been placed on top of the jelly.

But if this is CGI it is really good and somebody has spent hundreds of hours modelling a swimming crab (with only one claw mind you), researched how they move, created a realistic jellyfish model, done a ton of calculations to get the lighting thru water right, and unless they have access to a render farm, spend days, if not weeks, rendering it.

@Torstein the one thing that is great here is the composition. The crab you can download, the jellyfish, too. You can do this on an average computer with Blender in a days work. They botched the translucency on the jellyfish and the motion is way to hectic and very unrealistic, too. No need to do "calculations", just a keen eye and some 3d artist experience. There is footage of an actual crab riding an actual jellyfish and it looks nothing like this.
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c0krq7dj840o
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Crab hitches a ride on the back of a jellyfish

The mesmerising moment was captured in Ullapool harbour by Noel Hawkins earlier this week.

@Tom_ofB @Torstein @joyousjoyness

Where are the links to the blue crab you can download?

@joy
https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-model/blue-crab

under the name blue crab I find Callinectes sapidus, but it looks different from the crab in the video.

This one looks more like it:
https://superhivemarket.com/products/high-poly-crab
but it's not a perfect fit

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@joyousjoyness I needed to see that thank you😂
@joyousjoyness Mr. Krabs went out to hunt jellyfish
@joyousjoyness oh my gosh hahahaha that was cute!!!

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Is it a bad sign or a good sign that I thought, "maybe this is AI generated?" I dunno. Reality is getting so weird I have no idea.