When Shark Week Lied to Everyone: MEGALODON LIVES | Billiam

While Discovery Channel’s Shark Week has always run into criticism, they never deserved it more than they did for airing “Megalodon: The Monster Shark lives”

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0:00 - Intro
2:18 - Shark Week's History
11:13 - MEGALODON: The Monster Shark Lives
25:11 - Megalodon: The New Evidence

[guy_arsonist]

Maybe megalodon saw a boat and was like, "whoa what's that?" And just gave it a little nibble? A little bite. A chomp, if you will

[lisapeesalemonsqueezah]

My favorite of these movies is sharknado where the sharks are being tossed around in the sky and are still attempting to eat. It's the equivalent of you being sucked up into a hurricane, seeing some chicken nuggets and being so completely unconcerned with the fact that you're in a tornado that all you can think about is those nuggies.

[haileyfoster]

i did a short babysitting/nannying job after graduating high school and the two girls i watched were watching shark week shows one morning and i naturally had to point out that at lot of it was really dramatized. the girls understood and also felt bad for the sharks, since they thought it got mean sometimes. fast forward like a week later and they showed me their own "shark week spin off fake documentary" about land sharks that they filmed with a friend. genuinely the best.

[WolfGoddess]

In terms of shark bites, I remember seeing this article about a woman who was pretty badly torn up, and as she was being put into the ambulance, she yelled out "I still love sharks!" That's some positive press if I've ever seen it.

[starlightmellie]

i loved river monsters as a kid bc it did dramatic reenactments to hook you but the actual content of the show was jeremy wade having the utmost respect for the fish he caught and he would constantly advocate for the preservation of their habitats as well as respect for the legends and the culture of the people who often were his guides and/or housed him when he would go to these places

[evelawless]

"Are you food?"
"No."
"Oh, sorry."
Fucking dead.

[FrtuneLT]

i feel like in order to really understand why megalodon lives was such a bad idea, is to realize that that a majority of the people tuning into shark week were kids, who usually couldn't tell the difference between fact and fiction

even the cgi, to anyone old enough, we can tell yea that's obviously fake, but to a kid its just good enough to fool them

[tigerwolf]

"I mean that's a pretty huge claim."

The base claim is that Megaladons are in the ocean today. I think a much bigger claim would be that it's one Megalodon with a 3 million year life span, not that there's more than one

[garrettreish]

I find it funny how people who claim that Meggydon is still alive don't factor in the rest of the ecosystem and how a super predator of that size would effect prey items. The time Meggydon was alive, whales evolved to be fast and small in order to avoid large predators.
Yet when Meggydon died and disappeared from the fossil record, whales started getting big because there was no predator to worry about.
We don't need sightings to be rejected or believed in order to say that Meggydon is alive or dead, we just need to look at the ocean's ecosystems

[kiera_rdh]

It’s hilarious that the idea that there are two Megalodons is a “pretty huge claim”. Like….. Do you people not understand how reproduction works? There has to be more than one of these animals if you think the species has lived to modern day lol

[magencrisis]

The "REAL Mermaids" documentary drove one of my middle school classmates completely nuts about the topic. She'd get into huge arguments with the other kids about why mermaids were actually real, and of course, said that she'd seen it with her very own eyes in Animal Planet which was "a very serious channel about real-world nature". I didn't have cable TV at the time and I always thought she had hallucinated it or made it all up.

[joecarson]

I used to commercial fish, so I'm very familiar with sharks. One day a guy I work with now, came into the office and was telling me he saw a documentary on the discovery that megalodon was still around. He insisted it was true, it was on Discovery. I had great respect for this guy, and I had the task of telling him Santa wasn't real.

[arcticdino]

I want a series about mothman and his little submarine

[catb]

my favorite fake documentary is still the dragon one hands down

[Choatemister]

Is Billiam played by an actor? Where’s the disclaimer that he is or isn’t a real person?

[TheRogueCommand]

My weird take from this is "if sharks had hands they wouldn't have to bite people" which is useless scientifically but now I'm imagining giant, curious shark-mermaids grabbing people like dolls and it's both terrifying and oddly endearing to picture.

[Cavegeckosol]

The biggest disappointment in my life was the realization that real scientists put paradigm-shifting discoveries into scientific journals and don't reveal them for the first time ever on popular daytime TV networks.

[tazlinarhetoric]

It really is terrible how much people demonize sharks considering most of that blind, vehement fear and rage stems from 1 or 2 true shark facts + a lot of myth, ignorance, and hastily drawn conclusions

[emmagrace]

“Maybe meggydon hide too? Where are you meggydon?” is single handedly the funniest clip I’ve ever seen.

[TotallyNotSkylerVT]

"Shark attack survivers attacking back "
That single line made me laugh until my stomach hurt because I couldn't get the image of a group of people punching and biting the sharks back out of my head. Like full on street fighter on them.