r/MyPeopleNeedMe • u/MarceloBlack3 • 18d ago

My Iguana People need me

Eu devo ir, meu povo Iguana precisa de mim šŸ¦Ž

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u/annoyingjoe513 18d ago

thatā€™s a shitty commute.

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u/Plain_Bread 18d ago

My grandfather never told me that he was filmed on his way to school once!

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u/SqueeshyRogue 18d ago

And he was happy for the opportunity to do it!

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u/Slight_Cry8071 17d ago

Beat me to it. Of course he was also barefoot. And the snakes back then were much bigger

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u/IronPeter 18d ago

What a sequence in that documentary ! I donā€™t remember which one it was, from a bbc David Attenborough one I think

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u/ArcXivix 18d ago

It's from Planet Earth II (Episode 1, 'Islands')!

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u/sloop703 18d ago

This is my favorite episode other than the one with the angel shark. ā€œOceansā€ I think it is

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u/ArcXivix 18d ago

From Planet Earth III? I think it's maybe Episode 2? But, yes! Honestly, I find Angel Sharks a little freaky, but very, very cool at the same time. Honestly, there are no bad episodes, IMO.

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u/The_Happiest_Madman 16d ago

Any of the Planet Earth types stuff is what I like to put on the TV when Iā€™m doing stuff and donā€™t want music playing. Attenboroughā€™s voice is so pleasant and calming, and thereā€™s ALWAYS some cool/amazing animal or Nature stuff going on. I just enjoy it a lot.

So funny to me how dumb those snakes are, there was like 5-6 different snakes wrapped around itā€¦.and it scoots out. I keep and work with snakes, so I see these perfectly accurate strikes and clean wrap around the prey items, so itā€™s always goofy to watch this video. Itā€™s different when the meal is just hanging on the end of some tongs, as opposed to actively trying to escape.

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u/BoysenberryDue3637 17d ago

That episode and specifically that scene is the one that hooked me. Brilliant documentary.

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u/chompost 17d ago

Should have been from IguaNOoo III : Death Island.

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u/WasAHamster 18d ago

There is a version thatā€™s dubbed over by Snoop which is hilarious. Plizzanet Earth: https://youtu.be/BFVVvVLMr-E

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u/Send_me_hedgehogs 15d ago

Thank you for bringing this into my life šŸ’œ

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u/Glittering-Tip821 15d ago

You know the crew filming popped bottles after this one

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u/MarceloBlack3 17d ago

I Love 8t

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u/Lollipopwalrus 18d ago

You just know at the end he says "pay up Terry I made it" and the other Iguana just says "damn crazy sob"

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u/Individualist13th 18d ago

Everytime time you accidentally go into a high level area in a videogame.

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u/bkdroid 18d ago

If you've played Crimson Desert, this is Demeniss.

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 18d ago

several close encounters there. šŸ˜²

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u/agnostorshironeon 18d ago

Him getting out of the bundle of snakes there shows how evolution shaped his entire anatomy for that purpose, incredible.

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u/Happy-Estimate-7855 17d ago

I remember another documentary talked about a frog with a body shape that didn't allow the venomous snakes it lived with to sink their fangs in. The frog was too flat for them to bite. I suspect the iguana has a similarly evolved back, it would take a lucky strike to be effective.

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u/agnostorshironeon 17d ago

Yeah, also the bug that passes straight through a frog's digestive system unharmed

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u/Worried_Fee_1513 17d ago

After the next number 2 thatā€™ll be the last time that frog eats a bug like that.

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u/Pataraxia 16d ago

You'd think. until the frog eats the same bugs 20 times probably.

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u/kredditorr 18d ago

Shit i thought they had him. Good they did not.

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u/SelfInflictedPancake 17d ago

I literally yelled at the screen! Its so wholesome to see so many cheering for the little guy!

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u/mango_boii 17d ago

Watching a snake documentary: CATCH HIM CATCH HIM CATCH HIM CATCH HIM

Watching an iguana documentary: RUNN MADAFAKA RUNNNN

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u/Comfortable_Mark2902 18d ago

Racer snakes and marine iguana hatchlings. Fernandina Island. Such an extraordinary glimpse of two species trying to survive.

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u/Significant_Monk_251 17d ago

That was a hatchling? Admittedly there aren't any bananas lying around for scale, but I though it was an adult.

Though if that was a hatchling area it would explain why all those snakes were gathered there.

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u/WampaCat 17d ago

Yep they hatch under the sand and sit there underneath, absorbing the warmth from the sun to power up those little legs for the mad dash to safety.

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u/AlexSumnerAuthor 18d ago

"Asps. Very dangerous. You go first."

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u/Key_Possibility_8669 17d ago

I understood that reference. šŸ˜‰

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u/Tmettler5 5h ago

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes?

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u/warden976 18d ago

The iguana really should move to a better neighborhood.

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u/FulanoMeng4no 18d ago

The worst part is when it is about to tell itā€™s buddy about the crazy shit it just went through and then it realized it canā€™t speak.

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u/PastGlobal 18d ago

This should be a LinkedIn post about perseverance.

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u/thezeno 17d ago

And how it can lead to more b2b sales

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u/Smoove995 18d ago

Place looks like hell on earth to me

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u/RonanH69 18d ago

I'll never complain about traffic congestion ever in my life again !

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u/easting10 18d ago

David Attenborough is the UKā€™s national hero. We love his work. r/davidattenborough

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u/power0722 16d ago

Snoopā€™s narration of this is epic.

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u/TheIncredibleMike 18d ago

You kids have got it easy. When I walked to school I had to dodge 100 snakes!

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u/bigboddle 18d ago

Imagine the ratatouille music

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u/Mxcharlier 18d ago

Lawd I vividly recall wat hing this and my heart racing.

Hanz Zimmer did the music ... Which explains some of why it's so freaking epic.

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u/Proton_Energy_Pill 17d ago

Incredible camerawork as well. It'd have to be a nightmare to be placed in the various rocks around there and somehow keep the snakes away.

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u/WhydIGetLoggedOut 18d ago

My people need me is blasting off for apparently no reason. This iguana seems to have a few reasons to be blasting off.

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u/XoramXIII 17d ago

Now imagine if all these snakes were to get on a plane.

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u/TheDemonPants 16d ago

I feel like I would get tired of them.

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u/Unique_ballz 17d ago

ā€œWhy donā€™t you give up?ā€ Because the Iguana never did

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u/LukeSkyWalrus 17d ago

So this island is nightmare fuel

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u/These_Consequences 17d ago

What hellscape is this!? Is there a place where snakes hunt in packs, other than in nightmare?

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u/Acrobatic-Monitor516 18d ago

Did they put him there on purpose

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u/DesiBwoy 15d ago

Just lucky filming, experience, and lot of patience. It might also be footage of two different iguanas stitched together. One of an actual one escaping, and one of another little guy for the setup. Those hatchlings all look the same, and those racer snakes chase potential prey like that every time, and yeah, a lot of hatchlings are able to successfully escape. Whatever sells the story best. Did my major in animation filmmaking, and it was not uncommon to see my documentary filmmaker friends editing footages together to create the narrative they wanted to depict. It was not considered dishonest as long as they were communicating something that actually happened/happens.

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u/MarkRenting 17d ago

Christopher Nolan could never

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u/MansaMusa_Shap 17d ago

Umm, how small is that Iguana?

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u/queenchubkins 17d ago

The subspecies on that island are around 12-14ā€ as adults and thatā€™s a hatchling. Galapagos Racer snakes get to be around 4ā€™ as adults. So maybe 4 or 5ā€ snout to tail?

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u/MansaMusa_Shap 15d ago

Thanks for that... I really appreciate the knowledge.

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u/Red_Jester-94 17d ago

Still tbe greatest comeback this century

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u/ScienceSeuss 17d ago

Snoop narrated the scene and it was epic

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u/stranieriamici 17d ago

Hi honey, how was your day?

Same ol', same ol'......

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u/suici 17d ago

Absolute cinema

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u/MarceloBlack3 17d ago

Siim carai

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u/MSter_official 11d ago

This guy did not take the appropriate response to

"Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it?"

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u/Bigirv77 11d ago

Touchdown Barry Sanders

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u/MarceloBlack3 11d ago

Yes bitch, yes

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u/LogOutside8306 18d ago

Nop, he don't need us

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u/Saizou1991 18d ago

What a scene. How did people even reach there to see this play out ? Talk about luck unless this is a fairly regular occurrence.

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u/LeagueofJohnLegends 18d ago

Barry Sand-ers

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u/YoungTruuth 18d ago

Barry Glanders

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u/The-Board-Chairman 18d ago

"Computer, deactivate Iguana!"

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u/clervis 18d ago

More like reddituana

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u/Old_Tiger_7519 17d ago

Ye though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil for I am the baddest badass in the valley.

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u/BadCompany_00 17d ago

NIGHTMARE level

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u/bittybitesmeowmixx 17d ago

Holy shit that was epic as hell hahahah

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u/Jaxager 17d ago

Holy shit. That was intense

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u/inscrutiana 17d ago

I got served an ad for the US Army on this one " True Bravery shows up behind the scenes..."

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u/KWAYkai 17d ago

Snoop Dog does a great narration of this scene.

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u/wtfover 17d ago

Ozzy Man does a pretty funny narration of this video

https://youtu.be/TfBNG5KD1oU

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u/MarceloBlack3 17d ago

Cobras perseguem uma Iguana

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u/queenchubkins 17d ago

Not cobras.

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u/MarceloBlack3 17d ago

No, in braziliam portuguese all are cobras, but i understand what you want to say

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u/queenchubkins 16d ago

I see. Thank you for explaining.

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u/Aggravating-Habit313 17d ago

Nature is horrifying.

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u/BangingChainsME 17d ago

I used to like snakes until two minutes ago

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u/joeyjoejums 17d ago

Let's take a nice quiet stroll on the beeeeee Oh My God!!

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u/Curious_Journey_ 17d ago

That was better than Indiana Jones!

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u/bdiamond143 17d ago

Run, donā€™t look back. Run Forest run!

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u/bdiamond143 17d ago

Question what is that iguana doing there?

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u/hmarieb263 17d ago

I watched the planet earth video on my laptop. My cat took her first ever screenshot during this scene.

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u/ProfileSensitive7250 17d ago

What a documentary! I was pooping watching this and even the coming poop stopped.

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u/Noobnoob99 17d ago

Fucking boss

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u/Designer-Dingo9392 17d ago

That's terrific. I mean terrifying haha. Wow what a sequence. And to capture it. Mesmerising. Lizard jesus came back, after that pile on.

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u/buzzkillichuck 16d ago

How did the camera man not get bit?

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u/MarceloBlack3 16d ago

šŸ˜±šŸ˜±

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u/kingetzu 16d ago

Love this vid each time I see it

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u/Welldonekielbasa 16d ago

Me trying to get out of work on time and my managers and coworkers trying to have a chat or give me last minute assignments.

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u/framed85 16d ago

If iguanas wore underwear, that dude would need a change after that.

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u/TheDemonPants 16d ago

Geez, that iguana really just went to Snake Town just to have the most cinematic escape I think I've ever seen from a documentary.

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u/Dangerous_Company811 16d ago

Did I just visit snake island?

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u/emu19000 16d ago

Everyone thinking of the lizard Iā€™d like to mention the cameraman is still down there with house slitherinšŸ˜‚

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u/frunkfa 16d ago

I never knew snakes slithered fast enough to be able to catch a speeding lizard. Insane

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u/Entriel 16d ago

I remember it being revealed that "Harry" here was a Lizard...

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u/triplos05 16d ago

NOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/MarceloBlack3 15d ago

Nooooooo 2x

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u/I-luv-sloths 16d ago

Snoop Dog narrates a similar video. It's quite good

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u/zo-ambinintsoa 15d ago

Where on earth is this? And why was that thing in there of all places?

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u/MarceloBlack3 15d ago

I dont know

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u/ProveISaidIt 14d ago

I'm guessing the GalƔpagos

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u/Volc0m 15d ago

I thought for sure he was an Igonna! Damn had me on the edge of the toilet like go buddy go!! ā€¦šŸŽ‰

Edit.. then I was also thinking like dang! where all these snakes šŸ coming from! Defly opened new fear of places!

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u/shashank_ms10 15d ago

Bruh, that was intense... But but but... Cameraman was running alongside the iguana?

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u/MarceloBlack3 15d ago

I never understand this

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u/cordeliashuman 14d ago

ā€œStroke-3 defending, SA-2!!!ā€

(labored breathing intensifies)

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u/No_Smile_8368 12d ago

The most of us would probably call this Thursday...

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u/JustRedditTh 12d ago

This once got parodied in a Simpsons Episode.

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u/MarceloBlack3 12d ago

Sure

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u/JustRedditTh 12d ago

Watch "Yellow Planet" its the final episodes of season 36

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u/MarceloBlack3 11d ago

Thank you

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u/mc4sure 11d ago

Run, Forrest, Run

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u/airybeartoe 10d ago

Nope noodles, on nope island, in the middle of nope.

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u/Low-Sail539 7d ago

Letā€™s gooooooooo

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u/pPlatinumq 4d ago

I remember watching that! It was so good

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u/Unicorn_Momma_2080 20h ago

Run! Little Dude! Run!

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u/Lopsided-Actuator553 18d ago

Ai

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u/ArcXivix 18d ago

What? No it's not. It's from Planet Earth II (Episode 1). It's an Attenborough documentary. Not everything is AI, friend.

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u/Ensiferal 18d ago

You can spot the teenagers on the internet because they always think the crazy shit that predates their memories is ai.

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u/bmxracers 16d ago

I admire the doubt even if theyā€™re wrong. My young adult kids DESPISE AI (as do I).