this post was submitted on 17 May 2024
18 points (100.0% liked)

videos

22656 readers
1 users here now

Breadtube if it didn't suck.

Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.

There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.

A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

The Tasmanian tiger, also known as Thylacine, is an animal I looked for on Extinct or Alive. It is one of the most well-known extinct animals, and this man named Zack may have caught it on camera. Could this be proof thylacine is still alive?

Forrest Galante is a world-renowned wildlife biologist and TV Host. His mission is to inspire and educate people about animals and adventure through the media, including hosting programs on Discovery Channel, on-camera expert interviews, and production of his own wildlife and natural history shows.

Some really compelling footage from April 2024. The photographer doesn't want to be identified so there's a chance it's a hoax, but the host has run it by a few photography/wildlife experts who seemed optimistic. The photos begin at 25 minutes in and don't strike me as AI generated.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I would love for this to be real but I'm almost certain the pictures are AI. The guy's story also has a lot of holes, notably flying directly back to the US - a flight that doesn't exist.

[–] happybadger@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

To me they're shitty in the wrong way for them to be AI. Like the host thinks it strikes me as a physical object being there. It resembles bad photos I've taken of critters at similar times. The graininess seems more natural than it does a filter and the motion blur seems accurate. Its mouth is weird in one photo but this boy has a weird-ass marsupial mouth that opens like a North American opossum's: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/aXHcaX9Nt64/maxresdefault.jpg . I'm still on the fence about it being real, but there's enough interesting documentation there to warrant a really close survey of the area.

He does seem like an unreliable source. Some of the commenters think that's social anxiety and not wanting to become a celebrity for cryptid fanatics but I'd only trust a proper source to follow up on his claims. Staying anonymous like this doesn't indicate he's trying to grift off of it, so I don't know what his angle is unless it's just fucking with that host in particular for some reason.

[–] utopologist@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The photos we have of thylacines fully opening their jaws are super unsettling to me for whatever reason

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

The video clip is even better!