When Shark Week Lied to Everyone: MEGALODON LIVES | Billiam
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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 - Zábava
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
This comment had me wheezing.
wittle cuwute shawky
I little bit of an exploratory bite if you will
But, didn’t you hear though? Meggydon kills with extreme prejudice
A chomp is a big ass bite, no? Like CHOMP!!!
"Are you food?"
"No."
"Oh, sorry."
Fucking dead.
So were they.
Well that went dark
Not as dark where they are going…
I need you to tell me the show name you got for your little intro vid with i need to watch it and i cant remember.
Im worried to go at water cuz im food
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
I still remember the episode he cried when he accidentally killed a rare fish
That show was the freaking best let me tell you!
@@Eshtian which fish?
@@colinv.2691 it's been so long I don't remember
I do know the myth they were talking about was about a little kid who had a shiny belt/something playing in a river who got killed by the fish because of the shine.
Ya that sounds crazy when I say it but it's the best I got
The fishing area was by some cliffs though if that helps.
He also brought a lot of the villagers peace, that it wasn't a magic monster of any kind, just a gnarly, mean as sin, fish. They then could learn how to avoid being attacked, because species could be confirmed
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.
Obviously she knew the shark didn't mean it.
I remember seeing in the news a republicans who was shot, and as they were wheeling him to the ambulance he shouted to the cameras “I still love guns!” It’s the most American moment I could recall and everyone clapped
@@PokeBoy-ec5xc
This is hilarious as parody but actually HAPPENS
Rodney Fox got almost ended by a shark incident, and immediately dedicated his entire life to protecting them and educating people about the reality of sharks.
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
Obviously totally agree, but isn’t true that the ancestors of sperm whales were quite big and apex like Megalodon? I believe they competed with megalodon for prey. But that might of been when megalodons started to get smaller (around 30-40 feet) because of the cooling oceans.
@@fellipedasilva99 megalodons are widely believed to have gone extinct from a lack of whales, due to a krill shortage because of an ice age, and competition with other predators, including the great white. But another competitor was a carnivorous whale, which like you said was a precursor to modern sperm whales, although it had a way more fucking cool name, “ Livyatan” basically a play on Leviathan.
they actually went extinct because of bigger whales i beleive not because of the smaller ones those were their preferred prey well they were still more medium sized not like dolphins but still smaller ones
BuT wE HAvEn't eVEn ExPlOReD 20% oF THe oCeAn.
Meggydon
my favorite fake documentary is still the dragon one hands down
I remember watching that when I was a kid and even then thinking "This is some bullshit"
@@Puncherjoe1 hah I which I had that much common sense as a child. I got in trouble for writing an essay about it in elementary school when we were supposed to pick "non fiction" topics
That was like the only one to do it right
At least that one made it CLEAR it was a fake "what if" documentary. But I think it was the test for if they could possibly get away with what would come next
Not gonna lie, the dragon documentary had me in the first half
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.
Thos nuggits
No, those are evil sharks they live in the clouds, feed primarily on birds and shake their evil sky shark fins to make tornadoes which they then use to hunt humans.
Well how else you eat nuggets?
Bro if I’m lifted in the air by a hurricane im probably not surviving the landing regardless so I might as well grab some pre-death nuggies. 😂😂😂
So, 100% scientifically accurate. If they're dino nuggies that is
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.
Awww that's so cute
deeply wholesome AND educational uwu
If sharks aren’t extinct by the time they’re older, they could do a great job helping to protect the species
It's funny, there are actually three species of small sharks that do come on land at night (or rather "walk" through tiny water channels on the edge of a beach)
Those are some smart girls
You should talk about the awfulness that was:
...Finding bigfoot...
How did that show get so many fucking seasons god damn
@@nuteniumtokyo7172 cause it was a very entertaining show, even though it’s based around fiction
@@nuteniumtokyo7172 because it turns out that people screaming into the woods is entertaining
(Edit: I guess)
Grinding Figboot
I used to watch that show religiously. It got old eventually but im ashamed to say it took a little bit too long for me to get tired of it
“There is no way a whale did this”
There is no way a SHARK did that
Bruh the fact that no shark could do that would be more terrorizing and believable than a super gigachad shark that hides from us
The idea of shark attack survivors fighting on BEHALF of sharks makes me so, so happy
Sharkholm syndrome.
The ocean puppers just nibbled the wrong food.
@@Topdoggie7fr
"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.
Half of them are missing an arm here a leg there lol
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
It's a classic problem of every cryptid studies... They claim to have seen an individual somehow still alive alone
@@theghosthero6173
I mean turtles can live 500 years
Although I’m pretty sure it's been more than 500 years so far
@@lmaobox4068 I think there’s also a shark that’s lived for around 500 years.
But as you’ve pointed out it’s been significantly longer than 500 years since the megaladon existed.
@@lmaobox4068
Yeah, but even turtles need partners
It's a weird trend among cryptids. Any time it comes to claims of an ancient species surviving, despite referencing lazarus taxa, they rarely talk about a population of the animals in these claims only individuals. Like the concept of 'late surviving' means an single individual has lived straight through since the KPG extinction.
Fun fact: megalodons are still extinct.
Nuh uh, Jason Statham was in a real documentary about them
Fun fact: The people who think megalodons still exist don’t understand how the ocean works
NuH UHH, mOSt oF tHe OceAn Is sTiLl uneXplOrED
Apparently you never watched The Meg
@@_boogatti_ Fun-er Fact: if the megaladon did still exist they would NOT be a secret
"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
Kind like how some people claim that Nessie is just one single plesiasaur that's survived for thousands of years
@@gwendalynnwatkins1296 not thousands, millions. In a lake that didn't even exist when they went extinct.
Yeah like if you discover one member of an extinct species it's basically bound to be true that there are more because like they need to breed.
@@smrtfasizmu7242 and locals call people that don’t believe in Nessie delusional💀
@@smrtfasizmu7242 Nessie is a strong fella, give him credit.
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.
That’s probably the biggest sad thing about all this, there’s going to be plenty of people who should be well-informed enough to know better trusting this shit because of the source. In all these years there hasn’t been much justification for these theories other than “it was on Discovery/Animal Planet”, and now Ancient Aliens is doing the exact same shit. I’d love these shows fully as fun little things if they weren’t convincing people who definitely have the knowledge to know better of this crap
@@HusbandofLois Exactly. It's like War of The World's all over again. I remember seeing a show like that on The CBC in Toronto about a bunch of terrorists on a ship with a nuke. It was presented as a newscast. It was scary until I realized it was getting dark outside but not on "the news".
@@joecarson8281 That’s really interesting, here in the UK there’s laws against that now because of the amount of times people have fallen for fake shows presented as real news footage. These days you can only show it if it’s being presented in a way that makes sure you know it isn’t real, like you’ll only see it on a TV in a scene rather than on your actual TV screen. I’m assuming other countries haven’t had the same problems and haven’t ended up putting similar laws in because of that
@@HusbandofLois We don't have laws like that, hence Megaladon and they have one about mermaids. People trust TV too much. I did till 1983.
But the cookies were always gone 😳 did Santa eat them or did megalodon?
If megalodon was still alive, whales would be smaller and faster to try and escape. The fact that whales can be giant and slow since they're too big for anything to eat is evidence enough.
I don't think so, there's already enormous predators in the ocean like orcas and sperm whales.
@@LautaroArgentino even fully grown orcas would have a very hard time killing a full grown whale, which is why they resort to killing their calves. Plus, sperm whales are specialized for soft bodied prey and dont have the adaptations to take on giant whales
@@MrByars What I'm saying is I don't think megalodon would put enough evolutionary preasure on whales to make them evolve to be smaller. Enormous whales coexisted with megalodon already, as well as other cetaceans which also hunted whales.
Megalodon probably went extinct due to cetaceans and smaller sharks outcompeting it, and yet whales kept on being the giants they are.
@@LautaroArgentino Megalodon didn't force whales to get smaller, they were already smaller. They didn't start huge, they evolved from a creature the size of a cat, and have been gradually increasing in size ever since, as long as there's nothing stopping them.
Early giant whales were predators themselves, but species like Basilosaurus are little over _half_ the size of a Blue Whale, with a maximum estimate of 20 metres, but more likely in the 15-17 range. Another giant predatory whale, Livyatan, was about the same size, capping out at about 17.5 metres, putting it in the same ballpark as its modern relatives.
Livyatan is actually an interesting case when it comes to Megalodon discussions because it was a contemporary of the giant shark, and would've eaten the same diet. Whereas the modern Sperm Whale has a very narrow jaw and is specially adapted for slurping up squid, Livyatan was described as "hyper-predatory" or "macroraptorial", and it would've happily fed on any other whales it came across.
But those whales _were_ smaller. The standard for ancient baleen whales (And wastebasket taxon because of that) is Cetotherium, which topped out at about 15 metres long. So similar in scale, but still dramatically smaller than the modern titans.
Smaller and faster baleen whales still exist, of course. But that giants like the Blue Whale were able to emerge at all points to a lack of giant predators putting pressure on them.
It's not that whales were always huge, got small while Megalodon and Livyatan were chomping on them, and then got big again, it's that they were steadily getting bigger and once the macroraptorial predators died out, they were able to dramatically increase in size due to a lack of pressure.
@@ToaArcan maybe there is some correlation, I'm no expert by any means but didn't whales truly get to be gigantic after the global climate cooled down, before animals like megalodon are thought to have gone extinct?
My understanding of it was that megalodon went extinct because of climate cooling, which also allowed whales to grow enormous due to more abundance of food. And then since megalodon couldn't adapt to the new ocean climate it got outcompeted by cetaceans like orcas, and smaller sharks.
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.
Its hard to turn "Rats perform 21% better in memory games if we give them koolaid an hour before" into a TV show
Most science IS important, but it ISNT interesting for the common man
A bigger disappoint than scientific journals destroying science itself by forcing people to pursue the most publishable topics?
@@stitchfinger7678 idk man, i want to see a doc on how if you put little stilts on ants, they can't navigate back to their house because they count their steps.
@@stitchfinger7678 tbh, I'd probably still watch a bunch of rats hopped up on Kool-aid doing puzzles. I'd imagine it's kinda like the puppy bowl. But with rats
@@SophiaAstatine I would like a source on that, sounds interesting or wrong. Most scientists don't peruse being published as an achievement, it's kinda their job to publish discoveries all the time. I just don't see why science journals would narrow their topics, or why public interest matters to them.
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.
Sounds like something Junji Ito would draw,love it!
thatd be way scarier lmao That shows a lot more conscious thought behind it, if you know what I mean. Like, I've taken bites of food that ended up being gross cause I wasnt paying attention to what it was. I've never picked up some broccoli, thoroughly examined it and THEN decided I didnt want it. I hope this makes like a bit of sense
I remember a short story where a researcher finds megalodon teeth that are unfossilized. Over about ten years, a handful are found that are dated to 200-12,000 years old. Then he spends years looking for it.
They realize that megalodon survived, but became extinct about 150 years ago because whaling removed so much of their food from the ocean. It went from science fiction to a poignant story of conversation. So many people wanted this thing to be real, but we ourselves finally killed them off without ever knowing they were there.
Lol that story was probably wrote by the discovery channel so full of shit😂
@@jakeybby8527short story’s aren’t necessarily meant to be real
@@jakeybby8527 short story. As in a short fictional story
200-12,000 years is a huge gap
@@muffinsdawgboth are too recent...it was MUCH longer ago
“Maybe meggydon hide too? Where are you meggydon?” is single handedly the funniest clip I’ve ever seen.
I agree 😆
Not real. Mermaids are tho
It'd be funnier if they said "the meggydon is meggy gone"
Dead meme but rlly it lives rent free in my brain
@@NootalieWalf What is the reference from?
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
While sharks like great whites have been known to attack people, these attacks are usually the result of either curiosity (as they figure things out with their mouths) or mistaking people for seals or turtles.
Really, only two shark species are consistently dangerous to humans, these being the bull shark and oceanic white tip.
@@hamishstewart5324 the curiosity part made me sad :( they jus wana know what we are :((((
From almost everyone who's been bitten by a shark is pretty sure sharks think we taste gross, they bite once and as soon as they taste anything they cough it back out
Surfers and divers just happen to look kinda like seals
Same happened with Hyenas when Lion King came out, it's crazy just how easy people can hate something after learning false or exaggerated info and how hard it is to then change their mindset even when presenting actual facts.
@@infinitezion2029 Snakes as well, the majority of bites from venomous species come from people actively trying to kill or chase them out.
Additionally, stingrays were found with their tails cut off after Steve Irwin died.
I remember watching this mockumentary when I was a kid and being terrified of being on ferries for at least two months after the fact. Like, we literally went on a vacation via the ferry like a week later and I'm pretty sure I spent the entire boat ride in a state of panic thinking that Megalodon was going to ambush us from below
I used to find all the unfounded fear around sharks funny until this summer when a whale shark was spotted off a beach near me in New England, which is rare as they typically aren’t seen this far north.
Well it turns out this was enough to close the beach it was seen at, and when I went out on a paddle board to get a closer look, a life guard on a jetski came out to yell at me for “endangering” myself.
The maddening part is that it was a WHALE SHARK, a filter feeder who poses no danger to anything larger than a plankton. I’m pretty sure someone just heard “50+ foot shark species” and panicked
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.
"with her own eyes"
Yeah,I think your teacher wasnt a real teacher.
Ngl, even as a kid I knew it was fake. But either way, it was interesting to see the idea of what mermaids could have been and how they lived their lives if they were real at point besides just swimming under the sea
This girl was me 🤣🤣 I mean not literally but I too was convinced by (mermaids: the body found ) back then .
Frankly, I would blame this child's confusion first on her parents, who allowed her to watch this entertainment program without explaining that it was just a story, like any movie. Second, why did no teacher or other adult in your school sit the girl down and explain things to her? It was adult neglect in both cases. Of course a very young child will not be able to tell the difference between fact and fiction---that is the role of the adults in her life to teach her. I feel sorry for this girl, she probably got a lot of ridicule for something that was not her fault. But that does not mean that the program should not have been made or was not entertaining. It means that adults are supposed to act as adults, which seems to be too much to expect today.
Bro I thought I hallucinated that document😭 and I’m with that girl I was convinced they were real
The funnier thing is that during a more recent Shark Week, there was a Doc about a bootleg Crocodile Hunter looking for info about Megalodon. He went diving near bullsharks to look for fossilized teeth that may have been unearthed.
The funniest part is that he finds a bullshark tooth, surfaces and is like "Look at this! Look at this tooth! Could this be a meg tooth?!" with the narrator parroting this before the actual specialist looks over and goes "Nah man, that's a bullshark."
Then bootleg Steve Irwin just deflates and is disappointed his tooth wasn't Megalodon's
Now *that's* entertaining...
That reminds me of the plot for “maneater”
Don't take the lord's name in vain.
@@MinatheRaichu bro what
@@joeyw.7131 Steve Irwin
Something that's really interesting about the Louisiana bayou shark, is that there have actually been bull sharks that swam from the Gulf of Mexico into the Mississippi River.
Bull sharks are not freshwater sharks, BUT they can survive in freshwater and can actually be found in it!
Billiam doing random things like shoving a shark gummy in a White Claw with no reason nor context always put a smile on my face.
I saw a post once that shat on the concept of "shark infested waters" because the sharks already live there and the humans are infesting the waters.
Yeah, infestation is used because it insuates they're "pests" but we don't even live in the flippin water. Lorty. These make me dad.
It's like an ant infested ant hill
Where else would they be?
@@frousteleous1285 I'm really intrigued to learn how internet articles make you a father.
@@PeterGriffin11 He's so proud of his rage post that it has legally become his child
@@PeterGriffin11 Such misinformation infuriated him so much that he became a loving father...So some good came out of all this.
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
That makes it even worse
Well at the time my then 40 years old uncle absolutely fucking bough it.
I remember being able to tell that a lot of the "evidence" in the megalodon and mermaid documentaries were obviously a bit off and probably edited when I was a kid, but I still sort of believed the conclusions because it was presented in such a legitimate seeming way, and I trusted the "scientists". Finding out they were hoaxes kind of messed with me, and I imagine that it probably did damage to the reputation of documentary makers and researchers in my mind. Thankfully I think it mostly just taught me to think more critically about things, even when they were presented by someone with qualifications. However, for people whose critical thinking skills halted at age 16 and who consider reading facebook articles to be research, that could pose a problem.
I have friends who believe megalodon still exists to this day.
When this aired on Shark Week, I lived with my at-the-time step family. While me and the rest of my blood siblings realized soon enough that it was a fake documentary, my former step family bought it a lot harder. Idk if they still believe megalodon exists
When I was a kid, there used to be a dumb thing I did with friends. There was this steep drop-off a ways from the shallows. We would dive off that ledge, touch the bottom, then swim back up. Once, I did this and, as soon as I kicked off the bottom, I hit something. I looked up and, with assistance from the sunlight, I saw a decently-sized shark swimming away. Not sure what kind it was, but I was in awe. For all the gruesome imagery related to sharks, I still can't see them as anything but majestic.
I recently worked as a PA on a Discovery Science doc. Here's something you don't know about the professionals interviewed in a doc. Sometimes they don't agree at all on the topic and sometimes hate each other. I was on fire watch (watching the equipment) with a couple of the interviewees standing next to me. We were quietly talking as the crew was filming not to far away. One of the interviewees, a historian, started talking smack about another historian the crew was interviewing at that moment. Claiming the historian didn't know anything about what we were there for. I didn't get any specific details, I just wanted to be professional and do my job. There were tow other historians that hated each other. We actually tried to hide the fact that we were interviewing the person this historian hated, otherwise he wouldn't of wanted to be in the doc.... He found out, but luckily it was after we had shot everything and he signed the release forms. Something to think about next time you watch a doc.
Probably because they make It seem like reputable experts agree with looney tune quacks in post editing. These shows are often passed as "science documentaries" to the actual experts and not revealed they are nonsense and give more time to the crazies with the expert there seemingly agreeing due to editing and that kinda thing Ruins experts careers
"We need to stop the megalodon before another attack happens"
I'd say 3 million years since the last attack is a good indication that it has already stopped.
Meggydon😍😍
Hi checkmark
Megatron
Ark Moment
New word to add to my vocabulary
Meggydom?
"My favorite [Shark Week shows] were always the Mythbusters specials"
And you probably aren't alone. Mythbusters was kind of always an outlier with regard to Discovery Channel programming, significantly better than the vast majority of its other serialized shows. Honestly, Discovery Channel probably owes a significant portion of its reputation to Mythbusters alone.
What threw me off in the megalodon doc was the picture of the whale bitten in half. I kept wondering where all the birds are that are supposed to be picking at that massive carcass.
I want a series about mothman and his little submarine
Yes
I’m sorry, his submarine?
@@Hessed3712 watch the video
for some reason, instantly made me think "mothman as one of the beetles."
He has a submarine??
I absolutely hated the way that whole situation went down. I watched the original airing, and it NEVER specified it was a FAKE documentary. It took me almost 20 minutes to realize what was going on I was losing my shit on my couch lol.
Little child me had no idea. I felt so played when i figured it out later
I’m with you all; I saw it when I was 10, and I was confused as to why it seemed so off for a documentary
I was 9 and a huge science nerd....so I never picked that up until like a couple years later lol
@@miaroberts4259 same I was a science nerd as a kid too😭 when I learnt later that tHe mEg was ExTincT I was soo shocked because discovery channel lead me to believe all that fake stuff :(
I mean, it would have hit the news everywhere.
Sharks are the ultimate misunderstood villain who wasn't even a villain to begin with.. probably explains my love of Bucky Barnes.
THE WINTER SHARK
I was in stitches at “Maybe meggydon hide too??? Where are u Meggydon??”
The author of Jaws spent a long time trying to repair the damage his book did to the shark’s image.
Honestly ? Good for him. I still think jaws is fun as fiction but it sucks how many people treat the depiction of sharks in it a a realistic one
It's been like forty-five years since I read it, but I remember the book as being a much better, more balanced story as far as how the shark is depicted. I never liked the movie, but I did enjoy the book. Perhaps I'm not remembering the book well, but it was the movie that stirred up all the fear.
@@TheEudaemonicPlague The book is kind of shit from what I’ve heard. I should probably try reading it for myself at some point.
Yeah. I personally hate Jaws.
Movies that villainize animals worse than scum. But the people who make them are even worse.
"Randall, there are sharks in the water"
"This is an ocean, you're gonna find sharks in the water"
*Collin kicks open the door of his room and goes to edit footage*
I deadass had a vivid nightmare with this guy from barnyard following me around with hyper realistic features saying "there's gonna be cows outside." And chasing me around with an axe playing a death game of hide and seek. I know you didn't ask but I thought it was funny
@@yourmomsuxdik4free having a nightmare like that seems concerning. You doing ok?
I feel like he needs to do the one where they "dissected a T-Rex"
Anybody remember old shark week where they'd go to commercial, but they'd have like a little shark trivia question on a tv underwater and some shit? They did cool programming like learning how golden scalloped hammerheads got their pigment and things like that? I wish they'd do a massive archival type release, I'd buy a ginormous box set with programs sorted by year.
"Polaris Breach" high-key sounds like the name of an anime or monster attack
Or a fighing game special move
It sounds like a rejected name for Tifa’s limit break in FF7.
@@pikapal91 I wonder if that’s what Dolphin Blow was originally called?
Warframe ult
indie space exploration game.
18:16 Wait… “the serial killer of the seas”? It’s a carnivore. Wouldn’t that make all carnivores/omnivores serial killers?
According to vegans yes.
@@theangryholmesian4556 I was about to say that.
Orcas are the actual “serial killers of the seas”, and the sharks are their b**ches.
Hmm... imagine a 60 foot orca?
@@theawesomeone6856 Now that’s a Whale Eater! Sadly Orcas look like idiot whale pandas, if they looked as cool as Sharks then you bet there would be 50 documentaries about them
Are fish cannibals?
Edit: Just remembered that sharks actually are cannibals(at least great whites, idk about other sharks off the top of my head)
When great whites are in fetal form, they'll devour each other until there's only one left, which will be the one that's born.
So I can say yes, sharks are cannibals, but are other fish who just eat fish for their own nutrition for simply eating other fish?
I still remember watching this when it first aired. I had it on while I was working on a college project. I wasn’t watching the screen closely, which hilariously led to me believing that this was a real documentary. I told my best friend about it and had him over to watch the rerun. We both had a good laugh when we saw how terrible the CGI was when we were actually paying attention.
The Nostalgia I felt when he pulled out that shark toy is unrivaled
Is Billiam played by an actor? Where’s the disclaimer that he is or isn’t a real person?
Well considering he’s so handsome he might be Moth-Man 🤔🤔🤔
For a fact of how impactful Jaws is: my mother was terrified of water for years. She overcame that to become a lifeguard, where she met my dad. And fuckin Jaws almost screwed that up.
@WindTheBrave plotwise maybe
@WindTheBrave I understand where you're coming from, Jaws is my favorite movie and Spielberg my favorite director, but I think even he would agree that the plot is like a b movie script
That was pretty much everyone at the time (especially if you lived in South America or Mexico)
A huge smile came across my face when I heard the Eyewitness theme. I had the shark special on VHS when I was a kid and I watched it ALL THE TIME!!! I think it was narrated by Martin Sheen. Good stuff, man.
I always thought it was funny that no matter what time period they're talking about the shark, they always speak about it as if it's always a single individual through all of history.
THE ONE AND ONLY….. MMMMMEGALODOOOOOOON
"Eating anything and everything with extreme prejudice" totally isn't an oxymoron
It honestly sounds lile they were going for "they eat everyone, and they're REAL racist about it"
Who's talking about me??
tiger shark mo
“science” tv channels need to clarify when they’re making fictional programs. when i was little i was obsessed with the natural world and so i loved learning about cool new creatures the earth has to offer. i remember the megalodon and mermaid ones. why not just clarify that it’s for entertainment only?
Money.🙂
For the clicks
Dawg u don't understand the point of em making up that shit huh
They put it before and after the program. Anyone not noticing deserves to believe it.
@@ajaniking111crystalbeat3 so everyone missing these few moments for whatever reason just deserves to be scammed?
Thanks for this. As a marine biologist who is researching (trying to) Great White mating and birthing (never recorded before) shark week overshadows my research.
:(
It is frustrating that people beleve sensationalism over real evidence
Here’s a real fun fact for you, I don’t know if anyone else remembers this but around the time the Megalodon documentary was shown they actually had an autograph signing with the cast of the documentary in the Riverhead, Long Island aquarium. And guess what, they still tried to present that the documentary was actually real.
Watched that special with my grandma and she had the same reaction as the first time we watched The Blair Witch Project - "Lets go find it."
Incredibly gullible but insanely brave, she was. And now that I think about it, apparently not too concerned about my safety.
You were perfect sized bait, after all.
Amazing
Lynn I hate to be the one to say this.
Your grandma had dementia
That’s a great grandma right there, takes a cryptid like no problem
Perhaps you were bait?
If meglodon still existed as it did in the piliocene, it would be a widely known animal that would be hunted pretty regularly by the cultures that live near them. Hell imagine coastal cultures who use meglodon teeth as tools, use megladon leather in everything and eat meglodon meat and maybe even grant spiritual significance to the creature they'd hunt regularly.
I'm going to borrow this for a dnd session
@@istvanbrooks5319 nice, the items and world building would be so fun. Like imagine a megladon sharktooth club or megladon leather armor. Or going on coordinated hunts with harpoons and canoes (like a lot of indigenous peoples did when they hunted whales)
@@nikolascoffey6453 that would be great!, the ocean in my world is actually perfect for megalodon, it's shallow, only about 300 meters deep until suddenly going down on thr borders with other nations, the ocean is also warm and filled with large and small prey for it
Did they tell you they eat megladon meat alot Nik??
@@istvanbrooks5319 Also, sharkskin is kind of like one-way sandpaper. So, it could be a useful tool in carpentry.
If we want a week dedicated to aquatic animals that ACTUALLY kill people, why not have a “Hippo Week”?
A week where they just show footage of your mum
(Sorry)
I could listen to you talk about sharks for hours
All of Discovery's faux-science actually was the reason I moved over to National Graphic. It was a great substitute around 2013 to 2014, but one show I missed from Discovery was River Monsters with Jeremy Wade. Somehow that show was both hella entertaining and rather informative.
River Monsters was great
Jeremy Wade is awesome. Imagine fishing a 3 and a half meter long catfish out of a murky raging river, man's got balls even tougher than steel
river monsters is sooo good when stoned omg
Isn't National Geographic also starting to lose credibility?
@@SirBlackReeds I think their TV channel has been since a few years back, though their magazine seems credible, still.
In the past, what media labels “shark attacks” were called “shark accidents”.
I like that
13:06 I was low key expecting a Phil swift-looking megalodon to jump out and say, "I bit this boat in half!"
Two things:
- The comedian Ian Edwards has an funny sketch on shark attacks being home invasions from the view of sharks
- I once started watching a mockumentary on megalodons, not knowing it was fake. As it went on, I started having some major questions though, and about 30 minutes in they showed a photo of a megalodon next to WW2 submarines. That was the point where I looked it up online and was massively annoyed about wasting my time 😂
If you think these "documentaries" are frustrating, try explaining to someone (who believed them) that they weren't real in present day when you don't have your phone on you to verify.
That’s horrible I feel bad for you
You think that's frustrating? Try explaining to someone (who believed them) that those "documentaries" where fake while providing them evidence from websites that show they are fake only to be met with "facts" from conspiracy websites written up by people that still think the old film "Cannibal Holocaust" was an actual snuff film....
@@Princess_Celestia_ ...are you okay now, though?
@@isetmfriendsofire I'm better then okay, I just found out about the smoking gun I needed to prove to my friend once and for all that fake documentary "Cannibal in the jungle" is fake. I just need to find that "documentary" in full so I can show him the disclaimer that proves its all bs. So far I've only managed to convince him of the possibility that it's fake.
You wouldn't happen to know where I might find that documentary at, would you? All I've found so far has been out of context clips and none of them show the 3 second disclaimer I need.
@@Princess_Celestia_ My man, i was SUSPENDED in class around 2007 because the Dragon documentary came up in conversation, where my teacher ADAMANTLY defended it as world news of the discovery of REAL dragons. Being a smart-ass fucking kid i couldn't stay quiet and let it go... nooo. To top it all up, at the time in my country, nobody else was really watching content like that so i was alone there defending my case against a dumbass teacher and a bunch of gullible kids buying her bullshit.
South Louisianian here. I’ve never heard of a voodoo shark called the “Rookin.” It sounds like they bastardized the story of the Rougarou (most comparable to a werewolf) and made it about a shark, since the names sound kinda similar
Hello, fellow South Louisianans.
Same.
Another follow Louisianan and yet I have never heard of the Rookin
I live in Louisiana too, and I have also not heard of the rookin.
North Shorer here, and I think it sounds made up
wereshark!
(especially cool if you combine in some of the older things of the same name, which were really weird)
I was 12 when I remember seeing that new evidence. Little kid me was like “Why don’t I see this anywhere else?” I still tried to watch it but pretty quickly realized it was a fake and haven’t watch that tv channel much again
"I may not be a scientist, but I play one on the Discovery Channel."
It’s just like how the “History” channel is now trying to lie to everybody by saying that Aliens built the Pyramids.
History channel is weird they're like oh old cultures couldn't possibly be intelligent enough to do this but talk like Nazis as if they were some superpower when in general they were highly stupid in how they plotted war
Of course the aliens created the pyramids…. The modern researchers get paid to apply modern concepts to pass cultures in violation of every historic method possible.
god, my grandpa was obsessed with the idea of aliens. i can't tell if he was trolling me or if he actually believed that aliens built the pyramids
Wait so u mean to tell me they've been lying to me so aliens didn't build the pyramids shit my life is a lie lol
Reminds me of a meme I saw that had a picture of the pyramids and the Easter Island Heads captioned "JUST BECAUSE WHITE PEOPLE DIDN'T MAKE IT, DOESN'T MEAN IT WAS ALIENS"
I would pay actual money for a box set of Learning and Junk with Professor Billiam
Comes with a 6 pack of empty White claw cans
@@DarkVileScream hell yeah
imagine megaladons weren't actually really long, but really small with extraordinarily big heads.
"so you say you have new evidence that megalodon lives?'
"yep."
“It’s not their fault that they have a bite-force of..
*Rip your leg open*”
Like a bear ,or a wolf,or a eagle
They all are just eating and you cant say that they are an extreme problem, way less evil
Shark jumping Sharks should definitely be a phrased used more often .
Jaws has make such an impact that my cities local aquarium was founded because a shark scientist was so mad that people hated on sharks.
I once watched real footage of scientists with an underwater drone and when they saw a school of fish that was unknown to them, the first thing they did was look up on the internet to find out what species it was and it was hilarious
I like how they talk about megalodon like an individual creature and not like a animal species like "the megalodon is a monster that go to McDonald's and ony ask one big mack👹👹👹"
With extra whale on the side, of course.
@@robertborland5083 Implying Big Mac isn't actually a whale
@@hyperion3145 no whale is to expensive is more probable that is chinese whale
yeah yeah, like “wow you are saying there are TWO of them?!” bit, like that only a single individual has lived for two million years is the more reasonable explanation
My wife left me for megalodon
tbf, if I had a move with a cool name like "polaris breach", I'd yell that out like an anime protagonist.
It literally sounds like a Digimon special attack.
Omfg, the Eyewitness theme song awakened memories that I didn't even know I had anymore. I need a moment...
Fun Fact: Me and my family went to sea food place in TJ after picking up some of my dads friends. At the place that had a tv screen where they were showing somthing. Turns out that somthing was the fake Megaladon documentary. I guess they wanted to show somthing to go with the theme, and what better than sea food, mariachis, and Megaladon.
"To show you how a real Megalodon have been found".
"We break this boat in half".
“And repaired it with only flex tape”
"We sawed our reputation in half!"
We saw our brain in half!
@@lizardlegend42 flex tape can’t fix that
@@connorcoker5112 flex seal 💪
Billiam WHEN are you gonna review EVERY episode of animal planets THE MOST Extreme
Dude that was my shit growing up
Oh god I HATED that show.
Noooo, I loved that show so much, those funky lil green graph guys
absolutely, fucking loved that show as a kid
Would be an interesting review for sure
This is my first time watching one of this guy’s videos and the Eye Witness theme brought me back to 2nd grade when I checked out every Eye Witness dvd that my school owned
Dude, if you end up hosting Shark Week I will definitely watch every minute if it!
However, Discovery will never regain the level of integrity they once had with me. I'm like 2 seconds away from thinking every bit of programming both in school and out from Discovery was a lie.
Billiam, you ROCK🔥
Megalodon doesn't exist anymore because Michael Phelps beat them in a race
The difference between Michael Phelps and Hitler is Phelps could finish a race
@@jaywheeler1093 the Jews would like to argue the difference of Phelps to Hitler.
Man, this opening hit hard. For context, I loved sharks as a kid. My favorite was the Mako shark that I got a plastic toy of. When I got that toy, the Mako shark was Near-Threatened. In 2007 it was Vulnerable. Today, it's Endangered.
I have fond so memories of watching "Jaws" with my family when I got a little older and I even read the book. It never changed my feeling about sharks or other animals because I recognized it as fiction. But when I discovered the Mako shark's shift into endangered status in 2019, my memories of it are tainted.
I still have that little Mako shark figurine all these years later get reminded regularly. Unlike some animals, no captive breeding program could save them if their numbers get too low. They can't survive in aquariums, much less be encouraged to reproduce. Once they're gone, they're gone. All we'll have left is teeth, pictures, and figurines.
Thank you for bringing attention to this crap. I hope more people will wake up and that we can do something about it.
Billiam, I just want you to know that this video is the reason the my friend and I exclusively call the megalodon “meggydon” now.
14:16 how this man just casually drops a WHOLE ASS ORANGE in his blue moon without any sort of acknowledgement of it had me dead bro
"when shark week lied to everyone"
You're gonna have to be more specif- oh I see which one.
Discovery (or someone with more self-awareness) should do another "speculative documentary" that speculates what a nature documentary made in the distant future might be like. Imagine it's the year 3000, and some cheesy, barely-educational network is making a speculative documentary about extinct animals that "may still be out there" that shows wildly inaccurate info about present-day animals.
I'd watch this. Imagine them explaining a platypus or a panda lmao
The Panda: Beast of the Jungle
Titanic in size, this thirteen foot tall monster lives in the thick jungles of Japan. They feast off a small harmless species called the Bamboo. Their large claws could easily rip open human flesh. Every year at least 3000 people died by their paw. Inside their mouth stood two large hollow tusks used as straws to suck the flesh out of innocents.
*shows bat skeleton*
"This is the fingerboy.It used it's fingers to suck souls out"
The cheata a big flying creature that likes to eat lions
Lions are weasel like creatures they mostly hide from cheatas
Just as a note from a South African watching this video. If our country found a previously extinct animal off the coast of Cape Town, especially if it was specifically Cape Town, they would milk the shit out of that to get more tourists to visit.
2:00 this is amazing, first of all the nostalgia rushed back to me and you did your own fun spin on this classic intro
The amount of these clips and pictures I've seen being presented as actual proof of Megalodon's existence in top ten videos on CZcams is fucking depressing.
“Voodoo Sharks” sounds like the Louisiana branch of the Street Sharks
"Voodoo Shark" sounds like something The Asylum made.
@@exiegelastweekgamer1571 haha yea that works too
@@exiegelastweekgamer1571 It's from Jaws 4: Revenge.
No way a whale did that…must’ve been a shark…a SHARKTOPUS
Holy shit. The moment he mentioned a VideoNow, I got blasted back to the past so hard
Billiam: "Animal Planet made a lot of fake documentaries."
Discovery Channel: *Proceeds to somehow top the Mermaid debacle.*
Me: feels bad
Me: Sees science boy yelling at bad science
Me: feels less bad
The dragon one was the best one because it wasn't trying to lie to everyone. Shark week failing it's intended mission pisses me off so much.
'I made it sound like the survivors were fighting the sharks again'
You mean they were the founders of the Shark Punching Center?