Earlier this year an image went viral showing a dead shark and a dingo, and two snakes having sex.
[on phone to mum] Mum: how's Australia? Me: there's a dingo eating a shark and two snakes are rooting on the beach Mum: *laughs and scolds me for speaking in an uncouth manner Me: *sends SMS Mum: WTF?!?! https://t.co/bLw2PyiFHA
It was (obviously) fake, but that didn't stop it from spreading all over the place.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube – the pic was popping up everywhere.
And while the heat has long since died down on the initial interest in the picture, Japanese social media has now discovered it. And folks, it's ... interesting.
It was all kicked off by one person photoshopping a capybara – the world's largest rodent – into the shot. What followed were dozens of bizarre attempts at one-upping the original photo (pretty hard to do when you consider it involves a dingo hanging over the dead body of a shark while two snakes have sex on the road.)
サメをビーチで襲いながら蛇の交尾を見てる犬を撮ろうとしたら写り込んできた主張の激しいカピバラの画像です。
There have been polar bears...
@utarou_rkgk サメをビーチで襲いながら蛇の交尾を見てる犬を撮ろうとしたら写り込んできた主張の激しいカピバラの奥で「あ、やべ」という顔で出てきたシロクマの画像です。(クソリプ)
Pokémon...
サメをビーチで襲いながら蛇の交尾を見てる犬の画像
Nothing.
@utarou_rkgk そしてみんないなくなってしまいました
A raccoon catching a bug.
@masa_b_ サメをビーチで襲いながら蛇の交尾を見てる犬を撮ろうとしたら写り込んできた主張の激しいカピバラに気を取られている間に飛んできたカブトムシに捕まって飛んでいるアライグマ可愛いところの下にうるさい檀黎斗が居る画像です。
And a surfer.
@utarou_rkgk サメをビーチで襲いながら蛇の交尾を見てる犬を撮ろうとしたら写り込んできた主張の激しいカピバラの奥の方の海で犬とサーフィンを頑張る人の画像。
All up, there have been well over 100,000 retweets and the Japanese content machine is still pumping them out.
@TUYURI_AYAME @utarou_rkgk サメをビーチで襲いながら蛇の交尾を見てる犬を撮ろうとしたら写り込んできた主張の激しいカピバラの奥で「あ、やべ」という顔で出てきたシロクマの手前にドリンク片手に余裕で横切る広島フレディの画像です。(クソクソリプ) https://t.co/pS1aAR6e9O
But the sad truth is that never – ever ever – has there been a dingo hanging over a dead shark while two snakes have sex, all while a polar bear, or a raccoon, or surfer, watches on. It has...not happened.
