I love the joke, but technically carcinisation is only about non-crab crustaceans and their divergent evolution into crab-like forms, and it’s not referring to the evolution of other organisms at all
Oh, Charmander is a Pokémon from the videogame Pokémon. In the video the titular animals evolve into different, stronger animals.
They fight battles and after winning enough of them it triggers their evolution.
The joke is that instead of evolving as they do in the videogame, they instead follow the meme concept of carcinisation and all evolved into a crab shaped Pokémon.
It's a bit of a horror movie trope, where the protagonist is an 'other' and slowly swarmed by a group of identical or similar enough beings.
The implication being that their difference is not wanted and/or that they know too much about the situation which could be a threat, this further ties into the carcinisation joke because everything else has become a crab except for this one child.
You seriously never in any way came into contact with the pokemon series? It’s been huge with kids in the late 90s / 2000s and is still a massive franchise.
Relevant XKCD
Relevant SCP
This SCP had me rolling lmao
rust users
Okay, but where is any credit to the original artist? They seem like someone I want to see more comics from.
I got it via text message from a friend, but tineye says https://www.reddit.com/r/HotPaper/
Too bad they're on every site I plan not to visit ever again (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit)
Bottom-right of the first panel has "@HotPaperComics" written.
My bad, didn't see that
This makes no sense to me.
How do they keep doing this
They don't have their finger on the pulse of the nerd zeitgeist, they are the zeitgeist.
That's the second time in ten minutes that I bumped into a relevant xkcd this morning!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
tl;dr: Crabs are the perfect life form and we all yearn to evolve into them.
Applies to crustaceans only. :(
So it'd be like talking about lifes "many attempts at making a cow" and showing a bunch of bull like animals with horns.
Similar lifeforms, once put in a similar environment for a long period of time, tend to develop similar features.
I love the joke, but technically carcinisation is only about non-crab crustaceans and their divergent evolution into crab-like forms, and it’s not referring to the evolution of other organisms at all
What’s a charader? and what did it win?
Oh, Charmander is a Pokémon from the videogame Pokémon. In the video the titular animals evolve into different, stronger animals.
They fight battles and after winning enough of them it triggers their evolution.
The joke is that instead of evolving as they do in the videogame, they instead follow the meme concept of carcinisation and all evolved into a crab shaped Pokémon.
Why are they all attacking the kid?
It's a bit of a horror movie trope, where the protagonist is an 'other' and slowly swarmed by a group of identical or similar enough beings.
The implication being that their difference is not wanted and/or that they know too much about the situation which could be a threat, this further ties into the carcinisation joke because everything else has become a crab except for this one child.
Got it, thanks for the explanation!
You seriously never in any way came into contact with the pokemon series? It’s been huge with kids in the late 90s / 2000s and is still a massive franchise.
I know what Pokémon is, but I’m not familiar with any of the animals at all.
Flying krabby isn't real. Flying krabby can't hurt me!
https://github.com/stivvin/carcinizationpatch
Dammit, that one took me a minute lol.
crab rave intensifys
Ohh yes.
Crab people
Crab people
that's the pokemon randomizer experience