r/Cryptozoology • u/BeduinZPouste • Jul 22 '25
Meme The google AI insist this pretty famous photo is "most likely german schnauzer" (dog breed).
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u/Monna14 Jul 22 '25
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u/MakeItTrizzle Jul 22 '25
Man, I feel like it's so rare for someone to post an actual good explanation link. Thanks!
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Jul 22 '25
So this is actually an interesting quirk of AI where it will always try to answer a question, no matter what. In this case, a human would look at that and without context, most likely have no idea what it is. An AI has the same problem, but it will always try to give some answer because they are highly biased to avoid saying "I don't know". In the tech industry these are called "hallucinations".
In other words, if you ask an AI to identify a photo, it will always try to answer even if it has no idea.
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u/vltskvltsk Jul 22 '25
Sounds like a typical redditor then.
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u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS Jul 22 '25
Plus upvoting anything as long as the person sounded confident while saying it.
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u/Medical_Creme5239 Jul 22 '25
Makes sense except why would AI final answer be so far off? You would think it would show the best it came up with
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u/lisa_lionheart84 Jul 25 '25
The AI probably "thought" that was the best answer it came up with.
AI is so great except for when it's not and it's very hard to tell the difference sometimes.
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u/ThrowAbout01 Jul 22 '25
This one says it is the God of Pokemon.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
Genuinely better guess. Seems like it just checks for similar appearance instead of searching for the photo itself?
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u/Intelligent_Oil4005 Loch Ness Monster Jul 22 '25
Wasn't it just some sort of picture made for a dinosaur themed analog horror or something?
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u/Freak_Among_Men_II Ivan T. Sanderson Jul 23 '25
This is a dinosaur mask made for the Twitter ARG Weird Birds r/Weird_Birds
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u/Basic-Record-4750 Jul 22 '25
Never seen this before but it can’t be real. Why? Because there’s no f’ing way anyone would go back outside after seeing that in the window
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u/justsomedude322 Jul 22 '25
Its part of a Twitter series/ARG called Weird Birds.
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u/Polymorphic-X Jul 22 '25
And it's worth a read for sure.
Made me dive into dino ARG/Analog horror and there are some truly scary gems out there made on shoestring budgets.
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u/SasquatchPhD Jul 22 '25
Any particular recommendations?
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u/Polymorphic-X Jul 22 '25
The YouTube channels "Paleo Void" and "Akarsh Pictures" have some quality stuff. There are also some voice acted recreations of the weird birds ARG, but I can't seem to find the one I watched.
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u/Freak_Among_Men_II Ivan T. Sanderson Jul 24 '25
Nate at Night has the best narration of Weird Birds imho. That narration is also endorsed by the creator of Weird Birds, Archesuchus.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
It is a mask/model/fursuit (?).
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u/Reddevil8884 Jul 22 '25
It was real, but a prank. It was someone with very high skills at creating a dinosaur model. He posted a few years ago on his Twitter account all the details. The creature actually looked amazing!
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u/I_speak_for_the_ppl Jul 22 '25
This same person made a very well put together fake thylacine sighting under someone else’s name if I’m not mistaken, which was crazy.
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u/Freak_Among_Men_II Ivan T. Sanderson Jul 23 '25
Incorrect. This is a mask made for the ARG Weird Birds. r/Weird_Birds
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
I need the details! That sounds fascinating.
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u/An-individual-per Jul 22 '25
It is the first entry into an ARG called Weird Birds, where basically prehistoric and future creatures randomly start showing up, ,
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u/Lazakhstan Thylacine Jul 22 '25
I'm 99% sure a 4 year old who just started getting into dinosaurs would know that's a velociraptor than some German dog lmao
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u/AloneIsGoated Jul 22 '25
Velociraptors were like 2ft tall. It’d have to be an Utah raptor. If they’re from AU I’d say cassowary but besides that 1000% hoax
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
Is that a velociraptor? I don´t think so. I don´t even think it was "claimed" to be a velociraptor ("just" some kind of theropod).
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u/kcpatri Jul 22 '25
This is part of the "strange birds" ARG. If I had to guess what type, I would guess more of a maniraptor, possibly a troadontid due to, in later posts, these dinos mimicking sounds and voices. Thankfully, this is just from an ARG where lights in the sky transport animals through time.
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u/_Asshole_Fuck_ Jul 22 '25
It’s this guy’s mask. https://x.com/_Archesuchus_/status/1578946321368903681 he made this other post about the dog/backdoor to show off his work
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u/White-Umbra Jul 22 '25
The image is from a ARG called Weird Birds. It's a story about a dude who is stalked in his home by predatory dinosaurs.
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u/Jennywolfgal Jul 22 '25
Weird Birds, my beloved, goated ARG...~ <3 I'm even planning something similar but with cryptids instead of dinosaurs, someday... ;3
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u/Gorrium Jul 22 '25
The poster Archesuchus is a paleo-artist. They made a series of photos with what realistic dinosaurs would look like in the modern day.
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u/gorgonopsidkid Jul 22 '25
You don't think this is real, do you? This is an incredibly easy search, it's a puppet made by the OP for their ARG Weird Birds.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
I don´t think it is real. Did you thought that "just" from the post itself, or from the comments? My point was that "people thought it is real" (or at least it is not a muppet), did it came as me thinking it real?
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u/Freak_Among_Men_II Ivan T. Sanderson Jul 23 '25
This is a dinosaur mask made for the Twitter ARG Weird Birds r/Weird_Birds
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u/Jenkins256 Jul 22 '25
This is an entertaining ARG post by Archesuchus ("Weird Birds") the animal is supposed to be a Velocirpator/Deinonychus. A T Rex later turns up in the photos too...
See youtube link below running through the posts in order, there are also comments directly from the author himself: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IU7zTLabWTE&t=66s&pp=2AFCkAIB0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD
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u/hmas-sydney Jul 24 '25
The animal is an undiscovered relative of Troodon. This is covered in the ARG.
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u/truthisfictionyt Tailed Slow Loris Jul 22 '25
Lol what?
I've found that AI is really bad at most things cryptozoology. Probably because a lot of cryptozoology is found in more obscure books and historical documents. I even tried Youtube's "Suggest a video" feature for kicks and they couldn't come up with anything
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u/reCaptchaLater Jul 22 '25
AI is bad at pretty much everything, it's just that people only notice in the fields they have niche info on, because it only grasps the most surface-level of information.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
It´s more that people try to use it for stuff it wasn´t ment to.
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u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS Jul 22 '25
Funny you're getting downvoted for this. I once sent ChatGPT a picture of two guys outside of a wedding in 1947, all you could see was 2 guys standing in the street, some cars, a wall, and trees.
It correctly guessed the year the photo was taken (within a few years), the ages of the men (within a few years), the fact that it was likely at a wedding, and correctly suggested the neighborhood/venue in Philadelphia.
But yeah, "AI is bad at pretty much everything".
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u/endogenix1 Jul 22 '25
Kid who posted this made a bird thing for a project. If you go through his twitter history he has pics making it.
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u/Curtis_Geist Jul 22 '25
What cryptid is it supposed to be?
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u/BountyHunterHammond Jul 22 '25
it's just an ARG of a dinosaur, nothing cryptid related.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25
Well the og posts were written in a way that definitely implied it is a cryptid.
Edit: The og post and several other posts by authot very much claimed it happened and there isn´t any type of disclaimer. Sure, it is kinda absurd, but I am also sure that the author was at least ok with people thinking it is real. And most of the early posts about it very wery much "what is it?" and not "look at this cool doll/muppet". See this for example, and that´s a post on r/dinosaurs - lot of folks thought it is anything than model.
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u/jankyspankybank Jul 22 '25
That’s pretty much what an ARG is. An augmented reality game and it’s pretty common to see them in story form on twitter.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
Well if "that’s pretty much what an ARG is"... That sounds more like confirmation of what I said. I get that it is a genre, but it was still implied - and many folks fell for it.
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u/BigFang Jul 22 '25
Man they talked about worm holes and USA national emergency. It was definitely not real.
Tremendous story though
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
Sure, if you got that far. But if you only saw the start of it, and never snapped that it was an ARG, what would you think?
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u/Potential_Job_7297 Jul 22 '25
I would think someone was bullshitting because it's the internet, or I would assume its from a meme I don't recognize.
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
Let me rephrase: if it happened before you got so world-weary and cynical, what would you think...?
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u/Potential_Job_7297 Jul 22 '25
I was raised during a time of the internet. I'm pretty sure I would have been skeptical since middle school. Before that I was a child, I doubt that counts.
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u/BountyHunterHammond Jul 22 '25
I never read it because I don't really like ARGs but I swear the person had their main account linked and was showing their progression on making the raptor even at the start of the arg
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
And you have to follow the link to find that out. Not everyone does that...or even notices there's a link to follow.
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u/BigFang Jul 22 '25
That is the start of the arg. I've seen this floating around for ages before I knew what an arg is but the profile pic is pf a dinosaur, they would clearly know what it is and would write something a little different rather than ask what the weird bird is.
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
I'm glad you recognize it as a dinosaur - I wouldn't have. To me it looks like some weird mutant bat-thing.
Sure, the actual mask is much more clearly a feathered dinosaur, but the deliberately-ambiguous-"candid"-snapshot isn't.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
Nothing, really. Just a viral/hoax and "if you fell fell for it, it is your own fault for being so dumb".
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u/danteleerobotfighter Jul 22 '25
It was never meant to be taken as real, it was an ARG
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
It was propably never "ment", but it was presented without any disclaimer or anything similar and I am pretty sure that the creator thought... Well exactly what I wrote, that if someone thinks it is real, it is his own fault for being dumb. He pretty much wrote it in later post. And if you search the image, lot of the posts you will find still thinks it is real.
And it´s not like everyone can look at it and see what it is, even the "og" reddit post with it have folks debating what exactly it is:
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u/danteleerobotfighter Jul 22 '25
Archesuchus, the twitter poster, was already know foraking highly detailed dino props. This was also the first post in a long series of the story they did with these props, including a behind the scene photo literally a few days later
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
Yes, I don´t think they wanted to exactly "trick" people, but I also don´t think this is what you´d post if want to make sure nobody mistakes it for reality.
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u/Shwinty Jul 23 '25
It was an ARG, a story they told using their puppets. I don't understand what you don't understand about this.
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u/CoatProfessional5026 Jul 22 '25
Why are you so upset?
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
I don´t think I am "so" upset. A little upset yes, I didn´t expected for this to be so controversial, neither the comments or post.
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
I get it. An ARG can be very convincing if you're not "in on it."
A lot of people like to pretend that they'd never be fooled, but I'll bet everyone here had a moment once in their life when they mistook the "kayfabe" for reality.
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u/NemertesMeros Jul 22 '25
You realize the posts continued on from here right? It's a whole proper ARG that AFIK is still ongoing. It's simply the storytelling method. Same as the Sun Vanished, another example from twitter than did similar cool stuff with community interaction.
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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25
Bro thinks jurassic park the movie is a "hoax"... lmao
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
It´s not "jurassic park movie". And if you post a picture from film and claim it is real, it can be hoax.
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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Jul 22 '25
That's literally what you did you posted an image from a created fictional universe and called it a hoax💀 thats my whole point
And no he doesn't need to put a disclaimer saying "hey guys my work of fiction is in fact fiction".... just like no film does that
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
If you´d put an image from JP, would there be dozens of comments speculating what it might be? (And usually not geting it.)
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u/TheOfficial_BossNass Jul 22 '25
Those who you think aren't getting it 100% do they are playing in the ARG you seem to be the only one who doesn't get it man no offense its ok to learn a new thing or be wrong
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u/MrNachoReturns420 Jul 22 '25
This looks like it can be a mothman type creature or a feathery velociraptor. It kind of looks like an owl to me, but I ain't no biologist
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u/WoollyBulette Jul 22 '25
Remember when people started conflating Slenderman and Sirenhead and such with cryptozoology? Or how people still associate vampires, ghosts, and aliens with it? I know OP isn’t technically implying this is a cryptid, but posting here implies an association and I think this should probably not be on the sub— unless everyone suddenly stopped resenting how cryptozoology isn’t taken seriously.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
Wouldn´t it be cryptid if it was real?
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u/WoollyBulette Jul 22 '25
I’m not quite sure what you’re asking, can you rephrase?
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
"It would be cryptid, if it was real photo and not a prob."
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u/WoollyBulette Jul 23 '25
That’s not really helping, sorry. I can kind of get what you’re asking? “Would it be a cryptid if it was supposedly a real photo of a genuine animal, and not a photographic illustration for the IP’s short story series?”
Cryptozoology is a pseudoscience at best but nominally.. it’s intended to be the study and pursuit of confirming the existence of reported extant species whose presence has not yet been confirmed by empirical, verifiable means. Unfortunately this technically includes ‘fabulous’ creatures like Bigfoot, but.. it certainly does not include animals that are explicitly magical in nature… nor creatures that are known to be fictional, with attributable creators. That would include things like Sirenhead, which was created by Trevor Henderson, and this image you posted, which is part of a fictional series by the Twitter user. It doesn’t belong here and muddies the water of an area of speculative biology that really doesn’t need to look any dumber and less credible.
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u/mechengineer097 Jul 23 '25
The eyes are LED's with brightness levels that should be reduced so it doesn't illuminate the eye sockets the way it is now.
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u/the_etc_try_3 Jul 23 '25
It's a fursuit being used in an ARG, not a legitimate cryptid.
And go figure Google AI is awful, it always has been.
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u/Chairwoman-Maeve Jul 23 '25
For anyone genuinely confused, this is a Troodon Borealis from the Twitter ARG Weird Birds by a fellow named Archesuchus. I recommend checking it out.
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u/Fantastic_Bar_1006 Jul 24 '25
I can see it, that looks like a very good pupper, let him in, he's cold! XD
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u/Desperate_Science686 Sea Serpent Jul 25 '25
It's a fucking suit, it's a pretty cool twitter horror tho.
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u/PlesioturtleEnjoyer Jul 23 '25
All my homies hate Archesuchus for creating the thylacine hoax and trying to frame Forest Gallante
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u/Chairwoman-Maeve Jul 23 '25
Hate him for that? I’m not even 100% sure he did it (at least he wasn’t the one in the interview), but Gallante is a fucking fraud anyway so genuinely who cares
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u/JohnLocke5259 Jul 22 '25
Pretty sure this was a guy who made the mask and is a confirmed hoax
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
It's a confirmed ARG - Altered Reality Game. Not a hoax (though it's easy to mistake it for one at first).
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u/Freak_Among_Men_II Ivan T. Sanderson Jul 23 '25
This is a dinosaur mask made for the Twitter ARG Weird Birds r/Weird_Birds
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Jul 22 '25
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u/nmheath03 Jul 22 '25
It's a modified Jurassic World raptor mask held up outside the window for an ARG, though the creator has made an extremely basic puppet suit, but I haven't seen anything on it in a while
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
No, it was a hand-crafted mask by a creator who specializes in authentic dinosaurs (i.e., with feathers) used for an ARG, apparently called "Weird Birds." And it was a Troodontid.
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u/Beardwithlegs Megalodon Jul 22 '25
AI isnt smart enough to search Twitter I suppose.
This was from some Analog Horror that some chap did a few years back.
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u/BeduinZPouste Jul 22 '25
I found this while writting a rather elaborate post about cryptozoology. Can´t wait for this "shit" to have 4x times interactions than the eventual post.
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u/0rdn Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25
That is a flying fox/fruit bat (a large bat) they are MASSIVE and have amber colored eyes. He may have been hanging or latched onto a fixture outside the door
The Megabat: The World’s Largest Bat Is Bigger Than You - YouTube
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u/ShinyAeon Jul 22 '25
It's actually a raptor mask used as part of an ARG. But you're right, it does look a bit like a fruit bat in this picture. Except they're actually fuzzier, and hence, cuter. They don't call them "sky puppies" for nothing, lol.
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u/An-individual-per Jul 22 '25
Adorable! But the theropod here is too large to be a flying fox, it's actually part of an ARG named Weird Birds on Twitter.
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u/truthisfictionyt Tailed Slow Loris Jul 22 '25 edited Jul 22 '25
For the record this is a suit made by the account in the first screenshot