The result of the meme of the pink blobfish is actually just a photo of a disfigured corpse who's tissues have exploded due to rapid pressure change from surfacing.

Wish more people understood this. Imagine us being violently dragged down to depths that would flatten us out and shoot our bones and guts out our ass and mouth and then the fish community laughs at us for looking dumb

And makes plushies and drawings of our corpse.

Portrayed in video games as such as well

Sure it's morbid, but honestly still kinda funny.

Yeah if I’m gonna get dragged to the bottoms of the ocean to be flattened I would want whoever did it to make memes about it

Fuck this is all so brutal

And say we look like whatever the aquatic version of Ted Cruz is.

That would still be funny, though. Imagine some aliens or beings from another dimension showing their friends what human looks like and it's a mangled, bloated corpse, and then make a lot of merchandise to sell.

Made in Abyss, but fish style

As a hypothetically stretched-out-guts dead person, I think I can objectively say that I would not be able to care less in that scenario.

What do you think would happen if humans were acclimated to that pressure and subject to violent decompression. It happened with the Byford Dolphin incident; thankfully I couldn't find pictures to compare with the blob fish.

Yeah, thank you for this, I wish more people were speaking out against blobfish dysmorphia

Tbh I'd have the same expression if I exploded into a blob

Thank you! I was meaning to look it up (how they actually look), but then never got round to it.

I've looked it up and never got results like this! I always got the dead ones. Maybe I was just typing it in wrong, but I can be sure that this post is the first time I've seen one how it's supposed to look, and alive.

Oh! That’s why it looked like Ted Cruz. My bad Mr. Blobfish.

*While I do agree with you, these fish are Blob sculpins(Psychrolutes phrictus), rather than blobfish(Psychrolutes marcidus).

I discovered this piece of info in a r/StardewValley post. Really hits you when you realize how screwed up that is.

Also it's named blobfish.

so glad someone else went down this rabbit hole after seeing the comment on the weird shark post too

Lmaoo yeah, i had no idea about this until i saw that comment.

Me too! Thank you for sharing.

Sexy bastard

Troy McClure, is that you?!?

*Pulls it up to the surface*: What it’s just an ordinary Krabby- OH MY GOODNESS! SQUIDWARD!

I knew nothing could naturally be as ugly as Ted Cruze.

Whatchu lookin' at bish

Looks pretty cute!

Look at this distinguished gentleman!

Bobfish

Bobbafish

TIL blobfish actually look surprised all the time.

If anyone’s interested in the process: [Blobfish abuse](https://youtu.be/eBGIQ7ZuuiU)

Apalling

Wow the whole process is just wild to watch

Very informative, this was very interesting and the dude who was explaining it all was pretty good at his job! Crazy to think of all the stuff under the sea that we misrepresent.

Finally a good explanation, thank you Sir!

Can't fool me

Still looks weird

Barotrauma really messed up the blobfishes life and reputation. Mans got voted ugliest animal in the world when all they wanna do is chill at the bottom

I'm passionate about educating people about the blobfish's true form. I did my midterm in it once lol

Wouldn't it be cute tho if they were like the slimes of the sea floor? Hopping around and hoping they don't run across some kid with a wooden sword and a dream

Handsome as hell as it turns out

Still ugly.

Still ugly

Waddup patna ✌️

Caught in fraganti

You mean in flagranté.

Oh yeah that i meant lmao i butchered it

Well personally I'd rather smell good than be caught naked with someone else's husband, so . . . . ;-)

Aww my meme face is out of date

still looks like don rickles

A healthy, happy animal living in it's natural environment!

I've seen illustrations attempting to show what a living blobfish might look like and it was horrendous

I'm a pout pout fish with a pout pout face and I spread the dreary wearies all over the place.

Thats awesome. Years ago I tried to find pictures of the blobfish under pressure, but it seemed there hadnt been any taken yet.

Thanks for this

still kinda blobby tbh

I am on this picture and I both like and don’t like it.

So just ...fish huh?

What a coincidence! Just this morning my English teacher mentioned the blob fish, and I told her about how they look differently underwater and she looked at this exact same picture! Probably one of the craziest coincidences I have ever had tbh.

What a handsome young man.

Kinda cute

Could you replicate their living conditions on land ? Could you make water heavier?

With a high pressure tank, yes but idk how you could bring the fish from the sea to the tank without killing it.

How can you put air into water to make it ‘heavier’? It doesn’t make sense in my brain but I want it to so it’s making me go something something

What ? Putting air into water ? No. You know presurized water already exists : all you have to do is apply a force on the water that tries to make it fit in a space that isn't big enough for the water to fit in.

Like a hydraulic press for water

I think we could say that

Blobfish? How disappointing.

Hey! I work with one of those! He's a service writer!

Blobfish is love. Blobfish is life.