r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/pichipichipoco • 6d ago

Crows plucking ticks off wallabies like they're fat juicy grapes off the vine Video

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u/kungfubillium 6d ago

Doesn't fit exactly, but "corvids" takes me back:

Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.

So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?

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u/itearson 6d ago

That takes me back, wow. If I remember correctly, unidan? what an asshole. Meteoric rise and fall

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u/MexGrow 6d ago

Holy shit, I had blanked out that there was a time we had famous redditors.

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u/okcup 6d ago

There were some good ones too. ShittyWaterColor is still around and was funny to see the same comment every time in response. “You’re getting better!”. The poem guy was good too. 

My favorite was a later entrant who would go into a story and then it would devolve into getting beaten with jumper cables. 

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u/Orleanian 6d ago

Let us not forget the always pleasant surprise Shittymorph!

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u/Mr_Blinky 6d ago

I literally forgot that guy entirely until a couple weeks ago when I was on a larger sub and he got my ass out of nowhere, like five years after the last time. Good shit.

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u/godddamnit 6d ago

Jumper cable guy was fantastic. Is he still around?

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u/OlmecDonald 6d ago

Loved the jumper cables guy

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u/snickerslv100 6d ago

Jumper cable guy

Vargas

Poem For Your Sprog

Unidan

What a time it was, way back then. This just hit me with a hard wave of nostalgia.

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u/WolfTitan99 6d ago

We had Earthquake Guy too, I also remember a redditor who made Streetlamp LeMoose and apparently the redditor passed away :(

Also someone called SpontaeneousH, he took Heroin as a 'test' and his life spiraled out of control

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u/MexGrow 6d ago

There was this account that just posted random stuff everyday, and dude knew the system well enough that his posts were always on the front page. I also remember he was really good looking.

I can't remember his name.

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u/wtf-is-going-on2 6d ago

Gallowboob. Straight clickbait reposter, with no apparent motive. Glad he’s gone.

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

Now there's thousands of Gallowboobs

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u/domfromdom 5d ago

We are all karmanaut

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

Forgot about that one lol

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u/MexGrow 6d ago

Ah, yes, that's the one.

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u/Keepa5000 6d ago

There were a couple of accounts that lived for the downvote …. They were so good at baiting people then getting downvoted to oblivion when people realized who it was. I can’t remember the username tho

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u/KrakenHybrid 5d ago

MAN! Those were the days. I’m glad we were there for it.

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u/Bushmancometh 6d ago

Go ever further back there was advocate for Lucifer, AndrewSmith19something, and some guy from a wow forum we all collectively decided to harass

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u/ProudToBeAKraut 6d ago

This just hit me with a hard wave of nostalgia.

And my axe!

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

God dammit, Vargas. Got me again with one of your insane stories.

Anyone remember the race to 1 Mil karma? Between u/andrewsmith1986 (did it legit, over time just by being on reddit a bunch) and u/apostolate (one of the first "karma whores" who I think beat him to 1mil by going for top comments as much as possible)? And holy shit, both amounts are still active lol

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u/andrewsmith1986 5d ago edited 5d ago

Nah, I ended up hitting it first.

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

The man himself, Mr 1 million. How times have changed, now I'm sure there are thousands of bots with 1m+ karma lol. And my bad, it's been a while. I remember it being close but I couldn't remember who got there first

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u/andrewsmith1986 5d ago

Ancient history.

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u/Classic-Selection-83 6d ago

/u/shittymorph is still around so there's still a couple out there still kicking

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u/caseCo825 6d ago

I got shittymorphed for the first time in over a year recently it was great. Funny how i hate the poems but geek out over whatever tf you'd call what shittymorph does

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u/aggster13 6d ago

Watercolor guy is still around too

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u/shawncplus 6d ago

The fact that reddit still holds a grudge that deep after literally over a decade is unreal. He made some snide comments and it was revealed he had an alt account he upvoted posts with. You'd think he was a rapist or murdered someone for the community to have ill will persist for 10 years.

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u/GD_Insomniac 6d ago

Unidan got exposed for vote manipulation before the ubiquity of bots and AI on reddit. At the time it was a big deal; these days nobody would bat an eye at such behavior. In fact, humans using a few accounts to boost their content seems like an appropriate response to bots doing the same thing.

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u/sinz84 6d ago

We didn't even really have a huge issue with that on his posts at the time, what most people had an issue is he would go to other posts make comments and then down vote any comment that disagrees/is getting more popularity.

He got confident that everything he posted would be upvoted immediately that he felt he needed to take down any threats to his popularity

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u/just_another_scumbag 6d ago

I think the problem was (and I have experienced this so I get it) - Reddit doesn't upvote the most accurate response, only the most satisfying one. I think he was justifying his vote manipulation because it meant that people would be getting what he felt was good, educational information instead of layman's opinion...still that shit hurt my heart when it came out because without integrity, the posts were tainted.

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u/mr_potatoface 6d ago

At least we don't have to deal with gallowboob any more.

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u/risinglotus 6d ago

We have 1000x Gallowboobs now, it's just bots

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u/howtospellorange 6d ago

What happened to gallowboob? I blocked him years ago lol

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u/ForensicPathology 6d ago

Bots took his job

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u/cheebnrun 6d ago

Why did you block him?

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u/howtospellorange 6d ago

I tend to block all power users on reddit

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u/Crombus_ 6d ago

He just reposted shit over and over and over again

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u/bobsmith93 5d ago

Bro, reddit is made up of Gallowboobs now. Ever since people found out they could sell accounts with karma to astroturfers it's been just a shitshow. Everyone is spamming like he did but with bots now. And rage bait.

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u/I_worship_odin 6d ago

Jesus that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

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u/PortiaKern 6d ago

What happened?

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u/_BreakingGood_ 6d ago

He's still around just chilling

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u/Cond1tionOver7oad 5d ago

Damn I haven't seen that name in so long! Guess I blocked him a while back.

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u/Rex_felis 6d ago

Yeah man, sheesh. Back then too, I feel like if you were on Reddit a lot you had alts. But I wonder how many u/unidan  lol

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u/LordHussyPants 6d ago

oh nah, reddit loves rapists

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u/redpandaeater 6d ago

I for one miss his informative comments.

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u/ErikMaekir 6d ago

reddit still holds a grudge that deep after literally over a decade is unreal

It's only appropriate. Keeping grudges is also a famous trait of crows.

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u/snarky_spice 6d ago

Can you explain for someone who doesn’t have a clue what you’re talking about?

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u/The_Level_15 6d ago

For short slights, long prices.

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u/guimontag 6d ago

lmao he made snide comments while acting like he was some sort of internet celebrity, and he used the alt accounts to downvote people disagreeing with him

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u/Having-a-Fire___Sale 5d ago

It's more prevalent than it should be due to people's desire to get "credit" for being here that long. It's a pretty cringe thing to just bring up offhand, but as soon as a natural opportunity arises, they get their chance to let people know. Happens that way with a lot of things. Certain things a person might want to "brag" about, but can't just bring it up out of nowhere or else it looks sad. He has to wait until a natural prompt occurs. Such as a chance to show off some obscure knowledge.

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u/atetuna 6d ago

We're nostalgic for the days when this and subs hating on fat people was the worst part of reddit.

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u/OIP 6d ago

reddit is certainly more boring and generic now but it was an absolute cesspit back then

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u/atetuna 6d ago

I'm going to look back at it through rose tinted glasses, because why not. Either way, things are never going back to how they were.

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u/_BreakingGood_ 6d ago

reddit was such a simple time back then, damn

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u/animatedhockeyfan 6d ago

After Gallowboob I kind of forgot about power users of Reddit

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u/Spend-Automatic 5d ago

Anyone remember Trapped_in_Reddit? Similar rise and fall. The dude was all over every comment section with the top comment on every post, until it was found that he was always commenting on reposts and just copy/pasting the top comments from the original posts. He was a human bot. Not sure how he got away with it for so long.

And then there was that group of 4 douche bros who got really popular for whatever reason, I don't even remember all their names but one of them was SupermanV2. I don't think they ever had any major scandals, they were just kinda douchey so they wore out their welcome after a while.

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u/pingpongtits 6d ago

Unidan wasn't wrong and I still don't get the problem with his answer here, except that it might be a little abrasive. Unidan was usually interesting and informative.

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u/ChiliTacos 6d ago

He was using alt accounts to boost his own posts. Lance Armstrong put in the work to win those yellow vest thingies, but he cheated and was only caught because he was an asshole. If you are going to cheat, don't be a cunt.

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u/coldblade2000 6d ago

The answer was fine, he just did vote manipulation to increase the visibility of the posts. Back then that was a Cardinal sin in reddit

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u/Conch-Republic 6d ago

Ah, I remember seeing u/unidan pop up in random threads. I can't believe it's been 10 years since all that went down.

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u/R3AL1Z3 6d ago

Reddit lore is crazy.

This was back when the comment section wasn’t just a bunch of people riffing and commenting something off topic was almost a guaranteed downvote.

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u/BokUntool 6d ago

Crows don't care what you call them.

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u/floopyboopakins 6d ago

That's some tasty copypasta.

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u/Free_Pace_2098 5d ago

He got shredded for this, and it's not even close to how fucking toxic we all are now.

Justice for Unidan.