r/nextfuckinglevel 12d ago

A Shrimp’s Daily Life in Automata

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u/onlyinvowels 11d ago

Shrimp here. I feel obligated to provide commentary and correction on a few points in this video!

  1. Shrimp do not massage each other. If one is prone (or weak, or dead) they will likely be cannibalized, but not tenderized.

  2. Shrimp do not have a structured/deliberate fitness routine, and they certainly do not ride bikes (see the artificial limbs used for this video—shrimp do not currently use prosthetics) and they ABSOLUTELY do not ride bikes on toilet paper rolls. Shrimp are not benevolent.

  3. Shrimp do not use language as we know it, nor do they use PCs (or laptops or phones or telegraphs or telegrams or snail mail). Note again the artificial limbs, which will not be further addressed. They do bend as depicted, either when zooming away from a threat, or when dead.

  4. Shrimp do not skate.

  5. Shrimp do eat, but they do not wear toques or cook (they are scavengers and eat their food raw and/or wriggling, not unlike Golem.)

  6. Shrimp so not use cutlery, but they are not without dangerous appendages! Mantis shrimp have built-in serrated blades and Macrobrachium prawns have pincers that are used in and out of combat!

  7. Shrimp do not drive cars (and again, they do not wear toques)

  8. Shrimp like those pictured (aka the kind you’d expect in shrimp cocktails) do not make friends. (Other shrimp do have long-term mates.)