Carp With a Human Face
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Carp With a Human Face refers to a viral video of a carp with a face that resembles a human's. The fish's appearance has been compared to various other cultural figures.
Origin
On November 7th, 2019, Douyin [8] user @༺瑾萱🍀 posted the video. The video received more than 168,000 reactions and 6,800 comments in less than one week (screenshot below).
![@ The face of the fine fish is very powerful [Scan code download vibrato, watch more interesting videos] 抖音号:73055932](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/636/897/1e8.png "Douyin screenshot")
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On November 8th, 2019, KK脑王, a user on the Chinese social media site Weibo,[1] posted the video, which was taken from Douyin (screenshot below, left).
That day, the video was published to the Facebook [2] account Newsflare, where it received more than 6.7 million views, 164,000 shares, 28,000 reactions and 7,900 comments (shown below, right).
That day, Twitter user @Unexplained shared the video. They wrote, "This carp has a human face." The post received more than 600,000 views, 18,000 likes and 5,200 retweets in four days (shown below).
Additionally, Redditor [3] paolols shared the video on the /r/WTF subreddit, where it received more tahn 55,000 points (93% upvoted) and 2,000 comments in four days.
This carp has a human face 😳 pic.twitter.com/okT67Zyo4v
— The Unexplained (@Unexplained) November 8, 2019
Following the post, people on Twitter began comparing the appearance of the fish to other cultural figures, such as the alien in the film Alien: Ressurrection and the video game Seaman (shown below, left and right, respectively).
According to Snopes,[4] this is not the first fish with a human face thhat circulated online. They wrote, "Ifeng News reported in April 2019 that a fish with a human face (possibly the same fish) was spotted in a pond outside of a local temple in Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Ifeng News captured some close-up photographs of that fish. While the “human face” is still visible, these pictures make it apparent that this creature really has a fish-shaped head that only resembles a “human face” due to its unusual markings.
Several media outlets covered the video, including AV Club,[5] Metro,[6] BGR[7] and more.
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External References
[1] Weibo – Cheng Jing's face squid 🐟
[2] Facebook – Newsflare's Post
[4] Snopes – Is This a Carp with a Human Face?
[5] AV Club – This nightmare fish with a human face is reminding people of Dreamcast's Seaman
[6] Metro – Fish with 'human face' spotted in lake – and it's really creeping people out
[7] BGR – Here’s a fish with a human face, in case you needed nightmare fuel
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![@ The face of the fine fish is very powerful [Scan code download vibrato, watch more interesting videos] 抖音号:73055932](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/list/001/636/897/1e8.png "Douyin screenshot")
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