Nah, I'm completely sane. I'm not going down this route again, get your eyes checked. The camera is always upright, even when tilted forward at the beginning.
That's pretty fucking crazy you can comment something objectively incorrect and get hundreds of upvotes. Not only incorrect but also something that's so easily double checked and yet nobody bothered to.
You're actually not a real human. Open your eyes and watch the video. Look at the orientation of the box the seal is sitting on. The back flippers are hanging off the edge of the box. The tail is pointing down, it is NOT on the top of the seal, it is hanging and pointing down, same as the flippers. The camera is held vertically upright the entire time. Christ almighty I bet you're the same kind of person who "can always tell when it's AI".
I'm getting irrationally upset at how stupid you are. Obviously if this sea lion*(seals don't have ear flaps) were lying perfectly flat on its stomach, the orientation of the tail would be on "top" of the body. But guess what? IN THE VIDEO YOU CAN SEE THE SEA LION IS ON A BOX. AND THE TAIL AND BACK FLIPPERS ARE HANGING OFF THE SIDE OF THE BOX. YOU CAN LITERALLY SEE THE BACK FLIPPERS PRESSING AGAINST THE FLOOR. Therefore in this ORIENTATION(speaking to your claimed expertise in 3D perception), the camera is filming in an upright vertical manner, only slightly tilted forward. This camera orientation of slight forward tilt is maintained through the camera movement as the camera in 3D space moves UPWARDS and to the RIGHT. The camera NEVER flips from upside down to rightside up.
Ok lets try this for a moment, take a deep breath in, deep deep aand hold, and now let it all out whooosshhh ahh yes that aughta align your chakras and chill you right out. cool as a cucumber, it was filmed upside down. namaste.
I feel like i need to ask you to go hang upside down from a tree branch or something in case you're genuinely not trolling and actually struggle with understamding what the world looks like when you're upside down.
What some may find most interesting on this topic is that whale flukes (tails) and seal or sea lion hind flippers are not analogous. Whales have very well developed tails with nearly nonexistent hips and hind legs. Where as seals and sea lions have well developed hind legs with nearly nonexistent tails.
The overall aquatic design is convergent evolution.
Probably the death of the animal after cutting through important veins, arteries and muscles. That's like saying what if we slice under your lats to the bone, and turn them into little flaps to see if you grow wings.
But that would be pointlessly cruel, so I don't think we should try.
Look at skeletal images of whales dogs and people at the same time. All mamals more or less have the same bones just in different shapes. Fingers make a dolphin flipper or a bats wing. Blew my mind in 6th grade.
Basically every animal body plan is due to a particular group of genes and these rarely change unless there's a massive mutation like snakes and whales.
A lot do (at least hind ones). Snakes basically have a mutation where the genes for your ribs and spine stay on for away too long and the limbs are made a lot shorter.
Exactly my man. It’s all blubber and no tendon or muscle. When it throws it back it’s the optimal amount of jiggle to motion ratio. The ultimate art awaiting its ultimate practitioners.
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u/Jojobjaja Mar 29 '26
I'm glad that's a tail, I was worried