It Could Be Worse You Could Be A Blobfish Funny Fish Meme T-Shirt

Product Information

But I can't help thinking that I kick-started this revived interest and thus even raised awareness that the blobfish is facing extinction. I went to the artist's page and, honestly, there are way worse comics on the same artist's catalogue that people could have picked. The blobfish first began gracing our computer screens in the early 2010s, as a vintage image macro meme (“Go Home Evolution, You’re Drunk”). If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case.

It was all hands on deck literally, in our steel cap boots and hard hats and gear to get all the specimens to the sorting lab,” remembers Kerryn Parkinson, ichthyologist at the Australian Museum. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. The deep-sea paparazzi has revealed that blobfish are ambush predators – lying in wait for a tasty mollusc morsel – and they also lay eggs and guard their nest.The specimen looks similar to Psychrolutes microporos , a species that’s part of the fathead sculpin family. To celebrate 20 years since Parkinson captured the memeable blobfish mugshot, staff at the Australian Museum held a morning tea complete with blobfish cupcakes . In addition to blobfish designs, you can explore the marketplace for ugly, animal, and funny designs sold by independent artists.

These decals have no background, the color of the surface you stick it to will be the background color. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. During the 2016 presidential campaign, some critics ridiculed Texas Senator Ted Cruz by likening him to a blobfish, so much so that blobfish remains a mocking name for the politician in political corners of the internet. The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings.In 2016–17, the blobfish notably appeared as a punchline on Saturday Night Live and as a gag in the 2018 season of The X-Files, among other instances in popular merchandise and media. Type in "work-life balance," and out comes a meme of a blobfish sprawled on a couch, looking like it’s pondering the complexities of quantum physics, but really, it's just figuring out what to binge-watch next. But, she concedes, she does work in an environment where she gets to see lots of strange, otherworldly creatures.

Hill Country Vinyl and its employees will not be held liable for and damages or injuries that come as a result of using this product.This is just another classic Tumblr artist: weird obsession with trans and non-binary people, constantly looking for validation from people on the internet, hateful of common norms and gender roles, believes violence is a good solution to most social conflicts, fantasizes about social revenge, and paranoid of heterosexual men. But what you may not realise is that this viral fish was a New Zealander, hauled up from the depths of the Norfolk Ridge, north-west of mainland Aotearoa. The woman, carrying the titular blobfish, looks uncomfortable and the blobfish says "I'll get that asshole" as it pulls out a knife. Psychrolutes marcidus, better known as the blobfish, is a type of deep-sea fish discovered along with over 100 other species in a 2003 expedition off New Zealand. While the Cruz- blobfish comparison actually dates back to 2013, it wasn’t popularized until late 2015, when the New York Daily News ran images comparing the two.