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Fashion is cyclical (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago by dil to c/[email protected]
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https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-start-wearing-dead-salmon-hats-again-after-ditching-the-trend-for-37-years

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[–] [email protected] 179 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember a biologist commenting about weird orcas behavior "They're smart enough that they could just be fucking with us"

[–] [email protected] 125 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Everything old becomes new again.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Retro fashion.

Maybe they’re wearing them ironically.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

And then the younger orcas won’t get why it’s ironic and will think it’s actually cool and wear them sincerely, and it will slowly become unfashionable again. Until another 30-40 years pass.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they're celebrating the damage humans are doing to themselves and are excited about a time where they're once again the biggest brained, smartest mammal on earth.

Maybe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

They try to say "So long and thank you for the fish"

[–] SpaceNoodle 15 points 3 months ago

I saw a girl wearing parachute pants on Tuesday. Looks like orcas follow the same fashion cycle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Does that include me?

[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can they live that long? Maybe one of them remembered and had a nostalgia moment, then the rest of the pod caught up

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (2 children)

50-90 year life span

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Why was my first thought “ur mom has a 50-90 year life span (hope she joyfully exceeds/ed it)”

Anyway that’s cool, thanks for the SeaFax

[–] pntha 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

is the 40 year gap a natural phenomenon or human contributed?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sex gap, female orcas live up to 90 years while male orcas live around 50. Older female orcas help take care of the calfs in the pod and so therefore live longer. Some really old male orcas have been spotted but they are a very rare exception.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Grandpa orca trying to amuse a baby

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So I wore an salmon on my head, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say. Now where were we... oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an salmon on my head, which was the style at the time. I didn't have any pink salmon, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big white ones...

-- Grampa Orca

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 10 points 3 months ago

I just hope the young orcas are doing it ironically.

[–] nixcamic 105 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I just don't understand how they wear them as hats and none of the articles have a picture.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

thank you Lemmy user "Dumbass" for your valued contribution

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

rapidly abandoned after their parents start wearing it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

mvp

[–] nixcamic 2 points 3 months ago

I'm assuming it's just on the surface then? Seems like it would fall off if they went under water.

[–] FuglyDuck 96 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s well known that orcas pick up “games” that are basically fads. They find stuff to entertain themselves and keep at it until they grow bored of it.

Basically pre-internet humans.

[–] marcos 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That reminds me... Did they stop tagging boats on the Atlantic North?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

For now

[–] MisterFrog 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm only just now realising fads/trends seem to be way less strong these days.

Like, there's a 00's vibe, sort of, 10's vibe??? Maybe?

But nowhere near as strong as practically every decade before that.

Perhaps it's just there's way more variety to bandwagon now that every niche is connected around the globe.

My random thoughts for your reading.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Internet culture has very strong trends. MLG era, deepfried pictures, amongus era, whatever people on tiktok are watching (brainrot), ...

[–] MisterFrog 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When I say strong, I mean that a trend is it dominates and defines as decade. All those things you mentioned are trends that you associate with different times, but there are far fewer things you can dress up as and people will think: ohhhh are you "from the 2000s".

They exist, just I'd argue it's not as strong as the 90s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I think the internet just caused the trend lifecycle to become much shorter. So short that they only last fractions of a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

If you have something that slightly resembles an amongus astronaut as your pfp people will think: ohhh are you "from the early 2020s"

You can't dress up as it though when those trends happen over the internet.

[–] satanmat 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Her name was Lola, she was a show girl…. With a salmon on her head

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

She was a show girl With a salmon on her head Her name was Lola

Unintentional haiku?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if it's a religious ceremony.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Spotted the pre-historic archeologist

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I may or may not have played Heaven's Vault recently...

[–] marcos 5 points 3 months ago

It's a badly understood fertility ritual.

[–] HootinNHollerin 22 points 3 months ago

Cocaine runoff is a hell of a drug

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is terribly disappointing that there are articles about this that have either no photos of salmon hats, or they are clearly photoshopped.

If you actually want to see a orca donning a salmon hat...

Here's one

And another

[–] TropicalDingdong 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

planking

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Finally, some good news

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're Warning us about over fishing and the damage we're causing to their habitats

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Or just a way to carry the snack for later.

[–] Emptiness 5 points 3 months ago

Hipster orcas

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 3 months ago

Well now I gotta go change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Many men have been decorating their necks with colorful ropes for many decades, especially on official and celebratory occasions, there is also no logical scientific explanation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Maybe it makes them taste neat? Also orcas are smart enough to just do stuff for the hell of it, so there's always that yeah

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I read "Orcas" as "Oscar" for a second was very surprised as to what gad happened to the academy awards

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