It's not like the bony-eared assfish is going to clap back, not with the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of all known vertebrates.
this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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But he's going to make America great again, for sure.
No boney assfishes about it.
Stop, he's already dead 😭
Bro probably didn't even know he'd just been roasted.
swim swim hungry
Huh usually these memes are edited but this one is surprisingly real https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bony-eared_assfish
“…assfish are soft and flabby…”
Gold
Wikipedia seems to not be unanimous on the brain-to-body ratio claim. There's a discussion link next to the citation.
At least the Latin name is still diplomatic, as always
I thought the name had to be edited given that it looks different from the rest of the text, but on reflection it's just because it is a hyperlink.
They roasted it because they know better than to do it raw
Also, per wikipedia, assfish are soft and flabby.
To be fair, not a lot going on needing a bigger brain 1+km below the water surface where this creature hangs out. Also, apparently it's ass as in donkey, not the other kind.
It is an assfish, not a gyattfish after all.
Nyashfish
GenX be like, "...aside from your mother"
Aside from your mother
Where's the ass?
i mean yeah why else would they call him the assfish :(
I can almost guarantee it that that fish was really annoying
Seems to have a really large head and small body though... ???