This year, among summer blockbusters like Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning and Barbie, is Meg 2: The Trench, where Jason Statham battles Megalodon sharks.
The movie, which has been described on Letterboxd as "Jurassic World from Wish," currently has a 26% percent on Rotton Tomatoes. But while the critics aren’t loving the chomping shark movie, there are online communities dedicated to proving that Megalodons are still roaming the seas.
Megalodons went extinct during the Pliocene period over 30 million years ago. Though that hasn't stopped the sharks-piracy theorists from reading the tea leaves on their shark tracking apps.
TikToker @mypronounisme makes videos of his finds on a public shark-tracking app. There is a point in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean that no tracked shark has been able to pass. Anytime a shark is tracked to be nearby there, it quickly circles back toward the coast.
Caroline, the white shark tracked in the video, was seen in the middle of the Atlantic. Then 20 minutes later, she was tracked near the coast.
To @mypronounisme, this is clear evidence that there is either something much bigger and intimidating that’s scaring off these white sharks or that Caroline isn’t a white shark at all.
In another video, he talks about a 3,000 lb white shark named Nakumi that had not been tracked in a year. Nukimi’s last sighting on the app was in that same place as Caroline's, smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic.
“What could stop a shark this big?” he asks incredulously.
For one, orcas. Many commenters mention how orcas attack sharks. Recently humans have been feeling the wrath of orca gangs.
The theory could also be explained away by the poor signaling of the shark trackers themselves.
So while Meg 2 might not live up to the hype, the TikTok community of shark-tracking believers doesn't need a big Hollywood film to tell them what they already believe to be true.
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