Recently a viral TikTok video showed footage of an Anglerfish swimming up from the depths of the ocean toward the surface. The rare sighting made headlines, as the fish passed away shortly after. TikTokers are moved by the fish's journey to see the sunlight before it died.
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00:00The internet is currently enraptured by the poetic and tragic story of this very scary-looking fish.
00:08On February 5th, 2025, Instagram user Condric Tenerife posted footage of a black sea devil
00:13anglerfish swimming vertically up toward the surface of the sea near the coast of Spain.
00:17The caption on the video describes that the footage was taken during a shark research
00:20campaign and credits the team who captured it. The description explains that black sea
00:24devil anglerfish are typically found between 200 and 2,000 meters in depth,
00:28considered the midnight zone of the ocean, meaning that this is a rare occurrence and
00:32may be the first recording of such an incident. They write, the reason for its presence in such
00:36shallow waters is uncertain. It may be due to illness, an upwelling current, or fleeing a
00:40predator. The video is set to the eerie-sounding instrumental music from the Phantom of the Opera.
00:49The same video was shared to TikTok on February 6th by Haranatura, where it garnered a staggering
00:54120 million views in approximately 10 days. Following the virality of the video, it was
00:59reported by the New York Times and other publications that the anglerfish died a few
01:03hours after its rise to the surface, with the team behind the video claiming it was injured,
01:07which was likely the reason it swam toward the surface to begin with. The story of the fish
01:11inspired creators across the web to make art, memes, and other sorts of reactionary content
01:16about the anglerfish who swim up from the depths, with many imagining that the fish was aiming to
01:20see the sun for the first time before dying. For example, on February 9th, TikToker Go Pick
01:25Up Your Book posted a video mashing up the anglerfish video with an unrelated 2024 webcomic
01:31about an anglerfish who surfaces and dies by ex-user Beatle Moses, garnering 5.8 million
01:36views in a week. On February 16th, TikToker Drew J. Garcia posted an animation depicting the
01:41anglerfish swimming to the surface in a Pixar animation style, garnering over 2.1 million views
01:46in a day. The internet would continue to creatively express their sorrow for the
01:50frightening-looking creature's life coming to a poignant and poetic end.
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