The black devil sighted in early February in Tenerife was technically a melanoceto, an abysmal fish that usually lives in Gandi depth. His appearance and history that was embroidered around made him eternal on social networks. Now it has become a meme.
The stories of animals often like algorithms. We had seen it with the case of MOO Deng, the Pigmeo Hippopotamus of Zoo Khao Kheow in Thailand. Small, of course, with soft skin and with a series of moves that seem writing on purpose to go Viral on Tiktok. The puppies strategy has always worked for the zoo. The story of the black devil of Tenerife, however, is something different.
The black devil is the common name indicating the Melanocetus Johnsoniian abysmal fish that was spotted in Tenerife in early February, just a few kilometers from the coast. A very rare sighting. Usually adults live between 200 and 2,000 meters deepgiven that their hunting technique is based on the bioluminescence: the ability to generate light. In doing so in the depths of the waters they manage to attract the prey.
As social media reacted to the history of Melanoceto
From the images of the black devil who climbs to the surface he began on social media A narrative that went well beyond the starting point. It was a crescendo, which did not interrupted even when the melanoceto died, showing moreover that we were talking about a tiny fish and not of the monster of the abysses that seemed in the images. It was a female specimen.
First some cartoons appeared, then a few memes, then again celebratory images made with artificial intelligence. Now if you only try to look for “Anglerfish”, the English name of the melanoceto, on Tiktok found 50,400 posts. Only with the hashtag.
There are videos from 5 million views in which an entire animation on its life in pixasr version, dedicated tattoos, people who recover while they are built while they cry thinking about its history. The singer Paris Paloma He also dedicated a ballad to his last hours of life, in which in the narrative of social networks he would have preferred die seeing the sun Instead of living in the abysses. In short, the story of the black devil of Tenerife will live forever on social media, such as that of the Gorilla Harambe.
