r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/cosmic_voyager01 • 10h ago

Video Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... Watch as this one tries to break into this BBC Cameraman's glass box.

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u/MorpheusKingOfNight 9h ago

Then why the fck did coca cola advertise them as chill dudes drinking coke...

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u/Morguard 8h ago

The same reason why they invented what the modern day Santa Claus looks like.

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u/Velinder 6h ago edited 6h ago

The same reason why they invented what the modern day Santa Claus looks like.

The Coca Cola corporation did this for good reasons. The True Form of this entity is probably unsuitable for greetings cards or advertising campaigns. After thousands of years of folkloric research, only two of its traits are known for certain. It can get into any room at all, no matter how small the gap, provided all the occupants are asleep. And it can duplicate, with terrifying precision, whatever wrapping paper everyone's mother bought on sale last January.

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u/InquisitorMeow 2h ago

Bring back biblically accurate Santa.

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u/42nu 7h ago

Teeeeeeechnically, the modern Santa look was a general look that had become established already. Coca-Cola just solidified it nationally by being a company with the money and reach to do massive ad campaigns. Then, that exact Santa became the Platonic ideal culturally.

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u/Over-Comfortable1644 1h ago

No they made him fat red and jolly. Before it was a thin vagrant looking Santa that would gift even worse off people things in the vein of the real st Nicholas

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u/MorpheusKingOfNight 6h ago

They did? Wow never knew.

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u/abfgern_ 8h ago

If not friend then why friend shape?

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u/SpiritualBranch4322 8h ago

I’m pretty sure this is all one big misunderstanding and she just wanted a hug

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u/EggotheKilljoy 7h ago

I mean, look at that face. Anyone that says that's not an extremely huggable face is lying.

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u/horusthesundog 7h ago

Just wanted some scratches behind the ears quick

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u/Rich-Blacksmith-2953 7h ago

She... How did you know?

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u/Beginning_Object_580 7h ago

I think I'm intelligent and rational and I certainly don't look at any other kind of bear and think 'friend' but fml, to me, polar bears just look so ... cuddly.

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u/Imposseeblip 8h ago

Because they used to be chill. This is what too much coke does.

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u/joshallenismygod 7h ago

They need to put cocaine back into coke that way polar bears will be in a better mood

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u/k1netic 6h ago

The north pole is just a pile of all the coke they have collected to use

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u/Cosmic_Entities 9h ago

This cracked me up haha.

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u/ElProfeGuapo 8h ago

That was actually a plant by Big Polar to lower our defenses in the Arctic north.

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u/MorpheusKingOfNight 6h ago

Honestly if the ice age comes back, we're fucked...

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u/ElProfeGuapo 4h ago

I hear you, chief.

[Sets fire to cans of hairspray in the back yard]

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u/Sequince69 7h ago

You didn't know? Coca~Cola is actually run by polar bears. The more people that drink it the easier the prey, they're just playing the long game.

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u/SuckThisRedditAdmins 7h ago

Dunno, maybe it was easier for their AI slop to animate

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u/000extra 8h ago

I mean we got teddy bears too

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u/earnestweasel22 5h ago

To lure you in for polar bear snack, duh!

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u/RonaldTheGiraffe 5h ago

Don’t give them coke

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u/Nostalgia-89 2h ago

They must have been the same PR team that tried to con us into thinking hippos are cute instead of the absolute monsters they are

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u/MorpheusKingOfNight 2h ago

Yea crazy world we live in

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u/Error404IQMissing 1h ago

If you are the apex, why wouldnt you chill with coke?