I see a lot of people spreading false information about some cryptids, even trying to make peoples creatures in their cultures cryptids. What’s one of the things about the cryptid community that just makes you cringe?

I’m curious, how could information about a cryptid possibly be false (or true for that matter)? Unless we’re talking blurry Ivory-billed woodpecker photos

Everything really, from believeing in mythical creatures to misinterpreting sightings of real animals with no will to understand the truth.

False as in people pulled it from someone’s culture (like native culture) or flat out doesn’t know what an animal is. And True there isn’t enough proof to deem a Cryptid real or not, but in some cases people like to edit photos, and fake their sightings.

Nothing in particular. I just add the phenomenon to the steadily-growing pile of Dumb Things People Believe. We really should tidy that up some time soon…

There’s a good debate in whether/how much harm cryptozoology does to legitimate science for sure, but there’s definitely some social value: it brings like-minded people together, therefore building some kind of community. To me, it’s on par with sports fandoms. I’m not sure it’s any more fair to tre…

I don’t like that people associate folklore creatures and aliens with cryptids, it’s what makes cryptozoology seem like a pseudoscience rather than the study of species that could possibly exist/animals in places they don’t belong. There’s some interesting stuff out there, like the deep sea fish tha…

That’s an interesting comment in that it shows a use of the word “cryptid” that runs counter to my understanding of it (which is basically that given by the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology ). I thought the whole point of cryptids and cryptozoologists, from the beginning,…

Exactly! In my book Cryptozoology can be a valid science that brought e.g. light of Architheutis, coelacanths and other organisms… the whole “bigfood” “Nessy” and what not explorers I would not view as real cryptozoologists, but rather as pretty gullible people at the far end of conspiracy theorism. …

For me, it’s trying to push the continued push for the existence of dinosaurs. The whole idea stems from the belief that Africa is “primitive” and “stuck in the past”. This belief is manly held by young-earth creationist trying to disprove accepted sciences. I find it funny how all the descriptions…

What stereotypes of cryptids really makes you cringe?

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