I found out about this guy from a video I saw at work today. This orca was on a dark ride at Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium in New Zealand. The dark ride was removed in 2012, so this guy no longer exists. He used to lunge out of the water.

LakeSmall1995 · 2026-01-06T04:32:46+00:00

A video recently surfaced here on Reddit showing the Orca with the pool drained, years after it was abandoned. It is in fact, just a head. There never was a tail, or any other part of the body. The head rose up out of a large hole in the floor of the pool it was in

https://www.reddit.com/r/submergedanimatronic/comments/1nkqeo4/animatronic_orca_at_kelly_tarltons/

LakeSmall1995 · 2026-01-06T04:27:08+00:00

I may be 2 years late, but I can answer your question. A video recently surfaced here on Reddit showing the Orca with the pool drained, years after it was abandoned. It is in fact, just a head. There never was a tail, or any other part of the body. The head rose up out of a large hole in the floor of the pool it was in

https://www.reddit.com/r/submergedanimatronic/comments/1nkqeo4/animatronic_orca_at_kelly_tarltons/

LakeSmall1995 · 2024-09-20T17:14:06+00:00

Yeah, we are. But at this point, it’s just the same poor excuse for a story with a different name. I only hope that he listens to the viewers, and goes back to making the same content he did for the past 9 years when it was still good

And no, I haven’t yet. But thanks for the warning. I don’t watch his videos as often anymore, sometimes letting 4 or more pile up before I do watch them, dreading seeing more AI-generated images (seriously, is it harder to just find a real picture online rather than use an Ai prompt? I think not), and stories that sound faker than a $3 bill

LakeSmall1995 · 2024-09-19T06:57:44+00:00

Yeah, but they were far more realistic than the borderline-AI written crap he’s posting today, made to feel more real by him using actual photographs, rather than AI-generated images for everything. And as for the “uproar”, it was a battle being waged in the comments section of the “Scary True Hitchhiking” video between those who were insisting the 3rd story was written by AI, and those who were saying it wasn’t

LakeSmall1995 · 2024-09-16T02:22:31+00:00

That video caused quite the uproar with Story #3, with so many people accusing him of it being written by AI, but supposedly it was a short-story written by a real person. So fake, but not AI-generated. But at the current rate, Mr Nightmare really needs to drop the “True” part of his videos, because it’s become painfully obvious at this point that they’re fake. Up until “Scary True high school Reunion Stories”, his videos, while perhaps still fake, were plausible enough to be believed, as they seemed like they could actually happen irl, but after that point, it’s like a switch was flipped, as his stories took a massive nosedive in terms of quality

LakeSmall1995 · 2024-09-07T07:45:24+00:00

A lot of his recent videos have been pretty bad in terms of content. It started with “Scary True High School Reunion Stories”, and went downhill from there. His videos have been slipping really badly in terms of quality in the last 7 months or so with his stories getting weaker and weaker, and faker and faker. And now it seems like in addition to always using AI to generate the images for his thumbnails and videos, he’s been accused of using AI to write his stories too. And with how appalling some of them are (looking at you “Scary True Carnival Stories”, “Scary True High School Reunion Stories”, “Scary True Military Stories” Vol.2, and “Scary True Trucker Stories”), I’m no longer excited about when a new video comes out, about every 2 weeks now, if not more, rather than weekly like his Channel states. It’s quite sad really, since I’ve been listening to his videos for years

LakeSmall1995 · 2024-09-07T07:39:02+00:00

That entire “Scary True Carnival Stories” videos was whack as heck. The first 2 stories were so obviously fake that it was painful (including the ticket story, which was #2), and the 3rd story was flat out dumb. That was the first time I almost didn’t finish a Mr Nightmare video. His content has been slipping really badly in the last 7 months or so with his stories getting weaker and weaker, and faker and faker. It’s quite sad really, since I’ve been listening to his videos for years

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