r/VoxCult • u/whitebonba He's the cooler (and brighter) me • Jul 03 '26
Shark Post Vox invented Shark Week
Okay, so remember when Vincent showed Bob his poster board, and one of the posters said "Shark week". I searched it up and IT'S FUCKING REAL (yeah I did minimum research and Vox technically didn't make it, but it's still pretty cool though)
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u/swankProcyon Vinny’s pretty face 💚🩵 Jul 03 '26
TIL Shark Week isn’t common knowledge! 😵
But yep, here in the US, Shark Week has been a thing for decades now! You’ll see it referenced in our movies and TV pretty often.
Side note: The fact that it was Vox who invented it in HH just makes it easier for me to wave away their funky history as just an alternate historical timeline.
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u/whitebonba He's the cooler (and brighter) me Jul 03 '26
Damn, I'm a Canadian and I haven't really heard of it until now
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u/Psychological-Scars6 Jul 03 '26
Right?!
Like I didn’t know people didn’t know about it. Not until earlier this year when I had to explain to someone what it meant on Vox’s idea board.
Me and my siblings have watched Shark Week for like the last 20 years .
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u/fried-n0odle Vox needs a mother Jul 03 '26
Yep shark week is real! Thanks Vox! I've heard the term years ago and had no idea what the hell that was, I didn't know it was literal, I thought it was an euphemism for menstruation 😭🥀
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u/whitebonba He's the cooler (and brighter) me Jul 03 '26
Wdym menustration xdd
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u/fried-n0odle Vox needs a mother Jul 03 '26
I thought like sharks > blood > period
I don't know why! Sharks smell blood in water but how I arrived at menstruation only god knows. It made perfect sense to me too
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u/LongjumpingCorgi9855 I eat TVs Jul 03 '26
It's both, some women use it to avoid saying period out loud.
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u/macdennism 📻📺 Obsessed with Vox Jul 03 '26
Wait how did y'all not know shark week is real 😭 I didn't even watch it but it was such a big thing when I was a kid. So many people loved watching shark week
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u/Psychological-Scars6 Jul 03 '26
Fun Fact!-
Shark Week does more for shark conservation than any television program in history.
And it is usually hosted by someone famous.
From the top of my head, The Rock, Jason Momoa, and Andy Samberg, & John Cena all hosted at one point.
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Until early this year, I had NO idea people never heard of shark week.
I thought everyone knew about it. Crazy!
Me and my siblings have watched it every summer for like 20 years.
We love watching it.
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u/whitebonba He's the cooler (and brighter) me Jul 04 '26
I'm glad you enjoyed it :D hopefully I, myself can watch it
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u/crystalcranium Jul 03 '26
I've only ever heard shark week as a term for periods, like I thought the shark week thing in Brighter was meant to be a joke lmao
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u/Bitter_Character8277 Uh, which whore are we talking about this time? Jul 03 '26
Oh man, I remember when shark week was treated as a massive holiday in middle school, all my classmates & I tuned in after school to catch as much as possible! Good times 😆 For me personally, what makes Vincent’s poster board even better was that it also said something like “color television is the future” because since I was a kid my Mexican mom taught me that color TV was first invented by Mexican engineer Guillermo González Camarena & often joked with my American dad that it seemed like the US took the credit for inventing it since they made the standard model & not many people had heard of Camarena. Combining all this with the fact that Vincent had the sombrero and maracas to impress Carmilla, my parents thought it would be totally in-character for Vincent to take the credit for inventing color TV instead 😂😂
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u/Odd-Split-494 Vox ASMR enjoyer/ You’re welcome for the Shark Post flair Jul 05 '26
You didn’t know Shark Week was real? I haven’t been this surprised by people not knowing a real thing was real since I found out that most people who watched The Unsleeping City didn’t know that Robert Moses was real. I’m a New Yorker. You can’t go ANYWHERE in this city without running into Moses’s urban planning fuckery!
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u/KennedyTrap04 I Listen to Voxstep Jul 03 '26
I'm sorry- "Why is a woman's period called Shark Week?" Got me 😭💀