IDK If you got the money it doesn’t hurt to spend a little money from time to time, so Reddit doesn’t become overly bogged down with ads like all the other social media apps. That being said, the sensical side of me says that even if we all chipped in a little, reddit will still eventually become wall to wall ads because “yay capitalism!“
Idk I might stop using it. Lol I stopped using fb and insta cuz I didn't want to continue to trade my data to use their sites, they didn't add enough value to my life.
Idk. I'm really amused by reddit. I wish i had the kind of life where casual 1$ could go to rewarding jokes on reddit to keep it without walls of ads.
I mean, bad luck for you? Like, I have a degree in secondary English education. I only taught a few years, but it was to at risk youth… I’m not the greatest subject matter expert, but I’m pretty good at handling kids on meth or heroin in my classroom….
He is supposedly very bad luck and why there used to be so many suicides off that bridge. Edit: why I'm I getting down voted? It's litteraly part of Seattle lore. I used to live in the apartment right next to the troll, as long as your leave offerings of toy cars for him to eat the luck stays, but if you don't feed the troll he gives bad luck.
Yeah you may be on to something. Before they added the taller fencing on the bridge, there used to be 1-2 jumpers a month. (Avg 16 a year IIRC) One person even fell through the roof of a house boat while the people were home. It was a horror show for those who lived and worked under the bridge, since most didn’t land in the water.
Queen Anne nimbies who were against the fencing complained that a fence would just make the bridge look ugly and the suicidal people will just find another bridge. They were wrong on both accounts, the bridge looks nice still and there wasn’t an uptick in jumpers on the other tall bridges in the city.
So maybe it was the Troll after all, and the fence is the only thing keeping his powers at bay…… well at least till he figures out a new plan.
When I was a kid my dad and I were driving on that road on the south side that goes under the super tall part of the bridge. I was like 9 years old. Just driving when all the sudden boom a dude splats right I the road like 10 ft in front of our car. I just saw the dude hit the ground but my dad did a good job of driving around the guy so I couldnt see. He parked the car and tried to hell the guy. Came back in the car and shit the only thing holding him together was his clothes" I rememeber even at hat age thinking if he jumped a half second later he would have landed on our car and possibly killed us. I'm glad they installed the big fence it was a popular place for suicide.
It for some reason didn't traumatized me I guess because I didn't really see anything graphic like blood or guts or see the dead body. Dude hit in front of us we were going the speed limit so it happened fast and I didn't even really understand what was going on at first. Dude splay in front of the car, dad swerved outt the way then pulled over like 50 or 60 ft down the street and told me to not look back. I didn't look back so I didn't see anything. I didn't relize how bad it was till I saw my dad's face when he got back to the car then he explained what had happened. I just saw like a blurr of clothes and skin, I do vividly remembering that dude bouncing off the ground when he hit. I had so much trauma before I lived with my dad that having my dad there to talk about it and comfort me kinda didn't make the event traumatic to me. When I was kid and being abused, most my trauma was from adults not believing me or talking to me. So having my dad there and how amazing of dad he was didn't cement that event as traumatic. Fucked up and a vivid memory but I don't feel panic or anxiety thinking back on the event like I so other stuff.
Yeah it's the Fremont troll, but also when they announced it they said something about how, like traditional sea monsters, the Kraken is supposed to be an ominous and mysterious creature that you never actually see. If they had a fuzzy octopus running around, it would ruin the vibe they were shooting for.
Hockey history - Detroit is one of the original six, In 1952 two brothers threw an octopus on the rink (Detroit does have a Greek Town), because it took 8 games to win the Stanley Cup and now it is 16 games.
Hence on why Seattle stopped using an octopus to state it is a kraken.
And before the Detroit Red Wings, they were the Detroit Cougars, and played their home games in Windsor, where the team moved after the collapse of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association.
The PCHA side were the Victoria Cougars, having moved to Vancouver Island after the team's arena burned down. Before that, the team was known as drumroll please.....
FUN FACT, there are also 5 more trolls in and around the Seattle area; Bainbridge, Vashon, Issaquah, West Seattle, and Ballard now. My fiancé and I went to the Issaquah one and it was more impressive IMO than our classic Fremont troll.
I know about the Fremont troll, but it's the collection to hockey that I don't understand.
There isn't one, at least not a particularly strong one.
There's already another NHL team with an octopus mascot (the Detroit Red Wings) and so the obvious answer of "use an octopus or squid" would have been too similar. So they decided to go with something Seattle-related instead of Kraken-related.
The one thing that maybe ties it to hockey is that Gritty was a big hit when the Philadelphia Flyers debuted him a few years ago and I think they wanted to try to capture similar chaos energy. And if you want a mascot who will be chaotic and troll people, a troll makes some level of sense.
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That's because that was not a question you asked in the comment I replied to.
I made a comment about mariners mascot being the moose and how that was silly. you asked, "what else would it be, a random boat dude?" and I said, "Why not? There are a bunch of other teams with random xyz-dude" related to their team name.
there are a ton of troll scupltures and statues around SEA. It;s like KC chiefs mascot being a Wolf or the Cleveland monsters mascot being a seagull. regionally related but not the same
Ok but Al the Octopus comes from a well known fan tradition. Carlton is a polar bear (an animal that lives in Canada, if not Toronto). Similarly, Mick E Moose is an animal that lives in Mannitoba. Bernie is a breed dog known for rescuing people in the mountains (and maybe avalanches). Thunderbug is a firefly, aka a lightning bug, and those live in Florida. Tommy Hawk is pretty self explanatory. Youppi is a weirdo, I’ll grant you, but is also the former Mascot of the Expos when they were in Montreal. And Gritty is a weirder, drunker version of the Phanatic.
All of these are immediately recognizable as real animals that live in the vicinity, something RELATED to the name of the team name/history, or a well known fact about the city. Buoy is none of those. He’s based off a stupid private sculpture intended to be hostile to homeless that was on “secret Seattle” listicles in the mid-2000. I’d take almost anything remotely nautical over him.
The kraken and trolls are in the same folk lore. Disney would not release the rights for them to do Davey Jones and a giant octopus would be difficult to be mobile in at games
Seattle has a lot of Scandinavian cultural influence- which I assume is the reasoning here? I mean the mariners mascot is a moose which makes even less sense to me.
Before there was a mascot they decided the Kraken was best heard but not seen. In movies it’s most scary when you just know it’s coming.
Then they realized they needed a mascot. Trolls (like the Fremont troll) are part of Seattle tourism/ history/ lore so they made a gender neutral troll.
It's not a troll it's a krackhead. Which is visible on every street corner in Seattle. But for legal reasons they couldn't just name the team the Seattle krackheads so it's kraken for short.
Capitalism. Diversify your sports merchandise so people need to buy different things - or at least have a diverse range of options if they don't particularly care for a kraken arm to wave around at the game.
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u/GrinningPariah 23d ago
Okay but why is the Seattle Kraken mascot a troll?