Michael Hearst - Blobfish | Listen for free at bop.fm Blobby has been deemed huggable enough for plush toys and has inspired an ocean of silly poems, apps, emoji, smartphone games with tag lines like “Build Up Your Hero and EVOLVE! What Strange and Wonderful Things Will He Become?”, memes (“Go Home Evolution: You’re Drunk”) and even a song by children’s book author Michael Hearst:įloats upon the bottom, lazy as can be. A photograph snapped aboard ship lit up on social media and transformed this squidgy bottom feeder into an aquatic Grumpy Cat, with devoted followers on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr. Of the hundreds of deep-sea critters hauled in on the New Zealand expedition, the Psychrolutes microporos was the breakout star. Has there ever been crueler proof that alcohol changes the way you look? Blobby.” Indeed, these days the Blobster suggests nothing so much as a freshly Botoxed baked potato. “He-or she-now looks like an 85-year-old Mr. Blobby’s skin and collapsed his-or her-snout,” laments Mark McGrouther, the museum’s fish manager. The famous downturned grin is gone, the tiny currant eyes have receded in deep alcoves, and the nose-which once evoked Ziggy of comic strip fame-is shaped less like a turnip than a fallen soufflé.ĭredged up off the coast of New Zealand during a 2003 research voyage, the specimen has spent the last decade suspended in a 70 percent ethyl-alcohol solution. Blobby-as the photogenic blobfish is affectionately known-is no longer Bubblicious-pink. The world’s most misunderstood fish reposes in pickled splendor on a shelf of the basement archives at the Australian Museum’s Ichthyology Collection, in Sydney.
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