- Awesome Music: Most people who ever watch the show genuinely enjoy The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Bullet with Butterfly Wings”, finding it the only genuinely badass thing that appears in the show.
- Bile Fascination: A good chunk of the viewership tunes in to see how badly the SSCS fails at what they are trying to do.
- Don't Shoot the Message: Though eco-terrorism is arguably not the best way of stopping it, whale poaching itself is a serious problem that menaces the very survival of several species.
- Memetic Loser: Sea Shepherds themselves. Not entirely for the tactic they employ in the name of conservation and animal rights, but also for being more of a nuisance and inconvenience than any real threat towards the ships and companies they harass.
- Rooting for the Empire:
- A somewhat literal case (given the fact that Japan is still technically an Empire), as you won't have to go long to find a few hundred pro-Japanese sites that are practically (and occasionally literally) screaming for the blood of those on the Steve Irwin. Even more with the Norse whalers, since they are doing subsistence hunting, thus not in it for profit, killing whales for Lulz, or even cold-blooded research.
- Plenty of Youtube comments want the Japanese to win because of the seeming ignorance and hypocritical behavior of the shepherds.
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