Remember when the internet cried actual tears for an anglerfish earlier this year? Now, TikTok has a new deep-sea obsession.

Brought to light by creator and wildlife biologist Josh Allyn, TikTok has recently discovered “Octopolis” and “Octlantis”—two real underwater sites off the coast of Australia where gloomy octopuses have been quietly building their own cities and complex societies.

“I’m kinda pissed right now, was nobody going to tell me that octopuses are creating their own underwater cities?” he said in a video posted last week. It has since gone viral with 13 million views at the time of writing. “I had to find out through Instagram Reels, what the hell.”

I feel betrayed

This isn’t a new discovery. Once thought to be solitary creatures, gloomy octopuses (named for their downcas

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