'Eaten Alive,' Discovery - After airing on Discovery Channel, the show "Eaten Alive" which featured a man who was supposed to get literally eaten alive by an anaconda, didn't receive a warm welcome.
In fact, the exact opposite happened. People reacted from two sides to the stunt: one were other activists stating that this was animal cruelty and the other side were the regular viewers who got disappointed after the promise didn't come true.
Paul Rosolie's idea was to save the rainforest. To do so, he thought he had to do something extreme. So, the idea to get eaten by an anaconda seemed like one which would definitely grab people's attention.
He was right. "Eaten Alive" did indeed call viewers attention, but when the show aired on Dec. 7, the conditions were a little different than everyone expected.
First, Rosolie had a large special suit on him. What an anaconda does to a prey is crush it, after that, eating becomes easier for the animal. So, the special feature that Rosolie's suit had was that it was lightweight to prevent him getting crushed.
It was a carbon-fibre one created by a team of engineers using 3D technology, Daily Mail noted. Also, Discovery Channel is mostly an educational channel, so it was expected that things would be more than organized.
Then, the biggest disappointment for the Discovery viewers was the fact that Rosolie wasn't "Eaten Alive" in the end. He actually got part of his head and a bit of one of his arms in the snake before he called it off because his arm "was being crushed."
The first reaction was from People from Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), who shared some important facts about the anaconda and how "Eaten Alive" went against the very nature of the snake.
"Anacondas go days without eating and expend the energy needed to do so selectively. Making this snake use up energy by swallowing this fool and then possibly regurgitating him would have left the poor animal exhausted and deprived of the energy that he or she needs," RT noted.
Then, a lot of viewers joked about this not being "Eaten Alive" at all. It came to the point where even Nat Geo had a say about it.
"This is #EatenAlive," they posted on their Twitter under a photograph of a lion eating a zebra.
Discovery's "Eaten Alive" was literally eaten alive by the media's reaction to it.
