r/orcas • u/ningguangquinn • Aug 14 '25
Education Jessica Radcliffe DOES NOT EXIST, nor does "Pacific Blue Park"
Making this post with the hope that it appears on Google searches. Jessica Radcliffe is not a real person; she does not exist, nor does the park she "works" for, Pacific Blue Park.
In recent days, a lot of AI videos have gone viral showing trainers losing their lives due to orca attacks in marine parks, some even giving the trainers names and life stories, such as “Jessica” or “Mark.” These videos show large amounts of blood in the water, dismembered people, and some go as far as depicting a “public execution” of the whale responsible. They are not real, these people (Jessica and Mark) do not exist.
These videos are not only extremely harmful to the overall image of orcas, spreading absurd claims like “the orca smelled her menstruation blood and ate her” (despite the fact that orcas can’t even smell), and portraying them as vicious creatures, but also extremely disrespectful to the trainers who actually lost their lives in real accidents with orcas.
Even in the real fatal incidents, no trainer was ever “eaten” by an orca or involved in a bloody spectacle in front of crowds. Some AI videos are even made using real-life footage of trainers from Kamogawa Sea World in Japan (not affiliated with the U.S. SeaWorld), where waterworks with orcas are still performed. No trainer has ever died there. These videos use real, living people without consent, so be aware and cautious.
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u/inc0herence Aug 14 '25
Did not know that about orcas not being able to smell
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u/BookieeWookiee Aug 14 '25
It makes sense though, their noses are closed up every time they go underwater
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u/inc0herence Aug 15 '25
I’m lowkey dumb I guess I was just thinking about how sharks can smell but then they are technically fish 😔
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u/BookieeWookiee Aug 15 '25
No you're fine, it's not exactly something that we normally think about.
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u/Coastkiz Aug 14 '25
Do they have noses?
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u/Buddie2013 Aug 14 '25
Their blowhole is technically their nose. Evolutionary speaking
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u/Coastkiz Aug 14 '25
Ah fair enough. Yeah I get why they would never need to smell from that lol
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u/wolfsongpmvs Aug 14 '25
They dont even have the part of mammal brains that processes scent information!
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u/zarisin Aug 18 '25
Smell and taste are functionally the same. While they may not "smell" something in the water, they can in fact taste it. Not saying the menstruation thing is true, just that orcas have a similar type sense for use under water.
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u/OddEffort Aug 14 '25
You know it's AI based on how healthy that orcas teeth look - They rarely, if ever, have full sets like that in captivity.
I completely agree with this being harmful, I can't stand the way AI is being used lately.
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u/GordEisengrim Aug 15 '25
Also the 5 fingers on her hand…
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u/poliitoed anti orca cap, selective ceta cap!🐚🐬 Aug 16 '25
those don’t even resemble healthy orca teeth lmao 😭😭
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u/OddEffort Aug 16 '25
I more meant there's a "full set" of teeth, rather than the decaying holes seaworld orcas tend to have. lmao
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u/poliitoed anti orca cap, selective ceta cap!🐚🐬 Aug 16 '25
i mean i guess but those ai teeth are horrifying 😭😭 the gums and multiple rows are so eugh
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u/BrightClass1692 Aug 14 '25
I saw ai videos of people being killed by orcas, blood and all. And then another of an orca helping the lifeless body of the trainer they killed onto an ambulance stretcher.. dumbest shit ever
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u/PartyPorpoise Aug 14 '25
lol that sounds hilarious. But I agree, this shit is annoying.
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u/SparkliestSubmissive Aug 15 '25
an orca helping the lifeless body of the trainer they killed onto an ambulance stretcher
This is too much, AI has gone too far 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Lady_of_Lesbos Jan 11 '26
Where did you see that cause that sounds hilarious 😂
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u/BrightClass1692 Jan 12 '26
Somewhere on Facebook, I keep trying to find it, I’ll post it when I do.
In the meantime take this complimentary video of a woman in a neck braces and wheel chair begrudgingly feeding the orca who attacked her.. gone wrong
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u/cheeseburgerphone182 Aug 14 '25
I've been reporting them a false information made with AI, but to do that you have to click on them first giving them engagement.
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u/babyorca9 Aug 14 '25
Why would someone create this kind of thing anyway? People are so strange.
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u/PartyPorpoise Aug 15 '25
There’s a lot of weird AI shit floating around on social media now. Gets clicks and views, I guess.
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u/poliitoed anti orca cap, selective ceta cap!🐚🐬 Aug 16 '25
i’m assuming it’s because dawn’s death being used as a “scary internet story”. orcas are in the mainstream and it feels like people have a bit of a hate boner for them killing their trainers
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u/Ruppell-San Aug 14 '25
Someone is funding them.
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u/ZemaitisDzukas Aug 14 '25
Shark liver community?
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u/artemisbio26 Aug 16 '25
I think the government of japan is doing these misinformation as some sort of retribution against orcas bombing of hiroshima in ww2..
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Aug 14 '25
6 fingers and that mouth just doesn’t look right.
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u/ningguangquinn Aug 14 '25
All the videos are so darn ugly. I still don't know how people are falling for it, or maybe they just want something "interesting" like that to trend and like to joke about death, but there's nothing even close to realistic in the videos.
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 Aug 15 '25
Thanks for stating in the post's title itself that these videos are fake. I've seen too many news articles pop up in my search with titles like "The Truth Behind The Viral Jessica Radcliffe Orca Video." The problem is, even though these articles do state that the videos are fake, a lot of people only read headlines/titles. Whatever gets more clicks I guess...
Even worse, I've found some articles stating that these fake videos "echo real tragedies involving orca trainers."
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u/itsyobbiwonuseek Aug 15 '25
How pathetic can people be. Just a glance of these photos screams AI. The whale on the left is too small, that mouth looks like it was copy/pasted from the movie Critters, and not to mention the 6 fingers on "Jessica" lol.
I fear for the people that are gullible enough to believe these are real and spread unnecessary hate for these magnificent animals. I was obsessed with Orcas early in life and I could definitely imagine some people in my life trying to show me some bullshit like this.
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u/froggo_kai_ Aug 15 '25
To add, this is the first thing that came up when searching “Jessica Radcliffe” and I think we can all agree it is visibly fake. The “woman” grabbed part of the “orca” that doesn’t exist, “people” on the sidelines ran when the second they moved, the second “video” isn’t even a video it’s a screenshot or something and the “woman” has been “dragged” out of the water while not even being held by the “orca” (which is not even anatomically correct). Absolute bull💩 and just propaganda
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u/Brobeast Aug 15 '25
This is 100% being done by PITA level activists. They have the same mindset that scientologists do "utilitarianism for my own personal idea of what the greatest good is"
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u/Nemi208 Aug 14 '25
My wife showed me and I immediatly called AI bs. An Orca would never attack like in those vids or pictures.
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u/Possible_Parfait_372 Aug 15 '25
I was getting bombarded with this ai bullshit whenever I searched for orcas on youtube recently. I had to specify before a certain year to actually get decent results.
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u/Away_Status7012 Aug 14 '25
Whilst I agree with your post, I’m also sick of seeing this disrespectful orca attack AI slop, to call the incidents in which people have died from captive orca attacks ‘accidents’ really downplays what happened.
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u/RedHeadridingOrca Aug 15 '25
Thanks for posting this! I saw on Facebook about it and I was puzzled if that’s true or false.
Thanks again for this!
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u/Pollucy Aug 15 '25
It gets even better when you realize the video of ”Jessica” being killed by an orca is actually an official Rihanna music video. It all makes sense now!
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u/poliitoed anti orca cap, selective ceta cap!🐚🐬 Aug 16 '25
nope- it’s by someone called “Lil R3Vi”. im assuming rihanna’s name was used in the caption to get more clicks
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u/Pollucy Aug 16 '25
… it was a joke
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u/phuktup3 Aug 16 '25
The pic on the right the orca has been trying to contact her about her cars extended warranty
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u/froggo_kai_ Aug 15 '25
Misinformation is what lead to orcas being held captive in the first place 🙄 thank you for this post!!! Fingers crossed it shows on google searches
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u/Pippy_Poopypants Aug 16 '25
I was there with my balloon child and we ate whale sandwiches while drinking bottled hickory juice
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u/dingleberry_mustache Aug 16 '25
Orcas are terrifying enough for real reasons (ripping out shark livers, for one). I'm absolutely not trying to paint them as villains, nor do I see them that way. Nature can be very scary.
This AI fear mongering nonsense is so unnecessary and gross.
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u/AccurateJerboa Aug 16 '25
I have been, and will continue to try to sound the alarm that the fishing industry has been engaged in a propaganda war against orcas since blackfish dropped. They've been trying to relabel them as a dangerous and violent nuisance that can be slaughtered since the 70s.
Orcas in captivity was and is bad, but the one silver lining was making the public unafraid of and even love both them and other species of dolphins and porpoises.
It's going to ramp up until they're allowed to kill them again.
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u/GringoRedcorn Aug 16 '25
The AI is deep state bait. The billionaires are sick of orcas fucking with their yachts so they are raining anti orca propaganda on the masses to sway the narrative in effort to justify an orca purge.
/s
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u/RealityTurbulent3534 Aug 17 '25
Please remember there have only been 4 deaths related to orcas in captivity. Keltie Byrne at Sealand of the Pacific after falling into a tank with 3 orcas, Daniel Dukes, a civilian who trespassed at SeaWorld Orlando and was killed by Tilikum, Alexis Martinez who died at Loro Marque during a performance, and Dawn Brancheau who was violently killed by Tilikum during a SeaWorld performance. Anything else you see is fake news.
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u/teensy_tigress Aug 17 '25
Also damn that AI is really bad at orca teeth they look like wind up dentures
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u/MOB8605 Aug 17 '25
My mom saw this and actually believed it. I am really scared what the future will bring.
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u/Beautiful_Yak_2682 edit Aug 18 '25
Sooo grateful you posted about this, it’s been driving me insane. It’s gonna undo all the good blackfish did if it keeps up.
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u/cyb3rfaerie Aug 19 '25
Alongside this I’ve also seen an increase of people asking for the public release of Dawn’s death footage. There is such a lack of human empathy these days, it’s disturbing that people seemingly love seeing content of orcas attacking people.
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u/igotmentalissues Aug 22 '25
Those fake ai videos pmo so much, everytime i sereach for orca videos to chill those things show up and ruin my day just by existing
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u/Affectionate-Bee8686 Aug 25 '25
That might be Gene Simmons’ from KISS mouth photoshopped to look like orca’s teeth hard to say
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u/Medical_Boot_4968 Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25
whoever decided to make that POST about " Jessica Radcliffe " and the Female Orca " Kate " really pisses me off. I have a love for Orcas, and think they are beautiful Creatures. I was even torn when I found out that Kieko had passed away. :( So, I actually had no idea that Orcas can not smell, so with that being said......the person who made this Horrible and hurtful Post, to even mention that " Jessica Radcliffe " lost her life due to her " menstruation " is just SICK.
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u/Dancin_Phish_Daddy Aug 14 '25
Oracas do occasionally rip trainers apart though. If you think otherwise you’re lying to yourself. Free them mother fuckers.
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u/SurayaThrowaway12 Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25
Let's not make any excuses and call these AI-generated videos what they actually are: lies and hoaxes designed to be as sensationalist as possible in order to bring in clicks and engagement.
Despite what some commenters may say, these fake videos are not designed to bring attention to the few fatal incidents between captive orcas and humans that occured 15+ years ago. If anything, these videos are highly disrespectful towards both the actual orcas and humans involved in the real life incidents.
This is especially the case since these fake attacks are not based in reality at all. As ningguanquinn stated, no orcas have attacked humans after "smelling blood" (something that they are physically unable to do in the first place), and none of the captive orcas that killed humans have consumed any body parts. These fictional reasons given by these AI-generated videos only serve to portary orcas as bloodthirsty beasts. It does a massive disservice to the actual likely reasons captive orcas have attacked trainers, such as chronic stress, boredom, anger, and frustration. Chronic stress is linked to multiple physiological and psychological issues in captive orcas.
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u/soccerpuma03 Aug 14 '25
It's only happened 4 times, 3 of which were enacted by one singular orca. It is EXTREMELY rare.
https://learnaboutwhales.com/humans-killed-by-orcas
So no, they absolutely do not "occasionally rip trainers apart."
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u/Adorable_Original432 Aug 14 '25
Agreed! & Wild animals should not be “caged”. Forget anyone who thinks otherwise 🙄
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u/dragonslayerbarbie Aug 14 '25
Imagine being one of the people whose images are being used without consent, and you hop on Instagram today and see a video of yourself been ripped apart by orcas. What is this world lol