Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)

Summary

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We spent 5 seconds downloading 1,239 toots at 2026-02-03 23:56:16 EST from a total of 38 servers. We ended up with a set of 172 unique toots posted between Sun 4 Feb 2024 19:00 EST and Mon 5 Feb 2024 00:03 EST by 10 distinct fediverse accounts.

We tried to connect to 38 different servers, of which 38 (100.0%) succeeded and 0 (0.0%) failed.

The server mastodon.social contributed the most toots with 172 .

‘Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈’ (Lazarou@mastodon.social) tooted the most with 60 toots.

The top 3 boosted toots:

  1. This toot from Kyle Carpenter (kcarp@mastodon.social) had 7 boosts.

Attack of the Crab Monsters
Budget $70,000 or $85,000
Box office $1 million (est.)

There must have been nothing to do in 1957

  1. This toot from Chris Ostertag (videograndpa@mastodon.social) had 5 boosts.

I can grow a new claw...BUT CAN YOU GROW NEW LIVES?!

Absolute zinger from the crab, 10/10 no notes.

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 3 boosts.

"That proves it, the crab is negatively charged. You must create a charge of positive energy to destroy it!"

hashtag blessed, hashtag crabMurder, hashtag live laugh pinch

The top 3 favourited toots:

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 12 favourites.

I have to admit that I kind of like the monsters in this one shit-talking the protagonists.

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 11 favourites.

Wait what

WHAT

I know these movies always end abruptly but I think I have whiplash from that one!

  1. This toot from Floaty Birb (floatybirb@mastodon.social) had 10 favourites.

So I was not expecting a surprise human victory here, let alone one that involved dropping a radio tower on the big baddie. Anyway, this movie was odd. I give it 2 out of 5 crustaceans.

Characters in decreasing order of likability:
Aquarium Fish
Normal Crab
Awkward Giant Crab
Busty Flirtatious Lady
Accent Botanist
Ambiguously Gay Sailors
All Other Characters

The top 3 most-replied-to toots:

(Note: this really should exclude people who reply to themselves, it doesn’t do that well, yet)

  1. This toot from Ben Zanin (gnomon@mastodon.social) had 4 replies.

I'm no SCUBA expert, but is it odd that these two divers have only a single take apiece? I thought it was usual to have an oxygen/nitrogen mix or something with the pressure regulated at inhalation time?

  1. This toot from Floaty Birb (floatybirb@mastodon.social) had 3 replies.


Okay, let me see if I am following this plot. We detonated a nuclear bomb on an island, and it turned the crabs into giant crabs that eat people? Or maybe it woke up a giant elder god crab that eats people?

Also, when the crabs eat someone, they gain the ability to mimic their voices psychically by manipulating metal, which they use to lure people to their deaths?

  1. This toot from L (bucioluis_@mastodon.social) had 3 replies.

I see is trending. What does that mean? Is the monster a new mascot for @Mastodon 👹 👀

Activity Graph

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A histogram showing posts per minute on Sunday, 4 Feb 2024. Each bar represents one minute. The event was 63.0 minutes long. There were 156 posts during the event with an average of 2.48 posts per minute.

The busiest moment was at 16:00 from the start with 6 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 39:00 from the start with 0 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

Wordcloud

Word cloud. See main page for actual description.

The word cloud for Sunday, 4 Feb 2024. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 1187 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: crab: 35, attackofthecrabmonsters: 24, giant: 21, crabs: 12, island: 11, will: 10, eat: 8, monsters: 7, monster: 7, first: 7, These words were excluded from the word cloud: movie, movies, film, films, watch, now, one, guy, got, going, good, well, see, know, monsterdondoublefeature, and the hashtag monsterdon.

Analysis of #monsterdon generated at Wed 4 Feb 2026 10:29 EST