Eaten Alive backlash - At the end of Discovery Channel's highly anticipated wildlife special 'Eaten Alive' on Sunday, Paul Rosolie did indeed get eaten alive - but not by an anaconda.
The 27 years old conservationist has been 'Eaten Alive' in a barrage of overwhelmingly negative comments from viewers on social media. Most of the criticisms have centered around the fact that Rosolie did not in fact get eaten alive by the anaconda. He asked to be rescued from the jaws of the slithering beast after feeling discomfort in his left arm.
"So the guy who was supposed to get #EatenAlive on that show called #EatenAlive didn't get #EatenAlive in the end? What a waste of time..." Guy Walker wrote on Twitter.
"oh come on! It was more like "Hi, I'm a snake lollipop watch me get sucked on," Serge Stripes wrote.
Another viewer Lucie Luvit writes "when I watch a show called #EatenAlive I expect a person to be ate alive. They tricked me. I want that hour I wasted back. Lol"
"PUBLICITY STUNT 2 get viewers. Everyone who knows about ANACONDA SNAKES knows there's not one BIG ENOUGH 2 eat HUMANS," a viewer identified as Kingbaboon NYC writes.
A large portion of the "disappointing" Eaten Alive documentary was spent looking for a large anaconda Rosolie encountered some years ago, which he believes is the biggest in the world. After a futile search, his team decides to use a much smaller anaconda.
"I felt her jaws lack onto my helmet, he explained. "I felt her gurgling and wheezing but then I felt her let go. She got my arm into a position where her force was fully on my exposed arm. I started to feel the blood drain out of my hand and I felt the bone flex, and when I got to the point where I felt like it was going to snap I had to tap out."
Eaten Alive had been subjected to several criticisms by animal rights advocates after Discovery Channel announced the date that the documentary would be aired last month.
But Rosolie, who says he attempted to get eaten alive by an anaconda in order to raise awareness about the destruction of the Amazon forest, has revealed that the animal was not hurt during the filming of the documentary.
