Eaten Alive: Failed Stunt As Man Wasn’t Actually Eaten Alive By Anaconda- Viewers Outraged Over Video

Apparently the only thing worse than promising a man will be eaten alive by an anaconda is for a man to not be eaten alive by an anaconda.

So you've probably heard about how some guy—naturalist Paul Rosolie—was planning on having himself be eaten (alive!) by an anaconda on TV. The very special episode of Eaten Alive aired on the Discovery Channel last night, and while Rosolie had to abandon his mission before any part of him was actually devoured, the 15-minute ordeal is sufficiently traumatizing.

Rosolie, recounting his tumble with the snake, told the Telegraph, "When I went up to the snake, it didn't try to eat me right away. It tried to escape. And when I provoked it a little bit, and acted a little more like a predator, that's when it turned around and defended itself."

For about eight minutes , Rosolie struggles with the snake biting and constricting him, before he calls in his team  to rescue him.

What viewers eventually saw during the two-hour special was a large anaconda attack Rosolie, coil around him, then start to eat his helmet. That’s when Rosolie had to call in his team to rescue him, saying his arm was being crushed. “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,” he said.

So he didn't get eaten—he just got attacked. Snakes are not interested in your stupid television show. People on Twitter, as they are wont to do, were not happy about it.

Calling it #EatenAlive is like having a show on the Food Network about cooking a turkey and all they do after 2 hours is preheat the oven.

— Reagan King (@ReaganKingIsles) December 8, 2014

WAIT THE SNAKE DIDN'T EVEN EAT THE GUY? I've been #EatenAlive by exactly as many anacondas as the host of this ridiculous show?

— David Shiffman (@WhySharksMatter) December 8, 2014

This guy had one job. Literally one fucking job to get eaten alive and he fucked it up

— Jess (@itsjesstucker) December 8, 2014

The eaten alive guy didn't get eaten alive... #Disappointed

— Joshua Derick Balli (@GoshJosh_12) December 8, 2014

@PaulRosolie didn't need an anaconda. He's getting #EatenAlive quite well by the Twitter universe.

— Bernie Delinski (@TD_BDelinski) December 8, 2014