sounds like the premise of a black mirror episode <| sep |> Verdigris . Completely unrelated , but that word means value pig in Norwegian P <| sep |> What was the sites name ? <| sep |> Oh , that ' s totally viable . There was a TED talk by a children ' s book author who wrote a picture book about a boy who got a blue whale as punishment . On the book jacket , there ' s an adcoupon to get you own blue whale . Trial phase , free of charge for a month or so . You send it in , you get a letter back , introducing you to your new pet whale who ' s about to get shipped , soon but a few days later , there ' s a letter from a Norwegian law firm , telling you , he got held up in customs . So he won ' t make it to you , but don ' t worry , he ' s hanging out in a beautiful Norwegian fjord . Oh , and he has voicemail , so you can leave him a message . So kids leave messages to their whale all the time . It ' s super cute . I ' ll be back with the video link in a second . Edit here it is . 671560 Whale story starts at 1150 or so . But the whole talk is totally worth to watch . And highly entertaining .