In 2010 an anonymous person began a Twitter account for the San Francisco fog , inspired by the fake BP public relations account that appeared after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that year , and named '' ' Karl the Fog ' '' after the misunderstood giant in the 2003 film '' Big Fish '' . The name has since come to be widely used , although some dislike it . There is a companion Instagram account
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