I think you might be confused; giant squid were known to be a real species as far back as the 1800s based on specimens that washed ashore. But it was only within the last couple decades that they were imaged alive in their natural environment.

> Hey it did turn out the giant squids were totally real though!

So I guess the correlation is: cryptids can't coexist with smartphones. Makes sense. I get a feeling that cryptids aren't the social media type.