Its an OK concept. Nothing more than a hat that makes you a whale-human hybrid. This would be fine if it were executed better (like adding more weight was applied to describing the process from the subject's perspective to introduce more horror, but that might be hard to do.). The meh idea is partially saved by the note at the end though, since it does get you thinking.
Linguistically, the article is very wordy. Many sentences are wasted and premises repeated, such as:
We know little about them, other than their obsession with whales and the fact we don't know a lot else.
You could've trusted the reader to understand the article with less words, but that may just be a personal take.
3/5