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I see on FB a different kind of fake animal rescue videos, with only a single animal - something like saving a cat stuck in wet concrete, or a dog who "fell" do

I see on FB a different kind of fake animal rescue videos, with only a single animal - something like saving a cat stuck in wet concrete, or a dog who "fell" down a drain, videos with tens of millions of views. It's pretty obvious if you watch them that the person filming them put the animals in that situation in the first place.

tommica 5y ago
Oh crap, I've not thought of that before... That is so obvious on hindsight, of course some people would do that >:(
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- Wistar 5y ago
  My wife and I just came to this same realization. There's just too many of these polished rescue videos to be real.
rewq4321 5y ago
There is a very deep rabbit hole of this content, and the ones that are staged "well" can have millions of views, but if you click into the channel and go through their other content, you quickly see that they're pumping out these videos every few days - always with the same camera/resolution, the same voices/languages and rough geographic locations. Very clearly monetized animal torture. There are dozens of channels specifically based around torturing baby monkeys - either pretending to save it from a dog (after filming it being bitten and shaken in the dogs mouth for several minutes), or putting it through other forms of abuse under the guise of "looking after" it. There are people/groups trying to fight against this[0], but YouTube has ignored them for years. But it even gets worse than that - a second "revenue stream" for these people involves private facebook groups full of people who enjoy watching baby monkeys getting tortured and killed, and will pay people to have them record videos of it.[1][2][3] [0] Recent petition that I just found via Google, but there are many groups trying to bring attention to this: https://www.change.org/p/youtube-make-youtube-stop-all-animalcruelty-babymonkeytorture-content-and-endthetrend https://www.change.org/p/youtube-make-youtube-stop-all-anima... [1] https://www.ccn.com/youtube-has-a-vile-monkey-torture-community-that-needs-nuking/ https://www.ccn.com/youtube-has-a-vile-monkey-torture-commun... [2] NSFL: https://twitter.com/protect_wldlife/status/1424301979044614144?lang=en https://twitter.com/protect_wldlife/status/14243019790446141... [3] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14032495/youtube-baby-monkeys-torture-animal-cruelty/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14032495/youtube-baby-monkeys-...

tommica 5y ago

Oh crap, I've not thought of that before... That is so obvious on hindsight, of course some people would do that >:(

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Wistar 5y ago
My wife and I just came to this same realization. There's just too many of these polished rescue videos to be real.

rewq4321 5y ago

There is a very deep rabbit hole of this content, and the ones that are staged "well" can have millions of views, but if you click into the channel and go through their other content, you quickly see that they're pumping out these videos every few days - always with the same camera/resolution, the same voices/languages and rough geographic locations. Very clearly monetized animal torture. There are dozens of channels specifically based around torturing baby monkeys - either pretending to save it from a dog (after filming it being bitten and shaken in the dogs mouth for several minutes), or putting it through other forms of abuse under the guise of "looking after" it. There are people/groups trying to fight against this[0], but YouTube has ignored them for years. But it even gets worse than that - a second "revenue stream" for these people involves private facebook groups full of people who enjoy watching baby monkeys getting tortured and killed, and will pay people to have them record videos of it.[1][2][3] [0] Recent petition that I just found via Google, but there are many groups trying to bring attention to this: https://www.change.org/p/youtube-make-youtube-stop-all-animalcruelty-babymonkeytorture-content-and-endthetrend https://www.change.org/p/youtube-make-youtube-stop-all-anima... [1] https://www.ccn.com/youtube-has-a-vile-monkey-torture-community-that-needs-nuking/ https://www.ccn.com/youtube-has-a-vile-monkey-torture-commun... [2] NSFL: https://twitter.com/protect_wldlife/status/1424301979044614144?lang=en https://twitter.com/protect_wldlife/status/14243019790446141... [3] https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14032495/youtube-baby-monkeys-torture-animal-cruelty/ https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14032495/youtube-baby-monkeys-...