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Hey everyone, we're going to be talking about something today that I just I've literally taken days to wrap my mind around this. I saw this tweet a little bit ago, it actually originated on tic-tac. We're talking about an organization that has gone after Nintendo and other gaming companies in the past, for seemingly reasons that they really shouldn't be doing it. It's an organization that is frequently hated on and they are definitely the kings of all publicity is good publicity. We're talking about PETA. Now, before I get into this, some people might say, why even talk about PETA? Why even talk about anything that they have to say? And yes, this has to deal with animal crossing. And why give them the attention reality is they already are known worldwide and have a much bigger following than me and any attention I give them doesn't really matter to me. I don't think there's anything wrong with negative attention. If you're just going to make fun of them, and if you look at 90% of a PETA's tweets and other things like almost all the comments are people that just really don't like the organization. Now, this isn't me saying that I support animal cruelty. This isn't me saying that there aren't some positive things that PETA might do. I'm sure, you know, if I dig through the laundry list of actions, there's some positive there. But you could say that about a lot of people. It's a strange company, but they pick their fights in a very weird way. And a few days ago, they picked another fight with animal crossing. Now, when animal crossing horizons came out, they gave an all vegan guide to play in the game or whatever. But they are going to step further now and try to do active protest in the game against blathers. Now, I need to remind you blathers is an owl, owls eat fish. They don't always eat their prey humanely. They are predators. And honestly, being put in a tank is probably a bit more humane than what blathers would typically do to prey, because hello owls are birds of prey. But that's the other side of the point. Let's get into what they posted. So as you see here, this originally was posted on their TikTok account, because TikTok is a big deal, I guess, apparently these days on the social media platform. This is a cultural reset. So just sit back and watch this for about 30 seconds. So they got fish belonging in the ocean, empty the tanks, a bunch of custom made PETA shirts, or they are just yelling nonstop. And so on someone's island, they made it sound like after the fact this wasn't one of their islands, we have no idea whose island it was. You can see a couple fish in the background, fish are friends, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, rather silly. Blathers encourages villagers to take fish out of their natural habitats so he can trap them in tiny tank. That's that's what they claim. Toblathers to empty the tanks. This is the master of trying to get publicity for any reason possible. Animal Crossing is a video game. Alright, Animal Crossing is a game where a lot of animals have humanoid features. It is a game where everything is based around animals. That's the name. And there's no actual real animal cruelty happening in the game. It's all virtualized fake stuff. But PETA will take anything they can to gain publicity from it in hopes that they can find a couple people that agree with them. And in finding those couple people agree with them, it kind of grows their following. I think we have a million followers on Twitter or whatever. The point I'm trying to make here is that it's an absolutely stupid thing to complain about. I made it sound that way before we even got into it. Because Blathers himself is a prey owl. They prey on things and kill them. Lions, the way they take out gazelles. Most prey animals are not exactly humane about how they go about things. And us humans, as you know, a form of mammal that can eat meat and whatever. Like we can eat a whole wide variety of stuff. We're actually probably more humane about how we deal with a lot of our meat processing than a lot of actual prey out there. But that's neither here nor there. I'm not here to tell you to eat meat or not be vegan or whatever. Your choice is your own. I definitely am against animal cruelty and many facets. But I just feel like an organization like PETA doesn't target things. I feel like the way they should. They should be going harder after dog fighting rings or cock fighting rings. They shouldn't be focused so much on a video game just to get attention. And the attention they're going to get is 99% negative. And they know it because they will later turn around. They did this, right? A cultural receivable. This was posted on May 19, 2020. But when you go to their, their account, you'll see the very next day they pin something. Now that we have your attention, clearly, they made the tweet just to get people's attention. Please see what happens to animals in real life. And yeah, they're going to show you some crude treatment of cows and stuff here. And it's true that like there are some pretty inhumane treatment of animals at some facilities. And this is the stuff that they should be focused on, I guess. But why use animal crossing to get their point of I mean, look at that. Look at that. They have they have 500 likes on this 1.4 K comments, by the way, most of it just negative and attacking them and trying to show how hypocritical that PETA is 396 retweets. And you go back to the original post 11.2 K likes 2.2.3 K retweets. Most of the people that saw this animal crossing post are not looking at that new post they use. So they used animal crossing to try to get attention so they could draw attention to say you know cruelty to cows. And it didn't work. They pinned it even and it didn't work. People who are yelling at PETA about animal crossing and they're stupid attacking a blathers, which by the way is an animal. So I mean, solve animal cruelty by being cruel to an animal by attacking this fictional character in a fictional game with fictional fish. It didn't work. It didn't get them to the desired result. They got all this attention over animal crossing, but they didn't get any more attention on that PETA post and they did on any of their other PETA posts. I mean, just looking back at this, you know, they're getting hundreds of likes and retweets and comments like they're not getting any more than they normally get. So it didn't work. Stuff like this frustrates me. I mean, you want to know how bad PETA can get and I know this seems like a really anti PETA video, but God, they have made fun of this video game industry and Nintendo and animal crossing for decades. Like it's just it's gotten ridiculous. When you scroll down, look at this, PETA put up this a while back. Steve Irwin, right? Animal Activist, all that stuff. Of course, they're not going to like him because he has a zoo, his family owns a zoo. So, you know, they hate zoos was killed while harassing array, harassing array. I mean, he was snorkeling or whatever. I believe it was snorkeling. Maybe he was maybe the scuba diving. I'm not exactly sure. And he thought it was a completely different animal. He made a mistake, right? Sucks. He dangled his baby while feeding. Like nothing he has done has been dangerous to the animals or dangerous to his family. But he's dead. And it's easy for them to go after him. When Steve Irwin and the Irwin family are some of the biggest animal activist rights out there, like they do problem and maybe more positive for for animals than actual PETA does. Like PETA just doesn't care. They just do not care. They are at the extreme of the extreme end of animal cruelty. And again, it just it frustrates me. There are real things happening out there that need to be addressed, but animal crossing and video games don't need to be drug into it. This isn't a video game that's about slaughtering animals. Like you're not taking the fish and skinning them and eating them. You're not, you know, beating them against walls. Yeah, you put them in fish tanks. Okay, cool. Good luck getting most of the world to agree with you that putting fish in idealistic water conditions with consistent food is suddenly bad. There are cases where it is there are some fish that aren't like do well in captivity. There's a reason that you don't see great white sharks, you know, in in captivity, because it's been proven through various attempts at it that we just can't create an environment in captivity that that's possible with that they're happy in. But like most fish in aquariums, you know, in the world that are properly maintained and taken care of, especially ones that are like museum quality, those fish live a pretty damn good life. Good luck getting most of the world to agree with you that they don't. Anyways, I'm sure all those fish want to be tossed back in the ocean where they're just going to be eaten by another predator. Alright, folks, anyways, I am defender of the dance from the center prime. I obviously think that this is pretty ridiculous, but you guys let me know what you think about it all. I enjoy getting a good laugh. It took me days to wrap my mind around it. Like, if I would have made this video when the tweet went out, I would have sounded like even more of a blathering idiot pun intended. So I don't know. Sometimes I wish these activist groups did better at what they claim they're around to do. Anyways, that's all I got to say. Subscribe for more content. Catch you guys in the next video.