 Blonde Australian TikToker is getting backlash for accusing Thailand of animal cruelty when she met a cute monkey out there. Now David, did she deserve the backlash that she received? Yeah, we're talking about a video from Rory Eliza. Let's run the clip. Monkeys, all I wanted to do was hold a monkey and we asked like a travel guide, we're like, where can we hold a monkey? I will put videos in. I'm just a trigger warning, okay guys? It's a trigger warning. If you're in Thailand, pukeh, don't pay for this. Don't support this. And so cruel. This baby monkey in my arms, petrified. Eww. Wait a minute. Don't mind. Don't mind. Every time the guy came to take the baby monkey off of me, the baby just sat there screaming and hissing and every time he pulled the chain around this baby's neck, your baby would just hug me tight. Solar tears, absolute tears. And I actually needed to lay all the photos, all the footage off of my phone because it just breaks my heart. Long story short man, the internet of course had a bunch of different responses. A lot of people agree with Rory Eliza saying this is animal cruelty. This needs to stop. Other people are like, golly, quit, clout chasing. You don't even really care. You're just trying to get the views and the engagement to make more brand deals. And other people say, what's going on, man? Why don't you cry about poverty in your own country? There's poverty everywhere. You're only crying for this monkey because it hugged you. Yeah. And to be to her credit, she did post an apology video kind of trying to explain herself. But either way, guys, we're going to get into the comments section and talk about our own personal takeaways on this issue. Because guess what? The internet reacted. And you know why the internet reacted, David? Why? This isn't just any old girl crying. This is Rory Eliza, beautiful blonde tiktoker from Australia. So you're saying the same way that she gets like six million views on how Macca's parody, you know, making fun of Australia McDonald's Maccas, they get six million views on the crying video too. Yeah, I will say the last couple of videos that were crying about poverty in Asia were from Australian. So I think even Australian girls travel to Asia a lot, which it is Australia is closer to Asia than America is. But also, I don't know. Maybe they just don't see as much poverty in Australia. Anyways, guys, let's get into it. Please hit that like button. Check out other episodes of the hot pot boys. Yo, did influencers just turn the internet in the high school where there's like the popular kids and like everything they do is like 100x magnified? Yeah, David, if you didn't know, that's how the internet works and that's how the attention economy works. Um, the first comment was, oh my gosh, the monkey wanted to go with you. If they tried to rip that monkey away from me, they would have had to call the police because I'm not letting that baby monkey back. And somebody was like, uh, yeah, you're going to war with the Thai animal smugglers? Did the monkey really want to go with you? Do you know the intentions of that monkey? Yes, the monkey is small. It hugs onto things. I don't know if it wanted to go with you. The monkey, by all means and genetically, I think if you talk to a monkey scientist, probably was like, yeah, I thought you were a tree. Well, it was like a warm bosom. There's like a, there's like some soft, round things I was hugging onto, so you know. Yeah, obviously it is sad. I mean, the monkey probably has been ripped away from its mother or its mother is like chained up on a chain. You know, it's messed up for sure. But I think more people are like, well, what are you going to do about it? Because I think it's more of the thing, it's sort of like the Fiona Wang thing where she's like crying. She's like, I'm going to come back and help these people. Yeah, I overall, I don't think that anybody is doubting that this monkey lives a great life. I mean, the monkey is chained up. I don't know if the elephants, right? We don't know what the animals are going for. It's a bad situation for a lot of animals in second, third world countries. Whether you're talking about donkeys in Santorini or wherever. But that is a function of a country that needs resources and needs money and they get it by tourism. Yeah, somebody said, where do you draw the line if you eat meat and enjoy the zoo? When is something truly infuriating animal cruelty versus regular accepted animal cruelty? That's true. It is true. If she's not vegan, she can't even really talk right here. I'm just saying because you know what, David, when I was visiting Australia, there was an ad on the radio saying, yeah, make sure to eat some rule burgers because there are too many kangaroos in Australia destroying the Aussie ecosystem. So they wanted you to eat more kangaroo meat because there's too many kangaroos in Australia. There was an overpopulation and one of the ways is they're like, yeah, we make burgers out of them. I had a rule burger. They're actually trying to do that, Andrew, with the guanameat in Florida. I don't think that it took off, though, to be honest. Somebody said, man, I am not surprised that another white woman has a savior complex. It's so crazy. White women go everywhere in the world with a savior complex. Cry for people like they're like their mother Teresa. Well, their husbands are the ones that ruin the world and made the global South poor. It reminds me of that Bill Burst SNL monologue. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. I don't want to only put it on white women. I think a lot of women can have this thinking from like, you know, well, well off backgrounds and they haven't seen a lot of poverty. Listen, there's tons of poverty in America that will make you sad. But I think that obviously when a cute little monkey is like holding on to you and then you feel it getting pulled away by a chain, it visually hits you different. But maybe that also could have been the plan that that could have been the plan at the exploitation monkey farm, right? Like they knew that the monkey's going to do that. Yeah. And then you want to pay more to spend more time with the monkey. It's true. Yeah. Somebody said, do you know how many injustices are happening as so many people around the world, let alone, you know, not just animals, humans? Have you seen child labor and cobalt minds used for your phone? But you don't care, huh? Because you don't relate to those people because you don't share a moment with those people. Yeah. Well, I just saw the monkey and it looked at me in the face and I swear to God, that monkey told me, you're my mom. You're my mom. Somebody said it's only done because tourists demanded. So are you going to be mad at the entire tourism industry or there's other people demanded? Because clearly Andrew or Rory Eliza, she demanded it initially until she had second thoughts about it later post interaction. Yeah. How about this? Stop being so excited about going to poor countries because the food is going to be really cheap. The stay is going to be really cheap and the service is going to be really good because you'll also see stuff like this that comes as part of the package. For sure. It's unfortunate though, but it is what it is. Guys, somebody said, this is not okay. Seriously, this absolutely needs to end right now. And somebody said, Peter, where are you? And then they tagged Peter a bunch. Somebody said, if we all scream about it enough, we can stop this. And somebody said, do you guys have any idea the way the world works? What are you guys talking about? This is a very poor country needs resources. And unfortunately, they are trying to get resources in a way that you view as unethical, but that's just what it is. Yeah. I mean, I don't even think Thailand is the poorest country. Obviously, I think they do have a lot of exports and a lot of tourist money. But when you rely on tourism, you cater to tourism and what do tourists like? They want to take pictures with elephants, monkeys and the wildlife. And that's not even near the worst thing that they want out of Thailand. Yeah. But if you want to take a picture with a wild animal, you want to sit there with a cute wild animal that's not going to bite you. How do you think they're going to ensure that they're going to either train the animals or chain up the animals or drug up the animals or do both? Yeah. Somebody said, how come we as humans don't care how animals feel, man? Somebody said, but yeah, why would we care about how animals feel? We don't even care about other humans. But someone said, but animals are pure creatures, whereas humans are evil. And then someone said, but animals kill and eat other animals all the time. In fact, other animals would kill us and eat us if they could. For sure. You know what I don't like about this? Obviously, it's like people trying to say like, oh, just because they have a pet dog that loves them, that like all animals are actually bad. Dude, animals are animals. They still operate off of what they have to do in their life. And if they're carnivores, they are just going to kill and eat another animal. Even if it's cute, it doesn't matter. I mean, you see bigger dogs, chase down smaller domesticated dogs all the time and kill them. Right. Or like wolves, which obviously dogs were domesticated. Yeah. But not even wolves. Sometimes you just see like, to be honest, like a pit bull, a smaller dog. That's a whole nother issue. I'm just saying those are videos that I've seen. Somebody said, I've been over, I've been to Thailand over 30 times and I've never exploited the animals. Come on, Rory Eliza. And someone said, we all know why you've been to Thailand. And someone said, you know, there's other reasons why people go to Thailand other than sex. Okay. And someone said, yeah, dude, I was just talking about the food. Yeah. Uh, David, overall, what are your major takeaways from all this? This is another influencer that happens to be from Australia that went viral for crying about the poverty in Asia or a result of the poverty that she's on Asia. Right, right. The prior one that went viral was Fiona Wang, right? And now it's Rory Eliza. So it's not just white women who are crying about it. It's, it's, it's cool. I would say that they probably are not bad people at all. In fact, they might even be good people. However, they could be naive and sheltered and unaware that perhaps they're like lack of perspective about just the global perspective or just the way socioeconomic perspectives might come across as cringe to a lot of people on the internet, right? Yeah. And it also becomes, it is a little hypocritical because you want to go to a country and enjoy it for all the cheap things, but what makes those things cheap and what, what else comes from. Well, wouldn't you say a bad economy? Yeah. I'm saying it's all the whole system. I mean, whether it's a bad economy or a corrupt government or whatever, it's sometimes, listen, life as a tourist is not real life. Right. That's why I don't like. What do you think about just like third world poverty in general, man? I mean, obviously it's like, you know, even sometimes people from a poor country, if they're raised amongst the aristocratic elite class in there, sometimes they can even be like shocked, right? That's the story of even Buddha at that time. You know, people lived more isolated lives. Obviously nowadays there's more like travel and stuff. People theoretically should be exposed to more, right? Yeah. I mean, by the way, Thailand is not even by far the poorest country overall. But yes, there are some very poor things that you will see. Yeah. Right. Oh, or perhaps some of the ways that they've, uh, whatever reason, those industries have packed up to extract the foreign capital inflows are very unjust to a lot of people. Exactly. And here's the thing. Listen, I know I don't think she's wrong for feeling a type of way about the monkey. Like everybody has emotions. Like anytime that you see poverty overseas when you travel, you can feel that in your heart and be like, oh, that I don't like. I don't love to see that. I don't like to. That's totally normal. A hundred percent normal. And maybe you should feel that way, but to just like be crying in your hotel room and like trying to make it a whole thing. It just seems like it's for the cloud. And I'm like, listen, if you actually wanted to change things, you wouldn't go scream and cry on tiktok about it. All right. You would go to the embassy or you would go start a protest outside of the princess or the king's court, like, uh, or maybe be an influencer and try to gain a concert with the king or the prince or whatever. Do you even know who the powerful people are of this country that you can go contact like how a cheera long con, which is the leader of, I said the name wrong, but that was the leader of Thailand right now. Like, why don't you go protest to him? Right. Right. Or you could get into global entrepreneurship. You could try to develop robots or some sort of like new technological health care things that try to equalize the conditions that create poverty. Yeah. Why don't you raise tens of thousands of dollars and then go buy those monkeys away from them and then give the monkeys a better life, right? Adopt the monkeys or something like that. Right. Um, I don't know, man. I guess for me, it's good that she raised awareness. I think the weird thing about social media nowadays is like people don't really get a, they go through their arc very publicly. You know how when you learn a little bit about something, you think you know everything. And then the more you learn, generally you're like growth curve actually like kind of goes down because you go, oh man, there's so many layers to this onion. You know what I mean? But then now you get to see people go through their arcs live, but here's the thing. Man, I don't think these influencers ultimately regret it. Oh, they still get the attention and they got to kind of live their life like the Truman show because everybody's like, they're not watching you live life. Everybody else is discussing them and having these hyper viral Yahoo news articles. No, it's like one video that gets like eight million views as her be like, oh my gosh, I'm so sad. And then two videos later, it's like, yeah. So thanks for teaching me and I'm educated now and I really appreciate it. And I'm just thinking about it more. Right. And I'm just like, oh, the next post is about 50 and then like, you know, your own bikini brand. You know, I'm, she's not a bad person. I mean, listen, I get it. People feel things. I'm just saying like, you don't have to post every time you cry. You don't have to post it on the internet. You do not. Let us know what you think in the comment section below guys, was the internet too harsh on Rory Eliza or was it just like, I don't know, the high schoolization of everybody in Thailand, go to Vietnam, enjoy it, tip people, pay money for things. That's what you're supposed to do as tourist. Yeah, I don't know, man, but there's poverty everywhere to be honest. I mean, I go 100 yards that way. See it next time, man. Let us know what you think in the comment section below. We out. We to hop up boys. Peace.