The recent "otter craze", primarily perpetrated on Instagram, is causing a demand for otter "pets" (mostly in Asia). From https://www.worldanimalprotection.ca/news/why-you-shouldnt-share-cute-pet-otter-video , "The growing demand on the market for pet otters has seen an increase in low-welfare backyard breeding facilities, and poaching from the wild, particularly in Thailand. Because otter parents are so fiercely protective, poachers in Thailand use dogs to sniff their dens and then kill the parents in order to steal the cubs to be sold on the illegal online market. As the popularity of 'cute' otter video rises, populations in the wild decline."
STOP SHARING MEDIA PORTRAYING OTTERS AS PETS. Otters are cute AF, but every time you "like" "share" or "comment" on these videos, you are directly contributing to this craze, and are causing these beautiful creatures to be hunted and killed. There's tons of media you can enjoy of them in zoos, or in the wild. But we should NOT be endorsing their captivity in homes. They are NOT domesticated, and they are being killed because of this.
Honestly, we should have it against the rules to share videos endorsing otters as pets. See also:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/otters-instagram-facebook-cafe-pets-japan-indonesia-thailand-poaching-extinction-a8934021.html
How about HBO Max putting the Otter Media tab? and put there dramas, Latin novels, anime etc ...
For details on illegal otter trade and cruel pouching, see here and here.
These are some famous pet otters being paraded around social media by their owners for monetary value. I won't provide links to stop encouraging them. These people are contributing, directly or indirectly, to a decline in wild otter populations.
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Cartel (Thailand)
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Kylie (Indonesia)
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Pip
(Germany?)(The Netherlands) - Supposedly bought from a zoo and kept by a trained handler. -
Oscar (USA) - Supposedly bought from a zoo
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Sakura (Japan)
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Kotaro (Japan)
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Bingo (Japan)
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Gonta (Japan)
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Ayako (Japan)
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Mochi and Sushi (Japan)
News:
https://mammothgamers.com/2019/01/machinima-removes-video-archives-erasing-years-of-video-game-history/
>Machinima, a long time multi-channel network focusing on video game content, has removed all video content from all of its channels.
>The video purge comes only days after Machinima was set to merge with Ellation, a division within AT&T-owned Otter Media. The merger was announced in late November of last year, though what that really meant was unclear to many creators and consumers.
Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/ahi06j/otter_media_has_just_removed_everything_made_by/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/ahhosx/machinima_just_had_their_youtube_channel_wiped/
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/RiseFallNick/status/1086536528891990018
https://twitter.com/rickyftw/status/1086446774758256640
Youtube coverage:
This video from TheGamerFromMars was released a day before the video deletions (Tweet), nonetheless it is an interesting explanation of the history of Machinima: What Happened to Machinima? - Dead Channels
https://www.recode.net/2018/6/20/17481532/att-otter-media-chernin-group-fullscreen-crunchyroll
"Also unclear: Next steps for The Chernin Group, which has stakes in startups including Barstool Sports, the rowdy sports programmer, and Headspace, the meditation app, along with a film and TV production arm."
(( cross-post from /r/otters ))
The recent "otter craze", primarily perpetrated on Instagram, is causing a demand for otter "pets" (mostly in Asia). From https://www.worldanimalprotection.ca/news/why-you-shouldnt-share-cute-pet-otter-video , "The growing demand on the market for pet otters has seen an increase in low-welfare backyard breeding facilities, and poaching from the wild, particularly in Thailand. Because otter parents are so fiercely protective, poachers in Thailand use dogs to sniff their dens and then kill the parents in order to steal the cubs to be sold on the illegal online market. As the popularity of 'cute' otter video rises, populations in the wild decline."
STOP SHARING MEDIA PORTRAYING OTTERS AS PETS. Otters are cute AF, but every time you "like" "share" or "comment" on these videos, you are directly contributing to this craze, and are causing these beautiful creatures to be hunted and killed. There's tons of media you can enjoy of them in zoos, or in the wild. But we should NOT be endorsing their captivity in homes. They are NOT domesticated, and they are being killed because of this.
Honestly, we should have it against the rules to share videos endorsing otters as pets. See also:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/otters-instagram-facebook-cafe-pets-japan-indonesia-thailand-poaching-extinction-a8934021.html
