so those is-the-x-video-cute blogs are a plague on animal husbandry education. i get that they started well meaning - to prevent neglectful animal situations from being popularized as funny or cute - but in having a blog that is allegedly informative, random tumblr weirdos have decided they are the end-all be-all animal husbandry experts.

im gonna address is-the-rabbit-media-cute in their CONSTANT misinfo but this should be a great lesson as to why you shouldn’t assume someone who cannot prove any credibility at all on the internet is the god king of animal knowledge (or any knowledge).

1. these are their credentials

a rabbit owner with google. i mean people can lie and say they’re experts but they just straight up admitted to not knowing any more about rabbits than the next guy

2. consistently perpetuating things that at this point are well known to be myths, ie wire bottom cages & trancing. so many posts about wire bottoms being bad oh my god. including completely ignoring a response someone gave about why wire floors are Not bad.

>”trancing:” yes you can safely hold a rabbit belly up. this is a very safe way to sex rabbits and to do general health checks on their stomach and bottoms of their feet. no they are not having a heart attack.

>wire floors: excellent choices for rabbits! rabbits pee and poop A LOT. standing in that causes sore hocks. wire typically doesn’t. wire allows all their excrement to fall through so they aren’t standing in it. some rabbits, such as Rex, are more prone to having their feet irritated by wire - resting mats are standard to alleviate this easily. any rabbits that are particularly prone to sore hocks are culled so rabbits are not being bred prone to discomfort. basically, sore hocks can be easily eliminated. and on that note

3. straight up doesn’t know things about rabbits?

not correct! if all the rabbits you interact with are getting sore hocks you are doing something wrong!

pellets are a whole diet. they ARE the main source of food. in the same way as you buy dog food to be their primary food source.

a rabbit will fuck a rock, i have NO idea where “would always choose another wild rabbit” comes from. their ass i guess

4. this one is killing me. encouraged this person to harass their poor mom over her rabbit’s housing

this is a good setup! lots of space, plus an indoor area to hide, etc. bunny is living high. however rabbit-media said that since it’s outside, it is inherently abusive. this isn’t an outdoor cat situation; the animal is not left to fend for itself or devastate the ecosystem, it is in an enclosure. rabbits are very hardy. it has coverage from the rain, which is important, and rabbits’ fur protects them from very cold temps. the only thing to consider is if it gets very hot, the rabbit will need to be cooled down. still a perfectly good setup. and when the mom said this

completely valid point! rabbit-media responded with this

ok edge lord. this SLANDER. you are an internet rando, having followers doesnt make you credible?? alex jones has a whole SHOW with hundreds of thousands of viewers and makes a considerable difference in people’s perspectives, that doesn’t mean he isn’t spouting bullshit.

5. this was their response to a SIXTEEN year old asking for help with a matted rabbit after the kid said they do not have access to a rabbit groomer or vet.

besides the way they talk being hilariously juvenile and edgy (there is NO WAY they are over 19. i hope) YOU DARE??? anyway. what a great way to help a teen. the only problem was matting -which is bad, sure - but they weren’t beating the damn thing. they also called this kid “pure scum” but im at my image limit. great, now the kid will never ask for help again, which is sure to help their husbandry!

anyway tl;dr talks like an edgy teen, is a dick to people who want help, spreads outright lies and misinfo, every answer to an ask is like at least a little bit wrong

Reading through this entire Rabbit Media blog is my villain origin story.

So much bad info. @dirtpossum did a pretty good job. Putting aside the absolutely out of hand way they addressed a kid for the kids moms rabbit(?) which is not in a terrible setup tbh.

To hit the high points

- Wire isn’t bad and if every rabbit you’ve ever encountered has had sore hocks that speaks to terrible husbandry on you and your communities part, you should probably stop taking advice from them.

-pellets are basically extruded alfalfa or Timothy hay. They are absolutely not gummy vitamins. Theres maybe a conversation to be had about gut motility issues in young exclusively pellet fed rabbits.

-Small correction. If you live in North America your domestics are not going to produce viable offspring with our wild rabbits. Doesn’t mean they won’t try.

-I don’t think it’s in this write up but this blog also claims that rabbits are very cuddly with other rabbits. This is patently untrue. Rabbits can sometimes be bonded but if you toss two unknown rabbits in together they will fight and might maim or kill each other. They are not naturally cuddly and this is dangerous bad advice.

The amount of mean spirited weird-bad advice on that Media blog makes me furious, if we’re going to get in a dick measuring contest about followers to to prove who is more knowledgeable (!???) im guessing I have bad news for you….

i feel like this is less about the blogs being A Bad Idea and more about letting random people with no background in animal care claim authority on the subject

the "is the cat video cute" people have shared their qualifications and give good advice that stands up to scrutiny

if someone says "yeah i own a rabbit i'm as good as someone with a veterinary medicine degree" then maybe don't trust them as the be-all end-all word on rabbit care? just saying

yes, babe, you’re sick and twisted, will you come back to bed- what? yes, of course you’re evil and irredeemable. now can you please cuddle with me

so the academy is reviewing whether or not to remove Will Smith’s award and here are some interesting tweets about that :)

Nothing is more sickening than seeing Sidlink fanart where Link is just a few inches shorter than Sidon. No!!! Sidon is a GIANT and Link is a MANLET who canonically barely reaches above Sidon’s wasteline. Draw the size difference you cowards!!!

i’m okay with fictional men becoming unhinged over the loves of their lives actually 

"i'm looking respectfully" well i'm looking carnally. i'm looking like a whore

So Billie Eilish, a recording artist who makes millions with her creative work, has teamed up with Adobe, a multi-billion company, to bring us a contest where artists make merch designs for her for free, and only the winner gets paid. Sorry, a “prize”. And part of the “prize” is exposure.

Oh, and if you submit an entry, whether you win or not, you give them the right to use your work.

Contests like this are a scam. They’re exploitative. Always. They’re a way to get people to do work for free, and only pay the “winner”.

Billie Eilish makes music. She is a creative professional herself who makes money, a lot of money, with her art. She can afford to pay an artist to design her tour shirt. Adobe can afford to pay artists to do design work.

If she wants to give fans the opportunity to work for her - just invite portfolio submissions. Let artists send you work they’ve already done, pick one whose style you like, and hire them to make a design for you. Easy.

This, though? This is trying to use her fame to get people to work for her for free. This is trying to exploit her fans. Note how the key selling point they picked for the tweet isn’t the cash prize, it’s the exposure. This entire thing is based on the hope that people will be so excited to have their work officially featured by Billie Eilish that they’ll work for free just for the chance.

Don’t enter “art contests” like this. It’s not a contest, it’s a scam.

Stop bullying furries start bullying people with American flags in their rooms

god hes so hot i love his pixels