Animal cruelty videos are increasing across all social media channels year on year. In particular, fake animal rescues are burgeoning, this being the easiest form of animal cruelty video to post with impunity. However, focus is nearly always on the videos, not on the channels. The occasional reported video that is removed is of little consequence when a channel has dozens, or even hundreds of videos loaded, the removed videos are just minor collateral damage. Some aspects of the YouTube guidelines and claims in relation to animal abuse, come with a sort of ‘Get out of jail free card’ as YouTube says practices that are “widely accepted” may be allowed. This videos shows some of those practices that are anything but “widely accepted” globally, but they stay live. The almost total inertia of YouTube when it comes to tackling animal cruelty on its platform, compared to the near lightning speed at which they can act on other issues that don’t suit the current Leftist, woke agenda, in unacceptable and demonstrates there’s a long way to go and much, much more effort needed by YouTube. If that sounds dreadful, and unacceptable, it is – but YouTube is not the worse social media platform, Facebook is.
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