The School Litterbox: Modern Urban Legend
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Where did the Bread & Roses video go?
I wasn’t a fan of it anymore tbh, it’s gone 🤧
One does not have to look far in the lefty RUclips sphere to find well-made video takedowns of these "carbon offset" companies, explaining how they're ineffective at best and scams at worst. Interesting that you're choosing to promote one as a sponsor.
Are you implying they are lying about providing funds to indigenous communities to reclaim their lands? Or that they aren’t doing any of the other things I mentioned that directly affect the lives of farmers in countries most at risk from climate change? If so, I’d like to see the source for that because if you can provide one, I won’t work with them again. Calling something “a scam” with no source and no actual details isn’t very helpful though. If you’re saying indigenous communities getting providence over the land is “ineffective”, what does that mean?
This young lady is a Hereone to a 74 Year Old who is afraid of Psychopathic Republican haters.
WATCH: Greta Thunberg's full speech to world leaders at UN Climate Action Summit
I've been to over 50 fur cons over the course of 20 years and the only litterbox I ever saw was at the cat charity booth. For the cat.
I know very little of the furry culture. But as an avid camper in my youth who sometimes camped very rough, I questioned the idea that grown adults with the option of a comfy, clean, private toilet would ever opt for squatting over litter. Thanks for the confirmation of my instincts!
Aw there was a cat? That's so cute :D
@@AmericaSucksBalls Most fur cons have an animal shelter as a charity, and generally said shelter brings an animal to interact with everyone as part of that.
Yeah, I can't imagine squatting over a box after all that material fursuiters probably have to take off to pee
Was it a good kitty? (This is very important)
The litter box thing has even infected queer conversations. I had a middle-aged gay man, unironicly ask how we felt about litter boxes in schools, at a social meetup FOCUSED AROUND INCLUSIVITY. He wasn’t even capable of understanding why that was a transphobic, and ultimately homophobic, dogwhistle. Absolutely insane.
Even if the furry/litter box thing was true, furries aren't necessarily gay or trans. If anything it's furry-phobic.
@@MrJonsonville5 being a furry is a choice. Being trans species isnt real. Equating transgender to transapecism is a clear transphobic dogwhistle.
@@JJLD94 I'm glad you agree with me.
@@MrJonsonville5 I don't think you're getting the context, the idea being pushed here is a transphobic one in which the your kids being transed is now going so far as kids identifying as different animals and schools feeling obligated to bend to that
It's basically a slippery slope thing, eg "what if telling kids they can identify as whatever gender they want leads to them identifying as other things like animals?" It's very reminiscent of people going "oh well if we tell people that it's okay to be in relationships with people of the same gender, what's next, will we have to accept zoophiles and pedophiles?"
The word "furry" is only used here to help further confuse the truth because people might go "oh I've heard of furries so that's a thing that exists so this thing must be true", relying on people having just heard weird shit about furries but not actually knowing what the term means. They're just co-opting an existing term to make it sound more like it could be a real thing.
Police officer who killed Daunte Wright arrested and charged with manslaughter
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Police officer Kim Potter who "accidentally" shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright is arrested and charged with manslaughter.
It's weird how people screaming about LGBT+ people being dangerous to society are often bigger threats than their targets.
Religion has been doing this very thing to control the general population for as long as we have had written history. (The God Delusion)
And ofc when u point this out to them… they don’t care. Imo tht’s kind of scary.
Yeah it's almost as if they're being disingenuous about their "concerns" and it's all just a power grab using convenient targets... It's terrible
I think that's an understatement-when are repressives ever smaller threats to happiness and freedom than everybody else? Even the people they whip up into a fear frenzy are made miserable by it, and they are ostensibly the ones in control of the abuse.
@@ashleyjohnson1129 the witches were the ones who burned.
Kitty litter in schools? Yes, its in the bucket. What bucket, you ask? The one with supplies for school shootings. It has kitty litter in it so that should the class be forced to lock down for hours, they can use it quietly and not have to go into the hall and become a target. What else is in there? Those silver emergency blankets, just in case the teacher has to cover up a victim so the other kids don't have to see the body.
So when someone talks about the kitty litter in schools, I suggest we bring up the reason it is there. It's not furrys. Its domestic terrorists.
That is so disturbing. Do you have a source so that I can read more on that (not saying that I don’t believe you)?
@@AW-EV-and-FTM RUclips doesn’t allow links but here’s a bit from an article I was just reading on the topic:
The district - where Columbine High School is located - has been stocking classrooms with small amounts of cat litter since 2017, but as part of “go buckets” that contain emergency supplies in case students are locked in a classroom during a shooting. The buckets also contain candy for diabetic students, a map of the school, flashlights, wet wipes and first aid items.
@@AW-EV-and-FTM the article is titled: “How an urban myth about litter boxes in schools became a GOP talking point”
Cat litter has been used to clean up liquid spills for decades. It's really effective at it.
I have a 14 year old and when I asked her about the kitty litter and her words were :
“Can you old ppl just get off the internet and stop being so stupid”
She’s not wrong lol
Lmao homegirl got you
The exact same cat litter story appeared in a right wing rag called The Express, which claimed it happened down in England. Apparently 2 girls claimed that they had a cat litter tray in the class, because a child ‘identified’ as a cat.
Yes, within 2 days of the USA urban myth breaking, the Express ran their story.
Intension? Well, they even consider drag queens as evil, while ignoring Royalty who hung out with a certain dead (shall call the acts) party games provider. So you can guess their intentions.
Disrespectful but not untrue. The elderly of our society is way to proud of themselves to not realize they can be so easily swindled by their ignorance.
Not saying you are elderly just saying generally.
@@tranidite You have a very valid point.
It's an uphill struggle explaining to my older friends and relatives why some of the things they've been duped by online are complete nonsense and I've come to realise that I need to be more savvy myself. We Gen X'rs are pretty foolhardy in this way too.
@@Pooknottindon't feel too bad if you've fallen into the trap before. It's like scammers (something older people tend to fall for as well): they use those tactics because they work.
blackmail and extermination are great rat names. sincerely, a person whose cats are named arson and larceny.
Best names ever! (Speaking as someone who had cats named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and who knew someone with a tiny terrier pair named This and That 😁)
I am sincerely hoping you call them Arse and Larse for short sometimes, though 😏
My dog is named Sappho. I think that tells you everything about me really.
@@searchingfororion Does she have any friends?
@@theflyingspaget "roommates"
@@searchingfororion a gal pal perhaps?
The revelation that Chaya Raichik followed and liked Andrew Tate's tweets is a perfect demonstration of how much these grifters actually care about protecting women from sexual predators.
I’m too hopeful in the human race; I actually thought Chaya was just very unaware of the actual effects of her actions- she was an asshole who wanted to make fun of people, not trying to get people killed. But no. She knows what she’s doing. It’s awful how popular she’s gotten.
Something I just realized while watching this - complaining about "censorship" and "supporting free speech" are really easy ways for people to cloak their yellow journalism.
"Censorship" in that case would mean cancel culture, so here is what I believe to be good insight into such a thing, and how major media figures complain about it as a shield: ruclips.net/video/Ns_qnfUqEJI/видео.html
And fascism. The original American Nazi party in America (founded by George Lincoln Rockwell) established the blueprint for things like going on college campuses where they know they would create a media storm and then cry about being silenced. I wish I was making this stuff up but the playbook I see far right extremists going by perfectly matches up with the original American Nazi party.
@@caesiumtable-baron7314
The fact that right wingers are framing cancel culture (i.e. exercising your free speech to take someone down) as censorship is classic doublethink. So much for the free marketplace of ideas.
Oh also going to add someone actually called CPS on me because my son is a furry and they were like he uses the litter boxes! Luckily the social worker I work with knew it was bullshit and we laughed about her having to ask me about it because they have to follow up on this stuff. But ya know, other social workers in other states might take that as a reason to take a queer kid from their parents so I worry, a lot.
Thats scary
D'awwwh. You're a great parent
Right wingers in 2018: Omg Canada passed a law that will take away your kids if you misgender them (PS they didn't)
Right wingers in 2023: Texas is investigating parents with trans kids for child abuse. B a s e d.
I’ve been a furry since 2015 and I can assure you that the whole litter box thing is total bs! The furry fandom is one of the most misunderstood fandoms out there, they helped me come out of my shell and I have made way more friends within the community than I have with other people outside. They helped me find my passion for art and creativity and helped me express myself through my fursona. Is there bad people in the fandom? Yes. But that’s with any community. Once again, never in my damn life have I ever heard of an actual furry wanting to use a litter box
Furries roleplay animals. Otherkin believe they are animals. They also peaked in like 2005. Not only are they like 20 years behind, these guys can't even get the terms right 😂
Recent interaction on the street with the kitty litter rumor. I chatted with a random lady while at the tire shop last week. She instantly opened up about a ton of really personal life stuff and referred to her kid as "high functioning", which made me suspect they were both autistic and she was afraid to openly say that part, so I mentioned that I and my kids are autistic, and she smiled and enthusiastically confirmed that they were too. We were having a nice chat but I noticed she felt really compelled to say how well her kid can read and do math, and then she mentioned about how the dad is resistant to admitting that his son is autistic because "my son's not retarded". And I lightly said something about how being disabled in any way isn't a big deal when people are accommodated to suit their needs. And she agreed, and admitted some of her son's challenges, but was quick to say, "But at least he's not using a litter box like some of these kids." And I paused, and blinked, and decided not to bring up that I and my kids are also non-binary. Ugh.
I was on the receiving end of a lot of transphobic remarks, digs, and even outright shouted at at work by a coworker who assumed because I'm queer I agreed with the kitty litter thing. I knew it was bullshit and said so but they didn't believe me. Now knowing why litter litter is in public schools I'm incensed.
I’m only seven minutes into the video but I’m going to speculate and see if it matches when I tracked down the origin of the rumor.
Jefferson County School District. Columbine. Kids in lockdown for HOURS. “Go buckets”.
My great aunt, who is well into her 90's had told my aunt the cat litter story. My aunt was so confused by her certainty that it was true, bothered to look it up online (thank satan), but still relayed the story to my mom with confusion who eventually asked me. My mom and aunt disbelieved the story, but couldn't immediately dismiss it--Which is sorta the core of the problem, right?
Yeah, if you're not perfectly aware of the specific reasons someone might have to spread a story like that if it were untrue, you're going to be less likely to consider it as a possibility
This is such a wonderful comment and points to a question that has been in my mind for awhile: what are the guardrails for this? Is this much a spread of misinformation new? It’s history lessons that are so important like the one reviewed in this video to show us that a similar issue has happened, but there were ways to combat it. That’s the good news. The bad news is that powerful people are always hellbent on knocking those guardrails down for the preservation and consolidation of power and money. I don’t want people to look at history lessons and have their takeaway be “oh good, someone will figure it out” they should be taking away a blueprint on how to fight back.
Oh, I also want to say that RUclipsrs (and people in general) like this are such an important part of society. This video is so well done.
smth kinda similar happened in my school. people were talking abt a kid at another school who apparently identifies as a cat and then took a shit on the floor. my teacher didnt actually believe it but the kids said theyd ask a teacher who worked there abt it then come back and prove its true. they didnt
Using similar terminology (ie. "Identifies as a cat" to "Identifies as a girl") also makes what is actually being asked of people or institutions to sound equally ridiculous. The right claims that children who identify as a cat are asking for litter boxes. Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, it sounds ridiculous if it's a real request. That, with the similarity of terminology, implies that students with a gender identity that doesn't match their sex requesting to use the appropriate bathroom is somehow just as ridiculous. I've actually seen comments and heard talking right wing heads say, "Well even if they aren't asking for litter boxes, what they are asking for is just as ludicrous." Creating parity between the real and the fake serves their purposes. It's the ultimate strawman where they can knock down both arguments because one is so silly.
Thank you for acknowledging how 99.999999999999% of conspiracy theories boil down to “We [Jews] did it.” I’m sure there in theory could be conspiracy theories which aren’t anti semitic implicitly. it’s just, well, I’ve never come across one.
I think Fomenkoism manages to avoid being *implicitly* antisemitic, but instead is indirectly harmful in how it claims that the holocaust was basically all part of the big coverup by the (non-Jewish) conspirators hiding the fact that all of history has been "faked", and european Jews were simply collateral damage of this, thus downplaying the history of antisemitism going back to the middle ages and especially the reformation...
every conspiracy theory is a game of how quick will this get antisemitic 😭
see if a conspiracy theory isn't antisemitic its often a fact and not a theory (like that the CIA did human testing with hallucinogenics to create truth syrum. or that some American doctors purposefully infected thousands of people in Cuban prisons and mental health facilities with uti's and then never treated most of them)
both of those have been specifically confirmed and apologized for by the US government lol
Hell most bigotry is recycled from other groups. The shit on trans women is just recycled from the gay panic with lesbians which was again recycled from segregation where they said the same shit about black women. It's fucking wild how unoriginal bigots are.
So I'm not surprised that conspiracy theories are go back to the Jews over and over again.
Mother-in-law claimed, "BLM Antifas burnt down Portland" and that she saw it with her own eyes. It was so scawwy, uwu. When pressed, she described trash on the streets and homeless people living in tents.
Oh my God, the spotless utopia of Portland never had either of those things before George Soros invented BLM!
Media literacy is such an important issue. Its role in many countries' first language classes is not big enough imo. This was a great video!
My kid, now grade 9, has had a few teachers that did some very clever projects where the end goal was understanding media literacy. The best was one where they were assigned (what turned out to be) a manufactured controversy. My son got, "Should the apostrophe be removed from the English language?" And they were explicitly banned from using conventional sources of online info like Wikipedia. It forced them to dig into the depths of the web and find ridiculous and outlandish claims (often satirical) then present them. What made this cool is that the teacher didn't tell them the actual goal of the assignment until after they were done.
My senior year of high school they added media literacy to our English curriculum. I seems like a step in the right direction.
@@emmell6285 It's a step but it really needs to be done sooner. And ideally not as a separate course. Because media literacy is something you do while doing other things. No one goes to a website and thinks, "Now I need to put on my Media Literacy Glasses!" Like some D&D campaign. Media is around us 24/7 and we need to teach kids to apply media critical thinking 24/7, especially when we are most comfy.
@@CorwinFound for me it was apart of the English class. We would reflect on it every time we did any research for papers.
I cannot stop thinking of umbrella academy thanks to "I heard a rumour"
love that show.
@@LegalKimchi
I need to get back onto it because I haven't gotten past season one yet.
That say you got a broken heart.
I thought of Allison straight away too hahah
As a trans person who also happens to be a furry, this weird rumour has always been so... _weird?_ Of course nobody is asking for litter boxes in schools. Come on.
I distinctly remember when the advent of a QAnon flag at a Trump rally was met with confusion and ridicule. Oh, we were so young and innocent.
I don't live in the US. I don't even live anywhere near North America. And I still ended up hearing about the litter box bullshit IRL. I was talking to some kid at my high school, and at some point she asked if I'd heard about how 'apparently some schools are letting kids who identify as cats use litter boxes', and I said that that wasn't true. At first she thought I meant I couldn't believe it, but I clarified what I meant; told her I'd looked it up and there was no proof of any kind. She didn't believe me. At the end of the day I just thought about how wild it was that I was encountering this kind of thing at school and not on fucking Twitter or something.
That's wild. I haven't yet met anyone under 35 that believes it, it's mostly been boomers and scandalized genx talking heads
Literally 5 seconds in and it's harrowing to me, the litterbox thing happened in my state and that whole district has had nothing but insane conservative conspiracies and drama since 😭
Thing about conservatives is they dont have anything of actual substance so they resort to just making shit up
Sometimes I have to sit back and think of all the money and time flushed down the toilet to coddle stupidity of conservatives. Take for example the forced birth propaganda that republicans use as a one vote issue. There are fake reproductive health centers all over the country that don’t have any medical staff on sight. They collect women’s information, feed them forced birth propaganda and emotionally coerce them into not getting an abortion. And these centers are funded with tax payer money. Oh, and the people that run those centers, they make sure to give themselves a giant salary funded by tax payers because I mean, they’re doing gods work, right? It’s a giant cynical grift. It’s so fucking disgusting.
One of my younger friends told me her school had kitty litter for a girl who was a therian / furry to pee in and I didn't have it in my heart to tell her I knew it wasn't true and the origin of it, because she obviously just wanted to say something interesting sounding 😭 This thing got REAL widespread huh
it is possible to correct misconceptions while sounding positive and like you're enhancing what they already said, unfortunately i am not good at it but i try.
You missed an opportunity to teach a valuable lesson.
Therianism is a spiritual belief, if anything a certain group should be screaming about how it's people's religious right to use the litter box.
Oh right they don't believe in reincarnating, they believe in a daddy dom in the sky ready to spank brats.
No need for the "/ furry" no furries would use a litter box unless they're also a therian or other unrelated factors :)
@@DreamtaleEnjoyer She described the kid as a therian but only used the word furry, that's why I said it like that! I did also correct her somewhat that not all furries think they're animals, and not all therians pee in class etc by offering myself as an example lol
I love how none of the right-wingers talking about this seem to know what a furry is
I bet the only things the right-wingers know about furries is what 4chan and Reddit make them seem like. As someone who is autistic and a furry I stopped engaging in geek culture because the majority of the people who are into gaming and metal music are 4chan/Reddit chuds that think that furries, emos, goths, bronies, autistic people in general, Disney adults, fans of Stranger Things/Steven Universe/Minions/new generations She-Ra/Star Wars sequels/female and POC Marvel and DC heroes, and any fandom or group they consider "cringe" should be killed. I'm glad the site Kiwi Farms was shut down because that's where most of those attacks originated and thrived and they later moved into 4chan.
Yellow journalism, a perfect descriptor of what's happened on the Internet ever since it became a news platform. It just never goes away.
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Is called yellow because it’s journalism that’s covered in piss.
@@Islandswamp Too bad it does not reek of it, so people stay away.
It's profitable. you know... ;-)
Everything old is new again, the William Randolph Hearst of yesterday is the Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey of today
I was at a furry con a month back and there were three people outside holding signs in protest of the furries. At one point they got into the main hotel and held up a litter box.
It's wild out there
Yeah I'm worried that's gonna become a trend tbh. I think furries are gonna become one of the big targets of conservatives very soon. Hopefully I'm wrong though. I'm honestly worried we're gonna get big protests, or major threats against cons. That would make me so sad. Especially since so many furries, including myself, bring lots of high value items such as my full fursuit. Having something that cost me 5,000$ near a crazed hateful evangelical conservative who thinks it's "gods will" to harm us would make me incredibly nervous and feel very unsafe. Not just that but we've seen how the media represents attacks against the furry community. We get laughed off the air and people use us as a cheap joke and brush it off.
They would definitely spin it as Furries indoctrinating young people and basically wrap it into one large bigoted hatemongering campaign, since Furries are basically a big minority hangout. We have very casual cross dressing, drag shows at cons, LGBTQ+ people of all kinds, etc. I mean Megaplex recently made their con 18+ only because of Florida's new laws.
I'm worried it's only gonna get worse. I hope I'm wrong through. It would really suck to have that happen to a community I've been apart of for over 15-17 years, and actively commissioning, going to cons, and suiting for 8 years now. It would really be crazy that somehow we would become MORE hated than it's ever been before. Don't see how it could've gotten worse than 2016 lol. But I've learned conservatives can always get worse.
I'm specifically worried about the Texas cons, which is where I'm located and go to all the cons here. Because florida and texas are the two hot spots for proud boys and such to show up armed and intimidating others.
The future scares me, but I know times will change eventually. Furries are only getting more accepted due to us breaking into all sorts of high profile jobs and areas in the world, and making history. Such as chise, the furry who helped make the covid vaccine. Lots of my friends are high profile coders too. We're making a large and positive change in the world, and we can't be ignored. Furry acceptance is SO much more than it used to be when I was a young furry. Even a lot of kinks Furries indulge in are miles more accepted than they used to be, speaking as a long time Fatfur. It's wild how different things are now.
"It's unbelievable!"
Yes, correct. I literally not believe that anyone put a litterbox in a bathroom for human use.
The problem I run into is when you disprove something as a real event, and then they go onto say "Well, it doesn't matter if it really happened or not - the fact that I can believe something like that could really happen just proves how bad things have gotten"
friend, no! As someone who has suffered with anxiety since I was a small child, the shit your brain can just make up whole cloth isn't indicative of the actual state of the world in any way.
Fun fact: I only noticed this phenomenon when a conservative said it to me, but once I DID notice it, I remembered having said very similar things in years past. Poe's Law is a real thing, but that only makes it MORE important to distinguish those things that REALLY ACTUALLY HAPPENED from the fiction that wouldn't surprise us.
I remember my aunt talking about the kitty litter rumor when visiting family a few weeks ago, even claiming that it happened to the school where she lived! I immediately was suspicious of it, refusing to believe it unless there’s flat out evidence of it. My mom looked it up and said out loud that all the articles said it was a hoax. Then my aunt said something to the extent of “Oh you won’t find it on an article”
??? Wouldn’t that further prove it’s a hoax??
My uncle believes the rumor even though there are a ton of teachers in the family who all tell him it's false 🤣🤣🤣😭
It's absolutely absurd that people are publicly angry about litterboxes in schools. You can't claim to be of sound mind and believe such nonsense.
Even more when there is actually a pretty relevant thing about it that has literally nothing to do with furies, weird school board ideas, and school shootings. Yes its silly but there is a serious core, weird schoolboard ideas and school shootings.
If you are angry, blame why its so silly, desperation about school shootings and school boards. Mqke fun, about the school board instead.
@@marocat4749 I'm not following the message your attempting to convey. Can you clarify it for me please? Thank you.
@@AlexisMitchell87 Essentially when Litter Boxes are at schools they are in classrooms to present a place to use the restroom in the case of a school shooting when it'd be unsafe to actually leave the classroom. So yeah it is a sign of a serious problem, not whatever the Conservatives claim, but the fact that shootings are so frequent that schools/school systems feel the need to have a backup plan for student bathroom use just in case it happens.
@@lucyla9947 that's not even remotely the same. It's one school district in Columbine, Colorado that stores emergency supplies for "bathroom" buckets in case of lockdowns.
@@AlexisMitchell87 I'm agreeing with you? The lockdowns they are concerned about is due to School Shootings because there haven't been any real changes to prevent them. And they are indicative of there being a issue, because schools shouldn't feel the need to have a backup plan for bathroom use in case of a school shooting, because there should be measures in place to prevent shootings from happening in the first place.
I heard a rumor that this channel rules and those rumors were correct. Glad those rumors turned out true :)
omg i heard this rumor too 🫣 i think it must be true 😳
Last Easter, we had a family gathering for the first time since the worst of Covid. The gathering included my wife, our daughter, our daughter’s best friend who is NB, our Spanish exchange student, my stepson and his wife, and my father-in-law and stepmother-in-law.
We were all having a fine afternoon, conversation was light and apolitical. Then, out of the blue, my stepmother-in-law started with some light anti trans comments, which I immediately shut down. I would have regardless, but with my daughter’s friend (who we’ve tried to get to move in with us because their home/parental situation is toxic af) I went into overdrive.
My sMIL then changed the topic to the litter boxes in classrooms thing, claiming it was happening in a school two hours north of here (because it’s NEVER where you actually live, is it).
My first reaction was that there was no way that was true. Deep Red state, semi rural high school where she claimed this was happening, in the Unisex bathroom (I was 99% certain they didn’t have a unisex bathroom there).
I just shut the discussion down and soon everyone went home. And then I started fact checking, and below is the follow up text I sent her (to which their was never a reply, and we didn’t really hear from or seem them again until right around Thanksgiving this year):
Can't find anything from Watertown specifically, but there are a good 20 stories across the country, all exactly the same, all nonsense. Zero evidence of any truth behind it.
I'm not saying the person who told you lied, because that implies intent, but they didn't actually look into it, they just passed on a story about the "crazy left". That doesn't help anyone and it just breeds more division in this country that we ALL love.
They do lie. I don't believe anyone is this stupid. These people are hateful and want to believe these things,hard.
@@gur262 The ones who make this shit up, absolutely lying sacks of shit. Even a lot of the ones spreading it know it’s a lie. But not all of them. A lot of them really are just this stupid. I’ve talked to these people face to face, hell, I’m related to some of them, and they genuinely are some of the dumbest motherfuckers to ever walk the face of the earth. It’s a wonder they survive getting out of bed in the morning.
@@rocketsfan05 Well, I already sort of thought of as rude, so that doesn’t phase me. I will not tolerate that nonsense in my house.
Cheers!
As a furry (And someone who might be trans, I'm honestly not sure yet), this is so disheartening, not only are they trying to attack trans people with this, they're dragging something unrelated down, they just had to take it that one step further
I love it so much when people do essays on such seemingly "regular", day-to-day ideas. Rumors, Beauty, Doctors, etc. You're up there with the greats, babe. Can't wait for people to wake up to you ❤️
I was wondering what the origin of "yellow journalism" was. I liked to think it was because the quality was PISS poor
How dare you say we piss on the poor
I can easily slip into an existential crisis the way I fear that my critical thinking ability isn't as keen as it needs to be. Brains are wild.
Thank you for the food for thought 💜
Yours and Hoot’s videos dropping within 45 minutes of each other is the war on Christmas miracle I needed.
The way social media/parasociality makes people feel like they're absorbing this information from "peers" is so dangerous. I wish more people took a beat to as themselves *where* they got certain ideas. Like did you actually hear about each instance of something happening, or did you hear that "multiple instances of this have happened"?
Thanks for making a video about media literacy. It's something we should all care about. I've noticed that both my liberal parents and my spouse's conservative parents will believe some downright wrong things because they read it in an article or heard it in the news. No one is completely immune to disinformation, we can all do our parts to fact check.
When you mentioned Tamir Rice's death and I heard the emotion in your voice I teared up. I will never forget or forgive for that little boy's death and seeing this constant hate for who we are is part of a deep trauma in being black. It hurts a lot sometimes. Rest in peace, Tamir Rice 💗
I heard about litter boxes installed in classrooms as a precaution in the event of a school shooting alongside buckets in the event of an extended lockdown. Not for students identifying as cats or mops or whatever else they are freaking out about now.
That's a dystopian concept.
Your videos continue to be some of the best-researched, best-produced, best-presented content I've ever seen on this site, and you're routinely ahead of the curve that other channels tend to fall well behind. So well done, Caelan.
Well said, I totally agree!
lots of love and respect for your knack for getting to the keys to the horrors we face. this is the good fight xx
Thank you friend
yknow, if someone actually believed the "students using litter box" thing, they'd also have to believe that there's some poor janitor out there whose job it is to clean it & put fresh litter in it. and also that the school has to keep ordering litter for it. patently absurd
Thank you for explaining yellow journalism so thoroughly. Now I have a better understanding of it.
I live in a Red City in a DEEP Red State, but we’re also 3 1/2 hours from Minneapolis and St.Paul (which we visit probably 10 times a year). Despite how close we are, we regularly heard Minneapolis was burned to the ground. I’d then pull out my phone and show photos of a city intact, maybe some broken windows, some spray paint, two actual burned out buildings out of the hundreds of buildings we saw.
I would generally then be told I didn’t go to the right areas. Really? Because here’s some photos of the (at the time) blocked off street where George Floyd was murdered, complete with growing memorials and protestors. So what area was burned to the ground? I’ll get it next time. **crickets**
It can be tiring to fact check, especially because you have to know you can trust the fact checker too, but it's extremely important.
There are therians and orherkins, of which I am both. The whole litterbox thing is SUCH a load of bullshit. It's insulting to who I am as a therian, an otherkin, a furry, as trans, and as gay. It's just another way to stop a problem that doesn't exist to push some narrative. And for what? I genuinely cannot understand why people do things that they know aren't right. Is there no moral dilemma in their head? What do they have to gain? Isn't that all just empty promises anyways?
@@weirdnerdygoat It really is a lose-lose-lose for everyone involved. If you're a therian or trans, you're a freak. If you're neither but pushing the litter box narrative or another similar one, you're also pushing people away from you, or away from people they care about who heard your narrative and believed it. It really, really sucks. Hopefully there's some light at the end of the tunnel.
Fire video.
I actually had to deal with this at work in an online meeting where a school employee told an employee of ours about this story and I awkwardly had to pump the brakes hardcore and it was mad stressful. No one really resisted the fact it was disinformation but the fact it got that far, to me was really concerning.
Looking forward to the next video 'What Is A Loomer?' about chill rats who learn to weave.
one of my friends once mentioned the litter box thing and i kinda had to explain why that was a transphobic lie
Honestly the pun potential of the word 'ace' is infinite and I'm glad some RUclipsrs are now starting to utilize it lol
24:45 oh, I heard it over and over again. People claiming Portland, Oregon, was straight up gone, burned to ashes, and then showing images of... Portland, still there. And when I googled Portland, there's very recent images of the city still there
When my family caught wind of the litterbox rumor I couldn't help but have the eyes roll to the back of my skull
me rewatching for stuff i missed: hmm im pretty hungry...
(13:54)
caelan: you might be thinking "i want fries"
me: psychicness and witchcraft, i say!
"CRITICAL ACE THEORY" AHAHAHAHJSDJFFJSJDFKDS I WASN'T EXPECTING THAT
Very funny!
I live in St Paul, & I lived in Minneapolis in 2020. We could actually see the 3rd precinct burning from out front of our apartment, which was great (we've bought some commemorative art).
Even the people who live in the outer ring suburbs here in the metro area seem to be convinced that the Twin Cities have burned to the ground & the resulting wasteland is populated entirely by carjackers & murderers.
They come into the city for football games & then congratulate themselves for surviving the harrowing journey, it's genuinely completely absurd.
I liked at "critical ace theory". I'm gonna go invent that now.
Those are some great rat names! Writing them down as ideas for when I adopt more rats.
I live just outside of Portland Oregon and work in Portland. I have had several conversation with my coworkers to assure them that Portland was not a smoking crater and that I was in the protests myself. I explained why we were protesting and gave them an alternative perspective. Most of the damage to the city was a result of the COVID lockdowns. I go through the downtown area everyday and saw some graffiti, but very little property damage except to the police station. 2 years later those same coworkers didn’t want to meet up for dinner in downtown because they were afraid that Portland was still a war zone. I had to calmly reassure them that the city was not currently on fire from protests that happened 2 years ago. The propaganda is so pervasive and powerful that my coworkers who worked in Portland were convinced that the city they were currently in, was a smoking crater.
Much smaller scale, but an unarmed guy was shot and killed by cops in London some years back, and a few riots kicked off. Where I live there were report of fires and riots, so I went out with my camera to look. I found one (1) litter bin that had been burned out. Which could easily have been a cigarette. But it was on the news that the police station had been torched, Assault on Precint 13 style!
My mom, who has been my strongest ally and fought my school admin to let me use the correct restroom when I came out in middle school, asked me about this rumor when it was going around. Crazy how far these things can spread!!
Ok so my uncle still says Portland, OR, was destroyed by 2020 -events-, and although he has been there since then and still claims it's in ruins, I'm wondering if there's another reason the windows are boarded up.
As a former Oregonian, I can testify that Portland is tough, but they aren't stupid.
They took down Homeland Security with *leaf blowers* however, the levels of horror they underwent at the hands of federal agents is not something I think they're likely to forget soon.
A quote from The Washington Post: "[Then pResident] Trump sent dozens of federal law enforcement officers to Portland - a move that Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D), who was tear-gassed with the crowd earlier this week, and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) have likened to a hostile occupation."
This was a deeply satisfying take on a grim topic, from Bat Boy and the WWN fandom (have you come across the musical?), to dragging PEI, to the chilling fact about cat litter in go buckets in Columbine. These sorts of things are why I like to watch your videos even when I am familiar with the broad topic: the way you present things and bring in flourishes and insights. Thanks for what you do
This is such a nice comment 😩
Throw Reefer Madness in there. Hearst himself was directly responsible for spreading anti marijuana propaganda and laws all because he didn't want to spend the money to print on hemp paper XD
Re: the looting that happened in 2020 - One of my good friends owned a gym in Santa Monica that got looted. She made a GoFundMe to replace the equipment that was stolen and to get the windows fixed. She made it clear that she didn't blame the BLM movement for it, because that would be stupid. She then donated the surplus funds to bail funds for actual protesters who were unfairly arrested.
It always confuses conservatives when I Tell them that story.
The more things that change the more they stay the same. Great reminder how important media literacy is for a sane society.
thanks Caelan I don't think I'll ever be able to unhear "kwanan" when I see QAnon again
I’m sorrrry
Oh this looks like it’s gonna be good
The way you tied everything back into the mechanics of rumors reminded me of this stupid little flash game I loved back in middle school, where various rumors would float along the screen and you'd have to sort out what was harmless, what was hurtful to others but ultimately not dangerous, and what should be reported to administration. Thanks for the memories.
When I had to cut a trip to Seattle short to return home for my dad's funeral, the first thing my uncle said to me was "Seattle? Wasn't that all burned down by the BLM rioters?"
The brain rot is terminal.
8:40 "Also known as a Tuesday." 😆
18:20 🦉😆👍
I live in PEI and have for more than a decade but I’m from Newfoundland, it was crazy to see how many people around me that I thought had done their work to become allies were suddenly believing this nonsense. This was years ago, now I see people in Newfoundland fall for the same rumours, I have confronted a few people I again thought were allies.
I was in the grouphome system because my parents gave me up because I’m gay, I was assaulted by people twice in public in the last twelve months and people still don’t think we have a problem here anymore
Can someone please buy Caelan some rats so we can watch them give those rats the most long winded aristocratic names ever 🖤
Yessss lets make this happen
The "BLM burns down cities" portion was interrupted by an ad break.
The ad? A Candice Owens video about BLM.
NO
Bobert? The long form of Bob?
another thing, furries dont fucking think theyre animals. they dont shit in litter boxes. furries are actually pretty fucking normal people. we simply enjoy drawing and sometimes dressing as anthropomorphized animal characters.
I literally cannot wait to say how good your set looks, right down to the Mimikyu plush and the Preacher's Daughter poster.
Thank you 💕💕💕
Critical Ace Theory
Also known as CAT
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Rumor has it that there is a Bat Boy Musical. Look it up.
Also, thanks again for another amazing, well-researched, and informative video.
Critical ace theory was hilarious. I really appreciate your wit.
24:38 They can't get on a train to check if Chicago is a literal crater because there are no trains :'(
Comentario sobre algoritmocosas mientras el vídeo sigue porque ayuda o algo
If there actually ever was a litter box in a classroom or whatever, it'd be a prank by one of the kids. Legalize weed and make mee-maws and pee-paws using the internet a schedule one drug and I promise you, this kind of problem will just go away lolz 😂
Strongly hope for a batboy fandom rather than cult, but! Best of luck!!
OMG Caelan has a boyfriend that's so awesome and cute and I'm so happy for you both.
I really like your hair lately, it makes me jealous. Also your videos are so clearly time- and labor- intensive and so few people are doing work of this caliber. You're a gem.
Thank you 😩😩😩 the hair is finally doing just a smidge of what I’m wanting for it and I’m living for it
5:24 UGHHHH I LOVE BAT BOY SO MUCH
"Did i say my friend's wife is a teacher and see saw the litterbox herself?"
"Sorry, I misspoke. I meant to say i read a fake story online about a litterbox in a school bathroom."
"You can see how i got the two confused" 🙃
So technically the idea of "men's penises get smaller if they have sex with more than one women" as a counter attack against the falsehood of "women's vaginas get looser if they have sex with more than one man" is chaotic good malinformation?
algorithm is a dancer
Commenting mid video because I will do pretty much anything Caelen tells me to.
'no matter where you lay on the political spectrum' omfg caelan
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I can't believe I missed the "critical ace theory" joke the first time I watched this!
my favourite part of the rat name bit as a rat owner is that the best rat names should also pass as Puritan names. these work.
A LOT of the 'burned to the ground' rumors focused on Portland, Oregon. I am a photographer here and got harassed off of twitter by people accusing me of 'propping up' the idea that the city still exists. We exist and just named an urban park for a drag queen, deal with it.
"For every lie I unlearn, I learn something new."
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@@caelanconrad *That's* the only reason I didn't credit it.
The first (second) video of yours I watched caused me to have the same reaction.
We're destined to be (parasocial) besties, I swear.
It’s crazy how the litter box thing is still going around. I just had to tell my in-laws that the schools in our town aren’t doing this. In response they called their friend who told them about so she could correct me. Luckily she wasn’t home.
honestly, saying "that's just a rumor" has helped me shut ppl up who know they don't have valid sources
Jessie gender cameo! Glad to see this newer group of left tube unifying more than the earlier groups
i think it's bc it's more neurodiverse ppl?