I’m from Cambodia and what I know is that yes, elephants had been used as a mode of transportation for thousands of years by Khmer, Thai and Lao royals. However they revered the elephants and treated them with respect. But nowadays, those poor creatures are being exploited and abused for tourism gains. And whats more enraging is that most people here seem to be unfazed by the fact.
I read from a National Geographic veterinarian Dr. Evan Antin that most elephants on these places go through a process called "phajaan" that's basically crushing the elephants spirits by beating, starving and torturing them in all sort of ways to the point that the animals obey every single command. Look it up, it's something very terrible.
@@GC-pq6vm wooly mammoths arent even related to dinosaurs 😭 They belong to the extinct genus Mammuthus and were on a whole different evolutionary playing field
@@ViVi-ev3rx I know they’re not. I never said they were. I was just saying maybe the simple reason she confused them with dinosaurs is because they are extinct as well.
A lot of animals are scared by camera flashes, so they have no idea how much danger they are putting the models in when they are getting the elephant spooked or agitated.
@@MissJiGsSong I went to this aquarium in San Francisco that had an albino crocodile and there are warnings not to use flash photography because that would hurt its eyes due to its condition.
The thing I don’t understand is that THEY ARE SHOOTING UNDER THE SUN!!! There is that beautiful natural light and they’re just like ‘screw the sun, we are using the flash that will do harm to the animals.’ WTF is wrong with this program. (Everything, I know.)
@@lialeeCO I thought the same thing. Imo it's almost like they were trying to provoke the elephants for some good dramatic tv... but idk if it counts as good tv if someone literally gets trampled
Yes this was what upset me the most. They put these girls in danger for a cool picture! Wild animals are unpredictable and then they upset the animal with weird lights and sounds and people, so they were just asking for something bad to happen. Thank God every one was safe.
I went to Thailand and visited an elephant sanctuary and we NEVER got on top of them. We bathed them, gave them food, played with them and they NEVER reacted like that. They were peaceful because they were happy. It's so obvious that they are in distress. Ugh, hate this photoshoot. And I'm glad that you did a reaction to this because I didn't know they had this episode. Jessica, you are showing us the real ANTM and it's not cute, to say the least. And thanks for that.
Do you have the name of this sanctuary? I really want to visit one but I’m scared that I will accidentally go to a sanctuary that actually exploits the animals.
Because you visited a SANCTUARY. this is the places where elephants are being kept after being rescued from captivity. in other places in Thailand (mostly in northern Thailand) elephants are being used and abused for tourism/labour since they are born. the babied are seperated from their mothers, being whipped, poked, screamed at, denied food, chained and brutalized. that in order to make them docile and obedient as adult elephants. the abuse continues throughout their entire lives. the ones that are rescued and kept in a sanctuary for their own protection are the lucky ones.
Ideally yes, but I have read articles done by Nat. Geo. that found some sanctuaries are actually run by the same people running elephant rides and they just move the elephants between the two businesses. I think it takes really careful and thorough research to find a good one.
Not an animal expert but I watched a short documentary once on elephants in Thailand about how violent the training process is, and how having people on their backs actually deform their spines because is not made for that. So yeah, really not a good shoot.
I always kind of think the photographer also fucked up with some of the shots, so maybe most of them are unusable, so they pick the best from what they have?
Idk, there was certain things that when i saw as they were coming out that they rubbed me in the wrong way, one of them was the fake smile of Tyra for those girls.
I know right? I started watching ANTM again recently because I got bored and was literally cringing through the majority of each episode. It’s kind of amazing how our perception of things change in a few decades.
whenever a model says she is struggling with something, Tyra just immediately goes "oh I had a worse experience than you and still pulled through, so your experience is not as valid as mine, suck it up and move on"
I HATE people like that. No one experiences the same thing, our bodies and chemistry are different to others. Tyra says that, but I doubt she's being honest about any of it. She just wants to insert herself into everyone's situation so they feel bad for her. It's manipulation
@@Akhhmorn even if two people do experience the exact same things, they'll have different reactions because they are two different people. It's like when the girls had to model in a pool floating on their backs. Cari-Dee got hypothermia, but Amanda didn't. They were in the exact same water, but obviously, it was too much for Cari-Dee.
Elephants shouldn’t be ridden, the extra weight deforms their spine and causes long term pain and damage. Also elephants are not going to let you ride them naturally, often in cases like these the elephants are taken from the wild as babies and have their spirit “broken” by repeated abuse and torture to make them compliant to their captors, any time you see an elephant in a circus, or tv show, it has almost certainly gone through this treatment(except in the very rare cases of one being raised in captivity and already docile around people and could have been trained through positive reinforcements, but again it’s rare) Also the body language of the elephants shows they’re clearly distressed, the trumpeting and the head swaying, it’s probably because they’re surrounded by people with flashing lights, shouting in their direction, with people climbing all over them, not to mention the people that break the elephants will likely be around them with big sharp sticks making sure they don’t play up too much. It’s heartbreaking and that’s why I urged people to NEVER endorse animal circuses or anything of that nature Edit: I wrote this before I saw the psa Jessica wrote, which is true!
Thank you for this. When Jay said "They'll get used to flashing lights", I was like "What?!?". The Elephant is reacting that way because they're stressed.
I’m a student in Animal Science and this photo shoot is making me extremely uncomfortable. Although elephants have been used historically for transportation, the amount of people on these elephants is crazy. Also, the tool the handler is using is called a bullhook. These are typically used on sensitive portions of an elephants skin such as behind the ear to control the animal. It’s a very uncomfortable and painful especially when used on these sensitive areas. Furthermore, elephants are prey animals! flashing will spook them. Both the use of the bullhook and flash photography is inducing a stress response on these elephants. By Jay stating “after a few flashes she’ll get used to it,” is bullshit. As a prey animal, the stress response will only subside once the animal is away from the situation or deems the situation to be safe. Elephants are extremely affected by stress hormones secreted during the stress response. By being mounted and constantly dealing with flashes, I do not think the animal “will get used to it.” On a positive note, I really love your videos! I’m glad you are drawing attention to these issues in the media! 💜
It is not okay to use wild animal for a photoshoot!! Elephant is clearly in distress, it is painful to watch!! The hook they are using, is made for elephant to feel pain and obey commands...
You can also see the scratches and bits missing from their ears which are from those hooks and other implements of abuse. I started watching this but had to stop once I saw those because I've seen too many documentaries and know what they are from and I can't watch animals actively being abused.
Yes, so much this. THEY STALK THESE GIRLS. Tyra probably pulls out a medical journal or something before each judging panel just to be able to one up them and invalidate their issues
I think she meant the fact that mammoth‘s are their ancestors. Since Mammoths we’re around during the time of the dinosaurs I think she tried to connect those dots, but she didn’t quite get there🤣🤣
@@minoarae The last mammoths, on an island, went extinct about 4 thousand years ago, compared to dinosaurs who went extinct 65 million years ago. Mammoths were around when humans were around, so it's a very large time span between dinosaurs and mammoths.
Its always been ironic to me that they called her high maintenance considering it was revealed they barely fed these girls . They barely gave them food and because of shooting hours they would rarely get sleep but then they'd wonder why the girls were sick?? She wasn't high maintenance she a human being who's body was clearly reacting to the poor conditions they were placed in. smh
I think the editing made it a bit out of context. I think the joke was while she was staying in the hospital she was being damanding so he jokes she was high maintenance. Not that she was high maintenence BECAUSE she went to the hospital 😅
Yeah, in the past they’ve fed the girls undercooked chicken so they would have gastric distress so that way it would stir up “drama” for the show when someone gets sick like that. Disgusting
Elephants are extremely smart and sensitive. If a poacher killed one of their own or mistreated them one year and comes back the next. The elephant will remember who you are and what you did. That saying of; "an elephant never forgets." Is actually true. So the elephant will get revenge on whoever mistreats them. I love elephants as much as I love foxes and I don't like the idea of ANTM using the animals as props.
And the way they grieve! 😭 I also love foxes, by the way. Fennec and arctic are especially amazing. I think if I was an animal, I'd hope to be an artcic fox. 😅
Can we also discuss the cycle after this where they had the girls dress up like matadors and go in an arena with a live freakin bull?! And that animal was mad and so scared like the whole time.
You know why they didn't let them shave their legs before getting in the jungle for the shoot? Because this whole episode is actually just an ad for that razor. The shoot itself wasn't just "for an ad", the show is the real product and the real ad. "This razor is so great you can even use it in the jungle" is the message theyre trying to send and theyre just using their reality show where they bully young and vulnerable women as an excuse to advertise to probably similarly young and vulnerable women.
Its literally all just product placement. They dont even pretend it isnt. He wouldnt pitch the 'usefulness' if he werent being paid fistfulls of money to do so.
@@RawringTaters its so wild looking back and realizing that because when this show was in its prime I was a child and I didnt have the foresight to realize when someone was just selling me something but watching it now im just like this whole show isn't even a show its just an ad
@@Blue-wz5um So true, I watched it in my teens so did notice it more. But to re watch its almost like the making fun of product placement in waynes world. 'Ok hold up the pepsi can and then eat a dorito girls, now you better pretend you like the razor because you are here for free so this pays your wages'
The poor elephant is like “I get the impression you want me to lift you up, so could you just get up there already, I’m tired of lifting you with my leg.”
@@amirrhodesve791 Why do you automatically skip to accuse people when they feel empathy for these elephants? All they’re doing is saying it’s sad, there’s no reason to hate on these random people.
@@lemoncucumber9832 i know i get that but you need realise that eating meat is killing our planet and animals including elephants vegans create 40% less carbon emissions what indirectly helps animals around the world and farmed animals
Tyra always has to one up everyone else and make it sound like she had it it worse and she was fine so get over it. Someone else’s pain does not negate your own!
“The elephant reacts badly to the camera going off.” “The elephant gets upset by the flashes.” Okay so why tf did you put the elephant in an environment with the those things that you know make it upset? Like don’t do that then it’s that easy. And besides taking care of the elephant, every time the elephant got upset and reared back I was afraid of the girls falling off. This is safe for no one.
Not only were they stressing out the elephants and making them anxious, but they also put the models at risk. Btw: the hook thing is often used to cut the elephant and just be awful to them, people are so horrible to animals and it makes me so mad
I loved this show when I was younger and there are some seasons I watched a few years ago that I liked and don’t think were bad like this. I’m so disgusted by some of the episodes she’s reacted to and I don’t even remember them it’s nasty
I remember when I first saw this, I literally thought nothing of it, I even thought it was a really beautiful shoot... Didn't know about how horrible the treatment of elephants is in this business at the time :((((
Imaging wearing couture dresses in different locations of Bangkok. That would look like out a Vogue Magazine! ... Or a fashion editorial at the Grand Palace lol. ANTM needs to hire me! 😎
This. There are plenty of Elephant sanctuaries where they could have shot and just had the elephants in the background. Some trainers are bonded enough with the herd that they can get them to gather in specific areas (usually via bribing), so they could have green-screened them on an elephant with real ones in the background.
Elephants are my favorite animal and seeing how they are being treated in this enrages me. Seriously want to take that bull hook and go after those ppl.
I think in India they treat them much better, like instead of poking them and hurting them to direct them they massage the back of their either right or left ears to tell them how to turn. Like why abuse an animal?
Tyra ALWAYS knows how to make everything about her reliving her model glory days. Danielle: ..And I had a little bit of food poisoning. Tyra: You know when I was a model... We get it but like, fml. And poor elephants. Completely unnecessary for the shoot.
18:22 Having stomach pain and tolerating it and having your body litterally give up due to dehydration (if I remember correctly) and having to be hospitalized are two totally different things Tyra, smh
Seriously, imagine if a model showed up to an actual shoot dehydrated to the point of fainting, the photographer would be like “why are you here? Go to the hospital” Something tells me they did something on set to make that happen to Danielle too, like how did she get exhaustion in the first place!
@@Gabriyona "It's *literally* the worst pain in the world." Me: A 'complex' patient that was approved for disability at 25 on the *first* application for chronic pain. My average is so high that I shattered my hand and the ER (despite a bone obviously sticking at a right angle) thought there was nothing wrong because I was speaking calmly and rated my *hand* as a 4 on the pain scale because the rest of me was a constant 8. Tyra: "It's the worst ever!" Me: Honey, have you ever laughed at your metacarpals being pulverized because it was at *least* a distraction? 'Comon sweetie.
She said she had a little bit of food poisoning. Which, maybe it was just lost in translation, but you don't have 'a little bit of food poisoning'. She was probably dehydrated because of the of food poisoning.
You are very considerate and kind for bringing up concerns about the photoshoot and then deciding to research it yourself and give us some info in the post-production of editing this video.
Chair not included, That elephant carried around 500lbs on his back 🤦♀️elephants are not vehicles or props, they are beautiful living creatures that want to live in peace, LET THEM LIVE IN PEACE!
I know that the main problem is the mistreatment of so many living things. Buy can we also talk about how painfully obvious it is that this episode is sponsored by Venus?
@@jmanjr read up about elephant riding and abuse and educate yourself before calling others absurd. and if you're planning to say karen or ok boomer, sure thing living thinking in your bubble haha.
@@pukimak5892 So you don't really know who you are talking to. How do you know that I've not been an animal trainer for most of my life and that I've worked with elephants on many many occasions? It's clear by your assumptions and the way you and others are treating me here who is in the wrong here. People nowadays think they can read something on the internet and all of a sudden "they're educated" and know all there is to know. Sorry to break it to you but did you ever considering your resources may be biased and inaccurate?
@@jmanjr if you're an animal trainer for the most of your life and that you've worked with elephants on many many occasions, i beg you to refer to thailand's elephant industry, and the very clear simple example of abuse through the hooks on the ears attached to them. first of all, thank you for even coming up with a reply that show that you do consider my words. however, i would implore you to actually refer to documentaries, articles of the very real abusive elephant culture here. from your words, i can infer (and i can only hope) that your own experiences as an animal trainer as well as you working with elephants has been nothing but pleasant and positive reinforcement. however, the fact that your statement of "people nowadays think they can read something off the internet and all of a sudden they're educated" contradicts the exact notion of "so you don't really know who you are talking to." no? who are you to think that i am someone who do not check my sources and have not been a tourist myself and doing my research based on actual trustworthy articles and others who actually experience the elephant riding culture to decide on my own to not support this abusive and problematic industry. as someone as experienced as you are, are you really going to tell me that elephant riding and all the abuse behind it, especially for tourism does not exist? if yes, then i wish you jolly well great luck in your bubble again.
Exactly. Since elefants have such thick skin, they use these tools with pointed metal ends to be able to control the elefants. Which can be very painful for the animal. Most elephants used for tourists are horribly mistreated.
It's not just about the pain, the elephants are conditioned from a young age to be vary of the stick so as adult elephants even without pain being inflicted just the hook near them or around them allows the handler to control them.
Thank you so much for adding the PSA notes about elephants, I love your empathy and compassion. Just finding your channel, and from one photographer and retoucher Jessica to another, I love your content and am so happy to learn and find inspiration in your content 🙏🙂
Crazy I mentioned this in the crocodile shoot!! I think the pictures and concept were really cool, but I felt for the elephants. It's very stressful for them and you can see how scared they were. I think I even saw a prod with a hook in the corner. Elephants are sadly very abused animals, and I have my doubts whether they were wellkept or not.
And they are doing a photoshoot about their legs like....if they want for the elephant to appear, you can barely see their legs, the elephant would be the major point of it, so...this was poorly though.
i hope this video opens up to the idea for people to look into how problematic elephant riding is. we don't have to use animals and abuse them for likes/comments please. go and take up photoshop and learn how to photoshop yourselves onto elephants if you really need that ig photo please. i hope people become more aware and NOT contribute to this problematic industry. it hurts my heart, imagine how the elephants feel.
@@amirrhodesve791 r/foundthevegan There's other ways to help besides going vegan, and it's not like I eat elephants or use products with elephant in it do I have no clue how you think going vegan is relevant in this situation
@ becuase there are animals going through things much worse then this for our profit our actions in out daily life dont effect elephants but they do of pigs cows and chickens but we dont care about them do you just choose who to feel bad for
Joanie had come straight from like 6 hours at the dentist, too. ANTM basically forced her and Danielle to choose to get their teeth fixed or not. Joanie chose to do it and Danielle chose not to do it. (Joanie is now a mom and a carpenter for HGTV shows. She’s my favorite contestant ever from the show!)
The elephant is definitely in distress... The stick they’re holding is used for giving the animal directions, which isn’t inherintly bad if used gently. However the fact that the handelers are allowing this circus tells me they don’t care much for the animals’ wellbeing. Riding elephans is abuse in my book, simple as that. Also, elephants are absolutely not in the dinosaur family, if you want a real modern dinosaur go find a cassowary. Except those birds can kill an adult human with one kick, so, yknow. Maybe don’t 😅
How do you feel about horse riding? I dont think that it is inherently bad as long as the animals are respected and cared for, but this doesn't seem to be the case here :/
@@carrieon2912 Riding elephants I’m pretty sure inherently is not bad, but in a lot of contexts it is. The same way that you can hurt the horse if you ride incorrectly, it’s the same for this. Elephant riding has been turned into a tourist attraction were they pile on multiple people constantly and abuse elephants into submission.
@@lemoncucumber9832 Yes it is bad please see how they train elephants (search Phajaan). I am Thai btw. No form of elephant riding or using the bullhook is ethical.
This has been the most outrageous photoshoot so far. Thank you for raising awareness. People are so vain to just get a photo with an animal that is subjected to ultimate cruelty and neglect. It's just heartbreaking.
Jade thought she was so damn smart. 😂 hell Furonda and her were talking to each other in one of the episodes, they were having some sort of disagreement, and Furonda says to Jade that she puts on a "facade." Jade asks her what that means. Like, I get not knowing that word, but since Jade didn't know what it meant, she talked to Furonda like she was an idiot, when in actuality, Furonda is super smart and is now a lawyer! But anyway, Jade was too much. But I loved her sometimes.
...do you to say they're not a part of the dinosaur fam? saying they're not apart means that they are together, a part and apart have opposite meanings
They steal the elephants from their mothers, and beat them, abuse them, starve them, and are just downright cruel to them. It makes me sick to my stomach to think about how these intelligent animals, that are extremely family oriented and matriarchal, are treated for dumb tourists to ride and pet.
Those hooks have been used ( currently ) in circus to stab/ latch the elephant ears to guide them around. That why in zoo's in America or rescues you see elephant with shredded ears. You can see that this elephant ears have been mangled beyond reality 😥😢
You’re so cute being so concerned about the elephant. I feel the same way. Especially when it comes to giraffes. They’re so beautiful and just AHHH, why do this to animals!
I'm terribly late to this video, but I just recently found your channel and have been binging for days. I just want to say, as a new sub, you are a beautiful soul. You have a huge sense of respect for all people and animals. I'm glad to have found your channel.
If I didn't already know this episode is several years old I'd be able to tell just from the fact that they're riding the elephants. Now in 2020 in Thailand elephant sanctuaries are huge, they're places to go and get tip close with elephants without riding them, and they teach you all about how abusive this riding is. My heart hurts watching this
I know someone who just went Thailand and they were riding them and all that. I was so upset with them for not researching how bad it was for the elephants
Not only was this awful for the elephant who didn't deserve that at all but also Danielle was in the ER for basically 3 problems the day before and she had to drag herself out of the hospital bed to be there. The models and the animals always got the last end of the straw. And I'm gonna continue to ask you to react to Asia's Next Top Model because I always enjoyed it way more than America's version. And there are so many cool photoshoots. When you compare the America's photoshoot with the zodiac signs to the Chinese Zodiac signs in Asia's Next Top Model, it is night and day, mah god.
The way they reacted like it was just a drama, or a tiny thing.... It grossed me out, like, do they know what's like to be on the oxygen? And having to model on top of a freakin wild and scared animal? This show makes me sick. I have the flu right now, because it makes me sick
@Kya Rochefort How can I watch the Asian one? I always loved the Aussie one - was able to watch 2,5 seasons online - way more because it was very respectful, the girls were friendly towards one another and it was much more about fashion and talent. They had a few challenging shoots, but those were often linked to actual designers or possibilities instead of the shock factor. I'm assuming the Asian is similar.
@@misssunnydee Actually the first 3 seasons are on RUclips ! And yes, it's pretty great. There are a few moments where I go "Damn that judge was rough.". But other than that, way better than America's version
I hate the fact that we all watched this stuff as children and just thought everything is completely fine. Especially the the girls just have to do whatever the people say.
@@moonbook12 The pink tax isn't a real thing and has been debunked before. Women's products are more expensive because they often use more ingredients and serve multiple purposes ie Women's shampoo has more ingredients in order to treat their hair in multiple ways, whereas mens shampoo will usually just have enough to clean the hair and not much else
@@PlaystationSimmer I dare you to pick up a pink pack of basic women's razors and compare it to a basic pack of men's razors. Everything on the "women's aisle" is more expensive reguardless of weither they have more ingredients. You can literally see it for yourself if you bother to check. The "pink tax" has _not_ been debunked. Unless you want to pretend it isn't there and bury your head in the sand.
Jessica---PREACH. You are so right about the "Pink Tax," raising prices on female products. Let's also talk about the fact that men's razors are way more efficient. A lot of them have 4 or 5 blades, when the average women's razor has no more than 3.
Jessica: I don't wanna be like "oh the elephant" every two seconds... Me every two seconds: OMG THAT POOR CREATURE! 😞 So, yes, I get your feelings Jessica... It was hard for me too... 😞
I love elephants, they're my favorite. I used to want to ride one as a kid, of course I was a kid, I didn't know any better. Bless the internet for being able to spread the word and research these things. Now I'd love to go to a sanctuary or safari to see them in the wild.
The should've used nature it self without animals. I saw this in a magazine I would be looking at the elephant not the model or what the ad is for. Posing around trees would've been way better and catchy for the ad
@@elijah918 Yup. Sometimes I question why animals are in ads if it's not pet food than the animal shouldn't be in the photo. Poor animals. I would've laughed if that elephant threw them off her back
1. The trumpets were edited in. 2. Its an elephant hook, its sharp and they hook it into the ears. 3. No, theyre not in the dinosaur family lmao. 4. The raised leg is trained. He wasn't trumpeting while doing so.
clearly the elephants are in distress with the whole thing going on :((((( as far as i know, elephants used for rides and stuff undergo a cruel process or smthn so they will obey the keeper :< i did a quick search and in 2019 most elephant camps stopped doing the rides and kept it to only feeding or bathing with them
“The elephant is like screaming. They kept the chain on the elephant too?! You’re not trying to hide it at all... that you’re doing this to the elephant... okay.” 😂
I've been to Thailand twice and spent some time with the elephants. The elephant handlers use a stick with a hook on its end to control the elephant. It's definitely animal cruelty. Also, I have seen some handlers using it to hit the elephants on the head. Once my trip partner and I saw a handler hitting the elephant so harshly and yelled at him to stop. I nearly cried. The poor elephant! The elephants used in this video are being abused for this photoshoot. Add it to the long list of problematic ANTM photoshoots. The chair on the elephant's back is very heavy, causes bruising and skin irritation, and might also cause spine deformations after many years of carrying tourists. There are places where you can ride the elephants bareback if you really want to experience elephant riding, which is not great either, but more humane and reasonable. The terrain of Thai forests is sometimes steep, muddy, and slippery, which is why they would use an elephant to get to the shooting site. The elephants are very smart and stable so they'd be an alternative for anyone who doesn't wanna sink into the knee-high slippery mud. The leg trick is something the handlers teach the elephants, that allows them to easily climb on the elephant's neck. It's not necessarily harmful to the elephant's foot. I spent time with rescued elephants, learned about their health, food, hygiene, and even got to play with adorable baby elephants. The babies are very playful. Elephants are intelligent, smart, and beautiful animals that are unfortunately being abused very badly all over Thailand and sometimes spend all their lives tied, beaten, starved, and exploited in animal shows. It's slowly changing, but it will take some time until Thailand completely outlaws elephant abuse (as well as other types of common animal abuse for the sake of the tourism industry: monkeys, tigers, oxen, and snakes). I hope I answered some of your questions.
Not EVER a fan of using live animals for their entertainment. They whip them, put cuffs around their ankles, carrying too much weight, walking ALL DAY LONG. It's disgusting.
I'm always so excited for your videos, Jessica! They definitely make my days in quarantine a lot easier. I especially love these ANTM series, your commentary is great and it shows how problematic the show is, I can't believe I used to watch it on TV all the time when I was younger. Also your makeup is amazing, that blue metalic eyeshadow/ eyeliner! Hope you have a great day, all the love! xx
Rewatching this is heartbreaking. The sticks they use to beat them and force them to pose in. The way it’s body language and sounds it makes it so hard to not feel hurt. And with them being so emotionally intelligent aside from just being extremely smart, this is so painful. It’s literally the same as taking a human and chaining them up, poking them with a pointy stick that can scar you and forcing them to do tricks. Agh I thought I’d be ok rewatching this but I’m dying again all over for them 😢
I love to see you being so emotionally involved in what the elephant is going through! I'd really love to recommend a very eye-opening documentary to you, it's called 'Dominion' and it's free to watch online. It's about how we treat different species in general. Would love to hear your thoughts on that, love your content! Greetings from Germany xx
The thing is - I know the reason you're asking for experts opinions regarding the Elephant & it's the same reason I would ask - To put your mind at ease because you really want to be told that the animal ISN'T actually suffering (That's my assumption anyway) But yeah... This isn't right. I always tend to go with my gut & if what I'm looking at seems wrong - I will go with that answer. You are obviously a beautiful soul & I thank God for people like you. Thank you for bringing this to light XXX
That scene was really hard to watch. The fact that nobody in the show even cared about the hook or the chain, and animal abuse in this video is heartbreaking. It's cool that you posted your reaction and get people talking about it.
I remember watching this live & was PISSED to see the abuse of these animals. So wrong. Bullhook being used. So much weight on them. Thailand historically abuses its elephants. And not a damn person said ANYTHING about it. Gross.
You can tell immediately after he said how they were gonna be getting to the middle of the jungle, that some of the models knew how unethical this was.
Thank you for taking the time to add the information you did on the cruelty towards elephants. I only just found your channel and already I'm proud to support your content.
RhodesAmir i see you under every single comment. why are you justifying this animal abuse? also you dont know that person, maybe they are vegan. even if they eat meat they may buy high quality meat that doesnt contribute to exploitation of animals
@@user-pt5hk3po3t high quality meat dosnt contribute to exploitation of animals okkkkkk they arent making a profit from selling that product they arent putting a bolt through that animals had and somtimes surviving they arent being caged okokokokokok
@@ryanchen3074 im not justifying animal abuse i just think there is no difference between this and eating meat your contributing towards animal abuse in some type of way so in my opinion you cant comment on this becuase meat eaters are no better
I had to skip through filming of the shoot. I honestly couldn’t bear to see the elephants treated this way & clearly, so frightened & distressed. Elephants are so beautiful & one of the most intelligent species on the planet. Treating these noble animals, this way, was more than I could bear to look at. Don’t support elephant rides, circuses, etc, as their “training” is actually horrific abuse. Similarly, some of the “cute” animal vids, you see, are a result of abuse eg “walking” dogs dressed as small kids (ruins their spine, too), the “washing” rat (trying to get the suds off because it burns them). Anything that is outside of an animal’s usual behavior, has usually been created through abuse & force. Man, I despise those who hurt animals! 😢 💔
I love your ANTM reactions! I always thought they were too hard on the girls. Have you ever thought about reacting to Make Me A Super Model? It was a show simular to ANTM on Bravo in the 00s.
I’m from Cambodia and what I know is that yes, elephants had been used as a mode of transportation for thousands of years by Khmer, Thai and Lao royals. However they revered the elephants and treated them with respect. But nowadays, those poor creatures are being exploited and abused for tourism gains. And whats more enraging is that most people here seem to be unfazed by the fact.
:( that's so sad.
It breaks my heart thinking about how I can’t do nothing to help them🙁😭
I read from a National Geographic veterinarian Dr. Evan Antin that most elephants on these places go through a process called "phajaan" that's basically crushing the elephants spirits by beating, starving and torturing them in all sort of ways to the point that the animals obey every single command. Look it up, it's something very terrible.
I read that riding on elephants is bad for their backs :/ elephants aren’t build to have so much weight/pressure put on their spines
Any animal that is ridden is not "treated with respect" FYI, if they were, they wouldn't be ridden!
Elephants are - and this is true - not a part of the dinosaur family.
Haha, like they aren’t even reptiles. Maybe she was thinking wooly mammoths which are prehistoric.
@@GC-pq6vm wooly mammoths arent even related to dinosaurs 😭 They belong to the extinct genus Mammuthus and were on a whole different evolutionary playing field
@@ViVi-ev3rx I know they’re not. I never said they were. I was just saying maybe the simple reason she confused them with dinosaurs is because they are extinct as well.
@@GC-pq6vm I wasn't making a comment about you. I was furthering the discussion about how wrong her assumption was
Myth: busted
A lot of animals are scared by camera flashes, so they have no idea how much danger they are putting the models in when they are getting the elephant spooked or agitated.
Exactly, imagine the tons of that animal if he got really angry...its ANTM what can we expect...yet they will PS the models just cause.
@@MissJiGsSong I went to this aquarium in San Francisco that had an albino crocodile and there are warnings not to use flash photography because that would hurt its eyes due to its condition.
The thing I don’t understand is that THEY ARE SHOOTING UNDER THE SUN!!! There is that beautiful natural light and they’re just like ‘screw the sun, we are using the flash that will do harm to the animals.’ WTF is wrong with this program. (Everything, I know.)
@@lialeeCO I thought the same thing. Imo it's almost like they were trying to provoke the elephants for some good dramatic tv... but idk if it counts as good tv if someone literally gets trampled
Yes this was what upset me the most. They put these girls in danger for a cool picture! Wild animals are unpredictable and then they upset the animal with weird lights and sounds and people, so they were just asking for something bad to happen. Thank God every one was safe.
I went to Thailand and visited an elephant sanctuary and we NEVER got on top of them. We bathed them, gave them food, played with them and they NEVER reacted like that. They were peaceful because they were happy. It's so obvious that they are in distress. Ugh, hate this photoshoot. And I'm glad that you did a reaction to this because I didn't know they had this episode. Jessica, you are showing us the real ANTM and it's not cute, to say the least. And thanks for that.
Do you have the name of this sanctuary? I really want to visit one but I’m scared that I will accidentally go to a sanctuary that actually exploits the animals.
Because you visited a SANCTUARY. this is the places where elephants are being kept after being rescued from captivity. in other places in Thailand (mostly in northern Thailand) elephants are being used and abused for tourism/labour since they are born. the babied are seperated from their mothers, being whipped, poked, screamed at, denied food, chained and brutalized. that in order to make them docile and obedient as adult elephants. the abuse continues throughout their entire lives. the ones that are rescued and kept in a sanctuary for their own protection are the lucky ones.
Ideally yes, but I have read articles done by Nat. Geo. that found some sanctuaries are actually run by the same people running elephant rides and they just move the elephants between the two businesses. I think it takes really careful and thorough research to find a good one.
Not an animal expert but I watched a short documentary once on elephants in Thailand about how violent the training process is, and how having people on their backs actually deform their spines because is not made for that. So yeah, really not a good shoot.
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yep this is def animal abuse
That’s what I always understood too was that riding the elephant in and of itself is abuse, let alone how horribly most of them are treated
Imagine the horse and people with over weight or more than two adults per horse so sad.
Agreed. These amazing animals deserve to be free.
I always noticed and never understood how one of the models could be killing it in the shoot but then the final photo they pick is the worst
The winner is usually picked out pretty early so they use pics that are fitting for the narrative.
I always kind of think the photographer also fucked up with some of the shots, so maybe most of them are unusable, so they pick the best from what they have?
It’s crazy how we would watch this like it was nothing back in the day WOW
Yeah seriously! I never questioned it when I was younger, just thought it was cool they got to be near an elephant 🤦🏽♀️
@@KCorrina3 +qaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa@aa
Idk, there was certain things that when i saw as they were coming out that they rubbed me in the wrong way, one of them was the fake smile of Tyra for those girls.
I know right? I started watching ANTM again recently because I got bored and was literally cringing through the majority of each episode. It’s kind of amazing how our perception of things change in a few decades.
Girl. Elephants are mammals. All mammals descended from a small tree shrew like animal that was present during the age of dinosaurs
whenever a model says she is struggling with something, Tyra just immediately goes "oh I had a worse experience than you and still pulled through, so your experience is not as valid as mine, suck it up and move on"
I HATE people like that. No one experiences the same thing, our bodies and chemistry are different to others. Tyra says that, but I doubt she's being honest about any of it. She just wants to insert herself into everyone's situation so they feel bad for her. It's manipulation
@@Akhhmorn even if two people do experience the exact same things, they'll have different reactions because they are two different people.
It's like when the girls had to model in a pool floating on their backs. Cari-Dee got hypothermia, but Amanda didn't. They were in the exact same water, but obviously, it was too much for Cari-Dee.
And I also hated how Nigel said that she was high maintenance for being sick.
Elephants shouldn’t be ridden, the extra weight deforms their spine and causes long term pain and damage. Also elephants are not going to let you ride them naturally, often in cases like these the elephants are taken from the wild as babies and have their spirit “broken” by repeated abuse and torture to make them compliant to their captors, any time you see an elephant in a circus, or tv show, it has almost certainly gone through this treatment(except in the very rare cases of one being raised in captivity and already docile around people and could have been trained through positive reinforcements, but again it’s rare)
Also the body language of the elephants shows they’re clearly distressed, the trumpeting and the head swaying, it’s probably because they’re surrounded by people with flashing lights, shouting in their direction, with people climbing all over them, not to mention the people that break the elephants will likely be around them with big sharp sticks making sure they don’t play up too much. It’s heartbreaking and that’s why I urged people to NEVER endorse animal circuses or anything of that nature
Edit: I wrote this before I saw the psa Jessica wrote, which is true!
What psa?
Thank you for this. When Jay said "They'll get used to flashing lights", I was like "What?!?". The Elephant is reacting that way because they're stressed.
They do this same exact stuff to horses. We should not ride horses either.
@Superb Listic I think the question was "what announcement and where", not what psa means.
Ember I was just gonna say like they do to horses and bulls.
I’m a student in Animal Science and this photo shoot is making me extremely uncomfortable. Although elephants have been used historically for transportation, the amount of people on these elephants is crazy. Also, the tool the handler is using is called a bullhook. These are typically used on sensitive portions of an elephants skin such as behind the ear to control the animal. It’s a very uncomfortable and painful especially when used on these sensitive areas. Furthermore, elephants are prey animals! flashing will spook them. Both the use of the bullhook and flash photography is inducing a stress response on these elephants. By Jay stating “after a few flashes she’ll get used to it,” is bullshit. As a prey animal, the stress response will only subside once the animal is away from the situation or deems the situation to be safe. Elephants are extremely affected by stress hormones secreted during the stress response. By being mounted and constantly dealing with flashes, I do not think the animal “will get used to it.”
On a positive note, I really love your videos! I’m glad you are drawing attention to these issues in the media! 💜
I hope your studies are going well 💜
It is not okay to use wild animal for a photoshoot!! Elephant is clearly in distress, it is painful to watch!! The hook they are using, is made for elephant to feel pain and obey commands...
You can also see the scratches and bits missing from their ears which are from those hooks and other implements of abuse. I started watching this but had to stop once I saw those because I've seen too many documentaries and know what they are from and I can't watch animals actively being abused.
@@xstanstanstan And the chain!
Lol Tyra would claim to have every disease in the book if she could use it as an anecdote on why the girls shouldn't complain. Goddamn.
Yes, so much this. THEY STALK THESE GIRLS. Tyra probably pulls out a medical journal or something before each judging panel just to be able to one up them and invalidate their issues
Apologies, misclicked.
“Elephants are part of the dinosaur family” wtf! They are mammals. This is awful.
If you watch that season of ANTM she is sooo crazy and out there. Lol, it's funny but also like...girl really?
I think she meant the fact that mammoth‘s are their ancestors. Since Mammoths we’re around during the time of the dinosaurs I think she tried to connect those dots, but she didn’t quite get there🤣🤣
I cringed so hard at that part hahaha glad I wasn't the only one
@@minoaraemammoths weren't around during the time of dinosaurs but I get what you mean. They are prehistoric.
@@minoarae The last mammoths, on an island, went extinct about 4 thousand years ago, compared to dinosaurs who went extinct 65 million years ago. Mammoths were around when humans were around, so it's a very large time span between dinosaurs and mammoths.
Its always been ironic to me that they called her high maintenance considering it was revealed they barely fed these girls . They barely gave them food and because of shooting hours they would rarely get sleep but then they'd wonder why the girls were sick?? She wasn't high maintenance she a human being who's body was clearly reacting to the poor conditions they were placed in. smh
Angelea Preston, former contestant & winner, said in an interview said they shot 15-18 hours without eating!!!!
The girl had a bit of food poisoning and they somehow managed to translate that as her being 'high maintainance'? What?
They are very manipulative
If you listen to his voice it was obviously a joke. Danielle was a favorite that entire season.
I definitely do not believe Nigel said that in response to Danielle being in the hospital. That was clearly edited lol.
I think the editing made it a bit out of context. I think the joke was while she was staying in the hospital she was being damanding so he jokes she was high maintenance. Not that she was high maintenence BECAUSE she went to the hospital 😅
Yeah, in the past they’ve fed the girls undercooked chicken so they would have gastric distress so that way it would stir up “drama” for the show when someone gets sick like that. Disgusting
Poor elephants. I love them, they"re so gentle and sensitive. :(
They say they remember you
Fun fact, the hormone released in humans when they see something cute, like a puppy or a baby; is released in elephants when they see a human 😊 🐘
Elephants are extremely smart and sensitive. If a poacher killed one of their own or mistreated them one year and comes back the next. The elephant will remember who you are and what you did. That saying of; "an elephant never forgets." Is actually true. So the elephant will get revenge on whoever mistreats them. I love elephants as much as I love foxes and I don't like the idea of ANTM using the animals as props.
That reminds me of the phrase “an elephants memory “.
I learned that on the jungle book the newer live action one.
And the way they grieve! 😭 I also love foxes, by the way. Fennec and arctic are especially amazing. I think if I was an animal, I'd hope to be an artcic fox. 😅
Can we also discuss the cycle after this where they had the girls dress up like matadors and go in an arena with a live freakin bull?! And that animal was mad and so scared like the whole time.
You know why they didn't let them shave their legs before getting in the jungle for the shoot? Because this whole episode is actually just an ad for that razor. The shoot itself wasn't just "for an ad", the show is the real product and the real ad. "This razor is so great you can even use it in the jungle" is the message theyre trying to send and theyre just using their reality show where they bully young and vulnerable women as an excuse to advertise to probably similarly young and vulnerable women.
Yeah they used alot of covergirl makeup on the show too which makes the makeup challenges just feel like a big ad
Its literally all just product placement. They dont even pretend it isnt. He wouldnt pitch the 'usefulness' if he werent being paid fistfulls of money to do so.
@@RawringTaters its so wild looking back and realizing that because when this show was in its prime I was a child and I didnt have the foresight to realize when someone was just selling me something but watching it now im just like this whole show isn't even a show its just an ad
Duh isnt it obvious that its just an add?
@@Blue-wz5um So true, I watched it in my teens so did notice it more. But to re watch its almost like the making fun of product placement in waynes world. 'Ok hold up the pepsi can and then eat a dorito girls, now you better pretend you like the razor because you are here for free so this pays your wages'
The poor elephant is like “I get the impression you want me to lift you up, so could you just get up there already, I’m tired of lifting you with my leg.”
I’m from southeast asia, elephant riding is definitely an abuse to the elephants.
when you have hamburgers and eat them whats the difference i cant see one
@@amirrhodesve791 do you eat hamburger?
@@amirrhodesve791 Why do you automatically skip to accuse people when they feel empathy for these elephants? All they’re doing is saying it’s sad, there’s no reason to hate on these random people.
@@lemoncucumber9832 i know i get that but you need realise that eating meat is killing our planet and animals including elephants vegans create 40% less carbon emissions what indirectly helps animals around the world and farmed animals
@@amirrhodesve791 classic case of whataboutism
Tyra always has to one up everyone else and make it sound like she had it it worse and she was fine so get over it. Someone else’s pain does not negate your own!
“The elephant reacts badly to the camera going off.” “The elephant gets upset by the flashes.” Okay so why tf did you put the elephant in an environment with the those things that you know make it upset? Like don’t do that then it’s that easy. And besides taking care of the elephant, every time the elephant got upset and reared back I was afraid of the girls falling off. This is safe for no one.
They think that they don't have emotions or a logical mind like humans
Not only were they stressing out the elephants and making them anxious, but they also put the models at risk.
Btw: the hook thing is often used to cut the elephant and just be awful to them, people are so horrible to animals and it makes me so mad
This show is such a mess, I don't know how we couldn't see how problematic everything they did was 😂😂
Cuz we were like 12 years old
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I loved this show when I was younger and there are some seasons I watched a few years ago that I liked and don’t think were bad like this. I’m so disgusted by some of the episodes she’s reacted to and I don’t even remember them it’s nasty
Education changes how we view things. It’s not wrong that we didn’t know. It would be wrong if we didn’t change our behaviour once we know. Xx
Because we lived in a world where people didn't get offended over every goddamn thing
I remember when I first saw this, I literally thought nothing of it, I even thought it was a really beautiful shoot... Didn't know about how horrible the treatment of elephants is in this business at the time :((((
Same. This photoshoot was one that I still remembered almost 20 years later.
Poor elephants 🐘😥
They could have shoot somewhere else without using the elephant's
Thailand is beautiful enough, no need any of that
They could have photoshopped an elephant in the photo too
Get a guy model thats dressed as big foot. It makes more sense anyway
Imaging wearing couture dresses in different locations of Bangkok. That would look like out a Vogue Magazine!
... Or a fashion editorial at the Grand Palace lol. ANTM needs to hire me! 😎
This. There are plenty of Elephant sanctuaries where they could have shot and just had the elephants in the background. Some trainers are bonded enough with the herd that they can get them to gather in specific areas (usually via bribing), so they could have green-screened them on an elephant with real ones in the background.
Elephants are my favorite animal and seeing how they are being treated in this enrages me. Seriously want to take that bull hook and go after those ppl.
I think in India they treat them much better, like instead of poking them and hurting them to direct them they massage the back of their either right or left ears to tell them how to turn. Like why abuse an animal?
we gotta love jessica for always addressing the _elephant_ in the room in these shoots
Haha see what you did there
Tyra ALWAYS knows how to make everything about her reliving her model glory days.
Danielle: ..And I had a little bit of food poisoning.
Tyra: You know when I was a model...
We get it but like, fml. And poor elephants. Completely unnecessary for the shoot.
My girl was only a serious model for about 3 years and won’t let us forget it 🤣
18:22 Having stomach pain and tolerating it and having your body litterally give up due to dehydration (if I remember correctly) and having to be hospitalized are two totally different things Tyra, smh
She just loves to belittle other people's problems
She has IBS which is pretty easy to manage once you learn your trigger foods. PS I have it too.
Seriously, imagine if a model showed up to an actual shoot dehydrated to the point of fainting, the photographer would be like “why are you here? Go to the hospital”
Something tells me they did something on set to make that happen to Danielle too, like how did she get exhaustion in the first place!
@@Gabriyona "It's *literally* the worst pain in the world."
Me: A 'complex' patient that was approved for disability at 25 on the *first* application for chronic pain. My average is so high that I shattered my hand and the ER (despite a bone obviously sticking at a right angle) thought there was nothing wrong because I was speaking calmly and rated my *hand* as a 4 on the pain scale because the rest of me was a constant 8.
Tyra: "It's the worst ever!"
Me: Honey, have you ever laughed at your metacarpals being pulverized because it was at *least* a distraction? 'Comon sweetie.
She said she had a little bit of food poisoning. Which, maybe it was just lost in translation, but you don't have 'a little bit of food poisoning'. She was probably dehydrated because of the of food poisoning.
You are very considerate and kind for bringing up concerns about the photoshoot and then deciding to research it yourself and give us some info in the post-production of editing this video.
Chair not included, That elephant carried around 500lbs on his back 🤦♀️elephants are not vehicles or props, they are beautiful living creatures that want to live in peace, LET THEM LIVE IN PEACE!
I know that the main problem is the mistreatment of so many living things. Buy can we also talk about how painfully obvious it is that this episode is sponsored by Venus?
The elephants seem so stressed wth, this is definitely animal cruelty...
Don't be absurd
@@jmanjr you are
@@jmanjr read up about elephant riding and abuse and educate yourself before calling others absurd. and if you're planning to say karen or ok boomer, sure thing living thinking in your bubble haha.
@@pukimak5892 So you don't really know who you are talking to. How do you know that I've not been an animal trainer for most of my life and that I've worked with elephants on many many occasions? It's clear by your assumptions and the way you and others are treating me here who is in the wrong here.
People nowadays think they can read something on the internet and all of a sudden "they're educated" and know all there is to know. Sorry to break it to you but did you ever considering your resources may be biased and inaccurate?
@@jmanjr if you're an animal trainer for the most of your life and that you've worked with elephants on many many occasions, i beg you to refer to thailand's elephant industry, and the very clear simple example of abuse through the hooks on the ears attached to them.
first of all, thank you for even coming up with a reply that show that you do consider my words. however, i would implore you to actually refer to documentaries, articles of the very real abusive elephant culture here.
from your words, i can infer (and i can only hope) that your own experiences as an animal trainer as well as you working with elephants has been nothing but pleasant and positive reinforcement.
however, the fact that your statement of "people nowadays think they can read something off the internet and all of a sudden they're educated" contradicts the exact notion of "so you don't really know who you are talking to." no? who are you to think that i am someone who do not check my sources and have not been a tourist myself and doing my research based on actual trustworthy articles and others who actually experience the elephant riding culture to decide on my own to not support this abusive and problematic industry.
as someone as experienced as you are, are you really going to tell me that elephant riding and all the abuse behind it, especially for tourism does not exist? if yes, then i wish you jolly well great luck in your bubble again.
This hurts my heart. Thank you for using your platform to inform people about how cruel riding elephants is. Same for having them paint stuff etc.
Its a bull hook. It causes pain so they can control them
Exactly. Since elefants have such thick skin, they use these tools with pointed metal ends to be able to control the elefants. Which can be very painful for the animal. Most elephants used for tourists are horribly mistreated.
It's not just about the pain, the elephants are conditioned from a young age to be vary of the stick so as adult elephants even without pain being inflicted just the hook near them or around them allows the handler to control them.
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Thank you so much for adding the PSA notes about elephants, I love your empathy and compassion. Just finding your channel, and from one photographer and retoucher Jessica to another, I love your content and am so happy to learn and find inspiration in your content 🙏🙂
Crazy I mentioned this in the crocodile shoot!!
I think the pictures and concept were really cool, but I felt for the elephants. It's very stressful for them and you can see how scared they were. I think I even saw a prod with a hook in the corner. Elephants are sadly very abused animals, and I have my doubts whether they were wellkept or not.
Its called a bullhook, they do in fact hurt elephants with them...
you probably eat cow pig and chicken stop acting like you do good for the animals for this planet
@@amirrhodesve791 you literally don’t know these people, stop judging them for nothing.
@@amirrhodesve791 I personally do , but I make sure my meat was treated humanly throughout it's life even in death the animal should not be tortured
And they are doing a photoshoot about their legs like....if they want for the elephant to appear, you can barely see their legs, the elephant would be the major point of it, so...this was poorly though.
This use to be my favorite photo shoot from ANTM growing up because I love elephants. Now I feel like crying, this is so horrible.
i hope this video opens up to the idea for people to look into how problematic elephant riding is. we don't have to use animals and abuse them for likes/comments please. go and take up photoshop and learn how to photoshop yourselves onto elephants if you really need that ig photo please. i hope people become more aware and NOT contribute to this problematic industry. it hurts my heart, imagine how the elephants feel.
go vegan then!
@@amirrhodesve791 r/foundthevegan
There's other ways to help besides going vegan, and it's not like I eat elephants or use products with elephant in it do I have no clue how you think going vegan is relevant in this situation
@ becuase there are animals going through things much worse then this for our profit our actions in out daily life dont effect elephants but they do of pigs cows and chickens but we dont care about them do you just choose who to feel bad for
@ why not try changing the things we can phisically change rather then trying to help animals cross the world and help our ones first then them maybe?
@@amirrhodesve791 why can’t we do both?
Joanie had come straight from like 6 hours at the dentist, too. ANTM basically forced her and Danielle to choose to get their teeth fixed or not. Joanie chose to do it and Danielle chose not to do it. (Joanie is now a mom and a carpenter for HGTV shows. She’s my favorite contestant ever from the show!)
Joanie was my favorite and i wanted her to win so bad, i’m glad she’s doing good now!
The elephant is definitely in distress... The stick they’re holding is used for giving the animal directions, which isn’t inherintly bad if used gently. However the fact that the handelers are allowing this circus tells me they don’t care much for the animals’ wellbeing. Riding elephans is abuse in my book, simple as that. Also, elephants are absolutely not in the dinosaur family, if you want a real modern dinosaur go find a cassowary. Except those birds can kill an adult human with one kick, so, yknow. Maybe don’t 😅
How do you feel about horse riding? I dont think that it is inherently bad as long as the animals are respected and cared for, but this doesn't seem to be the case here :/
The stick is a bull hook, it is used to cause obedience through pain and it is inherently bad
@@carrieon2912 Riding elephants I’m pretty sure inherently is not bad, but in a lot of contexts it is. The same way that you can hurt the horse if you ride incorrectly, it’s the same for this. Elephant riding has been turned into a tourist attraction were they pile on multiple people constantly and abuse elephants into submission.
@@lemoncucumber9832 Yes it is bad please see how they train elephants (search Phajaan). I am Thai btw. No form of elephant riding or using the bullhook is ethical.
@@carrieon2912 Its not bad unless the rider makes it painful for the horse
"does this mean the elephant is distressed?"
Ad immediately after: stressed out??
This is so wrong, but I couldn't stop laughing when I saw the acronym for World Animal Protection is WAP
I worked for them when I was young LOL that's funny
😂😂😂😂
Haha. Cardi B 😜
Macaroni in the pot, that’s some World Animal Protection!
This has been the most outrageous photoshoot so far. Thank you for raising awareness. People are so vain to just get a photo with an animal that is subjected to ultimate cruelty and neglect. It's just heartbreaking.
no, this is far from antm's worst
@@kennethkho7165 which is worse
they are in fact, not apart of the dinosaur family LMFOA SJD
And not really preposterous either... 😂😂😂
I couldn’t stand Jade 💀
Jade thought she was so damn smart. 😂 hell Furonda and her were talking to each other in one of the episodes, they were having some sort of disagreement, and Furonda says to Jade that she puts on a "facade." Jade asks her what that means. Like, I get not knowing that word, but since Jade didn't know what it meant, she talked to Furonda like she was an idiot, when in actuality, Furonda is super smart and is now a lawyer! But anyway, Jade was too much. But I loved her sometimes.
...do you to say they're not a part of the dinosaur fam? saying they're not apart means that they are together, a part and apart have opposite meanings
They steal the elephants from their mothers, and beat them, abuse them, starve them, and are just downright cruel to them. It makes me sick to my stomach to think about how these intelligent animals, that are extremely family oriented and matriarchal, are treated for dumb tourists to ride and pet.
I’m so glad Jessica showed those statistics and took time to educated herself and her audience. This is a really important issue.
Thank you for being a compassionate person. Your influence will help the majestic beings
Those hooks have been used ( currently ) in circus to stab/ latch the elephant ears to guide them around. That why in zoo's in America or rescues you see elephant with shredded ears. You can see that this elephant ears have been mangled beyond reality 😥😢
I was looking at its ears and wondering. That’s terrible
Damn that’s so sad 🥺
You’re so cute being so concerned about the elephant. I feel the same way. Especially when it comes to giraffes. They’re so beautiful and just AHHH, why do this to animals!
"she's too stiff" she's on top of a very nervous elephant!!
I'm terribly late to this video, but I just recently found your channel and have been binging for days. I just want to say, as a new sub, you are a beautiful soul. You have a huge sense of respect for all people and animals. I'm glad to have found your channel.
If I didn't already know this episode is several years old I'd be able to tell just from the fact that they're riding the elephants. Now in 2020 in Thailand elephant sanctuaries are huge, they're places to go and get tip close with elephants without riding them, and they teach you all about how abusive this riding is. My heart hurts watching this
I know someone who just went Thailand and they were riding them and all that. I was so upset with them for not researching how bad it was for the elephants
I think it's great that you raise awareness about animals and the elephants in this particular case. I truly respect your video, good job!
Not only was this awful for the elephant who didn't deserve that at all but also Danielle was in the ER for basically 3 problems the day before and she had to drag herself out of the hospital bed to be there. The models and the animals always got the last end of the straw.
And I'm gonna continue to ask you to react to Asia's Next Top Model because I always enjoyed it way more than America's version. And there are so many cool photoshoots. When you compare the America's photoshoot with the zodiac signs to the Chinese Zodiac signs in Asia's Next Top Model, it is night and day, mah god.
The way they reacted like it was just a drama, or a tiny thing.... It grossed me out, like, do they know what's like to be on the oxygen? And having to model on top of a freakin wild and scared animal? This show makes me sick. I have the flu right now, because it makes me sick
@Kya Rochefort How can I watch the Asian one? I always loved the Aussie one - was able to watch 2,5 seasons online - way more because it was very respectful, the girls were friendly towards one another and it was much more about fashion and talent. They had a few challenging shoots, but those were often linked to actual designers or possibilities instead of the shock factor. I'm assuming the Asian is similar.
@@misssunnydee Actually the first 3 seasons are on RUclips ! And yes, it's pretty great. There are a few moments where I go "Damn that judge was rough.". But other than that, way better than America's version
I hate the fact that we all watched this stuff as children and just thought everything is completely fine. Especially the the girls just have to do whatever the people say.
I use a men’s razor too!!! They also work better along with being cheaper!
The pink tax
@@moonbook12 The pink tax isn't a real thing and has been debunked before. Women's products are more expensive because they often use more ingredients and serve multiple purposes ie Women's shampoo has more ingredients in order to treat their hair in multiple ways, whereas mens shampoo will usually just have enough to clean the hair and not much else
@@PlaystationSimmer I dare you to pick up a pink pack of basic women's razors and compare it to a basic pack of men's razors. Everything on the "women's aisle" is more expensive reguardless of weither they have more ingredients. You can literally see it for yourself if you bother to check. The "pink tax" has _not_ been debunked. Unless you want to pretend it isn't there and bury your head in the sand.
@@PlaystationSimmer Not true.....
I have a men's safety razor.
Jessica---PREACH. You are so right about the "Pink Tax," raising prices on female products. Let's also talk about the fact that men's razors are way more efficient. A lot of them have 4 or 5 blades, when the average women's razor has no more than 3.
Girl, just buy the men's razor then.
Jessica: I don't wanna be like "oh the elephant" every two seconds...
Me every two seconds: OMG THAT POOR CREATURE! 😞
So, yes, I get your feelings Jessica... It was hard for me too... 😞
I love elephants, they're my favorite. I used to want to ride one as a kid, of course I was a kid, I didn't know any better. Bless the internet for being able to spread the word and research these things.
Now I'd love to go to a sanctuary or safari to see them in the wild.
The should've used nature it self without animals. I saw this in a magazine I would be looking at the elephant not the model or what the ad is for. Posing around trees would've been way better and catchy for the ad
jesseforlife completely agree you can do the same thing on a tree 😭😭😭😭
@@elijah918 Yup. Sometimes I question why animals are in ads if it's not pet food than the animal shouldn't be in the photo. Poor animals. I would've laughed if that elephant threw them off her back
7:19 the elephant definitely seemed distressed, but it's also possible that ANTM added the elephant trumpet sound effect post-filming.
Awww i feel bad for the elephant you can see how distressed it is
this is basically abuse
ANTM is so problematic
1. The trumpets were edited in.
2. Its an elephant hook, its sharp and they hook it into the ears.
3. No, theyre not in the dinosaur family lmao.
4. The raised leg is trained. He wasn't trumpeting while doing so.
clearly the elephants are in distress with the whole thing going on :((((( as far as i know, elephants used for rides and stuff undergo a cruel process or smthn so they will obey the keeper :< i did a quick search and in 2019 most elephant camps stopped doing the rides and kept it to only feeding or bathing with them
Glad to hear it's getting better
“The elephant is like screaming. They kept the chain on the elephant too?! You’re not trying to hide it at all... that you’re doing this to the elephant... okay.” 😂
Back at it again with the animal exploitation. They love it on that show.
99% of people love it
When the animal is in distress, here in Brazil, it means ANIMAL ABUSE and you go to jail for that.
Thank you! A lot of people don't care about hurting animals specially in this industry
They picked photos where we can barely see the chain cause they knew this was wrong
I've been to Thailand twice and spent some time with the elephants. The elephant handlers use a stick with a hook on its end to control the elephant. It's definitely animal cruelty. Also, I have seen some handlers using it to hit the elephants on the head. Once my trip partner and I saw a handler hitting the elephant so harshly and yelled at him to stop. I nearly cried. The poor elephant!
The elephants used in this video are being abused for this photoshoot. Add it to the long list of problematic ANTM photoshoots. The chair on the elephant's back is very heavy, causes bruising and skin irritation, and might also cause spine deformations after many years of carrying tourists. There are places where you can ride the elephants bareback if you really want to experience elephant riding, which is not great either, but more humane and reasonable. The terrain of Thai forests is sometimes steep, muddy, and slippery, which is why they would use an elephant to get to the shooting site. The elephants are very smart and stable so they'd be an alternative for anyone who doesn't wanna sink into the knee-high slippery mud. The leg trick is something the handlers teach the elephants, that allows them to easily climb on the elephant's neck. It's not necessarily harmful to the elephant's foot.
I spent time with rescued elephants, learned about their health, food, hygiene, and even got to play with adorable baby elephants. The babies are very playful.
Elephants are intelligent, smart, and beautiful animals that are unfortunately being abused very badly all over Thailand and sometimes spend all their lives tied, beaten, starved, and exploited in animal shows. It's slowly changing, but it will take some time until Thailand completely outlaws elephant abuse (as well as other types of common animal abuse for the sake of the tourism industry: monkeys, tigers, oxen, and snakes).
I hope I answered some of your questions.
So glad you highlighted the plight of these beautiful majestic beings
I kept waiting for the elephant to run off into the jungle with one of them
Honestly that's the only good ending, as long as it get away and becomes free. I'm going to pretend that's what happened
Not EVER a fan of using live animals for their entertainment. They whip them, put cuffs around their ankles, carrying too much weight, walking ALL DAY LONG. It's disgusting.
Just wondering how this show was so problematic and no one said anything before 2019
It was a different time. This show would definitely not fly in 2022.
i literally almost cried i’m sensitive to this kind of stuff ! this is hurting me
I‘m so glad that you call it what it is: animal exploitation. It was absolutely awful to watch 😥
I actually cried
It really wasn't
Yeah that show was wild! Glad people like you are opening our eyes to what the show was really about
I'm always so excited for your videos, Jessica! They definitely make my days in quarantine a lot easier. I especially love these ANTM series, your commentary is great and it shows how problematic the show is, I can't believe I used to watch it on TV all the time when I was younger. Also your makeup is amazing, that blue metalic eyeshadow/ eyeliner! Hope you have a great day, all the love! xx
I'm so glad you brought awareness to what is going on with the elephants
Jade is kind of the most iconic girl this show had not gonna lie. I'm glad Danielle won the season though, shes great too.
Jade is everything
I hit your like button before I watch your videos! That's how confident I am of your amazing videos!! 💖
I love that you're pointing out the animal exploitation part of these shows!
Rewatching this is heartbreaking. The sticks they use to beat them and force them to pose in. The way it’s body language and sounds it makes it so hard to not feel hurt. And with them being so emotionally intelligent aside from just being extremely smart, this is so painful. It’s literally the same as taking a human and chaining them up, poking them with a pointy stick that can scar you and forcing them to do tricks. Agh I thought I’d be ok rewatching this but I’m dying again all over for them 😢
I love to see you being so emotionally involved in what the elephant is going through! I'd really love to recommend a very eye-opening documentary to you, it's called 'Dominion' and it's free to watch online. It's about how we treat different species in general. Would love to hear your thoughts on that, love your content! Greetings from Germany xx
The thing is - I know the reason you're asking for experts opinions regarding the Elephant & it's the same reason I would ask - To put your mind at ease because you really want to be told that the animal ISN'T actually suffering (That's my assumption anyway) But yeah... This isn't right. I always tend to go with my gut & if what I'm looking at seems wrong - I will go with that answer. You are obviously a beautiful soul & I thank God for people like you. Thank you for bringing this to light XXX
i have to add i really appreciate your genuine concern for the animals in these videos. you're a good person, jessica. x
Rewatching these with you is so crazy! That elephant is so upset!
That scene was really hard to watch. The fact that nobody in the show even cared about the hook or the chain, and animal abuse in this video is heartbreaking. It's cool that you posted your reaction and get people talking about it.
I remember watching this live & was PISSED to see the abuse of these animals. So wrong. Bullhook being used.
So much weight on them.
Thailand historically abuses its elephants.
And not a damn person said ANYTHING about it. Gross.
You can tell immediately after he said how they were gonna be getting to the middle of the jungle, that some of the models knew how unethical this was.
I think they just worried about riding there out of fear perhaps? Don’t get the feeling they cared much beyond that :/
@@emjacobstattoo2767 I doubt it would be in the show if anyone did mention it, so who really knows.
Thank you for taking the time to add the information you did on the cruelty towards elephants. I only just found your channel and already I'm proud to support your content.
I HATE WHEN PEOPLE USE ANIMALS HDKSSHJSJD NO
you probably eat meat so you cant say anything tbh
RhodesAmir i see you under every single comment. why are you justifying this animal abuse? also you dont know that person, maybe they are vegan. even if they eat meat they may buy high quality meat that doesnt contribute to exploitation of animals
@@amirrhodesve791 HUH???? 1) Im literally vegan. 2) You cant justify animal abuse
@@user-pt5hk3po3t high quality meat dosnt contribute to exploitation of animals okkkkkk they arent making a profit from selling that product they arent putting a bolt through that animals had and somtimes surviving they arent being caged okokokokokok
@@ryanchen3074 im not justifying animal abuse i just think there is no difference between this and eating meat your contributing towards animal abuse in some type of way so in my opinion you cant comment on this becuase meat eaters are no better
Rewatching these is such a throwback btw your absolutely gorgeous
You are a queen! Could you react to Jay telling his truth when he final got out from under Tyra’s thumb?
Do you have a link. I've never seen that. I'd love to know what he really thought of some of the ridiculous shoots
@@Tiger89Lilly just search it on YT. There is a lot and he even wrote a book and stuff.
@@kfan61 I bet that would be a good read! Gonna watch this after thanks for the suggestion x
I had to skip through filming of the shoot. I honestly couldn’t bear to see the elephants treated this way & clearly, so frightened & distressed. Elephants are so beautiful & one of the most intelligent species on the planet. Treating these noble animals, this way, was more than I could bear to look at.
Don’t support elephant rides, circuses, etc, as their “training” is actually horrific abuse. Similarly, some of the “cute” animal vids, you see, are a result of abuse eg “walking” dogs dressed as small kids (ruins their spine, too), the “washing” rat (trying to get the suds off because it burns them). Anything that is outside of an animal’s usual behavior, has usually been created through abuse & force. Man, I despise those who hurt animals! 😢 💔
Imagine what the poor elephant must've gone through
I love your ANTM reactions! I always thought they were too hard on the girls.
Have you ever thought about reacting to Make Me A Super Model? It was a show simular to ANTM on Bravo in the 00s.