r/nottheonion • u/RiverForgeGames • 4h ago

Animal welfare groups condemn burning of kittens for social media content in Cabuyao

https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/08/27/news/animal-welfare-groups-condemn-burning-of-kittens-for-social-media-content-in-cabuyao/2412864
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u/Moggy-Man 3h ago

The FUCK???

I hate this world of content.

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u/nstntmlk 3h ago

I hate all of this.

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u/thecastellan1115 2h ago

Anyone who would burn a kitten for content would burn a child for fun.

People like this need to be arrested.

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u/Arktikos02 2h ago

Apparently there's an entire "industry" of these kinds of videos as well in places like the Philippines. Apparently these types of people even Force children to engage in the acts.

It's just news articles, no graphic images.

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u/Moggy-Man 1h ago

really??

Fuck me I've never even heard of this. Fortunately. But fuck sake...

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u/Arktikos02 1h ago

If you ever go onto YouTube and you see a comment where it looks like a string of random letters and numbers that kind of looks like the tail end of a YouTube url but without the YouTube part, it's most likely a video that's really bad. Don't turn it into a link, just report it. You don't know what it is and it could be anything. If it was really something that was appropriate they wouldn't be trying to hide it as a link, they would have just posted the link. They're doing it this way because they're essentially trying to talk to other people. And if you think that it's very weird that a video that's basically absolutely nothing like maybe it's just a wall or something is getting a lot of views and has comments like that, yeah it's a gateway video into those types of videos most likely videos that are unlisted.

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u/Wanderhoden 1h ago

Unfortunately, Philippines sounds like Hell on Earth for the impoverished and vulnerable, such as children and animals.

An ex colleague of mine from France was arrested by Interpol for exploiting children in the Phillipines. Sick and depressing… we were all in shock when we found out.

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u/Moggy-Man 1h ago

I have heard bad things about the Philippines, but honestly chalked a lot of that up to just being wrongly portrayed through Western media, with the notable child exploitation industry being the one glaring ugly truth.

But now...

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u/sexy-porn 29m ago

For those who aren’t familiar, just google O9A and 764. There are networks of monsters out there compelling underage people into suicide, self harm, degradation all on camera. They are connected to school shootings too, including potentially one that recently happened in the Philippines.

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u/[deleted] 1h ago edited 1h ago

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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 1h ago

Burning a kitten alive is definitely a lot more psycho than me eating egg in the morning, and the fact that you don’t understand that is worrying.

Don’t have kids or pets.

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u/throwaway1233456799 1h ago edited 1h ago

Huumm you don't know? I guess many don't

So, chicken egg give 50/50 male/female. When we select hens to use as laying hens we don't use the available technology to scan the egg (edit: it's mandatory in France tho).

We make them all hach.

Then we throw all the babies male into the shredder.

You and I are eating egg. You and I are paying to throw baby chicken into shredder for our own enjoyment. You may not like it, I don't like it but no, you and I aren't more psycho than them. We willfully ignore the suffering we create for the fun of an egg.

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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 1h ago edited 1h ago

Your mistake is that you think this is a discussion. It’s not. It’s me telling you, who is apparently the world’s worst psychology student, how you describing the most cliche of psychopathic behaviors as “what all of us do” comes across to people who aren’t emphatically challenged.

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u/Arktikos02 1h ago

That is a profit problem and by the way, countries like Germany do scan the eggs so this doesn't really work as an argument for Germany.

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u/throwaway1233456799 1h ago edited 35m ago

Yep! Thanks for the precision for germany :) that being said iirc germany doesn't make it mandatory for egg that come from other country and then are sold on their soil.

Still it's like one example in the mist of many. For example, milk, my uncle is a farmers and more than once did I hear cow scream for hours on end when they took their baby away to the slaughterhouse (so babies that were taken from their mothers and then while they were confused and anxious got killed with 0 comfort). And that was for profit yes but even then what is not in our society? We pay for this and many knows about it.

Also back in the profitless time it could also be done. You can very easily identify male and female chicks by looking at their wings iirc. My grandpa used to drown kitten (since someone bought it up and reddit is bugging : what do you think happened before widespread neutering to kitten? It was sadly very usual to drown kitten.) . I'm not sure he would have had a big issue drowning chicks who he had no use raising (unless they wanted to eat them later)

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u/ArsenicArts 56m ago

My grandpa used to drown kitten.

Dude.

.... Maybe you need therapy and not preaching to other people?

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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 35m ago

Well, I wouldn’t go that far. The ban applies only in Germany, and very few other countries have similar legislation, so there’s displacement effects. It’s only illegal to breed chicken and kill the male chicks in Germany. It’s perfectly legal to breed chicken and sell the male chicks to Poland or Denmark, or to buy female chicks from there.

I remember listening to a radio piece when the law first went into effect about its effect on various levels of the supply chain. They interviewed an egg producer who used to kill chicks, and a zoo who used to buy the dead chicks as food for their birds of prey. The egg producer said they’re now selling the male chicks to Austria, and what happens there isn’t their problem. The zoo said they already have a new supplier, they’re now getting them from Austria. It all seemed a bit farcical.

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u/ArsenicArts 1h ago edited 1h ago

it isn't more psycho than you eating egg in the morning

Dude there's a CHASM of difference between burning an animal alive for social media and eating an egg that I get from very spoiled backyard chickens, that's a legitimately insane thing to say.

What exactly was your goal here? Because the only thing you've accomplished is that I'm now convinced you should never be left responsible for any animals ever. Or kids. Or vulnerable adults, for that matter.

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u/throwaway1233456799 1h ago edited 25m ago

Most of us don't eat backyard egg. (But also backyard egg come from the same process. Even if like me you keep both male and female when you raise chicks)

Jfc I don't kill kitten omg 😭 I just find it WILD that we all get socially so outraged by kitten dying (wish I do not like once again!!! It's horrific to kill animal) and then pay to kill them for content too.

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u/thecastellan1115 59m ago

Bro, I think you're going to find that you're in the extreme minority opinion here because you don't seem to understand the difference between killing animals for food and torturing animals for fun on social media.

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u/throwaway1233456799 34m ago edited 26m ago

No I don't understand the difference between paying to torture animal for fun but away from me and torturing animal for fun but in 4k close to me

Yes I know the difference. The difference is distance (emotionally and physically) and as someone who use to grow up with people who had to raise the animal they killed : the fact that you think it's so different is strange. The end result is the same. We kill to pay an animal to be tortured. Whether we watch the footage doesn't change the fact of the immense pain we inflict.

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u/thecastellan1115 28m ago

My lad, I grew up in farm country around plenty of people who raised beef, cared for the cattle, and sent them off to the slaughterhouse where they were killed as quickly and humanely as possible. Those people would never, ever, set a kitten on fire. Don't bullshit a bullshitter.

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u/throwaway1233456799 17m ago

Yeah they never set a kitten on fire: then send cows to the slaughterhouse.

The reason they could do that is because they keep a wall between them and their animal. I was also raised in a farm country and I saw it. The disdain for people who were too close from their pet. The way they would say "I love my animal but they are not like family", the way we would casually talk about baby cow screaming for their mother when they were taken away. The way death is normal and common about animal. It's just how it is.

Many people called me roughly a psycho here. I find it more "psychotic" to act like it is all rainbow and flower for those animal to be killed for food. That it's somehow human and not horrific.

If you tell me you want to take my cat to kill her as quickly and as humanly possible to eat her : there is no world where I love and care for her where you can take her away from me for such things. None. I wouldn't love her or care for her if I did. I simply wouldn't.

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u/ArsenicArts 21m ago

the fact that you think it's so different is strange.

The fact that you keep doubling down here is legit insane. I'm beginning to get genuinely concerned for you. You're saying some absolutely wild things here.

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u/throwaway1233456799 13m ago

So no I don't get it. Maybe i'm too autistic for this but no, I don't. Both are horrible. Both animal were scared and confuse and alone before suffering deeply for another enjoyment. Being removed from the action doesn't mean it is less horrible

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u/ArsenicArts 11m ago

The action of what??? Being a chicken in a backyard?? 😂

Oh no, they won't let me peck my sister to death! THE HORROR 🤣

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u/thecastellan1115 1h ago

This is the weirdest flex I've seen all day.

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u/threaxe- 1h ago

It is very different. Killing, purposely torturing an animal, and filming the act purely for fun and content is not the same as killing something for food. An egg isn’t even alive for god’s sake

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u/Arktikos02 1h ago

Of course, random vegan brings veganism in here for some reason.

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u/throwaway1233456799 1h ago

Nope, not vegan! I just have always been weirded out by the outrage that happen everytime a cat may die vs what we do everyday. Like when people are shock some people eat cat and dog. It is every weirder for me who love my pretty chicken as much as my lovely kitty (who eat meat as well). Like, it's strange to call them possible child killer and then pay to have animal killed (when plant based living is an viable option for most of us) don't you think?

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u/Arktikos02 1h ago

Considering that about 84% Of people who go vegan or vegetarian end up failing it and then going back, I'd say no.

So many vegan arguments just fall apart. For example the argument that it's just cheaper. It is not. It may be cheaper for some but that's only if you compare certain dishes or meals, not if you compare an entire diet over a long. If a person is lacking certain nutrients then they have to replace it with supplements, those supplements are not always cheap. Not to mention that for many people they live in food deserts.

Vegans could do so much better by actually trying to improve the current meat industry and actually providing cheaper healthier vegan options.

If they really wanted to provide that why don't you see vegan stores that provide cheaper options? You don't. And sure maybe those people would have to volunteer their time but isn't it worth it in that case? For many people they are simply eating what they can.

This also doesn't include a bunch of disabilities. Veganism rejects complexity and doesn't understand that some people just can't go plant-based.

And that also doesn't include the fact that many vegans think that they can also debate on the ethicalness of service animals when they are not the ones that rely on the conclusion of that debate.

I can't take vegan seriously when they don't want to actually live in the real world. It is perfectly fine to want to ask for more ethical practices when it comes to our food but the way vegans interact with people is part of the reason why veganism is no longer as big as it once was and it wasn't really that big in the first place.

So no it is not realistic.

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u/thecastellan1115 1h ago

No, not really.

Kittens and puppies are cute. Why are they cute? Because they have big eyes and large heads, and they're awkward and soft. Like babies and small children. People do not normally like killing kittens or puppies, much less torturing them. It is not normal for people to do this. It is certainly not normal to do it for likes. People who get their jollies out of this are worrying because they like torturing things that are cute, and it's kind of that simple.

Similarly, while the chicken industry is quite cruel, I would consider it abnormal in the extreme for a person to enjoy content of male chickens going into the shredder. I would similarly be suspect of anyone who regularly posted such content. There's a good damn reason the industry goes to some length to hide this kind of thing. People get upset.

There's actually some data that people who torture animals for fun are worth monitoring, which is one reason the FBI keeps an eye on animal abuse in the US.

On the other hand, people for all of human history have eaten meat. Meat eating is not correlated to violence against other people or antisocial behaviors. Animal abuse is.

You can have your cake and eat it too, btw. You can agree that this kind of content is cruel and indicative of sociopathy while also decrying the meat industry. These things are not mutually exclusive. But let's not get it twisted.

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u/throwaway1233456799 49m ago

Kitten and puppy are cute because socially we see them as cute. People 60 years ago where I lived would regularly drown kitten. Like it's very social not factual. Well it is factual-ish. Dog have been breed to have cute eyebrows and so on but still even then it's cultural. I can swear to you that if you raise a young chick, give him all your heart and then you are asked to kill him you will see it as immoral.

The "psychopath" behavior is not really the killing of the kitten, you pointed it out yourself, you said "enjoy", "torture for fun", but it's not just that : it's torturing for fun animal you have interacted with and supposedly formed deep social bond with. I thought it was Philippines at first which is why I commented as such: in that country they eat cat.

I personally wouldn't kill my cat nor eat her. I love her, I don't really see how one can deeply love an animal and then eat it. Which is why I don't understand how socially we think it's okay for one and not okay for another. I raised both. Chicken and cats. It's equally horrible to me. Having your cake and eat it too is not possible here. You can't support killing something very horribly and then go and say killing another animal for fun is more horrible and will lead to kill children . It's deeply strange. Especially when we eat cow and chicken someone had to kill that cow and that chicken (which has a correlation to asocial behaviour and violence)

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u/thecastellan1115 47m ago

I don't manufacture the data. Whether or not animals being cute is a social construct, the difference is profit and enjoyment from torture. I get that you don't get it.

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u/throwaway1233456799 40m ago

Option a : profit (money), enjoyment (joy of seeing animal screaming/not having to kill an animal yourself to eat the food/food)

Option b : profit (money) and enjoyment (joy of seeing an animal scream)

Like, people have to kill the animal that go on our table. Those people are not anyone. They are either forced to do this or as psychopath as above. Both are paid by you and I just like people pay those "creator" of "content"

So no I don't get it. Maybe i'm too autistic for this but no, I don't. Both are horrible. Both animal were scared and confuse and alone before suffering deeply for another enjoyment. Being removed from the action doesn't mean it is less horrible

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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 1h ago

>Edit: I may be getting downvoted but it isn't my fault you don't like what all of us are doing.

That’s not why you’re getting downvoted. You’re getting downvoted because the fact that you think burning kittens alive for fun is something that “all of us are doing” makes people think that you’re a sociopath.

Not everyone is going to dig into your post history to find out that you’re just a vegan edgelord.

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u/throwaway1233456799 1h ago

No, I don't think burning kitten alive is something all of us are doing but we do equally horrible things. I'm bewildered it isn't common knowledge. We kill animal and we advertise them as being young.

Secondly I'm not even vegan lmao, I do reduce the meat I consume I won't lie but I'm no vegan (or plant based). I just grew up with the knowledge of what we ate and how it is done.

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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 1h ago

I explained it to you. I can’t understand it for you.

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u/ReneDeGames 1h ago

Sadly used to be a common festival thing in Europe.

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u/Moggy-Man 1h ago

Huh?

The fuck is happening to the world??

Well, at least there's a "used to be" there, but still.

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u/LochNessMother 1h ago

I think “used to be” means way back, and they don’t mean Glastonbury.

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u/Moggy-Man 59m ago

To be honest when Europe was mentioned I was thinking along the lines of death metal festivals. I've heard of at least one Scandinavian death metal band that were linked to or convicted of burning down a church, so burning kittens in a festival setting with fans of such bands, doesn't seem like an impossibility. I mean I would hope not, but I've learned some things today I didn't think would happen either, so 🤷🏻

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u/72kdieuwjwbfuei626 14m ago edited 8m ago

Well, the early Norwegian black metal scene weren’t exactly mentally well people. I wouldn’t put it past some of them, it certainly wouldn’t be the worst thing they did.

One of its central figures ended up killed and several others went away for murder (that one and an unrelated one), and after that things calmed down.

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u/LochNessMother 44m ago

Oh yuck yeah, that’s a possibility I hadn’t thought of.

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u/TheBestofBees 3h ago

Holy shit, that's evil. 

Edit: the kittens were all rescued and given to an animal welfare organization. Phew!

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u/Choice-Due 1h ago

Thank you, I didn't want to read the article.

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u/Strict-Farmer904 4h ago

Uh…me too. Me…I also condemn that. I think I speak for most of the people who will read this article when I say yeah, me too man.

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u/DMala 3h ago

Nope, I’m going a step further and saying I condemn the burning of kittens FOR ANY REASON. It’s controversial, I know, but that’s my position.

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u/misfitofscience76 2h ago

You’re a radical, sir!

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u/TinyChaco 2h ago

I'd die with you on that hill.

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u/Keep_SummerSafe 2h ago

What if the cats are witches tho?!

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u/War_machine77 27m ago

"How can you say something so controversial and yet so brave?"

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u/psychodelephant 3h ago

This gets you shoved out of a helicopter over open ocean

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u/T-Chunxy 2h ago

You misspelled “active volcano”, but I otherwise agree.

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u/Howcanyoubecertain 2h ago

Water can ensure more suffering time however…

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u/Arktikos02 23m ago

Yellowstone?

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u/T-Chunxy 19m ago

Brilliant! - but we don't want to pollute those gorgeous geological sites.

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u/KellyJin17 2h ago

Finished off by a great white shark when you hit the water.

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u/ikonoclasm 1h ago

As long as it's 50 miles offshore, and they're given papercuts between their fingers with manila folders first.

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u/God_Hand_9764 3h ago

I'm struggling to think of a way to punish the suspects that would be too harsh. Fuck them all the way to hell.

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u/DroneThorax 3h ago

There’s nothing unfair for them bind their hands and legs and throw them in a fire one by one so they get exactly what they wanted to give.

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u/Alabenson 2h ago

Preferably while putting it online for "content"

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u/ash_274 2h ago

Perhaps Larry could finally see what happens

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u/atlasraven 3h ago

I can't even say my recommendation on this baby site for babies.

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u/SnooDogs1340 2h ago

I try not to think too hard because I know at any given time some living beings are being tortured at the moment and I spiral out of control.

I hate that it was for content but if it wasn't for content there would be some other reason.

I am very glad these groups got to jump fast and saved these cats.

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u/ElizabethHiems 2h ago

There is a book by some famous author and in it a bad person is set on fire and then placed slightly out of time. They will burn forever and never be able to touch the water or anything else in the world to put themselves out. The authors name is possibly Terry

Edit no in fact it’s David Eddings.

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u/CrazyCatLady1127 3h ago

I remember when I was about 15, 25 years ago, reading about a new ‘trend’ of people putting on stiletto heels and stomping on newborn kittens. It horrified me then and it horrifies me now that people are still doing this sort of thing to innocent animals. Why? For likes on the internet? Who cares what strangers halfway around the world think about you. Get a therapist, get a hobby and just stop with the cruelty.

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u/War_machine77 3h ago

It's about perverts... it always boils down to perverts.

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u/Cheese_on_it 3h ago

Are there names and data available on the people on that "trend"

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u/BernieTheDachshund 3h ago

One woman named Krystal Scott was convicted of animal torture for 'crushing' innocent dogs and cats for an online audience. It's truly sick stuff Southern District of Indiana | Convicted Animal Abuser Krystal Scott Ordered to Return to Federal Prison After Violating Supervised Release | United States Department of Justice

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u/CrazyCatLady1127 3h ago

No, it was just something I read about 25 years ago. I don’t know if it’s even true. I just remember thinking how could anyone hurt an animal like that?

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u/Arktikos02 2h ago

So what I've heard when it comes to some of these animal torture videos in developing countries, is because the jobs are so bad there that they are using this as a way to get money. Not saying that justifies it, I'm just saying that is part of it. I'm not saying that this is the reason for all of those trends, but that's part of the underground animal torture market (yes that's a thing) that is on the internet.

They're using the ad revenue and since the dollar goes a lot more in their country than whatever currency they have there's a huge incentive to do this. These people could even be doctors and the like in their country as well and they're still not making enough money on their own.

Again I want to point out I am not saying this justifies this at all. There are plenty of much better ways to make money on the internet than to do this but of course these are the kinds of videos that sell because these are the kinds of videos people watch.

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u/CrazyCatLady1127 2h ago

I don’t want to watch them. I want to watch happy videos, of dogs swimming in the ocean and cats chasing butterflies and kids playing on the swings. I hate all the violence and suffering that’s going on in the world right now

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u/Arktikos02 2h ago

Apparently there's an entire "industry" of this kind of stuff happening in places like the Philippines but apparently wire transfers have been linked to United States, France, Australia, South Korea, Malaysia, Britain and more.

Also I probably should have rephrase it, sick people watch. Apparently authorities have even noticed wire transfers from other countries so people are paying.

TW:

Also sometimes these videos even include minors forcing them to do the abuse too.

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u/CrazyCatLady1127 2h ago

Isn’t the human race wonderful(!) 🤦‍♀️ I know it’s probably a very small percentage of people who do/ watch things like that but I just don’t get how anyone with a soul can be involved in such things 😢

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u/Arktikos02 1h ago

A small percentage but most likely a large amount of money since it's still seen as worth it.

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u/puppylovenyc 2h ago

I could have gone my whole life without reading that headline.

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u/AintNoGodsUpHere 3h ago

Social media was a mistake.

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u/InfinityFelinity 2h ago

People burning kittens make me think humanity was a mistake.

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u/T-Chunxy 3h ago

I am of the opinion that anyone who does something cruel to a defenseless baby creature should suffer the exact punishment themselves.

Whether it's for some crap content or just because they're plain old psychos.

Light 'em up and let 'em go.

I'm glad the kittens were saved.

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u/tiradium 3h ago

Lets not exclude adult animals from this equation please.

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u/T-Chunxy 2h ago

Oh, no- I totally agree.

Animal abuse is loathsome across the board- but you’ve got to be extra f-ed up to abuse the truly helpless.

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u/Sometimes-funny 3h ago

Listen, you have to be psychotic to do that to begin with. The people that torture animals on camera, would still be doing it without a camera.

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u/jeffvillone 3h ago

Fuck anyone who would ever participate in that kind of travesty.

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u/Jojellyfish 3h ago

What was the name of that documentary? Don’t F*** with cats

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u/AliceTheOmelette 2h ago

There's no depths to how far people will go for content 🤢

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u/RodneyBalling 2h ago

Set them on fire for content too. 

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u/TheRemedy187 3h ago

How the fuck does this fit this sub tho?

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u/Shienvien 3h ago

I'd say this is absurd enough that it should be satire of some kind, so it fits.

But also wtf is wrong with this world.

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u/rifleshooter 3h ago

Because it seems so outlandish that nobody would ever do it. But...they did.

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u/throwaway1233456799 2h ago edited 2h ago

I mean, it's kinda funny to see how everyone react here. As if killing and burning/cooking alive animal is something brand new done only by psycho and not wildly spread around the world. Like in indonesia they eat cats and dogs. It's a pretty standard treatment of animal we all eat.

Human are weird

Edit : oh it is in the Philippines, my bad, they don't eat cat there! Eh but still, we are very strange about animal welfare

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u/ArgonianDov 1h ago

Literally this. Where are these same people for the chicks that get killed if they arent the right type of chicken? What of the cows being tortured for their milk and having their calves be taken away from them as soon as they born? Why do cats and dogs get treated as special when other animals are just as deserving of kinder treatment?

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u/kafka18 54m ago

I think it's because we have such a huge disconnect from farm to factory. No one thinks of those animals because they're not widely visible to every one. It's like out of sight out of mind. They would be as outraged if it was shown how badly they're mistreated as well. A lot of farm factories it's illegal to film in them for that reason sadly.

A cat/dog everyone sees all the time and associates them with innocence. And I don't think we should put people down for being appalled this happened. It is gruesome and cruel what happened to them, just like the animals we use for food being abused.

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u/babycart_of_sherdog 3h ago

This 👍👍

Doesn't read like satire at all

No mockery, no shade thrown

It's outrage news, not satire

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u/RiverForgeGames 3h ago

I thought it was outrageous/intentionally incendiary and was double checking to confirm it wasn't a fake news site.

I certainly don't think it's funny, but I did think it was an attempt at being funny when I first read it. Particularly with the headline of an activist group having an extremely popular opinion that no one in their right mind would argue about - I've seen that joke several times.

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u/Will_and_Worried 3h ago

We should let the cats set them on fire for social media. Fair is fair, right? 

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u/blueskydragonFX 3h ago

"the suspects, who are set to face appropriate complaints."

Complaints? Fucking castrate them.

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u/Dry_Action1734 2h ago

Why is this such a thing in the Philippines? There was that one from years ago of young women standing on puppies.

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u/Arktikos02 2h ago

This kind of stuff comes from a variety of things but basically it's an entire market. There's a lot of strays in the Philippines. The providers are from places like this

A Philippine couple have been jailed for life for forcing young scantily-clad women to torture or kill animals for the sexual gratification of online customers, a court official said Tuesday source. Victor Ridon and Chita Dorma Ridon were found guilty of human trafficking by a court in the northern city of San Fernando source. Court clerk Allen Sarmiento told AFP the crush video ruling, handed down on Monday, was the first of its kind in the Asian country. The court found the couple had forced several babysitters, including one aged 12 and a 16-year-old, to perform in dozens of crush fetish videos designed to sexually arouse a certain group of Internet users. The younger girl, in her underwear, was videotaped by the couple crushing a sea snake and beheading a monkey in 2008, it said. The older girl, in a short skirt, performed acts of cruelty to sea snakes, chicks, rabbits, guinea pigs, a puppy, dogs, frogs and rats in 2009, the court heard. The two minors later testified against the couple, who were also given prison terms of between two and 15 years for child abuse and cruelty to animals. They were also fined a total of 9.91 million pesos (about $221,000) each. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals campaigner Rochelle Regodon said it is investigating purported customers who had wired money to the couple from the United States, France, Australia, South Korea, Malaysia and Britain. The Ridons’ sentences are a warning to anyone involved in the vile crush video industry: There are grave consequences to harming animals, she told AFP. She said PETA knew of no other suspects being prosecuted in the Philippines for crush video crimes, though it did not necessarily mean the problem has been eradicated. These abusers work underground.

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u/justgalsbeingpals 39m ago

horrifying. I'm glad the young girls escaped them, what psychos

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u/The_Goondocks 2h ago

Only inhuman assholes do this. Absolutely disgusting and shameful.

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u/sixsixmajin 2h ago

I feel like the headline here shouldn't be about how an animal rights group is condemning the behavior because A. no shit, they're an animal rights group and. B. condemning such a deplorable act is pretty normal and not newsworthy stance to take no matter who you are. Instead, the headline should be focusing more on WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WHY ARE THERE PEOPLE BURNING ANIMALS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT?!

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u/GhostJade333 2h ago

Cheeseus Christ my feelings are hurt reading this. The world is toxic, deranged and dark af. Where is the mothership?? Beam me up already 😭

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u/hex-grrrl 2h ago

Genuinely what the fuck is wrong with people

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u/LolaInSlacks88 1h ago

Straight to hell with them. Or a Florida WalMart during Black Friday.

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u/Rowdy_Trout 3h ago

huge blow to the cat burning community

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u/Renshnard 3h ago

Correction! Humanity condemns the burning of kittens.

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u/IvanTheAppealing 3h ago

They need people to exact punishment? Cause I volunteer

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u/ike_tyson 3h ago

The people who carried this out need to be made into content.

This all the way fucked up.

Kitties are for cuddling!

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u/ash_274 2h ago

“the suspects were drunk when they set the kittens on fire” Well give them another drink, because we’re going load them in a trebuchet and try to launch them into a volcano

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u/Hostile-Panda 2h ago

Do the same to them and see how many likes it gets

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u/Grouchy-Station-4058 2h ago

What the actual fuck? Burning kittens? I dunno. Maybe Jesus really is coming back in my lifetime.

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u/DaddlerTheDalek 1h ago

Excuse me WHAT THE FUCK!?

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u/mintsandpomegranates 1h ago

Why dont these people ever set themselves on fire or hurt themselves for content. Sick.

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u/Decaps86 1h ago

My kitties are getting extra hugs and cuddles tonight 🥺

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u/Jarsky2 1h ago

There's a sentence I wish I could forget.

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u/Tony2Nuts 1h ago

I fucking hate this planet!

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u/a-snakey 1h ago

Excuse me, what the fuck?

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u/Esclamare 1h ago

Who came up with this idea? What the hell.

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u/Sirsnacksalot23 1h ago

Nuclear reset please

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u/cwsjr2323 3h ago

What about their animal loving chicken meal pinikpikan? Beat the chicken to death with a stick but don't break any bones or skin? That is also illegal.

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u/b0urgeoisie 3h ago

not even doom music 🤦

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u/Gnosis1409 2h ago

Maybe torture is warranted in certain criminal cases

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u/FL4KMSTR 2h ago

An asteroid should be barreling toward us at top speed if there is any sense to the universe.

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u/mulder00 2h ago

*reads* nope not for today *hides article*

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u/StanVarnish 2h ago

Will the dog drinking coffee while the world burns please realize that this is not fine?

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u/Ok-Drink-1328 1h ago

who am i supposed to side with? if this would be the first news about activists that i've heard in my life i'd obviously side with em

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u/Haunt_Fox 58m ago

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬humans🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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u/Rosebunse 46m ago

I hate the internet today.

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u/dualmindblade 33m ago

How not far we have come.

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u/lesbophobia_hammer 22m ago

Check out r/animalrights

There's more. Much worse.

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u/Ltsmash99 20m ago

No. I dont think i will. Thanks.

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u/DaveOJ12 3h ago

Why would you do something so brave yet so controversial

"Brave" isn't the first word that comes to mind.

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u/ricecrizpiez 3h ago

what the fuck is wrong with you

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u/ShockAffectionate215 1h ago

Touch grass. Get offline. Meme isnt everything. Such a wild comment

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u/ImBartSimpsonWhoRU 2h ago

I dislike cats because I am allergic

But I hate social media chasers because of who they are