Showering buddies

[artgecko]

The whole point of "education" is to teach people about the animals and the proper care / handling of them. Part of this is admitting that these can be dangerous creatures and that one needs to take precautions to ensure the safety of the animals and handler.

I didn't see anything about proper handling technique in this video or any useful information presented. IMO, this looks like a video that was done to get attention. Note, I'm saying this based on watching the video, not researching the person. Whether this guy does good work or not, posting something like this is not responsible IMO. Just like people posting videos free-handling hots, live feeding videos, etc.

Most people that watch stuff on youtube aren't going to search a person, look at their entire history, job, etc. they are going to watch and video and make a judgement based on that. With this sort of thing, I could easily see some newbie going out and trying this without taking any safety precautions and something going very wrong. Or, an AR group could take this footage and say "See, all reptile keepers are irresponsible and dangerous! Ban ownership!".

Youtubers typically get snubbed by the community when they are creating content viewed as "sensational" and not educational. Content that does not have the best interests of the animals in mind, ignores safety, or contains shocking titles / images. If content is truly educational, most people don't have a problem with it, as it will show information on proper care and husbandry as well as information on the species in question. If this youtuber had instead made a video showing 2-3 people getting an anaconda out of its' enclosure, how to properly move it, some shots of it outside to show how gorgeous it is, and talk about how dedicated you have to be, how expensive it is to care for it, common health concerns, etc. Then that would have been great educational material IMO, but it probably would not have gotten as many hits as something like "showering with a giant snake" would.