That aaaw video of the falling, persevering bear cub is likely the family being buzzed by a drone and panicking—their lives at risk for sake of virality. "You look at the mother bear in that video & she's staring straight at the drone for chunks of time."https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/drone-caused-bears-distress-in-viral-video-researchers-say-1.4895589 …
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"The video was originally uploaded to YouTube by a company called ViralHog."


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"..The camera zooms extremely close to the bears. At the same time, the mother appears to look directly at the remote-controlled helicopter, and even appears to swat at the device—which then seems to cause the cub to fall back down the slope." https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/drone-brown-bear-video-russia-wildlife-harrassment-news/ …
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Virality incentives are all screwed up, part zillion. Backlash, awareness and maybe demonetization is all we got.
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I’m no wildlife expert, and I’m a sucker for cute baby animal videos—but that thing felt off. It appeared in my feed again again so I watched it many times. As soon as I saw “cub, drone, buzzing” it clicked. That weirdly aggressive pawing that sent the cub down... The staring...
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The tweet that originated this actually states that this is an example of bad usage of drones for nature filming (sorry I can’t seem to find it)
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