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An increasing percentage of animal-related shorts seem to be reposted content with an AI narrator spouting completely made-up bullshit clearly written by someone for whom English is a second language at best
One video mashed together several random videos featuring the same type of animal while the narration tried to pass it off as some heart-warming clickbait story about one individual animal
It's so fucking dire. Even before AI any given half of an insanely popular slop cute animal compilation was animal abuse. Not in the sense that somebody punts a puppy through a football goal but where it was really obvious this animal got the raw end of the stick. "Chester the rabbit loves his weekly baths :)" as the poor thing is nearly dying of a stress induced heart attack type stuff.
But through the powers of computer we now combine footage of a roadkilled rabbit with footage of an entirely different, tortured rabbit to create a feelgood story to serve people who "love animals" in the sense that it's a piece of property that's cute to look at
Sooo many "wholesome" videos of predator and prey animals together and it's horrible because eventually that cat or dog is going to kill and eat the little bird and it'll be all the fault of the irresponsible asshole human owner who put them together. It happened with someone I knew irl and was completely predictable.
And these assholes always get defensive when you say something, like "my precious baby isn't a cold-blooded killer! They're siblings! They're both my kids!" No, animals are intelligent and sentient people too but you can't just anthropomorphize them, you have to respect them for who and what they are
It's both anthromorphizing animals to the point where they get fucked up I think. Which feels weird because in my anecdotal experience everyone who does this is also a huge fan of likening humans to animals in the "I am the wolf among the sheep" thing or "I have incisors like a lion which is why I must eat meat and also my stepson" type deal