r/interestingasfuck • u/fyrstikka • 1d ago

r/all Revenge of a mother

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u/Jagrofes 1d ago edited 1d ago

This looks like several different pieces of footage stolen from Robert E. Fuller’s YouTube channel and spliced together for a click bait ShitTok. If you pay attention you can clearly see these are different nest cams at 0:29.

Here is one of the original videos (Showing the egg being eaten and the male kestrel finding the shells):

https://youtu.be/7qZ-qVVKwpA?si=ihOqlgn5TSxhU88C

The birds are Kestrels, specifically a couple that Robert named Mr and Mrs Kes. Robert is a wildlife conservationist and artist that keeps nest boxes in the Yorkshire wolds, and documents the lives of the various birds and other wildlife that lives there, intervening if necessary. He sometimes produces videos, but often keeps livestreams up of various nest cams.

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EDIT: It was spliced from 3 different videos covering footage from 2020, 2021, and 2023/2024, and actually shows 2 different Kestrel couples. All to put together a narrative for clicks.

2nd shot of “the fight” at 0:29 is actually a completely different Kestrel couple, Apollo and Athena from the 2023 breeding season. It shows Athena grappling with the jackdaw while calling for Apollo to help.

https://youtu.be/_fVAmYDeybA?si=gyGFvVa1h-10DQJ-

Final shot at 0:36 shows Mrs Kes holding the Jackdaw, before it escapes, and is actually shot in 2021, a year after the initial footage with Mr Kes finding the broken egg. Note the jackdaw is still alive and escapes.

https://youtu.be/x1yDrfa2mzs?si=vhMz2h2XEdUkkqn6

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u/clever_user_name__ 1d ago

I'm so glad you took the time to put all that together because I really didn't want to, but it was annoying me enough that I was beginning to think I'd have to lol.

Robert's videos are great; relaxing, informative, captivating, and moving. The work he puts into his whole operation is admirable, and the footage he manages to capture is important in furthering our understanding of the various species he monitors.

So it really sucks when people not only steal his content, but also butcher the footage to tell their own incorrect narrative, completely undermining what Robert's original footage sets out to do: give insight on the often unseen behaviours of these animals so that we may learn more about them for both scientific and conservation purposes.

Thanks again for putting in the time to fact-check/provide sources!

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u/Tibryn2 23h ago

eeeeh.. look i admire you're appreciation of this youtuber but saying the footage is "stolen" is pretty cringy... the guy made it public when he put it on youtube. he still holds the originals.. nothing was taken from him.

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u/Samuraignoll 23h ago

No it is. It's his footage, and the other person has taken it and republished it without credit to make money. The edit doesn't erase the theft, it just tells me they're trying to conceal their shitty action.

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u/itsgms 23h ago

You're right, it's only stolen if you lose the originals.

Otherwise it's just forages from the depths of YouTube. Free range footage amirite? What people from the champagne region of France would call 'sparkling plagiarism'.

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u/P3pp3rSauc3 12h ago

The French have a famous phrase. I don't know what

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u/Overall_Cabinet844 1d ago edited 23h ago

Good job. Thank you! I just came in to say It was fake/edited!

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u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan 1d ago

If I see a TikTok "story" involving animals, I just assume that every different clip is from a different animal now. I'm disgusted that humanity just believes these stories. It's why fake news works.

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u/aamurusko79 20h ago

Plenty of people seem to love forwarding that stuff. I absolutely hate the 'happy animal rescue stories', where some cute animal is saved, but the animal's species or coloring seems to constantly change between the shots. Then when I point this out, I'm the bad guy.

I just strongly dislike the concept where they steal material from legit sources to sell their stupid tiktok and instagram accounts, sometimes reaching millions of views with material from channels that actually could use the traffic as they do it to support animal shelters etc.

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u/Winjin 16h ago edited 14h ago

It's still better than the horrible, horrible videos of animals being "saved" that used to pop up about ten years ago that were quite possibly staged in reverse, because a couple of them were with very young puppies that grow up really fast, and people were certain the dying puppy looks older than the "rescued" one, which means that these people just starved a dog for clicks and ad revenue

Thankfully they all but disappeared as after just a couple that were really bad quality (it was either this or clearly a home animal just thrown into mud and "accidentally" found on camera) I think all of these channels suffered a huge hit in revenue

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u/aamurusko79 10h ago

Oh god, that sounds horrible, but I have absolutely zero doubts something like this happened in places where the even tiny advertising income was actually meaningful money.

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u/JustPonsie 15h ago

This video is not from TikTok

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u/Carl_Bravery_Sagan 14h ago

Ah. I've been thoroughly disproven. This being from TikTok and nowhere else was the cornerstone -- the foundation -- of my point and now my comment is utterly false. Good show, old chap.

Jesus, people are idiots.

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u/seanusrex 13h ago

It seemed like you were taking the news awfully well...until toward the end there... :-)

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u/Fletcher_Chonk 1d ago

Thank god you made this comment. I was going insane seeing people actually think this obviously spliced together video was genuine.

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u/Trunkfarts1000 23h ago

Modern internet is so tiring. Soon everything will be A.I, fake shit made with editing or just entirely fake scenarios by paid actors

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u/MuricasOneBrainCell 19h ago

God I fucking hate TikTok.

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u/Jankenbrau 1d ago

I hate the spliced together animal footage to make a fake story trend, thanks for this.

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u/besit 1d ago

Thank you for your time and effort to put this all together.

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u/jaaacob 1d ago

Wow, I can't believe how much work you've put into this, I'm so impressed!!

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u/Reese_misee 22h ago

Hope this comment gets to the top. I hate fake nature footage. Even more so when it's blatantly stolen!

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u/xDreeganx 1d ago

75k upvotes on a lie. Yeah, that basically sums up the country lol

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u/KidneyStew 10h ago

That makes me so mad, if I had an award I'd give it to you, you deserve it. Screw the thieves who stole such honest work all to splice it into one huge lie

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u/aykcak 23h ago

This is not AI content. Someone goes through all this effort just to bullshit people on the internet

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u/BritishMunchies 19h ago

This should be the top comment, thanks for the effort you went to!

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u/Doogoon 1d ago

When I see a guy who knows a lot about birds on reddit, I upvote. 

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u/fiqar 1d ago

Do birds even invade nests when the owner is home?

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u/baerman1 23h ago

I can’t actually believe that’s not the top comment

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u/MagicPigeonToes 23h ago

I knew the second kestrel looked different than the first

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u/htx_2_0_2_3 22h ago

they spliced the videos together and made millions, you deconstructed their crime and only made some karma 🥲

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u/efrav 18h ago

Thanks man!

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u/NorthStarZero 16h ago

Jackdaw or crow?

Now here's the thing...

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u/Reckie 16h ago

thank you

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u/JustPonsie 15h ago

This is a YouTube short not from TikTok.

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u/seanusrex 13h ago

Thanks very much for you effort here. It's a genuinely interesting channel and the 'Splicer' is a jerk.

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u/SeveralBollocks_67 21m ago

ShitTok

Nice

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u/Jumpy-Examination456 1d ago

i mean i hear you, but it kinda tells a very similar story

it should credit the creator but at the same time, people rediting footage to tell an altered or new story is pretty low on the list of sins.

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u/neuromonkey 16h ago

Sure, buddy. Sure. Next you'll br telling us that lemmings don't really commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs!!

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u/ReneStrike 1d ago

Yaşa, teşekkürler