Within the span of the week, I’ve been bombarded with three YouTube videos containing frolicking baby animals so cute as to be vomit-inducing. It isn’t so much the animals that inflames my gall bladder (I’ll admit it; they warm the cockles of my heart). No, it’s the pathetic zeal with which some humans respond to the little buggers.
I’ve provided the videos after the fold, along with my summations of the reactions by the above human beings who fail at life.
“Aww, those otters are exhibiting anthropomorphic behavior patterns! Isn’t that adorable?”
“Look at the baby polar bear wiggle his tushie! Never mind the fact that he’d rip my face off were he an adult!”
“Red Pandas are nearing extinction! That makes the twins extra cutsie-wutsie!”
It wouldn’t be so irritating if these same people took solid steps to, say, prevent the further endangering of at-risk species or the pollution of the ecosystems on which they depend. But I guarantee most of these people have the attention span of a gnat. No sooner have they finished watching then their thoughts about the animals have been data-dumped to make room for fantasies about a certain Dr. McDreamy or speculation about who will sweep the championship.
