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Thought dog accounts faking rescue videos were harmless, then a 6 second clip of a "starving" pup in Phoenix got the real shelter doxxed and it closed in 3 days
My sister runs a small rescue in Mesa and had to shut her intake for a full week after the wrong address got blasted to 40k people, so now I screenshot the original post before I even think about laughing.
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robin_henderson8127d ago
That screenshot habit is the real lesson here honestly, because once that clip is out there the damage is done before anyone checks. Like you said, 40k people saw the address and a chunk of them acted on it that same night. What gets me is these accounts know exactly what they're doing. Starving dog plus sad music plus a location pin equals views, and views equal money for them. The dog was probably fine and eating kibble somewhere the whole time. Meanwhile the real shelter eats the fallout, loses donors, gets threats, and has to stop taking in animals. And the account that started it all just posts another clip the next day like nothing happened. There's no real price for them to pay, which is why it keeps working.
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