found a snake on youtube that legit gets angry and strikes at its owner's laptop whenever markiplier is on the screen
I’m subscribed to that channel. The owner has played multiple other YouTubers to see if the snake just hated Markiplier or was just hostile towards men. Turns out he was fine watching all the other YouTubers he just hated Markiplier specifically 😂
The snake with other YouTubers:
Vs the snake with Markiplier
Tofu the snake! the owner has been running several various experiments based on people's thoughts/theories in the comments, like showing an edited image of Mark (it took Tofu a few minutes to recognize him, but once they did they immediately started trying to attack him) and even bringing in other snakes to see if they react too (none did). so far the consensus is that Tofu just really fucking hates Markiplier
The uploader of those videos/owner of the snake also has a history of animal abuse and neglect that they have been trying to routinely cover up since 2016. Much of the abuse has resulted in her animals dying. She rebrands every few years to avoid the backlash.
#also snakes don’t have enough good vision to strike without smell
This isn’t true, but I get what you’re saying. The likely explanation is that Mark somehow either a) looks enough like a prey item for Tofu to confuse him with a mouse, or b) Mark is moving in a way that signals to Tofu that he is a prey item.
Snakes’ eyesight isn’t that similar to ours, as they primarily function to detect movement. Snakes hunt through detecting chemical signals, heat (if they can see it), vibrations and movement (in that order). They don’t tend to strike at prey that isn’t moving, and this can be why it’s difficult to switch captive snakes from eating live prey to eating frozen/thawed prekilled prey.
I don’t know exactly what Tofu is, but I would assume he’s a Honduran milk snake or some type of rat snake. It would be easier to tell if he wasn’t fully leucistic. Either way, both of these animals feed on rodents in their regular diet, and I guess somehow Mark looks like a mouse.
But the bottom line is that Taylor Nicole Dean somehow thinks it’s funny to watch her snake hit himself in the head at full speed (which, by the way, for faster-striking snakes, is between 70-200 MILES PER HOUR) directly into, what is to Tofu, effectively a glass and metal wall. She shows him flashing images and overstimulating sounds for… what? Yeah, girl, why do you think he tries to leave you every single time you do that?
Snakes absolutely can form close bonds and relationships with humans (and I’m sure other animals, as long as those animals know how to respect the snake — which is difficult when you are ignorant to how they function). My ball python is 8 years old and loves when I take her out and just hold her like a baby. I take her on walks like that. Every time she’s in my arms, she immediately settles in and relaxes her whole body. She asks to come out of her terrarium just to be with me sometimes. It’s really nice and it makes me feel SO loved and special. She has never struck at me besides the one time she escaped and I was frantically looking for her in a corner of a closet I couldn’t reach, and she didn’t know who or what I was. These are some of the ways you can tell that a snake loves you, and don’t ever let anyone tell you they’re incapable of love. The limbic system is responsible for emotion, and there are brain cells in the frontal lobes of Tyrannosaurs that are the same in snakes and some lizards and birds, but we don’t even know what they do, and the frontal lobes are where creativity originates. So snakes do feel, they do love, and they have the capacity to be creative. They are not dumb animals who have some sort of “strange” reflex according to you. Tofu is doing what he knows how to do. He’s not an idiot, he’s a snake that’s being actively tortured and harassed.
By the way, whenever Tofu hits the screen when he strikes, it hurts. It’s like a mini concussion. Snakes who compulsively strike at glass, or who are goaded into doing so, can suffer from dementia and neurological problems later in life. This isn’t a fucking joke.
EDIT: Just want to point out that Taylor Nicole Dean gets new animals every few years, despite the fact that the average lifespans of most of her animals exceed 10 years. Very telling. Also she’s probably gonna rebrand after she gets backlash for this, unless she can maintain ignorance in her comment section as she has managed to do so successfully in recent years. At most she had 30-50 animals and multiple animals were dying near-daily. When people called her out about it years ago, she made videos talking about how she had been trapped in an abusive relationship and was going through heroin addiction, and that hoarding animals was is her coping mechanism. As someone who’s been sober from heroin since August of 2022, this is absolutely obscene and disgusting and I don’t give a fuck who you are or what you’re going through. Stop abusing your fucking animals.
#up to 50???? #what fucking insane actions do you have to do to make up to 50 animals die
Neglect. As far as I know, nearly every single case of animal death under her care has been due to neglect. Those who did not die due to neglect directly did in fact die from illness or equipment malfunction, all of which could have been easily prevented.
She hoards animals in terrariums on metal wire shelves and has all of her heating apparatuses strewn about. Pretty sure almost every room in her house was filled with multiple animals at one point. Fish, frogs, lizards, snakes, tortoises, crabs, a few other inverts I believe, you name it. She admitted herself (in a, what I’m sure is, a now-deleted video) that she would buy a new animal, care for it for awhile, and then it would no longer be exciting to her, and the cycle would repeat itself. So the neglect came from the fact that it is impossible to properly care for that amount of animals at one time, and that she was promptly abandoning said animals as soon as they lost their distracting effect. Many of them just slowly deteriorated, likely dying of a mix of things like dehydration, malnutrition, starvation, improper humidity or heat, or an infection or illness that went unnoticed.
She put some of her pets on a pedestal for her youtube channel and made pngs of them for thumbnails and made them these Big Youtube Stars™️ as if she wasn’t the real star of the channel, but they were. Some of these so-called beloved animals were some of the first to die. She even has the past face of her channel, a longhorn boxfish named Cheese, who only lived for about 3 years I believe, edited into her channel header image. Boxfish are extremely difficult to care for, and I personally don’t know enough about fish to say whether or not Cheese’s death was due to neglect, but we could say, probability-wise, the possibilities don’t look good. Plus, boxfish usually kill other fish in the terrarium along with themselves, as they kind of self-destruct under too much stress and release a pretty strong toxin that has a habit of killing off entire saltwater enthusiast’s tanks. Her other fish cohabitating with Cheese were fine. It’s safe to say it has something to do with her care or lack thereof.
I don’t know how many of her past videos are still up because she keeps rebranding, but I’m sure there are still videos up from other people calling her out about her shit behavior.
EDIT: Totally forgot to mention this earlier, but snakes don’t possess the same cones humans do, and primarily see things in blue. Snakes with heat-sensing pits are able to see heat through an infrared glow, likely making things glow brighter or dimmer depending on the amount of heat they emit. But to snakes, everything is pretty smurf-colored, so light, darkness, shadow and movement are the most visually instigating factors for snake visual feedback. So Tofu is not seeing Mark the same way we see him. He is probably looking at his eyes and nose and to be honest, at a lot of angles, Mark, boiled down to his bare essentials, kind of looks like this:
Looks pretty mouse-like to me.
I did not know about this until now. This is fucking abhorrent.
