The Morbid Zoo

Debunking Bad Internet Anthropology

The Morbid Zoo — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:59:48 +0000

"iF yOu tHinK hUntInG aNd gAtHeRinG iS sO gReaT tHen wHy DoN't yOu--" stop. Grow up.

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Clips from:
-Inside the Pirahã World: Deciphering the Amazon’s Most Enigmatic Language | SLICE | FULL DOCUMENTARY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tKbVBePxyU
-I Spend 5 Days With the Hadza Hunter-Gatherers | Superskilled with Eva zu Beck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIE7XVLhtw
-My Morning Village Routine , peaceful African Village living , harvesting food / Aketch Joy Winnie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKhv8scfD_U
-Chinampas of Mexico: Most Productive Agriculture EVER? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86gyW0vUmVs
-Is the Maya Forest Garden the key to sustainable agriculture?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96rIEVptFwo

Reckless Ben and YouTube Journalism | Nebula Plus

The Morbid Zoo — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:59:47 +0000

Welcome to the carnival.

Backroomsession [spoilers]

The Morbid Zoo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:55:28 +0000

Wow look I'm happy in a video!

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Palantir Twitter Manifesto

The Morbid Zoo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:06 +0000

"Kill Chain" by Kevin Baker: https://artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain#footnote-2

Emergency Fund Pool for Queer People in India: https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-transparent-emergency-fund-pool-for-queers-in-india

Zuck Never Understood the Metaverse

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:00:06 +0000

I can deal with a tech dystopia, but does it have to be so lame?

Edit: I had no idea there would be such clamor for an Auld Lang Syne pop cover, here it is, you animals: https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/tracks/c8a02356-2d1d-3799-b785-73a1d7225f69/

Oh No! I Kind of Liked Return to Silent Hill

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:20:57 +0000

It's a bad movie don't listen to me I'm not well

Gollum, (Dis)grace, and (Un)heroism | Monsters of LOTR

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:00:00 +0000

There is no hero in The Lord of the Rings.

"Gollum's Song" cover by Andrew Bryan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNwsO47iwow

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Predator Badlands and "Warrior Ethos"

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:00:06 +0000

Pete Hegseth will never be a warrior.

Te Maurea Whiritoi Haka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFx66XutcX4

Arguing With Atun-Shei About Frankenstein

The Morbid Zoo — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:24:18 +0000

I thought it was pretty good idk

Debate and the Ritual Theory of Propaganda

The Morbid Zoo — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:00:07 +0000

Yeah okay I'll say something about Jubilee

I Want to Talk About "Elevated Horror"

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:00:06 +0000

Help Josie get to Europe! https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-an-autistic-transwoman-pursue-higher-education

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The Philosophy of Final Destination

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:00:06 +0000

If Bloodlines had any kind of spine the opening disaster would have been, like, a stage collapse and stampede at an influencer convention.

Sources:
Jean-Francois Lyotard, “Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?”
Ian Conrich, “"Puzzles, Contraptions and the Highly Elaborate Moment: The Inevitability of Death in the Grand Slasher Narratives of the Final Destination and Saw Series of Films"
Eugenie Brinkema, Life-Destroying Diagrams
Stuart Hanscomb, “Existentialism and Art-Horror”
Noel Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror
Francis Fukuyama, The End of History
Hannah Appel, The Licit Life of Capitalism
James Hodge, “Screwed: Anxiety and the Digital Ends of Anticipation”
Michael Judge, Death is Just Around the Corner
Robert McChesney, Communication Revolution

Sinners and the General State of Things

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 10 May 2025 14:00:05 +0000

Sincere artistic euphoria frightens and disorients me, where's my emotional support irony

Donald Trump is Not A Fascist Pt. 2

The Morbid Zoo — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:03:19 +0000

Find your nearing polling place: https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/

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The Problem with Ents | LOTR Monsters Pt. 2

The Morbid Zoo — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 16:00:06 +0000

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Quick tell the closest tree you're sorry.

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Sources:
-Amodeo, John. “Hobbit Sense.” Landscape Architecture, vol. 93, no. 5, 2003, pp. 36–42. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44675345. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
-Brawley, Chris. “The Fading of the World: Tolkien’s Ecology and Loss in ‘The Lord of the Rings.’” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 18, no. 3 (71), 2007, pp. 292–307. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24351004. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
-Burbery, Timothy J. “Ecocriticism and Christian Literary Scholarship.” Christianity and Literature, vol. 61, no. 2, 2012, pp. 189–214. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44314928. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
-Dickerson, Matthew, and Jonathan Evans. Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien. University Press of Kentucky, 2006. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt2jctx1. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
-DiPaolo, Marc. “Of Treebeard, C. S. Lewis, and the Aesthetics of Christian Environmentalism.” Fire and Snow: Climate Fiction from the Inklings to Game of Thrones, State University of New York Press, 2018, pp. 51–78. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18473005.6. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
-Finseth, Claudia Riiff. “Tolkien’s Trees.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, no. 35, 1997, pp. 37–44. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45320540. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
-Flieger, Verlyn. “How Trees Behave-Or Do They?” Mythlore, vol. 32, no. 1 (123), 2013, pp. 19–31. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26815844. Accessed 17 Oct. 2024.
-Gee, Henry. “Ents and Sources.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, no. 51, 2011, pp. 4–6. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48614731. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
-Łaszkiewicz, Weronika. “Into the Wild Woods: On the Significance of Trees and Forests in Fantasy Fiction.” Mythlore, vol. 36, no. 1 (131), 2017, pp. 39–58. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26809256. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.
-Pettit, Edward. “Treebeard’s Roots in Medieval European Tradition.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, no. 42, 2004, pp. 11–18. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/45320501. Accessed 19 Oct. 2024.

Journalism and the Passive Aggression of Civil War

The Morbid Zoo — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:00:44 +0000

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Anyway, that's why I don't like Civil War.

CHAPTERS
0:00 - Field Reconnaissance
33:17 - WTF is a Normal Journalist
1:10:43 - The View From Nowhere

Sources I either cited directly or were instrumental to my research:
Regarding the Pain of Others- Susan Sontag
The Media at War- Susan Carruthers
Information at War- Phillip Seib
Manufacturing Consent- Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
Generation Kill- Evan Wright
It’s What I Do- Lynsey Addario
War Photography: Realism in the British Press- John Taylor

Video reviews I used:
Civil War Movie Review—Sean Chandler Talks About. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG0tfFRy1t8
Civil War is a Rorschach—Spoiler Review (Intercut Explans)—Intercut Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRTVe0jizl0&t=2581s
When the Director Doesn’t Give A F**K About Your Politics—FilmSpeak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpyIr9imqEE&t=231s
Alex Garland Civil War Interview—A24 Taking Risks, ‘28 Years Later’ Details & More- ReelBlend Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqibOfZurrc&t=674s
Wat CIVIL WAR is Really About—OneTake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G_KY2kRbUQ&t=1062s
Alex Garland’s CIVIL WAR has a clear and simple meaning- Damien Walter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWBzZJxhQtY&t=267s

Orcs and the Industry of War | LOTR Monsters Pt. 1

The Morbid Zoo — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:00:26 +0000

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The Lord of the Rings is the best war movie.

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Sources:
TNEH, DAVID. “Orcs and Tolkien’s Treatment of Evil.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, no. 52, 2011, pp. 37–43. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48614766. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024.
TNEH, DAVID. “The Human Image and the Interrelationship of the Orcs, Elves and Men.” Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society, no. 55, 2014, pp. 35–39. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/48614822. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024.
Bergen, Richard Angelo. “‘A Warp of Horror’: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Sub-Creations of Evil.” Mythlore, vol. 36, no. 1 (131), 2017, pp. 103–22. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26809259. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024.
Tally, Robert T. “Let Us Now Praise Famous Orcs: Simple Humanity in Tolkien’s Inhuman Creatures.” Mythlore, vol. 29, no. 1/2 (111/112), 2010, pp. 17–28. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26815537. Accessed 16 Aug. 2024.
Tally, Robert T. "Demonizing the Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and
the Sense of the World Wars." Humanities 2019, 8, 54; doi:10.3390/h8010054

The Owl House Was Too Good to Live

The Morbid Zoo — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:00:07 +0000

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The Owl House is a show for weird kids with imaginations, and for that it must die.

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100k Q&A

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 16:00:07 +0000

Wine makes my nose itchy.

Sound of Freedom and the Shape of Modern Propaganda

The Morbid Zoo — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:00:06 +0000

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Hey! Only GOD can own people!

Sources: When I post sources to the description I get ad restricted for content, isn't that neat? :) For my print sources, please visit my most recent community post dated March 20th, 2024, until I figure out a better way to do this.

The Philosophy of Hellraiser

The Morbid Zoo — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:00:11 +0000

Let's talk about pain.

The Exorcist: Believer Review ft. Zheanna

The Morbid Zoo — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 16:52:20 +0000

Zheanna Erose and I went to the movies!

Zheanna's channels:
https://www.youtube.com/@TransVoiceLessons/featured
https://www.youtube.com/@ZheannaErose

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What Even Is X

The Morbid Zoo — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 03:49:03 +0000

Bye bye bird app.

IS GWEN STACY TRANS??? 🤯😱 (Minisode 5)

The Morbid Zoo — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:00:06 +0000

SPOILERS, NOT CLICKBAIT

Minisode 4: What Do We Get From Gay Babadooks?

The Morbid Zoo — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:28:16 +0000

Get ready to be babashook

How The Babadook Changed Horror

The Morbid Zoo — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 17:00:10 +0000

The Babadook marks the divide between the mediocre horror of the early 2000s and the golden age of horror we're living in today. How did this low-budget sleeper hit become so iconic, and what does it have to do with Bluey?

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Minisode 3: Deplatforming Part 2

The Morbid Zoo — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 17:00:25 +0000

Remember, Jesus weeps when you fallate your arguments

Minisode 2: Deplatforming Part 1

The Morbid Zoo — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 16:58:02 +0000

Should we deplatform Andrew Tate?

Some sources for you:
-Ali, Shiza et al. "Understanding the Effect of Deplatforming on Social Networks." 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021 (WebSci ’21), June 21–25, 2021, VirtualEvent, United Kingdom.
-Burke, Peter J. “Identity Processes and Social Stress.” American Sociological Review, vol. 56, no. 6, 1991, pp. 836–49. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2096259.
-Iyengar, Raghuram, et al. “Social Contagion in New Product Trial and Repeat.” Marketing Science, vol. 34, no. 3, 2015, pp. 408–29. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/24544841.
-Manchanda, Puneet, et al. “The Role of Targeted Communication and Contagion in Product Adoption.” Marketing Science, vol. 27, no. 6, 2008, pp. 961–76. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/40057157.
-Rogers, Richard, "Deplatforming: Following extreme Internet celebrities to Telegram and alternative social media." European Journal of Communication, 2020.
-Social media usage statistics: https://www.smartinsights.com/social-media-marketing/social-media-strategy/new-global-social-media-research/ (this is an imperfect source with information cobbled together by a marketing company in order to sell a service, but it links to its sources satisfyingly enough. And besides, this information is easy enough to find with a Google search, I have enough to do, so if you want a better source then find it yourself, lazybutt).

Elden Ring and the Art of Knowing Less

The Morbid Zoo — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 18:00:07 +0000

A video about monsters and meaning in Elden Ring.

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Minisode 1: Is Social Media A Real Place?

The Morbid Zoo — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:44:22 +0000

Dave Chappelle thinks Twitter is not a real place. He is too smart to be that stupid.