Baby Monkey Focus

While they seem to hate monkeys in general, the phenomenon seems oddly specific about baby monkeys. Occasionally they even cheer on adult monkeys if they get rough with the babies.

Sadism

A psychopathic sadism pervasive throughout all monkey hater comments

Openness

The commenters dont feel like they have anything to hide and dont feel guilty. They are likely aware they are not alone in their hate and will get upvoted for what they say.

Triggers

Things that trigger them about baby monkeys appear to be their screeches, appearance and the perception that they are “spoiled” and “misbehaving”



Obsession

Many of these people have been shown to comment frequently and their view history suggests that they’ve been viewing monkey videos for years. They think about it all the time.

Reason

Their reasoning for hatred can be either dismissing(“it’s normal/natural to hate them), excusing

(“they are mean and evil pests who destroy things”)or admitting they do not know why they hate them. Its likely the former are just excuses and they truly do not know. The monkey hate appears to be like a phobia, something they just ‘have’ for unknown reasons. Some of them suggest that the “uncanney valley” effect is the cause.

There are several unanswered questions about this community. How do they interact? How do they organize?

Specifically, its odd that this community has no traces outside of Youtube. There are no significant public monkey hate forums or facebook groups. Its as if they only exist on Youtube. But surely they are aware of each other as a “community”.

In particular, the following questions need investigation:

Why do so many commenters have a consistent pattern of:

American-sounding full name, default Youtube avatar, and good English skills? Are they sock puppets?

I just find it so weird that these monkey haters have like no self-awareness of how psychotic they look. Commenting with their real names and profile pics too. Like, they really convinced themselves these monkeys are pure evil and that they are totally justified in posting about them the way they do. That’s why they also angrily lash out whenever someone calls them psycho.

I mean it’s possible to indulge in these feelings while the rational part of your brain still knows it’s wrong. But these people have also convinced themselves of their hate on a rational level.

Trying to think about this from an evolutionary biological perspective there are species of primates where, when a new male takes over the tribe, he will kill all the children of the previous alpha male. That monkey probably isnt consciously thinking “i should kill these babies so my own offspring have a better chance” but rather he just has a compulsion to murder the babies which in turn gives his offspring a better chance.

The females of these groups have been shown to have their bodies greatly increase the likelihood of miscarriage when carrying a males offspring that has been displaced and that they know will be killed anyway. Their bodies naturally just abort the child because it’s more beneficial evolutionarily to get that pregnancy out of the way so she can get pregnant by the new alpha male asap.

Other primates have implicit drives to murder baby monkeys that arent their own. It’s not that far fetched to think humans might’ve had that too at one point buried deep down.

We did murder most of our common ancestors after all. Homo sapiens weren’t necessarily the best of the homos, we were just the most brutal and outbred them. Neanderthals weren’t dumb brutes, new studies show they didn’t even have bad posture. They were more gentle and relatively as intelligent. Tribes of Neanderthals have been found to have been murdered, eaten, tortured, and raped by homo sapiens.

Arent these just angry people from third world countries where monkeys are considered pests?

NO!

Look closer. A large majority has Anglo-American names. nearly all of them have great English skills. Some even have Caucasian profile pics.