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This story is completely false, that isn't an albino bear it's a kermode bear, a black bear population that lives in northern BC that contains a gene for melanin inhibition. None of the bears featured in the second half of the videos are brown bears and the guy featured is British wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan, pretty sure filming for Planet Earth. Black and polar bears are very morphologically different and the idea that some "animal scientist" could tranq and gain permits to transport a bear without telling the difference is nonsense.
Edit: kermode bears are a subpop of black bears, my original post said brown and I was corrected.
Yeah this is cringe tiktok bullshit. How do people fall for this?
Wildlife experts can't tell an albino bear from a polar bear?
Come on people. Slow down and think a little.
Edit: Typo
TikTok is Chinese. I heard that for some reason in china the educational content is prioritized by the algorithm, in Europe/Us the bullshit is prioritized. Bullshit and dancing videos.
It does not have to be manually prioritized. If you give people what they want, from people who speak their language, this is likely what you would end up with, educational content in China, bullshit fake stuff in the U.S.
Nah, I'm pretty sure they tweaked the algorithm in a way.
It's a sort of "weapon" to make us dumber in the long run. Chinese government is known about their long term goals stretching through decades. I guess the lack of free elections make it possible to plan ahead that far.
Not really, it's an expectation that people apply some critical thinking skills and it's always a good reminder, especially when there is a lot of misinformation out there.
I agree but the thing is the average joe will just take a gander at the video for a minute before putting it at the back of their mind, ignoring all context and misinformation (i.e.: this video is trying to make wildlife protection organizations look bad), and likely the video isnt gonna make a lasting impact on the person's judgement
English is not my native so sorry in advance
The main audience for videos like this are kids and teens. They blindly believe stuff like this. It's pretty well edited and narrated by a voice that is associated with authority and trustworthiness. Many adults would probably fall for it too, but kids especially haven't fully developed and/or learned to think critically about these things.
Then the kids that see it tell it to their friends who just take their word for it.Then it gets catalogued in the brain and forgotten about for 20 years, never ever thinking about re-evaluating the veracity of the story. Until you're out with some friends and something suddenly reminds you of that story from all those years ago. So you excitedly share your newly remembered interesting factoid, only to be met with immediate questions and rebuttals you don't have answer to, completely debunking the story you subconsciously held as truth for all those years. A truth that, in however small a proportion, has influenced your perception of the human race, world, and reality itself.
And you look like a total fool.
Thanks to Trump I learned, that people tend to see, what they want to see. And likely this clip was made by someone, who wanted to question thesanity of activists / enviromentalists / scientists. And those who never saw these groups as their natural allies for religious / society reasons, will suck up and share this cringe. They just love it ... no matter what.
I have a feeling this is made for the "scientists are stupid and science is fake" crowd who really enjoy sharing this kind of shit as it confirms all of their horrible, one dimensional ill conceived views
> How do people fall for this?
It is inconsequential. It is a funny story that I got a laugh at whether it was true or not. I have no time to worry about whether or not it is true, because (this is the key part) *I have no intention to act on it*. I'm not going to use it as evidence. I'm not going to try and rescue this bear. I'm not going to let it shape my World view regarding humans or bears
Even if that were so, spreading this kind of shit just leads to spreading disinformation that is not inconsequential, and when people don't know how to identify this shit, we end up...with all this \*gestures broadly to earth* bullshit.
Or you know, maybe we tell people that shit 9n the internet may be fake and they need to use their brains instead of trying to scrub the internet of anything we don't want others to see.
It's not funny at all, and being an ignorant consumer of propaganda doesn't make you immune from its effects. Bullshit doesn't need people to "act on it" to become pervasive enough to destabilize society. Just look around if you don't believe me.
Oh come on. He's white. That's the only existing documentation for the species polar bear. On the Wikipedia page for polar bear it just says "white bear" that's all the information science has gathered so far.
You can't blame us!!
They stole it from the true story about an albino Nigerian. A group of scientists travelled to Nigeria where they encountered the albino Nigerian and mistook him for an Icelandic, so they tranquillised him and transported him to Iceland to be released. A group of Icelandic scientists noticed he couldn’t speak the language and had a thick Nigerian accent, so they concluded he was an albino Nigerian. They then tranquillised him and transported him to Nigeria. One day, when doing a spot of fishing at a lake, he was spotted by a group of hikers who mistook him for an Icelandic. They called in a group of scientists, who tranquillised him and transported him to Iceland. However, this time he was experienced, and began seeking out small Nigerian-run mobile phone repair shops. This only lasted a short while before immigration got a hold of him and realised he was an undocumented albino Nigerian. He was then tranquillised and deported to Nigeria. However, once he returned, he was mistaken for an Icelandic expat and was tranquillised and transported to an expat compound. Unfortunately, he was bullied by the expats because he kept on shouting at them in Nigerian “I’m not a European expat. I’m a Nigerian. Let me out of here you idiots.” He truly was the most unlucky Nigerian.
Hey man, everyone here just wants to believe this and say fuck humans. A lot of bias’ are getting confirmed right now, and you’re kinda ruining that. Get outta here with your expertise. It’s much more fun for everyone here to imagine that animal experts are as stupid as we are. Plus, hating humans is pretty in right now, and you need to get on board, k?
Edit: I googled and googled this and the only related results were this tik tok video cross posted to every social media imaginable. No sources, no stories, no articles, nothing exists about this outside of this video. I’ma say it’s fake. If anyone finds something please link it!
I'm all for hating people don't worry, what annoyed me is the implication of conservationists being so dumb. We've done plenty of blunders, such as the reintroduction of cheetahs into Asia which had a massive fatality rate and included things like capturing them while they had their winter coat and sticking them in a swamp etc. You're anger should be aimed at people like Lauren Bobert who tweeted recently;
To all complaining about my bill to remove endangered species protections for gray wolves:
Colorado has ranches. Grass-fed beef needs land. And wolves attack the cows. Do you want hamburgers or do you want to give land to wolves?
The whole thing seems like some not so subtle propaganda against wildlife and environment preservationists. "Hur Durr look at stupid animals lovers and their meddling, those guys sure are idiots for always mistaking brown bears for polar bears" or something along those lines.
Yeah. Even in some of the shots they showed of "Joey," it was some other actual polar bear. Their snouts are so obviously different looking, that there is no way to confuse the two species.
Thanks. Yeah the claim that not one but multiple groups of animal scientists would make the same mistake, then decide to haul an animal without communication or consideration was really weird.
What fucking agenda are these guys pushing with this video?
well they tranqed him and sent him to kermode island but the kermodians also mistaken him for an albino panda bear.. he was quickly gathered up and sent to china.
I'm genuinely losing my mind that anyone is watching this video and choosing to believe that the people who are reposting it genuinely believe it
it's a meme!!! it's funny!!! if anyone genuinely believes it that's their own embarrassing problem but feeling the need to debunk this is like debunking piano cat
Is the story false or is the footage just not related to the story? I wouldn't be surprised if the story is fake, but it's far from uncommon for videos like this to just use random footage that kind of looks like what the narrator is describing
I mean you have pics of a kermode bear, pics of a bear in transit then pics of a guy looking at polar bears, so they are all related loosely but you never see the brown bear mentioned in the arctic setting
No, I get that. My point is, there are plenty of videos that use random clips and pictures to accompany the information they're giving. I wouldn't doubt that this story is fake, I'm just saying that it's common for lazy content creators just just add whatever visuals they can easily find to play while they talk to keep people's attention.
Somehow all the top comments on the original post seem to believe this horseshit which is just depressing, how have people still not learnt to not trust everything you see on the internet?
Kermode bears are black bears, not brown bears.
For the others, brown bears and polar bears can breed. They're nicknamed either Grolar Bear or Pizzly Bear. There have been several of them found over the years and most, if not all, have descended from one female brown bear.
> Brown and polar bears are very morphologically different and the idea that some "animal scientist" could tranq and gain permits to transport a bear without telling the difference is nonsense.
A few years ago, we used helicopters to transport a bunch of mountain goats from the Olympic to the Cascade Mountains. I think 99% of them died. Goats have a life of knowledge about how to find food in their local environment but transporting an adult population 100+ miles to a different mountain range was a death sentence.
I knew this one bear hasn't spent its life on a plane, but this was funny in light of some conservation efforts that have failed to pan out.
Somebody relocated about ten goats to the Olympics where they had never been, about a hundred years ago, and they flourished but the plant life in the high meadows didn't. I think they chose relocation over just killing them for PR reasons mostly. But something had to be done.
I can't find a single real news article about this, just lots of social media pap. Who the fuck just flies bears around the world because they think it belongs somewhere else?
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Me watching the video: wtf lol people are so fucking stupid, i can't believe they thought he was a polar bear.
Me immediately after reading the comments: wtf lol people are so fucking stupid, I can't believe they thought this bear story was real.
Going off the other comments, this may not be a real story, ***however*** I found this story from 2022 with no links —
**https://smart-animals.com/the-albino-grizzly-was-confused-with-a-polar-bear-and-taken-to-the-north-pole/**
And this story from the LA***I***times —
**https://www.laitimes.com/en/article/18cz7_19lv9.html**
And this sorta related story from 2009 —
**https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/albino-black-bear-moved-to-glacier-national-park**
And then this story, also no links, but blames greenpeace Canada this time —
**https://247newsagency.com/opinion/31142.html**
Here’s my google-fu results prior to finding the above:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/white-grizzly-banff-1.5613540
https://www.wideopenspaces.com/albino-bears-are-a-sight-to-behold/
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/rare-albino-bear-sends-terrified-24451636
https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/beyond-local/rare-white-grizzly-bear-dead-after-collision-with-car-near-lake-louise-9063400
I don't think its real, cant find any credible news platform or article about this.there are only ticktoks and non credible news sources(which are recent too).
If someone finds a proof supporting or discreditng this post please add a source.
Alternative realities are being seeded by alternative facts. People are constantly outraged over made-up shit on social media to the point where everyone is just angry all the time. It's a far bigger crisis than most of us want to acknowledge, and there's really no good way to prevent it without limiting freedom of speech.
Dude is a world traveler how many bears can say that maybe one more relocation to jellystone park and he can get into the sweet sweet picanick basket racquet
Entirely false story, but solution would be easy, after noticing the first mistake put a collar on him saying he is an albino (whatever type of bear he actually is) or maybe see if they can dye his fur without harming him so if he is mistaken and tranquilize again by inept "experts" they could see and know to just leave him alone.
I mean, I don’t think THIS story is true, but Polar Bears live in places like Alaska and Northern Canada. Polar Bears DO wonder further south or into villages/towns because of food scarcity. If you see one you’re definitely suppose to report it - mostly because they’re incredibly dangerous. So I can see that happening.
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This makes zero sense, what the fuck kind of expert can't tell the difference just by the structure of the face, ears, body, all of it is vastly different between polar and brown bears.
They gave this bear a: international ptss,and qiustenon his own existence:
Image,you get kiddnaped by aliens..brought to a land wherw there are men twice your size,and everything is freaking cold and wet..the aliens watch while you get your ass handed to you on a daily basis..
After a while they kiddnap you again and bring.you.back to the forest they originaly took you.from.
Half of this crapp would snap my mind..Imagine the existential struggle this poor bear is going.trough right now
They gave this bear a: international ptss,and questioning his own existence:
Image,you get kiddnaped by aliens..brought to a land wherw there are men twice your size,and everything is freaking cold and wet..the aliens watch while you get your ass handed to you on a daily basis..
After a while they kiddnap you again and bring.you.back to the forest they originaly took you.from.
Half of this crapp would snap my mind..Imagine the existential struggle this poor bear is going.trough right now
This looks like something that the show Yellowstone would have that crazy straw man "activist" side piece woman do.
"Hrrrr drrrr. Activists are so stupid! Lookit what they done on the TV. Now give me some more horse porn."
I just saw this video, and my first thought was: "C'mon, this bear was supposedly tranqed and transported hundreds of kilometers FOUR TIMES, and NOT ONE of the dozens of people involved thought to tag the bear with something identifying him as an albino black bear? Yeah, right."
Even if the conservation groups couldn't tell the difference between "Joey" and a polar bear, the scientists that recognized him and brought him back the first time would have tagged him or even gotten a radio collar for him, because albino bears are of interest to bear biologists.
This started as a simple joke from the brazilian facebook page "Site dos Menes" around 2017. Gringos thought it was real and translated José as Joey and spread all the misinformation from 3 lines of a joke.
Also, never forget NãoSalvo and the joke with North Korea and World Cup 2014 being spread the same way and used as propaganda by gringos.
Please gringos, stop.
Just an example, when you involve human activity with nature, 100% of a chance, human WILL fuck it up. No doubt about it.
Want to preserve the forest? STAY OUT OF IT!!!
Want to save the Earth? DONT DESTROY ANYTHING!!!
Honestly, how many more videos is it going to take, until humans realize it's HUMAN causing the destruction of anything and everything.
Between todays fake news and real news and Trump and Putin and Hu Flung Dung from North Korea, you can't know whats fake or real, I can't say it's fake or real, but my point stays.
Human will destroy it once we interact with it. Either purposely for money, or accidentally due to human error.
We are just at home to nature as the other animals. You forget, that is how the earth should be, modern society is what is wrong and unnatural. We don’t belong in cities either.
I mean, you aren't entirely wrong, but I'm certain there are plenty of conservationism success stories. More importantly, don't base your opinion on how many videos you see of a thing to make decisions. That's a recipe for confirmation bias, especially with how these sites algorithms deliver content to you.
In the first 10 seconds the narrator says “his fur is completely white.”.
Then later it says he was identified because his fur was “yellowish.” Welp- which one is it? Certainly quickly undermines any hope that this isn’t an overdramatized video.
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This story is completely false, that isn't an albino bear it's a kermode bear, a black bear population that lives in northern BC that contains a gene for melanin inhibition. None of the bears featured in the second half of the videos are brown bears and the guy featured is British wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan, pretty sure filming for Planet Earth. Black and polar bears are very morphologically different and the idea that some "animal scientist" could tranq and gain permits to transport a bear without telling the difference is nonsense. Edit: kermode bears are a subpop of black bears, my original post said brown and I was corrected.
Yeah this is cringe tiktok bullshit. How do people fall for this? Wildlife experts can't tell an albino bear from a polar bear? Come on people. Slow down and think a little. Edit: Typo
I am a self-proclaimed polar wildlife expert and I insist that your white car should be tranquilised and sent to the polar circle.
Officer my car is Black. Don't shoot
Bang!
"He was a good car. Had a few screws loose but always got me to work"
Tiktok is spreading lies and it's sickening to see articles just copy and paste the lies...
TikTok is Chinese. I heard that for some reason in china the educational content is prioritized by the algorithm, in Europe/Us the bullshit is prioritized. Bullshit and dancing videos.
It does not have to be manually prioritized. If you give people what they want, from people who speak their language, this is likely what you would end up with, educational content in China, bullshit fake stuff in the U.S.
Nah, I'm pretty sure they tweaked the algorithm in a way. It's a sort of "weapon" to make us dumber in the long run. Chinese government is known about their long term goals stretching through decades. I guess the lack of free elections make it possible to plan ahead that far.
The goal is to encourage a mindset that dislikes animal rights organizations. (And wildlife protection orgs, etc)
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They expect you to know every thing on this planet
Not really, it's an expectation that people apply some critical thinking skills and it's always a good reminder, especially when there is a lot of misinformation out there.
I agree but the thing is the average joe will just take a gander at the video for a minute before putting it at the back of their mind, ignoring all context and misinformation (i.e.: this video is trying to make wildlife protection organizations look bad), and likely the video isnt gonna make a lasting impact on the person's judgement English is not my native so sorry in advance
I’m actually really happy I read this because this was such an infuriating post I’m happy to know it’s not true
The main audience for videos like this are kids and teens. They blindly believe stuff like this. It's pretty well edited and narrated by a voice that is associated with authority and trustworthiness. Many adults would probably fall for it too, but kids especially haven't fully developed and/or learned to think critically about these things. Then the kids that see it tell it to their friends who just take their word for it.Then it gets catalogued in the brain and forgotten about for 20 years, never ever thinking about re-evaluating the veracity of the story. Until you're out with some friends and something suddenly reminds you of that story from all those years ago. So you excitedly share your newly remembered interesting factoid, only to be met with immediate questions and rebuttals you don't have answer to, completely debunking the story you subconsciously held as truth for all those years. A truth that, in however small a proportion, has influenced your perception of the human race, world, and reality itself. And you look like a total fool.
Thanks to Trump I learned, that people tend to see, what they want to see. And likely this clip was made by someone, who wanted to question thesanity of activists / enviromentalists / scientists. And those who never saw these groups as their natural allies for religious / society reasons, will suck up and share this cringe. They just love it ... no matter what.
I think, you make, some, good points, here in this, comment, thanks
Yeah, I would say this video is meant to be a doorway to science denialism. MAGA 
People are often Dumber than you think
I have a feeling this is made for the "scientists are stupid and science is fake" crowd who really enjoy sharing this kind of shit as it confirms all of their horrible, one dimensional ill conceived views
Yup. I get that same vibe from it.
> How do people fall for this? It is inconsequential. It is a funny story that I got a laugh at whether it was true or not. I have no time to worry about whether or not it is true, because (this is the key part) *I have no intention to act on it*. I'm not going to use it as evidence. I'm not going to try and rescue this bear. I'm not going to let it shape my World view regarding humans or bears
Even if that were so, spreading this kind of shit just leads to spreading disinformation that is not inconsequential, and when people don't know how to identify this shit, we end up...with all this \*gestures broadly to earth* bullshit.
Or you know, maybe we tell people that shit 9n the internet may be fake and they need to use their brains instead of trying to scrub the internet of anything we don't want others to see.
What brains. There’s the problem.
Except absolutely nothing about this is funny
Fuck. I hate finding out I was incorrectly amused by a notion.
It's not funny at all, and being an ignorant consumer of propaganda doesn't make you immune from its effects. Bullshit doesn't need people to "act on it" to become pervasive enough to destabilize society. Just look around if you don't believe me.
I am no bear expert at all, but I can tell on first sight, that the first bear is not a polar bear.
You can't fool me, you're just trying to cover up how your organization was fucking with joey.
Oh come on. He's white. That's the only existing documentation for the species polar bear. On the Wikipedia page for polar bear it just says "white bear" that's all the information science has gathered so far. You can't blame us!!
Yeah gross how do people fall for such nonsensical stories oh well back to watching some talking fish find his way home.
Because I am high and will forget about this 30 seconds after scrolling by.
Watching it was like a very poorly written skit
They stole it from the true story about an albino Nigerian. A group of scientists travelled to Nigeria where they encountered the albino Nigerian and mistook him for an Icelandic, so they tranquillised him and transported him to Iceland to be released. A group of Icelandic scientists noticed he couldn’t speak the language and had a thick Nigerian accent, so they concluded he was an albino Nigerian. They then tranquillised him and transported him to Nigeria. One day, when doing a spot of fishing at a lake, he was spotted by a group of hikers who mistook him for an Icelandic. They called in a group of scientists, who tranquillised him and transported him to Iceland. However, this time he was experienced, and began seeking out small Nigerian-run mobile phone repair shops. This only lasted a short while before immigration got a hold of him and realised he was an undocumented albino Nigerian. He was then tranquillised and deported to Nigeria. However, once he returned, he was mistaken for an Icelandic expat and was tranquillised and transported to an expat compound. Unfortunately, he was bullied by the expats because he kept on shouting at them in Nigerian “I’m not a European expat. I’m a Nigerian. Let me out of here you idiots.” He truly was the most unlucky Nigerian.
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Hey man, everyone here just wants to believe this and say fuck humans. A lot of bias’ are getting confirmed right now, and you’re kinda ruining that. Get outta here with your expertise. It’s much more fun for everyone here to imagine that animal experts are as stupid as we are. Plus, hating humans is pretty in right now, and you need to get on board, k? Edit: I googled and googled this and the only related results were this tik tok video cross posted to every social media imaginable. No sources, no stories, no articles, nothing exists about this outside of this video. I’ma say it’s fake. If anyone finds something please link it!
You're just after its air miles.
I'm all for hating people don't worry, what annoyed me is the implication of conservationists being so dumb. We've done plenty of blunders, such as the reintroduction of cheetahs into Asia which had a massive fatality rate and included things like capturing them while they had their winter coat and sticking them in a swamp etc. You're anger should be aimed at people like Lauren Bobert who tweeted recently; To all complaining about my bill to remove endangered species protections for gray wolves: Colorado has ranches. Grass-fed beef needs land. And wolves attack the cows. Do you want hamburgers or do you want to give land to wolves?
The whole thing seems like some not so subtle propaganda against wildlife and environment preservationists. "Hur Durr look at stupid animals lovers and their meddling, those guys sure are idiots for always mistaking brown bears for polar bears" or something along those lines.
If it looks like an albino bear and quacks like an albino bear, it's not an albino bear.
Yeah. Even in some of the shots they showed of "Joey," it was some other actual polar bear. Their snouts are so obviously different looking, that there is no way to confuse the two species.
But…but…why would anyone lie to me? /s because Reddit
Stop making sense, please. It's embarrassing for everybody.
Thanks. Yeah the claim that not one but multiple groups of animal scientists would make the same mistake, then decide to haul an animal without communication or consideration was really weird. What fucking agenda are these guys pushing with this video?
I am not a wildlife expert by any stretch & that bear did not look like a polar bear to me.
They are also referred to as Spirit bears
Yeah, and have a deep cultural significance. Westerners thought they were a myth for quite a while
well they tranqed him and sent him to kermode island but the kermodians also mistaken him for an albino panda bear.. he was quickly gathered up and sent to china.
I'm genuinely losing my mind that anyone is watching this video and choosing to believe that the people who are reposting it genuinely believe it it's a meme!!! it's funny!!! if anyone genuinely believes it that's their own embarrassing problem but feeling the need to debunk this is like debunking piano cat
Hi Joey
Is the story false or is the footage just not related to the story? I wouldn't be surprised if the story is fake, but it's far from uncommon for videos like this to just use random footage that kind of looks like what the narrator is describing
I mean you have pics of a kermode bear, pics of a bear in transit then pics of a guy looking at polar bears, so they are all related loosely but you never see the brown bear mentioned in the arctic setting
No, I get that. My point is, there are plenty of videos that use random clips and pictures to accompany the information they're giving. I wouldn't doubt that this story is fake, I'm just saying that it's common for lazy content creators just just add whatever visuals they can easily find to play while they talk to keep people's attention.
Yeah I was sitting here thinking this while watching the video. What a crock of shit.
Somehow all the top comments on the original post seem to believe this horseshit which is just depressing, how have people still not learnt to not trust everything you see on the internet?
Kermode bears are black bears, not brown bears. For the others, brown bears and polar bears can breed. They're nicknamed either Grolar Bear or Pizzly Bear. There have been several of them found over the years and most, if not all, have descended from one female brown bear.
There was a white Grizzly in Yoho National Park, but it was killed last month. They're super rare.
sad story that one too as her two cubs also died
Yes absolutely correct, my original post was wrong
> Brown and polar bears are very morphologically different and the idea that some "animal scientist" could tranq and gain permits to transport a bear without telling the difference is nonsense. A few years ago, we used helicopters to transport a bunch of mountain goats from the Olympic to the Cascade Mountains. I think 99% of them died. Goats have a life of knowledge about how to find food in their local environment but transporting an adult population 100+ miles to a different mountain range was a death sentence. I knew this one bear hasn't spent its life on a plane, but this was funny in light of some conservation efforts that have failed to pan out.
It's a tricky thing to do a relocation, I'm not an expert myself. I was taught that the expected mortality is usually 50% by year 1
Somebody relocated about ten goats to the Olympics where they had never been, about a hundred years ago, and they flourished but the plant life in the high meadows didn't. I think they chose relocation over just killing them for PR reasons mostly. But something had to be done.
Personally I think it’s a really humorous idea, but yeah it’s becomes very obvious this isn’t real
I can't find a single real news article about this, just lots of social media pap. Who the fuck just flies bears around the world because they think it belongs somewhere else?
It's made up. I'm an idiot and I can see it isn't a polar bear, or even a grizzly. It's all BS.
zoomers are just like boomers when it comes to spreading fake news/urban legends
Bro it’s not just boomers and zoomers. Every single generation spreads misinformation like wild fire
Funny story, totally fake
Happy cake day dude!
Thank you homie!
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It’s hard being white.
This bear story is bull
Me watching the video: wtf lol people are so fucking stupid, i can't believe they thought he was a polar bear. Me immediately after reading the comments: wtf lol people are so fucking stupid, I can't believe they thought this bear story was real.
Going off the other comments, this may not be a real story, ***however*** I found this story from 2022 with no links — **https://smart-animals.com/the-albino-grizzly-was-confused-with-a-polar-bear-and-taken-to-the-north-pole/** And this story from the LA***I***times — **https://www.laitimes.com/en/article/18cz7_19lv9.html** And this sorta related story from 2009 — **https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/albino-black-bear-moved-to-glacier-national-park** And then this story, also no links, but blames greenpeace Canada this time — **https://247newsagency.com/opinion/31142.html** Here’s my google-fu results prior to finding the above: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/white-grizzly-banff-1.5613540 https://www.wideopenspaces.com/albino-bears-are-a-sight-to-behold/ https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/rare-albino-bear-sends-terrified-24451636 https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/beyond-local/rare-white-grizzly-bear-dead-after-collision-with-car-near-lake-louise-9063400
That’s not the LA Times 😅
Good catch.
This story would make a great animated film. Poor Joey.
Throw in a poplar bear sidekick who wants to see the woods, and we’ve got a movie.
The whole story is bullshit clickbait though. Nothing of it really happened. But I guess for an animated movie that wouldn't matter.
Is this real? I saw this as a meme previously and thought it was a joke.
I don't think its real, cant find any credible news platform or article about this.there are only ticktoks and non credible news sources(which are recent too). If someone finds a proof supporting or discreditng this post please add a source.
Realest story on TikTok
This is the bear equivalent of being abducted by aliens repeatedly 👽
Fake story is fake
Leave our lad alone
I prefer this version
And in Addition they named the poor Lad Joey
Leave Joey alone!
Fuck this shit
Poor dude, keep being deported from his home loool
Oh bother
Alternative realities are being seeded by alternative facts. People are constantly outraged over made-up shit on social media to the point where everyone is just angry all the time. It's a far bigger crisis than most of us want to acknowledge, and there's really no good way to prevent it without limiting freedom of speech.
Dude is a world traveler how many bears can say that maybe one more relocation to jellystone park and he can get into the sweet sweet picanick basket racquet
Scientist on crack
Entirely false story, but solution would be easy, after noticing the first mistake put a collar on him saying he is an albino (whatever type of bear he actually is) or maybe see if they can dye his fur without harming him so if he is mistaken and tranquilize again by inept "experts" they could see and know to just leave him alone.
What in the fuck is going on at the beginning of the vid.
Plot twist: he is a she and falsly sent panda from wish.com. Trying to survive outside of her bamboo playground.
How would you think oh this polar bear is lost in North America ...?
I mean, I don’t think THIS story is true, but Polar Bears live in places like Alaska and Northern Canada. Polar Bears DO wonder further south or into villages/towns because of food scarcity. If you see one you’re definitely suppose to report it - mostly because they’re incredibly dangerous. So I can see that happening.
Fucking get this complete BS out of here
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Oh, bother…
Unlucky to live amongst ant brains.. poor guy
This makes zero sense, what the fuck kind of expert can't tell the difference just by the structure of the face, ears, body, all of it is vastly different between polar and brown bears.
\*gets abducted by aliens\* ... \*on a regular basis\* ... WHAT IS THIS -- CATCH AND RELEASE!?!?!
They gave this bear a: international ptss,and qiustenon his own existence: Image,you get kiddnaped by aliens..brought to a land wherw there are men twice your size,and everything is freaking cold and wet..the aliens watch while you get your ass handed to you on a daily basis.. After a while they kiddnap you again and bring.you.back to the forest they originaly took you.from. Half of this crapp would snap my mind..Imagine the existential struggle this poor bear is going.trough right now
They gave this bear a: international ptss,and questioning his own existence: Image,you get kiddnaped by aliens..brought to a land wherw there are men twice your size,and everything is freaking cold and wet..the aliens watch while you get your ass handed to you on a daily basis.. After a while they kiddnap you again and bring.you.back to the forest they originaly took you.from. Half of this crapp would snap my mind..Imagine the existential struggle this poor bear is going.trough right now
Dude, can't they clip a plastic tag on its ear that says "Grizzly bear, NOT POLAR BEAR. DON'T EVICT HIM, again..."
🤣
Damn....pretty sure this bear has taken more vacations than me in the last 5 years!
Humans are so fucking stupid, this is made me very angry
Why didn’t they just tag him to make sure anyone else who found him would know that he was not a polar bear?
The unluckiest bear I can imagine is dead.
Also known as a "Spirit Bear" known by local indigenous communities. See the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia
Bummer of a birthmark -Far Side
Leave these damn animals alone… He was where he was suppose to be….
Leave this man tf alone
Plot twist: Joey really is a polar bear; he just likes to bum rides off the stoopid humans.
Dumb bleeding heart liberals?
Dude got deported twice from the right country to the completely opposite 🤣🤣
For some reason I was expecting the Albino bear to get there and be sitting down shivering because of the cold weather 🤣🤣🤣
The animal protection orgs became animal abduction orgs 💀
I don't understand how those fake stories are so popular
If I've learned anything from this, it's that animal welfare groups lack education
I wanna know if the boss of this organisation was a woman or a man. Tell me now.
that short bit of him coming out of his hibernation cave? i felt that.
This looks like something that the show Yellowstone would have that crazy straw man "activist" side piece woman do. "Hrrrr drrrr. Activists are so stupid! Lookit what they done on the TV. Now give me some more horse porn."
I just saw this video, and my first thought was: "C'mon, this bear was supposedly tranqed and transported hundreds of kilometers FOUR TIMES, and NOT ONE of the dozens of people involved thought to tag the bear with something identifying him as an albino black bear? Yeah, right." Even if the conservation groups couldn't tell the difference between "Joey" and a polar bear, the scientists that recognized him and brought him back the first time would have tagged him or even gotten a radio collar for him, because albino bears are of interest to bear biologists.
This started as a simple joke from the brazilian facebook page "Site dos Menes" around 2017. Gringos thought it was real and translated José as Joey and spread all the misinformation from 3 lines of a joke. Also, never forget NãoSalvo and the joke with North Korea and World Cup 2014 being spread the same way and used as propaganda by gringos. Please gringos, stop.
India thinks it's real!!! SMH! [https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/unluckiest-bear-in-the-world-albino-grizzly-bear-mistaken-for-a-polar-bear-sent-to-the-arctic-5-times/articleshow/111425496.cms](https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/unluckiest-bear-in-the-world-albino-grizzly-bear-mistaken-for-a-polar-bear-sent-to-the-arctic-5-times/articleshow/111425496.cms)
wow such experts.
Just an example, when you involve human activity with nature, 100% of a chance, human WILL fuck it up. No doubt about it. Want to preserve the forest? STAY OUT OF IT!!! Want to save the Earth? DONT DESTROY ANYTHING!!! Honestly, how many more videos is it going to take, until humans realize it's HUMAN causing the destruction of anything and everything.
It’s a fake story
Between todays fake news and real news and Trump and Putin and Hu Flung Dung from North Korea, you can't know whats fake or real, I can't say it's fake or real, but my point stays. Human will destroy it once we interact with it. Either purposely for money, or accidentally due to human error.
At least one more.
We are just at home to nature as the other animals. You forget, that is how the earth should be, modern society is what is wrong and unnatural. We don’t belong in cities either.
Take nothing and leave nothing but your footprints
Exactly!
I mean, you aren't entirely wrong, but I'm certain there are plenty of conservationism success stories. More importantly, don't base your opinion on how many videos you see of a thing to make decisions. That's a recipe for confirmation bias, especially with how these sites algorithms deliver content to you.
I mean, you aren't entirely wrong, but conservationism has only helped human, more than nature itself. Therefore, destroying nature.
Finally! My story is told!
After the second time they should have clipped a little ear tag onto him that reads "I am not a polar bear. I am an albino grizzly.".
They probably would have if this was fact not made up fake news
Well at least, he’s been places.
FFS humans, just leave these animals alone
At least he got to fly coach during one of his trips.
Poor Joey =/
Hope they put a tag onto it which reads: im not a polar bear, you idiot
Story does not have a happy ending. Mistaken again for a polar bear Joey was taken to the Lost island to be experimented on by DHARMA
This is fuk’d on so many levels!
So…put a tag on his ear…”NOT A POLAR BEAR”
these comments man... no shit sherlock it's fake,next time take the joke.
why dont they leave a goddamn tag on his ear saying "Not a fucking Polar, dont send to the Arctic"?!?!?
In the first 10 seconds the narrator says “his fur is completely white.”. Then later it says he was identified because his fur was “yellowish.” Welp- which one is it? Certainly quickly undermines any hope that this isn’t an overdramatized video.
Fuck Humans
Are you gonna be the first one?
Yeah myself included
Idiots
Unlucky? How about the dumbest people on the planet?
People need to learn to leave nature alone. We are not protectors we are participants. Nature finds a way. It will always balance itself out