Been sorting through my thousands of old photographs, I took this in 2013 and that would’ve been the last time I shared it on tumblr. It’s the footprints of a mouse on a slime mold in Bel Air, Maryland :)
theres more to life than reddit. i wish someone had told me that when i was young…
Awesome that Soup is chipped! That’s how we found our clinic cat after he managed to take a trip to the Cape in someone’s truck <3
So glad you found your kitty!! but I would like to take this opportunity to talk about one of my most favorite comments I’ve EVER gotten online…
This summer, while driving Soup to the park, we were t-boned by a red light runner, my car was totaled, my legs were crunched, and Soup leapt out of the car on impact and ran far, far, away. I tried to hobble after her but I could barely walk, and I had to return to the crash to talk to the police anyhow. The guy had no license and it wasn’t even his car, but he called his whole family and they all drove to the wreck and berated me, and tried to get the police to arrest me for “trying to run from the scene of the crime,” when I looked for my dog, basically, it was a shitshow.
After that was sorted, my mom & friends came and helped me look for Soup. I limped up and down the neighborhood screaming and begging for Soup like a starving little orphan, battered, bruised, and sobbing. And I mean sobbing HARD. I was wailing. (I love my dog)
Hours passed and nothing. I couldn’t walk anymore and had to go home. I decided to start posting online for help.
Now I have a popular tiktok account that I exclusively post my pets to, and I know for a fact tiktok’s algorithm prioritizes suffering and videos with faces in it, and since I was crying anyway I took a 10 second video of my sobbing face (my iphone later turned that video into a montage for me to view and titled it Summer Fun) asking for help, and saying that she has a name tag, a seatbelt/leash still on her, and she’s microchipped.
And I was right about The Algorithm. Within a day the video had over 3 million views and thousands of comments. Because of all the eyes on the different posts I made, someone spotted Soup stuck in an alleyway, and my friend took me to pick her up. We rushed her to the E-Vet since she couldn’t walk, and after that we were able to relax a bit and heal.
But the tiktok views kept rolling in, and along with it so did an immense amount of hate. “Fuck Soup.” “I hope she’s dead.” “I found Soup, text me here” “Are you a dude or what? Ugly bitch.” “Look for dog ❌ Make TiktTok Video ✅” said many.
But the most prevalent of all was hundreds, and I mean HUNDREDS of comments telling me I was a fucking moron for not just tracking her microchip on my phone. Now, a microchip isn’t a tracking device, rather it’s more like a barcode that can be scanned by a special scanner vets and shelters have, that will give them a phone number to call. That’s it. But I came to find out this isn’t common knowledge at all, and I think these hundreds of people will be sorely disappointed should their pet go missing. (you can actually buy air tags that do track pets, tho)
Along with the onslaught comes the best comment I’ve ever yet received:
The screen name. The shade. The misinformation. MICHAEL’S CHIP?? It’s literally the perfect comment. I would be lying to you if I said I didn’t think about it a couple of times a week, even now. Michael’s Chip healed my trauma. And I’ll always be thankful for that. Even tho my ribs were crushed, I laughed and laughed. Keep it creamy, lips.
i simply can’t support salad after seeing her horrifically abuse b man in that tiktok video. truly a despicable mother who cares not for her son. soup should get custody.
