Yeah I didn’t like the wild animal manhandling act (Vegan, I think we should just leave them alone), but I think Irwin understood how to connect with and engage an audience that would leave them thinking about the animals for the long term, not to mention knowing more about them. He was a top-tier science communicator and cared about the animals first, ultimately his form of spectacle advocacy drove tons of engagement toward naturalist / zoological / conservancy professions.
The same reason that the MythBusters are considered science educators. You may not like it, but those were the influencers of the 2000s. There are a lot of people who grew up to be veterinarians or other vocations dealing with animals because of Steve Irwin, just like there are a lot of people who grew up to be engineers or similar because of the MythBusters, and that’s what makes him and his message special.
I’m sure in a couple years we will be hearing about the people who loved VSauce or one of those other YouTube channels and there will be some curmudgeon commenting about how they never understood how Michael was likable.
Never watched much of vsauce, but I don’t recall him molesting numbers, chemistry, or history.
On the other hand, I can honestly say that I’ve probably watched more of Steve Irwin than anyone else in this comment section. Possibly by an order of magnitude. I’m not sure whether my opinion, formed via vhs obliteration, counts as curmudgeonly
His kids are just like him. It’s the genuine love of learning and nature and wanting to share that. And there’s some real science on the show tagging and documenting animals as well as medicating and moving them.
PITA edge lords are cringe, the man handling snakes carefully for 5min so millions of people learn and are less terrified of them is more of a service to animals than any of you will do.
Yeah no, he purposefully invaded animals environment’s and manhandled them for money. The only good thing he did was to show that doing what he did for money occasionally has consequences, lime being stabbed in the heart by one of the animals he just had to go up to and touch. Seriously there was a massive backlash building to his shit in aus until he died and then he was suddenly canonised and was untouchable.
I still don’t understand how Steve Irwin ended up so beloved. He seemed more in love with adrenaline than the animals
Yeah I didn’t like the wild animal manhandling act (Vegan, I think we should just leave them alone), but I think Irwin understood how to connect with and engage an audience that would leave them thinking about the animals for the long term, not to mention knowing more about them. He was a top-tier science communicator and cared about the animals first, ultimately his form of spectacle advocacy drove tons of engagement toward naturalist / zoological / conservancy professions.
The same reason that the MythBusters are considered science educators. You may not like it, but those were the influencers of the 2000s. There are a lot of people who grew up to be veterinarians or other vocations dealing with animals because of Steve Irwin, just like there are a lot of people who grew up to be engineers or similar because of the MythBusters, and that’s what makes him and his message special.
I’m sure in a couple years we will be hearing about the people who loved VSauce or one of those other YouTube channels and there will be some curmudgeon commenting about how they never understood how Michael was likable.
Never watched much of vsauce, but I don’t recall him molesting numbers, chemistry, or history.
On the other hand, I can honestly say that I’ve probably watched more of Steve Irwin than anyone else in this comment section. Possibly by an order of magnitude. I’m not sure whether my opinion, formed via vhs obliteration, counts as curmudgeonly
His kids are just like him. It’s the genuine love of learning and nature and wanting to share that. And there’s some real science on the show tagging and documenting animals as well as medicating and moving them.
PITA edge lords are cringe, the man handling snakes carefully for 5min so millions of people learn and are less terrified of them is more of a service to animals than any of you will do.
PR for the way he died. That bit of fondling animals was getting old.
Dieing at the peak of popularity before any scandal could have come up made him beloved by his works.
Edit: This isn’t a negative, he didn’t do anything bad but also never got the chance. We can go on knowing he was good. But he did die young.
Yeah no, he purposefully invaded animals environment’s and manhandled them for money. The only good thing he did was to show that doing what he did for money occasionally has consequences, lime being stabbed in the heart by one of the animals he just had to go up to and touch. Seriously there was a massive backlash building to his shit in aus until he died and then he was suddenly canonised and was untouchable.