/r/likeus is a Subreddit for posting pictures and videos of animals behaving in human ways. As you can imagine, this can often lead to a level of anthropomorphizing. Occasionally people will disagree on whether a post truly belongs in the sub. Take this post, where a cat is given a kitten after losing hers, and seemingly begins to cry.

Objections raised largely centered around the scientific consensus that cats can't "cry" as an emotional response, and the cat in the video likely just has an eye infection or dry eyes from anesthetic. However, OP (a mod of the sub) is ready to argue with everyone who disagrees. It's unclear how many of the removed responses are from OP removing them.

"My goal is to make these rare and controversial cases of animals crying emotional tears better known."

An argument over the meaning of physical responses in animals

For added drama, it turns out that OP's post history is filled with videos of animals crying, and arguments for why it's real.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1dgkovr/op_in_rlikeus_in_tears_over_whether_animals_can/

!chuds

Popular Japanese rock-pop band Mrs. Green Apple removed the music video for its new song, “Columbus,” from YouTube on Thursday, following claims of racism and ignorance leveled at the clip from users of social media. The video was online for less than a day.

“Columbus” found the three members of the group dressing up as famous individuals from throughout history, including the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus, encountering characters resembling apes. Mrs. Green Apple then educates and seemingly controls the ape-like men, having them pull the trio around in carts and saluting them.

“Columbus” the song came out at midnight on Wednesday, with the video arriving later that night. Criticism came quickly. Users sounded off in the clip's comments section and on social platform X, decrying the video as ignorant and bordering on racist.

The main problem appeared to be how this portrayal of Columbus, traditionally viewed as the navigator who discovered North America but who also brutalized indigenous communities of the continent, was grossly inaccurate. Others noted how the treatment of the apemen resembled colonization, and played into racist stereotypes.

Others went further, questioning whether the apemen characters were meant to be the “primitive” communities of other lands.

Around 3 p.m. on Thursday, Mrs. Green Apple removed the clip for “Columbus” from YouTube. The band posted a statement on its official website shortly after, apologizing for the video and explaining that its original intent was to present historical figures having a “fun house party.”

The planning director for the “Columbus” video was Mrs. Green Apple vocalist Motoki Ohmori. The song and video were part of The Coca-Cola Co.'s “Coke Studio” music initiative, which finds famous artists creating original songs and videos, often featuring Coke products in prime spots.

Mrs. Green Apple formed in 2013 and in recent years has become one of the biggest J-pop acts around. The trio consists of Ohmori, guitarist Hiroto Wakai and keyboardist Ryoka Fujisawa. They have sold out stadiums nationwide and appeared on NHK's year-end “Kohaku Uta Gassen” music extravaganza, and the group has provided the theme songs to multiple popular anime series. The group's song “Lilac” is currently the No. 1 song on Japanese streaming charts.

Mrs. Green Apple has expressed interest in taking its music overseas, and to that end the band established a company called Project-MGA in conjunction with Universal Music Group with the intent of expanding its activities to the rest of the world.

Do you picture yourself as also being anime while with them or would it be more like a Roger Rabbit world? Wouldn't they be weird to touch if they were 2D but felt like people?

Mods please put this in the weeb sub so they'll see it.

!metashit fitnessGODS please let me in again, ShreddedDEITY has kicked me out simply because he disliikes me, and I never spammed the group

Fricked up my schedule yesterday and passed out around noon due to saying goodbye to friends traveling international. I've been up about 12 hours so pretty sure being drunk is fair game.

How would you describe this ? pic.twitter.com/e8RXZGb5Mz

— 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭 𝐏𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 (@Matt_Pinner) June 15, 2024

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Kamala meets Zelensky and reads to his face all the things the U.S. has done for Ukraine, while Zelensky nods.

Seems an unnecessary… pic.twitter.com/BWMlZjQObI

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) June 15, 2024

Kamala: Biden wanted to say that he was very happy with time you two spend last couple of weeks.

And that's why he is now with George Clooney