PSA: Recent Barrage Of Fake RIP Posts

What's popping, fellow parrot people? It's ya girl, CygnusZeroStar coming in hot with a hammer and the wrath of god. You know, one of the tentacle ones.

I don't know what in the Mighty Morphin' Power Fuck is wrong with some people, but you might have noticed that we've had an absolutely insane number of fake RIP posts.

Basically what's happening is these are either karma bots or people trying to shill their OnlyFans, and they're doing this by finding old pictures of other people's parrots and then lying about the loss.

As a former rescue worker that has had to be with a large number of birds on their final journey, I'm gonna be really straightforward:

I. Am fucking. Offended.

Make your paper selling your porn or whatever, I don't care. But doing this by manipulating the feelings of a community that would be particularly empathetic for the loss of someone's parrot: the things I want to say and wish on these people would put me on a list or three.

r/Parrots will always welcome users from all walks of life looking to learn, share, celebrate, assist, and even mourn. And these posts are making this an unsafe space for people who might actually be trying to get support for a loss.

Your mod team is acting swiftly to delete these posts and ban the accounts that make them. In the meantime, while we get this under control, I need to make a big ask from you all:

When you see a post that you suspect is karma farming bullshit, keep interaction to a minimum. Don't lash out at it, don't respond to it unless you want to post the correct source in the comments. Report it and let us deal with it. I know how tempting it is to give each and every post a piece of your mind--TRUST ME, I HAVE SAID SOME THINGS MYSELF TODAY--but I really can't have my people being goaded into rule breaking for the sake of a bot.

Don't let this shit be the reason reddit thinks you're harassing people or something stupid like that. Report it, message us if you want, and go hug your birds.

We will be scrutinizing mourning posts very heavily for awhile. If we remove yours by mistake, don't panic--just send us a message and we will set it right.

That's about it. I just wanted everyone to know that yes we're aware, and holy shit are we pissed.