Acrylics

My Instagram account with the Wildlife videos in my back garden has really taken off. There can be a lot of 1k views for these videos I post. Instagram posts all videos on Facebook. And I am seeing more and more of 5k views for one each one of my videos.
I was shocked the first time I saw this.
I did think what problems is this going to bring...
Well, the problems have come in the form of trolls which are breeding faster than fruit flies. And can be quite nasty.
I told my LIverpool friend on Wednesday. Oh, you'll have to give up your account then, close it down, and not do any more videos. She always takes the easy option in everything in life. It is too much trouble to her to do anything else.
Like heck no.

The last few days I have been diving into Instagrams instructions and others ideas how to deal with this.

I found that all the trolls, I've encountered so far hide behind private accounts. And none of them has posted one picture nor video on ther accounts. Which suggests they have come on Instagram for only one purpose. And that is to be cowardly trolls.

Yes, the trolls upset me briefly initially and I knew I had to sort something, which I have been doing.

I had told myself initially that I was going to only do these wildlife videos for one year. That year is up. But in that time the relationships between cats, foxes, and badgers have changed and evolved. I find it interesting, and others do too.

And so I have given myself one more year of videoing the beasties in my back garden.

Up to a year ago Google closed down YouTube accounts where people had closed their gmail addresses or they were inactive. And all your videos were deleted. So, that was why I was going to stop videoing sooner than later. Sometime this year, those rules changed, and even if you pop your clogs and don't video any more and your gmail account becomes inactive, your videos stay up indefinitely. And so I thought I would give myself one more year. So, my current plan is possibly an end date of Xmas 2024. Plans always get revised.

Now I have to get ready to source some more food for the feline and feathered beasties.

Last night, Midnight spent the night indoors, but not asleep with me. He was in the kitchen with ginger cat Merlin who has taken up residence in the cat bed in there. They were guarding the cat flap, but did let Amy in for food, and another good looking ginger cat who I have not named yet.

Now I think I understand why over the years all my cats I came here with were always guarding the cat flap. These badgers and foxes have always been there and I had no idea, until last year when I installed the the cameras. My cats I came here with, always had at least 3 sleeping on the swing at night. The rest were guarding the cat flap at night. So, I think the badgers and foxes have been monitored and trained by my cats for a couple of decades...


Wildlife nighttime camera.
#ukwildlife Fox wonders where everyone is...
No badgers or cats around this night...
55secs
https://youtu.be/PjD6Pr0GWM4?si=s5kFZwdaCWl6nO1q

Creative. Acrylic painting done in garage, and then worked on in Procreate's painting tools in between me researching about trolls...

Got to get moving.
Medicines to see if they are ready. Still no text from the pharmacy.

You have a good day.