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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)#Nipple_fixation

I learned about this today. I already knew a few stories about her, how she liked kittens und Robin Williams.

The nipple story makes her seem more relatable.

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[–] zepheriths 65 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The problem with what happened in 2005 is that the director pressured them into revealing themselves. Although I am confused as to how this was found out in the first place

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Koko could speak sign language, so she could ask.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have heard that was way over-exaggerated

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

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[–] Klear 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No but seriously I am working on the Black Mesa video and general shitposting it's just taking a while and I wanted to put something out that I already had a lotta notes and footage for in the interim.

Great source you got there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Have you actually watched the video? Or only like the first minute of it?

You would not be saying this bullshit if you actually watched the video, its incredibly well researched. (Fucking hell, the dude says before your quote that he has been researching this for a couple of years)

[–] Klear 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Oh the youtuber says he's researched it? Must be true then. Why would anyone lie on the internet for clicks?

Look, I'm not saying the information in the video is wrong, I'm saying this source is total crap and I won't even watch it because it has next to zero information value. A homeless guy might happen to give you correct advice on how to deal with a mortgage or something, but you'd be a fool to come to him to ask.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah no fucking shit you didn't watch it, given the video contains sources for the RESEARCH PAPERS that talk about this topic

Stop being so fucking smug about shit you haven't even watched. I don't trust the youtuber because he said it, I trust him because he properly sources his stuff and has a history of doing the same in every project he has done. Unlike you who has no sources, is smug while being stupid as hell and dismisses a video based on a joke in its description.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

b-but a YouTuber said it so it can't possibly be credible!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

For real. A guy could recite a scientific study word-for-word and upload it on youtube and this mfer would think its not credible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

How is that even remotely the same thing? This is the dumbest fucking take coming from someone that didn't watch the video to see whether there were credible sources provided

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

She could definitely sign something like show nipples.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

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[–] Aqarius 7 points 9 months ago

...or at least something that her handler can "interpret" that way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"hey, Koko wants you to take off your top."

"really?"

"Yeah, she's fascinated by nipples. Hold on, lemme get my camera."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Koko could not speak.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Although I am confused as to how this was found out in the first place

The affected people sued the organizion?

[–] zepheriths 8 points 9 months ago

No that Koko liked nipples. That was established before 2005

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is that an issue? As long as it's only Koko seeing them?

[–] zepheriths 5 points 9 months ago

This issue is the director was making people undress for koko

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That Wikipedia page seems to suggest that the director was using it as an excuse to peek at their nipples himself.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

Dicks out for Harambe

Tits out for Koko?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

koko says show nipples. she also says I have to be there and that you should let me bat them around a little

[–] MrFappy 6 points 9 months ago

Koko the talking monkey, says “Apple nipple hungry,” Koko the talking monkey, says “Apple nipple crap!” I wanna be Koko…

Whoever finishes the lyric has a spot in my own personal hall of fame 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

For more edification, Ima plug the You're Wrong About podcast, which did a pretty great episode on Koko the Gorilla ( on Buzzsprout )

[–] Cruxifux 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Koko the gorilla and Nim the Chimp are still wild to me. Like we literally taught animals to talk. They have complex emotions and are able to communicate with us when taught properly.

And then the king of goof clowns Elon Musk tortures them to death by jamming chips into their brains without their consent. Fuck I hate him.