Does anyone remember when the online world pretended that they’d rather meet a bear in the forest than a man?

And not Paddington Bear, or Winnie the Pooh, but an actual real life bear.

Yes. A bear, that can weigh 600 lbs and stands at 10 feet tall, that will eat you alive, is the preference over some random man, who is probably having a sandwich and is just as startled as you are.

Of course, to those who chose ‘bear’, I don’t believe you.

Nor do I believe that such an idea makes an important rhetorical point either.

The only lesson the meme taught me, was that if you live your life terminally online, marinated within TikTok outrage, then are you really the best person to comment on violent crime rates at all?

Well, here I am revisiting the meme with @jay_darkmoore on his podcast…

Full pod https://tinyurl.com/3ssmhah6

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Child abuse https://tinyurl.com/5n7c2jnc

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Music by Infraction

#manorbear

2025-08-11