Hi, also must add, a bravo to you! When I first read your post, I was afraid that this was just an advertising forum for you! I am so glad to see that I was wrong! I am looking forward to all of us growing together!
I want to educate as many as I can and also grow along the way as well. I just see so many small animals not just birds unfortunately get neglected and due to lack of knowledge and impulse buying. Wasn't going to bother to do videos but went to educate and comment on a bigger YouTuber video and a good detail comment, not to negative, or harsh in any way of what they were doing was dangerous as they put multiple macaw and one was a recent rescue that use to be center of attention and not well socialized in small room with two other macaws, no supervision. She blocked, deleted comments and belittle us and weeks later she get a baby hyacinth macaw for what reason, I don't know? She just took on another recent rescue? Pretty much she did the same thing we told her not to do and reasons and that baby ended up paying the price a few days ago and the other rescue macaw she just took in recently almost killed that baby, lucky survived but big hole in beak now. She had the nerve to deleted and blocked every critical comments to cover up that people told her so and blames the rescue macaw and re-homes it. This drove me to the edge and now I am going educate people myself. I am so fed up and tried of people like this, she done other stuff that questionable and downright dangerous. I am sorry but I like to stand up for animal abuse? it’s sick to see she has people supporting her ignorance and endangerment well due to her fame. delusional. I not going to give you names as just not about her as others big time YouTuber do it as well and I think it fair that those that watch her video know who I am referring to anyways? Well she was my inspiration to start the channel and join forums and groups and maybe one day be able to reach as many people as I can in time.
Now started the YouTube channel for that very reason, just see so many bigger PetTubers nowadays put out so much misinformation and videos are mostly click bait drama, or "Feeding My 50 Animals" Then you have the ones that only do product reviews just because they are sponsored to them with no real knowledge of the product they are using? Good example is "petra the african grey" she using a Compact Air Purifier made by Levoit looks like the LV-H132 model and she has multiple birds in that large room. That thing is not that great as a small air purifier, even the big one and not designed for that that size room. I don't blame her for her thinking as another bigger PetTuber that suppose to be good put out Levoit makes good purifiers and due to he was sponsored it, so now everyone has one. People in general are unfortunately sheepish buy into to this as no other video to dispute it and a big YouTuber has good video production with huge following, so they buy the junk product and wonder why it not doing the job, or worst endangers the animal without realizing it?
This is the type of thinking I want to change in time and do a more real world testing instead of just review with actual test equipment. Also educate new bird keepers the proper way and what needed to start of and behaviors and ETC, as trained and dealt with 100's of different birds and various species of birds, including bird of prey species.
My goal is to change that trend over time, I don't expect it to be quick. I have to improve on my videos and editing skills mainly as not a video professional by any means. I figure it out in time, or ask for help along the way and then figure it out. Been pet keeping since I was young. Mainly Dogs, cats, various reptiles, fishes and Birds throughout the years, as my family was always big on animals and and yes made mistakes along the way. Also work at several rescues and foster other animals and trained parrots and dog professionally over the years, since I was a kid and barely any resources at the time when I started, I had to learn on my own and mistakes I made myself in time. My goal is to not just teach people and help other that are starting off, but also to teach people the technical stuff as a Engineer and know which air purifier are better and which are a waste, which heaters are actually safe, different toxic gases, other pet products and enclosure, venting and details a lot of people don't get into and even think about, or understand and maybe break it down so they can understand why it better and which one better bang for the buck without sacrificing to much for the cost.
I just hoping in time will rise the bar in the Pet side of YouTube and do way more detail care and review videos by putting my technical expertise along with my experience with pets and maybe even some of your guys that might be more knowledgeable on a topic then even I am and get people to do better research before taking on a animal and not just take some guy, or girl that became big due to shear amount of animals he, or she has, or click baiting, or have little, or no experience with the animal they took on as only dealt with that animal for 2 weeks relying on quick info from Google, or bad product reviews due to that person received the product 2 week ago and claims it good with no technical experience, or detail testing.
