Search the Community

I'm not quite sure how it happened, but the malevolent spirit that is the Youtube algorithm has somehow deemed it fit to feed me Bee Rescue content. Yes, I'm equally as confused as you are. Firstly, this video has 4.1 MILLION views, so clearly I'm not the only one the strange Youtube gods have determined to need to see 100,000 bees being rescued. Secondly, I have found watching these videos oddly satisfying. Maybe it's the inherent cognitive contradiction of it. Bees are supposed to be "scary", and having been once stung by a wasp I want little to do with anything with stingers on their buttocks. And yet, looking at these videos they present as much less dangerous (though its worth pointing out there's a professional on site). And there's also something rather beautiful about nature reclaiming man-made structures. Yes, ultimately these are probably still pests, but they are just following their natural programming - creating a bunch of honey in the process. Sweet! (Pardon the pun.) I've also recently come across a new phrase - competency porn. That's a slightly dicey term to google, but simply explained its an attraction to people just doing their jobs well. And there's certainly something to it - in a world that feels consistently in turmoil, blasted on all sides with news about shit generally going wrong, there is a beautiful escapism to seeing someone doing on specific thing with absolutely ability and competence. Even if that might be rescuing honey bees.