- Hey, good morning everybody!
And welcome to the vlog, that's right.
(cough) Getting a little bit of a kiss here
from this Brooks king snake, and uh
that's just the way it goes.
Sometimes your mornings start a little rougher than others.
This ones got me tight and it definitely hurts.
(grunts) I tell you what
I wanna talk about a controversial topic a little bit later.
And we actually have the very first Brian and Noah
tour today that should be absolutely incredible!
Oh my gosh, this guy hurts,
its got me in a bad spot for sure.
That's just part of keeping snakes.
(painful grunts) Ow, he's starting to let go,
starting to let go!
But before we get started with that controversial topic
or the Noah tour, I'm gonna try to
get this guy off my finger first.
And then, actually Marie said that we
have some baby Sand boas.
So, although the morning started out a little
bit rocky, if you know what I mean.
Uh, maybe we'll go find some good baby Sand boas.
(gasps) Okay he's off.
Don't don't bite, don't bite, don't bite!
Come on, come on.
(grunts) Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, come on.
Woo, I tell you what guys.
Uh, that's part of working with animals.
Lets go see if we can find some Sand boas.
Time to look at some baby sand boas everybody!
Take a look at, oh my gosh, mama!
Mama definitely looks like she uh,
went through the ringer here.
I see some live baby aneries, and I see some normals here.
Mama don't bite me what ever you do.
Oh, she is not happy.
Come on mama, its okay.
I'm not gonna do anything.
I'm just taking away your babies really quick, this is good.
This is awesome I mean they look really really healthy.
So we have a little anery here.
Oh my gosh, there is a lot of babies here.
I'm gonna try to get all the aneries first.
There's three aneries and look at mama she is not happy.
(chuckles) Here's three little aneries here.
It's gonna be hard to find just the aneries though,
I'll be honesty with ya.
Okay we got four little aneries here.
Oh my gosh, this is a huge Litter of babies!
Oh my gosh, look at all these babies in here.
Oh, five little baby aneries.
And again this mom was obviously an anerythristic.
Oh, we have one little still born here.
That's too bad.
The rest of them look amazing but we do
have one little still born but that's okay.
That happens, so I'm just gonna keep on looking.
Lets see it looks like that might be all the aneries,
but man there's a bunch of normals.
And again she's a het anery bred to an anery.
Which is just basically lacking that orange pigment right.
So it looks like we only have five of those
but man it looks like we've got a bunch of normals.
There's one, two right here.
There's three, four.
Holy cow, five!
This is definitely the largest litter of
sand boas we've had this year for sure.
There's five, there's six back here.
Oh, there's another anery over here.
So, there's six aneries, and six normals so far.
So six normals, six aneries.
There's seven normals.
Lets see there's eight normals over here.
Oh my god, what a litter.
Nine, ten!
Ten normals, so far we have sixteen babies people.
Ten normals, lets see what else we have.
Oh, there's another anery.
So there's eleven normal babies, that might be getting
down to the end I'm not sure how many are left.
Eleven babies, lets see if we got anything else.
Eleven, it looks like that is it.
Looks like eleven babies and six aneries
if my count is right.
I might be wrong, but that is an amazing litter.
Mama you did so good!
I cannot believe it,
and take a look at all these cute little monkeys right here.
Oh my god, that is awesome!
And that controversial topic is clickbait.
First off, lets go ahead and define what
clickbait actually is.
Now, clickbait can either be something that's sensational
that gets you to click on the thing or it can be a lie.
The truth is we try to never -
Woo, I tell you what,
that was a close one.
Our titles and thumbnails definitely like to be sensational,
but we never wanna lie to you guys.
(cameraman chuckles)
Now of course we want you guys to click on the video.
Why wouldn't we?
We want people to be excited about reptiles
and we need people to click,
so yes we make our titles and thumbnails
relatively sensational.
Let me just explain a little bit about
some little YouTube science here.
Basically about 50% of all views that all channels
get are what they call discovery.
That means its either suggested or recommended.
So basically when you log on to YouTube
you have suggested videos, right.
And then on the right side of your screen when
you're watching a video you have recommended videos, right.
Now what you want is, you want to be in
one of those categories.
But even if you get into one of those categories,
if your title and thumbnail aren't exciting,
are people actually gonna click on it?
As an example we did a video about a week and a half ago
that said my thoughts on breeding reptiles for a living
because I wanted to give you guys all these kind
of options for if you wanted to work with animals,
how would it actually be.
That videos title wasn't very sensational and certainly
wasn't a clickbait-y type of title right,
and it got about 40% less views than most of our videos
at about 68,000 views even a week into it.
Now on the flip side, we had a video about the same
time that we said bad news I wanted to share with you guys.
Now the bad news was the fact that that reptile tycoon game
app was gonna be canceled for now and
we're gonna restart it.
That was the bad news I was gonna share with you guys.
Now because it was kind of a sensational title like bad news
with the clickbait with me being like "ahh",
or whatever the case is.
We ended up getting almost 200,000 views.
So like I mentioned this is our first
actually Noah and Brian tour.
- That's right.
- So I'm pretty excited about it.
- Very excited.
- Uh, I'm gonna go let these guys in
and we're gonna have a great time
again this is the first time we've done it,
but I'm super excited, this is gonna be a lot of fun,
lets go do it.
All right, guys so you guys said you're from Arkansas?
- Yeah.
- [Brain] Oh my god you guys are awesome, that's so amazing.
And you said that uh, she dressed accordingly,
lets see what she's got going on here.
- Well one of our favorite things one your
vlog is egg cutting.
- [Brian] Egg cutting?
(laughter)
- We got her a little hoedown shirt.
- [Brian] She's so shy.
Well were gonna have a fun time today right.
- Right.
- [Brain] All right, let's go do it.
(hip-hop music)
Just like with any Noah tour were gonna feed.
- [Noah] Artemis Prime.
- Artemis Prime.
You guys ready?
- Oh yeah.
- [Brian] Okay, so you're gonna feed her,
you gonna feed the first one?
- Oh yeah, I'm gonna get him out,
you know, make sure everything's okay.
Oh, she just said hi to the mouse.
(laughing)
- [Brian] That's okay.
That's all right, that's all right.
So we're gonna have some fun with her.
Ready?
- [All] Yeah.
- [Brian] Here we go.
Careful, everybody.
- [Noah] Danger show right here.
Jump out, boy!
Oh!
Uh oh.
- [Brian] Careful, careful, careful.
- [Noah] I got it.
I'm a professional, don't worry.
- [Brian] Okay, so you got the ball right?
- [Noah] You can feed him.
I got two more.
Run around, run around!
Jump, jump!
- [Brian] Okay, there you go.
Now last one we're gonna give him in his cage, all right?
We're gonna get him back in.
- [Noah] All right, a couple more spins,
run into the cage!
- There's times when Bella is just a stinker,
I always say that she's like a cat.
She comes down when she wants to.
So sometimes when I have company, like you,
I just let people climb in the cage and
we just have time with my girl, Bella.
She seems to be liking it, right?
- Right.
- It's awesome.
Now when this mama Sand boa actually
had a baby that was stuck in it
which was really crazy and awesome.
It got over 600,000 views.
I mean that's because the title was kinda crazy
like "Baby snake stuck in mom, saved her life."
The thumbnail was kinda, you could see
that there was a baby actually stuck in her.
And that was kinda thought provocative
where people, if I got into the recommended
or suggested categories, people would be like
"Oh my gosh, I've gotta click on that video!"
What the heck, a baby stuck in a mama snake.
You see what I'm saying?
Unfortunately, the way YouTube works
is that you have to have kinda sensational titles
and thumbnails in order to get people to click.
That's all we have, you know?
Movies have trailers, commercials, whatever the case is,
we only have a thumbnail and a title.
Now I'm not telling you guys to lie,
because again that's the worst thing you can do,
because if you lie in your title and
over sensationalize things,
people will actually unsubscribe or stop watching you.
So not every day we have a baby snake stuck in a mama
or something really crazy sensational happen.
As a matter of fact, today's title,
we tried to clickbait you just a little bit harder
because after all, we had a beautiful litter of sand boas
but there was one still born.
And I wanted to make the point that sometimes
you can push it a little bit.
Today might have been a little far, I'm not gonna lie,
but it was because I knew I was gonna make this point.
The fact is that sometimes it's just a normal day
and we have to find a way to get people to click on
because again, we want people to come here
and get excited about animals.
And again, you guys, if you're loyal viewers to me,
you're probably watching regardless of what the title is,
or at least 68,000 of you are.
But the other 30, 40, or hundreds of thousands
are people that are gonna actually get enticed
by a title and a thumbnail.
Now, I totally understand people that want to just
stick to their morals and say
"Brian, I think it's a bad idea"
but what I always say in all honesty
is you can have an amazing message that
is so inspirational to people
but unfortunately, people don't watch.
Is that message really doing a lot of good?
My whole thing is trying to reach
as many people as I possibly can
and get them excited about reptiles
and all animals for that matter.
Not to mention inspire them to follow their dreams
and all that stuff.
So yeah, we had no choice as YouTubers,
to kinda go on the clickbait side
in the sense that we are gonna sensationalize
titles and thumbnails.
But again, I'll never lie to you guys
and I'm not saying you should clickbait,
I'm just telling you why we clickbait.
And when sometimes people accuse me of clickbait,
I always think did I really clickbait you guys?
Whatever that title and thumbnail is,
it's really part of each and every day's vlog.
In the end, of course we want people to click on our
videos, that is kinda what this whole thing is about
because we want people to just watch so that
we can spread this amazing message about how absolutely
incredible these animals are.
With that being said, I want to know in the comments
what your thought are about clickbait,
do we take it too far?
What examples exactly do you think we took it too far?
'Cause again, I want to make titles that people
want to click on but I don't want to lie to you guys
so let me know in the comments what your thoughts are
and then hopefully, this kinda cleared some of the air
about my thoughts on our titles and thumbnails.
As we're winding down clutches for the year,
of course I'm gonna update you as they hatch
'cause we only have a handful left,
including that amazing clown clutch.
I cannot wait until it comes out.
This was actually just a normal ball python
bred to a super enchi pinstripe,
which means of course everything is enchi
and I tell you what, some of these enchis
that come out are so good.
Enchi is still one of my favorite morphs, guys.
Just again, it kinda brightens things up,
it reduces patterns.
The super enchis have like really cool head patterns
to 'em and stuff like that.
But these are just a bunch of enchis and again,
because the male is a super enchi pinstripe,
everything in the entire clutch would be enchi.
So really all we can get it enchis and enchi pinstripes.
But nevertheless, I mean just look at these enchis,
they're unbelievably beautiful.
And then you get into the enchi pinstripe,
again, I love enchi pinstripe stuff.
I mean, pinstripes are obviously near and dear to my heart
'cause we produced the very first ones.
But when you mix the enchi in with it,
it just changes everything.
Again, it makes it more of a coppery look,
it reduces the pattern, the heads are really cool.
And it just kinda blushes things out.
Really amazing and then when you get into the super enchi
pinstripe, like the dad, 'cause again this
is only one dose of enchi, you get the super enchi
even reduces it more and then you start breeding it
into pastel and other things, orange dream and whatnot.
I mean, it just becomes so incredible.
So again, not a huge variety of animals in this clutch,
but a bunch of really cool enchis and a bunch of
really cool enchi pinstripes.
Take a look at my girl, Ivy, here,
Just chilling in the water.
She is absolutely incredible.
Of course, she ate a couple big ol' rabbits yesterday.
So she is just kinda chilling out.
And again, originally, I was thinking about doing a
big water basin in here but to be honest with you,
I've kinda changed space.
'Cause we're gonna be doing some expansion
which means that we're actually gonna be adding on
some big cages and she's gonna get a really large cage
like the size of Lucy's.
But I want there to be a huge water basin in there.
Where you can actually see through it
so like maybe a quarter of the cage is gonna be water
so she can be completely submerged,
she can swim in there, she can do other stuff
but then she can come out as well.
So Ivy is doing absolutely incredible
and I love this girl.
And I'm so happy she is unbelievably docile.
I tell you what, I am always blown away
when people get tattoos of our animals
or anything to do with that.
Well, Emily actually sent us a picture
of a Perdida tattoo and I tell you what, it is
a really cool tattoo.
I'll put it up on the screen right now.
I mean how awesome is that?
Perdida, my beautiful girl, is on somebody forever.
I tell you what, I think I need a Perdida tattoo now.
That is absolutely cool.
And again, not all tattoos are cool but this one
was pretty darn awesome.
You guys know that I absolutely love feeding
all of the dart frogs.
Well a new past time of mine that I am absolutely loving
is feeding these little monkeys here.
Of course, some little frillies.
So let's just go ahead and see these guys.
Holy cow, do you see these guys on that one?
Oh, there he goes!
Oh he got one!
Oh my gosh.
It is crazy going from kinda when they hardly ate
and now they're just like murdering these crickets.
Oh, there it is!
Yeah, he got that one too!
Awesome.
These guys are so adorable.
So there's that controversial topic,
I hope that it cleared up some things.
I'd like to know in the comments
what you guys think about it.
Let me know what that is and by the way,
awesome sand boas, right?
If you enjoyed this video, here's another cool video
of some baby snakes, here's an entire playlist
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