Bender’s YouTube celebrity status!

[Elizabeth]

Bender has a video with 89k views and counting!

It’s of him screaming and was made for educational purposes but it really took off in 2021 - I believe it captures the sentiment of that year!

Green cheek conure screaming

This is what a GCC at full volume sounds like. I can hear him from outside of my house, about two doors down.

youtube.com

 

[Emma&pico]

Bender has a video with 89k views and counting!

It’s of him screaming and was made for educational purposes but it really took off in 2021 - I believe it captures the sentiment of that year!

Green cheek conure screaming

This is what a GCC at full volume sounds like. I can hear him from outside of my house, about two doors down.

youtube.com

He’s gorgeous even with the screaming

 

[Parutti]

That's awesome!!!!!!

 

[Elizabeth]

He’s gorgeous even with the screaming

Thank you - he agrees!

It actually makes me a little sad that there’s no way to tell him he’s famous. He loves attention so much, and would be very pleased if there were some way to make him understand!

 

[Elizabeth]

That's awesome!!!!!!

Thank you!

Total serendipity. I started the channel because it was a fun/unique way to play with him and give him attention. That and I could send my fed-up friends and family members links rather than large files!

But - a couple of months after I started it, he stopped enjoying making the videos. He didn’t understand that I was looking at him through the phone - so he thought I had my nose buried in the phone ignoring him. He got to where he would attack the phone if it came out!

I thought about whether I could find some way around it, but ultimately I decided that it had been for fun, and if wasn’t having fun neither was I.

If only he could know he was in fact getting attention not just from me, but from a lot of other people too - I’m sure he would have been very pleased indeed.