Why Do People Hate Koalas?

Totally eucalypt-ic video! Glad I could lend a voice to a friend in need 🐨

Wow.. I never even knew koalas were hated.. Edit: 1.8k likes, 60 replies, overrated comment.

To be fair, if you put a plate of eucalyptus leaves in front of me, I wouldn't eat them either. And Toby did a great koala voice!

I surprised you didn't bring up the Chlamydia claims. That's what I was looking most forward to learning about

I don't think think I've seen a lot of Koala hate, people just think they're slow and pretty stupid, especially for a mammal of their size. Kind of like the Australian version of sloths.

Pullin' the "but they think pandas are cute!" like they don't have their own koala-style hate club lol

Could do a whole series of "the internet hates this animal for entirely incorrect reasons" honestly. Sunfish are another particularly bad case

Considering poop transplants are a thing, Koalas shouldn't be vilified for that behavior.

I see koalas and pandas in the same boat. Both cute, and both unable to survive in a world altered and degraded by humans. They are really cute and I always love petting them in the zoo in Australia.

Was waiting for koala human chlamydia transmission to come up, guess that one's 100% spot on.

I didn't know that Koalas were hated; but this is the internet so I'm not sure what I was expecting.

I was expecting to hear more about the danger Australia's drop bears pose to humans.

I only heard they're aggressive and might rip your face off with their claws

Koalas are great, it's the drop bears that give them a bad wrap 😂

Koalas get that much hatred?! Try holding one like I got to when I visited Australia, they’re SO FLUFFY!!!

It's always annoying when an animal develops a hate culture because of some meme slandering them, especially when the reason for the slander is something as arbitrary as "they don't move much" or "they are struggling with invasive diseases and habitat destruction" as if that's THEIR fault. True, to live off eucalyptus koalas have to be hyperspecialists, but given how absurdly prolific eucalyptus is and how little competition they get, it's a solid niche to specialize in.

tbf, people stopped sharing the copypasta on reddit after the bushfire that wiped a lot of them out

I'm glad you brought that up about small brains, because birds are very much intelligent creatures! Especially crows and ravens. People really underestimate the intelligence of crows and ravens. Crows are among some of the most intelligent creatures on our planet (birds in general are; which is why it doesn't make sense bird brain is still used as an insult). Scientists did a study and have discovered they remember your face, they talk about you to other crows, they remember what you did, and more crows will attack if they heard you've done something wrong. Yup, they plan for the future too! Another creature that gets a lot of hate are roaches because they believe all roaches are pests. There are actually 4,500 species of cockroaches in the world, and out of these 4,500 species, just 30 are considered pests. And there can be some very beautiful and cute roaches you can keep as pets like Simandoa cave roaches, hissing roaches, porcelain roaches, Asian emerald roaches, or domino roaches.

As an Outside player, the reasons us players don't really like koalas is because they are low-tier builds.

To be fair, I think "hate" is the wrong word, they are pitied as "weak animals", just like Sloths (and actually Pandas as well to a certain degree). Most people do in fact think Koalas are cute.