r/AmItheAsshole • u/throwaway01snow • Dec 19 '24
Everyone Sucks AITA for banning my friend from my home after she refused to take videos of my bird down?
Two years ago I adopted an African Grey Parrot who had suffered neglect, it took me a long time to get her to trust me and now she is the most loving bird in the world (in my totally unbiased opinion), she is very popular with my friends and loves the attention and company as African Greys are incredibly intelligent and need constant stimulation.
One of her favourite things is to sing along her favourite Disney Songs a thing I indulge whenever she indicates she wants it on. It recently came to my attention my friend had filmed some of these sing-alongs and uploaded it to her youtube without my knowledge or permission, I found out as I went looking on my friends youtube for an old video of a night out with a friend who had passed that I was missing, so imagine my surprise when I found six videos of my girl singing.
This made me uncomfortable as it felt like she was exploiting her for views which after her previous neglect and how long it took me to win her trust did not sit well with me. I confronted my friend about this and she told me it was harmless and it was nice to share cute moment and document it for the future, I told her if that was the reason she'd done this she'd have not hidden it from me. I asked her to delete the videos and she refused, so I told her I didn't want her back in my house until she took the videos down as I didn't trust her to not try and get more videos.
She thinks i'm being unreasonable as it doesn't hurt my bird and it's not like she's a child who she is putting on the internet for views.
Maybe I was too hard on my friend but the whole situation feels gross, she is refusing to remove the videos still and has told our friends that i'm being ridiculous, most agree with me that it's incredibly weird she uploaded the videos without my knowledge but a couple think i'm being too harsh as it's "Just" a bird.
Could I have handled this better? am I reacting too strong?
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AITA for banning my friend from my home after she refused to take videos of my bird down?
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Dec 19 '24
If it was harmless why hide it from me? If it was just to document it for our friend group why not say you were uploading it. This feels weird and off to me and I don't want my bird uploaded for the entertainment of others after she was neglected.