To get a take on how and why these people make the videos VICE reached out to numerous bug barons but none responded to interview requests. Leo addresses the negative feedback several times in the videos by saying this is these deaths are what happens in nature. Other comments indicated that Leo received death threats for these videos. That lizard suffered hugely, only because of you. "Leokimvideo you are sadistic, trapping creatures in a small tank with no way to escape and forcing them to go through a slow, torturous death is not nature, all the while you take pleasure in it," one commenter wrote. Several commentators even posted tributes to Gonzo after it's death. Some of the bugs get names from the commentators or Leo and people start rooting for the bugs to survive week after week-a weird looking beetle named Gonzo in particular captured the hearts of the comment section until it was killed a week or two in. The series is now in it's ninth week and his subscriber count has exploded during its run. Leo now has about a million followers, and this seems to be his most successful series in the history of his channel.
Over the top of the videos Leo gives warm, genuine commentary-it's very odd, almost wholesome to a point. Leo catches all sorts of bugs, newts, and whatnot, which he then puts into the tank to see how long they'll last. In a very popular series of weekly videos, a man named Leo created what he calls "A Tank of Death." Inside the tank exists several Red Backs (the cranky Australian counterpoint to the Black Widow). Some of the videos take a more gladiatorial coliseum take on the death matches.
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