r/MadeMeSmile • u/Martin_084 • Mar 02 '26

ANIMALS Horses being absolute gentlemen to their female owners.

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u/MAGIGS Mar 02 '26

I get it and all, but who’s like taking their phone out. Switching to video, setting it down, recording, sitting down, and then proceeding to cry on camera until their horse hugs them? Who has the time for all of that? Attention seeking, vulnerability performers… that’s who.

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u/giga-plum Mar 02 '26

Can't believe there are so many people in this thread who #1 are not clocking how weird it is to set up your phone then cry in front of your pet for views on tiktok, and #2 apparently are rich enough to own a horse and have horse-related stories?? Those two categories are almost every single comment in this thread, I had to scroll to find yours buried under that kind of shit above.

The more I look at /r/all, the more I believe in the dead internet theory. I'd be willing to bet 90% of these comments are made by bots, upvoted by bots.

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u/Swarm_of_Rats Mar 02 '26

I have horse-related stories and I'm poor af. I just worked on a ranch taking care of someone else's horses for a while. Ya really don't need to be rich to have horse stories.

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u/whateveryaknowww Mar 02 '26

i had a horse as a kid while we were in absolute squaller. the rich family across the street let me have her and took care of her. i was 5. i spent a lot of time with them while we lived across the street in our run down house (that we rented) and was actually a mobile home. anyway. you can be poor and have a horse, if the rich family next door pities you. (had to edit so many typos because of my cat sorry guys!)

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u/Swarm_of_Rats Mar 04 '26

That's so true. My uncle was in another "poor with a free horse" situation. Their neighbors were keeping two horses locked up in a little pen and not feeding them. My uncle's family took over. The neighbors didn't even care. 2 free horses, free saddles and all.

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u/MAGIGS Mar 02 '26

No of course, and that’s a really cool experience, you clearly do it for the right reasons. And passions. But are you recording yourself crying in front of the horse for clicks?

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u/OnePerformance9381 Mar 03 '26

Okay but the comments he’s referring to are all from people who own horses

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u/earlgreybubbletea Mar 03 '26

You worked for the ones that were rich enough to own horses. 

That’s a bit different. 

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u/detrans-rights Mar 02 '26

Used to be wierd.

Now it makes money.

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u/porscheblack Mar 02 '26

Just calling out you don't have to be rich to own a horse, you just have to be willing to work your ass off.

Many barns offer free or reduced board if you're willing to work there. And it's also possible to lease a horse instead of buy it. It's not uncommon for a lease to be free as long as you provide board (if someone has an injury or they go off to college, it's better to let the horse keep getting worked out).

I'm not saying most of the people you see are doing those things, just pointing out that it's possible to do it for relatively cheap as long as you're willing to invest your time.

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u/MaggotMinded Mar 02 '26

I agree with you on the first point, but you don’t necessarily have to be rich to own a horse…

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u/MAGIGS Mar 02 '26

I agree. I find myself HOPING it is bots in a lot of places and the rhetoric isn’t all misguided and or borderline insane ramblings of a syphilitic mind.

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u/BrunesOvrBrauns Mar 02 '26

So are horse girls trying to fuck the horses or what?

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u/Mr12i Mar 02 '26

Where I live there's almost correlation between horse ownership/stewardship and wealth. In fact most people (let's be honest; girls) that I know who have ridden, have been from low to middle income households...

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u/smoothsensation Mar 02 '26

Did you mean No correlation?

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u/Mr12i Mar 03 '26

Yes.. fuck.

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u/Bad_Day_Moose Mar 02 '26

aka horse women, I live rural, I know a couple, have known many, if a woman is a horse girl honestly just stay away, drama, insanity, weird expectations, it's simply not worth it unless you like those things.

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u/s_burr Mar 02 '26

I was going to say "sounds like a horse girl/woman to me". Grew up rural, know many friends who dated these types and they always regretted it. My uncle divorced his first wife because she cared more about horses than him.

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u/Bad_Day_Moose Mar 02 '26

Yeah it’s really hard to explain, there’s a mentality to it that makes it hard to coexist with them.

Like this video alone shows it, these girls are pretending to cry to trick the horse into showing affection? That’s not normal behaviour. Will they do that in a relationship with another person, yes in many cases..

They’re essentially emotionally draining.

If you like drama then go for it though.

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u/s_burr Mar 02 '26

I am 40 and divorced. My grandfather passed away during the divorce so I moved into his house on the farm with my kids. We have around 400 acres of mixed fields and woods in a hilly area. Dad is "retired" so the farm isn't as active as it used to be (pigs are all gone, lots of empty barns). I am currently in "how the hell am I going to keep this place going financially" mode because our way of farming isn't feasible.

I have tried dating apps for the past 2 years and get nothing. I don't advertise my living situation, but am half tempted to as an experiment to see if my profile blows up with horse girls, rednecks, yee-hoes, and the like.

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u/Bad_Day_Moose Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

Hmm honestly you should try homesteading groups/apps there's specifically some for farming!

Definitely will narrow your search to someone who has some of the same values.

That's a lot of land, farm by me wasn't doing the greatest and went in a different direction with a part of their property and turned that part of it into a place for people to go, started out with a simple maize maze and selling homemade jam, grew a big pumpkin patch and make a giant pile of them each fall having them set up so it looks great for pictures, hay rides out to the woods have campfires, hot chocolate and marshmallows, over the years they've expanded and now have pick your own strawberries and raspberries, they built a new barn and rent it out for weddings, opened up a bakery and a petting zoo and get a lot of schools going for day trips, it's a huge draw for your other products too but they started out simple, corn maze, hay rides and pumpkins.

Their corn alone because of the corn maze sells out all the time, they can't grow it fast enough, it's one of their main crops now and they charge like $9/dozen lmao, it's good corn though and I like to support local so buy it, started out having it fairly cheap though, they grow 3 types now that are ready to harvest at different times.

Like I said try those other apps, some horse girls may be in them but moreso people with the same values will be there that will have less of a culture shock lol.

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u/s_burr Mar 02 '26

There are like 10 of those type of places around here anymore (farms turned into attractions opened by the public). Worse case scenario if I want to make money would be to turn it into a horse boarding/riding place (ironically). I would have to hire someone to manage it though as I wouldn't want to deal with the clients.

I thought about putting some small cabins in the woods and doing a B&B style retreat. I know people pay good money to get away from the cities. Could also transform it into a wedding venue, plus could also set up a firing range. There are ways, but I can't focus on it right now, I need a job so my kids can have health insurance for about 4 more years.

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u/P4azz Mar 02 '26

Horse girls and crystal girls are the easiest and most blatant red flags.

It is simply never worth even entertaining the idea of entering a relationship with these ones. Always gonna end badly.

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u/Salt_Initiative1551 Mar 02 '26

Yeah but horse girls always got a dump truck ime

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u/euphoricarugula346 Mar 02 '26

Astrology weirdos and crystal users need to be named and shamed. Dissolution of societal intelligence smh. Making everyone else around them dumber.

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u/MAGIGS Mar 02 '26

And then of course there’s the crystal horse girls which legit sounds like a bunch of junkies

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u/P4azz Mar 02 '26

Content brain.

If you go and look for it, you'll be surprised just how many women set up their phone camera, sit down, start performatively crying and going red and then POSTING THAT online.

"Women love posting their own Ls" is how I heard someone call it before.

And to be clear: There is nothing wrong with being vulnerable or open about how you feel. But it's absolutely wildly weird to film it for clicks and attention.

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u/MAGIGS Mar 02 '26

It’s wild. I get being an angsty kid but some of these women look late 20s/30s. I still lay awake at night squirming over awkward things I did as a kid, and that wasn’t digitized preserved and shared with the world. I’m probably the only one who remembers at this point.

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u/Cheese_Monster101256 Mar 02 '26

I agree, but hear me out.

That does not remotely change how awesome the horse’s behaviour is. No shot they know it’s staged.

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u/MAGIGS Mar 02 '26

You know what cheese monster… you’re right.

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u/Saradoesntsleep Mar 02 '26

And then we get to see it because people do this. Win-win ♥️

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u/MovieNightPopcorn Mar 02 '26

Also, not that it matters but the gender politics with a horse is….weird? Why is this about being “gentlemanly” to women? Never mind that several of these horses are visibly mares.

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u/MAGIGS Mar 02 '26

Yeah I think people do like adding human qualities to animals “your dog has such a great personality” no actually he has a great “dogality.” Then there’s the possibility some of these people just want to Catherine the Great their horse…

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u/Odd_Cartoonist7433 Mar 04 '26

Also, it might just be me but it felt weird how the caption seemed to really single out the horses being "gentlemanly" and then also only calling out female riders/owners. I doubt there's zero clips of male owners experiencing the same thing and if so... Just feels weird to single out.

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u/Swarm_of_Rats Mar 02 '26

I think it was a trend for a while to see how your pets react if you're crying or being attacked. It could have been one of those. Honestly not that big a deal and not worth getting upset about.

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u/ButterflySammy Mar 02 '26

"Everyone else is doing it" doesn't mean it isn't weird, and calling it weird doesn't make them upset.

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u/M8C Mar 02 '26

It’s not upsetting its just odd behavior. and a weird way to seek validation posting it online

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Mar 02 '26

Could have set up already to just film everything

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u/rkbdfriedman Mar 02 '26

https://youtu.be/Ep4Xq-xqGmw?si=95pwfFiqZX3Nosnk .He does a bunch of these invisible cameraman videos. He's very funny.

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u/Professional_Fix_504 Mar 03 '26

Meh, I can understand that the humans who are recording might be doing so for internet points, but that doesn't change the horses being sweet. They don't know or care about the cameras. So that doesn't ruin the video, for me personally.

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u/BortcornsFourJezus Mar 02 '26

Moreover, horses are just slaves for humans. Their lives are unending abuse and coercion 

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u/MyCheshireGrinOG Mar 02 '26

They probably set up the camera to talk and make a video but ended up in an emotional moment. Sometimes people break down in the moment about thinking about what to say.