PETA has responded to the “WAP” video, offering a measured critique of the clip: “If Tiger King taught us anything, it’s that tigers and other wild animals are abused for music videos, selfies, and gawking roadside zoo visitors.
So if real animals were used instead of computer-generated imagery, the message sent is that animal exploitation is Okurrr—and it isn’t. If Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion really care about pussy liberation, they wouldn’t use suffering big cats as props.”
Tiger King star and Big Cat Rescue CEO Carole Baskin blasted the “WAP” video – which features a number of exotic wild cats such as tigers and leopards – as “lurid” over the weekend, saying “it glamorizes the idea of rich people having tigers as pets.” Baskin did, however, tell Billboard she “was happy to see that it does appear to all be Photoshopped. It didn’t look like the cats were really in the rooms with the singers.”