# @robbie_lockie on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-06-11T05:30:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Robbie Lockie | Creative Technologist (@robbie_lockie) — https://gondola.cc/robbie_lockie

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I’m in Bali this week at the SMACC conference, and one session has stayed with me. socialmedia.animalcruelty

There is a global trade in cruelty, made to order.

Hundreds of people, mainly in the UK and US, meet in private online groups to discuss, request and pay for extreme torture to be carried out on baby monkeys in Indonesia. The abuse is filmed, then posted and circulated on social media.

The victims are baby long-tailed macaques. In one UK case, the price of watching a baby macaque being tortured was a £10 PayPal payment. Groups crowdfund custom videos, paid in cash and cryptocurrency.

The scale is staggering. One group alone reportedly shared some 3,000 images and videos. SMACC investigations identified 1,226 examples of pet macaque content on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube in just 18 months, 60% of which involved direct physical abuse.

But justice is catching up.

A year-long BBC Eye investigation went undercover to expose the network. In the UK, Holly LeGresley and Adriane Orme were jailed for their part in a global monkey torture ring on Telegram, and Peter Stanley was convicted for distributing extreme torture videos on Facebook. In the US, ringleaders were sentenced to between 3 and 5 years. Video creators in Indonesia have also received custodial sentences.

That investigation, built on over three years of work by Action for Primates and Lady Freethinker, helped lead to animal cruelty being included in the UK Online Safety Act.

This only happened because organisations refused to look away.

Here’s what you can do:
Never watch or share cruelty content. Every view fuels demand.
Report it on every platform where you see it, then block.
Follow and support SMACC, the Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition, under the Asia for Animals coalition.
Support the groups doing the investigative work: Action for Primates, Lady Freethinker and Jakarta Animal Aid Network (JAAN).

Push platforms to act. Telegram, Meta, YouTube, TikTok and X are not just hosts, they are enablers.

These animals cannot report what is happening to them. We can.

Created by robbie_lockie

#SMACC #AsiaForAnimals #AnimalCruelty #EndCrueltyContent

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