Draft:The Urban Rescue Ranch

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Comment: articles are based on what reliable independent sources report about a topic, we have little interest in what their own website says. Theroadislong (talk) 20:46, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

The Urban Rescue Ranch is a YouTube Channel^[1] and TikTok Personality known for Videos revolving around a ranch in Waco County Texas. The channel became popular thanks to the owner of the ranch (who goes by "Uncle Ben")'s iconic personality, often referencing popular memes when caring for the animals.

"Characters"

One of the main appeals of the Urban rescue ranch is the Fanon (Fan Fiction) do with many of the animals, with most of them being named after popular Memes or people, such as DaBaby, and Poggers. some popular Characters Include:

Big Ounce

Big ounce is a prairie dog, taken in because of obesity. He is often named the "Overarching Protagonist" of the Ranch; and is famed for being extremely friendly. Most of the fan lore of the ranch revolved around him, until his unfortunate passing in 2023.

BooBoo

BooBoo is a male axis deer who was taken in because Axis Deer are invasive, and will be staying at the farm. although for a while there was only one BooBoo, eventually several other creatures who were taken in got called "BooBoo' by uncle Ben. as of now there are 3 BooBoos.

Kevin

Kevin is a Rhea who is often noted as being extremely aggressive, often attacking uncle ben or even random objects around the farm. He is often called the "overarching antagonist", and has several children such as souljia boy.

Current Events

The section should be updated often, and contains things that are happening or happened recently at the ranch.

Recently Beavo was introduced to a younger, female beaver who goes unnamed. they got along extraordinarily, and will likely soon live in the pond together, once the female has been all sorted.
The two Bobcats that were a central point of the channel for a while have been moved to an outdoor enclosure, and are being successfully being transitioned into being more wild.
The baby Capybaras are thriving and have been on the farm for 3 months now.
The latest video on the Youtube channel is "I fed a Bobcat to my Bobcat"

Statistics

The youtube channel has 3.13 million subscribers*^[2]
the channel has a total of 548.88M views*^[2]
currently 486 videos*^[2]
Youtube channel created on December 3, 2019 ^[2]

*as of November 20, 2024

References

^ "The Urban Rescue Ranch". YouTube. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Urban Rescue Ranch's YouTube Stats and Insights - vidIQ YouTube Stats". vidiq.com. Retrieved 2024-11-20.

Kyle, Matt. “Urban Rescue Ranch: Millions Follow along with Waco Animal Sanctuary Launched by Baylor Grad.” Waco Tribune-Herald, 24 July 2023, [1].

“The Urban Rescue Ranch’s Youtube Stats and Insights - vidIQ YouTube Stats.” The Urban Rescue Ranch’s YouTube Stats and Insights - vidIQ YouTube Stats, [2]. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.

Urban Rescue Ranch, [3]. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.

“About Us.” Urban Rescue Ranch, [4]. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.

Unthank, Kennedy. “The Urban Rescue Ranch.” Plugged In, 3 July 2024, www.pluggedin.com/youtube-reviews/the-urban-rescue-ranch/.

Brad. “Pondscapes of Charlotte Viral YouTube Video At The Urban Rescue Ranch.” Pondscapes of Charlotte, pondscapesofcharlotte.com/pondscapes-of-charlotte-youtube-video-at-the-urban-rescue-ranch/. Accessed 20 Nov. 2024.

For info purely on the generally agreed upon lore of characters:

where to watch:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheUrbanRescueRanch

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt25390290/

[1] "The Urban Rescue Ranch". YouTube. Retrieved 2024-11-20.

[:0-2] "The Urban Rescue Ranch's YouTube Stats and Insights - vidIQ YouTube Stats". vidiq.com. Retrieved 2024-11-20.

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