The Tale of the Ambitious Youtubers

 

Once there lived a clan of ordinary rats, scurrying through the shadows as rats have done since time immemorial. Their existence was unremarkable until the day ambition took hold—not the simple desire for fuller bellies or safer nests, but a monstrous craving to become larger than nature ever intended.

At first, their growth seemed a marvel. They fed ravenously, bred obsessively, and soon outgrew their rodent cousins. When their swollen bodies could no longer slip through cracks, they took it as proof of superiority rather than warning. Humans began hunting them, not as pests but as prizes—their glossy pelts stripped and displayed as trophies. The rats misinterpreted this violence as tribute.

Then came the men with cages and spotlights. "Witness the Eighth Wonder of the World!" bellowed the carnival barkers, parading the colossal rodents before gasping crowds. The rats paced their gilded enclosures, basking in the attention, never questioning why spectators laughed as they threw coins. Their size, once a source of pride, had made them curiosities in a traveling circus.

Now they wait—too large to hide, too slow to flee—for the third chapter of their story to unfold. The lesson whispers through the sawdust: ambition un-tempered by wisdom breeds not greatness, but captivity. And the audience always craeds a grander spectacle.