**AITA for making my husband’s prized taxidermy raccoon "Mina the Hollower" a TikTok e-girl for engagement bait?**
Okay, so, TL;DR: My husband, "Chad" (M, 34), has this *haunting* taxidermy raccoon named Mina that he inherited from his late grandma. It’s been on our mantle for 5 years, making eye contact with me like it’s judging my credit score. I’m a hobbyist content creator (28F), and I hit a dry spell, so I thought, *"What if Mina had a lore drop?"*
I made a 15-second clip where I staged Mina in different poses: holding a vape (unlit, obvi), wearing a beanie, and with a "dead stare" filter. Caption: *"POV: You’re the last brain cell in my head during 2024."* It went viral. 4M views. Suddenly, people are shipping Mina with my husband’s antique halloween skeleton, "Gregory."
Now Chad is *pissy*. He says I "disrespected grandma’s memory" and that Mina is a "heirloom, not a thirst trap." I countered that I’ve now made this raccoon more relevant than he’s been in a decade, and the comments are literally begging for a merch line. AITA for commodifying our marital cryptid?
**UPDATE:** Mina now has 200K followers and has been DM’d by a brand called "GothMeth." I told Chad this is the closest thing to a midlife crisis he’ll ever have, but he’s sleeping on the couch with the raccoon. Should I call a lawyer or a taxidermist?