Brie Garcia returned her “Hi My Name Is Brie” video series this week with an animal welfare episode that is both personal and pointed. Produced in formal partnership with PETA, the episode sees Garcia climb into a bathtub to physically approximate the confined conditions orcas and dolphins face in captivity. Her message is clear: boycott SeaWorld.
The choice of a bathtub is what makes the whole thing interesting. There is no sweeping ocean backdrop, no lush underwater footage. Garcia gets in a tub. An orca swims up to 150 miles a day in the wild. In a captivity tank, it cannot. That contrast speaks for itself.
On Instagram, she called it “one of the most meaningful shoots I have ever done.” She wrote about what the experience stirred in her. “What I felt in that tub for just a short time is their entire life,” she said. The post directs viewers to PETA.org for more information and specific steps to take, with the #BoycottSeaWorld hashtag front and center.
Garcia is a content creator with a genuine track record in animal advocacy. Her “Hi My Name Is Brie” series had been on a break before this episode, and she chose a PETA partnership as her comeback opener. The series has always centered on personal storytelling. A collaboration that requires her to put her own body into the argument fits that format well. For PETA, the partnership provides an accessible, human entry point into the campaign.
SeaWorld has faced sustained pressure from animal rights groups for years. The 2013 documentary “Blackfish” brought the treatment of captive orcas into wide public view, and that conversation has continued ever since.
Legislative discussions have taken place in several U.S. states. SeaWorld has announced changes to certain practices over the years. Still, organizations like PETA maintain that captivity itself is the core issue, regardless of those adjustments.
What Garcia’s approach adds is a visceral, human-scale comparison. A bathtub is not a stunning visual in the traditional sense. It’s a stunning conceptual one. An orca needs 150 miles of open water. A tank provides nothing close to that. Measured against something as familiar as a bathroom, the gap becomes concrete in a way that statistics alone rarely achieve.
Garcia has been open about her personal connection to animal welfare. “I want to use my platform to be a voice for the voiceless,” she wrote in the caption. The “Hi My Name Is Brie” format has always leaned into her own experience as the storytelling engine. Getting into the bathtub was the assignment, and she got in.
The episode is live, the partnership is official, and the #BoycottSeaWorld call is out in the open. Anyone wanting to take action can find the campaign details at PETA.org.