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The story
From first reel to flagship.
Wild Animal Encounters first published on Nov 18, 2025, as the flagship of Omar Sherif’s five-brand portfolio. WAE Media, LLC, formed on 16 February 2026, runs it today.
The dates on record.
First publication from Egyptian Countryside Diaries, one of the brands Omar Sherif designed after study, analysis and planning — before WAE Media was formed (16 Feb 2026).
Wild Animal Encounters publishes for the first time and becomes the portfolio's flagship.
The bighorn ram reel is published. The same day sets the highest single-day total in the published reporting period: 105,100,000 views.
AI-generated key artThe bighorn ram reel, Nov 26, 2025 Cryptid Sightings USA and Deep Ocean World begin publishing.
Secret Animal Cams begins publishing. Five brands are now operating.
Outside Magazine interviews Omar Sherif, the creator behind @Wildencountermoments, on AI wildlife video (independent press). It is the Instagram presence of the Wild Animal Encounters brand; WAE Media came later. He is identified in the article as Omar, and calls the films “hyper-real digital cinema”.
The last Wild Animal Encounters publication in the reporting window. Publishing is paused from mid-January 2026.
WAE Media, LLC is formed in Delaware (File No. 10513185). Omar Sherif’s brands become its portfolio.
The Meta Business Suite records behind the published figures are verified.
One of five brands.
WAE Media runs a portfolio of social-first brands. Wild Animal Encounters is the flagship; Egyptian Countryside Diaries, Cryptid Sightings USA, Deep Ocean World and Secret Animal Cams complete the five that publish. Each brand's figures are reported separately.
Why the feed is quiet.
Publishing paused because of platform restrictions imposed by Meta. The brand operated at limited intensity for part of the reporting window and has been on full publishing pause since mid-January 2026. The figures on this site cover the full Meta Business Suite window, not continuous full-scale operation.
Owner-disclosed operating context, verified July 15, 2026.
How we label numbers.
A number on this site carries one of two labels, and the label always travels with the number.
- Documented
- Taken from Meta Business Suite records for this brand alone. The source screenshots are published in WAE Media's evidence set.
- Founder-observed, approximate
- Seen and recorded by the founder at the time, without a platform export that breaks it down the same way. Never presented as a Meta-documented figure.
Example: the bighorn ram reel reached approximately 80M views in its first 24 hours (founder-observed, approximate). The Meta export records 85,544,748 lifetime Instagram views for it (documented).
Who makes it.
Wild Animal Encounters is a brand of WAE Media, LLC, founded by Omar Sherif. The studio that makes the films is part of the same company.