Why This Famous YouTuber Pissed Off Sri Lankans

本站添加: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Here's how you make a ton of money hate-watching on Sri Lanka. A few weeks ago, a massive food review channel called the More Best Ever Food Review Show, with over 3 million subscribers, made a video that pissed off a lot of Sri Lankans, especially the thumbnail.

[00:00:14]And man, you know, looking at this as a Sri Lankan, it's a bad look for our country, you know, we need to do better, is what I would say if this image was real, but it's not. It's AI. I watched the entire video and not once did he go to a shop that looks anything close to this. He just put a prompt into ChatGPT or Gemini and just I don't want to assume the worst of this guy. I don't know anything about him. In the video he seemed to have a good time. So, for all we know, he could be sweeter than, you know, piss after pineapple. However, I can't help wonder why this guy had to use an AI image. If this dude came across a place that was actually that disgusting and looked like the one in the thumbnail, then absolutely, you know, he has all the right in the world to put that. But he didn't, it seems, I don't know if it's actually true, but it just seems like the thumbnail is trying to say, "Hey everyone, look at me eat food in this dirty, disgusting country."

[00:01:02]Essentially trying to get clicks by playing into the dirty Sri Lankan or just dirty Asian stereotype. By the way, at 10,000 subs, I'll be doing a giveaway, so make sure you like and subscribe.

[00:01:13]All right, so quick update, just want to let you know that we're no longer talking about this dude. Now we've moved on to a much more dangerous kind of vlog. These people travel to developing countries like ours, India, whatever the case may be, and create videos meant for people that look down on countries like ours. It's basically vlogs by racists for racists. There's actually a bunch of videos on YouTube dedicated to covering these racist vlogs. And after watching bunch of these videos, I noticed two distinct patterns across all of them.

[00:01:40]Number one is dehumanizing the locals, right? They treat them like second-class citizens in their own country, you know, which is ridiculous. They never say anything offensive, right? They don't say any offensive slurs or whatever, but you know, they look around and you know, it's like that's just hmm, I don't I don't like quite like that. Also, by the way, why do people make such a big deal about eating with your hands? Doesn't everyone in the world eat with your hands? Like, how do you eat burgers and pizzas and like freaking uh chicken drumsticks? Do you eat Do you eat it with your toes? It really seems like anti-insert-race-propaganda, right? You can critique a country and you can showcase the downsides without sounding like the mustache man. Number two, they always travel to the worst, crappiest, shadiest places in the country that not even the locals would want to go and act like that's all the country has to offer. I swear to god, some of these people, you know, seem to have like a budget of zero dollars and you can't tell me that they're broke because these videos get millions of views, so clearly they have money, right? I assume like, you know, their budget was like $2,000, but $1,999 went for the plane ticket and that remaining $1 is what they have for food and lodging and they act all surprised when they have a bad experience. You tend to see this quite often with street food. They make it seem like the second the plane lands on the runway of a developing country, immediately you get food poisoning and your ass explodes.

[00:02:53]Some of these vloggers, not all of them, but some of these vloggers, you know, professional travelers, either lack common sense or they're intentionally doing dangerous, stupid things to get clicks. It doesn't take a genius to realize that eating cheap fried food sold by some random guy who's pushing around his kitchen on a cart is probably not a good idea. Avoid street food whenever you can and if you do want to eat it, you're taking on a risk. Some of these people buy an Aso Ebi for like 150 rupees, which is around 50 cents in dollars, and they seem to expect Gordon Ramsay to parachute into their bedroom naked, rub them in baby oil. What did you expect, man? Like, what What What am I even saying at this point?

[00:03:31]These vlogs are the way that people learn about other countries. Since negativity is such effective clickbait, there's going to be hundreds of millions of people from all across the world who have never visited a country, never interacted with its people, and don't know anything about its history developing their opinions based off of these biased videos. And let's be honest, right? For us Sri Lankans and just brown-skinned Asians in general, we already unfortunately suffer a lot with self-hatred and hating your own race and hating the way that you look, which is one of the reasons why skin bleaching is so popular in all kinds of countries.

[00:04:01]Hate against brown-skinned people is very much alive on the internet and dare I say one of the more accepted forms of racism. And because, you know, life basically exists on the internet these days, we have to pay attention to these sorts of things.

[00:04:14]I saw a couple of people in the comments talking about how the government should ban this kind of content creators from entering the country or should take down these kinds of videos. And I completely disagree with that. True freedom is when the people that you don't like have the same rights as you do. And let's be honest, right? The government will be more than happy to pass, you know, the Sri Lankan Patriot Lion Act, right?

[00:04:34]Where they will ban criticism against Sri Lankan culture. And there'll be a tiny little line at the end of the paragraph, right? That will say the government counts as Sri Lankan culture.

[00:04:44]And guess what? Now you can no longer criticize the government. I think that the only real solution here is for the rest of the people online, vloggers, whatever the case may be, for them to just be honest about Sri Lanka. Because with honesty, then good parts of Sri Lanka or whatever country will naturally come out. If you're interested in discussing this further in my group chat, check out my Patreon. We offer a ton of extra benefits, ad- and sponsor-free and uncensored versions of these videos. And your name will appear at the end credits of every single video. Thank you for watching. See you soon. Bye-bye.

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