Found this other source which may actually be the only source https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/ietymx1n03 Very weird. I could understand one or two vloggers out there farming engagement but...
Found this other source which may actually be the only source
Very weird. I could understand one or two vloggers out there farming engagement but this seems vastly too large in scale. Who could be directing this and to what end?
I get similar vibes as articles like this: https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/13/a-billionaires-squirrel-feeding-operation-is-driving-lincoln-park-neighbors-nuts/ It definitely feels to...
It definitely feels to coordinated to be self organized.
If you search "Tekpara in Dhaka" you'll see that more news stations are picking it up just with a more realistic 150+ number instead of 5000. Perhaps the real number is 15.
Yeah very strange. I feel like one of two things must be true; Someone benefits from creating/reinforcing the perception in China that India is unhygienic/dirty It's cover for some other kind of...
Yeah very strange. I feel like one of two things must be true;
Someone benefits from creating/reinforcing the perception in China that India is unhygienic/dirty
It's cover for some other kind of surveillance China is doing in Bangladesh
Hard to tell if this is still happening or it's being re-reported. I see mention of this phenomenon on reddit from almost 2 years ago and it contains a link to a YouTube short as an example. I...
Hard to tell if this is still happening or it's being re-reported. I see mention of this phenomenon on reddit from almost 2 years ago and it contains a link to a YouTube short as an example. I downloaded the video and had Claude translate it as I can only understand a small subset of what he's saying:
But I can't stand the smell on the Indian women here. They have a certain smell, you know? Hi, friends. Hi, friends. These girls are fairly pretty, and the way she's looking at me is getting a little flirty. But I don't dare to pay for anything. I'm afraid my wife is watching me on the livestream. I don't even dare ask her how much.
Look, these men are lining up here. They're on their phones while they wait in line, see? Since there's nowhere else, this is one place to wait, and the other one is… hey. No thank you. No no no no, thank you. Over there is another place where men wait. It's a pavilion they use, a pavilion for the men…
"Where are you from?" "Sorry, I [don't] know English." "Where are you from?" "I am Chinese." "Chinese." "Yeah." "Thank you." "OK, thank you."
They asked if I came here to pay for services. I told them I really didn't. See these men in sarongs? They're here as customers. And they don't even shower beforehand. They never shower first. So how could I dare go with one of those women? That smell, it's really… And they dump the swept-up trash straight out here, see? Hello. Look, the trash gets dumped right out the window, and [unclear] is really big. The men who come here a lot are definitely customers. Ugh, anyway, it's all filthy.
Friends, do you know India's most famous river? Type it in the chat if you do. What's India's most famous river? Let me show you. This is a tributary of the Ganges, friends. Up ahead is the pavilion where Indian men line up, and "Chunhua" is over here. I'll take you to Chunhua's place in a bit, but first I'll take you to the men's pavilion. This is an Indian river, part of the Ganges…
My guess is that it's just exploitation of racist views for money. I don't think this is a government-crafted scheme to make India look bad. I think this caters to Chinese people where there is rampant racism against Indians; Chinese people look down on Indians as inferior and dirty. They do this in Bangladesh and fake that it's in India because they'd get their shit kicked in if they get caught in India, but less likely so in Bangladesh since it's not outright shit-talking them.
I think this is right. There's a knee-jerk reaction to things like this in the west where we start with the assumption that the Chinese government is an all-controlling hydra, always meddling and...
I think this is right. There's a knee-jerk reaction to things like this in the west where we start with the assumption that the Chinese government is an all-controlling hydra, always meddling and manipulating to nefarious ends, when there's usually a simpler explanation.
Look at the garbage on Youtube for example; there's plenty of content exploiting homeless people for content. Is the US government engaged in a psyop to do something shady? Or is it just the case that content creators have found a type of provocative video that drives views and are willing to be amoral to get those views? Then consider how many more similar people there are in China, and I think we have a reasonable explanation.
I thought Douyin was meant to be the more tightly controlled and moderated sister of TikTok. Kinda shocks me that the CCP would let their people openly mock South Asians online.
I thought Douyin was meant to be the more tightly controlled and moderated sister of TikTok. Kinda shocks me that the CCP would let their people openly mock South Asians online.
Found this other source which may actually be the only source
https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/ietymx1n03
Very weird. I could understand one or two vloggers out there farming engagement but this seems vastly too large in scale. Who could be directing this and to what end?
I get similar vibes as articles like this:
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/10/13/a-billionaires-squirrel-feeding-operation-is-driving-lincoln-park-neighbors-nuts/
It definitely feels to coordinated to be self organized.
If you search "Tekpara in Dhaka" you'll see that more news stations are picking it up just with a more realistic 150+ number instead of 5000. Perhaps the real number is 15.
Yeah very strange. I feel like one of two things must be true;
Hard to tell if this is still happening or it's being re-reported. I see mention of this phenomenon on reddit from almost 2 years ago and it contains a link to a YouTube short as an example. I downloaded the video and had Claude translate it as I can only understand a small subset of what he's saying:
English:
My guess is that it's just exploitation of racist views for money. I don't think this is a government-crafted scheme to make India look bad. I think this caters to Chinese people where there is rampant racism against Indians; Chinese people look down on Indians as inferior and dirty. They do this in Bangladesh and fake that it's in India because they'd get their shit kicked in if they get caught in India, but less likely so in Bangladesh since it's not outright shit-talking them.
I think this is right. There's a knee-jerk reaction to things like this in the west where we start with the assumption that the Chinese government is an all-controlling hydra, always meddling and manipulating to nefarious ends, when there's usually a simpler explanation.
Look at the garbage on Youtube for example; there's plenty of content exploiting homeless people for content. Is the US government engaged in a psyop to do something shady? Or is it just the case that content creators have found a type of provocative video that drives views and are willing to be amoral to get those views? Then consider how many more similar people there are in China, and I think we have a reasonable explanation.
I thought Douyin was meant to be the more tightly controlled and moderated sister of TikTok. Kinda shocks me that the CCP would let their people openly mock South Asians online.
My dude China and India are still in conflict over their borders, keeping up the grassroots propaganda would just be part of rahrah sabre rattling.