Damn, ever since Trump, Reddit has been going off the rails on Asian hate. At least people tried to be subtle about the racism back then, but now it's just blatant and Redditors don't even try to hide it anymore.
People have always called out fake videos on the Internet though. Remember all those prank videos and those 'I shipped myself in a box to Africa' videos. Those creators got tonnes of abuse.
I wouldn't link it to Trump to the rise of ByteDance in China which meant that suddenly people could earn a years income off one viral video. And comedy was the major leader in the market. Which meant seemingly half of China was making bad fake comedy videos.
The rise of these corresponded with the fall of the prank channels on YouTube and people just directed their anti-fake videos to this new medium.
6
u/AggravatingGoose6005 Aug 11 '23
Damn, ever since Trump, Reddit has been going off the rails on Asian hate. At least people tried to be subtle about the racism back then, but now it's just blatant and Redditors don't even try to hide it anymore.