[HN Gopher] ScoopWhoop became one of India's most viral publishers
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ScoopWhoop became one of India's most viral publishers
Author : exolymph
Score : 28 points
Date : 2021-11-06 20:44 UTC (2 days ago)
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| thescribbblr wrote:
| I am wondering how difficult is to get Facebook traffic now a
| days.
| thescribbblr wrote:
| Intern here. Amazing work culture.
| epmaybe wrote:
| Could you comment on what about the culture you like, and maybe
| what you don't like?
| thescribbblr wrote:
| Pros * Creative freedom * Refreshments * helping colleagues
| Cons * Complex deadline
| curryst wrote:
| This may not be an issue because ScoopWhoop seems to primarily
| deal with India, but the name is really close in pronunciation
| to "suu whoop" (pronounced like "soo whoop"), which is the gang
| call for the Bloods in the US [1].
|
| It's not in the Wikipedia page, but I would presume it's at
| least semi-common knowledge. There are several songs named "Suu
| whoop", the most popular of which is at 36M views on YouTube.
|
| Just wanted to let you know in case you all are expanding, or
| get a bunch of abnormal engagement in the US.
|
| 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloods
| ronenlh wrote:
| A little off topic. Why does HN trims the "how" from titles? It
| happened to me twice when pasting the title of a link submission.
| One needs to type it manually.
|
| It might make the title less click-baity, but it's a completely
| different one.
| dang wrote:
| Most /^how / titles get less clickbaity without the how.
| Suggested by pg himself, IIRC.
|
| It doesn't always work. When we see those, we re-how them.
|
| In the present case I'd say it's working as intended.
| shmde wrote:
| Scoopwhoop is your typical buzzfeed level clickbaity contents but
| made by Indians.
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| The only redeeming sister channel is Scoopwhoop Unscripted which
| is only successful because of the personality and charisma of its
| everyday host Samdish who does part investigative journalism/on
| ground live reporting and part interviews of indian
| celebrities/politicians and is a pleasure to listen to.
| Unfortunately even he has left the channel recently.
| desi_ninja wrote:
| Sciopwhoop unscripted was horrible. The host had very strong
| biases and opinions and used to attack guests if it didn't
| match his. Also crazy wokeism
| random314 wrote:
| Yes, he did several videos that exposed fascist ultra
| nationalists like these. Made him very unpopular with the
| fascist crowd.
|
| https://youtu.be/DbOe_ArS58U
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| https://youtu.be/rcOVQ_Eu_5s
|
| Any videos you found with crazy wokeism? I couldn't find any.
| nindalf wrote:
| The closest parallel to Samdish would be Jordan Klepper.
| Samdish would interview folks at BJP events while Klepper
| interviews MAGA people at Trump or antivax rallies. But it's a
| stretch to call what they do investigative journalism. For most
| part it's selectively edited footage that makes the interviewee
| look like an idiot. It's funny for some, but not illuminating.
|
| There are exceptions of course. Klepper's reporting on Jan 6th
| and Samdish's video asking people if untouchability exists in
| India both spring to mind.
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