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ScoopWhoop became one of India's most viral publishers

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Scoopwhoop is your typical buzzfeed level clickbaity contents but made by Indians.

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.

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

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

https://youtu.be/rcOVQ_Eu_5s

Any videos you found with crazy wokeism? I couldn't find any.

The way you throw fascist word around casually, I am pretty sure no amount not evidence can change that. Enjoy the echo chamber

I would still like to see some of the crazy wokeism he indulges in. If not for me, you should share it for other folks reading this thread in the future.

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.

I am wondering how difficult is to get Facebook traffic now a days.

Intern here. Amazing work culture.

Could you comment on what about the culture you like, and maybe what you don’t like?

Pros * Creative freedom * Refreshments * helping colleagues Cons * Complex deadline

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

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.

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.

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