Somali locals bully Russian youtuber into privating a video on Mogadishu

I watched it. Yes, he was promoting an image that wasn’t 100% truthful. The little kid who said alhamdulilah we’re fine, but the translator said his father died? Was it devious? Of course. But, the fact remains that those images showed that Somalia has a long way to go. If the people in Somalia don’t fix up, we cannot get upset when a foreigner comes and shits all over the country, when we don’t even treat it with respect (did you see the level of trash near the beaches, and streets?)

Both are true: The diaspora enjoys a luxurious lifestyle while a majority of the locals are poor. That cannot be right. It’s also not sustainable.
Exactly. There is without a doubt issues but it is clear from the language and translations used the guy had an agenda. He wanted to seem like a bad-ass in the "most dangerous city". There was a lot of dishonesty and im glad his video was taken down.
 
Somalis suck at branding. They should learn from their Ethiopian neighbors who are experts at it.

I mean, they put the whole under this deception that Ethiopia has never been colonized (it has been), it has the richest African history, and it is the safest African country (which it is not). They also make it seem that they're the 'lions of Africa', when they're the first ones to hide behind western gus when Somalis man-handle them in battle. :lol:

Somalis antagonize just about everybody and expect the world to view them favorably. This gives the world a rather violent perception of Somalis and Somalia in general. They need to be kind, gentle, and polite if they want people to start taking interest in Somalia.
They are like that because the Christian West has always propped them up while they demonize Somalis and most Muslims. Its not something they were able to do on their own.
 

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Quite the Islamist.
Here is journalist Abdihafid saying the diaspora who spread bad news about Somalia are no different from the Russian youtuber. He says every building that gets destroyed today, gets immediately rebuilt the next day..these kind of videos discourages the people that are on the ground doing the hard carry, not you Western diaspora. Y'all get a grip,the backlash was well deserved, not to mention the Russian dude was using wreckage footages from 2016/2019 to show how 'dangerous ' the airport area of all places is, he was filming the Adan Cade airport when it is not allowed to do so, critiques the security personnel for no fucking reason,
He even says " Can you believe the rest of the world buys the fish that gets produced in this unhygienic place" "the fish here smells"

mistranslates a poor boy he interviewsetc
It is his whole sht, visiting dangerous places and absolutely portraying it how his subscribers wants to see it. Alot of misinformation and mispresentation,don't waste your time defending him just to go against the grain.
 
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somalis have misplaced priorities. the ones back home aa igu daran. you have no roads, falling apart buildings, no sewer system, the whole village queues up for one tiny unregulated pharmacy, and a bombing is a regular occurrence in the capital so much so that the people have become desensitized to qaraxs, and you're angry your truth is being highlighted?

as far as the video goes, there is no need to misinform or alter realities - whether you like it or not, the man depicted what he saw, and although some of you somalis have accepted it as the new normal, other viewers or even some sane somalis themselves can see that for what it is: qasaaro. may allah bless the miskeen people, but i really dont understand this misplaced anger, it should be at the ones who made the country a laughing stock, not the people simply recording the show.

billions upon billions of foreign aid and nothing to show for it, anything of substance or value is cause of foreign diaspora investment or people with their own ulterior motives such as turkey or uae. somalia itself and its so called leaders have done nothing for the country. corrupt niman with bidaars and foreign degrees who are only in power to subjugate the somali population who have never known no better
 
You guys talking about billions of aids, wallahi they are not giving it to the government but the ngo who’s business profits in aid, they give substandard services despite the billions of aids that was funnelled to them
 

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Am I the only person who doesn’t see the outrage as reasonable? They should be more upset about how the place looks.

He legit mistranslated things in there and shared inaccuracies to exaggerate how messed up it is. Like a kid tells him they're okay and he translated it as "My father died" or something like that. But yeah, sure... Xamar needs some work.
 

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They should direct that energy to the terrorists that's blowing them every week. When will Somalis stop lying to each other and face the truth, that man did nothing wrong, he showed the world the real Muqdisho. The real Muqdisho where sna soldiers stop you and ask you for money and if you don't give into their demands they will shoot you. When will they start talking about people not being able to take taxis and resort to only trusting bajaj as the only form of transportation. Direct that energy into real things. Disliking videos on YouTube won't make Muqdisho great again. Just my two cents.
 

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Am I the only person who doesn’t see the outrage as reasonable? They should be more upset about how the place looks.
They should direct that energy to the government who takes millions every year and yet the streets look like that, embarassing.
 
Somalis back home are sadly very desensitized and complacent to the chaos they live in, 30 years of civil war will do that to a country. The Russian man was wrong in manipulating certain scenes (mistranslating what the little boy said for example), but people are being intellectually dishonest in saying that he presented a false image of Somalia. The diaspora enclaves in Xamar is not representative of Somalia.

Stop expecting old men who work only to fill their pockets to build a country. Like the great JFK said, ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Standing around waiting for corruption to end in Villa Somalia, you might as well sit at home and wait for Issa ibn Maryam. Change happens from the ground up, not the other way around. People change the politics, not the other way around.
 

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They should direct that energy to the terrorists that's blowing them every week. When will Somalis stop lying to each other and face the truth, that man did nothing wrong, he showed the world the real Muqdisho. The real Muqdisho where sna soldiers stop you and ask you for money and if you don't give into their demands they will shoot you. When will they start talking about people not being able to take taxis and resort to only trusting bajaj as the only form of transportation. Direct that energy into real things. Disliking videos on YouTube won't make Muqdisho great again. Just my two cents.
Thats a bit extreme. No soldier will shoot you for not giving him a bribe and not everybody with a gun is a soldier.
 
Why are there people siding with the Russian? He was obviously engaging in bad faith journalism specifically to highlight how amazingly brave he is, rather than the outrage being due to his depiction of Somalia (which lets face it everyone is aware of) he was clearly there not to report anything but rather to jerk himself off to him and his community. It’s the equivalent of that story of the infamous photo “Afghan Girl” wherein it was later revealed that the photographer had purposefully made up a background story without the permission of her and her family to earn sympathy points from the American public. The photographer of that photo is now widely renowned despite lying, we shouldn’t allow these sorts to control the narrative especially when they have ulterior motives in store.
 
It was getting flooded with dislikes and reports. Views jumped from 200k to 600k within days , dislikes went from less than 1k to 18k within a day. The comments were in well written afsomali so it was clearly the work of the people back home:fittytousand:. Can't screenshot it but a top comment in English was saying something in the line of "this is not the reality here"
Am sure it is going to go public again, I hope Sharma boy fans are ready.

She did Jihad on that Russian nigga wallahi:ftw9nwa::ftw9nwa::yloezpe:
 

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Kumabayanimo is over :camby:
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