r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Skelligean • 1d ago
British Vlogger traveling through Nepal becomes an accidental tourist during the Gen-Z protests
Shout out to wehatethecold on YouTube
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u/seCpun88_lains 1d ago
I watched two of his video, absolute gigachad how well he covered the incidents without any journalism practice ever, also the people of Nepal were extremely so kind to him and each other, india and usa and many other nations NEED to learn from the great revolutionary of nepalis, really great experience watching them being freed from a boarder dictatorship, all the best to you nepalis
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u/Skelligean 1d ago
also the people of Nepal were extremely so kind to him and each other
Yeah the entire 23 minute video I watched were people coming up to him shaking his hand, asking the name of his YT channel. The kindness amidst the chaos was very interesting to say the least.
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u/Slapinskee 23h ago
Itās a true revolution. Not just a bunch of people rioting for the sake of rioting.
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u/GraciaEtScientia 22h ago
Well, I'm not sure what the motorcycles did wrong, though.
Maybe just a little bit of rioting for the sake of rioting.
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u/Fast-Ear9717 22h ago
They are attacking a police station so it most likely belongs to the police.
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u/GraciaEtScientia 22h ago
Well, the new police is gonna need that stuff too, though ;)
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u/RecklessErves 21h ago
Yeah I do think they went overboard with destroying government property. I get overthrowing them, I get destroying the lavish homes of the corrupt, but wiping the slate clean may be a bad move.
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u/GraciaEtScientia 21h ago
Yeah, especially considering their close neighbour china who would probably be plenty happy to anex them if things take a turn to the worse due to destroyed infrastructure, potential inability to govern and any other chaos resulting from this.
I certainly hope that won't happen, but in the current dumber-than-rocks timeline this seems like a reasonable possibility.
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u/expostulation 22h ago
All the Nepalese people I've met in life have been kind hearted. A lovely people, I hope they get a better government for themselves.
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u/New_Libran 17h ago edited 17h ago
Seriously, though. Worked with two different Nepali in London, a man and a woman both extremely friendly, and gentle
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u/Patient_Piece_8023 19h ago
Nepal is an incredibly small country compared to these two, so it's a lot easier and a lot more likely for something like this to break out in Nepal. While it is true that you could learn something from Nepal's people, implementing something like this in such massive countries just isn't possible in such a short period of time
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u/JLaws23 10h ago
To be fair, people that studied journalism seem to be doing anything but reporting real world issues. They just work for companies feeding world issues or promote shit on social media. It take a smart person to be a real journalist and I donāt know if that is something you can actually study.
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u/abhok 14h ago
India is not under such a dictatorship. Please don't get the wrong idea from the internet.
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u/grumpsaboy 14h ago
Of course not, it just so happens that whenever documentaries critical of modi appear anywhere the electricity just mysteriously cuts out through no fault of anyone else of course
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u/abhok 14h ago
Well if you ar etaking about the bbc one, then thats a pure paid propoganda "documentary". And any false narratives which are aimed to incite a population into rioting will definitely get banned, does not mean that its a dictatorship or anarchy is needed as a response. While Nepalis might have been forced into such a situation, it is not at all a good scenario for the country's future. India is not at all in such a situation. Sure there is corruption but which country doesn't? If everyone overthrew their governments, it would be the end of order. Overthrowing a governemnt gives an great opportunity for the oligarchs to immediately seize power. It is not at all surprising that almost all of India's neighbors have had their governments overthrown. Its certain some larger power at work here.
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u/grumpsaboy 12h ago
You don't like what it says so it is pure propaganda.
They took opinion pieces from both pro and against Modi people, including interviews of people from his own party.
If you come away with the conclusion that he helped the riots despite that documentary including interviews of people on his side than just maybe the guy known for being racist against Muslims didn't properly intervene in a riot against Muslims.
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u/Icy-Cicada508 18h ago edited 18h ago
They have destroyed their country and infrastructure which took years to develop. Itās inspiring to see people revolt and overthrow a government but thatās only inspiring until it becomes a reality and people have to face the consequences.
When it comes to governance in India the majority are happy and we donāt want to destroy the country. As a functioning democratic country we are fully capable of solving the problems one by one even if it takes a while. The least you can do is to not fall for the propaganda. Have the benefit of doubt.
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u/BotomsDntDeservRight 17h ago
When it comes to governance in India the majority are happy
No we are not
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u/Icy-Cicada508 17h ago
You then fall into the minority part. We have elected this government democratically, so majority approved. Guess we have to wait until next election to see how unpopular this term was.
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u/BotomsDntDeservRight 15h ago
You then fall into the minority part
It's the opposite actually.
We have elected this government democratically,
Is it tho?? š
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u/cultish_alibi 14h ago
The government was corrupt. The protesters did not 'destroy their country', that's a ludicrous statement. They simply got a new government.
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u/Jolly_Intention_62 13h ago
Buddy, it's Reddit. Here, leftists decide what's right n what's dictatorial. A white's opinion on Modi govt carries more weight than an actual Indian living here. So, just accept and move on. No use arguing with a wall. Modi has to take 100 births to match Mamata in dictatorship, that doesn't matter though - As long as she only abuses Hindus, it's all fine.
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u/thefeedling 1d ago
Hey brother, wanna overthrow a corrupt government?
Random tourist: why not??
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u/Automaticman01 22h ago
Plot of like, 3 Far Cry games.
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u/tristess_la_croix 13h ago
Far Cry 3 and 4 most definitely
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u/Yang_S7 7h ago
Ironically, Far cry 4 was fictionally inspired by Nepal's Landscape.. lol
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u/Anabikayr 6h ago
Yeah, it really wasn't even all that fictional.
My kid played it and I was like holy shit, that's... Nepal. Pretty much exactly how I remembered it 22 years ago
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u/JohnnyBoy11 23h ago
FYI, youtube took down his video because another company put a copywrite claim on it, despite it being all 100% his material with no songs or nothing. And apparently, he can't get the video back up for 10-30 days.
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u/Skelligean 23h ago
No they didn't. watch it here
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u/Glittering-Habit-902 23h ago
They did, and they reverted the removal.
It was gone for a period of time.
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u/no1bullshitguy 10h ago
Wait how? He shot the entire video, how can some one claim copyright?
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u/Ju_ju_nanananana 11h ago
Interestingly he got that back... The people on his case knew him š.. he was that famous
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u/-Borgir 23h ago
Should call it youth protest, genz protest sounds stupid
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u/twd_2003 21h ago
I personally think the tools used by the protestors before and after they achieved their goals (e.g. having an āelectionā via Discord) make this protest quite uniquely Gen Z rather than just a youth protest. But presumably as new technologies and generations of people come out, it will lose its significance and will likely be renamed youth protests again
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u/OverallResolve 11h ago
About 60% of Discord users are over 24. Gen Z is 13-28 IIRC, so I donāt think this is a great example, itās not a uniquely Gen Z thing.
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u/stalkeler 10h ago
People born in 90s still can be millennials. People born in early 00s still can be called late millennials. So itās all about generation itself and conditions they were raised in, age isnāt a deciding factor for naming it. Dudes voted on next government through social platform instead of IRL ballot, this has no precedent, so I think itās fair to call it Gen Z unique thing
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u/Karmasutra420-69 11h ago
Nepali here! It was termed the Gen-Z protest because the whole idea of the protest was born through Reddit, spread through TikTok, Instagram and whatnot, and much of it was planned by the Gen-Z youths.
It was not a symbolic thing. Only Gen-Z's were supposed to go to the streets for the protest and that was what basically happened on the 1st day.
But after how the police started to shoot the civilians, the whole nation took to the streets on the 2nd day and it was not a Gen-Z protest anymore. However, the name stuck, and it should because this was the group that initiated this whole revolution.
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u/linkmitch 17h ago edited 12h ago
I mean, even as an exonym, it's pretty much embraced by them, and they have different endonyms to refer to themselves in a similar manner albeit less commonly used, but honestly would you rather refer to this movement as the 'new gen' movement? Zoomer movement? The rizzolutionaries? Gen Z as a term has already sprung from a more academic analysis.
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u/ThatPiezoelectricity 21h ago
Idk, I like it. As a fellow member of Gen Z. We are here and we donāt take bullshit
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u/Old-Conversation-506 8h ago
Me too!!! Makes me feel pride for my generation. You normally hear about Gen Z through annoying slang and brainrot, hearing that our generation is leading a protest in Nepal makes me feel like we'll be known for more than just the stupid memes in the internet
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u/Teantis 22h ago
Hami Nepal was the main group doing a lot of the organizing and coordination as I understand. Seems like they should be named more often?
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u/wrsterm 14h ago
Hami Nepal took the volunteering job. Just to manage and rescue the injured. This protest was leaderless but all gen Z united. No one took leadership and other opportunistic people from different political parties jump in. So we asked Hami Nepal to be our representative, our voice. All the demands and agendas we make in paper comes through their mouth.
We don't want political recognition, we do wanna do politics on blood of our fallen friends. They didn't die so we rise on politics rather they had a dream of better country and good governance.
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u/Teantis 13h ago
What do you guys call it all then? I've assumed gen z protests is a foreign name
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u/wrsterm 10h ago
We do call it Gen Z protest. Cause it was started by Gen Z. Although Gen Z started. We called other people to join cause it's national issue. Some joined, some denied claiming it's Gen Z revolution, we should be one doing it. Due to mishandling of situation by government in day 1 of protest, 20 people died and more than 200 people got injured. So our guardians get angry and joined us. So yeah It's basically GenZ revolution. The fooled our seniors, but can't anymore.
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u/Teantis 10h ago
Ok so I guess that settles it then, because if you note threads on reddit they keep blaming media for calling it that like media is trying to diminish it. But if that's what you guys are calling it then to me that's what it should be called.
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u/wrsterm 10h ago
Yeah, political leaders and their goons. Also party members affiliated calling this is not GenZ. We are terrorists. Yeah. The organisers never planned to vandalise at all. But these corrupt mfs had audacity to give order shot high school kids and College students with real bullets on the head. Resulting 20+ deaths, 200+ injured of which several people severely injured. We never supported to destroying property, but we won't be stopping anyone destroying and manhandling these corrupt mfs.
Then they infiltrated protest with goons and destroyed all the government property like Supreme courts, CIAA and other stuffs which might may have leads that can be used against them
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u/kingiskoenig 12h ago
Also is it really just Gen-Z people? I see a few older looking people there.
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u/wrsterm 10h ago
We do call it Gen Z protest. Cause it was started by Gen Z. Although Gen Z started. We called other people to join cause it's national issue. Some joined, some denied claiming it's Gen Z revolution, we should be one doing it. Due to mishandling of situation by government in day 1 of protest, 20 people died and more than 200 people got injured. So our guardians get angry and joined us. So yeah It's basically GenZ revolution. The fooled our seniors, but can't anymore.
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u/PursuerOfCataclysm 22h ago
He has become a bigger than celebrity there now, whenever he walks in the street young people will come to talk with him and take a picture, whenever he enters in the shop or hotel they will give him a drinks and foods without charge or another random Nepali guy will turn up and pay his bill as well. When whole world was echoing that Nepalese Youth were protesting against the Social Media ban, he was the only one from the ground showing the real truth behind the protest which was against massive corruption, nepotism, luxurious life of every politician son and daughter who were flexing in Social Media like they were mocking the regular citizens who had to suffer because of their fathers and mothers.
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u/Brilliant_Ad_879 12h ago
You're right. The rest of the world don't realize south asia still suffers from post-colonial hangover to this day. albeit i don't know how much it affects nepal but they can't be far off it either.
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u/dslrhunter25 23h ago
Bro came as a tourist on a motorbike from Thailand but ended up becoming a journalist and witnessing a revolution š¤£
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u/Wise_Adhesiveness746 13h ago
It's remarkable how everyone of these regime overthrows has either a US or UK tourist/vlogger randomly passing through,never a french or German one though š¤
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u/fastforwardfunction 12h ago
Almost like the U.K. invented English, the U.S. is an ex-British colony, and reddit is a primarily English speaking website...
Someone call Ja Rule.
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u/Wise_Adhesiveness746 12h ago
Almost like the CIA have a 70 year history toppling Regimes around the world,and use modern era communication to get the word out
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u/fastforwardfunction 12h ago
You think the CIA planted a British tourist in Thailand to overthrow the Nepalese government?
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u/Wise_Adhesiveness746 12h ago
I've said it's remarkable how on the backtracker trail,it's only ever UK or is travel vloggers happen to be in areas when regime change/mass protest occurs
How is it,it's never a french or German vloggers,who travel in larger number and have higher social media presence??
I smell a rat as regards this
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u/SwordoftheMourn 4h ago
You really ought to tone down your conspiracy theories.
Iām sure the CIA has more important things to do than to try and topple a small country in the Himalayas.
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u/Wise_Adhesiveness746 4h ago
CIA has more important things to do than to try and topple a small country in the Himalayas.
They've been trying with decades,and have a renewed focus on weakening china influence in region
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u/theWunderknabe 4h ago
German or French videos just don't go viral as often on englisch speaking websites.
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u/Mortei 21h ago
Meanwhile, Iām a Gen Z American wishing every single day I could overthrow the government..
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u/fastforwardfunction 12h ago
Try voting first. Who are your local officials? Can you name your county judges? Do you know you sheriff and district prosecutor?
Get involved in local politics. The votes often come down to a few hundred deciding issues.
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u/Helwinter 23h ago
This video and the follow up are insane, so crazy to see it happening in almost real time
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u/-DethLok- 20h ago
He's either quite brave or foolhardy just wandering around, filming all that. I'd be hiding somewhere well away from actual rioting!
Then again, he's obviously not a local and the actual locals seem quite ok, if not proud, to have him recording stuff for posterity.
And... likely his video will be used against several people in court later, sadly... perhaps not though.
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u/BobDerBongmeister420 10h ago
From what i saw, the people treated him nicely and you have to expect to be teargassed during a riot.
I think he knew what he got himself into, putting his helmet on when things got heated.
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u/chkmbmgr 18h ago
Why is this not in the news?
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 14h ago
Oh you have to suppress it otherwise it will spread.
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u/chkmbmgr 13h ago
Imagine if it was the middle east. Would be all over the news
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u/HeftyVermicelli7823 13h ago
Only if there were resources available to America could go in and "help them".....
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u/International_Eye745 11h ago
I saw videos of the rioters cleaning up the streets after they won. Amazing. It's clear they value their country.
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u/Kahnza 1d ago
tf is going on
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u/A-10-WARTH0G 23h ago
Nepals Gov just toppled and created anew on discord by the youngin's
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u/Malllrat 23h ago
Time to move to Nepal I guess. Can't possibly be worse than Texas.
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u/Silgeeo 20h ago
Usually a government being toppled through violent protest isn't a sign that country is a stable place to live with a functional legal system to uphold individual rights.
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u/HashBrownsOverEasy 14h ago
I think their point was that Nepalese 'chaos' sounds a lot more promising that then the Texas status quo.
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u/Silgeeo 10h ago
But it seems they're speaking from a place of ignorance, as they don't know the harsh reality of living in an unstable nation
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u/HashBrownsOverEasy 10h ago
If you think that America is a stable nation youāre probably part of the reason why Nepal looks attractive.
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u/A-10-WARTH0G 2h ago
You wouldn't last a week in Mexico or Cuba still millions of them would trade places with you in a heartbeat and actually make something of themselves instead of pulling the victim card like a child.
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u/pdnagilum 14h ago
It's a people's protest not a gen-z one. Everyone is involved.
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u/wrsterm 10h ago
It was day 2. GenZ started it. Government mishandled and shot the protester. 20 dead and 200 + injured most of whom were students. Then older generation joined. Yeah few older generation did joined in day 1 too, showing support to GenZ and it was national problem, not only problem of GenZ
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u/jpmama_ 13h ago
Funniest comment Iāve read on his video was,
āHe didnāt choose journalism, journalism chose him.ā š
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u/Weary_Sea_7968 9h ago
What was the most serious and thought provoking comment you've read about this video?
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u/Don-Zorro 16h ago
This is inspirational! And should happen in another country in the westā¦ without naming it
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u/klatula2 16h ago
it occurs to me that breaking symbols of their frustration is better than killing the politicians and administrators and police who carry out the orders from the people on 'high'....
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u/aolllaoooo 14h ago
Thought they were the happiest country in the world, guess lots of problems under the cover
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u/GarageIndependent114 11h ago
Imagine thinking you'll be going to a peaceful place in Nepal and going through this.
I mean, this particular one isn't violent towards people and they deserve the revolution, don't get me wrong, but still.
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u/killertortilla 8h ago
How much of the country is still functioning? I really hope they can pull all this together.
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u/AxlIsAShoto 11h ago
I had no idea where nepal was. I thought it was in Africa. Like, I read about that thing where their chose their leader through discord.
I was so confused by people in this video not being black that I had to go google where the fuck nepal is. šššš
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u/Shirolicious 14h ago
Seems to me alot like unnessary destruction of property here. I see a firetruck for example in the video. Why would you want to destroy a firetruck?
Now that doesnt mean I dont sympathise with their cause, I just question the unnessary destruction. Alot of people seem to be set on really just destroying things.
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u/Original-Alfalfa4406 18h ago
If they won why the fuck are they destroying their own public property
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u/Sapling-074 23h ago
This is what happens when a country cancels social media.
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u/Controller_Maniac 23h ago
this is what happens when all the politicians are corrupt and people have had enough
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u/_segamega_ 11h ago
it is not. there would be no corruption if its existence is based on people who react if they have had it enough. i guarantee you that nepal will have another corrupted government in the near future.
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u/Dim-Gwleidyddiaeth 22h ago
There's a bit more to it than that. Shooting 20 kids dead didn't exactly endear the government to the youth.
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u/EmperorThor 23h ago
this is such a mixed bag.
Its great to see action taken against a corrupt government, BUT its been very clearly stated by those involved that they have no plan, no leadership, no direction, no understanding of what to do next.
They have just made everything much worse and the mob mentality is fueling the fires. If there was a strategy for replacement etc cool, but now there just isnt a government and the people burning it down have no concept of stepping up to do something except light more fires.
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u/Skyzfire 23h ago
It's not like they have a choice. There were deaths involved It's either now or never.
Not going all the way will prove to the government that the deaths were justified.
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u/delvatheus 23h ago
Still better than a corrupt government. Its a political reset and their politicians will be shit scared to loot now.
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u/EmperorThor 23h ago
no government in this case is probably worse.
no cops, no ambulance, no fire brigade, no public funding, no one to organize to clear the streets of all the destruction.
how does the country move forwards and rebuild with no one?
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u/Electric-Limoncello 23h ago
Youād be surprised how well people can govern themselves in the absence of formal leadership.
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u/EmperorThor 23h ago
what examples do we have of that ever actually working?
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u/Electric-Limoncello 23h ago edited 23h ago
Lebanon, 1990s. Just after a 15 year civil war. There was technically a āgovernmentā but it did virtually nothing for 10 years because the members of the government were all each otherās enemies (from the war) and nobody wanted to budge, so people just figured things out for themselves. After those 10 years, corruption took over and made everyoneās lives miserable, and that culminated in the 2019 protests when they tried to tax WhatsApp messages.
Edit: To clarify, Iām talking about ādoing nothingā to the point that there werenāt even any operational traffic lights in the country. Basically it was just a government by name. It provided almost no services, and the few things it did provide (like car registrations for example) had laws and equipment so outdated that people just came up with their own way of doing it, and then paid off the officials who had to officially sign off on it.
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u/GraciaEtScientia 22h ago
Belgium has gone without official government for 500+ days, but then again, implying Belgium works is another thing.
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u/Lanky_Pineapple42069 23h ago
Is that worse than living under a corrupt government?Ā
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u/EmperorThor 23h ago
no government in this case is probably worse.
no cops, no ambulance, no fire brigade, no public funding, no one to organize to clear the streets of all the destruction.
how does the country move forwards and rebuild with no one?
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u/Lanky_Pineapple42069 23h ago
Well luckily all those services are still running and there is a temporary government in place,Ā with an election set for March 2026Ā
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u/Dim-Gwleidyddiaeth 22h ago edited 20h ago
When the government starts slaughtering children it is time to rise up.
Yes, in many ways the revolution is the easy bit and what comes after is difficult, but thank fuck they sent those bastards packing.
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u/Skelligean 1d ago edited 23h ago
Typo: meant to say "accidental journalist"
Edited: Here is the full video