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ScoopWhoop became one of India's most viral publishers
- thescribbblr 5y agoI am wondering how difficult is to get Facebook traffic now a days.
- thescribbblr 5y agoIntern here. Amazing work culture.
- epmaybe 5y agoCould you comment on what about the culture you like, and maybe what you don’t like?
- thescribbblr 5y agoPros * Creative freedom * Refreshments * helping colleagues Cons * Complex deadline
- curryst 5y agoThis 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloods
- shmde 5y agoScoopwhoop 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.
- desi_ninja 5y agoSciopwhoop 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 5y agoYes, 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/DbOe_ArS58U https://youtu.be/rcOVQ_Eu_5s https://youtu.be/rcOVQ_Eu_5s Any videos you found with crazy wokeism? I couldn't find any.
- desi_ninja 5y agoThe way you throw fascist word around casually, I am pretty sure no amount not evidence can change that. Enjoy the echo chamber
- random314 5y agoI 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.
- nindalf 5y agoThe 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.
- ronenlh 5y agoA 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 5y agoMost /^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.