A lot of foreign vloggers have been coming to Pakistan and making vlogs in an attempt to promote tourism. Alyne who goes by the page ‘Dear Alyne’ made a vlog on Pakistan as a part of her ‘The $100 show:’
And while many people were loving it, others were a little disappointed:
mom can u come pick me up the global north has discovered the economic disparity between themselves and the global south https://t.co/TZohC6cyHA
— ReasonablyPricedFeminist (@smolsadsexy) November 25, 2019
She did!
she said yasssss poverty makes travelling so much easier 😍😍😍 https://t.co/uzAqV2CCGD
— rafay (@ZindagiAzabHai) November 26, 2019
People were finding it ugly and exploitive:
this is so ugly and exploitative https://t.co/uetvlXFkzG
— maryam ✨💌 (@migrantsoul) November 26, 2019
Are you ready for this?! Here’s yet another place for you and your friends to exploit poverty in 😍🙈💯 https://t.co/rvysU422xo
— sohniyeh (@sohnianika) November 26, 2019
People were just not having it:
So for a country where the average man earns $5 per day, this is all that you see? Cheap food that even the common folk cannot afford? https://t.co/coGiW9j2Td
— Haseeb Sultan (@haseebsultan_) November 26, 2019
Many wanted the tourism industry to develop properly:
Don’t usually do the whole demented caps thing but this time I am going to make an exception. BUILD A FUNCTIONAL AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM INDUSTRY BEFORE MAKING THESE GOD AWFUL PROMOTIONAL VIDEOS. https://t.co/DbDtZTJYCW
— Usman Ahmad (@UsmanAhmad_iam) November 26, 2019
Shots were fired!
May seem cheap but our people are so hospitable if they know you’re foreign 99% of the time they won’t charge you and that remaining 1% is usually reserved for diaspora Pakistanis lmao https://t.co/Ilep3nW3EX
— tatiana (@ultrxlana) November 26, 2019
Lol!
The medical tourism part was essential to this video considering the potential tourist will be eating $1 meals https://t.co/REwns68Shf
— RL (@RizWanKenobi_) November 25, 2019
Exploiting us is NOT cool:
Dear white privileged travelers, stop exploiting an already impoverished Global South. You people think u can come to our countries & exploit us (which u do successfully), it is just wrong to take things for free. You people charge us like crazy in your own countries & are not so https://t.co/0s9By8BQPM
— Salman Khan سلمان خان सलमान खान 🏳️🌈 (@ImGreenGuru) November 26, 2019
yesss come exploit us. we are cheap fucks aha. https://t.co/q3cqX0u2cl
— hegel's bagel 🥯 (@Dostoewhiskey) November 25, 2019
Many were pissed:
“A car with a driver for one day $30!!! A customized dress, tailored by locals $16!!!!” Bruh the fetishization of poverty in “pack kiss Stan” in this video is so gross. Jus say u don’t wanna pay brown ppl a fair wage and go https://t.co/fXZMmWa7kn
— Sjejnoor Khurram (@sjejnoor) November 26, 2019
Many thought there are better ways to promote tourism:
not to come across as a party pooper here…..but this doesn't promote sustainable tourism in Pakistan. At ALL.
There are ways to promote Pakistan as a budget-friendly destination without stuff like this.
Pass. https://t.co/1b9uvKfkno
— hassaan (@thehqazi) November 26, 2019
Some thought the video was romanticizing poverty:
What in the orientalist hell is this??? This is basically romanticising poverty so that westerners can get away with not paying these Pakistani natives proper wages. Yikes. Definitely better ways to promote tourism 😩😩 https://t.co/ywgsyySPIW
— Akansha (@namsgoogie) November 26, 2019
Poverty porn 😍😍😍 https://t.co/G9NzcmrtNJ
— Saad (@SunYaar) November 25, 2019
……an entire video glamorizing how shit our currency is and by extension how poor Pakistanis are. Bravo come to Pakistan and enjoy our collective misfortune! https://t.co/nyZ7XDkNim
— Britta Perry (@sareena_nina) November 25, 2019
People were finding the video to be sad:
This video is acc very sad. Underpaid labour and employees ,inflation , this attitude. Really breaks my heart https://t.co/XXLzzYfYEl
— PURR PALL (@alooforlife) November 26, 2019
This just reeks of white privilege but ok https://t.co/Nolx5fH7X4
— Shanaya. (@Mahnxr) November 25, 2019
Hilarious!
we're being mocked for inflation at global scale guys. it's called sarcasm https://t.co/27C4Z6tlkl
— saad. (@chimgadar) November 25, 2019
This is the funniest tourism promo video I’ve ever seen https://t.co/BVtjOxKgNk
— Mangogh (@ManhattanMango) November 25, 2019
Same:
I want to visit Pakistan too. With some dollars instead. https://t.co/385ntklwiD
— Saim Qureshi (@msaimq) November 26, 2019
But there were many who were loving the video and Alyne’s efforts to promote tourism:
My PAKISTAN ! 😍😍😍 https://t.co/jO7uzPIXEA
— Sawera Pasha (@sawerapasha) November 26, 2019
Some were confused at the way others were reacting to it:
They way liberals are reacting to this video is just ridiculous. She's promoting tourism, and if youre getting good value for money, there isn't a better way to promote anything. Besides this will help the poor people in those areas.
Liberals are inbreds. https://t.co/VsTx1pAS90— Mehdi. (@SzpilmanStinson) November 26, 2019
Many found it to be heart warming:
What a heart warming video about my beautiful country. #Pakistan #NaturalBeauty https://t.co/bUfwjj7suw
— Lalarukh Saud (@Lalarukhihsan) November 25, 2019
People were sharing the video with their friends in other countries:
This is professionalism . To the point advertisement. Bravo. Will send it to my friends in foriegn https://t.co/oGv7x6in3p
— Feroz Bakht (@ferbak44) November 26, 2019
People were living for it:
This is what we need to show to the world. Pakistan is AWESOME….@ImranKhanPTI @MuradSaeedPTI @Asad_Umar https://t.co/8hbWW6AZ8A
— مانی (@ChouhdaryImran) November 25, 2019
This isn’t the first video Alyne’s made about Pakistan, here are a few more she’s made before:
The Switzerland of Asia:
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