[KingOfCoders]

Because India.

[Edit] Thanks for the comments, in now way is this meant prejudiced and derogatory, I have worked with many excellent Indian colleagues.

The country normally associated with Chess is Russia, lately India got a huge wave of great talents like Vidit Gujrathi or Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa.

[DrBenCarson]

I’ll go out of my way and assume you don’t mean to be prejudiced or derogatory.

In return, I ask that you understand that your phrasing is prejudiced and derogatory.

[Markoff]

What? I thought it's pretty common knowledge chess is very popular in India.

Which is why they are in 5th place in world. https://ratings.fide.com/top_federations.phtml

[yumraj]

> Because India.

Do you have something against India or Indians? That too a 16 year old Indian kid..

Hopefully that is not part of your CTO coaching..

[hackinthebochs]

It's well known that Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet. I follow multiple youtubers that randomly see 10x their usual traffic on a video that happens to be about India in some way.

[mkl95]

This is a well known phenomenon. IMDb (Internet Movie Database) added a Top Rated Indian Movies page* because tons of users rate virtually every Indian movie 10/10.

* https://www.imdb.com/india/top-rated-indian-movies/

[2143]

> Indians will absolutely swarm any content about India put on the internet.

And because of the large population, even a small percentage would still be a large number.

But individual Indians do that on their own independent will though.

There's no central authority that declares to Indians "Ooh here's a new content about India. Go go go!"

[yumraj]

You do realize the India has 1.4B+ population.. So, even a small percentage is huge in absolute terms...

[ngc248]

And whats wrong with that? seriously asking.

[lmm]

Nothing wrong with it, but it distorts popularity metrics for India-related content.

[yunohn]

The USA’s disparate influence on global culture is so strong, yet we don’t say the popularity metrics are distorted for American content. Odd phrasing IMHO

[usrbinbash]

There is a difference between production and distribution, and simply generating lots of feedback.

[ngc248]

Youtubers basically get more views by Indians on India related content. Is that such a bad thing? i mean it has India related content.

[yunohn]

I think their dissonance comes from seeing Western culture as the default. Indian content is seen as unusual, and evokes strong other-ism.

[hackinthebochs]

Nothing wrong with it, it just explains why western media would create a positive story about India that is only marginally newsworthy.

[1024core]

Though, you may be surprised to learn that in general, western media and western commentators are pretty negative on India. See, for example, [1]. Whenever some positive news about India comes out, people come out of the woodwork with statements like "do people still shit on the streets?" "India is the rape capital of the world" "India should feed its people first", etc. etc.

Hence you can't really blame Indians for getting excited about a positive news story.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29502062

[Glawen]

Indians are also insensitive to critics and get outraged very quickly.

I'm french and if I read any comments section of any english article about France, I'll find tons of negative comments like "cheese eating surrender monkey", "their tanks have 1 forward and 7 reverse gear" and so on. And I only speak about the comments section, the worse are article from Murdoch's empire which plainly insult us, generating tons of money along the way because it sells well.

This type of comments is also found on indian based website, and that is super strange because India and France have not been involved together, we do not share a common history which would allow the introduction of jokes making fun of one another.

[KingOfCoders]

Thanks for the comment, in no way is this meant prejudiced and derogatory, I have worked with many excellent Indian colleagues.