[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.

[yunohn]

Yes, well that’s your opinion. Maybe justify/source it if you want to make sweeping generalisations of countries?

[ngc248]

What does this even mean?

[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.

[1024core]

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

Can you blame them? It's been barely 74 years since they got independence, and yet they have managed to achieve so much: satellite launches, mission to moon, Mars, stable democracy, well-run elections, booming tech sector, nukes, etc. And they still have to deal with Western media portraying them as a shitty country.

[sn41]

btw, Indians and French do share a common history. It is slender, but it's there.

1. Joseph Dupleix - during his time, it was a tossup whether India would end up as a French or a British colony.

2. Napoleon was on close terms wiith Mysore and Tipu. [2] I recall that Tipu's rocketeers acted as consultants to Napoleon.

3. Claude Martin is a famous Frenchman who established famous schools (La Martiniere) in Calcutta, Lucknow and Lyon.

4. FWIW: a small trivia: M. Night Shyamalan's family hails from former French controlled territory in India- Mahé [4]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fran%C3%A7ois_Dupleix

[2.] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Indian_Alliances

[3]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Martin

[4]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Night_Shyamalan

[4]

[fakedang]

Well France was one of the traditional colonizers and, although more cooperative historically with India, was often the opponent of the sides supported by India diplomatically (Vietnam, Africa, etc).

Also France does not have a history of traditionally winning in India (Carnatic Wars). That, coupled with the base level knowledge of WW2 that Indians are taught at school, means that Indians often take the stereotypical view online.

[yunohn]

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

Honestly, I’ve seen people being strongly nationalist both offline and online, in the USA and Europe just as much.

I don’t there’s much connection to ethnicity, rather people are just bad at taking criticism in general.

[KingOfCoders]

I love the French!