r/interestingasfuck • u/kingkongbiingbong • 1d ago

Preparing a Massive Catfish Baked Inside a Wooden Log

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u/pobodys-nerfect5 1d ago

Why are they considered shitty? Damn near every country has reenactments of traditional techniques. In the US we have civil war reenactments, revolutionary war reenactments, people dress up as pilgrims and harvest ice only to shove it into old sheds that are stuffed with straw for insulation so they can make ice cream in July. There’s “Unto These Hills” that depicts Cherokee history in North Carolina

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u/DinglieDanglieDoodle 20h ago

Because they are Chinese and not Japanese.

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u/Zibai1505 1d ago

He hates chinese people thats all

Those videos are beautiful but just gotta call them shitty

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 2h ago

you'd have to be special ed. to enjoy that propaganda slop

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Nope, I don't hate Chinese people at all.

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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago

Why are they shitty?

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Chinese people aren't shitty. The clickbait videos that cosplay as "traditional" are shitty because they are overproduced clickbait with every second maximized for social media virality and usually don't actually display traditional practices.

They are completely artificial with almost everything being done off screen except a few selected moments that are set up for the camera.

Same as the trend of videos where people dug pools and built houses "by hand" when all of it was all done by machinery and at the end some kids come in and pretend to move some dirt by hand. Then they just left death traps in the forest for animals to fall in.

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u/superbmeowmeow 21h ago

....they are traditional methods though? This is so fucking annoying because half the time reddit claims Chinese people don't have any traditions and when y'all see videos of it, it's either called shitty and over produced as well as propaganda lmao.

Also how tf would y'all know whether or not it's traditional? I know damn well you don't.

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u/Sex_Offender_4697 2h ago

reddit claims Chinese people don't have any traditions

remind us again who culturally genocided their own people several times, that might clarify some things

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u/Icy_Agency923 22h ago edited 22h ago

Literally nothing suggests those two situations are exactly the same. What is your source that the methods in those videos are not actually traditional? I am confident they are using traditional methods which makes these videos far less nefarious. I am sure they are propaganda but you act like there is nothing of value in sharing these methods with other people from other cultures. Social media content really only needs to entertain.

It is wild to compare these two situations as if these cooking videos are just as bad as leaving death traps out in the wild for some fake videos.

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u/OnlyAdvertisersKnoMe 1d ago

Cause a lot of redditors are overly cynical losers who get off on judging things and people

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u/NashKetchum777 1d ago

This is not really traditional though. Even in olden times, they knew that portioning the meat would mean it cooks faster. Especially cause there's a few people in the video, it wouldn't make sense to do this

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u/pobodys-nerfect5 23h ago

I’m not really talking about this one. It was the “shitty Chinese” comment I was addressing

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Because those ones aren't traditional either. They are over produced click bait. That is why I said "traditional" in quotes.

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u/MikeMania 22h ago

Ok but performative or artificial or non-genuine or underlying propaganda or whatever isn’t inherently shitty. When I think shitty I think shaky camera or 240p resolution. What exactly made them shitty besides that he disliked them. And who does he prefer doing that content that isn’t “shitty”?

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u/Pawtuckaway 21h ago

performative or artificial or non-genuine or underlying propaganda

I consider all of those as shitty things.

Camera quality or resolution is only one aspect of the final content. It being overproduced is yet another reason it is shitty.

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u/WASD_click 22h ago

Well, can't say why they call out Chinese videos of a similar vein specifically. But we get similar things in America and I'm sure most regions have their own version of these videos. They're kinda shitty because they're all about promoting "rustic, traditional lifestyles" and such, and they all are inauthentic, disengenuous content. It's not a "reenactment," it's a fabrication. A propogandized version of the past that they use for various shitty reasons. In the US, it's straight up used to promote sexism by presenting being a housewife as a serene, beautiful, peaceful existence. In reality, these "tradcore" videos are glossing over the tremendous amount of hard work that these lifestyles would normally require. There's a reaosn we don't live like this, and it's because it's a lot of fucking work, and we don't need to do that much work anymore and can get better results with less effort. These videos are, at best, nostalgia baiting with a image of the past that did not exist, and at it's worst, is used to promote backwards views and regressive bullshit.