Scoopwhoop 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.
The 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.
I 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.
This 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.
A 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.
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.