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ikram — July 1, 2007 / 3:12 am
I have just read an article written by Arman Ahmad from Penang Watch, that tells about how YouTube became popular in Malaysia (YouTube is the fifth most popular website there, according to alexa.com).
Ahmad said, YouTube first began to gain prominence during the nude squat incident in which a woman was forced to do nude squats while in police custody. When people read about the nude squat video in the newspapers, they wanted to see and evaluate its authenticity for themselves. Many of them found it on YouTube.
Most recently, when a local actress with “Pan Asian looks” was filmed in a passionate kissing scene, many turned to YouTube to find out who she was as the local papers had withheld her identity. One version of the video received 14,000 hits while there were at least half a dozen similar posts with different search tags.
In Malaysia apparently people come to YouTube to dig more information about what they read or see in local papers/television. They “seek for the truth” in YouTube.
Because, as a Limkokwing University student Alia Azlam said it, “They don’t censor stuff. It shows the reality”.
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