Английская Википедия:Asian Boss

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Шаблон:Infobox YouTube personality Asian Boss is a YouTube channel, founded in 2013, which discusses various issues related to Asia.[1]

History

Asian Boss was founded in 2013 by Stephen Park, a former corporate lawyer, and Kei Ibaraki, a former architect, after they witnessed the "growing divide" in society. Neither of them had video editing experience at the time and they studied by watching tutorials on YouTube.

According to Park, many of the videos were demonetized by YouTube for being politically sensitive, and they relied on investors to fund their operations.[2]

In a 2019 interview, Ibaraki noted that since there was significant bias in the media on certain topics, the channel would stay as neutral as possible to allow the subjects to speak freely, and would go to great lengths to find respondents with opposing opinions.[1] The channel is targeted to an English-speaking global audience interested in Asia, and 30 percent of its views came from the United States.[1]

In 2019, the channel released a video interviewing the people of Beijing on whether actor Simu Liu was "too ugly" to portray superhero Shang-Chi in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which would be released in 2021. Liu responded to the video by calling it a "very teachable moment" about facing rejection and doubt of others, and suggested that the channel should tackle topics with "more journalistic and creative integrity" in the future. The video has since been removed from YouTube.[3][4]

In 2020, The Japan Times named Asian Boss as an example of overseas-based YouTube channels which attempt to gain real insight into the lives and opinions of Japanese people.[5]

In January 2021, Park revealed in a video that the channel was close to shutting down, as many of their investors have gone out of business, and announced the channel's GoFundMe page,[6][2] which has a funding goal of $700,000. As of February 4, 2021 more than $745,000 in donations has been received.[2][7]

In 2022, Taiwan News reported on accusations that Asian Boss attempted to pre-screen street interviewees in Ximending, Taipei for Kuomintang viewpoints after obtaining enough interviews from the perspective of the Democratic Progressive Party.[8]

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