S’pore Influencer Slammed After Ranting About People Who Don’t Major in Science

Last Updated on 2023-05-05 , 10:06 pm

Influencers have been finding themselves on our news feed more than usual lately—but sometimes for the wrong reasons.

The latest addition to the SG influencer lore is 24-year-old Koh Boon Ki’s STEM rant. Here’s everything you need to know.

Influencer Slammed After Ranting About “Nun”-Science Majors

24-year-old Koh Boon Ki, also known as @doujiang.youtiao on TikTok, found herself in Singaporean netizens’ crosshairs after she posted a rant about non-science majors. Or, as she said, “nun”-science majors.

I mean you can’t even spell “studied” correctly and you pronounce non-science as “NUN” science so… What now? pic.twitter.com/BwPKmGPhwj

— west coast park (@woraidatpic) April 26, 2023

The two-minute TikTok shows the 24-year-old applying makeup as she rants about Singaporeans who did not study science.

She starts off the video by asking this: “People who studied science in like secondary school, JC (junior college), uni[versity], and then they graduated and met non-science students, like how are your conversations going?”

We don’t know what’s the answer to that, but we’re glad she paid attention in English classes in school—starting with a hook to grab attention and whatnot. But then again, netizens did point out that she misspelt “studied” and mispronounced “non-science” in the TikTok, so…

The 24-year-old then elaborated that her conversations with non-science students about “body and health issues” are usually strange.

What sort of “body and health issues”, you might ask?

She raised an anecdotal example where she conversed with a non-science major and realised that her non-science friend did not know about constipation.

The influencer shared that the usual response she gets from non-science students upon sharing presumably a fact related to science, body or health with them is: “Wow! How do you know this?”.

But to the influencer, such facts should be common knowledge, or in her words: “But for me, it’s like, how do you not know this?”

“This is your body. How can you, like, live your life not knowing how your body works? Are you okay with that? I am not okay with that,” she added.

Influencer’s Education Primarily Revolved Around the Sciences

Boon Ki shares that these apparently jaw-dropping conversations are usually conversations she has with non-science students.

In contrast, Boon Ki studied healthcare, and her education primarily revolved around the sciences. As such, most of the influencer’s friends are science majors who presumably don’t say these “very, very strange” things.

Some of us don’t spend all our time thinking about our bowels, I guess.

Out with history, philosophy or any of the arts—it’s time to learn about the digestive system again. Better yet, let’s grow some mould on wholemeal bread or make a homemade magnet with a paper clip while we’re at it.

The influencer also shared that when she told her STEM major friend about the above constipation conversation, her friend agreed that it’s a “common experience” for science majors to have these supposedly jaw-dropping conversations with non-science majors.

Is Biology More Relevant Than Chemistry?

After she finished her rant about non-science majors, Boon Ki moved on to rant about Chemistry being a compulsory science subject in school.

In her view, Biology should be a compulsory subject, yet it is considered “the atas subject in school that people cannot take unless they get very, very good grades”.

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She explained that Chemistry knowledge is hardly relevant in her day-to-day life. Yet, she frequently finds herself applying Biology content in her daily life.

Chey… so the whole point of that rant was to flex that she managed to study a supposedly “atas” subject lah…

Boon Ki then said, “It just puzzles me how people go around not knowing any bio[logy] knowledge”.

Oh… I understand that puzzling feeling. The same way it puzzles many of us why people go online and say things without thinking first.

Puzzling indeed, now that the 24-year-old influencer has since taken down the original rant from her TikTok account.

“I know that I can be kind of stuck up sometimes.”

After the original TikTok was taken down, Boon Ki released another TikTok addressing the controversy she attracted.

I don’t like her or her content (blocked her long ago) but I’m genuinely impressed with how she just admitted to her issue with no excuses in-between whatsoever pic.twitter.com/i6R0UD5PKd

— Zhong Ying (@whyzeewhy) April 27, 2023

In the video, she addressed the elephant in the room head-on. She shared that she removed her earlier TikTok video because people called her out for being “stuck up”.

She thanked netizens for calling her out, claiming that she “can be kind of stuck up sometimes” while acknowledging that she didn’t “sound very nice” in her earlier TikTok.

We wonder what will be her reason for removing this video as well.

Regardless, the 24-year-old shared her reflections about how she was in her own bubble and how she felt everyone was in their bubbles as well.

“And sometimes, we realise that people’s bubbles are different from our own bubbles,” she added.

Aren’t we glad she’s a STEM major and not a philosophy major?

The influencer wrapped up this TikTok video by sharing how this saga has been “a very humbling experience” and that she “deserved it”.

If you were looking for a good old notes app apology here, we’re sorry to disappoint you. There doesn’t seem to be one.

On Thin Ice Again: Not Boon Ki’s First Controversy

If you found the 24-year-old familiar, it’s probably because you’ve seen her embroiled in a previous controversy. You might remember her as the girl who wanted to start a telegram group for girls to discuss red flags on dating apps.

In the TikTok posted in October 2021, Boon Ki suggested girls in Singapore start a telegram group to talk about the men they meet from dating apps because she was done with “finding out the red flags” on her own.

Those who joined the telegram group eventually created a Google sheet named “Dating Guide SG”, which, let’s just say, is more comprehensive than you want it to be. Unless you want your name and social media profile circulating everywhere, you better be nice if you’re on a dating app.

In her apology video posted a few days later, even Boon Ki admitted that the Google sheet was “very incriminating”.

As you would expect, this incident also put Boon Ki in the crosshairs of the internet. However, the influencer claims that she did not create the Google sheet and could not access it.

She apologised for her actions and shared that she had learned her lesson.

The Chronicles of… SG Influencers

Singapore’s influencers have been everywhere on the news the past month, but sometimes not for the reasons you’d expect.

Aside from Boon Ki, we’ve also seen Brooke Lim, better known as “sugaresque”, grilled everywhere on social media for plagiarism.

If you’ve yet to hear of the Brooke Lim saga, fret not. Goody Feed’s got your back. Earlier this month, the English tutor and TikTok influencer Brooke Lim admitted to plagiarising an essay about eating disorders.

This came after an anonymous account shared a document compiling compelling evidence proving that the 19-year-old had plagiarised the essay.

You can watch this video to find out more about the whole sugaresque saga: