Unknown Twitter User Criticised JianHao Tan’s Videos & the YouTuber Responded, Leading to a War of Words Online

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Victor Fong
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Chances are, you already know who JianHao Tan is. In your mind, he is either that guy who makes “9 types of _____” videos that are super cringy, or he’s that guy who makes relatable funny videos.

Guy’s so famous that in a tweet that mentioned no one, everybody knew who the Tweet was talking about:

People complaining about JianHao Tan’s content isn’t a new thing. Just go on any platforms that Singaporeans browse, search for “Jianhao” and watch the rage go.

This trail of hate fuel? Even if the tweet managed to get more attention, this is just a normal day in Jianhao-hating land.

Image: Twitter

Which meant that Jianhao Tan could have just spent his Sunday as normal, using money to wipe away his tears over the thousands of hate comments generated every day.

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But…

Jianhao Tan Responded

And going into his Twitter replies it would appear that JianHao Tan didn’t just reply once.

Wow. Wait till he goes to Facebook, whereby everyone’s always angry.

One Twitter user had to remind Jianhao of the amount of traction the tweets managed to gain.

Oof.

The last time Jianhao responded to a roast, he went on his IG stories. This time, he responded on the tweet and posted on IG stories.

Image: Instagram

Meme page Kiasu Memes For Singaporean Teens also posted the controversy, sharing IG stories from another user.

Image: Facebook (Kiasu Memes For Singaporean Teens)

For those that don’t know what happened about the movie: Jianhao launched a crowdfunding campaign to finance their movie, which takes S$500K to make. More hate fuel came as people saw it as trying to take money from kids. Then out of the blue, he decided to cancel the crowdfunding and wanted to pay for the movie himself.

Some say his official reason “that fans shouldn’t pay for it” is true. Others say cause the crowdfunding didn’t get enough money. Who knows?

The Other Side

There are people who showed support for Jianhao too:

But what can we really learn about Jianhao from this debacle aside from popcorn viewing?

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Well, not much. But there is one source if you really want to dig more into the psyche of Jianhao and why and how he creates the videos: Rice Media‘s article on the man, “JianHao Tan, The Greatest Showman in Singapore“.

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So here’s a defence Jianhao made in that article about his listicle videos:

“If you watch all my videos, [you’ll realise] they’re not listicles. They’re short films but presented in a listicle form simply because this is YouTube.”

Initially not convinced by those words, the Rice Media writer went ahead to watch several of his videos… and actually found them to be quite engaging.

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Snippets from the article:

“It’s true: after devoting a considerable amount of time to the antics of class T1T5, I realised his videos have a recurring cast of characters, all of whom have fairly complex relationships with one another.”

“Okay. Most of us wouldn’t consider them short films. But definitely sitcoms, produced for the YouTube era. “

“While I don’t belong to the demographic towards which his videos are pitched, in the process of watching his videos, I stopped noticing the enumerating of whatever type of student the video purports to list and was—dare I say it—absorbed by the storyline.“

Don’t really want to spoil the rest of the Rice Media article for you, so click and read.

And lest you didn’t know, JianHao Tan didn’t just do T1T5. In fact, he has many other channels with meaningful or informative content – in one of his recent videos, he even interviewed a doctor to educate us about COVID-19:

And it’s indeed very informative.

Here’s a simplified summary of the South Korea martial law that even a 5-year-old would understand:

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