If you’re even somewhat famous on the internet, be sure to not look at internet comments.
Just ask anybody who plays video games with some kind of an online community. You’ll see the worst kinds of insults (sometimes bordering on hilarity) that 13-year-olds can muster towards complete strangers on the internet.
Ms Charlotte Chia, our Singapore representative for the 59th Miss International pageant, certainly knows this though. She doesn’t care about online comments.
She was previously called “ugly”, and if you look at the above picture you might go “what”? But check out our previous article for that.
For we have the next stage of the internet trollings to report.
Viral Video Of Miss S’pore “Drinking” Water
The video, a reupload of a Miss Philippines’ Instagram story by Rommel Dave Mallari on 2 Nov 2019, has actually been removed already (and you’ll know the reason why later).
Before being removed, the video was watched more than 1.2 million times with close to 40k shares.
It’s shared with the caption “Miss International Singapore, why did you drink it? 😂 You must be surprised Miss Philippines is using it to wash (her hands) 😂”
In the 16-second video, you can see Miss Chia and Miss Patch Magtanong, the Philippines representative, at the purification fountain of Yutoku Jinja.
Miss Chia can be seen bringing water to her mouth, while Miss Patch is listening to an unshown speaker and following instructions for cleansing.
In the video, water can be seen dripping behind Ms Chia’s hand covering her mouth.
As Miss Patch listens, Ms Chia seems to be watching the interaction and nodding in agreement. Ms Chia also looked like she said something, but it wasn’t clear in the audio.
The video is cut off in what seemed like a longer ritual.
Netizens Went Ham In The Comments
If there’s anything the internet, a supposed wealth of information, is used for, it is definitely not research.
Because netizens started questioning the actions of Miss S’pore.
“ms. singapore what are you doing 🤭🤣🤣“
“You drank it cause you thought it’s holy water when it’s actually water for your hands 😆😆😆”
One started the philosophical debate on beauty and brains.
But Actually… These Netizens Were Wrong
Like, very wrong to the point they exposed their own ignorance to a counter-argument. With facts.
One commenter pointed out that what Ms Chia did was actually right, just that it’s a later part of the ritual.
And if you actually check Yutoku Inari’s website, you’ll find the etiquette for the Temizuya (the water basin at the shrine):
This is the place for purifying your mind and body by rinsing your hands and mouth before worshipping. The process of cleansing your body is called “taking the temizu”.
The proper etiquette is:
- First, use your right hand to hold and draw water to rinse your left hand.
- Then, switch the ladle to your left and rinse your right hand.
- Next, put the ladle back to your right hand, and place water into the palms of your left hand for rinsing your mouth.
- After rinsing your mouth, rinse your left hand once again. Then, put the ladle back to its original place, face down.
Here’s a video by another shrine and then yet another one in English.
So, basically, that was the biggest self-own by the Facebook commenters.
In my experience of being someone typing garbage on the internet, here’s how to properly bash Ms Chia:
Oi, why you so kaypoh never wash your left hand again after rinsing your mouth?
Just kidding. Cultural experiences like this, of all things, shouldn’t be about bashing other people. If anything, it’s about learning other cultures and trying to understand their positions better.
Which means that for the netizens who didn’t do their research, this was a double self-own where they missed the entire point of the visit to the shrine.
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