Unless you’ve been living in a cave, or that you’ve not paid your bills and therefore have your Internet cut off, you’d know Nas Daily, the super likeable Facebook vlogger who has been screaming his way into online fame.
Recently, he was in Singapore and did so many videos about our sunny island, I’m sure people finally know that Singapore isn’t in China.
One of them is a long video (his usual videos are one minute) that talks about how good Singapore is. Even our PM cameoed in the video.
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Guess you’d know how much of an influence he has, compared to self-proclaimed Singapore influencers who only do duck faces and call them content creation #justsaying
Nas Daily, created and hosted by the 26-year-old Nuseir Yassin, often focus on the good side of things: but sometimes, people don’t see it that way due to the subject matter.
Take, for example, this recent video about eating dogs in China: while his message is about double standards, the subject matter of dog eating is no doubt going to cause some outcry.
In other words, he’s trying to show this:
Well, kind of.
Yassin’s defence, as usual, is elegant AF:
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But this latest video, Day 898, might have hit more nerves than usual.
Travelling to China After Singapore
Lest you’re not aware, after a long trip in Singapore, Yassin went to China and continued his journey.
But that itself is a challenge.
Firstly, he would often crowd-source resources from fans in a country he’s in, from getting information about the country for ideas to featuring some of his fans.
But here’s the thing: there’s no Facebook in China. In other words, the number of fans he has in the country is very limited.
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And of course, secondly, the language barrier, since he doesn’t speak Mandarin, and not everyone in China speaks English.
In an interview with South China Morning Post, he admitted that it “scared” him.
However, things turned out well, with the vlogger coming out with not one, not two but twelve videos there.
His next stop?
Hong Kong.
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And his first idea in Hong Kong?
打小人.
打小人 Video
So, the premise of the video is simple: Yassin found out about 打小人 (that’s the term Singaporeans and Malaysians know by). Basically, it’s “Villain Hitting” or “Petty Person Beating”, primarily associated with Cantonese whereby one curses one’s enemies using magic.
TIME magazine describe it as a “best way to get it off your chest”, and as of 2009, it cost USD$6 (about SGD$7.80) per beating session, though Yassin mentioned it’s USD$5.
Now, here’s the thing: Yassin look at it as a way to get back to someone without having to resort to violent, or anything criminal. In his description, he wrote, “If this isn’t the best way to seek revenge, I don’t know what is.”
(Truth to be told, I thought he was going to do some inspirational video about “being a happier person is the best revenge” thingy.)
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Here’s the video:
Not sure about you, but once I’ve watched it, I know a can of worms has been opened.
Here’re some comments that you’d have expected:
Simply put, people aren’t happy that he’s telling people to “curse others”. And that black magic isn’t a “play play” thingy.
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It also turns out that there are different versions of 打小人 in other cultures.
The video has since garnered 2.6K Shares and 788K views.
Petty Person Beating is even in Hong Kong Tourism Board Website
Despite everything, Petty Person Beating is actually listed in Hong Kong Tourism Board website, Discover Hong Kong, as a living culture. In fact, there’s even a guide on how to reach the place whereby “professional beaters” gather.
But in any case, if anything, at least we got the comment of the year award here:
Well, in Singapore, too #justsaying
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