American YouTuber Tyler Oliveira recently visited India and participated in the country’s “Poop-throwing festival”.
In a teaser clip shared on X, captioned "Inside India’s Poop-Throwing Festival”, Oliveira can be seen wearing a hazmat suit and goggles, standing on cow-dung surrounded by men steered in filth.
The Gorehabba Festival is part of a post-diwali Hindu tradition in which people hurl cow-dung at each other, according to the New York Post.
The video has since gone viral, amassing over 5 million views, with many Indians calling the youtuber as “racist.”
He also posted a picture of himself post-festival and wrote, “Happy Diwali! Yes. I went to India’s poop throwing festival. It was the shittiest experience of my life. I will never go back. Please pray that I survive.”
In a separate post on X, the renowned YouTuber with over 8 million subscribers wrote, “It isn’t racist to film a poop-throwing festival.”
His posts have erupted a storm on the internet with users expressing divided opinions. One Indian X user wrote, “Why do you have to come to India and then record a video of a cow dung festival by going in the middle of the event and then cry like a loser!”
Another user wrote, “India’s soft image is done and dusted. So, many years of Bollywood are undone by random streetfood and poop.”
Some Indian users even claimed that Pakistan funded Tyler’s trip to promote negative content about India. In response, Oliveira replied to one such tweet with a poop emoji, writing, ‘Indians think Pakistanis funded my trip to the poop festival (crying emoji).’
The youtuber has not yet revealed the full version of the video.