4.2M views · Apr 22, 2017 · 20:25 · 1 HN recommender · 5 mentions · discussed 2022–2026
Two Australian YouTubers travel to North Korea and get a haircut while examining how Western media sensationalizes stories about the country.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as a satirical counterpoint to Western news claims about North Korea, including debunking the compulsory haircut myth.
“Here's an interesting satire about this”HN comment, 2023
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Stuff made here I mada a 100MPH flying hoop - link Boy Boy "We went to North Korea to get a haircut" this video "Ukraine: The avoidable war" link Also one of the people behind boy boy: I did a thing - link
“Regarding the haircut thing: that's actually a myth”
Debunks the North Korea haircut myth
Regarding the haircut thing: that's actually a myth: this video Unfortunately it's myths like this that are shown as evidence of the /entire/ narrative around NK being false, by those who treat NK as a socialist paradise. There is a lot of poor journalism on the topic (see: myth that NK claimed to fire a rocket into the sun, myth that NK claimed to have found a unicorn, claims that KJU doesn't poop, etc) and as such it's easy to simply say that it's all made up. Certainly not justifying those arguments at all; this just shows how easy it is for the less-critical on any side of an issue to believe whatever they want because of a few counterexamples.
“Here's an interesting satire about this”
Satire about western news claims about North Korea
Here's a thought, maybe all those news are "fake news"? The original article talks about China misinformation in Taiwan. Maybe western society is running the same thing to China. Like like they did for North Korea. Remember the "people can only get certain types of haircuts in North Korea"? Fake news, and I believed it at the time. So now I'm always sceptical on what I read from western news talking about Asian countries. Here's an interesting satire about this this video
“Famously, the "Boy Boy" YouTube channel guys went and got a haircut.”
Example of visitors going to North Korea
DPRK is obviously maligned by U.S. propaganda, but I know several people who've gone and loved it. Famously, the "Boy Boy" YouTube channel guys went and got a haircut. this video
Did you hear about the Australian kids that were brutally executed on camera for getting the wrong haircut [1]? HN is not the place for uncurious regurgitations of dehumanizing propaganda. [1] this video
