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This is extremely ironic that I’m even making this post, because I wasn’t aware of any of this less than 24 hours ago. I had just made a post addressing how certain people in the diaspora can give the wider community a bad reputation through social media, which obviously raised some concerns.

I don’t know if we’re literally cursed right now, but almost immediately after making that post, another situation came up involving someone creating unnecessary drama and this one was arguably worse than the examples I mentioned last night. Basically, there was an issue in the UK involving an Indian individual who made racist comments towards Black people. The entire situation was originally between South Asian/Desi and Black individuals and had absolutely nothing to do with Afghans.

However, I then came across an Afghan individual, shown in the attachment under the username Wizardboyab, who foolishly decided to involve himself in the situation even though it had ZERO connection to the Afghan diaspora in the first place. Because of his actions, Afghans are now being dragged into the backlash and receiving negative attention online over something that originally had nothing to do with them. This is exactly what I mean by bad representation in media. One person chasing clout and unnecessarily inserting himself into racial drama can end up making an entire community look bad. Imagine involving yourself in a controversy that had nothing to do with your community, only for your actions to then contribute to Afghans being portrayed as racist or problematic.

Now this might be like the 5th or 6th time I’ve ranted about something like this, but regardless, I genuinely feel like it needs to be pointed out because it’s getting ridiculous.
Before, I made a complaint about certain individuals within our diaspora giving Afghans a poor image through the content they make. One example was the “Ahwijizi Boys Podcast” — or however exactly it’s spelt — a group of cringeworthy guys who make absurd content about Afghanistan and its people while also speaking in a derogatory way in some cases. It’s embarrassing, and it does absolutely nothing positive for our image.

But somehow there are even more weird individuals online who seem determined to make our diaspora look as bad as possible. For example, I came across an account that seems to be owned by an Afghan guy, possibly living in Germany or Denmark. He usually goes around asking people what group of people they dislike, and somehow around 95% of the people answering him say “Afghans.” The ironic part is that the guy running the account is Afghan himself.
Now I understand some people might see this as a “harmless joke” or say it’s not that serious, but in my opinion it just shows a complete lack of self-respect. Yes, obviously there are people out there who dislike Afghans. We already know that. But is it really necessary to keep uploading it and getting clout by putting your own community down? For what? A couple thousand stupid likes that mean absolutely nothing?
At some point it stops being “just a joke” and starts looking pathetic. You’re basically feeding people more content to mock your own community with just so you can get a few views and likes. I genuinely don’t understand what there is to be proud of about that.
I’m not against Afghans using social media or making content at all. What annoys me is that whenever our diaspora gets represented online, somehow we constantly end up being shown as the absolute lowest of the low, or we get slandered, mocked and turned into a joke. And half the time, somebody from within our own community is helping create that image themselves.

And don’t even get me started on the whole Alex Sunny situation. That girl alone, who is Jordanian btw, decided to upload her entire trip to Afghanistan just to meet her AI-generated husband or whatever, and that already caused enough hatred, mockery and embarrassing attention towards Afghans online.
As if our diaspora and community aren’t already dealing with enough, I genuinely think it’s extremely UNNECESSARY for people to keep adding more crap onto our plate. I’ve already mentioned before that there are some complete weirdos using social media in a way that dehumanises our image and makes us look like complete clowns.
What I really don’t understand is why, whenever we finally get some sort of media representation, somehow, someway, somebody within our own community finds a way to completely F it up. It’s like we can’t just have normal representation without somebody turning it into some embarrassing circus for clout. Also, not to mention that guy JALAL who resides in the UK. Some of the stuff he’s done online has only made the diaspora over there look worse than it already gets portrayed. I’m not here to judge his sexuality, identity, or tell him how he should live his life, that’s his business. My issue is with some of his ridiculous behaviour online and the fact that, once again, it somehow gets brushed onto the rest of us.

Instead of showing normal Afghans, normal families, normal people and the positive sides of our community, we constantly end up being represented through the most ridiculous, cringeworthy and embarrassing content possible. Then people act surprised when others develop a completely warped image of Afghans.
Some of you guys might disagree with me, and that’s fine. This is just my opinion. But I think people seriously need to start thinking about the kind of image they’re putting out there before embarrassing an entire community for a couple thousand likes. Not everyone here will agree with me, but each to their own.

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Recently, there has been a buzzing case all over social media involving a user (https://www.tiktok.com/@alexsunnyyy) who has sparked major controversy because she claims she plans on moving to Afghanistan after meeting her "so-called" future husband (which is extremely dubious). I'm not exactly sure what the full story is, but from what I've gathered, they may have met somewhere in Jordan before he moved back to Afghanistan.

Regardless, her videos initially seemed like ragebait to most people, but after looking into it further, it genuinely appears that she is planning to move countries because of a guy she only knew for around 12 days several years ago. That is an incredibly stupid decision, and I don't think any sane person would do something like that.

Because of this situation, many people across social media have been reacting to what has become a very bizarre and controversial case. Has anyone else come across this on their FYP? If so, what are your thoughts on this unusual situation?