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People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app

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Re: People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app

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Post by cpncrunch »

derefr wrote: post #36
cpncrunch wrote: post #5

I find it somewhat amusing that anyone would even consider snapchat being for "rich people". I've never used it myself, but I get the impression it is just a kids app, and not a particularly interesting one at that. Perhaps they make their money from boring, bratty rich kids.

Not so much "rich people" as "people in countries with a high wealth baseline , where even kids with no jobs have smartphones and data plans for no useful reason."

Yes, "rich" compared to India, although there is increasing wealth in India, and my SaaS product now has quite a lot of income from India right now. (Admittedly it is B2B rather than B2C, and targets online tutoring which is a very large market in India).

Re: People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app

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Post by chillacy »

vinay427 wrote: post #24
chillacy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't really see why that's any funnier than any of the myriad of things we do here in our own countries that aren't practiced elsewhere.

It's funnier because of hypocrisy, partly a result of cultural norms. For example, a strange accent (to an American or many other English speakers) could be perceived as "funny" unless conditioned otherwise, even if this has nothing to do with a person's status or a country's level of development.

I didn't say it wouldn't be funny, just hinted that people were laughing at the OP on the other side of the world too :)

For instance, this episode of Last Week Tonight on the french elections is just full of "ho ho the french eat snails and like pastries" jokes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZir1L7fSY

I'm sure there's the equivalent jokes for americans.

Re: People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app

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Post by sctb »

anodin3 wrote: post #7

India is mocked because it's funny. The pics showing it as the third world country it is, the broken English, the poo in the loo thing, the accent, the cows, the bizarre nationalism akin to that of the movie Borat, the toddlers with malformations, the scam calls from Microsoft...

We've banned this account and detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14135290.

Re: People in India are angry at Snapchat but they are boycotting a wrong app

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Post by sctb »

seppin wrote: post #31
mynegation wrote: post #15

Snapchat is for people who are able to figure out its god-awful UX. And most of them are too young to have their own money. So it is either implausible or downright ironic.

grandpa spotted

Not here, please.

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