(UPDATE AUGUST 16, 2015: It is best to start the series with SCANDAL!!! PART 2 because we started laying out the documentary evidence there, we have a little introduction there too to orient you what the scandals are all about. Only then is it advised to read Part 1 in order to get a clearer picture of the whole context of the scandals. I wrote Part 1 when I was still beginning to collate the evidence, and I was still trying to piece the whole picture. This series traces the misadventures of Pinoy teen films from Latin America to the Russian Post-Soviet space, where they became the darlings of the pirate , & soon of the legit world (with the hit run of "Forevermore" in Kazakhstan). We mark with documentary evidence our investigatory passage. )
I documented a very sinister act against the hit Pinoy teen films which just recently captivated the Asiatic film fanatic communities throughout the world. This is the story how they were sabotaged.
If you have read it before, I suggest read it again, including the comments. I'm learning a lot from the lively & intelligent discussion & I'm editing and improving the original almost by the day as a result.
UPDATE: So, who do I think was responsible?
(NOTE: I originally published this post on March 4, 2015 but it will remain our top post for a while)
The Asian film fanatic scene can be amusing. We know it is mostly an operation to promote a certain "THE Asian" phenotype- the Northern Mongoloid type, more specifically- and the distribution of free Asian movies online has been used to entice unsuspecting audience for more than a decade for that obvious main purpose. The Philippines, with one of the biggest entertainment industries in the world, was only included a few years ago, albeit irregularly & far-in-between (others have 400 movies while the Philippines have little more than ten in some sites). Definitely, just to present an Asian facet to pretend the appearance of inclusion but recent developments confirmed they merely wanted it to be peripheral and not allowed to steal the limelight. And there lies the rub, Pinoy teen flicks became very hot among the young demographic group, the lifeblood and main target of these sites. Something happened that confirmed a sinister hand won't allow the non-Mongoloid Pinoy to shine. Very racist but it's the state of things (though thankfully, the racist can't claim he's more beautiful or he'll be laughed at at his face).
After more than a decade of promotions, the Northern Mongoloid look should have been popular by now, but it seems, it hasn't caught on yet: nobody still aspires to undergo Reverse Blepharoplasty (Voluntary Eye Slits), but the opposite, Blepharoplasty (eyefold surgery), has become big business indeed instead. Meanwhile, only a few know Pinoys look a lot like everybody else in the world, a true melting pot.
Then "Diary ng Panget" was released last year, and suddenly it became very hot among Asian film fanatics from Eastern Europe to Latin America. Only a few independent blogs promoted it at first but the word quickly spread among the communities. It became so viral the fanatics themselves forced the issue ... and it became obvious, the Pinoy was meant to be just a symbolic representation, not the inadvertent hit than can steal the limelight.
We can say now that in their eyes, a hit Pinoy film can become dangerous: here's a film with beautiful non-Mongoloid Asian actors like James Reid and Andre Paras who immediately captured the interest of the mostly girl audience and that can destroy everything in their delusional pretensions.
Well, things are really revving up. Interesting music videos are coming out from the old reliable bands. The funny thing is more and more beautiful people are appearing in the music videos, the music videos may become more interesting than the local movies. Not complaining though, that only means we have a deep bench of beautiful people and we should celebrate them.
