SCANDAL!!!! PART 4: The Pinoy Teen Idols In Russia & the Post-Soviet Space... Now, We Can Confirm The Sabotage Is Ongoing Here, Though In A Different Form... And We Now Know Who Is the Culprit

UPDATE (July 15, 2015): As early as February 2015, I've noted that fan clubs allegedly for Pinoy artists were established in the Russian VKontakte or VK. But I immediately discovered they inserted propaganda for South Koreans every now & then: they would invent false polls where out of the twenty Top  Hits in the Philippines, all were allegedly South Koreans  except for two who were given to Pinoys (probably, they delusionally thought theirs were the American hits dominating our airwaves). Or they presented alleged polls in Philippine journals where Filipinos were so awed by certain South Korean beauties (which we didn't even know existed) that they dominated our beauty polls (Their delusional preoccupation with their presumed "Beauty" figures prominently in the propaganda, both legal & dirty kinds). When Pinoys started becoming active in the VK pages by March, that trick lay low but it returned with a full blast this July. They had to:  Pinoys are hitting it big in that area, especially with the passage of the hit teleserye "Forevermore" which has obliterated whatever dividends "Boys Over Flowers had over there, considering the Kazakhs form the largest market of Asiatic film-lovers in Central Asia & the Russian Far East (I'll detail this in a forthcoming article). I guess this sabotage which we first noted in Latin America is a continuing operation, especially now that events have so evolved that the Pinoys seemed now to be considered as a threat. The South Korean propaganda revolves around their delusions about their "beauty", and here comes the Pinoys who are more beautiful than them as accepted even in this area.  I guess the propagandists have no recourse but to continue with the dirty tricks to stave off their waning popularity.  I'll discuss that in detail in another forthcoming article. 

The Pinoy VK pages are propaganda fronts using the captive Russian fans (mostly Mongoloid minorities)  as captive market for their propaganda. But the memberships of these VK groups were made irrelevant by the outside groups, like the Kazakh-established pages, which had far more readers than them. It is turning out the South Korean Hallyu is a big mirage created by a big propaganda structure in many parts of the world and it is not quite impressive outside that propaganda noise. It is losing steam.

The sabotage is expected to continue because they have done all the Plastic Surgery, they are stuck with the faces they have now. (At least, this is the most hilarious sabotage!)

If you noticed, the scandals in Russia just created the first direct public connection to  South Korean propaganda).

The following post appeared on June 15, 2015:

As we go deeper into our little investigation, it is becoming more & more apparent that  the  pirate Asiatic film-loving community doesn't involve only cheapskate individuals out to scrimpt on anything just to avoid shelling out money for their entertainment. Bigger forces which you won't expect involved in this supposedly "illegal" activity are actually behind the bigger sites.

SCANDAL!!! PART 2 - THE DELETED RAVE REVIEWS OF "DIARY NG PANGET" REEMERGED TO HAUNT : So Why Would Other Asians Sabotage Pinoy Films In The Spanish-speaking Sites?

Part 1        SCANDAL!!! THE "DIARY NG PANGET" & "SHE'S DATING THE GANGSTER" MYSTERY: They Don't Want Pinoy Teen Flicks To Shine In The Limelight (They Sabotaged Them Instead !!!)

The hit Pinoy teen film Diary ng Panget became the toss of the Asiatic film-loving world in late 2014, paving the way for the upsurge of interest on Pinoy teen stars in  a widely-scattered market hooked on entertainment freebies from Asia but already weary of the usual Asiatic faces on the menu for years. Alas, the popularity of the top Pinoy teen films alarmed the villains lurking in the dark and apparently, they couldn't allow the Pinoy teen stars  to steal the limelight. She's Dating The Gangster (SDTG) was released on January 1, sustaining the popularity surge started by Diary Ng Panget (DNP) . Suddenly, on the last week of February, all the rave reviews of both DNP & SDTG disappeared. When I wrote the original article, I thought it was only in one particular site, Cineasiaenlinea.com,  but it turned out, the sabotage was done in the whole Spanish-speaking blogosphere: it came in many forms, some website disappearing, rave reviews deleted, & in one site, the biggest, it never had the chance to be watched because DNP's subtitles were suddenly pulled out for some alleged rechecking, but it's already the middle of 2015, and the subtitle never reappeared (in that site, neither She's Dating The Gangster had a subtitle). One can see the pattern: they saw the Pinoy films create waves which came in rapid succession- "Diary ng Panget" in late 2014 & "She's Dating The Gangster" on New Year's day, and by February they immediately undertook suppressive measures on the two films. Surprisingly, it had a racist component, too:  The Pinoy film with Mongoloid stars went on as usual and it appears, that was part of the script, the Filipino Mongoloid should "overshadow" the resurgent non-Mongoloid Pinoy teens in all the sites (in fact, in the biggest site which is not named for now but will be later, only one Pinoy film was translated for 2015 & it's the same Filipino Mongoloid star being promoted, though the reception was way below the energy level received by the non-Mongoloid teens, as we'll see later in this series of articles). So what was the reason why the two Pinoy teen films that were being raved upon suddenly became pariahs?  The young kids were creating waves in the very age demographic that was targeted by the promoters behind this pirate film racket. The Asian film freebies appear now as mainly the lure to capture a ready market for kpop promotions but the Pinoys stole the thunder instead. Worse, they had non-Mongoloid cute faces. And why specifically in the Spanish-speaking areas? We will all answer that in time.

So, were the rave reviews gone forever? Below is how the Diary ng Panget page now appears at Cineasiaenlinea.com. At left lower corner, you'll see there are only 12 comments & the first one was only written on March 3, 2015. The film was first shown on the same site on October 16, 2014 (My Spanish friend said that thanks to our initial article which gave focus to that site, no more deletions were done there, & while DNP was buried inside, SDTG was able to remain on the front page &  still able to recover 37 new comments against the lost 60 rave reviews).

But wait, below is how the page appeared on February 8, 2015. Wonder of wonders, it had 70 commentaries then, and that was two weeks before all of them were deleted on the last week of February.

If you want to read how much the young girls in Spain & Latin America went gaga over the film, you can read all of their gushes below. Yes, the villains thought they were able to erase the popularity of the film but it turned out we have copies after all. He- he- he..., Villains  can  be comedians too, so here we go... (BTW, on the page shown above, you can see that the fans, delighted by DNP, were requesting for the other Jadine movie, "Talk Back and You're Dead: Remember that: that fact plays a big part in the mystery that we're going to unlock in our series of articles).

SCANDAL!!! PART 3: There Was No "TALK BACK AND YOU'RE DEAD" In Spanish But It Was A Hit In Portuguese & Everywhere Else

 What really pushed the button for me that something wrong was afoot was when the persistent requests for the translation of "Talk Back & You're Dead" in a Spanish site I was researching on  were started to be deleted. It only meant one thing, those who loved "Diary Ng Panget" became hooked on the Jadine loveteam and that sent alarms. So I copied the whole page of commentaries on "Diary Ng Panget" but the requests persisted until the comments were all just suddenly deleted. My hunch was right.

The Jadine fans in Brazil are alive and well, all on their own. They are very active commenting on Youtube videos of both James Reid & Nadine Lustre.

I have been writing about the misadventures of Pinoy teen films in the free Asiatic film-loving community because of the duplicitous reactions to their popularity of some eclipsed shadowplayers . Despite the noise (mostly the noise), the community is actually just a peripheral thing, and most likely, temporal phenomenon attracting just a miniscule part of the population in the targeted areas. It is best seen as a barometer of trends that could sell in the bigger market. On the surface, it has noble aims- to develop Asian soft power, but like most things, it's not always what it seems. It could be an instrument for more pernicious things, as we have been exposing. It is free, and there lies its attraction, but it could be easily dropped when one's economic status improves, or when one's hormones start to kick in and the young fangirl starts looking for the right attractions. Like what happened to the Pinoy teens. If you perused the discussions that ensued from their popularity, a recurring theme is the "tired of watching Korean or Chinese faces". Media effects and wishful thinking-dependent propaganda can only do so much. That the Pinoy teens were welcome faces was a cold shower to delusions.

How popular was the Pinoy teen films? Among the younger members of the community which form the majority, very. Special mention should be to the trailblazing "Diary Ng Panget" (DNP) & to the consolidating effect of "She's Dating The Gangster". Special mention should also be given to "Talk Back & You're Dead"(TBYD) because prior to the complete deletion of the rave reviews in the page of DNP, what really pushed the button for me that something wrong was afoot was when the persistent requests  in that page for the translation of TBYD were started to be deleted. So I copied the whole page but the requests persisted (as you can see from the resurrected deleted page in the SCANDAL!!! PART 2 article ) until the comments were all just deleted.

But "Talk Back & You're Dead" was translated into Portuguese & it even had more rave reviews. As of June, 2015, it got 134 in 15 pages.
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NB. The only fly in the ointment was that She's Dating The Gangster was never translated into Portuguese despite the many requests (by this time, the fans have already started invading the more accessible Filipino showbiz blogosphere which is in English). The villains can't do anything with the Jadine phenomenon anymore in Brazil which was sudden so they apparently just opted to limit one pair & prevented the emergence of the others like Kathniel? But we have more beautiful love teams. Lizquen must be giving them sleepless nights. After just a month of showing of "Forevermore", the fan membership of Lizquen in Kazakhstan has exceeded the membership of the whole Asia film-loving pirate groups in the Post-Soviet space!

Back to the Brazilian reception to Talk Back...

Pinays are Again Declared the Sexiest And Hottest Girls in Asia... Naturally

UPDATE (May 21, 2015): Please read this again if you've read it before, I reedited it to refocus some highlights

As if we needed more proofs that Filipinas are the most beautiful, even sexiest, in Asia. But we can't stop the world from showering us with accolades. Time and again, the Philippines is the only Asian country that figures in the Top 10 of the Lists of Hottest or Sexiest or Most Beautiful. Here we go again. In the latest list of the sexiest nationalities by Misstravel (a dating website which annually polls its members), the Filipinas are the only Asians in the Top 10. Naturally.

Sexiest Nationalities for Women: Based on Dating Preferences of 44,873 American Men

    Armenian (Kim Kardashian)

    Barbadian/Bajan (Rihanna)

    American (Beyonce, Kendall Jenner)

    Colombian (Shakira, Sofia Vergara)

    English (Rosie Huntington-Whitely)

    Australian (Margot Robbie, Elle Macpherson)

    Brazilian (Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio)

    Filipina (Nicole Scherzinger, Vanessa Hudgens)

    Bulgarian (Nina Dobrev)

    Lebanese (Amal Clooney)
 
The impressions were based on the beauty of known celebrities. As if we needed more proof of the importance of having beautiful celebrities. Suits me: I don't intend to be aggravated by unattractive celebrities so they don't appear here, I'm very strict in the appearance of the Pinay celebrities that appear in this blog. (Of course, the bitter would say, both girls in the list are hybrids. Well, that doesn't take away from them  the classic Filipina look. They look like a lot of the Filipinas in the Philippines who have been infused with the many genes that walked through this land for many centuries. Nowhere does it say that there is a type of people with a certain gene who should be called Filipino: because of our history,  it has always been a lot of people, a "halo-halo" of people. Unlike others in our neighbors, we don't subscribe to racial purity. Anyway, because of our latitudinal location where the ultraviolet rays of the sun are strongest, everybody will tan in varying degrees in  time (unless one indulges in interventions like sunblock, sun avoidance, skin peeling, skin bleaching, etc.).

Btw, to contribute to the updated discussion on the genetic makeup of the Philippines, I extracted these portions  from a book by French anthropologists  Jagor, Fëdor, et al. (1870). "The Former Philippines Through Foreign Eyes"

Blackwood’s magazine for August, 1818, has an account of conditions in Manila and the Philippines from data given by an English merchant who left the Islands in 1798 after twenty years’ residence in which he accumulated a fortune.
“Your first question, with respect to the Spanish population, must refer to native Spaniards only; as their numerous descendants, through all the variety of half-castes, would include one third at least of the whole population of Luconia (i.e., Luzon–A. C.)
 .... 

 “The castes bearing a mixture of the Spanish blood are in Luconia alone at least 200,000. The Sangleys, or Chinese descendants, are upwards of 20,000, and Indians, who call themselves the original Tagalas, about 340,000, making a total population in that island of about 600,000 souls. What may be the respective numbers in the other Philippine Islands I never had any opportunity of learning.”


If 1/3 of Luzon were mestizos even then (in 1798), where are those genes now? Remember: only 2 centuries have passed by in 1798, they still had a century to improve their score before they left in 1898.

SCANDAL!!! PART 1: THE "DIARY NG PANGET" & "SHE'S DATING THE GANGSTER" MYSTERY: They Don't Want Pinoy Teen Flicks To Shine In The Limelight (They Sabotaged Them Instead !!!)

(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.

DUBBED PINOY TELESERYE: "Marimar" in Kenya in English, that's the video, BUT I Have Some Unrelated Commentaries on Showbiz "SPIN", etc.

We should be shouting more that Pinoy teleseryes are a hit in many countries of the world. I was amazed to confirm they are. Most Filipinos actually ignore them. The high ratings that you read in the papers don't reflect the reality to most Filipinos. I grew up with nobody talking to me about Pinoy showbiz. If ever I had the curiosity, I was repulsed by what I saw- that was the time of Jolina & her gang- which made me totally avoid local TV then. The next time I got curious, there was this host of a TV show who looked "cross-eyed" to me and that turned me off again. It's only when I was doing this blog that I learned her name and it turned out she was actually a big actress. How did a "cross-eyed" lady become a big actress here, that really became a big puzzle to me. Have we sunk that low? As for movies, only a manute portion of our population bother. Our hits are considered big if about a million people have seen it (PHP150 million gross). That's laughable considering our population is 100 million. One of the things I learned in starting this blog (which started as a joke but ended up becoming an eye-opener) is that we can actually be big-time if we just be truthful to our spins. If we can spin a cross-eyed girl and sell her to the gullible, why not spin truthfully & attract the sane majority instead?

SELF-DELUSION KOREAN-STYLE: Trying-Hard "Beauties" (Or How To Pretend Beautiful When Nobody Takes Seriously Your Face)

This is gonna be hilarious...

I featured before the strange sabotage of  hit Pinoy teen films whose beautiful stars enchanted the Asiatic film-loving communities worldwide late last year. If you've been following the Comments in the article, you probably had noticed the following comment,  it more or less summed up the possible underlying psychopathology which could have engendered the little mess: (comment about the South Koreans)

... Laos na nga sila but that will make them more dangerous. Kasi there is a delusional aspect to these people- they were never known as beautiful but they have this project to project themselves as beautiful, complete with a big propaganda machinery & it's actually weird watching them undergo extensive face modification just to change how they look. What's laughable is that they now have the gall to designate themselves as arbiters of beauty and many actually have fooled themselves they are beautiful and they don't wait for others to tell them, they say it outright (look at their publicity) as if they were indoctrinated brainwashed North Koreans (they are from the South). Which made them tiring to a lot of people in the long run. But while they were able to fool in the beginning, it's clear people, particularly in the Philippines, aren't buying that delusion anymore, the novelty is gone & we are just being polite publicly but privately they are already laughed at. That makes them dangerous, when they realize they are no longer fooling anybody, baka mabaliw sila


One wonders why the South Koreans feel so free to assume they can comment flippantly about the physical looks of  Filipinos. Filipinos are more celebrated for their beauty than the South Koreans, which were never known as models of pulchritude in the first place, so you wonder what angst was the wellspring of this presumptuousness. Psychopathology like self-delusion, perhaps? Very telling is this little video where the self-deception is very evident. South Korean celebrities have been long notorious for their  extensive face modification in order to have more Western features and in this little clip, you can see how their minds seemed to have been distorted as well to maintain their self-respect  (& the delusion of beauty, needless to say). There are six South Korean celebrities commenting here, four of whom we may call ordinary-looking and two, including the male, not at all attractive. So nobody is beautiful among them but they just had to comment on the looks of the Pinoy actors.
(Watch particularly how they use Double Eyelids, it is hilarious )


 Notice:
1) The South Koreans have been ridiculed for their love of double lid operations because they were born with narrow monoeyelid which made them chinky-eyed. Many Westerners & non-Mongoloid Filipinos are naturally  born with monoeyelid too, only that their eyelids are wide, they don't need a second surgically invented eyefold to make them appear not chinky eyed. Unlike the South Koreans who have to undergo an operation to give them a second lid. And in their minds, the Filipinos just got  to have a double eyelid too because the  handsome Pinoys don't have their chinky-eyes. Funny, but it appears, for them, the surgical "double-lid" has become "the" normal; others just got to have "double lid" too just because the South Koreans get a second lid after  Plastic Surgery.

2) They just had to dismiss outright any Western blood in Asians, revealing their extreme insecurity (& envy?). Marian Rivera bore the brunt of their insecurities (& envy?) here. BUT: if Western features invalidated one as an Asian,  why then do they have to undergo extensive Plastic Surgery to acquire Western features? Many Filipinos don't have to undergo Plastic Surgery, they have it in their genes, so aren't they the more natural Asians? It's clear this hypocritical pretension to Asianness is just a ready defense mechanism so they don't have to face the fact that they are the inferior beauties they delude themselves not to be.
(If Nationalism is the refuge of the scoundrel, it seems it can also be a refuge of the ugly who can't believe he's ugly).

3) They speak as if trying to make themselves as arbiters of beauty.  Why should their makeup matter to us, why would we want to look like them? Some nerve, its laughable actually. Well, it's too ridiculous to comment further, my eyes are wet from too much laughing.

The North Koreans aren't too different from the Southerners when it comes to psychopathological predispositions after all.

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