NO WAY UNDER THE SHADOWS OF THE PINOYS: Upstaging the Fictitious Korean Wave in Peru... As always, Sabotage Galore?!

So, the hit Pinoy teleserye in Peru, Cautiva ended its run on Panamericana TV. It was able to maintain the record of all the previous teleseryes there- they all rated higher than the kdramas which have been hugging the bottom of the Peruvian ratings chart for nearly 15 years, tenaciously below all the other countries showing telenovela in Peru.  I posed the question in my last article: Would the Koreans, who for mysterious reasons were still being shown despite their long-standing bottom-hugging performance,  allow themselves to be under the shadows of the  resurgent Pinoys in the prime beachhead of the Korea Wave fiction in Latin America? I already documented here in this blog the many acts of sabotage done on Pinoy stars & films which inadvertently upstaged the fictitious Korean Wave along the way (Read starting from Sabotage #2 below the banner). Just as I suspected, they wouldn't allow themselves to be upstaged & thereby humiliated, be it in Peru or in the backwater Internet pirate sites . Events would consistently prove I was correct.

Very early in the journey of the Pinoy teleseryes in Peru, alleged "Kdrama fanatics" already trashed the arrival in Peru of the second teleserye, La Promesa, after the successful kdrama-busting run of the first, Puentes de amor- another mystery because both Pinoy & Korean novelas were  being shown on the same channel & at different times. More mysteries came: teleseryes from Abs-cbn disappeared (Puentes de amor & La Promesa all rated higher than the kdramas) & replaced by kdramas. Then Cautiva, which became the highest-rating novela at Panamericana TV to levels barely dreamed-of by the kdramas, ended today & will be replaced by another kdrama. Whatever mysterious reasons tied the Panamericana TV management to the unpopular kdramas were stronger than its ratings performance. The teleseryes, which brought unheard of ratings to the Panamericana afternoons, have disappeared from its screen.

Well, it's good to be vindicated. I was the guy who cried wolf, alone in accidentally  discovering two years ago the almost discrete sabotage done on a Pinoy teen film being shown in a pirate Asiatic film site (which turned out to be a propaganda site for the Korean Wave fiction). Given the unexpected resurgence of Pinoy stars & telenovelas in many countries,  I immediately suspected those desperate treacherous moves won't stop & bound to culminate into an open sabotage. The propaganda fiction of a Korea Wave doesn't allow any Asian to upstage the pretension (I actually think, delusion is the better word) of the Koreans.

I asked in a previous post: If they have proven to tenaciously cling no matter how unpopular they were just to continue with the motions of pretending there is a  Korea Wave in Peru, will they be willing to stay under the shadows of the now more popular Pinoys? We have the answer. Apparently they collected on their mysterious tie-up to the insiders at the Peruvian station & the lowest-rating telenovelas in Peru, the kdramas, will continue clinging in the bottom of their rating charts.

 Read the ff. to get a better grip on the topic:

 1. NOT FAKE CLAMOR: THE PROMISE/PANGAKO SA YO on Joy Prime Ghana

 2. CALM BEFORE THE STORM?: CAUTIVA rages in Peru... But why somebody might not be happy?

Read more: 

 1. UTO-UTO SYNDROME: The Folly of Philippine TV

 2. ESCAPING THE KOREAN ASIAN TRAP: Can LA PROMESA do a JANJIKU in Peru?

 3. KAPIT-TUKO KOREAN-STYLE: Anatomy of the Fake Fame & How To Cling Desperately (plus Tips on How To Mob an Unknown in an Airport)

4.   SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYES IN PERU: Now we know why they are bitter & cruel (as if they weren't used to the lowest ratings. VERY "POPULAR KUNWARI" INDEED!!!)

CALM BEFORE THE STORM?: CAUTIVA rages in Peru... But why somebody might not be happy?

I am still on vacation but I couldn't resist writing this one. So how is the Pinoy teleserye Cautiva/Hanggang Makita Kang Muli faring in Peru? It has been battling the Turkish telenovela Elif which lorded over its time slot since the latter's  opening last year (the Turk slugged it out with another teleserye La Promesa/Pangako Sa Yo earlier, preventing the latter from scoring more than 3.5 points, blunting the what-could-have-been Kathniel upsurge in Peru ).  The other day, while Elif had 7.3 points, Cautiva had 4.6 points. Yesterday, Cautiva upped its score to 4.9, the highest score for a Pinoy teleserye, or Asian drama for that matter, in the Peruvian ratings chart. It is expected to go way past 5 points as its popularity gains.

This development has created an emergency (humiliating) situation to the other Asian being shown in Peru. The Koreans have been shown in Peru for nearly 15 years but they have been generally stuck at the bottom of the Peruvian charts, mainly getting 1-2 points rating, except when the Pinoy teleseryes arrived & the other Asian telenovelas were lifted slightly on the Pinoy's wake (2 kdramas were shown before the teleserye then in the same channel, Panamericana TV). The first Pinoy teleserye, Bridges of Love/Puentes de amor, shot up way past that, up to 4.4, very high rating for an afternoon telenovela then in Panamericana TV. The kdrama preceding it broke through its usual ratings on the wake of the teleserye's surprise success (though as always, still lower than everybody else  showing telenovelas in Peru- lower than the Mexicans, Brazilians, Peruvians, Turkish, Greeks, Filipinos). It was curious that when Puentes de amor ended, its timeslot of 5:30 pm was given to another kdrama, Mundos opuestos, that subsequently inherited its audience & became the highest-rating kdrama (though again, still low compared to everybody else). But soon enough, the kdramas returned again to their usual 1-2 points in the bottom of the ratings chart. The return of another teleserye, La Promesa/Pangako Sa Yo, proved once again that a teleserye will always rate higher than the kdramas. When La Promesa ended , its timeslot again was given to another kdrama, Amor secreto, which managed to retain the audience for a few episodes until it dived again to the usual nook of the kdramas at the bottom of the ratings. The third teleserye to be shown, Cautiva, caused more sensation, & as the strategy of the Koreans to duplicate Mundos opuestos failed, the lackluster track record of the Koreans became more obvious and the  Peruvian forums finally decided the Pinoys are performing better than the Koreans. Some were even openly commenting the Korean dramas be stopped altogether. Despite long years of being stuck at the bottom of the Peruvian charts, for whatever mysterious reasons, the Koreans were still being shown. And now they are being openly ridiculed. How will they cling on, as they have proven they would cling one way or the other just to pretend there is a Korean wave in areas which ignore them?

The blog has confirmed the so-called Korean wave outside East Asia is a propaganda fiction. The vast propaganda apparatus might be noisy in proclaiming the Koreans are very popular but the usual gauges used to detect audience acceptance proved they were practically ignored. The reality beyond the digital propaganda of questionable viewcounts and paid army of trolls is very much dismal. Their permanence at the bottom of the Peruvian ratings chart for nearly 15 years was probably first confirmed publicly in this blog (we also confirmed it in Indonesia & lots of other places). The reason they were being shown in Peru is certainly not due to audience acceptance, they were practically ignored. So why were they still being shown after that long-standing unpopularity?

 The tenacity to remain in Peru & everywhere else is simply amazing. But disquieting, because there lies the dark clouds. The blog also confirmed the forces behind the Koreans are not above sabotaging their competition, especially the Pinoys. This blog has annotated the series of sabotage done on Pinoy stars way back 2 years ago in the Sabotage series (read it below the banner or click Tales of SABOTAGE at the sidebar). The initial sabotage was on the surprise resurgence of Pinoy stars in the Spanish-speaking pirate sites. We discovered these pirate sites were actually designed to promote the Korean wave, using the pretense of promoting Asian artists. But when other Asian artists get hotter than the Korean artists, they were immediately cut down so as not to upstage the Koreans. The Pinoys were apparently pointedly sabotaged in Spanish-speaking sites because the Pinoys were naturals with a Spanish or a Latin American audience. As being proved in Peru right now. 

Could the initial sabotage on the Jadine loveteam when the film Diary ng Panget became big in the Spanish-speaking pirate sites in 2014 (read Sabotage #2) be  a portent? The first sabotage was apparently designed to blunt the connection of a target audience to a competition which has a cultural, & even physical, connection to such an audience. Now, that connection was made in the real world, far from the dark fringes of the pirate world. Worse, they are being humiliated in the real world. What is the next move of the Koreans? In fact, they already made the first move: when the second teleserye was announced after the success of the first, the familiar scene of alleged Korean fanatics noisily protesting exploded (a now-obvious tactic everywhere- despite their low ratings, their miniscule fans are prone to protest be it in Peru or anywhere, no matter how low their ratings are- which reminds me of coup plotter tactics or "terrorists", if you may- where a small group of people use protests- or "terror"- to get their way. Obviously, these people were working from the same script). If they have proven to tenaciously cling no matter how unpopular they were, will they be willing to stay under the shadows of the now more popular Pinoys?

Interesting times ahead in Peru.

Read also:

1. UTO-UTO SYNDROME: The Folly of Philippine TV

2. ESCAPING THE KOREAN ASIAN TRAP: Can LA PROMESA do a JANJIKU in Peru?

3. KAPIT-TUKO KOREAN-STYLE: Anatomy of the Fake Fame & How To Cling Desperately (plus Tips on How To Mob an Unknown in an Airport)

4. SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYES IN PERU: Now we know why they are bitter & cruel (as if they weren't used to the lowest ratings. VERY "POPULAR KUNWARI" INDEED!!!)


NOTE: Somebody copied the comments from a previous article in the pic above into the Comments section, dividing it into 4 segments. Some complained they cluttered the Comments section below but it turned out, some can't make out the letters in the pic so I'm allowing the Comments for now. I get ideas from the Comments of each article & make my spin to them. This group of Comments nicely tackled the situation now developing in Peru.

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BWA HA HA HA HA LIST

Actually, I was not aware of this particular 2015 list.  Nobody bothered to take it seriously because it was so ridiculous. It was a day when the meaning of Beauty became synonymous with Comedy. Pity, nobody lingered to savor the joke. More out of revulsion? I only got to know it yesterday. The undermining of resurgent Pinoy teen stars are still ongoing like I described in the Scandals series though it evolved into subtler undermining tricks after it was first exposed in this blog: in a forum where some Pinay teen actresses were being lauded, this list was suddenly uploaded, clearly intended to undermine. As expected, the list turned into a laughingstock instead. Apparently, the list is still constantly recycled in the propaganda network of the villains: they most likely treated it as a propaganda coup, though it was practically useless because only a few bother with them anymore anyway. They don't have to admit it but they have simply become washed-up years ago. The only noise remaining comes from their propaganda outlets. For a special purpose?

The list of supposedly "most beautiful people" were dominated by ordinary-looking South Koreans so that promptly destroyed its credibility. There was no hassle because there were no subscribers or readers who would withdraw their membership for pure revulsion (For one, when I use lists in this blog,  I use only accountable ones from magazines or subscription websites where ridiculous lists can mean withdrawal of  subscriptions or membership altogether). It was a website like any website, but apparently it was handy for psy-op operations like this one. Needless to say, it failed to deliver .

I decided to write about this now because it appears the villains have upped the level of  their delusion. Inadvertently, the new developments suggested a bigger conspiracy which would need updating our understanding of this issue. The hallmarks of a tired playbook were there: say some truths but speak more lies that could be confused with the truths. Show some really beautiful faces and insert simple faces that must be confused as beautiful too. The gimmick has become hackneyed: the list was simply ignored (though even true beauties Kathryn Bernardo & Liza Soberano were used as supporting cast to give credibility to the charade).

In the usual conversations about beauty among friends where beautiful people is the favorite topic, Koreans still don't figure at all though their propaganda machine is rampant here. The list was actually hilarious: the houseboy-looking rocker was supposedly one among the "Top 10 most handsome in the world" though I couldn't find any among my female & gay friends who doesn't think he's ugly. Gigantic leap indeed from being ugly to the Top 10 Most Handsome in the world, that's hard to beat! The "most beautiful girl of the world" was just as ridiculous: she was not ugly but definitely looked out of place among the really beautiful ones in the list (and none among them were her countrywomen).
         
 The problem is that the more credible lists might be degraded by ridiculous lists such as this. Of course, we know this pseudo-affirmative gimmick has been done so many times before by pretentious campaigns that people are now jaded. Many, like me, laughed when they actually saw it. So did all my friends.

My college professor friend thinks the South Koreans are being used. The question is for what purpose?  I first thought that this was a simple pro-Mongoloid campaign but my  friend had a different take: This looks like a pro-Mongoloid campaign on the outside but the fact that the promotions done were lopsidedly in favor of the South Koreans over the Chinese & Japanese (who incidentally have far bigger markets & relatively more interesting culture & people) revealed  another story. Throwing some crumbs to the Chinese & Japanese  was just done to recruit them to a Mongoloid campaign which actually has its ultimate aim in their own denigration, especially to the Chinese, the main target. For example, China & Japan were given 4 slots each in this Top 100 list but 8 were given to the South Koreans. More critically,  they were made irrelevant in the international  promotion infrastructures given to the Koreans. For one, the Koreans were even allowed to use the illegal pirate sites for promotions  and we know who actually control these sites. The Korean promotion is to give them a headstart as the trendy & beautiful Mongoloid face of Asia, undercutting the ascendancy of the soft power potential of the resurgent Chinese, the feared cutural hegemon of the near future. An unorthodox  geopolitico-cultural war?

What do I think? Frankly, I couldn't care less. People have long seen through these tired social engineering  gimmicks. My only concern is that now that their perennially unrequited desire to be the most beautiful Asian is undercut by the popularity of the Cute Pinoys who became resurgent despite the lack of a propaganda machine, what will that make of the Cute Pinoys? More sabotage?

SCANDAL!!! PART 6: I Can Not Be Corrupted, Sorry! It Won't Be Fun Anymore so No Way

About 5 days ago (August 6, 2015), the figurehead of the propaganda front masquerading as fan club of Pinoy artists in the Post-Soviet space contacted me in my VK account and offered me to relieve him in his post. That in effect, I can become the new administrator AKA figurehead of their propaganda front whose lies I just began to document and expose (so far I exposed one in my blog & another one in my VK account). He admitted that at least 95% of what they were publishing were true (only 5% were lies?) but he claimed it was his companions who did those without his knowledge. I'm not judging him if what he's saying was true, he might have been actually used because it's de rigueur that propaganda fronts use innocent figureheads to pretend plausible deniability. Needless to say, I rejected him outright. Not out of any emotional reasons, but more on practical considerations. The propaganda front was established there for a particular reason and they are not to stop now. But the fact they were found out, documented and exposed has already produced the effect I was expecting: they have to make it appear they are not what they actually are and make good 100% in what they are doing. The Pinoy artists will only benefit for the meantime. In fact, I've toned down my VK account, limiting myself only to publicity of the Pinoy artists with films being shown in Kazakhstan and let them feature more Pinoy stars. I only do this for fun, but that's their career.

Above is part of the message of the Admin of the Fake Pinoy Group (We use direct Google translation  in order that I won't be accused of putting my own interpretation): "I have noticed that you are keen on Filipino culture, you do not want to become the administrator of the group? Will no longer be propaganda, and I will give all the control to you. I have very little free time"

 But of course, the 5% lies are what that front is about. It's just a matter of time, every animal has its own DNA which it has to act upon... but even then, we've been tipped off beforehand, we will be there waiting.

 Now, if they indeed had seen the light and reinvent their genes, so much the better. Anyway, their work is really puny in the scheme of things. The Pinoy artists have already made inroads that even the villains haven't achieved in that area, and Pinoys won't need them as much as they needed to piggyback on the Pinoys in the limelight. As we have shown, this front is used by the villains to capture the Pinoy fans as ready captive for South Korean propaganda (Scandal 4 & 5).

 With this latest turn of events, we saw how they really operate, but which I expected because that's the textbook procedures in counterpropaganda: coup d'etat at the top. Reminiscent of the move to turn in the stars who were the original target of the initial sabotage, or the blatant influence on admins of some local fan clubs.

 Frankly, I don't find the South Koreans as threats. They have very obvious deficiencies which are fatal roadblocks to their big ambition (Plastic Surgery has its limits, for one). It's actually funny that they were caught doing what they were not supposed to be doing (just like the politician being caught dipping his fingers to the pie: if he was not caught, nobody would have been the wiser). But these are mere hiccups if they want to set things right.

 As I mentioned, I made a deliberate decision to limit myself in my VK account on the stars with films shown in Kazakhstan (or any place in the world where they are hot, for that matter). That is now beginning to be felt on my blog. This blogging is supposed to be fun, and I find it more fun monitoring the inroads of the Pinoy stars in their international forays. So far, I find only few of our local stars as interesting and it would be more fun zeroing in on only those who are interesting.

 As to the question of James Reid, have I really turned my back after the Houseboy-looking Rocker incident? My change in tactic was just a coincidence. In the beginning, I fed mostly Jadine articles because I was always thinking of my South American readers, my initial international readers. Moreover, ever since I stoked a diversionary intrigue to deflect the blowback of the Para Sa Hopeless Romantic flop on the Jadine love team, readers have looked to this blog as a Jadine fanatic. Wrong, it was just that I saw some bad moves, and it was like instinctively saving a baby from being run over by a speeding car. But the fact that I was mostly featuring the team limited my audience. When I started featuring Lizquen, the deluge of the readers made me really think but I played it slow so as not to offend. Then I got my perfect alibi: the Houseboy-looking Rocker incident was a perfect time to shift gears. I actually received unsolicited emails which said they understood. Whatever they understood, I am not sure. If ever On The Wings Of Love is shown in Kazakhstan or anywhere else, I'll be promoting them again. The Houseboy-looking Rocker Incident didn't mean a thing: James Reid will still have his handsome face so that means the villain still lost. They sabotaged him because fans loved his handsome face in the first place.

ESCAPING THE KOREAN ASIAN TRAP: Can LA PROMESA do a JANJIKU in Peru?

So how is Pangako Sa 'Yo/ La Promesa faring in Peru?

Just recently, we were witness to a relatively lackluster start which ended in a skyrocketing finish of Pinoy teleserye Pangako Sa 'Yo/ Janjiku in Indonesia. In Peru, the teleserye has also started slow, will it finally pick up as it hurtles on to the finish line? In both cases, they were shown in relatively "un-stellar" channels. In Indonesia, the ascent of Pangako Sa 'Yo/ Janjiku created a wave that lifted the local channel shows to the top. Will the same thing be duplicated in Peru?

La Promesa is being shown in a station that is called by Peruvians as "cold antenna" (antenna fria)", just like TV5 in the Philippines. Panamericana TV generally fares low in the ratings. Just like MNCTV before in Indonesia in the beginning when  Janjiku was shown. But we saw later that as Janjiku rose up the Indonesian  charts in the homestretch, it took along with it to the top of the ratings the sinetron shown before it and the one shown after it (the former Ayu Ayu Anak Depok City & Untuk Selamanya for the latter). See first table where Ayu Anak Depok City was #7 while Untuk Selamanya reached # 14. It is not a surprise that both Ayu Anak Depok City & Untuk Selamanya dropped out of the Top 20 when Janjiku ended its run.

This phenomenon was also seen in Peru when the first Pinoy teleserye , Bridges of Love/Puentes de Amor, was shown. For almost a decade, South Korean dramas were shown in Peru but they were always at the bottom of the Peruvian rating charts, generally  earning 1-2 points as a matter of course  (hilariously, this perennial unpopularity was constant  but  their many Spanish propaganda websites were also constant in proclaiming they were popular). But when Puentes de Amor  unexpectedly became the top telenovela for the Panamericana station, earning double those normally earned by the kdramas, the kdrama shown before it was suddenly lifted too (earning up to then unheard-of 3 points). Moreover, the slot of Puentes de Amor , which was later given to another kdrama, inherited the ratings of Puentes de Amor for a while.  That should have made them happy,  but when another teleserye was bought (Pangako Sa 'Yo/ La Promesa), the now familiar strategy of scenes of "avid" Korean fanatics suddenly protesting exploded (they were perennially at the bottom of the ratings-  it's too much a stretch to believe they always manage to convert miniscule fans into combative fanatics, be it in the Philippines or Peru, but it seems this strategy was effective enough to "massage" executives, be it in the Philippines or Peru). It was surprising because both the South Korean & Pinoy teleseryes were shown in the same channel & at different times, so it makes you wonder why they trashed the Pinoys.  But it's easy to understand what was happening if you look back over the pattern of past events described in this blog- the constant sabotage of Pinoy artists in the international arena as described in our previous posts (See Tales of SABOTAGE in the sidebar). Especially that we first detected the sabotage done in a Spanish-language  pirate website when the  Pinoy film  Diary ng Panget became a hit among the Spanish-speaking Asian film fanatics. It was obvious that they didn't want to be upstaged by another Asian, especially Pinoys sharing the history and physical features of the disputed market. Now they were actually humiliated by Pinoy teleseryes in a Spanish-speaking public space.

The showing of La Promesa was delayed due to dubbing issues. Meanwhile, at this point, there were hossanas in their propaganda press that the persistence of the South Koreans after a decade of low ratings were paying off (understandably, nobody mentioned of the effect of Puentes de amor). It was written that "it was good they persisted" (understandably also, nothing was mentioned  what were the quid pro quo in exchange for the miracle of being shown for a decade despite their permanence in the bottom of the ratings).


Their gloating was short-lived, however. The kdramas soon returned to their familiar places in the bottom of the Peruvian ratings when La Promesa was finally shown. Below is the typical ratings of the shows of Panamericana TV. The 3 kdramas (Cuando un hombre ama (1 point), Los dos madres (0.8) , Melodia del Destino (1.4)) are permanent fixtures in the bottom of the ratings.

If you look at all the shows being shown in Peru- as always, they were at the bottom in the lowest-rating station..

As has been confirmed by this blog, the Pinoy teleseryes have always trounced the South Korean kdramas where they faced off everywhere in the world. In Peru, like everywhere in South America,  the South Koreans never managed to elevate the status of Asians, it just made them permanent in the bottom of the ratings. The arrival of a Pinoy teleserye therefore assured the teleserye of a dragging baggage. Could the teleserye trascend the heavy prejudice to Asians wrought by the unpopular South Korean dramas in the preceding decade? Fortunately, Puentes de Amor managed to soar a bit to heights not reached by the other Asian, but it's clear that the marketing of Pinoy teleseryes should be so  designed so as not to be trapped into being merely Asian, contaminated as it is by the long-standing South Korean permanence at the bottom of the ratings. The relative popularity of Pinoy teleseryes in Peru derives from their Asian Latin appeal, and we just hope the Latin appeal will engender enough connection to finally get off the Asian trap cultivated by the Koreans in the bottom of the ratings. La Promesa hasn't exactly reached yet the heights of Puentes de amor- but it is picking up.  Will it shoot in the homestretch too like in Indonesia?

KAPIT-TUKO KOREAN-STYLE: Anatomy of the Fake Fame & How To Cling Desperately (plus Tips on How To Mob an Unknown in an Airport)

I'm a keen student of the use of Propaganda and that is probably the appeal of Showbiz to me (that is, besides Politics, another propaganda-driven enterprise). Most of the reality we see is mostly propaganda, especially politics. And once you see the "script", "reality" loses credibility, like what is happening to the mainstream political press where it is not so taken seriously anymore these days. While the gullible would still be expected to be the majority, there would come a time when you are not sure anymore, like now. When the tricks have been revealed, the magic is gone. You can feel the shift in  the dynamics & everybody can appreciate the true  reality more clearly once the propaganda was unmasked.

Same in Showbiz. If you have read the biography of the Rolling Stones, you would have known the various tricks to propel their popularity. When they were just starting, their manager hired people to scream, to present a fake popularity which the gullible entertainment press lapped up & consequently wrote about a hot new band, triggering the subsequent bandwagon of real fame (they still had no money to bribe in the beginning so the innocence of the press was genuine).

Reading the Comments in this blog actually led me to discover another propaganda mirage. One of the biggest propaganda creation is the so-called Korea Wave. At a time when the so-called Korean boybands supposedly sold hit albums after hit albums (when nobody could be heard singing their songs), the local producers thought there was a new trend so they created their copycats as usual instead of investigating who was the real buyer of the albums. While previous trends (which up to then only came from the West) produced local hit groups, nobody among the Kpop copycats succeeded. Was there really a trend, or just a propaganda ruse? True, songs from boybands a la One Direction were hot locally in the airwaves- but why the immediate demise of the local kpop copycat bands? Were some here, who were supposed to know better, still not capable to distinguish the true from the fake before committing their cash to a supposed trend?

 One could expect novelty as an initial kick to a phenomenon but when a bandwagon did not arrive for the fake one, the ruse would eventually implode. Like what has happened with the Koreans. Actually, if you read the propaganda sites created to pretend popularity, it is humming the usual pretend narrative as if nothing happened. But, as a reader once commented, it took a little blog like ours which pricked the balloon of propaganda. Suddenly, reality focused: low-rating of kdramas, no Korean melody in the airwaves (no  budget to support their own albums for a decade?), etc. That is how flimsy the "popularity" was, you don't have to do much, just redirect the attention to the fact. This also happened in Peru: if you read Korean propaganda, they were very popular in Peru. But this blog discovered that they were shown there for almost a decade, true- but all those time, they were in the bottom of the Peruvian charts, earning 1-2% rating, managing to be noticed slightly only when the Pinoy teleserye Bridges of Love (Puentes de Amor) was shown there & consequently upgraded Asian profile. One can only guess the reasons how they managed to be shown for a long time there with those low ratings and it's definitely not due to their popularity. What was clear was, as one reader put it, their lack of shame in pretending popular & clinging kapit-tuko in a market which has been resistant to them for a decade. What better proof of unpopularity?

Frankly, all of these should have been  something to just laugh about. But unfortunately, they were apparently willing to sabotage a fellow Asian- the Pinoys-  just so they could delude themselves & believe their own  propaganda (read Tales of SABOTAGE in the sidebar). Part of the kapit-tuko package of delusion? It's obvious they will sabotage (more assiduously) for a long time yet.

These are interesting times because they are undertaking big efforts to reshape back reality to the narrative of their propaganda. Their propaganda machine is doing double-time in regaining whatever momentum they thought they had. Unfortunately, the basic reason why they didn't succeed, & won't succeed again, is (as one reader put it) they didn't look the part. They can't change how they look no matter how Plastic Surgery advances, or how strong the propaganda noise, so we know how this still would end up.

But at least, we could learn from their propaganda tactics. We definitely should be wiser before we commit our cash to a supposed trend. Also, we could definitely use the modus operandi of using fake fans. One can always blame  fake fans as scapegoat- they can be as noisy or  combative when protesting for you no  matter if you are a permanent inhabitant of the bottom of the ratings like when they protested the Pinoy teleserye "La Promesa" in Peru when they sensed the Pinoys had more appeal to a market which rejected them for a decade. Oh, anyway, the fake fans don't have to be combative always- they have their other uses too. They can be ordered to mob you no matter how unknown you are in the airport.

SCANDAL!!! Part 7: Getting Close To The Nitty-Gritty: SO... WHY DID THEY DO WHAT THEY HAD TO DO?

Upon the prodding (teasing, actually) of a Spanish friend, this blog started as a minor cheerleading squad for the Pinoy teen stars who were supposedly just starting to be noticed then but actually already eclipsing the usual fare in the supposedly-pirate Asiatic film websites (we now know these are just masquerading as pirate sites, they are actually propaganda sites). It was fun reading young fans complain they were "tired of watching" the old usual faces and that the Pinoy teen stars were a "relief". Little did we know that we would witness the blatant sabotage done on the Pinoy teen stars and their films. Diary ng Panget immediately became a hit when it came out on October 2014 and all the pirated Pinoy films received a boost, but it was the teen stars that really led the attack, with She's Dating the Gangster sustaining the Pinoy teen upsurge well into 2015. By February 2015, the requests for the second film of the Jadine loveteam, Talk Back And You're Dead, were started to be deleted in a Spanish site, Cineasiaenlinea. The requests for the film continued in the Comments section for Diary Ng Panget however... until all of a sudden, all the Comments, including the glowing reviews of the latter film, were summarily deleted in the end of February (Read SCANDAL!!! PART 2). The sabotage was not limited to the aforementioned website but in other big Spanish-speaking pirate sites (We would soon discover it's not limited in the Spanish blogosphere, either). Signs of desperation, from any measure.

TELESERYE, DRAMA, TELENOVELA: Like Japan, Mexico is a Big Foreign Investor in the Philippines but it doesn't require us to buy its telenovelas...

It was a comedy of errors of sorts these past few days. I came out of the hospital recovered from another illness, only to catch the nastiest Upper Respiratory Tract Infection I've ever had at home with the start of the ber months, complete with high-grade fever & incessant coughing. But in the end, I didn't expect the post announcing my sick leave would attract comments.

The most hilarious was the part where somebody wrote about "the villains getting away " while I was on sick leave. While it was really interesting to write about the shenanigans of the villains when they occured, the truth is I don't really think about them especially now that I've discovered their whole game is just propaganda fiction. I never really took them seriously even before & it was only when I discovered the sabotage on Jadine in 2014 (see Scandals at the sidebar) that I even bothered to check them up. And instead of being impressed, I discovered instead their lack of popularity almost everywhere except in some areas of Mongoloid East Asia. Simply, they are nowhere as popular as their propaganda drivel. The truth is I had great laughs because it was a con game that was very expensive & extensive but after a decade, it is obvious they are not really getting popular, they are fast receding almost everywhere including in the Philippines. They can always invest in more propaganda. If you noticed, there are suddenly minor celebrities, newspaper write-ups & even bloggers suddenly busy working for them, signs they are actively stemming the fatal tide (not to mention the release of films, low-rating teleseryes & even a filmed concert of unknowns, designed to pretend whatever popularity. Perception management, that is). But they have been doing those for the last decade and they have not really prevented their slide from consciousness. Mercenary Pinoys are part of the territory, but in the end, one really can't fight one's natural looks. When people see the sleight-of-hand, the magic is gone.

The big nagging question, of course, is how did they have the gall to sabotage Pinoys who are clearly overshadowing  them in that most important requisite for a star- looks? (See Tales of SABOTAGE at the sidebar)

Part of the recent efforts to stem the tide of irreversible oblivion was something  I thought  was very curious: in a certain local business show that I watched, there was suddenly a disclaimer that the South Koreans are big investors in the country and that they send many tourists to the country. There were other guest foreign businessmen of different nationalities who invested in the Philippines but why was the South Koreans singled out for a disclaimer? Considering the wide inroads of South Korean propaganda in the country, this was not an innocent disclaimer. Were we expected to just grin and bear it just because they have investments? Why, how big are those investments anyway?

Why do the Japanese with far bigger investments don't find the need to sabotage us? I love the films of Takashi Miike but Japanese series are not slammed down our throats. The Mexicans, who have poured the largest foreign direct investment in the last three years, don't require us to buy their telenovelas, the true competition of teleserye worldwide?

Let me do my disclaimers too. All my writeups about the scandals were done (written & uploaded from) on a Korean-made smartphone but  whose screen cracked just today when I dropped it. I wrote this post on the cracked screen. All my articles will soon be done on a different un-Korean brand the new model of which will arrive in the Philippine market soon. One of my three Kazakh friends who I befriended on a trip to Kazakhstan was a Korean ethnic (there are 100,000 Kazakh Koreans, Koreans thrown by the Soviets into Kazakhstan) but he identified more with Russians, and  speak Russian like a native. Sergei himself researched and gave me an honest overview of the Central Asian Asiatic film scene devoid of the nationalistic undertones among Asiatics, like a true Russian intellectual would. He is one of the three who gives me the regular heads-up of the Central Asian scene (the other two are a native Kazakh & a blonde Kazakh Russian).

Meanwhile, in Peru... LA PROMESA, Muy Pronto?

So we return to Peru...

In many articles, we described how the Pinoy teen stars have been happily resurgent in many parts of the world... only  to be  sabotaged by the now familiar villains. We look again at the Peruvian end where we described in previous articles the usual modus operandi of  some alleged Korean drama "fans" in apparently sabotaging the showing of the Pinoy teleserye La Promesa.  While the successful time-slot of the first Pinoy teleserye to be shown in Peru, Puentes de Amor, was taken over by another Korean drama, it turned out there was another reason why the showing of La Promesa was postponed. Apparently the dubbing of the Pinoy teleserye was not finished on time.

Nevertheless, it came to our attention that the same sabotage modus operandi was continuing (see pic below). No need to react though. It's obvious, they are now only making themselves ridiculous, nobody pays them much attention there anyway. For nearly a decade, the Korean dramas have been shown there but they consistently languished with 1-2% percent viewership at the bottom. Still,  they were tenacious in clinging there despite the humiliation of being at the floor of the ratings of all the telenovelas coming from Mexico, Turkey, Colombia and the Philippines (all the while their propaganda machine was noisy about their alleged  popularity). But it's good they hang on there for many humiliating years more because they were finally lifted when Puentes de Amor arrived and they rode its coattails in the ratings. One result of the success of Puentes de Amor was the South Korean drama which was shown before it was noticed to be there after all.

TRANSLATION : In its place put a Korean drama, they are better

The Pinoys have been actually a boon to the South Koreans. That reminds us of what is happening in the Russian VK. With the popularity of the Pinoy stars after the success of Forevermore, certain fanpages of Pinoy stars were actually established by the same propaganda people of the South Korean stars, capturing the audience of the Pinoys, which otherwise didn't pay much attention to them, as ready objects of their propaganda.

Of course, that is only one of the uses of the Pinoys. Many fanpages of Pinoy stars have been established in the VK but most of them mysteriously disappeared. But some just as mysteriously reappeared in another form? That's for another post, as part of our series investigating the mysteries.

THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING FANPAGES OF PINOY TEEN STARS @ VK: "Dolce Amore" is yet to be shown but its fanpages are already made to disappear, Part 1

Since the Lizquen loveteam of Enrique Gil & Liza Soberano took Kazakhstan by storm with the showing of Forevermore last 2015, the Pinoy teen stars became the biggest Asian idols in the Post-Soviet space. Lizquen was followed not only by Kathniel of Daniel Padilla & Kathryn Bernardo but by all the other Pinoy teen stars who surprisingly had fans in those faraway lands. Pinoy showbiz became familiar to the Central Asians. The showing of Pinoy teleseryes with Kazakh & Russian subtitles on free TV exposed them to millions, easily eclipsing the other Asian stars who had been long staking the territory but relegated to the lowly patronized pirate websites. With the success came loads of fanpages devoted to Pinoy stars at the Russian Facebook, VK (as compared to the obviously contrived VK & pirate websites devoted to South Korean stars & dramas, for instance, which attracted a comparatively peripheral audience).

It was clear somebody was not taking the fame of the Pinoy stars well. The different VK fanpages of the Pinoys started disappearing. For no reason at first, they just disappeared. The latest one that disappeared, dedicated to the new Lizquen teleserye to be shown on August 8 in Kazakhstan, Dolce Amore, was at least given a reason:  that it abruptly changed its subject. Woah, it is now forbidden to have Lizquen as a subject?

This is the Part 1 of a series where we'll tackle the long-occurring disappearance of fanpages of Pinoy teen stars in the Russian Facebook, the VK. I first noted this since the showing of Forevermore in Kazakhstan in 2015.  If you have been an avid reader of our blog, most of the links to the VK fanpages of Pinoy stars have disappeared long ago.  It turned out, it is a continuing crime. Somebody is doing Mafiosi tactics here: if he can't force his stars to be recognized as stars, then he just had to sabotage those who are obviously more fit to be stars.

To be continued

SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYES IN PERU: Now we know why they are bitter & cruel (as if they weren't used to the lowest ratings. VERY "POPULAR KUNWARI" INDEED!!!)

So, how is the first Pinoy teleserye to be shown in Latin America faring? Actually, very good, as the latest TV ratings of Puentes de Amor have shown. So good that a second Pinoy teleserye was bought, and that was La Promesa.

There lie the kinks. In a previous post ("LA PROMESA" IN PERU: Kathniel is Coming to Peru & the "Popular Kunwari" are at War"), I related how supposedly Korean drama fanatics have been very aggresive in "sabotaging" La Promesa. Both Pinoy & Korean melodramas were shown in the same channel & in different time slots so one should wonder, why would these alleged Korean "fans" be ganging up on La Promesa? The Koreans have been present in Peru for years and it's true, the Korean dramas always obtained the lowest ratings among all the telenovelas (which come from Peru, Colombia, Mexico & Turkey) but shouldn't they have been supportive of their co-Asian Pinoys? What could be the reason for the bitterness? What is the fault of the Pinoys?

 Here is the fault of the Pinoys: the first Pinoy teleserye in Peru, Puentes de Amor, at #41 with 3.7 ratings, is even rating better than the two Korean dramas which are at the bottom of the charts (The Korean drama "Adonis Flor de Invierno" was only in #54 position with 2.6 points & "Mascara de Cristal" at #55 with 2.5 ).

The Koreans are only being consistent: their dramas always get the lowest ratings among the dramas. Very "popular kunwari" indeed!!!

READ ABOUT THE SABOTAGE ON KATHNIEL & other Pinoy stars:

 1.LA PROMESA" in PERU: KATHNIEL is coming to Peru & the "Popular Kunwari" are at War

 2.ONLINE POLL IN KAZAKHSTAN: KATHNIEL is the Most Loved Teleserial Pair

"LA PROMESA" in PERU: KATHNIEL is coming to Peru & the "Popular Kunwari" are at War

Early last year, we wrote about the sabotage of Pinoy teen stars who stole the limelight in the pirate Asiatic film sites (read SCANDAL series in this blog). The people behind the pirate sites apparently didn't want the Pinoy stars to overshadow the stars that these sites were primarily promoting, especially in the Spanish-speaking pirate sites (the connection to the South Korean stars was later tackled in the Scandal series ).

The Kathniel loveteam of Daniel Padilla & Kathryn Bernardo who became big with the wide reception of She's Dating The Gangster & Must Be Love were eventually sabotaged in some sites (all the glowing commentaries by their new fans were deleted twice in one site, as described in the SCANDAL series) or their films simply disappeared from some other  sites.

But what happens when a Kathniel teleserye would be shown on free TV in a South American country instead? That means, a wider audience will see them. If the pirate sites with their limited audience were bothered with, how would they react to a TV showing with its million viewers?

These dark forces developed a big international propaganda network to maintain a contrived popularity for their wards, be it in the Philippines or Peru. In the Philippines, they were noisy & organized, though in reality they were unpopular as proven not only by the low ratings of their dramas & low acceptance of kpop but they were soundly humiliated despite the big hype when the local programs they financed last year in two local TV stations to celebrate the "popularity" of kpop flopped despite the big-name hosts they hired (the young local singer they picked to be the kpop standard bearer never got off the ground). They flopped because we now know  there was simply marginal recognition there despite the decade-long  expensive propaganda. But you wouldn't know with the supposed fanaticism of their "fans". Forums were filled with the combative attitude of these "fans" who apparently went to the extent of protesting Japanese anime just so they could dislodge them to release the airtime where they can show the South Korean dramas which aren't rating in other time slots. Never mind that all these dramas were shown in the pirate websites anyway,  so why the "fanaticism" to fight to watch them on TV when obviously people prefer something else? Are they actually fake "people power" stooges designed for propaganda pressure tactics?

Apparently that combative "fanaticism" to exclude another Asian just so they can have their way is part of their playbook even in other countries. It's happening now in Peru & they are not "victimizing" on the Japanese this time but the Pinoys.

When the first Pinoy teleserye Puentes de Amor was shown in Peru, there was a comment by a "fan" in a Forosperu forum which was very curious. The "fan" later turned out to mostly write about Kpop in that forum.

It means:
      The Filipinos are full drama, but I want  that Panamericana should focus more in Korean dramas

Now, what does the showing of a Pinoy teleserye got to do with the South Korean dramas being shown in Peru? True, the South Korean dramas have low ratings in Peru, but what does that got to do with a Pinoy teleserye which just emerged into the picture? Is the arrival of another Asian a threat to the current Asian who is not rating anyway in the first place? The Pinoy drama had a different time slot, and the Asian dramas are in the same TV station so they are not competitors.

Then about a week ago, the showing of the Kathniel starrer "La Promesa", only the second Pinoy teleserye in Peru, was announced & the promo ad was featured everyday by the Panamericana Facebook account. Suddenly things got curiouser, because the "fanatics"  suddenly came out with more force.

In the first showing of the ad:

In the second appearance of the promo ad:

The common theme: they are vociferous in saying they prefer the kdramas. Though they have different  time slots.

One said the Philipine teleseryes are also good, why not give them a chance. The "fanatic" whose name appeared everyday in the comments stony replied No.

So, why are these trolls so against Pinoy teleseryes when they have different timeslots? Why didn't they use their "fanaticism" to get ratings for their own instead? Of course, fake fanaticism is really predictable, & in the end laughable. Their modus operandi has been used many times before, it is simply hackneyed (gasgas na). Their game is up.

My Peruvian friend said the Pinoys are starting a buzz, people were commenting they were Asians who look good, & the bad guys are threatened not only because of their perennial low ratings.

I told him, those are just some of the reasons that they feel threatened. There's a bigger one: though badly sabotaged, Kathniel is coming to Peru.

READ ALSO:
  SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYES IN PERU: Now we know why they are bitter & cruel (as if they weren't used to the lowest ratings. VERY "POPULAR KUNWARI" INDEED!!!)

The "POPULAR KUNWARI" DELUSION: When Even The Wikipedia is Faked for South Korean Propaganda

For a long time, I didn't write about the Bad Guys but I just had to when I discovered their latest caper in Peru when they were caught sabotaging again the Pinoy stars (Read their latest sabotage in the links below).  The South Koreans obviously find the Pinoy stars as threats as shown when Jadine first stole the limelight & were sabotaged in 2014, but the truth is I really didn't find them as threats but as nuisance who destroyed the view. Whoever thought they had the looks to back up their ambitions was deluding right from the start so I surmised early on  there must be something fake with the whole thing. I actually found the whole thing laughable. I have long confirmed the Korean wave is only a propaganda fiction, I discussed why here in this blog. Therefore, I thought I didn't need to write much  & though the propaganda was thick & prevalent, I knew I just had to wait for the implosion. The sabotage of the Pinoys in Peru is just another confirmation of the inevitable.

I now have to write again just to confirm my hunch was right. It was all a propaganda fiction which surprisingly is still hilarious despite the more brazen sabotage attempts.

Their unpopularity became very clear in Peru. While Peru plays a main part in their propaganda that they were "popular" & had a Korean wave, now we know that since they entered that country nearly a decade ago, they have been thoroughly unpopular and were actually languishing in the bottom of the Peruvian charts, overshadowed by the Peruvian, Mexican, Colombian, Turkish and lately Filipino telenovelas. The fact that they now openly sabotage is a desperate gasp, just a delaying tactic which obviously won't change the same conclusion.

For a long time my friends urged me to write more about the bad guys who have been sabotaging Pinoys discreetly before but openly now. Let's start a series to discuss the infrastructure of their propaganda machine so we can learn. Perhaps we can copy the benign ones.

This post is the introduction to the series. The abundance of the fakery astounds. Did you know that even the Wikipedia which is supposed to be the last resort  of reliable information was not spared?

Below is the present Wikipedia page for the defunct The Buzz program of Abs-Cbn:

This propaganda was changed so many times (I'll post all the versions in our conclusion, for more laughs). They were angling for the vacated schedule of The Buzz as a time slot to show their unpopular programs (initially, they claimed The Buzz was cancelled to show those mentioned koreanovelas, then they added the rest when it took too long & Kapamilya Blockbusters didn't give way). In Peru, the Pinoys were sabotaged because the time-slot made popular by the Pinoy teleserye Puentes de Amor was grabbed so it can be used to show the perenially unpopular Korean dramas in Peru. Same "kapit-tuko" in places where they were already unwanted.

The obvious question: why & how Wikipedia?

(to be continued)

READ ABOUT THE SABOTAGE ON PINOY TELESERYE IN ITS ATTEMPT TO BREAK IN THE LATIN AMERICAN MARKET:

 1.LA PROMESA" in PERU: KATHNIEL is coming to Peru & the "Popular Kunwari" are at War

 2. SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYES IN PERU: Now we know why they are bitter & cruel (as if they weren't used to the lowest ratings. VERY "POPULAR KUNWARI" INDEED!!!)

3. SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYE "LA PROMESA" SUCCEEDS: "Puentes de Amor" ends & it will be replaced not by "La Promesa" but by a re-issued, previously low-rater South Korean drama in an apparent schedule-grab

The "Popular Kunwari" Delusion Part 2: Fake Wikipedia, Fake Fans

 More about the propaganda fiction used for the so-called Korea Wave. In the introduction, we described how the Wikipedia, the supposed final information arbiter, was faked to create a bogus final reference which indicated that programming in Philippine TV was adjusted to accomodate the Korean dramas and a major program like The Buzz was cancelled to accomodate the koreanovelas. They were obviously trying to suggest these dramas were so popular to merit being "laundered" in Wikipedia but in reality were so unpopular as proven by their low ratings, prompting Abscbn to stop airing them altogether eventually. They destroyed the credibility of Wikipedia just to sell their propaganda.

This very public falsification also betrayed the propensity to meddle in programming in the push to show those dramas. The pattern is constant throughout the world. "Fans" protesting Brazilian telenovela & Japanese anime to get their time slots in the Philippines. "Fans" protesting in Peru which later resulted to the grabbing of the time slot of a Pinoy teleserye.

 Fake Wikipedia. How about fake fans? You barely hear any of their songs. They constantly have poor ratings. Where are these fanatics coming from?

There are tricks. Perhaps even Pinoy producers can learn some, at least the benign ones. Before we delve into the murkier side in the rest of our series of articles, let us learn one benign trick which we could use. I never saw the Pinoys used this trick. If you owned a cellphone, you must have received a text message many times a day, many times a week informing you you got 3 raffles for a concert of a band which you never heard. They were shooting many birds here: promoting the band, making sure the freebie hunters will bite a free ticket to ensure the presence of an  audience, pretend they are really popular to merit such telco attention. They send these messages many times a day almost everyday many months before the concert. A stadium full of free tickets?

 Perhaps, the trying hard Pinoy artists can imitate this. This is obviously expensive but consider it as a capital to pump up a career. Similar pump up tricks is buy your own records to make it appear the number 1 in the best-selling chart, never mind if the people never heard any of your song. The publicity might just work (of course, you need a propaganda infrastructure to disseminate the news). The trouble is you might be buying for a long time & still your career won't start. Hmm, seems familiar?

Here's the secret to have an Audience if
an act is unknown: FREE tickets

SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYE "LA PROMESA" SUCCEEDS: "Puentes de Amor" ends & it will be replaced not by "La Promesa" but by a re-issued, previously low-rater South Korean drama in an apparent schedule-grab

In a previous article (read the links provided below), I wrote about the sabotage of Pinoy teleseryes in Peru. The sabotage apparently was successful. The fruitful run of the first Pinoy teleserye to be shown in Peru, Puentes de Amor, will end next week, & it's not to be replaced as widely-expected by another Pinoy teleserye, La Promesa, but by a reissued low-rating South Korean drama.

 The South Korean dramas might have been the perennial bottom dwellers of the Peruvian TV charts in a big part of the last decade, but miraculously, they apparently were still able to conjure "fanatics" in many places who could be counted on to protest even when it was obvious they were no longer wanted there as proved by their perennial low ratings. Same modus operandi of using "fanatics" protesting each time, be it in Manila or in Peru. In Manila, they protested against Brazilian telenovelas and Japanese animes to get their timeslots. In Peru, they were protesting against Pinoy teleseryes. In both places, they get low ratings but spout the same propaganda fiction: they were "popular", they have a "Korean wave", they have "fans". If being a perennial dweller of the charts is popular, then they must be popular? Not.

 The South Korean dramas were stuck in the bottom of the charts in Peru, while the top was lorded over by Peruvian, Mexican, Colombian & Turkish telenovelas. But the South Koreans felt no shame, it's becoming obvious they apparently cling to a country once they enter just to maintain the fiction of a Korean wave .When Puentes de Amor was shown in Peru, it promptly rated better & also left the Koreans in the bottom of the charts. But the Koreans were just the same "kapit-tuko". "Fans" were unleashed to protest instead.

 The South Korean dramas were usually shown from 3-5 pm and they usually rate from a miniscule 1-2 points for almost the last decade. The Pinoy teleserye Puentes de Amor was shown at 5:15 in the same station, Panamericana. But when the second Pinoy teleserye La Promesa was announced to be shown, suddenly protests by South Korean "fans" cluttered the Panamericana website.

 Then today, it was announced a South Korean drama won't be shown in its usual 3-5 timeslot but grabbed instead the one made popular by the Pinoy teleserye Puentes de Amor. Needless to say, I myself don't believe those protesting "fans" fooled the TV executives to give way. In this modus operandi, the "fans" were the props to pretend "popular request" so a miracle inside (financial?) can be engineered, the logic of the popular ratings be damned.

Below, a reader in a previous post gave a nice picture of the motives behind the sabotage. I think he got it right. 

Please read also the following articles as backgrounder to this post:
 1.LA PROMESA" in PERU: KATHNIEL is coming to Peru & the "Popular Kunwari" are at War
 2. SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYES IN PERU: Now we know why they are bitter & cruel (as if they weren't used to the lowest ratings. VERY "POPULAR KUNWARI" INDEED!!!)

ONLINE POLL IN KAZAKHSTAN: KATHNIEL is the Most Loved Teleserial Pair

Here is another example why the Bad Guys who love to sabotage Pinoy teen stars fear them. The Cute Pinoys are really making waves everywhere where their teleseryes are shown. It is genuine popularity, not the fake manufactured one which relies on propaganda, dirty tricks & sabotage.

In Kazakhstan, there was an online poll today: the literal translation of the question in Russian was Which among the pairs in our teleserials (being shown in Kazakstan) do you love best? The other series came from India, Turkey & Russia.

Pangako Sa Yo is not only slated to be shown in Peru. It is also currently being shown simultaneously in many countries in Africa & Kazakhstan. In Kazakhstan, the Kathniel loveteam of Pinoy teen stars Daniel Padilla & Kathryn Bernardo has so created a storm that in that online poll by the Kazakh station 31Kanal as to which was the hottest pair among the stars of the various teleserials being shown there, Kathniel easily topped the poll lopsidedly, copping 66.4% of the votes.

We should not forget, another top Pinoy teen loveteam, the Lizquen pair of Enrique Gil & Liza Soberano, was named as the loveliest pair in the world by local fans when the teleserye Forevermore was shown there last year.

No wonder the Bad Guys are seething with envy & can't stop sabotaging.

The Winner: Angelo & Yna
Daniel Padilla plays Angelo &
Kathryn Bernardo plays Yna
in
PANGAKO SA YO/
THE PROMISE/
LA PROMESA

Source of Online Poll: 31Kanal, Kazakhstan

READ MORE ABOUT THE SABOTAGE ON KATHNIEL & other Pinoy stars:

1.LA PROMESA" in PERU: KATHNIEL is coming to Peru & the "Popular Kunwari" are at War

2. SABOTAGE OF PINOY TELESERYES IN PERU: Now we know why they are bitter & cruel (as if they weren't used to the lowest ratings. VERY "POPULAR KUNWARI" INDEED!!!)

TELESERYE TRAILER: "Till I Met U" starring JADINE

The emails containing video contributions/recommendations from my friends so cluttered my inbox during  my vacation that I missed this one. Better late than never. This means, no rigodons of the loveteams yet. Anyway, another teleserye from one of the Big 4 young loveteams of the country is a welcome thing. The more, the merrier.

Jadine was the first Pinoy loveteam to be sabotaged by the Bad Guys when the 2014 movie Diary Ng Panget overwhelmed everybody in the pirate Asiatic film community. The exposure ended with a reverse psychology effect which forced the Bad Guys to publicize the Jadine loveteam instead. So Jadine is now the most constant Pinoy presence in the outwardly pirate (but actually) propaganda sites (where they get representative popular  artists from other Asian countries but they flood the sites with South Korean films hoping that when one visits a Jadine film, they get bogged down to watch the numerous South Korean films, contributing to the fictitious narrative of the popularity of the South Korean wave. The overwhelming presence of the South Korean films also give the subliminal message that add to their contrived narrative of popularity. Unfortunately for them, these pirate sites are marginal in the scheme of things. Meanwhile, in the actual world, they get very low ratings.

Jadine is safe FOR NOW from the Bad guys so the Bad Guys are hitting on other Pinoy loveteams like Kathniel. Read Tales of Sabotage at the Sidebar for the details.

VACATION from Sabotage of Pinoy Teen Stars and other Hilarious Tales

I'll be on vacation for the rest of the month. But we might still have irregular posts. I just would like to leave you an extract of the comments from the preceding post ("LA PROMESA" in PERU: KATHNIEL is coming to Peru & the "Popular Kunwari" are at War").  Just for reflection... Without us realizing it, Pinoy teleserye has become one of the biggest players in the world, and while most of us are still stuck in their self-defeating inferiority complex torturing themselves with inane nitpicking about supposed "deficiencies", the fact  is, Pinoy teleserye (helped by beautiful Pinoy looks) is now a force to reckon with in world markets.

Unfortunately, one of the biggest complications is the fact that Pinoy stars are now subject to constant sabotage by insecure sectors threatened by their resurgence. Fortunately, the bad guys are already washed-up and fading fast (Of course, that makes them more dangerous as they struggle so expect more sabotage as they fall).

Please don't react in this post, but if you still want to, just join the discussion in the previous post.

Scandal # 8: MAKE-BELIEVE 101: Different Faces of Sabotage of Pinoy Teen Films

UPDATE: I love writing "provocative" pieces because I know I have intelligent readers & I was confident of getting sensible, if not incisive,  comments. If you noticed, I left many things hanging in my article but as I expected, my intelligent readers were quick to get the drift, and even dissected it down to its deepest ramifications.
Please read the comments & you'll get the reason why:
1. They can't possibly stop from sabotaging Pinoy teen love teams, especially in the Spanish propaganda-cum-pirate sites
(The Hispanics would be more attracted to our Asian-Hispanic looks, & the campaign for the Asian phenotype that they were promoting would be derailed because the Cute Pinoys are the more natural idols of the Hispanics as glimpsed from the brief surge of the Pinoys before they were rudely sabotaged. Being "cool" (the gimmick of the bad guys) can never be a match to sex appeal). 
2. The agenda behind many of the things we are seeing is deeper & bigger than we think. Yes, Racism should have been a hackneyed  issue in these so-called progressive times but in the cusp of the Asian Century, it is coming in a big way. Only it has become more hilarious because of  some physical appearance insecurity contretemps.


Not a few have written to inquire what happened to our Kiligmanga series "Action Hero". Have I lost interest? Well, not really.

I have already written many chapters, & some were even more "provocative", but since I'm busy anyway, I just decided to leave it hanging for a while. This is not something that eats me. It's more an intellectual exercise actually: I saw something foul, so I blew the whistle...

Yes, nothing emotional. It won't start WW3. The world is changing, Asians are on the verge of sharing the world spotlight and everybody has his own agenda & like always, Pinoys have none so we end up perennially clueless. But more or less, we already know the world is basically run on make-believe-  some click to place but not everything, actually. It doesn't really take a big IQ to figure this one out as ridiculous. Even Edward Bernays himself didn't mention in his work Propaganda, the Bible of the make-believe world, that the make-believe is 100%  guaranteed. Especially if there's another agenda behind the obvious agenda. Mostly, we are at an information overload stage where one can easily spot the subterfuge make-believe purveyors at work. But delving into that means we have  to digress into some political murk. That won't be fun so let's leave it at that..

I expected a reaction though. And it came. From zero teleserye, there are many Pinoy teleseryes being shown now on pirate/ propaganda sites. In the Russian space alone, among a dozen Pinoy teleseryes,  two of the biggest , which happened to be  still showing on Pinoy TV (On The Wings Of Love & Pangako Sa Yo) are already being serialized.



 But as expected, only one teleserye is being  shown on the Spanish sites- On The Wings Of Love. After being accused (& proven) of sabotaging the Jadine .loveteam, on the surface at least, they are now defensively pretending to show wholehearted support for the loveteam. As we can see in a typical Spanish pirate/prop site (picture, above), all the films of the Jadine loveteams are being shown now. Oh, yes, even Talk back And You're Dead has Spanish subtitles now. Remember, it was the deletion of the requests for this film in Spanish sites that made us suspicious of a sabotage being done on Pinoy teen films, which we confirmed when we witnessed first-hand the big sabotage acts later on (read SCANDALS series Part 2 in this blog). You see, they can't afford to appear all-out for Pinoy films in Spanish sites. In the few sites where Talk Back appeared, the other hot Pinoy loveteam, Kathniel, disappeared. As you can see in the pirate page, though there are many Jadine films, not a single Kathniel flm appeared. We should remember Kathniel became as hot as the Jadine loveteam when their film She's Dating the Gangster became big on January, 2015, and like Jadine's Diary ng Panget (which started the Pinoy upsurge on October, 2014), it was sabotaged too- its rave reviews were all deleted too like DNP.

Now, it disappeared outright, and guessed what- sabotaged a second-time! It seems, somebody doesn't want too many hot Pinoys hogging the limelight. In the original Spanish site (Cineasiaenlinea) where I first noted the sabotage against Diary ng Panget & She's Dating The Gangster, the Kathniel film suddenly disappeared then reappeared! Look at the image below. 

From one of the biggest hits for 2015,  NOTE, ONLY 1 COMMENTARY,  all the rave reviews which appeared after the 70 that appeared there in January 2015 have been deleted, have been deleted again. TWICE DELETED!!!!

Should we be glad that Pinoy teleseryes are now being shown on the pirate/propaganda sites? That is not the point really. The point is that our suspicion that Pinoy films & teleseryes were intentionally being "hidden" was just confirmed: when we blew the whistle upon seeing the foul, Pinoy teleseryes started appearing in the pirate sites! Talking about direct cause & effect.

We also now know their game of sabotage is a long game... As long as they find that Plastic Surgery has its limits, they will always see Cute Pinoys as fair game...

I just hope ABS-CBN was well-compensated by the syndicate behind the pirate/propaganda sites. The two Pinoy teleseryes Pangako Sa Yo & On The Wings of Love could be big hits like Forevermore in Kazakhstan where more could see them unlike the .limited audience of the pseudo-pirate sites ..

Or could the showing in the pirate/propaganda sites of teleseryes still showing in the Philippines be underhanded acts of sabotage to the marketability of said teleseryes because they are being shown free in a geographical area where Pinoy teen stars are the hottest young Asian stars du jour? I just hope they paid for using them in the propaganda sites, it would be too ridiculous to see them pretending as pirates now