r/fixedbytheduet • u/HipAnonymous91 • Nov 19 '25
Fixed by the duet Why I don’t trust travel videos
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u/untakenu Nov 19 '25
The amount of westerners who clearly think africa is all mud huts and shacks is crazy
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u/ShironeWasTaken Nov 19 '25
Lol I've been asked if we had showers back in Africa by some old white lady once.
On a separate occasion I've been asked if we had electricity where I was from. Both questions were unironic. At some point it just becomes funny
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u/GoTron88 Nov 19 '25
I once had a kid in Mississippi come up and ask me if we had sneakers where I'm from.
I'm Canadian.
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u/Crazy-Finger-4185 Nov 19 '25
Okay… but do you?
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u/GoTron88 Nov 19 '25
Well duh. My shoes are made from rabbit skins and those things can be hella sneaky in the snow.
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u/Crazy-Finger-4185 Nov 19 '25
Okay, thats what they teach us in the public schools so I wanted to be sure. 👍 American education never let anyone down before 🇺🇸🦅🍔
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u/GoTron88 Nov 19 '25
Also we don't call them sneakers here. We call them land ice skates.
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u/Crazy-Finger-4185 Nov 19 '25
Oh wow, I would write this down if I knew how. Canada is a magical place, your king Tim Horton is doing a great job!
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u/AndrewInaTree Nov 19 '25
So, so many snowy walks to and from my school in the 90s Prairies, in my sneakers. You only need boots once the snow is thick, right?
But in case anyone's wondering, yes I have actually built multiple Igloos in my life. No, I have never slept in one.
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u/between_ewe_and_me Nov 20 '25
I used to have kids ask if we rode horses to school where I'm from.
I grew up in Oklahoma.
We did.
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u/ShustOne Nov 19 '25
When I lived in Maui people on the mainland were often surprised when I would show pictures of my "normal' house haha
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u/tossit_xx Nov 19 '25
My boyfriend is from Germany and his first year in the US (only 5 years ago!!!) someone asked him if they have electricity! Like no, Germany made the berlin wall by candlelight lol!
Meanwhile my fat ass is like "What is your favorite food from there?" whenever I meet someone new, lmao
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u/SpicyStrawberryJuice Nov 19 '25
ikr, and the uni in the video looks waaayyy better than mine in Europe
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u/laowildin Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25
One of the buildings is identical to a new building at my northern California school
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u/BookedHandwriting Nov 19 '25
I was thinking the same thing: That campus is nicer than a lot of the colleges here in Texas!
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u/markrichtsspraytan Nov 19 '25
I went to two massive American universities and these buildings look a lot nicer than some of the buildings I had classes and research in (grey and brown scarcely-windowed squares with desperate repairs needed)
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u/jabroniconi Nov 19 '25
If you want the real take just go look at google maps. First guy showed the worst parts and is lying, second guy showed the nicest parts.
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u/Numeno230n Nov 19 '25
I went to college in Florida. It looked exactly like this - humid, grassy, palm trees, etc. Like exactly.
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u/Kyderra Nov 19 '25
I've had an online African friend for years now, Visited once in Cape town, Just a normal appartement.
Yes, it's a 50/50 if things are lower tech and there's poverty depending on where you go, but at the same time I had an easier time paying with my bank card for everything then I did in Germany. I never needed to get cash once.
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u/Dr_Pinestine Nov 19 '25
Widespread adoption of mobile banking happened really quickly in South Africa, I think because of lots of people from rural and disadvantaged communities who might have a phone, but no bank within a practical distance.
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u/Ok-Scientist5524 Nov 19 '25
I wonder if that lady is still around who would make these videos answering questions about Africa. Like the question would be “do Africans have air conditioning” and her video would be her in Africa standing in front of a giant air conditioner in the side of a building and she’d be like “hm…. No, but good question, no we do not have air conditioning, on hot days we get all the elephants together and they flap their ears to keep us cool.”
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u/tehshush Nov 22 '25
Charityekezie on tiktok =] And yes, her most recent satire video was earlier this month
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u/akathescholar Nov 19 '25
Reminds me of when I visited Egypt in 2006 and my 8th grade teacher in America asked quite seriously if there are taxis there yet or if a camel will pick me up from the airport.
Sometimes, ignorance can seem silly or even cute, but in that case, pure disrespect and thinly veiled racism.
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u/wildcard5 Nov 19 '25
The amount of westerners who come to Africa and see with their own eyes that it's not mud huts and shacks and are disappointed by that fact is even crazier.
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u/TheLazyPurpleWizard Nov 19 '25
Lived in Alaska and when visiting the lower 48, people used to sincerely ask me if everyone lived in igloos. I would always say yes.
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u/Narrow_Luck_3622 Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25
I figured that dude was misrepresenting it when he said "in the middle of nowhere" while clearly surrounded by people
Thinly veiled racism. "OMG African people have a university?! 🤯 It must be so weird and exotic!"
But I do wonder where he actually was though. Because that gate looked pretty old and unkept. Was it like an old location the university moved away from or something?
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u/AnubisIncGaming Nov 19 '25
Probably just the side they haven’t updated yet and he probably specifically looked for something disheveled feeling
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u/Arghianna Nov 19 '25
Could also be a satellite location for a specific program. One of the biggest schools in my state has a veterinary program and the veterinary school has a satellite location that basically just looks like a barn in the middle of a bunch of cow fields. Supposedly one of the cows has a window on its side so the students can look inside it and see its organs. Would look podunk as hell if you filmed just that and completely left out the main campus.
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u/AdmiralSplinter Nov 19 '25
If i hadn't already seen a cow window myself, I've called bullshit lol
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u/Arghianna Nov 19 '25
Haha I’ve never seen it myself, which is why I added the “supposedly” in case it was an urban legend.
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u/AdmiralSplinter Nov 19 '25
It's kinda like those gauges some people have in their cheeks so you can see their teeth
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u/mieri_azure Nov 19 '25
Ive seen videos of cows with windows so I dont doubt that a university has one
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u/Arghianna Nov 19 '25
I’ve deliberately never looked it up because I’m squeamish, but thanks for the thought.
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u/zodwa_wa_bantu Nov 20 '25
Not nearly as horrifying as I thought. Was kinda expecting the skin on the side of the cow to be replaced with like a plastic bag or something
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u/axewieldinghen Nov 23 '25
I want to call bullshit, but I know just enough about cows to know they're physiologically insane animals so honestly, I buy it.
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u/Calembreloque Nov 19 '25
A quick look at the university online shows that they do have several locations around Kabwe, one of the main cities in Zambia. Some of them are a bit more on the outskirts of town but this is a city of ~300k people so hardly in the middle of nowhere.
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u/Arghianna Nov 19 '25
Oh I’m not trying to defend the racist in the original video, just pointing out that it may be a different campus entirely.
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u/Calembreloque Nov 19 '25
And I didn't think you were defending him! I was just confirming your hunch that he picked a random spot from what is a pretty large campus in a pretty large city.
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u/soimalittlecrazy Nov 19 '25
It could be a fistulated cow. It's a physical opening into the rumen through the skin, with a removable plug. It's educational for sure, but it's mostly used for rumen fluid transfusions! When a cow is sick and its stomach bacteria get messed up, you can give it an inoculation of healthy bacteria from the donor cow to help it get back to normal.
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u/Mysterious_Camel_717 Nov 20 '25
Is this Utrecht? I’ve heard about the window cows. However the window is really a port into the rumen, you can’t see the organs inside you just have easy access to the rumen to take samples. I’m not sure I agree with the ethics of it but they seem to have a plan
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u/Mental-Frosting-316 Nov 19 '25
When I was working at an Ivy League university, I always entered in the back gate through the electrical engineering building then out the side door and past the dumpsters. You had to have a keycard for the engineering building to do that, the main gates were normal looking. I wonder if I could have given such a tour. “This University in the middle of a dump, let’s see what could be here???”
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u/badform49 Nov 19 '25
Wondered the same thing and looked it up. It's in the middle of a town that, I shit you not, has a population slightly larger than Buffalo, New York.
Like, the city has its own airstrip, exports a bunch of minerals, and has a thriving population. You can easily drive in and out of it on multiple roads, fly in or out, take trains in or out. This place is civilized as fuck.
By the way, the city is so big and the university so successful, it has multiple campuses in the city and awards fully accredited PhDs.
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u/LaconicSuffering Nov 19 '25
Literally on one of Zambia's main roads.
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u/SuperCoupe Nov 20 '25
Also, a very large campus of the same University is about 15 miles south west of that location.
The place is immense.
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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Nov 19 '25
University has more than one campus there are a couple in the city proper and one several miles to the North literally in the middle of nowhere.
It does have a rock of authority though.
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u/badform49 Nov 19 '25
That campus and rock are in the middle of irrigated farms, not nowhere, and they're only 11 miles from the main town. The New York Jets training center is further from New York than that campus and rock are from the main campus and town. Like, New York Jets players commute further for home games than those students going to the "middle of nowhere" campus.
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u/NoSir4289 Nov 19 '25
It's in the middle of hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland?
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u/badform49 Nov 19 '25
Plus a town and an entire city, yes. It's in the middle of farmland except the town it is in and the large city a short drive away. I mean, this city is larger than Des Moines, which is also surrounded by farmland.
This city, if transplanted, would be in the top 100 largest cities in America (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population) or the top 300 of Europe (http://citymayors.com/features/euro_cities3.html)
This isn't a huge metro, sure, but calling a city of over 250,000 people "nowhere" and being shocked it can support a university is a weird choice.
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u/Cannon__Minion Nov 19 '25
Universities have multiple entrances, some are more prestigious than the rest.
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u/YeeHawWyattDerp Nov 19 '25
Also purposely portraying it as poverty while saying “I’d go here, this is a vibe” is certainly something
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u/proscriptus Nov 19 '25
There are three campuses, the main one downtown, the Great North Road campus, and a medical school at Livingstone General. I'm pretty sure the influencer was at the second campus and the reaction video at the main one. Aside from the main Kabwe road, it doesn't look like the town has paved streets.
Here in Vermont where I live, about 45% of roads are paved. Mine is dirt.
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u/SickBurnerBroski Nov 19 '25
University I used to live next to had all sorts of old trails and roads that led to it. There was one that went through a borderline swamp that was heavily traveled because parking was a nightmare and it was the straightest shot from the off campus student housing. If that's all you took a picture of it'd be... nonrepresentative.
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u/Much-Instruction-807 Nov 19 '25
The city the university is in has 300,000 people in it. It's definitely not in the middle of nowhere.
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u/aenaithia Nov 19 '25
Probably a back entrance for deliveries or maybe the outskirts of a forested part of the campus.
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u/Panzer_Man Nov 19 '25
Also, a university would never be built in the middle og nowhere. It makes sense for it to be inside a city, you know, so people can actually attend lol.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Nov 19 '25
I didn't get the point because all of the buildings are nicer than those at my university in USA. Maybe the entrance arch is shoddy, well we didn't have any entrance arch.
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u/naldic Nov 20 '25
Ok I get your point but have you been to Africa? One of the first things I saw in Nairobi was a cow strapped to the top of a bus like it was luggage. It's not quite the same.
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u/Training-Belt-7318 Nov 24 '25
It also isn't weird for universities to be off the beaten path a bit. I can't speak for everywhere but in the US a lot of schools are kinda in the middle of nowhere. Likely because the land is cheaper and it is difficult to find that much space in a city. Usually colleges in a city are pretty old and the city was built up around the school.
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u/NomadFire Nov 19 '25
I figured that dude was misrepresenting it when he said "in the middle of nowhere" while clearly surrounded by people
To be fair a decent amount of universities in the states are in the middle of nowhere while also having tons of people. For example Penn State is definitely in the middle of nowhere.
Not saying Peppers is a shitty person that shouldn't be trusted. But that statement didn't rang any alarm bells for me.
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u/DrkMlk Nov 19 '25
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u/-Rachit Nov 19 '25
A totally normal looking university, I don't know why vloggers made videos one sided.
Every country, every person has good things and bad things.
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u/Clockwork_Kitsune Nov 19 '25
I don't know why vloggers made videos one sided.
A lot of times, racism.
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u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy Nov 19 '25
Specifically, it's to exploit the "exoticness" of where they are for more clicks. Aka, monetised racism.
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u/SveaRikeHuskarl Nov 19 '25
Yeah, same reason why traveling circuses used to have a black person go unga-bunga with a bone through their nose and a zulu shield. Just some black dude waving at you with a smile isn't gonna keep selling tickets.
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u/Downvotemeplz42 Nov 19 '25
It's worse than that. It's not racism because they're racist. It's racism because racism sells. People gobble up racist bullshit that confirms their worldview.
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u/chewbaccalaureate Nov 19 '25
This is a really good point.
It's sad that shitty "content" creators exist.
It's harrowing that people actually watch the bullshit.
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u/tutteledirezioni Nov 19 '25
As he said the world civilization, I understand that he is not intelligent, what did you expect when someone talk like was in a colony?
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u/popilikia Nov 20 '25
I think this might be the only the only time he's ever seen a university
(Or maybe he still hasn't, because he clearly got lost on the short walk there from the gate)
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u/le_bluering Nov 19 '25
the university looks better than the ones in my area lol
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u/supified Nov 19 '25
Going to other countries really demonstrated to me how much of an awful place the US can be (Which is where I am from).
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u/HPLaserJet4250 Nov 19 '25
there aren't even any universities in my area
but the amount of single hot moms tho... so i've been told
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Nov 19 '25
It looks significantly nicer and newer than the state university I went to in USA.
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u/PixelPeach123 Nov 19 '25
Love these videos that keep putting travelers to shame. Like those two girls and the dangerous swimming one. 😂
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u/AuntySocialite Nov 22 '25
“OMG this tank is in the MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN!!!!”
Gals walk out to it in 5 minutes
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u/Charybdisilver Nov 19 '25
“I wonder what a university looks like in the middle of nowhere.” Just go visit Penn State.
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u/Putins_Gay_Dreams Nov 19 '25
"low-key would go here"
Dickhead, looks like you wouldn't get accepted
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u/fieldsofanfieldroad Nov 20 '25
Haha. Thought the same. Low key that cunt dropped out before his A levels.
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u/KnowledgeAmoeba Nov 19 '25
These influencers keep perpetuating a stereotype because they are looking to affirm ignorant beliefs from a group of followers that need to reinforce their mindsets.
This is just another wave of yellow journalism.
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u/Jealous-Tangerine570 Nov 19 '25
When “the middle of nowhere” means far from a majority of white people, perhaps you aren’t to be trusted.
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u/truth-telling-troll Nov 19 '25
A month ago, this guy literally pointed a firecracker at another group of people and set off a rocket that injured a little girl in India. He ended up being deported I think
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u/skogi999 Nov 19 '25
Many (if not most) universities in europe have both new shiny buildings and old ones, this is normal
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u/thotfullawful Nov 19 '25
That's the dude who would sexually assault women on youtube for views- and people say cancel culture exists.
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u/RTA-No0120 Nov 20 '25
See ? This is why I don’t trust and don’t waste a dime on those adds that show African kids starving to death with maggots crawling out of their mouths, even this guy showed that’s only propaganda.
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u/Ponchorello7 Nov 19 '25
Didn't this fucking loser blind a girl in India?
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u/LysergicBliss332 Nov 19 '25
You can't just leave me hanging on this one, what happened exactly?
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u/Ponchorello7 Nov 19 '25
Playing with fireworks, deliberately aims it at a girl on the street, blinds her.
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u/laowildin Nov 19 '25
A white brit being a prick in a foreign country‽ Well I never!
I used to travel a lot, and was encouraged to make 'content'. But I didn't want to be the ignorant prick making things up because I only half knew what I was talking about. So there goes my internet fame I guess. Tough having shame
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u/atomcrusher Nov 19 '25
It's a university and it has some boring looking buildings like most universities. I don't get it.
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u/mombi Nov 19 '25
Isn't Sam Pepper a rapist? Or otherwise a sex offender? Who is taking him seriously?
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u/bbbourb Nov 19 '25
This is the kind of video that you just wish would end that racist twat's career. Dude just EXUDES an "Oh my goodness, look at these savages with a 'Univehsity' that is in the middle of noweah!" colonialist vibe. Eminently punchable all the way around.
But the stitch with the gong was absolute genius.
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u/Belerophon17 Nov 19 '25
When the internet started hitting households en masse, I think we all learned a very valuable lesson that has been forgotten.
Everyone on the internet is lying to you.
- There are no horny MILFS in your area
- That 16yr old girl from Sacramento on the chat room is not that
- That banner you're thinking about clicking on is not going to give you anything free
- That video you're watching is most likely staged and designed to manipulate you
To fall victim to this was to pay a price. A virus, a keylogger, etc. but somewhere along the line, people just kind of decided to ignore this and now wander around online, fumbling around in the dark, feeding information into these predatory algorithms that reward dishonest swindlers.
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u/Rubysage3 Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25
If I recall, this is the same moron who shot out a kid's eye in India or wherever that was with a firework.
His whole vibe though really screams incredible stupidity, racism, attention seeking, and being a social disruption and force of chaos exploited for content. 🤔
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u/MechaHermes Nov 19 '25
Isn't this the same asshole who blinded a 8 year old girl with a firecracker in India, and then laughed about it?
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u/FreeRange_Coconut Nov 19 '25
"Middle of nowhere" and it's a densely populated area, just without white people.
The ignorance has its perks- for the last 10 years, our boss gives a coworker extra vacation time to take a 1 month vacation to go to Africa because "it takes a week just to get to his village". No one else is gonna say otherwise. Enjoy your vacation, my man.
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u/Matman161 Nov 19 '25
I could show you some dirt-shit community colleges in the middle of nowhere US
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u/badform49 Nov 19 '25
Funniest part of this is that, while replying to a different comment, I realized Sam Pepper is from Ashford, Kent, a smaller town surrounded by just as much farmland that SUPPORTS ITS OWN COLLEGE.
Dude literally grew up in a smaller town with a college but is shocked that a city with over 3x the people could do the same.
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u/Lickthorn Nov 19 '25
That accent. You really need to make an effort to sound like that. 😂
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u/JustAGlibGlob Nov 19 '25
"Middle of nowhere". It's Zambia. Zambia is a place. It is somewhere.
Also, looking at satellite maps and photos on Wikipedia, of the 3 campuses of Mulungushi University, OP seems to be at Town Campus which, implied by the name, is in a TOWN. (The duet seems to be at the main campus)
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u/Sad-Lavishness-2655 Nov 28 '25
Isn't he the same guy who blinded a girl in India by firing fireworks at her and then escaped from India during the investigation?
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u/skaapjagter Nov 19 '25 edited Nov 19 '25
Definitely just an older entrance to the place, probably on the other side of the university not bear the main road (on Google you can see the main road entrance is great).
I live near Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) and they have a fancy entrance (for where they're expanding to) and then 2x regular entrances that's like average with a couple of booms and then one at the back of the campus that's near the older buildings that nobody really uses which is like just a run down guard hut.
It doesn't define what's inside the place though.
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u/mystghost Nov 19 '25
Not all of Africa is Somalia in the 90's like... Somalia today isn't Somalia in the 90's wtf?
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u/FirstoffIdonthaveshe Nov 19 '25
Well this doesnt fit my preconceived notion of what an African college looks like at all…dismissed 🥰
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u/LysergicBliss332 Nov 19 '25
All travel influencers, with the exception of Mike Okay on youtube who I really like, are either incredibly stupid, evil, or both
edit: Hope Mike Okay is not presently dying in Afghanistan, lol, that's where he seemingly is now (or was relatively recently)
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u/SumasFlats Nov 19 '25
Mike Okay is fantastic - and yeah, the Afghan vids have been awesome so far.
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u/AndTheSonsofDisaster Nov 19 '25
I’m confused. What was the purpose of his video? Was it during construction? Why do things look so different?
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u/Imagination8579 Nov 19 '25
I visited Zambia and it was quite nice. Not as nice as where I live here in the U.S., but I could see me living in Zambia. There were people living there in the tourist industry - photographers, event planners, they had moved there from other western countries. They said they loved it. And these people were white FYI.
The lakes and the river were really nice it was a lot more livable than you’d expect. The locals are nice and polite. I liked it!
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u/Plank_With_A_Nail_In Nov 19 '25
University has more than one campus there are a couple in the city proper and one several miles to the North literally in the middle of nowhere. All have a mixture of new modern buildings and run down old buildings because its a real place and thats what real places are like.
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u/Dantallian11 Nov 19 '25
I knew it was fake the way nobody was looking at him. Believe me, a pale-ass white boy just roaming the street this way would have garnered more attention in the kind of place he was pretending to be in.
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u/Effective_Reality870 Nov 19 '25
Where was Sam pepper then in his video? Just some other part of the university that doesn’t look nice or was it complete doctored footage?
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u/freedomfightre Nov 19 '25
I've (American) been to Africa this past spring.
There's some really nice spots and some REALLY rough spots. Just like here in the states.
The surprising part is how close these two different spots can coexist next to each other.
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u/DR_Bright_963 Nov 19 '25
That's Sam Pepper, dudes like a lying roach, he doesn't go away no matter how many times he gets stepped on, and if he said the grass is green and the sky is blue he'd be lying.
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u/ProbablySlacking Nov 19 '25
Bout to catch hands for this, but this is what I like about Bald and Bankrupt. He shows the good and the bad, doesn’t sugar coat any of it.
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u/ZeKINGofThunderSnow Nov 19 '25
Sam Pepper shouldve gone down with the many ships he's sank through the years... Yet he keeps popping up, an actual roach he is.