Kashmiris Call Out YouTubers for Showing Them In Poor Light

At a tea stall in Srinagar's Lal Chowk, a group of college students scrolls through YouTube. They pause at a thumbnail bearing a dramatic title: "The Truth About Kashmir They Don't Want You to See."

- Syed Mohammad Burhan

The video, posted by a self-proclaimed "truth seeker" from north India, is filled with sweeping generalizations and suspicious edits. For the students, it's become a familiar pattern.

"YouTubers are coming here to turn us into villains," said 21-year-old Faizan Ahmad, a sociology major. "They talk to us nicely, pretend to understand, and then use our words to paint us as dangerous or backward."