And meanwhile in.
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Meanwhile in Myanmar,
a woman's viral fitness video
apparently accidentally and
coincidentally captured
the very beginning of the coup.
And here it is.
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Okay, but it's subjectively awesome
but what you're seeing behind
her is a barricade and eventually
an armed military convoy that was
apparently headed to the government
buildings right there.
Now her name is Khing Hnin Wai.
She says before I heard the news in
the morning, the video I made for
the aerobic dance competition has
become an unforgettable memory.
I wasn't dancing to mock or
ridicule any organization, or
to be silly.
I was dancing for
a fitness dance competition.
So she apparently had no idea and
apparently has been doing dances
like that in that exact spot for
months and just happened to do it
as armed officials were coming
in to institute the coup
that struck Myanmar recently.
As of right now.
>> Go, go on.
>> Continue.
I just wanted to catch people up
really fast.
Let me catch people up and then
we'll comment. Myanmar's under
military rule following Monday's
coup, in which the military
detained de facto leader
Aung San Suu Kyi's and declared
a year long state of emergency.
They claim that her
party won last November's election
because of fraud.
We have some more updates there,
but Jay-Ar, what do you
think about that?
>> I don't know,
if you have more update it's better
but the thing is, it looks like
she stands in the middle of a huge
street because automobiles
are flying around behind her.
But this has
been her spot to do her dance for
a while with a full set of, now,
it looks like the front of
a building, Cassie, the posts now.
I was thinking how she sets up her,
this rug in the middle of
the street but yes,
now I see it makes more sense now.
because I was like, well,
you might expect at some point to
see some automobiles flying around
behind you if you're doing
your TikToks here.
I'm sorry, it's not a TikTok.
>> It's not a TikTok.
Well, I mean, maybe it's on TikTok.
I have no idea. I barely know about
TikTok. Although the dance is on
TikTok now so
you can go check us out there. But
anyway, yeah, it was just, okay,
I know that it's an app. It's like,
it was just purely accidental, but
it sort of seemed perfect.
Like it seemed like this really
sort of strong thing to lend
attention to what's going on.
It's just accidental.
But anyway, since then,
in terms of other viral stuff
that's going on the Internet.
Facebook has designated Myanmar
a temporary high risk
location after the coup.
And says it will remove
any calls to bring armaments and
protect posts criticizing
the country's military.
BuzzFeed reports
that Facebook's Asia Pacific policy
director, Rafael Frankel said,
Facebook is securing the accounts
of activists and journalists,
as well as protecting critical
information about what's happening
on the ground.
And I point that out because
Facebook's involvement in
geopolitical situations
like this in
the past has often been incredibly
deferential to authoritarians and
to military governments.
So, maybe, especially with more
international attention on this
one, they're going to do better,
but we're going to have to watch.
And obviously this is a situation
that is developing rapidly, there
was going to be condemnation and
China blocked it in the UN.
So a lot has been going
on in this area.
>> It's such an illustration
of the state of the world, right?
You have a very important,
very serious situations happening
in the background, but in the
foreground, dancing is happening.
And if you have if you ask 100,
you pull 100 people, 90% might say,
I'm more interested in what's going
on in the foreground.
>> [LAUGH] Unfortunately.
>> And honestly,
based off the news or
even the situation of each one of
those situations, that most people
are probably interested in watching
what she's doing, rather than
what's going on in the background.
It's just a statement of where we
are in the world.
>> Yeah.
Now I wish, this is the stupidest
and shallowest wish.
I wish that had been against
a green screen so
that we could put her over other
historic events as they're going
on, sort of like a contemporary
Forrest Gump type situation.
Anyway.
>> [INAUDIBLE] The ideas because it
will happen.
>> That's true.
Parker Malloy probably
already has it.
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