Hi. Just a little disclaimer before the video if i look oily and sweaty as hell that's because i am.
Also the audio quality might be a little bit bad because my microphone exploded. (rip) It is truly
the Oli London CURSE. boop. so hi it's Divya G. So i was just minding my own business i saw this.
"And i've been very confused about how i identify. And it is pride month at the moment so um but i am
coming out as non-binary um and my pronouns are they them korean jimin. Because i know a lot of
people don't understand me but i do identify as Korean and i do look Korean now i do feel Korean i
don't identify as British so i know it's a little bit confusing for some people. Nobody's ever come
out as Jimin or Korean but" Um i'm not gonna get up here and bash her like everybody else but she
need a lot of psychological evaluations. I had a lot of questions. Are they just doing this
for publicity? I this the Rachel Dozel effect? And who even is Oli London. And so we google.
And here we have "is Oli London a k-pop idol?' 'Why is Oli London famous?" "and can i m- PAHHA
can i marry Jimin?" "Is Oli London MARRIED TO JIMIN?"
Just the fact that this comes up makes me... upset. So Oli London is a british tv personality
and they've been on many shows including one by the BBC titled 'being british east asian'.
Particularly the issue people seem to have with me is because i'm british i'm not korean obviously
I'm not trying to change my race just look Korean". They've been on Dr Phil
and on the daily mail tv show where he (they) famously married a cardboard cutout of Jimin.
Is Oli London a k-pop idol? Um kinda i mean he's got songs you just have to look at this. Oli eIYo
Like this one called heart of korea where he's (they're) holding a chinese umbrella,
wearing japanese clothing and i'm 99 sure that this is kyoto gardens which is... in London.
For a song called heart of korea, they really be appropriating and traveling all around the world.
There's this one song called Lockdown City which they published during the pandemic. I guess they
were going for cornrows and they tweeted in their words it was so that they could look "gangster".
Should we start with the cultural appropriation or the racial stereotyping? I disagree with this
whole sentiment that "they want to be oppressed so bad" like no they don't want to be oppressed
are you kidding? They just want all the aesthetics and the fashion to pick and choose when it pleases
them without any of the lived realities or consequences from being from a particular
race or culture. What!? They don't want to be oppressed! There's a common theme in Oli
London's music videos. Single-handedly doing more for asian representation than the entire western
media. It's giving me real white guy with an east asian fetish, koreans, bts especially Jimin
you poor thing and they've had 18 plastic surgeries costing around 175 thousand dollars
to look like Jimin. Now people can do what they want with their money but this is society if
people just spend that on therapy instead. Anyway i spent some time scrolling their TikTok to truly
get insight into who they are and the type of content that they make so i watched around 270
TikToks out of the 890 and i didn't even make it past May of this year. Right the devil works hard
but Oli London works harder. I am also clearly unemployed so if any companies want to sponsor me
hit me up yo. And just for the sheer fact that I did that for this video i would appreciate a like
or a subscribe anyway. Here are some super basic year seven maths! They mentions korean
culture without mentioning Jimin approximately 62 times out of the 270 leaving that's around 23%
and the TikToks about Jimin were around 59 TikToks which is around 22%
added that up 45% of his videos about korean culture or bts or k-pop in general.
But it's not just the koreans who need to hide! South asians- , Japanese and Chinese.
They're really all out here christopher columbusing the entire world so hide your
cultures because nobody is safe!!! I mean they won't pronounce anything correctly anyways.
At first i was like this has to be some sort of addiction or obsession going too far, but the
more i saw their TikToks the more i was like they have to be joking. Kind of like Trisha Paytal who
kind of says controversial things just for more clout. Like even when they're getting roasted by
actual Koreans they reply in a way that makes them seem like they're kind of playing into a joke.
My uni my noona my eggie my yojachingu
will you come back to me. But they're 31 years old there's no way in hell that they don't
understand it. There was a time when they called Billie Eilish, Billie Irish now that's just rude
oily lisbon. They call literal random people oppa when firstly the person they're calling
might be younger than them, they don't know the person at all and they're not a woman.
No i'm actually not korean
but you really do look korean you know i'm half korean. Right now to address this video: they
them korean jimin. Racial transitioning to Korean. I haven't been trapped in this body my whole life
but it's been the last eight years and it's been very tough i've been very confused and i've had so
many people online bullying me about my looks uh my love of jimin my love of career and people just
don't get it because i'm sure there's many other young people out there that do identify as korean
or maybe as japanese and they don't have the strength or courage or they don't know the words
how to express this and it's uh i mean korean Jimin is not a pronoun but they can go to Korea
take a citizenship test and you become a Korean citizen. Why race and gender identity are kind of
not the same thing. Firstly there's this concept floating around called transracial. I think if
you can change genders or your gender identity why can't you change your like racial expression
especially when race doesn't really have any biological grounds? Although there's no like
specific genes that make you part of a particular race, racial classification is more than just a
social construct. Racial categorization will shape the socio-economic experiences that you have in
terms of like access to jobs certain education how you live how you're treated by society. The
concept of race is like super deep and it's not for this video but here's the question like should
race be like a malleable thing? Or can we view race in a more sort of essentialist manner? Like
should Oli London be able to identify as Korean not in terms of like nationality or citizenship,
just the same way that like Rachel Dozel wanted to identify as black? I feel like
unlike biological sex or gender which is kind of like assigned to you at birth,
race and your ethnicity is kind of rooted in your ancestry. Different races are treated differently
around the world and you inherit different types of intergenerational inequalities and it kind of
defines how you're treated by the people around you by governments by institutions. For example
in the UK let's talk about education white graduates tend to have the highest employment
rates compared to other ethnic groups, or Chinese, Black and graduates who describe themselves as
Other are more likely to be poor and we're also the most likely to be in persistent poverty I
mean I feel like we definitely don't live in a post-racial world especially with Oli London,
there was one TikTok where he said that he's not half british half korean
and then he said he is not 75 british
me. It's because i'm british i'm not korean. And it's just like these inconsistencies which lead
me to believe that i feel like even if a part of it is real i feel like what they've done is
they've realized the clout it can get them you know? They've been on so many tv shows,
they're gonna get money off of this they can get media attention they've really taken that idea
and kind of just like exploited it for clout. I feel like being korean and changing races is
more than just a plastic surgery on your face and being obsessed with k-pop. I feel like if
they really wanted to be Korean firstly they would be respectful of like the languages, the rules of
linguistics and the culture, secondly they would try to actually pronounce the words correctly
and i heard somewhere that Jimin was like uncomfortable with this and if you truly
truly respected your supposed idol you wouldn't go ahead and try to look like them especially if
you knew that what you're doing was like creeping them out you know? Like when you're younger you're
like so into stan culture and it's a borderline obsessive and a little bit creepy i feel like
this is what's happened to Oli London except that they're 31 years old they have access to money
and they've clearly taken this obsession to another level. I'm super curious to hear your
opinions on if you think people should be able to just like identify as any race especially
if they're not mixed race. They're you know from britain their parents are both white.
I feel like the only way i can see where that might be okay is if like you are either born in
a particular country or you live there for like a large portion of your life and you're really
truly connected to the people and the culture or whatever. I feel like some people say oh it's
not harming anyone who cares but i feel like it is it's kind of like a slap in the face because
this isn't a pick and mix you know you just pick it and choose your privileges whenever you want.
Please do share your thoughts I'd love to have a discussion and just for the sheer fact that this
video filming process was cursed I would really appreciate a like and subscribe if you enjoyed
this type of thing it really helps my channel out and it helps me grow... not in height i'm
five foot. There's probably more to say more than i could have said but it's 31 degrees in
England and i feel like a baked yam. Follow me on twitter or instagram and i'll see you next time
I don't know why i'm giving him (them) more attention but it's too hot man
poop