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Tyler Oliveira, a 25-year-old US-based YouTuber, recently attended the Gorehabba festival in Karnataka’s Gumatapura and is facing the wrath of angered Indians. Oliveira shared a teaser on X on 23 October, which showed him in a hazmat suit as he joined the locals to celebrate the festivities. “Inside India’s Poop-Throwing Festival,” he captioned the teaser and followed up with another post stating that it was “nothing” compared to what he actually experienced. The teaser racked over 5 million views on X, and Indians were quick to object to the YouTuber’s actions. Tyler Oliveira Tyler Oliveira has had a contentious journey on YouTube and around the world. With over 8 million subscribers on his channel, the YouTuber’s “man-on-the-street” brand of journalism has been previously criticised by fellow YouTubers and viewers alike. With highly exaggerated claims, clickbait thumbnails, and video titles, Oliveira has earned himself notoriety in the YouTube community for pushing sensational content. “He strikes me as more of a rabble-rouser that creates very superficial & sensationalistic content for the sake of views, under the guise of “boots on the ground news”. We seem to be living in the new age of yellow journalism,” a Reddit user on r/YouTube wrote while reviewing his content in an old post. “He’s a racist grifter,” remarked another. “I find that most of he’s videos unbearable to watch, he covers very edgy topics that have been covered way better before and his thumbnails look and probably are AI generated, (sic).” The polarising reviews left online, however, pale in comparison to the view count on Oliveira’s videos, which clock several millions of views per upload. Indians Outraged Oliveira’s video of attending the “poop flinging” festival attracted highly racist comments against the Indian community, and they took an objection to the purported damage the YouTuber had done to further the negative stereotypes and prejudices towards them. “Why do you have to come to India and then record a video of a cow dung festival by going in the middle of the event and then cry like a loser! You shitty fellow. You can record poop in Western countries, plenty on streets of California. Human poop you can have record in your countries. Make videos, (sic)” an Indian user on X said. Labelling him a “dedicated hater”, a user criticised the YouTuber for travelling all the way from the US to visit an “obscure village” in India and reporting about a festival that only enabled more hate towards them. “White man is a dedicated hater. he travelled 10k miles from USA to India and went to some obscure village in Karnataka about which even indians don’t know about and bathed in poop with these guys, just so that he could spread hate towards indians, (sic)” wrote another. I Survived India’s Poop-Throwing Festival… pic.twitter.com/1zW4QocArh — Tyler Oliveira (@tyleraloevera) October 25, 2025 Cultural Curiosity Or Easy Views? Realising that he had more eyeballs than he had perhaps asked for, Oliveira has since been talking about his experiences and his time spent in the country. “When I traveled to India this time, I checked a luggage full of goldfish crackers and protein bars to avoid getting sick,” he wrote in a post dated 26 October. Then, he remarked about the “hygienic practices” of the country. “In less than 24 hours, there will be countless Indians blaming me for getting Salmonella on my last trip due to having a weak immune system, and NOT due to poor hygienic practices in their food supply chain.” The centuries-old local ritual honours Beereshwara Swamy, a village deity believed to have been born from cow dung. The locals indulge in the festivities at the end of Diwali by throwing dung on each other. When many Indians accused the YouTuber of sharing “AI-generated” video, Oliveira responded by saying that his video was authentic and he would eventually share a 30-minute video. I’m sorry India… pic.twitter.com/pgl9HhPOqN — Tyler Oliveira (@tyleraloevera) October 27, 2025 Indian family tries to use cow poop to revive their son… The cow poop rabbit hole goes deeper ? pic.twitter.com/zJm0dcDCC7 — Tyler Oliveira (@tyleraloevera) October 27, 2025 Mainstream News VS. Man with Camera: pic.twitter.com/cuuMIrZeIq — Tyler Oliveira (@tyleraloevera) October 28, 2025 The US YouTuber responded to the massive criticism by sharing several contentious screenshots related to Indians. It wasn’t racist to film Indians indulging in a dung-flinging festival, he said.
