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Asians Call Out ‘Better Boba’ Brand for Alleged Whitewashing

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0:00 but you know the brand undefeated yeah they did their own take on it and it looks F they cool and their GES are sick as F did you take notes for your own gym he's on what gy what you [Music] forgot all right so I think it's time we talk about better Boba have you guys heard about that no was that is that is that our competition all right ████ them it's not your competition okay okay what's better Boba that's a company it's a company that's kind of being scrutinized right now did you guys hear about better Boba they have healthy Boba so yeah so it's a Portland based company it's owned by I believe she's white like a white lady and her Indian husband and they've created this like Boba recipe that they it's it's almost like it's it's to be assumed that it's superior to

0:51 the normal B why is it carbless is it just it's not carbless but what they're saying is that it's all natural ingredients it's only four ingredients no child labor I yet to be determined that's how you get the ball so small you got the little kids doing the balls every day yeah obviously this topic is the darling of next shark they freaking love hating on it but then um it's one of those things where like I think it's been misunderstood slightly I will say okay because they're trying to improve packaged readymade Boba that you order and then you just like put it in your drink they're trying to improve that by making it better because the ones that I think that you can get now kind of preservatives yeah and they said that when they they tried it they didn't think it was good but they're getting huge amounts of hate and like you know for appropriating B gentrifying it God that whole thing's kind of happening I

1:41 agree with that you agree okay let's hear from someone who agrees Well it Well for like Boba don't you just if you want to make it at home don't you just put in a pot and just boil it Boba is very annoying to make it at home I've tried it's the ready one so it's already squishy it's not the hard one it's the squishy one have you guys seen this the the you could get these already like already cooked yeah like they're in a that seems sketchy to me huh it looks like it looks like these it's just like in a plastic sack but you can just put it in your drink right away and drink it or you have to cook I don't know if you have to cook it oh no you have to cook those they just need the Indian husband to be the face of the no they tried they tried like they try to list it as like oh it's woman and minority owned that's how they're calling it so that you don't think it's you know she should have married asan trying to soften the blow a little bit but they're getting a ton of ha you know what the public sentiment is is probably both of y'all don't know ████ about Boba so shut the ████ up that

2:32 is yeah that's the general consensus but they did respond to the hate and I thought they did a really nice response what did they say we do know ████ about Boba you shut the ████ up like oh ████ you're right they're like maybe if you made your Boba right to begin with we wouldn't have to make this comp 10 toes on oura yeah they just bang on people if it was good like I wouldn't care if if they if it was s█████ then i' would be like you know what yep like Chick-fil-A they're the best example of like like the ████ egg rolls at Jack in the who who who hold on Avocado no what you say remember when Chick-fil-A came out everyone was mad at them cuz they just didn't like gay people you know what I mean they still maintain that they still maintain it still you see dude there's always a ████ line it's true cuz then the one in West Hollywood should not be that banging and it is and it is banging bro it is banging yeah they'll be like I

3:24 ████ hate that I love these sandwiches yeah yeah yeah I bet that's a thing I bet that's a combo do you guys feel like like as Asians there's any kind of gatekeeping that can be done when someone like I don't give a ████ yeah I I I agree with with that I don't really care if it's a white lady making it I think it's I'm a very like um what is that word don't give a ████ no met like a ████ like it starts with if it's just good or not has to be yeah yeah yeah it's more like quality if it's like I don't care what your race is or who's backing the product it's like did you make a quality product and what I will say cuz this reminds me of this other one I've seen a a lady make a healthy chamoy cuz chamoy has a lot of preservative sugar free one right yeah it's I don't know if it was sugar free but it was like not using artificial dyes like red 40 and ████ like red 40 is like quite literally poison red 40 is good man she drinks red 40 she would have a red 40 IV if she could so is

4:14 pretty ████ bomb though it tastes great and it's like cultural right so somebody made like a healthy version I I also think food is like uh especially in our culture in American and stuff fusion with food happens so frequently that like it's hard to gatekeep like food because that's just like ingredient that ends up being put into like some other ████ cultures this and that but gatekeeping maybe like very very specific like cultural Traditions or or garbs or something like that I think is but do you think that is do you guys think there's a little bit of a almost like they walked right into it by calling it better Boba a little bit people are nitpicking though bro but I think they're talking about better Boba as in like it's healthier that is what they're talking about exactly but they're not trying to say like oh we did it better than the white people's bu was better than they were like we didn't mean that it was Superior we meant that the ingredients are better for you they shouldn't have used they should have said white Boba objectively that's just a good name agree alliteration yeah

5:06 better Boba and it and it's so many bees it's such a good brand I agree I think that and it's like weird to consider it like whitewashing to make something healthy like why do white people own healthify that's true it feels almost like backwards like racism to yourself like oh you're trying to make my ████ healthy keep your white ████ out of here like her husband the other owner is Indian right Asian boom no no they tried that he said and they were like n you would have thought wrong called them minority not Asian different so like let's say that there's like some some white frat dude that makes a competitor and it's called better Seltzer and it's just all your same I mean better be good if you're going to put that title yeah but it's all Asian flavors the same ████ something so so there's a guy that makes sake soda he's a white guy oh it's not bad tasting but like it is like he makes similar content to Jeremy like you know and it's like but but again like um I

5:57 don't know I I don't really hold that against him either like in my opinion like you're just a human being trying to make it you know and I just start with if it's good or not exactly like even recently um I don't know if youself but like Nike just came out with the whole weight set and I was like that's ████ whack that's the first thing I've ever seen Nike do where I was like ball on what the is it because it's not Innovative wait what is the weight set so they like dumbbells and stuff so I think Nike is moving into like the strength and conditioning space they've always done running basketball you know Street Wear all that stuff Nike SB skateboarding and all that and so like they I think want to tap into to weightlifting and they come out with a Nike dumbbell set or whatever and so you would think that Nike would do something at the Nike level but as soon as they came in it just looked very very average so to me it's not even about like so the product sucked yeah it wasn't about like oh cool are they going to do uh I mean

6:47 Nike is making these products first my first and foremost is is it good or not so did you go like stick to running no I just saw it I was like damn I'm a big fan of Nike to is it because you expect Innovation from them ████ yeah I mean with all that money you would expect yeah I I thought it was going to be next level blow my mind you know what would be a next level blow your mind weight set like the weight design have you seen the undefeated gym in KT that place is cool that oh yeah The Undefeated jiujitsu one like what do they have the aesthetic of it I I'll show you after but the aesthetic of it is insane you're like I've never seen a gym or Jiu-Jitsu gym but that's not like entry level enough for like the consumer base that they have wait it's like a weightlifting gym yeah there's like a weightlifting SL uh Jiu-Jitsu JY and what's what's this place called um it's called undefeated like u a TCP or something but you know the brand undefeated yeah they did their own take on it and it looks ████ and

7:38 their GES are sick as ████ did you take notes for your own gym he's on what gym whaty he forgot he forgot no they already did a way too cool I was like we can't we can't beat that the jky cool man we should have a jby gym powered by matcha you got you got to talk to Jeremy matcha pre-workout oh just direct comp just better gym better undefeated gym Jeremy giv the best advice that's so like if that Boba is not even good then you give people a way to nitpick at what you're doing yeah yeah yeah that's true and I think most people who are hating on it obviously hav't TR and if that's what you Market it too if you Market it as better Boba it better be better Boba do you have time to hate on something like this get another job you're a loser get three jobs like be busy I feel like no busy is

8:30 ever hating yeah that's true that's true there's there's ████ I see where in my head I'm like this is ████ stupid but I just don't have the energy to be like I hate this I don't care I don't understand Asians that see this and feel threatened that their cultur is being destroyed you know what I mean like there's a lot more things destroying Asian culture like ████ child soldiers and militant terrorist groups and you know like like all white stealing our Asian girl godamn yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah let's talk about one issue let's talk about that no man Boba still here to that but the but the thing they get outraged and need to ████ write articles about is a ████ Indian guy making Boba these are the ████ that play valerant 24 hours a day ████ them just a quick disc

9:21 just a random quick disc the Nerds are what they're is it usually the Asians that are saying all oh it's all Asian yeah just go in next shark comments you'll usually see me there roasting the commenters but that's you see him in every comment report a lot of them talking ████ to everybody yeah quite good at it what's that word for them like the liberal Boba Asians Boba liberals that just yeah Boba liberals there we go there's a lot of ████ Asian ████ out there though I agree I I think there's too many of us that are too soft and there's Boba conservative what's Boba conservative conserv Boba conservative is like the it's like the other side of of the Boba liberal but there's still Boba yeah why it got to be Boba dude and then what's Boba preservative I feel like that has to be a different food item that's like pecking I love Boba I don't know why make it pecking dog dude yeah something

10:11 something like hard and manly like they killed something so Boba liberal is like the stereotypical NorCal like upper middle class Asian dude that's woke about everything what about shom B conservatives oh that's nice they're from they're from China and they're they're usually they don't care about America tapak conservative that's the Boba conservative is the like the one that's like so freaking right-wing that they're almost like oh I wish I was born W you know like that kind of yeah that's that's my of table that's ████ ridiculous I see myself in the miror and I go W China man I wish they were bigger like that I wish they were bigger rinkle godamn it I do like the Boba conservative better me too what about the ones that use their ████ phone as a what about this what you have to say about this huh look at that what

11:02 did you do put a cookie on the phone yeah I don't know what they're tripping about FES of bub call [Music] me [Music]

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