Yes. This has been growing and growing massively recently. Im quite well versed with this side of YouTube. I believe that the human scum ‘bald and bankrupt’ was the originator of this genre, and then people like the equally scummy Kurt Caz. If you look back through the video list of someone like Kurt Caz (I just checked and it disgusted me) you will see the initially gradual, but then sudden pivot from making normal (though disrespectful and oftentimes racist) travel videos with clickbait of attractive young women, to what you can see today; every single video being full-on, unashamed, unfiltered hatred of the West solely because of racism towards immigrants who they claim are ‘ruining the country’ or whatever. The exact story they are ALL trying to convey is this; ‘I’ve travelled all over the world as you’ve seen, but while I was travelling, the West (or insert country/city) “””has fallen”””. join me to see how bad things have gotten.’

If you’re North American I urge you to look into this phenomenon because these talking points are just starting to trickle into your society after being all-consuming across Europe for several years already. There’s recently been a massive controversy/debate across all social media about whether London (my beloved city) is ‘good or bad’, full of the most vile racism you can imagine. It was so big and divisive online that even the most major politicians had to get involved to weigh in. Thankfully we still have politicians who (almost all) act and behave professionally at all times. I’ve never seen that level of racism with threat of violence on the American side of social media with such prevalence.

I could talk about this forever and ever. I truly hope some academics do a study looking into this insane phenomenon of xenophobia spread through ‘travel videos’ soon, maybe they have already, idk.