YouTube recently gave a shoutout to a Pakistani YouTuber, Irfan Junejo, on its Instagram page.
YouTube shared the picture of Junejo with the caption, ” Head to @irfanjunejo‘s channel to wander into his cinematic universe Link in bio to check out his channel.”
After the shoutout, Junejo took to social media to credit the location in the picture. He wrote, “So…this happened yesterday. YouTube’s official Instagram featured me and asked their 27 Million followers to check out my “cinematic universe”. Lekin…jo location tag main Pakistan likha hua hai na…saray paise uske hain. Represent! . (All credit goes to the location tagged in the picture)”
Pakistani YouTuber Irfan Junejo bid goodbye to vlogging as he no longer likes the format. The vlogger made the announcement in a video titled ‘I Quit‘.
Junejo said that from now on he will make videos on his terms and on his own time implying that he won’t be uploading them with the same regularity as before.
The reason behind his decision is that he got lost along the way and forgot the reason he started vlogging.
“Mein ab kisi bhi event pay nahi jata, mein kisi award ceremony pay nahi jaata ,mujhe kisi bhi podcast kee invitation aati hai mein nahi jaata, mein ney Twitter chor dia hai, aur mein ney camera use karna bohat kam kardia hai ( I don’t go to any events anymore, I don’t respond to any podcast requests, I’ve left Twitter and I have stopped using the camera regularly),” said Junejo in the video.
Junejo has hidden/removed all his tweets and his Twitter bio reads, “I don’t use Twitter anymore. It’s a dark scary place.”
Junejo supported his decision by giving examples of superstars Will Smith and Anurag Kashyap, who gave up lucrative opportunities at the peak of their careers to achieve their personal goals.
All that said and done, Junejo said that he is glad that by choosing this career, he had fulfilled his wildest dreams from meeting Ronaldinho to purchasing his dream bike.
There is no doubt that vloggers like Irfan Junejo, Mooroo and Zaid Ali T have a massive following and are watched by Pakistanis around the world. Which is why their silence on the ongoing issue in Kashmir is irking people.
The Indian government revoked Article 370 which gave Kashmir a special status as a result of which the situation in Indian occupied Kashmir has worsened for all the Muslims living there.
When a Twitter user called out Irfan Junejo for not raising his voice for the Kashmiris, Irfan strongly replied, “Please cancel me.”
Soon after, the hashtag, Irfan Junejo began to trend on Twitter and people started calling out Junejo, and other vloggers, for not raising their voice because they did not want to lose their “Indian” followers.
Among those who lashed out was, Nasir Khan Jan.
Did you notice guys ,our Youtubers specially zaid Ali , sham idrees, shaveer jaffery, ducky Bhai and many more jink millions followers hain ksi ek ne koi video ya koi tweet ki ho india k khilaf, Kashmiris ke liye ? Zulam k Khilaf koi awaz na never Money matter indian fans matter
Irfan later released a video in which he said that he will not be making a video on the Kashmir situation because he doesn’t want to use it as content to generate money. Irfan’s explanation did not please anyone and they were not ready to buy his ideas. They said that Irfan stayed away from talking about Kashmir because he knew that videos will be demonetized if he talked in support of Kashmir.
. (All credit goes to the location tagged in the picture)”
