What Qatar Doesn't Want the World to See (2022) - Qatar has trapped people in its country, and now they're hiding them from view for the World Cup. [00:32:17]
What Qatar Doesn't Want the World to See (2022) - Qatar has trapped people in its country, and now they're hiding them from view for the World Cup. [00:32:17]
Qatar probably thought the World Cup would clean up their image and make them respected around the world. Instead, it's been a great opportunity for journalists and human rights activists who already knew about the problems to expose all of it. All eyes are on Qatar, and it's impossible to avoid hearing about at least some of what is going on. It would probably have been a better idea for Qatar to just go quietly about their dirty business.
I'm more cynical about it,the WC has proven to the world and Qatar how accepting and apathetic businesses and nations are towards the Qatari/Emirates ways. No vountty oulled out,FIFA got caught abd the venue didn't shift and its biz as usual fir sponsors.It just looks like Qatar got away with it and they are "too big to fail"
I don't know why but nothing he make seems like he really has a lot of time investigating anything. He jumps in with flashy statements as if it's fact. I stopped watching him. The North Korea episode where he's sitting around staring at all these old Korean War documents as if he was going to just absorb everything there was to know about the situation in a day. Meh.
This guy does a lot of misleading mini docs on YouTube. Some of his "historic" documentaries are ful of inaccuracies and him trying to stick a lot of his personal views in the content.
Yeah, i was disappointed tbh. He spent more time on his journey to try to get there than any of the actual people who were there. I like his stuff but yellow card for this foul, more time on the actual people than the wt man in DC. Info about the system that Qatar was good tho.
The filming and editing style are so self indulgent, I was turned off and stopped watching after two minutes. I'd like a documentary without the jump cuts, shaky cam, and all of the "cool" bullshit and just give me the damn facts, thank you.
He’s a master at presenting almost zero actual meaningful information. I find him super infuriating to watch. I hate the fake motivations more than anything.
Honestly, I recently feel the same about his videos, but I think his content has always been like that and probably it's what makes him engaging and somewhat relatable from a western perspective, hence his success. It's just too much now
I think people are missing the point. This documentary is a bit of a preview of his behind the scenes Patreon thingy, the Newsroom. There is another less behind the scenes video on Qatar. Personally, as a person who loves journalism, I find it very interesting to see how the sausage is made.
Most of the slaves I believe are from South Asian countries. It's sickening what they do to those poor men who go there to support their families back home. Some are sent back in literal caskets
A friend recommended his channel knowing that both Harris and myself are ex-mormons, but even that shared experience wasn’t enough to get me to watch one of Harris’ videos without immediately disagreeing with his framing, takes, and even editing style. That’s before it came to light that he was uncritically repeating WEF (a big old think-tank) talking points in a bare-bones video WHILE SPONSORED by them.
I know right? I saw this post and thought “finally, Johnny Harris getting some recognition” but then I saw every comment was hating on him. Whether or not his videos are credible, they are still eye candy for YouTube viewers. Redditors have no idea what art of film and editing is so they’ll most likely hate it
I liked his stuff at Vox but I feel like he has too much creative freedom on his own channel. I also think his talent is in storytelling and not journalism which was okay at Vox because the bar was already set pretty low.
Yeah, this is the one that made me unsubscribe. I'm halfway through the video (16 minutes!) and still nothing of substance has happened, only the 'making of'.
It starts slow, but gets to important points and is worth skipping through. I think for him this kind of documentary is a big emotional undertaking, so he probably tends to over focus on his side of the story. However I learned a lot from the video, and can relate to many points as I've worked in the gulf region before.
somehow overtime I feel like johnny harris's stuff has gotten worse. Less informational more narrative-focused. It feels like he's not trying to show us this cool thing, he's trying to get us to agree with him. But maybe thats just the nature of the topics he chooses these days.
His video on 'How Europe stole the world' was atrocious. Made me question everything that I learned from his videos honestly. Which is sad because the production value is great, and I really like the format
Does anyone still not know of the plight of migrant workers in Qatar? There's been several stories for years. What a peice of shit place half funded by most of the US and Europe's money. Seriously, fuck that place.
Anyone participating in this charade is complicit. From the brands advertising, to the companies supplying toilet paper to the athletes and billionaire owners themselves. These are all deliberate choices being made, nobody is just "along for the ride" here.
I don't know what it is exactly, but the Johnny Harris "documentaries" seem more and more like they're aimed at promoting him as an all-knowing hipster with unwashed hair rather than exploring the subject he's chosen. And all this map porn stuff seemed entertaining at first, but by now it's so overdone that it just seems silly. Plus this strange mixing of "behind-the-scenes stuff" and the actual documentary ... which is stylish, but also totally strange. Especially because he spits out all the info so excitedly, as if it was all already in his head and he didn't have to research it, simply because he knows everything.
It's amazing how many people are complaining about the video showing him having a hard time with not being able to get information out of Qatar in a video about how Qatar makes it hard to get unwanted information out to doctor their image. Talk about a "whoosh" moment from everyone.
Nothing about this is journalistic. He's looking at a map, pointing at a blue bit, and saying "I want to go there because I think there's stuff going on."
lemme conclude this: 7 minutes in and still nothing happened. we could repeat that waking from our sleep "he wanna go there but none helps him". 2 minutes begging for donations because of poor content they cant pay bills. 15 minutes in every sentence repeated a minimum of twice. cannot watch it further. this could've been a 3 minutes YT short.
Forgive my pessimism but it just seems like Qatar did a speedrun version of hyper-capitalist/neo-colonial practices that have been around for ages. Like,all of it is horrendous but it just looks like shit Europe/US was doing even less than a century back in SE Asia,Africa and LatAm.
He is a storyteller. It's trying to sell a story about looking at the zoning and discovering the worker district. But we already bow about it, it's not new news. Here's a 7 years old article:
Had to check it out despite negative comments, or perhaps because of them. And yes, the comment section is accurate. I couldn't make it past the 4 min mark before i started looking for something sharp. Worst thing ever. Worst guy ever.
Shouldve been titled " watch me pretend to be a journalist and somehow still be unaware that all Gulf countries have industrial zones. waste of time till the interviews at the end
All the cutsie quick cut edits focusing on the narrator are over long and distracting from the story. And I'm not gonna stay and work to patch together a story from these fragments to make it make sense. The burden on the viewer is too high. Clean it up and repost. The message has promise but is overwhelmed with clutter.
Yeah, fuck this guy. I watched him a little when he first branched off from Vox, but dude spends so much time focusing on himself. Like is it a documentary about Qatar or Johnny Harris. No wonder Vox let him go.
Not here in defense of Qatar but Russia and China aren't clean countries either, they held the world cup and Olympics and yet not too much complaints...
Despite the shitty youtuber johnny harris who made this joke by rubbing his hands on his face, documenting himself drinking coffe and telling the wife im going to Qatar and all that cringy stuff. Why didn’t anyone talked about these stuff when it happened in russia ? Russia also did the same thing and so many people died but no one seems to care, South Africa and brazil alot of poor guys died working in the stadiums and infrastructure projects but not a single soul talked about it ! Let’s ask the real question here why didn’t anyone seems to care the minute they annonce that Qatar will host the next world cup (that was 2010 btw). Another question what is the right country to host such an event without any violation of human rights ? Usa ? Hahahah ask the latin americans Uk ? Please solve the immigrants issue before France or germany or turkey ? Let’s not dig into the history. America and canada will do the same thing starting from now let’s see if someone speaks about it.
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Qatar probably thought the World Cup would clean up their image and make them respected around the world. Instead, it's been a great opportunity for journalists and human rights activists who already knew about the problems to expose all of it. All eyes are on Qatar, and it's impossible to avoid hearing about at least some of what is going on. It would probably have been a better idea for Qatar to just go quietly about their dirty business.
So so true! The Qataris are not used to having such scrutiny. They allegedly bought off FIFA to host it but you cannot buy off everyone.
I'm more cynical about it,the WC has proven to the world and Qatar how accepting and apathetic businesses and nations are towards the Qatari/Emirates ways. No vountty oulled out,FIFA got caught abd the venue didn't shift and its biz as usual fir sponsors.It just looks like Qatar got away with it and they are "too big to fail"
There's a term for it, I believe it's sport wash
Do you know what kind of world we live in? Journalistic integrity is gone, denialism and optics rule all.
The Vice doc a few years back is 1000x better then this self-promoting junk.
I don't know why but nothing he make seems like he really has a lot of time investigating anything. He jumps in with flashy statements as if it's fact. I stopped watching him. The North Korea episode where he's sitting around staring at all these old Korean War documents as if he was going to just absorb everything there was to know about the situation in a day. Meh.
Link?
This guy does a lot of misleading mini docs on YouTube. Some of his "historic" documentaries are ful of inaccuracies and him trying to stick a lot of his personal views in the content.
I actually like his work, Im grateful for any independent journalism. I always dive deeper into topic he present and do my own research.
You really think OP runs a 3.1 million sub YouTube channel?
This feels like a documentary about johnny harris first and the workers second.
I watched the first part and thought it was weird how he kept cutting out and showing the pre cut footage on whatever video editing software.
That's what all of his stuff is like.
Seriously, a little over the top for someone who can only toss papers around and drag their hands down their face in disbelief
Yeah, i was disappointed tbh. He spent more time on his journey to try to get there than any of the actual people who were there. I like his stuff but yellow card for this foul, more time on the actual people than the wt man in DC. Info about the system that Qatar was good tho.
The filming and editing style are so self indulgent, I was turned off and stopped watching after two minutes. I'd like a documentary without the jump cuts, shaky cam, and all of the "cool" bullshit and just give me the damn facts, thank you.
It's kinda like watching a Casey Neistat video expect it's all about johnny for the most part
Harris first, unnecessary hats second, workers third
He’s a master at presenting almost zero actual meaningful information. I find him super infuriating to watch. I hate the fake motivations more than anything.
So boring.
Dude's a hack, that's why
Then why is there not a cbs documentary showing this.
Honestly, I recently feel the same about his videos, but I think his content has always been like that and probably it's what makes him engaging and somewhat relatable from a western perspective, hence his success. It's just too much now
I think people are missing the point. This documentary is a bit of a preview of his behind the scenes Patreon thingy, the Newsroom. There is another less behind the scenes video on Qatar. Personally, as a person who loves journalism, I find it very interesting to see how the sausage is made.
It’s a garbage country, they are modern slave owners
Most of the slaves I believe are from South Asian countries. It's sickening what they do to those poor men who go there to support their families back home. Some are sent back in literal caskets
So like the US?
I hate this style of story that's mostly about the making-of. Feels masturbatory.
That is old Johnny's style. Almost unsufferable at times.
A friend recommended his channel knowing that both Harris and myself are ex-mormons, but even that shared experience wasn’t enough to get me to watch one of Harris’ videos without immediately disagreeing with his framing, takes, and even editing style. That’s before it came to light that he was uncritically repeating WEF (a big old think-tank) talking points in a bare-bones video WHILE SPONSORED by them.
I can't possibly imagine why anyone would travel to Qatar where it's balls hot and insanely dangerous vs just catching it on television this year.
Qatar built the World Cup infrastructure with slave labor and is now hiring their crime.
First one in my life i have absolutely no interest in. Just can't do it.
In Sweden we are forced to pay Fifa by law....
Nobody cares,everyone who's ever been to the Emirates knows how their labour works and they don't really care unless they are local journos/activists.
Wow.. TIL reddit hates Johnny Harris
I used to watch him, but he became insufferable to watch.
I dont hate him, he makes really good content.
This is my first time seeing anything. Can confirm, this guys sucks.
I know right? I saw this post and thought “finally, Johnny Harris getting some recognition” but then I saw every comment was hating on him. Whether or not his videos are credible, they are still eye candy for YouTube viewers. Redditors have no idea what art of film and editing is so they’ll most likely hate it
Yeah, did not expect it. Idk if people here are only watching HBO, BBC, and the Intercept documentaries, but his stuff is some of the best on YouTube.
I liked his stuff at Vox but I feel like he has too much creative freedom on his own channel. I also think his talent is in storytelling and not journalism which was okay at Vox because the bar was already set pretty low.
Racism towards Arabs can make wonders
Made it two minutes in and had to nope out. This dude is unbearable.
Well half the thumbnail is his face. That's big ol red flag there.
Seriously
Yeah, this is the one that made me unsubscribe. I'm halfway through the video (16 minutes!) and still nothing of substance has happened, only the 'making of'.
It starts slow, but gets to important points and is worth skipping through. I think for him this kind of documentary is a big emotional undertaking, so he probably tends to over focus on his side of the story. However I learned a lot from the video, and can relate to many points as I've worked in the gulf region before.
Skip ahead to 16:05 - he goes into detail about labour conditions
Jump to 16:05 @ What Qatar Doesn't Want the World to See | WORLD CUP 2022
couldn't make it through the video, its 80% fluff and i have no time for this type of content.
Pretentious garbage. Look at how i work not my work. Instagram version of a documentary
somehow overtime I feel like johnny harris's stuff has gotten worse. Less informational more narrative-focused. It feels like he's not trying to show us this cool thing, he's trying to get us to agree with him. But maybe thats just the nature of the topics he chooses these days.
His video on 'How Europe stole the world' was atrocious. Made me question everything that I learned from his videos honestly. Which is sad because the production value is great, and I really like the format
Fuck Qatar. Fuck fifa.
Wait so qatar does bad things?
6.5 minutes in, and I am still watching them being unable to do their job.... going back to ignoring the WC as a whole.
I need a timestamp when it actually starts. Such self indulgent narcissistic style.
Don't know who this guy is, but he is pretty awful.
But the beanies are so casually placed on his head, he must be geunine.
I watched the second video you mention after watching the FIFA docuseries on Netflix. Felt like he basically did a summary of it tbh...
Oh god... I joked about this yesterday...
Does anyone still not know of the plight of migrant workers in Qatar? There's been several stories for years. What a peice of shit place half funded by most of the US and Europe's money. Seriously, fuck that place.
Anyone participating in this charade is complicit. From the brands advertising, to the companies supplying toilet paper to the athletes and billionaire owners themselves. These are all deliberate choices being made, nobody is just "along for the ride" here.
This dude's videos are like at least 60% filler
This one was for sure! Start from the second half
Edited by monkeys on ritalin.
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Production value.
Fuck Qatar
Get this garbage video out of here
This happens all over the region, not just in Qatar
in previous report, Qatar imports hard labour, took all their papers, keep them in somewhat furnished container box.
I don't know what it is exactly, but the Johnny Harris "documentaries" seem more and more like they're aimed at promoting him as an all-knowing hipster with unwashed hair rather than exploring the subject he's chosen. And all this map porn stuff seemed entertaining at first, but by now it's so overdone that it just seems silly. Plus this strange mixing of "behind-the-scenes stuff" and the actual documentary ... which is stylish, but also totally strange. Especially because he spits out all the info so excitedly, as if it was all already in his head and he didn't have to research it, simply because he knows everything.
All the dead workers for sure!!!
Huh, who'd have thought a country that strips women of all rights would do that to other people too.
I don't understand how they ended up hosting. It would be like having a stripper convention in Dubai: asking for trouble.
Money
They literally bribed FIFA
This is great, more people finally knowing about what happens here behind the curtains.
It's amazing how many people are complaining about the video showing him having a hard time with not being able to get information out of Qatar in a video about how Qatar makes it hard to get unwanted information out to doctor their image. Talk about a "whoosh" moment from everyone.
Nothing about this is journalistic. He's looking at a map, pointing at a blue bit, and saying "I want to go there because I think there's stuff going on."
Wasted 20 minutes of my morning. Thanks
lemme conclude this: 7 minutes in and still nothing happened. we could repeat that waking from our sleep "he wanna go there but none helps him". 2 minutes begging for donations because of poor content they cant pay bills. 15 minutes in every sentence repeated a minimum of twice. cannot watch it further. this could've been a 3 minutes YT short.
Forgive my pessimism but it just seems like Qatar did a speedrun version of hyper-capitalist/neo-colonial practices that have been around for ages. Like,all of it is horrendous but it just looks like shit Europe/US was doing even less than a century back in SE Asia,Africa and LatAm.
What a shitty documentary
He is a storyteller. It's trying to sell a story about looking at the zoning and discovering the worker district. But we already bow about it, it's not new news. Here's a 7 years old article:
Had to check it out despite negative comments, or perhaps because of them. And yes, the comment section is accurate. I couldn't make it past the 4 min mark before i started looking for something sharp. Worst thing ever. Worst guy ever.
Shouldve been titled " watch me pretend to be a journalist and somehow still be unaware that all Gulf countries have industrial zones. waste of time till the interviews at the end
Like I needed another reason to hate soccer...
Anti Qatar propaganda 100% so as to wage the war for oil in future.
Dude is so woke his eyes stay open when he is sleeping.
They way this docu is made is ridiculous and puke worthy. Good cause hampered by ADHD and TikTok friendly visual and filming.
Someone should tell him his face doesn’t count as b-roll.
Nothing happened in this video, endless intro.
All the cutsie quick cut edits focusing on the narrator are over long and distracting from the story. And I'm not gonna stay and work to patch together a story from these fragments to make it make sense. The burden on the viewer is too high. Clean it up and repost. The message has promise but is overwhelmed with clutter.
Yeah, fuck this guy. I watched him a little when he first branched off from Vox, but dude spends so much time focusing on himself. Like is it a documentary about Qatar or Johnny Harris. No wonder Vox let him go.
Not here in defense of Qatar but Russia and China aren't clean countries either, they held the world cup and Olympics and yet not too much complaints...
They lost me with the booze ban.
This is a terrible documentary.
This could’ve been a 10 minute video
Fairly interesting, but unfortunately the guy who makes these videos loves himself wayyy more than the story he is trying to tell
People don't care about brown slaves.
It’s like a real life version of Jughead from Riverdale became a journalist. Stupid hat and all..
It’s like a real life version of Jughead from Riverdale became a journalist. Stupid hat and all..
man if you skip this video every few minutes its just , unrequested drama
Gimme an F,
Falafat?
Oh FFS, we get it: it was not easy to find someone to talk to and film what's going on. But this is too much! I closed the video after about 5:30
This editing is almost unwatchable
Despite the shitty youtuber johnny harris who made this joke by rubbing his hands on his face, documenting himself drinking coffe and telling the wife im going to Qatar and all that cringy stuff. Why didn’t anyone talked about these stuff when it happened in russia ? Russia also did the same thing and so many people died but no one seems to care, South Africa and brazil alot of poor guys died working in the stadiums and infrastructure projects but not a single soul talked about it ! Let’s ask the real question here why didn’t anyone seems to care the minute they annonce that Qatar will host the next world cup (that was 2010 btw). Another question what is the right country to host such an event without any violation of human rights ? Usa ? Hahahah ask the latin americans Uk ? Please solve the immigrants issue before France or germany or turkey ? Let’s not dig into the history. America and canada will do the same thing starting from now let’s see if someone speaks about it.
We knew about the trapping ten years ago.