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Something happened recentlyish... there was a time when india and US hegemony were politically aligned then russian war happened and India having far far deeper connection with russia, decided to show their loyalty to them.
Historically, USA has been either pro-Pakistan or pro-India because of the steategic location (next to China) and india pakistan fighting all the time.
Right now, its Pakistan's term to be on "good list".
It's not a specifically Indian issue, it's generalized. It's also not intentional, just a result of the way virality works.
Because the clips most likely to go viral are those that agree with stereotypes (fat American, lazy Mexican, drunk Russian, thieving Romanian, etc ad infinitum), those are the ones you see. Then people make more of them because it's an easy way to get clicks. They're popular because they reliably cause the same arguments (and thus engagement).
The machine does not care about anything but maximizing eyeballs on their platforms.
To play devil's advocate, there are more videos that show these stereotypes than not. To quote racists everywhere, "stereotypes exist for a reason". But it's important to remember that humans everywhere are literally almost identical, and the reason stereotypes exist is worth looking into in order to acknowledge why we might have inherent biases. In OPs example, India is poor as fuck, and a lot of people just don't have shoes because of that history of wealth inequity
As stated its conformation bias. I am currently in India now and there is granted a much greater disparity between rich and poor and both the things you stated above, there will be things that shock. That said it is a fantastic, massively diverse and rapidly emerging country, well worth discovering. Also it is very devolved state wise culturally, linguisticly etc. You experience will very depending on which state your in
imo, it's ragebait. Negative posts + a desire of the target to be validated = Engagement = More revenue
Does it's mean it's wholly false? Probably not. More likely, there's a measure of truth, even a small amount of it. The rest could be emphasized or exaggerated to hit that engagement.