Draft:Tyler Oliveira
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Tyler Oliveira is an American Youtuber and investigative journalist.[1]
Videos
[edit]Oliveira posted a video where he attempted to soak up a pool using 100,000 rolls of paper towels. After he realized that it would require more than a million paper towels to do so, he attempted to explode the remaining paper towels with a firework. Several viewers criticized the video as being extremely wasteful. Initially, Oliveira argued that the paper towels would have existed regardless of whether he used them or not. A few days later, he apologized for the video, saying that he donated $1000 to the Australian Red Cross and encouraged viewers to donate.[2][3]
In November 2023, Oliveira released a video covering drug use in Vancouver, Canada.[4] A British Columbia representative who appeared in the video, Elenore Sturko, alleged that she was filmed without her consent and labeled the video "inaccurate and exploitative".[5] Michael Manitoba was filmed while suffering from a drug overdose without his consent, which harm reduction and recovery expert Guy Felicella called disgusting.[6] Colby Cosh, writing in the National Post, defended Oliveira and criticized CTV News for "discouraging competitors" in journalism.[7]
In September 2024, Oliveira posted on X several interviews of Springfield, Ohio residents about Haitian residents in the city, and one interviewee told Oliveira that he saw Haitian immigrants taking over one hundred cats in a white van who told police that they were eating them.[8] He posted a video to Youtube about Springfield shortly after, gaining 4.5 million views within ten days.[9][1] NPR criticized Oliveira for not including information about Springfield police's lack of records regarding that testimony and misrepresenting a Haitian interviewee as a reckless driver. NPR also noted that the cover image was a frame from the video altered to show a Haitian man holding a cat.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Jingnan, Huo; Nguyen, Audrey; Joffe-Block, Jude (September 20, 2024). "How influencers flocked to Springfield chasing debunked rumors and attention". NPR. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
- ^ Ritschel, Chelsea (January 15, 2020). "YouTuber criticised for using '100,000 rolls of paper towels' to soak up a pool". The Independent. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
- ^ Lee, Alicia (January 19, 2020). "YouTuber who tried to soak up a pool with 100,000 paper towels criticized for wasting 100,000 paper towels". CNN. Retrieved November 20, 2024.
- ^ Oliveira, Tyler (November 2, 2023). I Investigated the Country Where Every Drug is Legal... (Video).
- ^ Weichel, Andrew (November 13, 2023). "B.C. MLA says she didn't agree to appear in 'exploitative' drug crisis video". CTV News. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
- ^ Zavarise, Isabella (December 4, 2023). "'It's unethical': Man filmed having an overdose urges people to stop recording residents on DTES". CTV News. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
- ^ Cosh, Colby (December 7, 2023). "Colby Cosh: CTV stands against journalism if it shows the misery of drug use". National Post. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
- ^ Horn, Dan; Moorwood, Victoria (September 18, 2024). "How right-wing social media took false claims about Haitians eating pets to the debate". Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved November 19, 2024.
- ^ Oliveira, Tyler (September 10, 2024). Inside the Ohio Town Invaded by "Cat-Eating" Haitians (Video).