A Creepy Vietnamese Breastfeeding Conspiracy
Jokes, for me at least, can be broken down into two categories: ones that I’d make online and ones that I’d only make offline—typically to close friends or family members or pets. The jokes that I make online are generally tame and safe, which can be pretty annoying but 100% worth not losing my Twitter account over—a fate that seems to be increasingly realistic with the platform’s rampant, robot-enforced suspensions for inexplicable reasons like simply including the word “kill” or the phrase “kill yourself” in a tweet.
Personally, I’ve been tweeting on eggshells since last February, when I was suspended from the site for “encouraging suicide or self-harm.” I use quotations because I quite literally was doing the opposite of that: encouraging self-improvement.
Even though the lockdown only lasted 12 hours—a length of time that a neurotypical adult would easily or naturally abstain from Twitter for—it was still the scariest email I’ve received since 2012, when I was banned from my school’s wifi for illegally downloading anonymous music.
Anyway, there’s a handful—albeit a grossly premature infant’s handful—of topics that I refuse to joke about, both on and off the web. One of those topics is human trafficking. It’s just not funny to me. It’s wack. The stats are pretty haunting as well. For example, more than 3,000 people in Vietnam alone, most of them women and children, were trafficked between 2012 and 2017.
What I’m about to talk about isn’t necessarily as bad as Vietnamese human trafficking, but it gets eerily close.
Public Breastfeeding
This is going to be a very brave stance for me to take so I’d appreciate female support in my direct messages, but I’ve long been a firm believer that women should feel comfortable feeding their baby however and whenever they’d like. I don’t know. I guess it’s just the type of person I am.
Women breastfeeding in public is a topic that’s been highly controversial over the years, but it’s gradually starting to become more normalized and accepted in America. And in 2018, some of our nation’s most respected feminists and breastfeeding advocates were vocal in supporting the natural activity and attempting to end negative stigmas about it.
Now, when I say that I’ve long been a firm believer that women should feel comfortable feeding their baby however and whenever they’d like, I meant that I felt that way up until yesterday. Last evening, while I was trying to enjoy my Sabbath to the fullest, I slipped on some smut and fell down a particularly disturbing internet rabbit hole that made my suggested video feed on YouTube look like something out of Jared Fogle’s bitcoin transactions. Out of respect for the naivety of the more uninitiated normal internet users reading this, I’ll refrain from even mentioning some of the shit I stumbled upon.
But when it comes to my changed views on breastfeeding acceptability, we can start with a Youtuber named Leigh Felten.
Leigh was freely posting legal breastfeeding videos on Youtube unscathed until she decided to get a little bold and…well:
Rolling Stone: A Crawford County Sheriff’s officer reviewed some of the videos — a few of which had titles like “Good Little Boy” and “Mommy’s a Whore” — and then contacted law enforcement in Tallahassee; according to the police report, one video depicted “the female rubbing oil on herself and the child. At one point, the female’s vagina and the child’s penis appear to be in contact with one another.”
So yes, when breastfeeding borderlines on—or crosses into—child porn territory, I think that’s when it gets unacceptable.
Getting less extreme and more blurry, the Youtube Breastfeeding Community has been actively exploiting a loophole in the site’s nudity guidelines for several years now. For example, from 2015 to 2017, a br- implantfeeding Youtube star named Spiritual Tasha Mama openly targeted pervs and pedos by verbally encouraging them to sexualize her “educational” content, and even including the word “sexy” in most of her video titles. She was also using her breastfeeding videos to plug her “premium adult website,” a place where her Spaceyish fans could purchase a single, six-minute video of Tasha for the low price of $90.
Videos like HOW TO NAKED MORNING TANDEM FEEDING SESSION featured Tasha jointly breastfeeding being motorboated and fondled by both of her old-enough-to-use-complex-sentences sons.
Tasha: Are you guys playing with my boobs?
Boy 1: No, I’m trying to squish some milk out.
Boy 1: Your boob is so big.
Tasha ended up having her account removed for (obviously) violating Youtube policies after facing lots of backlash from the public. A 2017 petition to put Tasha on the sex offender registry claimed that in her YouTube videos, she “moans during breastfeeding and pushes her children’s heads down if they move away from her breasts, which indicates forced breastfeeding.
Fast-forwarding to now…
Less than a month ago, on December 16th, a popular Youtuber named PayMoneyWubby posted a half-comedic, half-investigative video that called attention to a new, specific trend of Asian “educational” channels popping up on Youtube. The video currently has nearly 2 million views and already made waves on Reddit a few weeks ago. But I haven’t seen any chatter about it—or the topic he addresses —anywhere else, which is something that I feel deserves more attention.
Breaking it down
There is was an extremely popular Youtube channel, called Susu Family, that gained a huge following in recent months. They were posting 10-plus-minute-long family vlogs, all of which featured a Vietnamese mother and her two young children. The videos had descriptions like “I would like to share with you about Vietnam lifestyle,” and the majority of them included breastfeeding scenes for “educational purposes.” Fair enough. Could be interesting to learn a couple tips and tricks. Maybe get an insightful look at Vietnamese family culture.
One of their most popular home movies, with over a million views, was titled Picnic in the House With My Lovely Daughters On Holiday Weekend. Seems completely innocuous. However, it displayed a warning tag for disturbing and graphic content at the beginning. Hmmm.
Right off the bat, without skipping a beat, Miss Susu offers her sweet milk to her handsy younger child. Fair enough. I’m learning. This is educational.
And then the larger young woman eagerly hops on for her turn:
While the breastfeeding tutorials, which completely lacked commentary or instructions of any kind, seemed to indeed be highly education, a perverted trained eye might notice the suggestive placement and angle of Miss Susu’s legs throughout the duration of the video.
At first, you’d might assume that it was merely an accidental slip-up by an innocently unaware mother who was just trying to nurture and care for her young children.
Except nope. It was completely purposeful positioning from Miss Susu, who continued to blatantly display her crotch for the whole 13-minute video.
And it wasn’t just that video. ALL of the videos on the Susu Family channel were like that: Miss Susu intentionally revealing Un-C’d Upskis, P-prints, V-peeks, C-toes, A-shots, and Full-T B-Feeds for the entirety of the Magic School Bus-length episodes, which were intended to be fun and educational for the whole family. And if you notice the time stamps, these videos were being rapidly uploaded every few hours.
Additionally, each of the thumbnails conveniently included shots of Miss Susu’s risqué poses along with keywords like “beautiful” in the titles of the supposedly nonsexual videos.
Here are some shots from the highly-academic instructional film Single Mom Cleaning The Ranger Car:
So a Vietnamese woman is was exploiting her kids in taboo fetish videos disguised as “educational family” vlogs? One might call that a finesse on Miss Susu’s part, considering that all of her videos were monetized. However…
“There’s something weird going on here though.”
Wubby pointed out that throughout the videos, you could occasionally spot Miss Susu making ominous, captive-esque glances toward the mysterious cameraman. Which begs the question: Who the fuck is filming this shit?
“I think there’s someone putting her up to this.”
Wubby then noted that there was a strikingly similar channel called “Asian Daily.” Strikingly similar as in it was the same Vietnamese woman from the Susu Family, doing the same sexual shit with the same little kids, from a completely different channel that was also uploading multiple 10+ minute videos per DAY.
Videos including the critically-acclaimed Beautiful mother breastfeeding tiny infant educational videos do not fail to focus.
“do not fail to focus”
This was not censored in the original Asian Daily video.
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In an unsettling twist, Wubby revealed that there were several more of these channels, 90% of which featured the Susu woman and her two kids—channels like Single Mom, Mom, Mom and Baby, Baby Soc, and Baby of Mom, all of which were monetized and rapidly uploading daily videos. If you crunch some numbers, you’ll figure out that Miss Susu and her two children had to have been being filmed ALL DAY in order to pump out that amount of content.
A premise that justifiably paves the way for the conspiracy that this woman and her children were being forced by someone—or a group of people—to star in these lucrative softcore pornish videos.
Getting more creepy and trafficky, there were other accounts, such as Mom Channel, which featured a slightly different Vietnamese mother doing slightly different sexually suggestive shit directly in front of a fucking toddler.
Morning Routine – Beautiful Mom with baby breakfast for baby (2018)
The videos even contained the same, slightly-altered warning tag with the same typo:
If you don’t get “weird underground ring” vibes from this, then you’re probably mentally healthier than me but regardless, I think everyone should consider this as a real possibility. Fortunately, about a week after Wubby posted his video, Youtube finally decided to crack down on this bullshit and all of the videos and channels have been removed.
Nevertheless she persisted…
Many of the Susu Family videos are being re-uploaded to Youtube from other channels on a daily basis. Videos like Picnic With My Daughters Part 11 are currently still on Youtube and have millions of views in only 3 weeks.
And here’s what the comments look like: