Annotation

I’ve choose to compare Malaysia star with Western’s because I found there are something interesting in between them. Their culture is totally different including the opinion from audience is obviously different from one to another. Why I choose YouTubers rather than famous actor or singer in Malaysia because recently RED PEOPLE is the issue of discussion in social webpage and I’d follow their news because it’s everywhere on my Facebook wall and many people are discussing bout them. Next, Jason Chen and Sam Tsui are YouTubers with awesome performance and vocal who uses their talent to share with everyone and become famous by their songs cover to albums. 

Conclusion

In conclusion, I found that Malaysian YouTubers need more effort to get more fans that like their performance because after audience watched their dancing, singing and knowing the truth about them that they do all this is to become popular instead of sharing and their real appearance, they felt being irritated. Compare with Western’s that being their real self and trying to share out their version of songs cover without any expectations. Besides, they didn’t edit their photo like what RED PEOPLE did because they want people to know them and the real appearance of them not the one who audience can’t even recognise in public places. Therefore, I personally think that RED PEOPLE need more training to stay longer in this scope and decrease their negative comments. Lastly, everywhere has different culture from human with human to country, places, family and others. No one is perfect in this world, being real and have confident is the most important thing to stay longer this scope because no one willing to be friend with a fake people unless you want to be the next target of discussion and Photoshop.

Interview

After exploring on webpages and giving some opinion about how I feel towards these celebrities. Now, I want to see what does people around me feels about these celebrities. There are few question I've asked:

• Do you know who is RED PEOPLE?
• What do you think about them? (opinion)
• Do you think they suit to be in this scope?
• Is there any difference between Malaysia YouTubers and Western’s?

I've ask few friends for a small interview then, I created a simple info graphic for the contents for the answer i got. 

Things that I've collected from my friends about YouTubers.

Part of my interview answer.

Comment session 2

I've visited Barnabas’s blog and he made an interesting video to explain about RED PEOPLE. He points out that RED PEOPLE are children nowadays are getting more narcissism. It’s true because taking self-portrait every day is not a big deal anymore. In the past, people takes self-portrait when they wants to do identity card, passport or some necessary thing that need to snap a self-portrait. Back to few centuries, there no such things as photo and human use painting method to make their self-portrait. But now, technology is getting wider so there is numerous type of camera and there is one specific camera that people use to take self-portrait, Casio EXILIM-TR which comes with few versions as I mentioned in my previous blog.

 Van Gogh self- portrait in painting

 identity card self-portrait

 self portrait during the past -  a front view photo

Barnabas's blog : http://hackersarethehero.wordpress.com/

Source(s):

Humour in Culture: Identity between two cultures: Nasan Tur’s Selfportrait (2000) and Somersaulting man (work in progress since 2001). 2014. Humour in Culture: Identity between two cultures: Nasan Tur’s Selfportrait (2000) and Somersaulting man (work in progress since 2001). [ONLINE] Available at:http://humourinculture.blogspot.com/2009/06/identity-between-two-cultures-nasan.html. [Accessed 17 July 2014].

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Van Gogh Self-Portrait: Tadao Cern Gives The Artist A Contemporary Facelift (VIDEO). 2014. Van Gogh Self-Portrait: Tadao Cern Gives The Artist A Contemporary Facelift (VIDEO). [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/vincent-van-goghs-self-portrait-gets-a-contemporary-facelift-from-tadao-cern_n_2475065.html. [Accessed 17 July 2014].

Photo editing culture

After a deeper research on RED PEOPLE and other celebrities in other country, I realise that Malaysian uses a lot of photo editing apps for their images than other countries. There are numerous apps they used for editing – Mei Tu Xiu Xiu (美图秀秀), Photoshop, Photo Editor, Piclab, PhotoWonder and many other apps. By using these apps, their photo can become a totally different from their real appearance because they edited 70% of the images using slim tool, light tool, skin tone adjustment and filter. The reason why they edit their photo so much because it helps them to look like a star or helping them to get more fans. This issue makes people confuse on what is the real appearance of the celebrity because they uses a self-portrait camera that has auto beautifying function. User don't need to learn Photoshop to edit photos, the camera auto-generate to skin brightening and make-up mode. Here are some examples of photo that uses photo editing and a good quality gadget for self-portrait, EXILIM TR (Casio brand digital camera specially for self-portrait and for best solution):

Casio - EXILIM TR

 Michiyo Ho (left) Kelly Ng (right) before and after photo editing/ TR

Joyce Chu (left) Charles Tee (middle) Wong Xiao Le (right) before and after photo editing/ TR

Joyce Chu before and after photo editing/ TR

Yuki Lee (陈太) before and after photo editing/ TR

Besides, we know RED PEOPLE’s photo is their real appearance by watching their video because they only edit their photo not the video. For example, Jimmy Tan has obvious different appearance between his image and video because he uses photo editor to slim down his body size.

 Jimmy Tan before and after photo editing/ TR

Example of how Photoshop editing for body slimming

Therefore, it’s a culture for them to edit their photo before posting unless they use an auto editing digital camera because an unedited photo looks bad in lightning and each pores or pimples on the face can be seen clearly. In short, they can’t accept the truth that they look in that way so they edited their photo as much as they can to look gorgeous. But why I will says that Malaysians use more photos editing than Westerns?

After researching, I found that Western people uses Photoshop editing mostly for celebrities and their editing is for posters, album or other events. They seldom edit their daily life photo because it’s they posted their daily life photo for their fans and they’re open to let people know their personality and appearance in their daily life. But why they edit their posters? Because it’s for events and it’s normal to do Photoshop in posters or albums to adjust the body shapes so that it will attract people to look at it. 

 Candice Huffine before and after Photoshop

 Kim Kardashian before and after photoshop 

Candice Huffine normal photo without thick make-up/ editing

This reveals the true self of them without make-ups and editing when they’re not involve in events because no one would like to see you in make-up all the day. For me I will curious about how do they look like when they’re not with make-up. Not to laugh at them just wonder why not they have more self-confident than wearing a mask all the time? 

Ellen unedited photo

 Miley Cyrus 

Candice Huffine

Above are the example of celebrity that uses Photoshop and their self-portrait. Western Youtubers also didn’t Photoshop their photo because they being who they are. They’re famous because of their talent not from their appearance. They look exactly the same as they're from the video. 

 Jason Chen on stage photography

 Sam Tsui self-portrait

Source(s):

RED PEOPLE没有TR的日子！【差太远了吧】不看肯定后悔！ | Giga Circle. 2014. RED PEOPLE没有TR的日子！【差太远了吧】不看肯定后悔！ | Giga Circle. [ONLINE] Available at: http://tw.gigacircle.com/843234-1. [Accessed 16 July 2014].

这就是马来西亚网络红人【陈吉米】的真面目！！！ | Giga Circle. 2014. 这就是马来西亚网络红人【陈吉米】的真面目！！！ | Giga Circle. [ONLINE] Available at: http://tw.gigacircle.com/746890-1. [Accessed 16 July 2014].

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网络红人 Kelly Ng 丑照掀出！！ | Giga Circle. 2014. 网络红人 Kelly Ng 丑照掀出！！ | Giga Circle. [ONLINE] Available at:http://tw.gigacircle.com/526507-1. [Accessed 16 July 2014].

How could Casio TR Series Camera receive such a big success in the Chinese market? | Fashionaholic. 2014. How could Casio TR Series Camera receive such a big success in the Chinese market? | Fashionaholic. [ONLINE] Available at: http://fashionaholic2013.wordpress.com/2013/12/03/how-could-casio-tr-series-camera-receive-such-a-big-success-in-the-chinese-market/. [Accessed 16 July 2014].

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Photoshop Design: How to make Slim and fit body in adobe Photoshop - YouTube. 2014. Photoshop Design: How to make Slim and fit body in adobe Photoshop - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Op2P2153A. [Accessed 16 July 2014].

Tool Reveals How Much Celebs & Models Are Photoshopped | Bored Panda. 2014. Tool Reveals How Much Celebs & Models Are Photoshopped | Bored Panda. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.boredpanda.com/photoshopped-celebrities-before-after/?image_id=photoshopped-celebrities-before-and-after-2.jpg. [Accessed 16 July 2014].

Miley Cyrus tweets selfie with Hannah Montana-style hair - NDTV . 2014. Miley Cyrus tweets selfie with Hannah Montana-style hair - NDTV . [ONLINE] Available at: http://movies.ndtv.com/music/miley-cyrus-tweets-selfie-with-hannah-montana-style-hair-439891. [Accessed 16 July 2014].

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YouTube sensation Jason Chen serenades fans at solo showcase | The Straits Times Communities. 2014. YouTube sensation Jason Chen serenades fans at solo showcase | The Straits Times Communities. [ONLINE] Available at:http://stcommunities.straitstimes.com/2013/03/26/youtube-sensation-jason-chen-serenades-solo-showcase. [Accessed 15 July 2014].

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Comment session

I've visited Michelle Ng’s blog who is doing the same topic as me, she’s comparing culture between sport celebrities which I was planning to do at first. So I decided to give her some example of culture she can compare with like how Malaysian get involves in sport scope or how they get train because I discovered that majority parents in Malaysia don’t encourage their children to train their sport ability but they want their children to get educated to further their studies. Meanwhile in some country like China, parents want their children to train hard in sport and become an excellent athlete to join worldwide sport competition. Therefore, they will send their children to athlete school when they were a kid and let them struggle in training.

Michelle's blog : http://michellehereinternetcultures.blogspot.com/ 

Westerners started with... to become popular

For westerners, they don’t do such thing as Malaysian did because they've mature thinking and they knew that there’s nothing good for them to do all this. Besides, it’s normal for them to dance in the public or creating new group with their own songs. It’s not a big deal because it happens everywhere at their place. So, what they do as a YouTuber and how they earn money by just being a YouTuber?

First, they make some covers and share it to everyone. Once people know them, they will always follow his posts and check out their new covers. They also gain more fans, they will try on something new like creating new songs, feat with someone in the cover or play instruments. This helps them to gain their viewers and supporters. In short, they produce something nice and meaningful that everyone can accept their work. These are example of Western YouTubers works:

Grenade (Bruno Mars) cover by Jason Chen

One in a million (Neyo) cover by Jason Chen ft.Verseatile

Unexpectedly by Jason Chen Original - Official Music Video

For my opinion, at first I’m surprise and glad to those young people trying hard to achieve their dreams no matter how people says about them but after looking forward to their news and how they promote themselves, somehow it makes me feel irritated to see their post everywhere with unreal and silly information. For example, they felt that they look not bad so people start posting ranking of handsome boys and girls of their members and slowly to handsome boys and girls in Kuala Lumpur, Penang and many other places. In short, one is interesting but when it comes to too much, I’ll become annoying.

Source (s):

Grenade (Bruno Mars) Cover - Jason Chen - YouTube. 2014. Grenade (Bruno Mars) Cover - Jason Chen - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL_sLyWNj7I. [Accessed 15 July 2014].

One In A Million Cover (Neyo) - Jason Chen ft. Verseatile - YouTube. 2014.One In A Million Cover (Neyo) - Jason Chen ft. Verseatile - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pj4N_QFnec. [Accessed 15 July 2014].

"Unexpectedly" Jason Chen Original - Official Music Video - YouTube. 2014."Unexpectedly" Jason Chen Original - Official Music Video - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1_68euz30w&list=PL5E6D9C5B966FF619. [Accessed 15 July 2014].