When a female YouTuber recently visited a far-flung highland community in Chiang Mai and decided to spend half a million baht installing solar cells and setting up a large TV for 40 children and posting the video online, it ignited a storm of reactions.
Pimradaporn “Pimrypie” Benjawattanapat, 30, who released the video on Jan. 8 met with not just praise but a barrage of criticisms and a swift reaction from the local education agency.
The director of Om Koi’s Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education Wilailak Sooksai issued a directive on Jan. 9, a day after the video was released that featured a local teacher in the district as her collaborator for the clip, saying that teachers must not ask for donations.
“Large amounts of information on online communities like Facebook, Line, e-mail, and Twitter are affecting the office in…
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