The Devil's Staircase is one of the most difficult and beautiful paths on the island.…
This 'Fish Smore' dish is a gem from Kerala (where vinegar plays a big…
පොලිතින් විතරක් නෙවෙයි, ලංකාවේ…
From where can sev (sweetened vermicelli) be purchased??
Why is pornstar Mia Khalifa on the thumbnail image?
බොහොම ස්තුතියි ....අද මම මහත්තයගෙ…
Countries that let you in without a fuss with your Lankan passport
Almonds is the mysterious new restaurant on Galle Road. We stopped by to see what all the hullabaloo was.
A cosy and peaceful cafe for some coffee and croissants.
අන්න ඒකට අපේ වාඩියෙ සෙට් එක, දූරියන් නෙවෙයි ඔය ඕන…
Sponge is one of the oldest bakeries in the big city, and one of the biggest. They are still going strong with a quality range of savouries and…
Delete Comment
antibss
u guyz are dump [EDITED OUT] . think and find the reason behind this munk's words…there are many issues in sinhala ppl in baticalo. have u ever been to baticallo or north east ?
u re doing this for NGO $$s for sure…
Helaya
Not good for yamu. You must not enter this level.
Pora
yako me hamduruwo kathakaranne ay kiyala poddak hoyala balapalla nikan buruwo wage kiyawanne nathuwa. umbala tikage mole tharama nam api dannawa. ewa umbala dana video walin penawa. Anyway me hamuduruwo ka gahanne thaman wenuwen newei .duppath ahinsaka minissu tikak wenuwen. Athmarthkamiwa jeewath wena eka hari lesi. paratha kami weemai amaru. umbala hithagena inne thamange paduwe hamba karala kala andala marila giyama hari kiyalada. othana kathakarana bageta sinhala kalu suddanta kiyanne . eth manussayek . ka gahanne asadarene wenuwen….thawath pirisak wenuwen. nathuwa ara muslim [EDITED OUT] wage aurudu 12 he ganu ganna newei… kondak thiyanawanam meka display karapan rply karapan ithiri tika kathkaramu…
tharindusenarath
YAMU! every one is entitled to their own opinion when it comes to react videos like this and i have nothing to comment on the content of the video you are reviewing here. but from the Language these people are using it would seems the hardly represent the common man of our country. poor use of the sinhala language of some of these people are a shame. how can one call sri lankan who cant speak their mother tongue properly should not be representing the common man of our country (mother tongue could be sinhala or tamil or other) these people might think its a big deal to not know sinhala properly but it shows how ignorant and narrow minded there are.
and from their comments to the video its easy to see how ignorant they are. it is not the language or the behaviour we should be focusing on here ( yes it matters and im not justifying how this monk conduct himself ),we should be focusing on the issue he is addressing and the context of it.
yes as many have suggested you can add subtitles in english but get some sri lankans who represent the common man of our country and not these half-breeds.
JPeters
So sadly is has come down to YAMU publishing anything now as ‘content’. YAMU used to be a fairly credible and interesting site which reviewed restaurants. It added some complementary content including drinking spots, places to visit, where to stay and events. They had some good writers. Now they have morphed into something of a ‘know it all’ site that is trying to be everything to everyone, led by a poor editorial policy (if they have one). It still says it is a ‘guide’ to Sri Lanka and Colombo but publishes articles and videos like How to polish jewellery, Migrating to Australia, How dirty the airport toilet is and now this ‘trigger’ article about what some monk said. (Read below about how other media and social media have raised this)
Some of these are ‘stories’ are advertorials that have nothing with their content proposition which is then a sell-out situation (specifically the migrating to Australia one). They are not a news publication but they are trying to be one to increase traffic. Sure their traffic is growing but the quality of the traffic is crap. 60% of their traffic is gone in 60 seconds (according to their public stats)!!
Why would anyone want to advertise on this aside for some very basic awareness?
They are falling into the Daily Mirror trap of producing drivel content to drive an increase in traffic (I would not call it clickbait yet but it is very close to that). And their most popular traffic days are driven from external events like Presidential elections or Iraj videos or inflammatory statements made by others. Not their own content. And their content is what they are supposed to be good at, as it is self-evident how poor the design is. (Just check out the huge amount of white space on the right side of the website)
Their reviews have also degraded in quality. They don’t expire content (The weekend roundup at the bottom of the homepage is two weeks old). They don’t respond when errors are pointed out (See the responses in Nightclubs in Sri Lanka). They were getting so many negative comments they not only removed the comments from the homepage, the page doesn’t even work anymore.
Roar.lk does a much better job at in depth journalism which is much more insightful and educational, and there are enough and more Facebook pages that offer better humour. This everything to everyone approach has, for one, put me off. I tried staying off for 2 weeks and realised I didn’t miss anything.
Just in response to the ‘YAMU reacts’ video to the monk, there have been a lot of people pointing out that his response was unbecoming of him in the media and social media. There is nothing new that YAMU adds through this content apart from trying to show how apparently ‘funny’ they are, which again is not funny. And not informative. And does not provide any solutions or explanations. While some of the comments are not warranted this is what happens when you do trigger content and not seriously address a serious issue.
I don’t need their ‘social commentary’ as its generally already done elsewhere. I can now found about new places in town increasingly through my network on social media and advertising by these places so I no longer need to check out YAMU. Their judgemental and patronising tone is also off putting and, personally, it doesn’t matter what anyone says – go and try any establishment for yourself before determining if it good or not because we all have different tastes / palettes and budgets. Just because YAMU says its good or bad don’t believe it.
So I’m going to have YAMU from YAMU because it no longer serves any purpose and unless they come up with a better content proposition or go back to being a really good ‘guide’, which I hope they do, its adieu.
(If anyone agrees with this comment and want to share it, you are welcome to copy and paste it, since there is not share option)
akhilarw
If 'yamu ' brands this comment as just some raciat remark, then you need to seriously do something about your IQ. This is the most comprehensive criticism i have recently seen about yamu. If you have an iota of grey matter in your brain, you will send home your editor.
Tania P.
Complete agree with this comment. Bye Yamu.
matara kolla
such a shame :(
nirmal chandima
මේ වගේ මෝඩ වීඩියෝ හදන සල්ලි වලින් වාහනයක් අරන් නැගෙනහිර පලාතේ රවුමක් ගිහින් එන්න … ඊට පස්සේ ඔය අයගේ අදහස් වෙනස් වෙයි . කොළඹ තියන පොෂ් ගති නැගෙනහිර නැති බව ඔය චීස් බෝල වගේ දරුවෝ තේරුං ගත්තොත් හොඳයි .
Janaka
Very sad that yamu did this… disappointed… was a big fan of yamu…
maru sira
yamu eka kudu karaganna hadanne thopi
maru sira
thopi tika marum kanawa para ballo thopi lankawata jathaka karapu ammalata gahanna oni ballo
parakadi nam ahu wenna epa thopi
lishan
very bad yamu such a shame
LiberalsAreDumb
LOL THEY CLOSED THE COMMENTS SECTION ON THEIR YOUTUBE.
rusiru
Nodanna deval nokia idapalla……ubala kisideyak dannathuwa modayo wage hasirenna epa……
Peththappu + Landslider + Linesman
You guys just opened a can of worms of the most rotten type and i do feel its not all that bad as there's no such thing as bad publicity. As Mr JPeters has put eloquently and lengthily pointed out, you guys may have lost the plot. I don't know as how to deep Mr. Indi is still involved in the day to day operations as well as editorial decisions but someone has clearly been ok with laying this turd. Seriously who in their right minds says questions whether 'Priests get (bleep)ed?'. Slice it and dice it any way you want but that's a strict no no not necessarily because ours is buddhist country but because its just crass and stooping to levels lowers than what the monk resorted to.
Fact of the matter is lending your two sense trying to fight the good fight is problematic because lets face it, your staff is composed mainly of folks from the urban areas and have very little touch with the suburbs and rural sri lanka. I know you don't profess to be pundits and experts but the pseudo hipster take on the said issue just doesn't resonate well with the public at large. While the majority of your patrons may be english speaking affluent persons, this clip has drawn attention from quarters that probably never heard of you guys in the first place.
Journalistic Freedom or whatnot is an excuse you can use to stoke the beast but it just triggers unwanted class wars and racial tension. Seriously guys is the juice really worth the squeeze when it comes to sh*t like this?
P.S: Again, not an expert but just a more-than-casual follower of YAMU commenting here, but your standards of articles and writing in general has taken a turn for the worse. There used to be a nice balance between reporting and genuine humor but now its just all hipster and totally banal and some of you probably try too hard to sound witty and know it all.
Sathsitivili
රාසික් ගේ විඩීයෝව සම්බන්ධව හොද විචාරයක් කරා.ඒ වගේම මේ භික්ෂුව ගැනද ඒ විචාරයම කරලා තියනාව.මම දැක්කා…………සමහර අය ඔබලා භික්ෂූ්න්ට අපහ කරනවා කියලා කියලා තිබ්බා……. ඒත් භීක්ෂුන්ට අපහාස කරලා බෞද්ධකම විනාශ කරලා තියෙන්නේ මේ හාමුදුරුවො. යමු කංඩායම තමා ශාසනික ගෞරවය සහ බෞද්ධ කම ගැන සාධනීය යමක් මෙහි කරලා තියෙන්නේ.මම ඒ ගැනස්තුති වන්ත වෙනවා.
මේ හාමදුුරුවෝ ඔබලාට ආරධනා කරලා මුනගැසෙන්න කියලා.මම හිතනවා ඒක බාරගන්න කියලා.හැබැයි මට විස්වාසයක්තියනවා මේ හාමුදුරුවෝ මේ කියන දේ පිළිගනී කියලා.අනිත් අය මොනවා කිව්වත්.
Hiru
yako ubala me wagema kathakarapalla mehema wenna reason eka. ewata explanation deepalla.
kushanrasika
YAMU guys………… do you know behind da scene wht happn???? 1st find it out :/
kushanrasika
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QekwjYXw1QY
Amila
I am not a fan of these YAMU reacts stuff on racists and filthy content. This kind of thing incident to be handled by taking legal action, not a 'Reacts' video done by 'young' adults, where you create more publicity to this unwanted behavior and more rage from some of the extremist Sinhala Buddhist - Sadly, there cannot be Extremism in Buddhism, but it is happening in the country now !
Imal
This is shit man. Such a shame on Yamu, do you guys know the scene behind this??? or have you ever gone to batticaloa and checked the status of Sinhalese people there???
Nandun
Didn't expect something like this from you guys! This is not the way to go :(
akhilarw
Try to understand what people are trying to convey here. Ven. Ampitiye Sumanarathna thero was the only light of hope for the handfull of sinhalese in that area. When entire villages were rampaged with people being brutally murdered ,he stood his ground and protected them. Now he faces a fresh challenge of demanding for the right to life of those people. He had constantly begged these "tamil" officials to be fair by the sinhaleae as they too have a right to live there. Instead you have quoted a segment of a heated argument and tried to paint the thero as a racist.
First it was wrong to use the name of a buddhist monk as just ampitiye sumana, wanna know why ? Bcz we the buddhist find it offensive.
Second how dare you use a person like imad , who has a history of ridiculing the sinhala buddhist values and sinhala people as a whole to comment on a buddhist monk.
yahansa
disgusted
Dinesh Deckker
Are you trying to do negative Marketing to get more hits??
( Same thing happen with Ex Alien Video)
Shame on You and You Should know the facts before you do these kind of third grade videos to promote your site.
Palitha Samarasekara
Feel sorry for you guys. First of all you have to set an example BEFORE you preach. (how many of you guys used filth on this video - so you think if you say it in English - it's gonna pass …?? )
You guys seems to have a mentality that you rule - and by looking at you guys we feel sorry about the future generation of this country…
I am not white-washing the monk - his actions has to be analysed separately.
Jburg
well said
Notsoposhdude
To be honest. All the posh dudes & women here also saying lots of filthy words in this video. Do you guys know what's the meaning of "shit" even?? And yet those so called posh idiots here are using it often. You all are like US street buggers. Hilarious. And shame on you !
As a final word, you totally "shit" on your reputation !! :D :D ( Make sure to wash your asses now, we are not para suddos )
Loco
The Grama Sevaka who was threated by the racist monk reacted more calmly than the YAMU journalists, who have relatively over reacted about an old story in a bid to trigger people and get traffic. A lot of people had already showed enough outrage about the incident. There is nothing new that YAMU adds. Sometimes the journalists are just repeating what the priest says like they are watching this for the first time, when they have clearly seen this before. Don't try to be the Daily Show. Stick to soups and sauces.
C
Always interesting how people only react to the side they see rather than trying to even look at the reasons behind the event. YAMU people are talking about this in their A/C rooms and I'm sure none of them have even visited the area.
Anyway, as many people pointed out, YAMU was a great guide for restaurants. We see political crap every day on FB and other media. Don't stoop to the same level. Just do what you know best and leave the garbage out.
එරන්ද
ඉංගිරිසි ටිකක් කතා කරන්න පුලුවන් වුනා කියල ඔය නෝනල මහත්තුරු සුද්දො වෙන්නෙ නැහැ වගේම කුනුහරුප කියපු පලියට ඒ මනුස්සය පාදඩයෙක් වෙන්නෙ නැහැ. මේ වීඩියෝව හදපු මල්ලිල නංගිල මේ රටේ ඇත්ත තත්ත්වය 10% ක් වත් දැකලත් නැහැ අහලත් නැහැ. මේ හාමුදුරුවන්ට මෙහෙම හැසිරෙන්න සිද්ධ වුනේ ඇයි කියල ඔයගොල්ලො හිතුවද? ඔයාල මේ වීඩියොව් දාල බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන්නෙ මේ රටේ බෞද්ධයො හෝ සිංහල මිනිස්සු අශිෂ්ඨ මිනිස්සු කියල කියන්න නම් ඒක වැරදිය. ඔයාල කවුරුහරි කවදාවත්ම කාටවත්ම කුණුහරුපෙන් බැනල නැද්ද? අහල බලන්න හදවතින් ඒකට උත්තරේ ලැබේවි. ඒ සිද්ධියත් ඔහොම කවුරුහරි වීඩියෝ කරල සමාජ ජාලයක හෝ වෙබ් අඩවියක් පළ කළානම් ඔයාට හිතෙන්නෙ මොකක්ද? අනික ඒක දකින ඔයාලගෙ "Mind Pattern" එකේ කෙනෙක් මොනවගේ ප්රතිචාරයක් දක්වයිද? පොඩ්ඩක් හිතන්න .විහිලු හදන්න එපා. ඒකෙන් වෙන්නෙ ඔයාල "මපට්" වෙනව විතරයි.
Goku
Yamu,
Such a shame. I will not visit to your site again.
Cyborg12
Hi Yamu staff,
Can you'll please do a reaction video for this as well?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL2jGSNGUfY
Thanks.
Bruce
We need a channel with a backbone, looking at what has happened with our country the past decade. Hats off to you guys!
Srinath
hmm… so people are disgusted about someone been disgusted about a disgusting person (monk) who is threatening the police, shouting extremely racist comments and behaving in such despicable manner…. and people are not disgusted by that but disgusted about the people who showed disgust about this? Is it because he is a monk that we are offended? A monk is allowed to behave in anyway they please but we should keep quite? I do not know what is happening to sri lanka :O
LFS-OZ
I am surprised by some of the comments made about this video. Shouldn't every man & his dog condemn this type of behaviour by a monk. The biggest surprise was the cop standing by & watching this 'mad monk' spitting out his venom. I think YAMU has done the right thing by giving this type of behaviour publicity & I also congratulate YAMU on your fearless reporting. We in Australia have a very high respect for the Buddhist way of life & we have monks in Australia too & we love them for their demeanour & attitude. I doubt that this 'mad monk' has any values of life. He definitely does not deserve to wear those saffron robes which he defiles with impunity.