Anyone familiar with KoffeewithKJo on Tumblr?

So a couple of years ago I stumbled across this Bollywood gossip Tumblr blog run by a white girl named Brooke. The more I read the more it infuriated me. A bunch of South-Asians would send her 'asks' and her responses were almost always condescending 'white saviour' colonial tinged drivel. I'm not Indian, but I am South-Asian (ethnically, never been to the subcontinent) but it still majorly pissed me off and I couldn't wrap my head around why South-Asians continued to interact with this blog run by a self-righteous white American who clearly had some very stereotypical views of the subcontinent.

Has anyone seen this blog and if you have what did you make of it? Am I overreacting?

I liked that blog for the most part. I am trying to remember if she said anything that I found terrible. People sent her asks because she said she worked in bollywood in the past. Can't remember what her position was.

I think you are overreacting, especially since it was a fan blog. Like let’s not get majority pissed off over a blog.

I remember that blog, it was run by two girls not just one. And it was a fan blog celebrating Koffee with Karan and Indian gossip.

their responses were in the same tone as KWK, just cause they weren’t Indian doesn’t mean they can’t indulge in Bollywood or Bollywood gossip. They never went into the cultural aspects just the gossip aspects. brooke was a film student and journalist, that qualifies her enough to be involved. I forgot what Teresa did but either way both loved Bollywood.

Since when was bollywood restricted by ethnicity?

I read the posts just now. Apparently, the girl made a comment on Bolly celebs posting pics of doing chores (because no staff due to pandemic) by saying she was taught to clean up after herself. Someone got all hot under the collar saying she is stereotyping subcontinent and brought up slavery of all things!!!

1) didn't ordinary Indians have the same reaction? I mean, washing own dishes now is a big deal?😆

2) I don't think slavery before justifies poor pay (if so) of domestic staff.

Forget overreaction. I think point was totally missed. Ordinary people have always done the things these celebs never seem to have done. Or someone was waiting for a chance to take offense.

I am not sure if I remember her having stupid responses, but from her twitter I think she is pretty well versed on white savior behavior or of having a similar mindset. Maybe she has changed/ become more educated with time?

She has a point about the way we treat domestic help over here and the socio economic disparity part is true but she didn't have to drag 'culture' into it. She insists she was raised to be self reliant and feels uncomfortable having a maid , but that's not 'culture' ,that's the environment her family raised her in. Having maids is very much a part of American culture or any culture . The reference to the movie Parasite makes a lot of sense , that's exactly what it's like in many households in India. But tactless of her to bring it up when she's preaching from another country where her white privilege means much. The self righteous tone is the problem.

I can criticise race relations in the U.S all I want but if I act like a smug b1tch somebody is going to remind me of caste in India.