My Village Show
My Village Show is a Telugu YouTube channel created by Sriram Srikanth in 2012, located in Lambadipally village in Telangana. It now has over 1.6M subscribers on YouTube and over 353M total views.
Career
My Village Show is also known globally for their KIKI Challenge performed in a paddy field. That video hit the internet in 2018, and Trevor Noah announced My Village Show as KIKI challenge winners[1] YouTube awarded My Village Show with a Silver Play Button in 2018 for 100,000 subscribers and a Golden Play Button for 1M subscribers in 2019.
My Village Show’s biggest hit is "Village lo drunk and drive," and it has over 30M views.
CNN featured My Village Show in its Tech for Good Program[2]
My Village Show channel founder Sriram Srikanth[1] uploaded a video of village people reacting to the Bahubali movie set experience in Virtual Reality, and it was tweeted by Bahubali director Rajamouli[3]
BBC News Telugu collaborated with My Village Show to cover the complete story of the Kaleshwaram Project as a part of BBC’s The Rivers of India Program.
History
Initially, My Village Show founder Sriram Srikanth started this channel with the name Melukolupu and made videos to create awareness in village people on sanitation, the importance of building toilets, and problems related to alcohol consumption. Later, Sriram Srikanth changed the name Melukolupu to Myvillage Show[4] My Village Show introduced Gangavva to YouTube in the "Village Internet problems" video. That video was a huge hit and brought in so many subscribers in just one day[2]
My Village Show has set up a small library in their production house for villagers[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gettleman, Jeffrey; Raj, Suhasini (2018-08-06). "In Kiki Challenge, Muddy Indian Farmers Show World How to Groove". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 CNN, Story by Rebecca Cairns; video by Ursin Caderas. "This grandmother is India's latest YouTube star". CNN. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
- ↑ "https://twitter.com/ssrajamouli/status/790762114856079361". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-09-07. External link in
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