Kalyani Saxena

She presented it as army-based stew.

Some creators felt like she was erasing the history of that dish because, you know...

erased the Korean War history that was part of the creation of that Korean army-based stew.

And so now when she posts videos about that particular dish, and I've seen in the comments of multiple of those videos, she has the same comment, you know, saying, my goal is appreciation, not ownership.

This dish has a very difficult history.

You should seek out Korean cooks for authentic recipes and read the history of this dish to better understand its origins and significance.

So she's like putting that comment under tons of videos about that same dish.

And this is a question that I think about when I was researching this episode, which is I think part of the problem here is the algorithm.

Like I think the algorithm –

is pushing videos that get lots of views and I think the algorithm in general doesn't it doesn't usually favor context so like even if Courtney Cook maybe left a comment of attribution on one of her other videos maybe you get a video where she didn't it raises a lot of it raises a lot of questions for me about how does the issue of credit work on a platform where the algorithm is going to continue to push videos from big creators and

Yeah, it's really, man, it's tough.

It's one of those things.

It's tough to tell.

It's tough for me to tell if this is like an internet thing or a thing that's always existed that's just getting sort of amplified, right?

Yeah, I think it's both.

Yeah, I think it's both maybe.

The creators that I feel like I've really come to follow closely, and I follow a lot of creators on YouTube who make food.

Like that is specifically how I use YouTube the most is like repairs and food.

they're pretty good at being like, either I'm like following like souped up recipes, who's like a Chinese woman who's making Chinese food, right?

Or it's like somebody who's saying, I went and studied this and now I'm showing it to you.