j-mee

Let’s stop pretending that the kind of articles/YouTube video narrations I’m talking about are in any way on the same intellectual level.

Of course not! But that's a question of talent or intention, not the qualifications you were suggesting necessary.

The second comment does tho

second comment does what?

Addresses the concern of whether one is really in the position to comment on a foreign culture with only some token knowledge of that culture.

Okay. I suppose it depends if they are trying to assert something as an absolute truth or whether just presenting things as they see them.

If the latter, then let them do it is all I am saying.

I find many YouTube vlogs about Japan to be dull and uninspiring, but people have every right to make them.