Actor of the Kvartal 95 Studio, humorist and parodist Yuri Veliky shared whether there are Russians among the viewers of his parodies In an interview with the TSN website. Veliky said that a lot of Russians watch his videos on YouTube and react positively to the artist's parodies, where he makes fun of the Russian government and its minions.
" A lot of Belarusians, Kazakhs. The Kazakhs are very supportive of us. Azerbaijanis support us. There are a lot of positive reviews among Russians. People write that they are against the Putin regime, that they understand all this horror that is happening now. They write that there, where it is impossible to say anything, because they can put you in jail, these parodies are a breath of fresh air, because they look, they also see, they also understand that their power is disgusting. When you make fun of her, they cease to be scary, they cease to be omnipotent, as it seems to them.. It is very important to make fun of the enemy, to show his insignificance.. This is seen by both our citizens and them,"
At the same time, the parodist admitted that there is also a lot of hate from the Russians. Some of them even attacked and blocked the artist's videos on YouTube:.
" Moreover, there were no dirty words, or swearing, there was no such thing. After that, I filed an appeal and YouTube returned the video to free access within a day. As I understand it, it was a small attack, when massive complaints were thrown at my video,"
The actor added that he was also repeatedly blocked on TikTok because of the Russians:.
" Then all TikTok, which was in the CIS countries, its main office, as far as I know, was located in Moscow. They had access, they could block anything. It's almost like the FSB did it. So I was told. I won't say it's true. I was constantly blocked videos, constantly threw some kind of complaints. And I even blocked my account twice forever. And somehow I pulled it out. And for the third time they blocked it, I lost it,"
The actor explained that it was important for him to post videos on TikTok, because our defenders most often watched parodies there:.
" Konoshenkova, this is their favorite character, who always says that " That's why I recorded for TikTok also. Even when I was completely blocked, I started a new account. And I also post something there, but there, it seems to me, I'm in a shadow bath. Because on YouTube a video can get a million in a day and a half, and the same video on TikTok will get one and a half thousand views,"
Recall that earlier Yuri the Great told how he managed to attract journalist Vladimir Zolkin to shoot his parody about the occupier Vanka and his wife Nastya.