WHY KHA BANH (*) BECOMES A PHENOMENON?

Uyen Diep
4 min readMar 25, 2019

Newspapers, famous and imposing facebookers are starting to talk about Kha Banh as a negative phenomenon. With 2 million subcribers on YouTube in a short period of time, Kha Banh has attracted more public audiences than the national television channel.

Sociological experts spoke up, they deliberately interpreted phenomena of crowd. They thought Kha Banh were just a phenomenon. They voiced concern and pessimism.

But they do not know apart from Pretty Banh, the children now have other idols: Dung Troi, Hiep Den, Phu Le, Quang Rambo, Huan Hoa Hong, Binh Troi, Khanh Sky, Long Phu Quoc, Ngan Tro, etc,… that I did not list out since you were afraid and did not want to read the names of all the gangs who lived virtually during the livestream.

A large number of names mentioned above are working as a loan lender. When Ministry of Public Security opened a strong sweep, they were less ostentatious. Some even went to Taiwan to do business.

When there is a Kha Banh, it is a phenomenon. But when there are too many such phenomena, that is the trend. And if you explain it as a phenomenon, it doesn’t seem to be the root cause of the trend of the crowd admiring these gangs.

First of all, the fans are mostly young people. They see them first for entertainment. And although in a recent video, Mr…

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