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Mykhailo Polyakov faces up to five years in prison for trying to contact indigenous tribe on North Sentinel Island

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Pop the Balloon or Find Love is a YouTube sensation – but in a mainstream form, it’s terrible. Why does this keep happening?If you threw Blind Date, the opening scenes of Saving Private Ryan and the auction block into a blender, what you’d get is Pop the Balloon or Find Love, a weekly hour-long Black dating show on YouTube.The show was created by Arlette Amuli, an African American of Congolese origins, and her husband, Bolia “BM” Matundu, a Black Brit also of Congolese descent (he had a previous life as a UK rapper and then as a Ndombolo musician). It has become an international sensation in an age where our fried attention spans have us addicted to short videos. The format is minimalist to the point of brilliance: each week, a line of eight or so balloon-clutching love hunters line up to court and be courted by a singleton of the opposite sex they have never met before.Nels Abbey is an author, broadcaster and the founder of Uppity: the Intellectual PlaygroundDo you have an opinion ...

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Indian police arrested 24-year-old American Youtuber Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov

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2 w. ago American YouTuber leaves can of diet Coke for world’s most isolated tribe and gets arrested

American man left coconut and soda can on island for tribe that killed a man in 2018

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Mykhailo Polyakov reportedly sailed 25 miles to the remote island before entering a notorious tribe's area – and leaving a can of Coke and coconuts behind as an offering

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2 w. ago US tourist arrested after leaving can of Coke as 'offering' for world's most isolated tribe

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