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The online learning platform created by Nas Daily, aka Nuseir Yassin, has taken down the course offering after Whang-od’s grandniece and successor, Gracia Palicas, showed her frustrations on a now deleted Facebook post, where she called the academy a “scam.” She also shared that Whang-od was unaware of her participation in the said course and did not sign any contracts with Nas Daily in the first place.
Yikes what’s going on here? pic.twitter.com/XqHR35Yi2p
— Tammy David (@tammydavid) August 4, 2021
Although the intention of Nas Daily was good, Palicas believed that the course is just a great example of exploiting and profiting the legacy of Whang-od and also their culture and traditions.
Whang-od, aka Maria Oggay, is considered to be the last and oldest (104 years old) mambabatok of Kalinga. She was awarded the Dangal ng Haraya by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) last 2018.
The course entitled “Learn The Ancient Art of Tattooing will actually reveal Whang-od’s rituals, tools and methods for making traditional tattoos. For the price of P750, students can have a lifetime access to all the course offerings. Nas Academy also revealed that their team had paid time to travel in Kalinga for two days to visit and invite Whang-od to join the class.
Nuseir Yassin has been a household name on Facebook as the founder of the Nas Daily page. With over 20 million followers, the Israeli vlogger shoots a one-minute long video daily to share his traveling experiences in a span of 1000 days.
Finally after long exploiting and milking over poor countries for clout and money, Nas Daily can gag now. Here are some of the reactions on Twitter-verse:
Nas Daily is a businessman and is exploiting the superficiality of many people especially Pinoys towards social media. Businessman does business for profits. Nas Daily does it for money. ☝
— Phillip Templo Jr (Felipe Templo Jr) (@thejourneymate) August 4, 2021
This Nas Daily won't really stop exploiting our culture. He has been milking our culture since day 1.
— pasl (@PaulLaude8) August 4, 2021
We have been waiting for your statement for hours and no response yet from you.
— Archie John (@archiejohn01) August 4, 2021
EXPLAIN. These foreigners has been, have been, had been exploiting Filipinos (Cyber Fraud) just to gain income and audience.
Feel the wrath of the Social Media Capital of the World, Nas Daily.
Nas Daily using our culture to your advantage is a BIG NO! Many people are inspired by your content, but don't get too far by exploiting our culture. 🤨😤 #NasDaily
— g e l ✌ (@imangelicamac) August 4, 2021
Girl why tf are there even people defending Nas Daily?????? He is straight up exploiting the culture if OUR people and you have the fckng audacity to tell me to give the benefit of the doubt???? Are you fckng stupid?????????
— æ (@sobearanogil) August 4, 2021
that's not enough. this is literally fraud, and nas daily has been exploiting our cultures since the very beginning. https://t.co/6AIAJymr0w
— alexis (@lWWVILLAINS) August 5, 2021
Neither Nas Daily nor the Nas Academy have yet to release any statements regarding the course and the participation of Whang-od.
