Samay Raina faced severe backlash when an episode from his YouTube show India’s Got Latent went viral for the wrong reasons. The controversy also forced Samay Raina to remove all the episodes of his show from his YouTube channel. He also assured that he will be co-operating with the authorities regarding the investigation. Now, it seems like Samay has put the past behind him as he has announced a new set of shows internationally.
Now, in a new podcast which was recorded in January this year, Samay can be heard talking about people failing as parents if their young children are watching his show. In the podcast, the comedian was seen taking part in a discussion discussing the responsibilities of internet personalities for their viewers. Samay asked Food Pharmer aka Revant Himatsingka, “Do you think a person like me has a responsibility to not drink Coke and to not be myself? I drink Coke at home, do you think I should fake it in public places and promote drinking water instead?” When the podcaster said, “Yes, I think it will leave an impression on kids 8-10 years of age”, Samay quickly replied, “If someone as young as eight-ten years old is watching me, then their parents have failed.”
He explained, “When I was that age, my father would beat me if I watched television. I didn’t watch television then. I never got influenced by all this and I really think he did a great job as a father. So the parents are the ones who need to be responsible and not me. I have to be myself. If I want to influence people to do something, it is just to be honest.”
Being unapologetic about who he is, Samay said, “There are too many fake people in this world. Public gets depressed when they see someone so perfect, doing and saying all the right things, it attacks your confidence and you start to question yourself, ‘Is there anything wrong with me?’ Then comes a guy like me, just being myself, drinking Coke, saying wrong things. They be like, ‘You know what? It’s okay to be me, because this is who I relate to.”
Samay Raina was all over the news when certain distasteful comments from one of the episodes of his YouTube show surfaced online. In one of the videos, famous podcaster Ranveer Allahbadia can be heard asking a contestant, “Would you rather watch your parents have sex every day for the rest of your life or join in once to make it stop forever?” This caused such backlash that multiple FIRs were filed against the panelists on the show.
