A 3-minute-long video is being circulated on social media, displaying a South Korean YouTuber conducting a social experiment by wearing a prosthetic belly to appear as a pregnant woman, purportedly to test women’s safety in India, as claimed by social media users.
In one of the clips, the YouTuber is seen seemingly being harassed by a group of men during Holi who forcefully apply colour on him and put their hands inside his shirt. The clip is being shared by users to highlight the dire state of women’s safety in the country.
An X user NEXTA (@nexta_tv) shared the video on June 6 and claimed that a “Chinese man decided to prove that women are perfectly safe in India and Bangladesh…According to him, he was repeatedly groped, harassed, and nearly sexually assaulted…” The post received over 3 million views and has been reposted 2,300 times. (Archive)
A Chinese man decided to prove that women are perfectly safe in India and Bangladesh
He disguised himself as an unattractive pregnant woman and spent three days in public.
According to him, he was repeatedly groped, harassed, and nearly sexually assaulted.
Now he says he has a… pic.twitter.com/w9yut9Zuk1
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 6, 2026
Thai news outlet The Thaiger posted a screengrab of the alleged Holi incident on Facebook on June 6 with the text: “Korean YouTuber mistaken for a woman, groped throughout India’s Holi festival”. The caption further mentioned that the incident happened in Varanasi during Holi.
Several other pages and users on social media shared the video, claiming that the social experiment done by the South Korean YouTuber exposed the plight of women’s safety in India. Below are a few more instances of the same video being circulated:
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To verify the authenticity of this claim, we first broke down the viral video into several keyframes and ran a reverse image search on a few of them. This led us to a page on a South Korean web portal called Daum, which carried screengrabs from the original YouTube video posted by the content creator. We noticed that the channel’s name, “I am Sumin”.
We found the original video of him dressing up as a pregnant woman on his YouTube channel. The video was posted on April 11, 2026. At the 1:00-minute mark, the content creator mentions in the video that he was filming this in Bangladesh. The video did not feature India or any Holi celebration.
In another video, posted on the channel on May 12, 2025, titled, “India’s Largest Hindu Festival, ‘Holi Festival’ [India] 7 Varanasi”, the viral clip from Holi appears. At the 3:16-minute mark, the viral part of the video begins, and Sumin is playing and enjoying Holi with locals in Varanasi. Notably, Sumin appears as himself, visiting Varanasi to participate in the Holi festival. Thus, the viral video was created by editing two completely different clips to create a false narrative.
Later, a comment made by Sumin himself under a now-deleted post on Threads clarifies that the claims being associated with his videos depicting him being harassed in India are false. He reaffirms that he was indeed enjoying playing Holi and Varanasi as himself and further calls out the fabrication of an “anti-India” narrative as “baseless” and “malicious”
Thus, the claim that the YouTuber was harassed in India during Holi while he cross-dressed as a pregnant woman is entirely false. The video of him cross-dressing is from Bangladesh, and the Holi video is from last year and does not show him appearing as a woman or being harassed.
This content originally appeared on Alt News and was authored by Oishani Bhattacharya.
Oishani Bhattacharya | Radio Free (2026-06-17T15:21:09+00:00) No, South Korean YouTuber was not groped in India while dressed as a pregnant woman. Retrieved from https://www.radiofree.org/2026/06/17/no-south-korean-youtuber-was-not-groped-in-india-while-dressed-as-a-pregnant-woman/
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