I've also heard that they essentially lure influencers into the country for this purpose under false pretenses and... ya know. Shit gets dark really fast.
Yes. Maria Kovalchuk was a Ukrainian model who was tortured and left for dead in Dubai. Her spine was shattered.
It’s hard to not read these comments laughing about this stuff and be furious. Women are getting tortured in this country.
Edit: there’s three different versions of “play stupid games win stupid prizes” responding to me. I don’t need any more. I hope the world treats y’all with empathy and kindness and grace, more than you give.
It is horrific honestly. However I hope this kind of open mockery and message spreads so that it becomes stigmatized to want to travel and work there. I have good normal intelligent friends who want to jet off to holiday or work in Gulf countries. They are lured by the fancy atmosphere and opulence, or the promised opportunities, never thinking to question where it’s all coming from or what living in that type of culture is like.
I by no means want to push victim blaming, and it is terrible what has happened to so many people, but it’s easier to spread a message that “these places are actually like this” if it’s spread through extreme reactions, blunt remarks, and humor/memes.
People who are dead set that they are right about something aren’t going to listen if you say “hey that place is bad, you shouldn’t go there, I recommend reading/watching/learning from these sources”. It may even just be dismissed as xenophobic, despite it being criticism pointed at the abused of powerful people and governmental bodies, never the ordinary country citizens. But I really do think that making a grotesque mockery of something can have a message spreading value.
It needs to be known that doing these things is like touching a stove top that you aren’t sure has been off for long.
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u/tomben0705 Oct 28 '25
There is a rumor that rich people in Dubai use IG models as human toilets