While Sadat looks up to add another YouTube play button (a gold one) alongside his silver one, Shadab eyes for his first. These social media stars are famed among Kashmiris in the genre of ‘Roasting’.
A twenty-year-old Youtuber gyrated on his rolling chair while pointing towards the YouTube silver play button that reminded him of the countless adversities he had to face to be a roastmaster.
Sadat believes that while roasting there are certain elements that can lead to mental health deterioration of a person being roasted.
“Roasts are not to settle personal grudges, we roast the content we see uploaded by people on social media,” said Bhat.
Youtuber Bhat Sadat famously known as Bakus enjoys a subscription base of two lakh sixty-seven thousand (267k) users.
Starting off in 2017 as a YouTube game streamer, Sadat realized that he had landed in no man’s land. With minimal engagement of the audience through live streaming he drifted towards Roasting.
“For me, background commentary done in live streaming was somehow related to roasting,” said Sadat.
To entertain people is not novel for Shadab. From creating vines in the year 2017 to roasting in 2018, Shadab, from his childhood loved to keep people happy and entertained.
“To hurt someone will be the last thing I will do in this world,” said Shadab
To avoid offending people, Shadab has shifted to roast social evils such as dowry, casteism and many more which are deep-rooted in the society.
Started off with his Roasting YouTube channel ‘Kashmiri Mastaan’ in 2018, currently, Shadab has sixty-one thousand six hundred (61.6) subscribers.
“Thankfully, I have not roasted someone in such a way that he getting upset with the video, I have a responsibility to maintain the dignity of a person being roasted while cracking jokes also,” he added.
Sadaqat Rehman while entering her office room after passing through a poorly lit corridor said mental health is as stigmatized as our department’s gloomy corridor.
Referring to people being roasted Sadaqat said “Kashmir has been facing problems for a long, and the basic personality of a Kashmiri is not to that extent that he can tolerate anything.”
She added that roasters should consult psychologists to know the guidelines to roast someone without affecting their mental health.
