"After one million views, the video still has a 98.8 percent like-to-dislike ratio, so it’s safe to say people enjoyed it.”īrandon Hurley is seen wearing Vietnamese women’s pajamas in a supplied photo taken with his pet chicken on the street of Ho Chi Minh City. “I told myself in the beginning that if roughly 40 percent of people didn’t like the video, I would stay away from content like that. My ability to speak conversational Vietnamese made the videos what they were.
“Honestly, the videos would not have been any good if I did not speak Vietnamese.
“This foreigner also heard that dogs are commonly stolen in Vietnam, so he thought a chicken would be a better pet. “The story was about a foreigner who wanted to dress in the traditional outfits of Vietnam, but accidentally bought traditional pajamas worn by women,” Hurley explained. In early 2019, Hurley began drawing the attention of local netizens after a video went viral of him wearing Vietnamese women’s pajamas on the streets of Ho Chi Minh City with his pet chicken.
In just a few short years, Hurley, who goes by Phuc Map (‘Map’ is the Vietnamese word for ‘Fat” while ‘Phuc’ is a common Vietnamese name), has accrued more than 429,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel Phúc Mập Vlog and 455,600 followers on his TikTok Hurley’s trademark orange beard is a familiar sight to Vietnam’s netizens. Brandon Hurley’s trademark orange beard is a familiar sight to Vietnam’s netizens thanks to his wildly popular YouTube and TikTok videos in which he showcases various aspects of Vietnamese culture using fluent Vietnamese.