Oscar is a blogger from Colombia whose content is lively: street challenges in China.
He launches all kinds of challenges: speak only Chinese for a day, eat across a whole food street, survive a day in a strange city with 100 yuan. Every challenge is funny and watchable.
Oscar speaks fluent Spanish, English and Chinese, translating his challenges into three languages — reaching audiences in Latin America, the US and China.
Challenges push people beyond limits, he says. Through street challenge after street challenge, he understands China better and loves it more.
Oscar is a street-challenge short video creator, famous for challenges on Chinese streets. His videos are a collection of "Chinese streets x foreigner challenges".
Content: "foreigners challenge ordering food in Chinese", "random street interviews", "foreigners learn Chinese challenge" - connecting streets through challenges.
Going viral: his "street challenge: learn a dialect from a passer-by" video spread - learning dialects from strangers across regions, hilarious and warm.
Style: outgoing, exaggerated reactions, turning streets into a stage; cooperative passers-by make videos full of surprise.
Significance: he represents street-challenge foreign bloggers - proving Chinese streets are the best content field and passers-by the best cast.
For readers: his videos make you feel Chinese streets are full of stories - anyone can be the next protagonist.
He also ran a "free hugs" street experiment - holding a "free hugs" sign; reactions moved him: an auntie urged "take care of yourself alone abroad", a child ran to hug him, office workers set down fatigue to embrace him. "Kindness on Chinese streets is far more than I imagined." His next challenge: "say tongue twisters in Chinese".
The most common phrase he hears: "foreigners can speak Chinese too, amazing" - "actually I want to say, Chinese people are amazing - facing so many people and things daily with such warmth." He plans an annual China street project with a new theme each year. "Chinese streets are an inexhaustible treasure."
His biggest gain from street challenges: "discovering another side of myself" - "I thought I came to teach Chinese; turns out Chinese people taught me." Back in Britain he plans a summary video "what I learned in China" for European audiences. "Chinese streets are the best school I attended."
"I learned to say xie xie in Chinese and to greet with a smile - these two things work worldwide."
His next challenge: asking passers-by to describe China in one sentence - he believes answers will be more brilliant than imagined.
