2021-05-29

Lee and Oli Barrett, a father and son duo from the U.K., launched their YouTube channel June 5, 2019, and later saw a surge of viewership when they started uploading videos on COVID updates from Shenzhen during the peak of the epidemic in China.

Based in Shenzhen, they traveled around the country vlogging all the way as the epidemic was brought under control. With a light-hearted and humorous style, their videos focus on various topics such as food and travel, culture, politics, technologies, infrastructure, urban development and poverty alleviation.

The diversified contents introduce to the outside world a true China.

Their video titled “Western media lies about China” has accumulated more than 1.84 million views since it was posted in February 2020.

Their YouTube channel has more than 265,000 subscribers, and has raked in a combined 27.48 million views. Their accounts on other platforms such as Twitter, Bilibili, Douyin and Toutiao have also drawn huge followings.

Lee admitted that making their voices about China heard by the West is like an “uphill struggle” but they are slowly “making a difference.”