u/Atryan420 - originally from r/GenZhou
In my personal experience nothing contributed more to pushing me away from liberals than this video. Recently i started watching “Second Thought” and his videos are also great, but i think he’s just doing stuff most of leftists already agree on, i’m looking for video that you could show to a DemSoc and they would be like “Damn, maybe i really am brainwashed, maybe i really should critically support China?”.
No disrespect to Hakim, i’m subscribed to him and i watch his videos, they’re also really good, but i don’t think they’re on the same quite level of effectiveness as what i’m talking about. I don’t really how to explain it, but i think it has something to do with people tending to believe more in people who live in these countries or at least who traveled there. If this video wasn’t called “We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut” but instead “Media Is Lying To You About North Korea” i don’t think people would give a shit. Also i don’t think it would be as effective if this video was just a vlog about travelling to NK, instead they talked about US involvement in Korean War, mentioned Hiroshima&Nagasaki, and completely exposed hypocritical media.
I think you could make a similar video about “Chinese Ghost Cities” for example.

u/theDashRendar - originally from r/GenZhouhttps://youtu.be/3MAFYsktFH4
This video series is probably my favourite for this because it’s so mundane and casual.
The point here, that you should be focussing on, is not whether or not DPRK is ‘perfect’ Marxism or actually socialism or whatever (though they are a fair bit closer than almost anywhere else) – that debate is beside the point, especially in the discussion with Westerners who barely consider North Koreans to be human and capable of human levels of thought. The point of exercises such as this is to illustrate clearly and unambiguously to Westerners that DPRK is a very normal place in this world, filled with humans going about their lives in an especially (and sometimes surprisingly) mundane and normal way. Once you can clearly understand other human existences on this planet are being fundamentally the same human relation, and not seperate in existential capacity from your own, all ideologies except socialism turn to dust.
Ghost cities are a seperate matter but really provide a wonderful example of the power and efficiency of central planning (if there was still any doubt), as well as the utter nonsense of liberal media. Go back and dig up some news articles about the ‘empty’ ghost cities of China from like 2006 through 2010 – and they will talk endlessly about the impending failure of socialist models and centrally planned initiatives, etc. Be sure to write down specifically any ‘doomed empty’ cities they mention and then go look them up now because they are presently now pretty much all of the world’s most thriving metropolises. Again, this argument is less about “is China socialist” and more about a definitive real world example of ’ does central planning work?’ to which the existing answer in the world is yes.
Edit: misread the question - thought you wanted another DPRK video
u/neimengu - originally from r/GenZhouif you can understand Chinese, this series is probably the best DPRK series I’ve ever seen:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5dnaLggmVHO-77jPKUSS9gCy_3G3HbNH
It’s like what you said, very casual and mundane. The guy has a hilarious relationship with his tour guide, and they visit a whole bunch of places that you don’t normally see even in pro-DPRK tour videos, like a church and some village classroom.