Youtuber Tyler Oakley's Thailand trip vlog

[elephantspike]

Tyler is an openly gay American college student who is a popular Youtuber. This is his vlog of his recent visit to Thailand:

[youtube:3bwqy45q]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx1qHNFZwlw[/youtube:3bwqy45q]

[thonglor55]

I watched the first minute. Why do people have no sense of style and think wandering around in various colored singlets constitutes dressing appropriately?

I watched the first minute. Why do people have no sense of style and think wandering around in various colored singlets constitutes dressing appropriately?

for the same reason people goes wondering around shedding judgments on other people...but in tyler's case at least he is fun and the video is really nice...lighten up dude

I watched the first minute. Why do people have no sense of style and think wandering around in various colored singlets constitutes dressing appropriately?



He's a young,clean looking,polite lad on holiday enjoying some of the best aspects of Thailand.

I found the video cheery, warm and welcoming. The TAT could use that and it would be better than much of the stuff they have out there to promote Thailand.

I liked it.

[thonglor55]

I watched the first minute. Why do people have no sense of style and think wandering around in various colored singlets constitutes dressing appropriately?He's a young,clean looking,polite lad ... Oh I'd do him, I just don't think he dresses appropriately.

He's a young,clean looking, polite lad on holiday enjoying some of the best aspects of Thailand.
I found the video cheery, warm and welcoming. The TAT could use that and it would be better than much of the stuff they have out there to promote Thailand.
I liked it.

Great video, thanks Spike for posting it. As Kevin said, he looks a nice polite young lad enjoying all that is great about LOS, and has produced a very good, fun video.

As for our resident, "I'm not a bully, but you are" poster 'thonglor55' comments about him being inappropriately dressed, do get a life dear!

[Cees-Holland]

OMG Tyler is still doing this? He is sweet and funny.

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[elephantspike]

OMG Tyler is still doing this? He is sweet and funny.

Many moons ago I followed him and his friends on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/5awesomegays

The Five Awesome Gays called it quits as a group just this week. Tyler and Joseph Birdsong were my favorites. This is Joe:

[youtube:oyxzvkli]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Dssz4EuUg[/youtube:oyxzvkli]

[gaymandenmark]

I watched the first minute. Why do people have no sense of style and think wandering around in various colored singlets constitutes dressing appropriately?He's a young,clean looking,polite lad ... Oh I'd do him, I just don't think he dresses appropriately.

Why, he is not working in the business center of Bangkok.

As I see the video he is almost on an island kind of holliday, he is fit, handsome and has some style, even in his choise of colour.

I cant see that he is dressed much different, than a lot of the young thai guys going to DJ in Bangkok every night.
I am sure a lot of the asians in Silom Soi 2, Bangkok, would be very interested to know him more closely.

The only thing I dont like about the video is the Tiger Farm, but well we all makes mistakes.

Why, he is not working in the business center of Bangkok.

As I see the video he is almost on an island kind of holliday, he is fit, handsome and has some style, even in his choise of colour.

I cant see that he is dressed much different, than a lot of the young thai guys going to DJ in Bangkok every night.
I am sure a lot of the asians in Silom Soi 2, Bangkok, would be very interested to know him more closely.

The only thing I dont like about the video is the Tiger Farm, but well we all makes mistakes.

The kid would have if the cubs Mam had decided to join them!!

[thonglor55]

As for our resident, "I'm not a bully, but you are" Aw, diddums.

I luv these guys,who has looked at their facebook page and voted for them.
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[donald1]

Loved the vid. This kid did and saw more in 4 minutes than most of us (myself included) in the many years of coming to Thailand.
Does anyone who knows Thai food know what he was eating at 2:42 of the vid. He wrapped something in a leaf. Looked interesting. Like trying new things (not bugs tho).

[joe552]

Donald, I hate to break it to you, but the video has been edited - so it took him considerably longer than 4 minutes to see what he did.

I don't see how it's particularly different or interesting myself, but if people enjoyed it - what the hell.

[donald1]

No shit sherlock. It was a metaphor.........and I still stand by my original statement.

[joe552]

Well obviously I missed that 'cos I'm Irish. We've never been great with the ould English. Thanks.

Is that the first metaphor we've had on SGT?

[Beachlover]

I watched the first minute. Why do people have no sense of style and think wandering around in various colored singlets constitutes dressing appropriately?
He's a young,clean looking,polite lad on holiday enjoying some of the best aspects of Thailand.

I found the video cheery, warm and welcoming. The TAT could use that and it would be better than much of the stuff they have out there to promote Thailand.
Totally agree! TAT should considering using it somewhere. Great video. Thanks Spike.

Reminds me of my first couple of trips to Thailand. He looks perpetually sun burnt as I was.

Singlet's fine for a young tourist wondering around the beachy and touristy areas. He looks like a nice guy.

[elephantspike]

Tyler uploaded an interactive vlog of his Bangkok experience. It has a summary of his Bangkok experience with links to videos of his summary of each of four experiences in Bangkok. I can't believe he actually liked Kho Sahn Road and some tourist trap bar better than The Grand Palace and didn't know about the Grand Palace dress code and The National Anthem in Movie Theaters. Oh, well, to each his own, and I guess I should send him a link to Lonely Planet.

[youtube:2d8qjzix]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j4gVQs7XWU[/youtube:2d8qjzix]

Apparently he is going to do similar interactive videos for each of the four destinations he visited.

[gregvc]

when I was USA they played a song before the basketball game and everyone placed their hand over their heart. Wonder what that was for??? I do despair at times when seeing a certain nationality that are gobsmacked by the fact that the whole world is not like home. I met a guy from Chicago in Yogyakarta and he was ranting about the use of rupiah instead of the US dollar and also the size of American steaks being so much bigger than Indonesian steaks.

[Beachlover]

I watched the videos. He does come across as a lot of American travelers, unfortunately do; a bit ignorant and incapable of comprehending the rest of the world isn't like America. Still, he's making a big effort to travel and put himself out there, which is fantastic. Good on him.


I can't believe he actually liked Kho Sahn Road and some tourist trap bar better than The Grand Palace
Actually, of all the things I did in my first couple of visits to Bangkok, visiting the Grand Palace and the biggest temples were probably my least favourite. Sure, they're very pretty and a "must see" but they're also crowded and you spend a lot of time lining up and rubbing shoulders with other tourists.