Isak Munda- The Successful Youtuber 

You may have heard that Tribal youth Isak Munda’s name and fame as a successful YouTuber. He belongs to Babupali in Sambalpur district’s Jujumura block. He is now an inspiration for entire western Odisha. He was a daily wage laborer, earning popularity by uploading his YouTube videos aiming to promote his culture and tradition. In this write up let me discuss a few ideas about him.

About Isak Munda

Inspired by the YouTubers, he made a decision to make a self video and soon took a loan of Rs 3000 to record himself eating a full plate of boiled rice without enough curry. Within hours after he uploaded the video on YouT Odia YouTuber. Isak Munda’s trending video titled – ‘Fish and Rice Eating Indian Village’ – has earned over 1.5 lakh views in just five hours of streaming on Thursday. From a marginally poor background, Isak hails from the Sambalpur district. His YouTube Channel ‘Isak Munda Eating’ is about food vlogs, food eating, and food eating challenges. 

Various other YouTubers also started supporting Isak. Within hours after he uploaded the video on YouTube, there were thousands of views and comments, nearly all appreciated, and it kept growing. This video's popularity prompted him to add one video after another on his YouTube channel, ‘Isak Munda Eating’, earning immense popularity. Within a few months, Isak Munda earned lakhs of rupees from his YouTube videos and ceased to look for daily wage work.

The main Objective of his videos

Munda, who speaks Sambalpuri along with Hindi, the western dialect of Odia, usually upload videos about the poverty-stricken people living the serene village life and food habits. Since March 2020, Munda has added nearly 256 videos and his YouTube channel and presently has more than 7.29 lakh subscribers. ‘Rice and Indian Sambar Fast Eating’ was his first video. In that four-minute video, Munda was only in a vest and eating a full plate of hot, boiled rice with raw tomato, a raw chili, and just a bit of dal, some fried green leaves, The scene of poor tribal youth in Odisha eating very simple food somehow struck an interest among viewers. His mostly videos often featured his wife, Sabita Munda, and their four daughters Monica, Monisa, and Mahima, and son Pabitra.

Aims to introduce tradition and food preparation method

 The videos generally display his community’s traditions and food preparation process.

When he studied only up to the seventh standard. So, He always thought he could make videos on his own community, lifestyle, and culture in his village. He said that he also shows how they collect wild mushrooms and eat bamboo shoots so that people in India and abroad get to know of the simple life that they live, said Munda. Sabita Munda, his wife is very happy with his success as a YouTuber. He once uploaded a video of the mud house that they live in. It was viewed by many people and it brought financial support from an organization in Bhubaneswar to build a brick-and-cement house as she said.

Give importance to culture and Tradition

 He constantly makes videos about our local tribal traditions. He also made a video of weaving a mat out of date palm leaves. People show their interest by watching all his videos. They learn about our traditions and culture. So he is getting some money, said Isak’s father-in-law, Joseph Munda. Isak is clear that simply making money out of his YouTube videos is not his determination.  

 He also created a video of me weaving a mat out of date palm leaves. People are also interested to see all his videos. They learn about the tribe's people's traditions and culture. So he also gets some money.  Isak makes clear that simply making money from his YouTube videos is not only his goal. He aims to create awareness among people about the negative influences and local traditions. He was happy to no longer seek daily-wage work as a laborer. he said. He has mentioned in one of his videos that he has a keypad phone and borrows the smartphone from his neighbor to shoot videos for his channel.

 Finishing Lines

Viewers and subscribers have greatly applauded his videos and some have also stepped in to help him too. He gives us lots of hidden messages through his videos and gives people a good appetite. Like a primitive man. Really he is an inspiration to all of us, who took a vow to make an awareness among people about his tribal tradition and simple lifestyle which have very important health-related value. So it's a very good initiative by Isak Munda. We should support and encourage him to do his best.