Asian Boss is a

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channel, founded in 2013, which discusses issues related to

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History

Asian Boss was founded in 2013 by Stephen Park, a former

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, and Kei Ibaraki, a former

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, after they witnessed the "growing divide" in society. Neither of them had video editing experience at the time, and they studied by watching tutorials on

. Park said many of the videos were demonetized by YouTube for being politically sensitive, and thus they had to rely on investors to fund operations. In a 2019 interview, Ibaraki said that because of significant media bias on certain topics, the channel would stay as neutral as possible to allow interviewees to speak freely, and would go to great lengths to find respondents with opposing opinions. The channel is targeted for an English-speaking global audience interested in

, and 30 percent of its views came from the

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. In 2019, the channel released a video interviewing the people of

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on whether actor

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was "too ugly" to portray superhero

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in ''

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'', which was released in 2021. Liu responded to the video by calling it a "very teachable moment" about facing rejection and doubt from others, and suggested that the channel should tackle topics with "more journalistic and creative integrity." The video was later removed from YouTube. In 2020, ''

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'' named Asian Boss an example of overseas-based YouTube channels that attempt to gain real insight into the lives and opinions of

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. In January 2021, Park in a video said the channel was close to shutting down, as many of their investors had gone out of business, and announced the channel's

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page, which has a funding goal of . As of February 4, 2021, more than in donations was received. In 2022, '' Taiwan News'' reported on accusations that Asian Boss attempted to pre-screen street interviewees in Ximending, Taipei for

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viewpoints after obtaining interviews from the perspective of the

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