The KBC Kid

 

Look at me being that blog that reacts to viral internet things. The child in KBC stirring up controversy. Yes, I watched the video. Also yes, I have met kids like that in the past and been annoyed. I was also this kid in the past and had people annoyed at me. That’s just kids.

The KBC format is supposed to make you feel anxious second guess your answers and draw out the drama. They use psychological tricks to get under the skin of their adult contestants. So, all I saw was a child sitting in the “hot seat” feeling the pressure of these adult manipulations and reacting to it like kids do. He tells Amitabh Bacchan the great to not ask him again and again, to just lock his answers (hilarious). To give him the options without any paraphernalia of introductions. It’s amazing, and completely subverts the tropes of the show. A kid was a kid in a formatted show. But boy people are annoyed about it. They call him rude, sure, he definitely did not follow the adult rules of politeness in discomfort. They are questioning the parenting. I am sure, parents reading the judgement must be laughing their asses of. Controlling kids, especially the extroverted, opinionated ones is like trying to control a mini typhoon. They really are forces of nature

I remember in Ranikhet it was my first day of school. We were travelling by bus and this boy probably in 12^th was asking a little girl to move aside for his friend. He was a bit rude as seniors are. It was my first time seeing almost an adult boy destroyed by the little comedian. She was brutal, read him like a book. It was entertaining to watch, but also scary. I told myself to never cross that girl. We were kids so we weren’t thinking about her parenting, we were just admiring this tiny girl’s brain.

Yesterday my friend was standing on the footpath waiting for her auto, and an aunty passing by in her own auto yelled at my friend to “stop looking at her phone”. 

I doubt anyone is reading this but if you are and you are one of the people questioning that child’s behaviour and parenting. You seem to have a lot of space and time, please send a list of comebacks for auto aunty. Thank you for coming to my ted talk about The KBC Kid.