One of the biggest controversies in the Kingdom of the Sun (Morocco) is "my daily routine," a concept spreading like a wildfire on the Moroccan version of YouTube. I tried to watch some of these videos, but I can't figure out what people enjoy about these videos! Let me explain this phenomenon–it's content portraying women as themselves while they perform daily housework, including cleaning and cooking, bending over, and zooming in on their butts. It took me a long time to figure out why this would go viral.

What's special about it? Especially since Moroccans have been renowned consumers of porn for many years! Why are you looking at a lady's butt doing her mundane housework over watching a fully naked one? Why is this trend at the forefront of discussions in the media and on social media in Morocco?  It even stole the spotlight from the repercussions of the COVID-19, the top concern of Moroccans during last year.

Many voices call to stop these types of videos and the criminalization of their heroines, considering that they are competing to attract viewers by wearing obscene clothes and using inappropriate words and gestures to reap more "Easy Money." These attackers of the "my daily routine" videos have requested the viewers to stop watching these kinds of videos and stop making them popular. They've also asked people to join them in calling on the Moroccan authorities to intervene and impose censorship on these channels and arrest the creators of these videos, which promote a lousy reputation of Moroccan women, that is already damaged in many countries worldwide, especially the Middle East. But these daily routine "stars" challenge everybody by making sure to show more of their butts as another argument about this phenomenon, which they consider a natural response to deepening poverty. They'd rather compete with excitement by showing off their butts–the bigger the butts, the bigger number of views, the bigger the checks they will get from YouTube (God bless the one who invented YouTube).

This new way to earn a living, thanks to their natural assets while doing house tasks online, is an easy way to run from poverty and hunger, which according to many of them, is worse than chastity. Nevertheless, the ones who criticize these ladies are the same ones who check out on their channels and watch their content to drive it to the top of the 'Trending' section on Moroccan YouTube. I may find a response to my question about this situation and what kind of pleasure people get from watching these kinds of videos, but in the meantime, the Moroccan drama continues…

By Simo bb