Karen Tongson

Welcome to Ube Industrial Complex.

I'm one of your co-hosts, Karen Tongson.

And I'm Adrian DeLeon.

And I'm James Arcedias.

OK, we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back with our scene report.

Welcome back to Ube Industrial Complex.

I'm Karen Tongson, and I'm here with Adrian DeLeon and James Arcedias.

We are now going to leave you with our scene reports.

She actually has a podcast.

This is Dr. Karen Tongson, I think.

tonksinator is her tonksinator um but um i think her one of her she's from california in the inland empire and i think her one of her screen names is in the inland emperor which is funny um so she she's filipino so she discussed like her her conjectures of reasons why but i i don't i don't know i'm sure we could do more work on like why that's actually the case but um But because of whatever cultural predilection or set of contextual factors has led to this, Filipino people doing karaoke on TikTok is...

It's incredible.