However, this also creates a power imbalance. Viewers in dollars or pounds can send gifts that seem small to them ($10) but are massive to a host in a small Indian town ($10 = a day's wage). This dynamic has been called "digital colonialism" by some critics, where Western desis buy emotional labor and affection from economically disadvantaged hosts in South Asia.
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