India, Oct. 28 -- American YouTuber Tyler Oliveira sparked outrage on social media after filming a video of himself participating in a festival in a Karnataka village in which people throw cow dung at each other. Social media users accused him of being a racist and alleged that he showed a ritual celebrated to mark the end of Diwali in a negative light. Oliveira addressed the backlash by sharing a series of posts on X, including one where he offered a mock apology.

"I'm sorry India." he wrote in a tweet. He also tweeted a visual with a text that reads, "STUDY FOUND THAT INDIANS ACTUALLY SHOWER WAY MORE THAN PEOPLE IN THE UNTIED STATES."

In another post, he slammed an international publication for its coverage of the incident. "It isn't ...