Content marketers on the virtues and vices of video blogger ‘Famous Amos’

Amos Yee, a Singaporean video blogger who posted a sweary anti-obituary to the late prime minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew last week, was arrested today on religious defamation grounds for a eight-minute rant in which Yee compared Lee to Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and, the figure whose mention upset most people, Jesus Christ. The video was widely deplored in Singapore with many calling for him to be thrown in jail.

But, even among those who decried the video titled “Lee Kuan Yew is Finally Dead!” as offensive and inappropriate in the week after LKY’s funeral in a country still in mourning, were some who pointed out that “Famous Amos” was articulate, even compelling, in his delivery and showed “chutzpah” often lacking in the Singapore blogging scene.

Is it conceivable, assuming Yee can stay out of jail, that the 16 year-old could ever make it as a video blogger in Singapore or elsewhere?