Phyu Phyu Htwe
Phyu Phyu Htwe | |
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ဖြူဖြူထွေး | |
| Born | Phyu Phyu Htwe 20 February 1999 Myay Ni Kone village, Mahlaing, Mandalay Region, Myanmar |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Alma mater | Dagon University |
| Occupation(s) | Internet personality, comedian, actress |
| Years active | 2017–present |
| Parent | Daw Mi Se (mother) |
Phyu Phyu Htwe (Burmese: ဖြူဖြူထွေး; born 22 February 1999) is a Burmese internet personality, comedian and actress. She initially gained fame in 2017 after a video of her performing a backbend on stage at her university's festival went viral on Facebook. Phyu Phyu Htwe primarily creates comedic content and has over 11 million followers on Facebook, making her Myanmar's most-followed entertainer on the platform.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
[edit]Phyu Phyu Htwe was born on 20 February 1999 in Myay Ni Kone village, Mahlaing, Mandalay Region, Myanmar.[4] She is the youngest of five siblings. Her mother, Daw Mi Se, sometimes appears in her comedy videos. She moved to Yangon after completing her matriculation exam and also attended nursing training. While working as a nurse, she used her salary to fund her first-year education at Dagon University. Later, she enrolled in a TV presenter training class at MMDC and eventually secured presenter jobs at other organizations as well. She graduated from Dagon University with a bachelor's degree in botany in December 2019.[5][6]
Career
[edit]Phyu Phyu Htwe rose to prominence in 2017 when a video of her performing a backbend on stage at her university's festival went viral on Facebook. The video brought her widespread notoriety and sparked significant criticism on social media, with many deeming her performance inappropriate for a woman and contrary to traditional cultural norms.[7] Since then, she has posted dozens of stand-up videos on her Facebook page, gradually gaining a massive following. She appeared in numerous advertisements and became the highest-paid social media commercial star in Myanmar.[8]
As of 2024, she has over 11 million followers on Facebook, making her the most-followed artist on social media in Myanmar. She quickly amassed wealth and, within a short time, owned an expensive home in Yangon. She has helped her hometown village by contributing to efforts to bring electricity. Her success in social media comedy led to several music videos and movie casting opportunities.[9]
In 2018, she took on her first film role in De Pwal Kyan Mal, starring alongside Sitt Naing. In 2019, she was cast in her first big-screen film, Yawthama Mway, which was released in Burmese cinemas in November 2023. She then starred in upcoming film Ma Akhayar.[10][11]
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she stopped filming comedy videos but continued to engage in various activities through social media, including donations to support struggling artists' families and underprivileged communities, which earned her increased support from her audience. Eleven Media Group featured her as the "Rising Star of 2020".[1][12] In July 2020, she was appointed as the Kindness Ambassador of Yangon Vocational College of Technology.[13][14]
On 7 September 2023, she released her first single, "Bayinma" (Queen).[15]
Charity work
[edit]Phyu Phyu Htwe is also praised for her donations and charity activities. She frequently donates to the families of struggling artists and helps random individuals in need. During times of limited artistic opportunities, she assisted forgotten and older actors and entertainers by including them in her advertisement shoots, providing them with financial support.[16][17][18] Some criticized her donation activities as mere publicity stunts for the camera, with the intent of boosting her follower count.[19]
Phyu Phyu Htwe made 10 donations during the 2024 flooding in Myanmar. In recognition of her contributions, she was honored with a humanitarian award by the Light Foundation.[20]
Political criticism
[edit]In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Phyu Phyu Htwe was accused of being a supporter of the military junta and remained ominously silent for a period. She only responded after her fans urged her to do so, briefly posting a profile picture featuring the three-finger salute in support of restoring democracy. On 1 March 2021, she joined a few protests and called on civil servants to join the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM), which seemed for show.[21]
Later, she expressed her support for the coup by commenting, "They only seized power for one year, what's wrong with you guys?" on her Facebook page. This remark, along with her posting dancing videos during the coup era, made her the target of social boycotts and a public punishment movement. Phyu Phyu Htwe faced backlash again after visiting Kin Ma, a village devastated by a fire caused by the Myanmar Army, to make a donation while livestreaming the event. This occurred while the military junta was blocking aid and rescue efforts for the village. She subsequently shared the video online, which led to difficulties for local residents and other donors on the ground. Over 20 business brands that had collaborated with her announced the termination of their partnerships.[22][23]
On December 23, 2025, Phyu Phyu Htwe faced widespread criticism after posting an online advertisement titled "The Revered Mother Hong Su" (မယ်တော်ဟောင်စု). In the ad, she was portrayed dressed in the style of detained State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and acting as a shaman who heals with lies. The backlash centered on accusations that the advertisement deliberately targeted Aung San Suu Kyi. Critics pointed out that the name "Hong Su" in Burmese phonetically resembles "bark Su" which was interpreted as a derogatory reference likening her to a dog. Moreover, the script's dialogue included the phrases "79" and "leave it", which many social media users criticized as deliberate references to Aung San Suu Kyi's age, as she is currently 79 years old.[24] Many revolutionary groups condemned Phyu Phyu Htwe for the advertisement. The local armed PDF force, Black Hero UG, issued a statement warning that they would not forgive her for this action. They declared it a final warning and stated that they would carry out an assassination if she did not retract her actions.[25] On December 25, Phyu Phyu Htwe removed the video from her page. By that afternoon, Phyu Phyu Htwe and the scriptwriter posted an apology video on her page, stating that they had no intention of offending anyone and that the content was created with sincerity.[26]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]- De Pwal Kyan Mal (ဒီပွဲကြမ်းမယ်) (2018)
- Yawthama Mway (ရောသမမွှေ) (2019)
- Ma Akhayar (မ အက္ခရာ) (TBA)
Discography
[edit]Singles
[edit]- Bayinma (2023)
- May May Su Lal Su Pr Say Tot Kwal (2023)
- Maw Shan Toh Htar Nay (2024)
- A Pyo Gyi Loz Ma Call Nae (2024)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Khaing, Lin Lin (28 December 2020). "ဆိုရှယ်မီဒီယာကြောင့် အံ့သြဖွယ် အောင်မြင်မှုရခဲ့သူ သရုပ်ဆောင် ဖြူဖြူထွေး [Actress Phyu Phyu Htwe, who achieved remarkable success through social media.]". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese).
- ^ "Tip Top – The Easiest Way to Express Yourself". News portal by Korea Foundation.
- ^ "ဆဲဆိုမှုတွေနဲ့ရင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး". BBC Burmese (in Burmese). 10 May 2019.
- ^ ""မွေးနေ့အလှူလေးအတွက် အင်တိုက်အားတိုက်ချက်ပြုတ်နေတဲ့ဗွီဒီယိုလေးကို မျှဝေပေးခဲ့တဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး"". Lotaya MPT (in Burmese). 20 February 2020.
- ^ "ကောင်းသောလူသိများပုံမျိုးနဲ့အနုပညာလောကထဲ ဝင်ရောက်လာခဲ့တာမဟုတ်တာမို့ ဆက်ပြီးကြိုးစားရဦးမှာပါလို့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ဖြူဖြူထွေး". Popular Journal (in Burmese). 19 June 2018.
- ^ "ရွာမှာရှိတဲ့ အိမ်လေးနဲ့ အမှတ်တရတွေကို ပြောလာတဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး". Duwun (in Burmese). 30 March 2019.
- ^ "ဘယ်လိုပုံစံ နေနေ ဖြူစင်ရိုးသားတဲ့ ဟန်တွေ ပြနေ ကြောင်း ပေါ့ပေါ့ပါးပါး လေးဝတ်ကာ ချစ်ဖို့ကောင်းနေတဲ့ ပုံရိပ်လေးတွေကို ချပြလာတဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 25 January 2021.
- ^ "သူရရှိတဲ့ အနုပညာကြေးနဲ့ မိဘကို ထောက်ပံ့ပေးတဲ့အတွက် ဝမ်းသာမိတယ်လို့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး ရဲ့ မိခင် ဒေါ်မိဆယ် ပြော". Popular Journal (in Burmese). 21 June 2018.
- ^ "အိမ်အသစ်လေးကို အမေက အရမ်းသဘောကျတယ်ဆိုတဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး". Duwun (in Burmese). 7 June 2020.
- ^ "ဖွေးဖွေးနဲ့အတူ သရုပ်ဆောင်ရတော့မယ့် ဖြူဖြူထွေး | Duwun". Duwun (in Burmese). 5 November 2019.
- ^ "ပရိသတ်အကြိုက် ငါးကိုယ်ခွဲဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲလေးကို ပုံဖော်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး". Popular Journal (in Burmese). 3 July 2018.
- ^ "Stay Home နေရင်း Tiktok ရိုက်လာကြတဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်များ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 23 April 2020.
- ^ "ရန်ကုန်အသက်မွေးနည်းပညာကောလိပ်YVCT's Kindness Ambassadors". Yangon Vocational College of Technology Myanmar. 16 October 2021.
- ^ "Sexy မော်ဒယ် နန်းမွေစံအပါအဝင် သရုပ်ဆောင်အချို့ကို ရန်ကုန်သက်မွေးနည်းပညာကောလိပ်၏ Kindness Ambassador ခန့်အပ်". News Watch (in Burmese). 10 July 2020.
- ^ "ပွဲတွေမှာ ဆိုရအောင် ကိုယ်ပိုင် သီချင်းထုတ်မယ့် ဖြူဖြူထွေး". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 6 September 2023.
- ^ "ကြော်ငြာခေါ်ရိုက်ပေးလို့ ဖြူဖြူထွေးကို ကျေးဇူးတင်နေတဲ့ ပါကျဲ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 1 September 2020.
- ^ "ကြော်ငြာအတူရိုက်ကူးခဲ့တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို လှူဒါန်းမှုတွေပြုလုပ်ကာ ပီတိဖြာနေတဲ့အပျော်လေးတွေ ဝေမျှလာတဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 30 December 2020.
- ^ "တစ်ရွာလုံးက သက်ကြီးရွယ်အိုများကို တစ်ယောက်မကျန် ဆန်၊ဆီအပြင် အလှူငွေများစွာလှူဒါန်းနေတဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေးရဲ့ဗီဒီယိုဖိုင်". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 1 March 2021.
- ^ "အလှူက ဗန်းပြလို့ ရရင် ပြကြည့်လိုက် ဆိုတဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေး". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 25 October 2024.
- ^ "ရေဘေးမှာ စွမ်းစွမ်းတမံကူညီပေးခဲ့တဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေးကို အလင်းရောင် Group က ပရဟိတဂုဏ်ပြုဆု ချီးမြှင့် -". Daily Brief News (in Burmese). 29 October 2024.
- ^ "မွေးရပ်မြေကိုရောက်တုန်းလေးမှာ လှုပ်ရှားမှုပါ၀င်နေကြတဲ့သူတွေအတွက် တတ်နိုင်သလောက်အလှူငွေတွေကောက်ခံပေးနေတဲ့ ဖြူဖြူထွေးရဲ့ဗီဒီယိုလေးး". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 1 March 2021.
- ^ "ဖြူဖြူထွေးနဲ့ လက်တွဲမှု ရပ်ဆိုင်းကြောင်း လုပ်ငန်းပေါင်း ၂၀ ကျော် ထုတ်ပြန်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 23 June 2021.
- ^ "ဖြူဖြူထွေးကို သပိတ်မှောက်သည့်ထဲ စစ်တပ်ထုတ်ကုန်များလည်း ပါဝင်လာ". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 23 June 2021.
- ^ "လူထုခေါင်းဆောင် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် ကဲ့သို့ ဝတ်စားဆင်ယင်ပြီး ဆေးလိမ်ကုသည့် "ခြံစည်းရိုးကြီး မယ်တော် ဟောင်စုဘ၀" အွန်လိုင်း ဇတ်လမ်းကို သရုပ် ဆောင် ရိုက်ကူးသူ ဖြူဖြူထွေး အပြင်းအထန် ဝေဖန်ခံရ၊ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ကို နိုင်ငံရေး သိက္ခာချတိုက်ခိုက်မှု အဖြစ် ပြည်သူများက ရှုမြင်". Khit Thit Media (in Burmese). 25 December 2024.
- ^ "ဖြူဖြူထွေး၏ ပရုတ်ဆီကြော်ငြာတွင် အငြင်းပွားဖွယ်အသုံးအနှုံးများကြောင့် လူမှုကွန်ရက်တွင် ပြစ်တင်ဝေဖန်ခံနေရ". Mizzima (in Burmese). 25 December 2025.
- ^ "ဝေဖန်မှုမြင့်တက်ခဲ့တဲ့အွန်လိုင်းကြော်ငြာနဲ့ ပတ်သက်ပြီး ဆယ်လီဖြူဖြူထွေး ရုပ်သံနဲ့ပြန်တောင်းပန်". BBC Burmese (in Burmese). 25 December 2024.