Srinagar, May 1 -- The video, posted by a self-proclaimed "truth seeker" from north India, is filled with sweeping generalizations and suspicious edits. For the students, it's become a familiar pattern.

"YouTubers are coming here to turn us into villains," said 21-year-old Faizan Ahmad, a sociology major. "They talk to us nicely, pretend to understand, and then use our words to paint us as dangerous or backward."

In the years since the 2019 Pulwama attack and the revocation of Article 370, Kashmir has seen an influx of social media influencers, many of them right-wing vloggers from across India. Their mission, locals say, often seems less about understanding and more about accusing. Several of them have posted videos portraying Kashmiri...