‘Berak’, Boldly: How A Malaysian Turned Taboo Into A Movement
She reviews toilets for a living. She says “berak” on camera. And now she’s on the back of a truck — and nobody is looking away.
- Marissa Wong built a viral brand reviewing Malaysian public toilets, using the taboo word "berak" to cut through conventional content.
- Her viral lorry campaign promoting a toilet cleaner on Shopee cemented her reputation as Malaysia's most recognisable toilet activist.
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Most influencers sell you skincare or holidays.
Marissa Wong sells you something far more urgent: the truth about where you go when nature calls.
The Malaysian content creator and stand-up comedian — known to her followers as “Toilet Girl” and, by her own proud declaration, “the sh*ttiest content creator in Malaysia” — went viral this week after a truck bearing her face and the tagline “Mari Berak Bersama Marissa Wong!!!” was spotted on the road and posted to social media.
The reaction was instant.
The post racked up over 1,300 likes, 209 comments and nearly 1,000 shares within hours.
But for anyone who has followed Marissa’s work, the truck was less a surprise than a milestone.
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The Word Nobody Says — Until She Did
“Berak” — the Malay slang for defecating — is the kind of word that gets children scolded at the dinner table.
Polite society reaches for buang air besar.
Formal settings pretend the whole business doesn’t happen at all.
Wong ignored all of that.
She built her entire brand around the word, anchoring it in the hashtag #berakbersamamarissawong and opening every video with the same blunt invitation: “Mari kita berak bersama Marissa Wong.” Let’s go take a sh*t together with Marissa Wong.
The crudeness is the point.
In a content landscape crowded with glamorous food reviews and aspirational travel vlogs, one taboo word cut through everything.
From One Bad Toilet To Hundreds
What started as a response to a genuinely terrible personal experience in a dirty public restroom became something harder to dismiss — and in Malaysia, that experience is far from rare.
Wet floors, missing soap, broken locks: the public toilet complaint is practically a national pastime.
Wong has since “audited” hundreds of public facilities — shopping malls, restaurants, transit stations — rating each on functionality, lighting, ventilation, and the availability of soap and tissue.
The reviews are funny.
They also create pressure.
Establishments that score badly hear about it — publicly, and in Wong’s signature cheerful-but-merciless delivery style.
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The Truck Is The Punchline, The Mission Is Not
Wong has reviewed over 500 public toilets across Malaysia — and she has not been picky about which ones.
One Utama, KLCC, the petrol station off the highway, the nasi lemak stall around the corner.
She has walked into all of them, phone in hand, and told you exactly what she found.
The viral lorry is not a stunt. It is a hygiene product campaign — Wong promoting a toilet cleaner via Shopee — and the comment section delivered exactly what the brand needed: unprompted testimonials, clicks on the Shopee link, and one commenter declaring her “aktivis toilet terbaik” — Malaysia’s best toilet activist.
Another simply wrote: “Saya nak pegi mana-mana public toilet mmg check review Marissa Wong dulu.”
That, in one sentence, is what a brand is supposed to do.
@marissawong96 Hari ini saya sembelit 2 hari sudah tapi boleh lepas di sini. saya sangat happy!
♬ original sound – Marissa Wong
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