China's Most HATED Subculture...

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Real life Yu-Gi-Oh hair

As a Chinese person, his pronunciation of Luo Fu Xing (Loo-o Foo Shing) is too funny

The "emos" wearing different colors is called "scene". they may look similar, but their both noticeably different. Scene is more quirky and colorful. Emo is more depressed and dark

No government should get in the way of people having harmless fun. I respect anyone who's brave enough to express their own unique individuality in the face of public scrutiny.

massive respect for them simply not conforming in china is pretty punk rock

The hair is the most important part of this subculture. The point being what is the most un-chinese hair you can have. It has to stick out and be a spectacle. Its like they are having their 'punk rock' 30 years after everyone else did. A study of a closed society and its periodic rebellions.

That footage of Luo Fu Xing after his haircut is very 1984. I mean, yeah, it's possible that he decided to change his look because he was genuinely interested in something new. But his whole demeanor and the fact that his entire image - not just his hair - went from "radical non-conformist" to "anonymous office worker" is really suggestive of him being visited by someone from the CCP and given an ultimatum.

Around 2007 I lived in Shanghai and worked at a Taiwanese pre-school as a sort of English teacher stooge. They would fky us into weird factory towns to perform defacto English classes for potential clients but it would mistly be us just clowning around. Anyways, we went to this factory city outside of Beiging and one night I felt rowdy and went out by myself to get plastered. The streets were ghosttown empty but I heard a happy hardcore beat and followed it to its source. I found a packed wharehouse rave full of teenagers all "dancing" on a bouncy floor so that everyone trampolined to the beat. It was wild. They treated me like an alien from outer space and I showed them a bunch of funny dance moves. I always wondered what the hell that scene was and now I think that it might have been a precursor to shamete. So cool👾 Thanks for the content. 🎉😅

I imagine this is what most anime hair would look like in real life.

Jimmy consistently roping me into video essays about subcultures I’ve never heard of and I’m here for it

I met a bunch of young Chinese that fit this look in the smoker's garden in HK airport. Lovely bunch, asked me to smoke a Chinese cigarette with them (I vape not smoke), would seem rude to refuse, their style reminded me of earlier 80s punk when punk went working class, (edit: context) which is why I started talking to them and they were a welcoming bunch.

A similar phenomenon happened in the Philippines. To the young urban lower-class exposed to internet cafes. Except they don't have a particular style. It became a mishmash of hiphop, scene, emo, and anime, with a backdrop of extreme poverty. At first it was hilarious. People made fun of them and they made fun of themselves. Then it spiraled into something grimmer, when they started copying more than just the fashion and gangs started to proliferate.

Man in China not giving a fuck werid hair pretty punk rock if you ask me massive respect

wait a min, the song in 14:05 is from a kpop group called SHINee, the title is Ring Ding Dong I don't think they have official chinese version of the song, so it's being remade as a meme to criticize shamate? RDD is iconic in SK and kpop though.

Wow, I saw many many 杀马特 shamate in Xi’an in the 2000s, didn’t know that they were a whole subculture, just thought they were some crazy dudes! Thanks for the info man! Also his name is pronounced fu shing😂😂

"It's like the volume on your dad's phone when he's receiving a text" 🤣🤣 How do you know my dad?!

5:23 Visual kei is more of a music scene influenced by 80s glam metal (as in Mötley Crüe, not T-Rex), post-punk/darkwave/goth, punk, new romantics, etc. Because these music subcultures were "imported" from the West by Japan, the outlandish way that they dress got all lumped together into one scene, so Japanese people just call them "visual" style. Although eventually visual kei became it's own scene, if you listen to the earlier 80s & 90s bands especially, you can hear that they're influenced by punk, goth, and metal music.

I think it looks weird personally, but I also was in the hardcore scene when I was younger and am completely aware we were looked at like that too. I give nothing but respect to people creating/being a part of their own subculture.

Shamatae is actually super badass lol