Pretty privilege doesn't exist without a "dominant" context. Example: Highest paid Male model (0 surgery) $1.5m/y Highest paid Female model (K. Jenner, all the surgery and then some) $24m/y See what I mean?
I hear them debate back and forth about why she was able to fool so many. They name the clothes, the Gucci bag and the Hermes purse. Get real and see the obvious. Besides being educated and well spoken, she’s a beauty. Far prettier than just an average girl. Pretty women are treasured and cared for in almost all societies. They get free stuff all the time from adoring men. Even other women treat them better. She was the right person to make this work. She deserves the praise for figuring this out.
Its not exactly a hard thing to figure out, the same way a chad or rich man is valued because he either looks like a super model or has lots of money. Men have to build themselves up, while women start with high value. Women's value goes down overtime so they have to take advantage of their pretty privilege's, while men win over time if they build themselves up. She can only pull this off for so long, she will need to find a partner soon because she wont be able to fool people like this forever.
I' m glad she documented it and remember reading about this when she first did it. However when it comes to being a socialite she overlooked the "social" part completely. There are a few cases of young women completely enriching themselves through posing as a member of high society. . they build a network of high society people and suddenly they are just accepted and sometimes are able into lucrative deals. The only ones you hear about in the headlines are the ones who get exposed.
For all the 'high living', she only attracted the attention of one lonely security guard. No invitations to private parties, access to privileged information, discussions with significant people... the real advantages of the rich.
While all the kindness shown here is nice, all this proves is that pretty privilege exists as a form of currency. I will bet that a man or a more average looking woman would not pull this off.
It's not easy. One just has to make it look easy. I'm barely 6 feet tall but I'm sure that I could pull it off too. People assume that I am an athlete or celebrity even though they can't think of a name or where they have seen my face. The most common but weird question that I get is 'are you somebody?'.
To be fair everyone have their own skills and advantages. If you are pretty, well use it to your advantages. If you are smart, or likeable, sociable, have leadership quality, hardworking, rich, and so on, use it to your advantages. There is no point complaining about pretty people when it isn't everything.
without those invitations and passes, ain't no way she would've succeeded in sneaking into the affluent venues or events but kudos to her for her meticulous planning and ofcourse confidence to pull it off
@@ma2i485 Yes, that was a big part of her success and the fact that she's young and beautiful helped.On the other hand, this is truely stressful and I'm sure she couldn't have kept up such a fassade for much longer.
and had the money to buy a dress, which she would later return. The Hussle is good, but the pretense of "not spending money" is bullshit. It's not that she started with nothing, and had no money, she had access to money, used it, and as you say, used OTHER people's resources like the invitation o.O
I've heard and watched about the lady in the caption months ago. She did an experiment on how the rich and elites of china were getting free goods and free services. She literally stayed in high class guest halls, tried luxurious jewelries, and ate free goodies for several days without spending a single cent. That story was so absurd that I still can't forget it easily till today.
@@milan51259and if she were an ugly woman, same thing. There are men who literally do this all the time and have multiple sugar mommy’s, conning them all. Pretty privilege is a thing period. Also women weren’t allowed to be pretty and confident and extroverted until not long ago. Especially in china, so yeah…I would imagine it’s seen as more rare and special than men doing the same which has been seen for millennium?
@@milan51259 Like, there are multiple males who do the same, but y'all start screeching only when there are women involved, lol. Tells me everything that I need to know about y'all incels. Deal with it.
I tell you one thing, with the attention that she has garnered I’m sure many others will also try to copy her project. I suspect also that the places that she frequented and sponged off will be more vigilant. In the end the key to her success was pretty privilege.
It's unlikely they will increase their vigilance. The cost of potentially insulting an actual rich person is too high. Also, those luxury locations pride themselves in high quality service, so they'll be able to spin this into positive marketing for sure.
I pretended to be rich once. Me and my brother went into a 7 eleven and I bought one of those microwave bean burritos and I bought my brother two taquitos. Then we both got slurpees and we paid with cold hard cash, and a coupon
There are 2 problems with the conclusion" 1. That she pulled the stunt off on her own when the clip explicitly shows that the main reason is because she has friends in high places. If she fails to realize this, then the person who is fooled most by her is herself. 2. That people (esp. hotel and retail workers) were all fooled because they believe she is a socialite; while this may be true to a point, it is also possible that some of them actually felt sorry for her and genuinely just wanted to help. To see everyone as being class-conscious and pandering to the rich completely ignores our humanity - that is how jaded the world has become.
Yea right. Lol. No chinese person has a good heart n they only did it hoping to get something in return. No way any of them did it with the goodness of their heart. Lol
Agree. It's like once you are inside the gym, the trainers would assume you paid for the membership and would not question you to use the equipment. Blending in well doesn't mean anything. Try this without the passes and the help of her wealthy friends. People usually don't confront others unless it's really suspicious.
@andrwng you are very correct without the borrowing of the friend's high end custom clothing (making her look rich). The other friend's boarding ticket (Allowing access to the high end airport lounge), and another friend's Auction Invite. Without her friends none of this would have been possible. While, she did buy clothing to complete her look. Later, she was able to return the clothing and get her money back. Zara isn't really that expensive not the same a Gucci. Plus, the items were returned and she didn't actually use the money. Just needed the initial cost of one item. Plus, the staff at one of the restaurant's actually did feel terrible for her. She claimed to have been stood up on a date. So everyone felt the need to make her feel better and gave her free deserts and other treats. I would like to see this repeated without the custom clothing (borrowed from a friend), without the boarding pass (borrowed from a friend), without the Auction Invite (borrowed from another friend). Of course, she is also young and pretty so there are very many advantages with that as well. A more interesting experiment as other have suggested, would have been someone older and not attractive.
Here in Japan the same thing happens. People buying gucci stuff risking their savings just to show themselves as powerful and rich, but then, they eat spicy fried chicken for 120 yen at 711, because they can't afford anything else on a daily basis.
i think her being super beautiful has a lot to do with it too. it makes her look like she has money more than someone who was a little overweight or had messed up teeth or something. the look she has really blends in with the rich in china.
This is truly interesting. I would love to see a doc about her experience. When my kids were young we would go to high end restaurants in San Francisco only ordering appetizers and cocoa or tea. We would"shop" in expensive stores. I wanted my kids to feel comfortable in any setting. My reason wasn't to teach them to desire wealth but to be prepared for future business events, dinners etc. It worked.
Sorry mate, this is the stupidest thing I heard in a very long time. You are an interloper and your kids understand that. I’d never go to a place where I don’t belong.
This young lady has a lot guts and real intelligence to pull this off. Just think what a reporter she would make. Alas, not a realistic goal within the CCP environment.
Twenty-something females, especially if they have any physical attractiveness to them, tend to get less scrutiny in such environments. I would think a guy would have a much tougher time pulling this off. Difficult, but not impossible.
If she was not good looking she would have not succeeded. She forgot this very important point. The other aspects just show how shallow society has become especially in Asia where brand names determine your status in society. We are living in a fake reality based on shallow consumerism.
What she did was cool, showing how society caters to the wealthy. She already has upper class connections to help her project( luxury loungewear, and auction tickets), most people cannot pull this off.
This happens everywhere, I've seen people here in Canada who beg for change all day and then change into nice clothes and go clubbing at night. People buying expensive clothes but keeping the tags on is so common here it's a standard sit-com joke.
She definitely took advantage of others' generosity, expensive companies trying to appease the wealthy, and the fact most people don't care about what other people are doing. Looking the part and acting the part works for many things. Like many people on a construction site would say, if you have a hard hat, high viz, and clipboard, no one asks questions.
She took advantage by a few free things...? She did a great story! I don't agree at all. This was smart of her, and exposed quite a lot. Her showing how they live is a bit more important than the poor 5 star hotel who lost $30 worth (to make) of desserts. I'm confused at who she actually 'took advantage' of. This is how media covers stories. They go under cover. She'd make a great reporter, if she didn't live in China and could actually be one.
I once heard a story of a rich man walking into the car showroom wearing very simple clothing and slippers, the salesman ignored him, the rich man ended up buying an expensive car in 1 dollar notes to inconvenience him.
I call BS. How did she have the money to buy the designer clothes before returning them? She had money all along and simply recorded things to make it look like she was getting away with being clever.
I'm not sure u can consider this experiment/story attempt of being a socialite etc. Bcos her main objective daily is to find food +accommodation. As a socialite she would need to attend partys+places & meet actually socialite- if she could pull that off then she would have been successful. This is more survival guild but she still did well👍
don't glorify crime. She was basically stealing access to the resources she isn’t supposed to have. And this is a very”chinese” thing they do. “Abuse all benefits and perks, whatever it takes” more likely she is a psychopath than a smart girl
She was successful largely because she is a beautiful, young girl with a very refined look. An average-looking guy would not be able to pull this off as she did. "I'm not a socialite, I am of the proletariat," she said. Yeah...OK.
Simply put, if you are a confident, beautiful woman who dress like a wealthy person, society will treat you differently while receiving the perks meant for the elites
China has a class system much more stricter and much more cruel than Western. It can be compared to Western middle age timeline. Speaking truth or calling out most of time will end with trouble. No one like a fact mouth, they want a silent mouth.
honestly, respect for the girl and the hustle its like the gaming speed running community, finding exploits after exploits makes you look at the society on a different lens
I also respect her hustle. But I don't look at society differently, because their reactions weren't unexpected. Influencers in the USA get away with freebies all the time. It's when they don't, e.g., when the store refuses a freebie, that causes scandal because refusal of freebies is so rare! But 3 weeks of sleeping and dining without going home or spending a dime is still impressive.
I gotta admit, as a foreigner, I did this in Asia at ritzy estate club house facilities. I would walk in, take a shower, use the lounge, and even rent the game room. That said, I was prepared to be really nice in the event someone working there stopped me. No one ever did.
That’s true if u can fake it till u make it but people in the TH-cam comments say she is a true socialite which is not true I have so many friends who fake it till they make it lol, and also sugar daddy pay for them too
When I was homeless for a short time. 1. I was super lucky to have my car with tinted window. 2 Having somewhere to shower or freshen up was the BEST. 3. Finding a safe place to sleep made sleeping much easier. When I became a security guard and saw homeless people I left them a lone. I even seen homeless employees sleeping in the office. I would tell the other security guards to leave them a lone and don't report. She right, when your living like that, you don't care to much about what people think of you because your trying to survive. What gave her a advantage, was her look and 100% Yes, how you dress ad carry yourself. Beauty can only get you so far, its all about your kills and how to adapt
Young beautiful women get all the freebies in life. It’s been that way since the dawn of time and doesn’t matter where you reside. The fact she was well educated and spoken just made it easier to pull off the stunt. I applaud her, well done.
On the one hand, her project is brilliant. But then again, she is very pretty….gorgeous even. I wonder if she would have had the same success if she were plain looking. Society doesn’t just judge your money worth, but your looks too.
She is extraordinarily pretty so she was able to pull this off. Plus, she is quite cunning so kudos to her for being able to succeed in this experiment.
You gotta consider that 21 days is a very short period of time If she kept going eventually she would start to ring alarms in different hotels and stablishments, pretty much ending her strategy the moment she approached a hotel that had already been warned of her
I had a few hard months here in Las Vegas during the downturn. I stayed in a homeless shelter and bought my clothes at the thrift store. However, this store was stocked with very nice, new clothing. I wore Allen Iverson shoes I got compliments for and bought a silk shirt or 2. I avoided the trademark black clothing it seems the homeless are not inventive enough to realize marks them, and was NEVER treated like anyone homeless when I was in public. My shirts and shoes got compliments. I got treated like I belong in society which was uplifting.
It is indeed a testament to the saying “clothes maketh the man (or should I say person)”. I remember someone saying to me to always have nice shoes because no matter what you wear, since people tend to look down on each other, they can see your shoes first so it creates the first impression. Plus shoes are the closest to the ground so it gets dirty easily so if you have nice, clean shoes, it can say a lot about how you take care of stuff. It stuck to me so I always have a good pair of shoes; not that I hoard or anything-I just have like 3 pairs (for work, for play, and for everyday).
Clever girl! I did something similar for a while, but not as intentionally or as well planned. And she was able to use it to satisfy her degree requirements - even better! I'd love to meet her.
Honestly I quite admire the gumption that girl has. With her skill in finding and making deals with people, her ability to socialize and blend in, she can do pretty well in a corporate environment. I hope I can one day read her report about her social experiment.
Now this is real art. Thought provoking too. While hundreds of millions of people live in absolute poverty in the Chinese countryside. These sorts of luxuries exist to cater to the small group of wealthy individuals. Just imagine all of that food waste!
She wasn't gold digging, besides that one ride she requested and it was performance art. So it's okay in my book. As a woman, it was probably a little easyier for her, but in the end, it's okay in my book. She had a concept, she acted on it and presented her findings to the world.
For me it is not her ability to use resources she is not entitled to. It is what her deceit did to her as a person. As she said, she did not recognise herself after a few days. When you step into a false persona, it is not always easy to leave it behind without it changing you in some way and it is usually not for the better. Also her abuse of other's concern and kindness, did not sit well with me, irrespective of the reason behind it.
Meh, everyone should try something like this for at least a week. Getting free from your normal, comfortable, boring cog-in-the-machine life and having to survive off of the excess of modernity while sourcing sanitary facilities and bedding.... It's a wakeup call to what it means to be HUMAN in the 21st century. As far as deceit, I didn't see much of it. More like a poker player keeping her cards hidden.
@marieslabbert6009: In some cases concern and kindness, but in most cases just pandering to the rich and resources automatically offered to rich clients by the enterprises.
Very smart, intelligent, brave, resourceful, charming and fast thinking young lady. Bravo on your great project success. Bet your professors are not able to even come close to executing such a project. She will do well in life with her smarts and abilities. Super impressed.
Not exactly. Anna Sorokin ran up huge bills at hotels, forged documents to give the impression that she was rich, and defrauded banks and individuals of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
This is how Rich people get treat it, She looks the part so no surprise here, her beauty the way she dress and how she acted help it a lot.. well done .
I wish to commend her for her 'skill'. There is nothing really bad about her 'skill'. She is neither a freeloader. But, she did prove a point that in business (especially), and in all endeavours of human lives, a little con goes a long way, and, actually does help in one's efforts. It is due to this, being built into human nature.
I congratulate the young woman masquerading as a fake rich socialite. I'm impressed by what she accomplished. WOW! You are not only intelligent, creative, determined, and very courageous. Your great beauty probably helped alot. But you had massive courage.
Young attractive women will generally get away with most things. I've been approached multiple times by girls who asked for a short lift, cigarette ect. and I have always agreed. Financially it doesn't make a difference to me and I enjoy the social interaction.
Her outward demeanor reflects the kindness others extend to her. Chinese individuals are not all as we might perceive them to be; they are inherently good-natured people unless influenced adversely by their superiors.
That true plus businesses are dying so whenever they see someone look like a decent celebrity they give that person freebies and hope that person advertise for them. Asian businesses in North America never have to do this/“.
Basically she discovered that attractive young women live life on easy mode. From the descriptions she was given things not because people thought she was high status or wealthy but because she was an attractive young women and either took pity on her, she knew people who could give her access or nice clothes, or they just didn't care to say anything. She didn't gain any access to privileged social circles.
Now do it again without the name brand stuff. She would see she would get just as far. The luxury stuff helps a lil but pretty privilege goes a long way and is how a poor or middle class beauty becomes rich. Beauty and her bright complexion.
she is seriously so pretty, it was the looks that let her get away with it. I'm sure the gucci bag helped since its china and they like name brands but mostly it was her looks.
A liar and a scammer. This comment section is so funny. Just like she succeeded in her scam because she looks pretty and was well dressed, these comments are full of praises for the same reason. I wonder what it would be like if she was ugly or a man? In the end, all she did was selfishly abuse other people's goodwill.
I think you couidnt do this safely in the west. In Australia, for instance, we are less responsive to people for merely looking rich or being beautiful. We are also a less safe society for young women moving around alone.
They call it a "challenge" or "social experiment". I call it "she's lucky to be a good-looking and young woman." If she'd be everything else, she would have slept with her "challenge" on the streets like every other beggar. Her whole challenge only works because she is young, beautiful and a woman.
She wouldn't have gotten far without being young and decent looking (with makeup) If she was any older or look any less, she would've been caught on the first day. Very interesting project though, no doubt.
One thing I've learned in life is that if you're attractive and charismatic enough you can get away with just about anything. No I'm not particularly proud of how I learned that lesson.
I carry a few printed and blank A4 paper and a pen, walking around other departments and cubicles, pretending urgency, but then say hi and chatted around everyone before proceed to next "important department" in urgency and unknown purpose. Nobody really ask what I'm doing except my supervisor, where have you been ? Oh, to X department to clarify some things. Half a university campus that is. I call it Management by Walking Around, look it up.
She did the same thing as most "influencers" and "celebrities" on Instagram lol apart from that they are now becoming AI-generated fakes 🤷 Anyway the idea of squatting the Ikea really made me laugh 👍
hahaha yeah this influences shit is sooo fake everything is fake. As long as it looks real in front of the camera. And these influencers never want to be catched or seen in real life. Mostly yes, but after they made the money by faking until you make it. After that they come public.
Amazing. It goes to show that people see a well dressed person and assume they are rich and not to annoy them. I don't think she took advantage of anyone as she did it as an experiment to see how far she could go without getting caught and she went the whole way. It also helps that she is drop dead gorgeous
Cofidence, Pretty privilege & the illusion of wealth are powerful things
Yeah, that's when you actually Wealthy or rich.
There's peoples take advantage of that too.
Yeah, it gets you into Ikea and lets you sleep in fast food restaurants 😂
@@TheRealJellyBomb Thats just the most visible benefits, although they are mostly the least important.
I'd say theres a dose of female privilege here too.
Pretty privilege doesn't exist without a "dominant" context.
Example:
Highest paid Male model (0 surgery) $1.5m/y
Highest paid Female model (K. Jenner, all the surgery and then some) $24m/y
See what I mean?
I hear them debate back and forth about why she was able to fool so many. They name the clothes, the Gucci bag and the Hermes purse. Get real and see the obvious. Besides being educated and well spoken, she’s a beauty. Far prettier than just an average girl. Pretty women are treasured and cared for in almost all societies. They get free stuff all the time from adoring men. Even other women treat them better. She was the right person to make this work. She deserves the praise for figuring this out.
she is the perfect wife. The most affordable wife in the world .
Its not exactly a hard thing to figure out, the same way a chad or rich man is valued because he either looks like a super model or has lots of money.
Men have to build themselves up, while women start with high value. Women's value goes down overtime so they have to take advantage of their pretty privilege's, while men win over time if they build themselves up.
She can only pull this off for so long, she will need to find a partner soon because she wont be able to fool people like this forever.
@@dongshengdi773Lol stop simping for a girl who does not care about you. That's why girls nowadays have inflated egos.
@@HammybreadShe doesn't intend to. This was a study project.
@@HammybreadThis was a graduation project for school and she already accepted a job offer from a major firm after they saw the video.
I' m glad she documented it and remember reading about this when she first did it. However when it comes to being a socialite she overlooked the "social" part completely. There are a few cases of young women completely enriching themselves through posing as a member of high society. . they build a network of high society people and suddenly they are just accepted and sometimes are able into lucrative deals. The only ones you hear about in the headlines are the ones who get exposed.
I can't agree more. I wish she really socialized in her experiment. I wonder how it would've turned out for her.
@@labelleflora prob married to a millionaire if she continued or concubine
@@lemonke5341 multi milliobaire
She’s an attractive young w*m*n. There’s an easy “profession” open to her!
For all the 'high living', she only attracted the attention of one lonely security guard. No invitations to private parties, access to privileged information, discussions with significant people... the real advantages of the rich.
Interesting point
Well, she is a free loader, not a liar like Elizabeth Holmes. Her attention is solely on survival, not fame.
Real baller is Andrew tate
@@simp2234 Rapist*
in that regard she excelled
One of my professors told me, "It doesn't have to be true, but it must be convincing!"
“It’s not a lie, if you believe it”
And believing it is the only way to be convincing.
While all the kindness shown here is nice, all this proves is that pretty privilege exists as a form of currency. I will bet that a man or a more average looking woman would not pull this off.
Certainly not as easily.
There is a man in India that has made the equivalent of $1.5 million begging
It's not easy. One just has to make it look easy. I'm barely 6 feet tall but I'm sure that I could pull it off too. People assume that I am an athlete or celebrity even though they can't think of a name or where they have seen my face. The most common but weird question that I get is 'are you somebody?'.
To be fair everyone have their own skills and advantages. If you are pretty, well use it to your advantages. If you are smart, or likeable, sociable, have leadership quality, hardworking, rich, and so on, use it to your advantages.
There is no point complaining about pretty people when it isn't everything.
@@AmRealThatGuy so true. 👍
She was able to get into some of these places specifically because she had friends in these circles whom she got invitations and passes from.
without those invitations and passes, ain't no way she would've succeeded in sneaking into the affluent venues or events but kudos to her for her meticulous planning and ofcourse confidence to pull it off
@@ma2i485
Yes, that was a big part of her success and the fact that she's young and beautiful helped.On the other hand, this is truely stressful and I'm sure she couldn't have kept up such a fassade for much longer.
and had the money to buy a dress, which she would later return.
The Hussle is good, but the pretense of "not spending money" is bullshit. It's not that she started with nothing, and had no money, she had access to money, used it, and as you say, used OTHER people's resources like the invitation o.O
@@cjjuszczak
Yes, true
@@charlottepeukert9095for future reference -- "facade"
I've heard and watched about the lady in the caption months ago. She did an experiment on how the rich and elites of china were getting free goods and free services. She literally stayed in high class guest halls, tried luxurious jewelries, and ate free goodies for several days without spending a single cent.
That story was so absurd that I still can't forget it easily till today.
If she'd be a man, she would be jailed as a conman.
But being a young and relatively beautiful woman is an absolute superpower these days.
@@milan51259and if she were an ugly woman, same thing. There are men who literally do this all the time and have multiple sugar mommy’s, conning them all. Pretty privilege is a thing period. Also women weren’t allowed to be pretty and confident and extroverted until not long ago. Especially in china, so yeah…I would imagine it’s seen as more rare and special than men doing the same which has been seen for millennium?
@@sumbunniii8721 I read your comment and I still dont care about your opinion. Deal with it. 🐤
@@milan51259 Like, there are multiple males who do the same, but y'all start screeching only when there are women involved, lol. Tells me everything that I need to know about y'all incels. Deal with it.
@@milan51259thats… not an opinion?
I tell you one thing, with the attention that she has garnered I’m sure many others will also try to copy her project. I suspect also that the places that she frequented and sponged off will be more vigilant. In the end the key to her success was pretty privilege.
Yeah, this opens the door to copycats, but as a side note the affluent will be hassled to prove their identity, so a win to be sure
It's unlikely they will increase their vigilance.
The cost of potentially insulting an actual rich person is too high.
Also, those luxury locations pride themselves in high quality service, so they'll be able to spin this into positive marketing for sure.
That and "Look the part" that is key to any spycraft. No one questions another if they look like they belong there.
The makings of a scammer.
@@rh906
Yeah, I was definitely thinking spycraft more than scammer. She was mostly passive, scammers are more aggressive and actually do harm.
What a shocker, a beautiful woman gets away with everything and people just give her things. I'm so surprised.
You seem disappointed
@@TheRealDeal130 is it though?
Curse you Patriarchy! Women don't need or want your handouts
So true. Not really an expirement. It's pretty much life
it's animalistic biology~
You don't really need to "fake it" if you're an attractive girl in China. This isn't as groundbreaking as so many comments here make it out to be.
Yeah this is true for Asian society in general, beauty is held in extremely high regard
Who’s fault is that?
Was Anna Delvey in China when she faked being a socialite? Being attractive and manipulative isn't just an advantage to use solely in China.
@@walter.s.dempseyAnna delivery was considered ugly
Oi, behave yourself. She's not attractive, she is gorgeous. Santa is coming soon and she's on my list.
very clever girl. she was studying this for a career, tried a challenging task and accomplished it. congratulations to you and all you pursue in life.
She was a sort of pretty young female who managed to mooch for 21 days, hardly a challenging task.
She'll make a good brand spokesperson.
@@jb4301year old late comment but I wanted to comment that this reeked of jealousy 😂😂😂
I pretended to be rich once. Me and my brother went into a 7 eleven and I bought one of those microwave bean burritos and I bought my brother two taquitos. Then we both got slurpees and we paid with cold hard cash, and a coupon
Hahaha 😂 Spot on analogy to this video 😂 💕
Well atleast you didn't us your looks.
There are 2 problems with the conclusion" 1. That she pulled the stunt off on her own when the clip explicitly shows that the main reason is because she has friends in high places. If she fails to realize this, then the person who is fooled most by her is herself. 2. That people (esp. hotel and retail workers) were all fooled because they believe she is a socialite; while this may be true to a point, it is also possible that some of them actually felt sorry for her and genuinely just wanted to help. To see everyone as being class-conscious and pandering to the rich completely ignores our humanity - that is how jaded the world has become.
Yea right. Lol. No chinese person has a good heart n they only did it hoping to get something in return. No way any of them did it with the goodness of their heart. Lol
Plus, no1 knew who she was. So how would they know her friends? Doesn't make sense what u say mate.
Agree. It's like once you are inside the gym, the trainers would assume you paid for the membership and would not question you to use the equipment. Blending in well doesn't mean anything. Try this without the passes and the help of her wealthy friends. People usually don't confront others unless it's really suspicious.
She was performing an experiment. Meaning a school study task she performed. To show inequity in society. Hardly failed or for her personal vendetta.😊
@andrwng you are very correct without the borrowing of the friend's high end custom clothing (making her look rich). The other friend's boarding ticket (Allowing access to the high end airport lounge), and another friend's Auction Invite. Without her friends none of this would have been possible. While, she did buy clothing to complete her look. Later, she was able to return the clothing and get her money back. Zara isn't really that expensive not the same a Gucci. Plus, the items were returned and she didn't actually use the money. Just needed the initial cost of one item.
Plus, the staff at one of the restaurant's actually did feel terrible for her. She claimed to have been stood up on a date. So everyone felt the need to make her feel better and gave her free deserts and other treats.
I would like to see this repeated without the custom clothing (borrowed from a friend), without the boarding pass (borrowed from a friend), without the Auction Invite (borrowed from another friend). Of course, she is also young and pretty so there are very many advantages with that as well.
A more interesting experiment as other have suggested, would have been someone older and not attractive.
Here in Japan the same thing happens. People buying gucci stuff risking their savings just to show themselves as powerful and rich, but then, they eat spicy fried chicken for 120 yen at 711, because they can't afford anything else on a daily basis.
i think her being super beautiful has a lot to do with it too. it makes her look like she has money more than someone who was a little overweight or had messed up teeth or something. the look she has really blends in with the rich in china.
I’m sure her looks helped her but demeanor and clothing would do it for a non good looking person as well im sure
She's at most a 6/10 in china lol
@@EzraMerr reallly? Where the good looking ones then
Pretty girl privilege is definitely a factor...
@@johnle231 With the right body language she's cute, but certainly not stunning, especially in East Asia. She'd be an easy 8+ in the West though.
This is truly interesting. I would love to see a doc about her experience. When my kids were young we would go to high end restaurants in San Francisco only ordering appetizers and cocoa or tea. We would"shop" in expensive stores. I wanted my kids to feel comfortable in any setting. My reason wasn't to teach them to desire wealth but to be prepared for future business events, dinners etc. It worked.
Nice work 👍
@@FireBeamshe is the perfect wife. The most affordable wife in the world .
@@dongshengdi773
Maybe...
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard
Sorry mate, this is the stupidest thing I heard in a very long time. You are an interloper and your kids understand that. I’d never go to a place where I don’t belong.
This young lady has a lot guts and real intelligence to pull this off. Just think what a reporter she would make. Alas, not a realistic goal within the CCP environment.
She is an artist, why would she want to be a reporter?
She just used other peoples kindness that is evil 😈
@@forgaming5640 It was experiment and nothing more.
@@4D2M0T I'm just saying she would be good at it.
@@4D2M0Tart is a kind of reporting. Reporting is a kinda of art.
Twenty-something females, especially if they have any physical attractiveness to them, tend to get less scrutiny in such environments. I would think a guy would have a much tougher time pulling this off. Difficult, but not impossible.
If she was not good looking she would have not succeeded. She forgot this very important point. The other aspects just show how shallow society has become especially in Asia where brand names determine your status in society. We are living in a fake reality based on shallow consumerism.
That girl is so resourceful and she picked art. Dang.
If she didn’t picked art she wouldn’t do it and you and many others wouldn’t know about this.
Speech 100 and charisma 10
No charming spell needed
What she did was cool, showing how society caters to the wealthy. She already has upper class connections to help her project( luxury loungewear, and auction tickets), most people cannot pull this off.
borderline genius and insane, she should pitch her story to make a movie out of it, if approved she's make zero from hero real quick
Beauty is a already a step up
Thought Hollywood already did 1? Catch me if you can.
This happens everywhere, I've seen people here in Canada who beg for change all day and then change into nice clothes and go clubbing at night. People buying expensive clothes but keeping the tags on is so common here it's a standard sit-com joke.
She definitely took advantage of others' generosity, expensive companies trying to appease the wealthy, and the fact most people don't care about what other people are doing. Looking the part and acting the part works for many things. Like many people on a construction site would say, if you have a hard hat, high viz, and clipboard, no one asks questions.
哈哈，这个建筑工地的例子，实在是太真实了。
曾经有两个人戴着安全帽，抬着一个梯子，尝试去进入任何机构的工作区域，他们几乎没有受到任何安保人员的询问。
She took advantage by a few free things...? She did a great story! I don't agree at all. This was smart of her, and exposed quite a lot. Her showing how they live is a bit more important than the poor 5 star hotel who lost $30 worth (to make) of desserts. I'm confused at who she actually 'took advantage' of. This is how media covers stories. They go under cover. She'd make a great reporter, if she didn't live in China and could actually be one.
very true, people are naive
I once heard a story of a rich man walking into the car showroom wearing very simple clothing and slippers, the salesman ignored him, the rich man ended up buying an expensive car in 1 dollar notes to inconvenience him.
I call BS. How did she have the money to buy the designer clothes before returning them? She had money all along and simply recorded things to make it look like she was getting away with being clever.
and money for makeups, plus upper class connections
More than likely she had a credit card and just put the debt on it, then returned it for full refund.
Ha!
I noticed those return shenanigans also.
When did Zara become "designer clothes"?
LOL@@irmar
I'm not sure u can consider this experiment/story attempt of being a socialite etc. Bcos her main objective daily is to find food +accommodation. As a socialite she would need to attend partys+places & meet actually socialite- if she could pull that off then she would have been successful. This is more survival guild but she still did well👍
Good point
Indeed, she took advantage of the loopholes to meet her end.
@@ma2i485she is the perfect wife. The most affordable wife in the world .
don't glorify crime. She was basically stealing access to the resources she isn’t supposed to have. And this is a very”chinese” thing they do.
“Abuse all benefits and perks, whatever it takes”
more likely she is a psychopath than a smart girl
She was successful largely because she is a beautiful, young girl with a very refined look. An average-looking guy would not be able to pull this off as she did.
"I'm not a socialite, I am of the proletariat," she said.
Yeah...OK.
Simply put, if you are a confident, beautiful woman who dress like a wealthy person, society will treat you differently while receiving the perks meant for the elites
The people who were "kind" to her were not being kind. They were investing in the possibility of a future profitable transaction.
People can agree or disagree with her, but they can’t deny she helped start a conversation about the subject.
Without her rich friends help with false identities, she won’t make it.
That helps a lot, but you also have to act and look like you belong to a place. That is key to all of this.
Confidence is the key here. No point having fake identities only to crack upon questioning.
This is possible in the west but extremely difficult, we call out bs in your face. Its clear that some parts of Asia don't like confrontation.
China has a class system much more stricter and much more cruel than Western. It can be compared to Western middle age timeline. Speaking truth or calling out most of time will end with trouble. No one like a fact mouth, they want a silent mouth.
There are plenty of influencers in the west who do this successfully lol
@@alyssaoconnorya they never said it was impossible lmao
kardashians ring a bell? FYI They were not rich before.
@lombardo141, oh stop, the west is just as guilty of this, maybe even worse.
honestly, respect for the girl and the hustle
its like the gaming speed running community, finding exploits after exploits
makes you look at the society on a different lens
I also respect her hustle. But I don't look at society differently, because their reactions weren't unexpected. Influencers in the USA get away with freebies all the time. It's when they don't, e.g., when the store refuses a freebie, that causes scandal because refusal of freebies is so rare! But 3 weeks of sleeping and dining without going home or spending a dime is still impressive.
No respect. Her hustle is all about duping others and getting away with it.
@@gener8423I bet if it was a guy a fat girl or some other minorities they wouldn't be saying the same thing.
I gotta admit, as a foreigner, I did this in Asia at ritzy estate club house facilities. I would walk in, take a shower, use the lounge, and even rent the game room. That said, I was prepared to be really nice in the event someone working there stopped me. No one ever did.
That’s true if u can fake it till u make it but people in the TH-cam comments say she is a true socialite which is not true I have so many friends who fake it till they make it lol, and also sugar daddy pay for them too
what are ritzy estate club house facilities ?
Just shows that if you’re attractive and act like you belong you can get away with a lot of stuff.
Yep especially in Asian society, beauty is highly regarded unlike other parts of the world
When I was homeless for a short time. 1. I was super lucky to have my car with tinted window. 2 Having somewhere to shower or freshen up was the BEST. 3. Finding a safe place to sleep made sleeping much easier. When I became a security guard and saw homeless people I left them a lone. I even seen homeless employees sleeping in the office. I would tell the other security guards to leave them a lone and don't report. She right, when your living like that, you don't care to much about what people think of you because your trying to survive. What gave her a advantage, was her look and 100% Yes, how you dress ad carry yourself. Beauty can only get you so far, its all about your kills and how to adapt
What happened to the Chinese social credit score system. Does this not cause her enormous problems?
Did my question upset you John? @@matalostodos
@@matalostodos he's talking about AFTER the social experiment 😬
Young beautiful women get all the freebies in life. It’s been that way since the dawn of time and doesn’t matter where you reside. The fact she was well educated and spoken just made it easier to pull off the stunt. I applaud her, well done.
On the one hand, her project is brilliant. But then again, she is very pretty….gorgeous even. I wonder if she would have had the same success if she were plain looking. Society doesn’t just judge your money worth, but your looks too.
Definitely the biggest factor. She + pretty = 70% of her success
She is extraordinarily pretty so she was able to pull this off. Plus, she is quite cunning so kudos to her for being able to succeed in this experiment.
This is like another form of "Think it, to become it." I see BIG things in her future. Kudos, young lady.
@@chineseRATFACE if she had money maybe she wouldnt marry.
You gotta consider that 21 days is a very short period of time
If she kept going eventually she would start to ring alarms in different hotels and stablishments, pretty much ending her strategy the moment she approached a hotel that had already been warned of her
Someone should employ her immediately. She shows great initiative
Beauty, brains and cunning worked well for her. Kudos to her because it took bravado for her to execute her plan.
I had a few hard months here in Las Vegas during the downturn. I stayed in a homeless shelter and bought my clothes at the thrift store. However, this store was stocked with very nice, new clothing. I wore Allen Iverson shoes I got compliments for and bought a silk shirt or 2. I avoided the trademark black clothing it seems the homeless are not inventive enough to realize marks them, and was NEVER treated like anyone homeless when I was in public. My shirts and shoes got compliments. I got treated like I belong in society which was uplifting.
Hope you're doing alright.
@@gabrielfrost9134 That was '12, and you realize the economy bounced a bit. I have been working for years, and now at a bank. Thnaks.
It is indeed a testament to the saying “clothes maketh the man (or should I say person)”. I remember someone saying to me to always have nice shoes because no matter what you wear, since people tend to look down on each other, they can see your shoes first so it creates the first impression. Plus shoes are the closest to the ground so it gets dirty easily so if you have nice, clean shoes, it can say a lot about how you take care of stuff. It stuck to me so I always have a good pair of shoes; not that I hoard or anything-I just have like 3 pairs (for work, for play, and for everyday).
Kudos to this woman for being able to sleep ON COACHES and such places. I couldn't do that
Clever girl! I did something similar for a while, but not as intentionally or as well planned. And she was able to use it to satisfy her degree requirements - even better! I'd love to meet her.
Sensational.😅😆 oh Chyna has never cease to amaze me. *"What comes around Goes around."* 🤣😅
It helps if you're young and attractive.
You lost me at "Zara is a high-end store"
She’s not a beggar
I honestly love her story, she's inspiring and I love Zou!
Liu Bei conned everyone lol
Honestly I quite admire the gumption that girl has. With her skill in finding and making deals with people, her ability to socialize and blend in, she can do pretty well in a corporate environment. I hope I can one day read her report about her social experiment.
She's success because she's in accordance with the Chinese beauty standard, fake stuff looks real if you were good looking. 😄
Now this is real art. Thought provoking too. While hundreds of millions of people live in absolute poverty in the Chinese countryside. These sorts of luxuries exist to cater to the small group of wealthy individuals. Just imagine all of that food waste!
She wasn't gold digging, besides that one ride she requested and it was performance art. So it's okay in my book.
As a woman, it was probably a little easyier for her, but in the end, it's okay in my book. She had a concept, she acted on it and presented her findings to the world.
She definitely played the part very intelligently, and also she’s very stunning ❤️💯
For me it is not her ability to use resources she is not entitled to. It is what her deceit did to her as a person. As she said, she did not recognise herself after a few days. When you step into a false persona, it is not always easy to leave it behind without it changing you in some way and it is usually not for the better. Also her abuse of other's concern and kindness, did not sit well with me, irrespective of the reason behind it.
Meh, everyone should try something like this for at least a week.
Getting free from your normal, comfortable, boring cog-in-the-machine life and having to survive off of the excess of modernity while sourcing sanitary facilities and bedding.... It's a wakeup call to what it means to be HUMAN in the 21st century.
As far as deceit, I didn't see much of it. More like a poker player keeping her cards hidden.
@marieslabbert6009: In some cases concern and kindness, but in most cases just pandering to the rich and resources automatically offered to rich clients by the enterprises.
Very smart, intelligent, brave, resourceful, charming and fast thinking young lady. Bravo on your great project success. Bet your professors are not able to even come close to executing such a project. She will do well in life with her smarts and abilities. Super impressed.
Anna Sorokin did the same in real life.
Not exactly. Anna Sorokin ran up huge bills at hotels, forged documents to give the impression that she was rich, and defrauded banks and individuals of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
True wealth never shows off, this is going on all over the world 🎉🎉🎉
What a weird experiment to go through
You should try it, you might learn something about yourself.
This is how Rich people get treat it, She looks the part so no surprise here, her beauty the way she dress and how she acted help it a lot..
well done .
Amazingly, she would be welcome almost anywhere. Beauty is its own currency.
But beauty ultimately FAILS!
@@johndesade126 So does everything else in the long run.
I wish to commend her for her 'skill'. There is nothing really bad about her 'skill'. She is neither a freeloader. But, she did prove a point that in business (especially), and in all endeavours of human lives, a little con goes a long way, and, actually does help in one's efforts. It is due to this, being built into human nature.
The fake socialite Anna Sorokin comes to mind.
I congratulate the young woman masquerading as a fake rich socialite. I'm impressed by what she accomplished. WOW! You are not only intelligent, creative, determined, and very courageous. Your great beauty probably helped alot. But you had massive courage.
Young attractive women will generally get away with most things. I've been approached multiple times by girls who asked for a short lift, cigarette ect. and I have always agreed. Financially it doesn't make a difference to me and I enjoy the social interaction.
Will you give short lifts and cigs to the ugly's too?.
@@gabrielfrost9134 probably not, that's the point inn' it ?
I love the way she’s being smart and taking advantage of every opportunity
Me: using gym for free shower and park for free drink.
Her: Using zara 24hr return for daily clothes.
Her outward demeanor reflects the kindness others extend to her. Chinese individuals are not all as we might perceive them to be; they are inherently good-natured people unless influenced adversely by their superiors.
That true plus businesses are dying so whenever they see someone look like a decent celebrity they give that person freebies and hope that person advertise for them. Asian businesses in North America never have to do this/“.
Basically she discovered that attractive young women live life on easy mode.
From the descriptions she was given things not because people thought she was high status or wealthy but because she was an attractive young women and either took pity on her, she knew people who could give her access or nice clothes, or they just didn't care to say anything.
She didn't gain any access to privileged social circles.
Now do it again without the name brand stuff. She would see she would get just as far. The luxury stuff helps a lil but pretty privilege goes a long way and is how a poor or middle class beauty becomes rich. Beauty and her bright complexion.
They're the same in America. Fake it until you make it.😂
Indeed, why nobility/elites are trained to live among their kind. If you act and look the part, no questions asked.
she is seriously so pretty, it was the looks that let her get away with it. I'm sure the gucci bag helped since its china and they like name brands but mostly it was her looks.
Bingo you are today's winner
A liar and a scammer. This comment section is so funny. Just like she succeeded in her scam because she looks pretty and was well dressed, these comments are full of praises for the same reason. I wonder what it would be like if she was ugly or a man? In the end, all she did was selfishly abuse other people's goodwill.
This is so fascinating. I don't think I would be brave enough to ever try this.
"Can you take this challenge?"
No, I'm not a woman, I earn all I get.
What a dumb comment. Of course, you make that comment as a man.
Reminded me of the movie catch me if you can. All you have to do is know how to b.s. and in the right and convincing way.
I lost it when she did the name Le Bei. That was hilarious
Title should be "Woman Lounges in Different Places for Free"
Step 1, don't go to university and study a garbage major that can't support you for the rest of your life.
😂
I think you couidnt do this safely in the west. In Australia, for instance, we are less responsive to people for merely looking rich or being beautiful. We are also a less safe society for young women moving around alone.
They call it a "challenge" or "social experiment".
I call it "she's lucky to be a good-looking and young woman." If she'd be everything else, she would have slept with her "challenge" on the streets like every other beggar.
Her whole challenge only works because she is young, beautiful and a woman.
That's the whole point of the experiment her being pretty is the experiment to see how it goes
@@engineergaming3043true pretty privilege connections and good acting and street smarts
This is a prime example of "fake it until you make it." 🤷♂️
She wouldn't have gotten far without being young and decent looking (with makeup)
If she was any older or look any less, she would've been caught on the first day. Very interesting project though, no doubt.
or have rich friends that lent her expensive clothes and make up
One thing I've learned in life is that if you're attractive and charismatic enough you can get away with just about anything.
No I'm not particularly proud of how I learned that lesson.
She will most likely become a successful artist
such a heartwarming video - an inspiration to all up & coming debutantes!
She was going days with out cleaning...😂😂😂. Gross!
I carry a few printed and blank A4 paper and a pen, walking around other departments and cubicles, pretending urgency, but then say hi and chatted around everyone before proceed to next "important department" in urgency and unknown purpose.
Nobody really ask what I'm doing except my supervisor, where have you been ?
Oh, to X department to clarify some things. Half a university campus that is. I call it Management by Walking Around, look it up.
if she were not that pretty, and had no previous contact with people in those enviroments she definetly would be sued
Take a step back, thsi woman is just doing her best to survive in the CCP CXhina!
This shows people's kindness and empathy!
Lol what? That’s the most simplistic false perspective of China I have ever heard.
Lol what? That’s the most simplistic false perspective of China I have ever heard.
This comment has to be either trolling or the dumbest remark that I’ve seen today
Reminds me of that fake German Socialite girl they made a Netflix movie about.
She did the same thing as most "influencers" and "celebrities" on Instagram lol apart from that they are now becoming AI-generated fakes 🤷
Anyway the idea of squatting the Ikea really made me laugh 👍
hahaha yeah this influences shit is sooo fake everything is fake. As long as it looks real in front of the camera. And these influencers never want to be catched or seen in real life. Mostly yes, but after they made the money by faking until you make it. After that they come public.
Amazing. It goes to show that people see a well dressed person and assume they are rich and not to annoy them. I don't think she took advantage of anyone as she did it as an experiment to see how far she could go without getting caught and she went the whole way. It also helps that she is drop dead gorgeous