What if You Lived in the Most Crowded Place on Earth?

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    Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place ever in all of world history. Unfortunately, the city was demolished in 1994 but what would your life have been like if you lived inside? This is my attempt to explain.
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  • @justincheng9241
    @justincheng9241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10238

    Fun fact: My dad grew up in the kowloon walled city. Unlike most former residents of the walled city, he came from a family of businessmen/entrepreneurs and as a result, him and his family were able to lift themselves out of poverty. He was the first in his family to earn a degree (from a Canadian University) and now is involved in the high-tech clean energy business. He was a successful man, but most important of all, he was a good man with the kindest and most loving heart. Incredibly proud to call him my father. Watching videos about the Kowloon Walled City makes me respect him so much more, knowing how much he had to endure in order to give me the life I have right now.

    • @AmandaAlexandra47
      @AmandaAlexandra47 4 ปีที่แล้ว +291

      Justin Cheng thanks for sharing! :)

    • @xmanmartinez00
      @xmanmartinez00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +232

      Damn, did he ever tell you things bout the city? (If you don't mind me asking)

    • @justincheng9241
      @justincheng9241 4 ปีที่แล้ว +667

      @Xavier Mratinez Unwanted triad entanglements... His brother got roughed up while he was home alone by some hired muscle, and as a result his brother turned to the triads, and ended up joining them... Witnessing gang fights with knives and machetes after school.... Unsanitary rats and roach-infested shared/public rest rooms... Honestly, despite all the horrors I'm sure he witnessed, he always had a very optimistic outlook towards life. He would share a lot of funny stories as well... Like he would laugh about how his roof flew off of his home during a typhoon, or when he brought home a bird's nest because he wanted to raise it when he was a little boy, but all the birds eventually died. He's one of the most joyful people I know, maybe because he's so grateful for the life he's been given. Considering that most people who also grew up in the walled city are essentially still living in the same conditions.

    • @xmanmartinez00
      @xmanmartinez00 4 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      @@justincheng9241 has he ever thought about releasing a book or some docu/video or something along them lines? Cuz he sounds like someone who made it: lived at a really unsanitary place, fell into a pretty dangerous group of people, but eventually became a successful buisness man and during it all he alaays had his head held high. (Sorry don't mean to pry, but it's interesting to find places like this and know people who experienced it are alive)

    • @riclacuna659
      @riclacuna659 4 ปีที่แล้ว +184

      Wow, your dad is so admirable. Huge respect to him.

  • @MatterGD
    @MatterGD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12670

    The Mailman is probably crying tears of happiness watching them demolishing the buildings

    • @andymofoincross
      @andymofoincross 5 ปีที่แล้ว +788

      I doubt they had mail or any other government regulated services for that matter.

    • @pompirogo
      @pompirogo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      For your information this place was demolish a long time ago...

    • @pavithrak5632
      @pavithrak5632 5 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Your name......its so beautifully written

    • @MatterGD
      @MatterGD 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      @@pavithrak5632 lol I use UnicodePad to make this

    • @pavithrak5632
      @pavithrak5632 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@MatterGD thanks to let know

  • @trevordavis8210
    @trevordavis8210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4751

    I don’t know how the fuck that place didn’t ever burn to the ground. Seems like the biggest fire hazard ever made

    • @The_Mad_Regent
      @The_Mad_Regent 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

      Who knows,maybe they got lucky.

    • @trevordavis8210
      @trevordavis8210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +261

      @@The_Mad_Regent is there such a thing as luck in a condensed slum?

    • @fullsunny2530
      @fullsunny2530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +310

      It was always damp I guess

    • @Artist_of_Imagination
      @Artist_of_Imagination 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@trevordavis8210 Well they are alive.... So I guess yes?

    • @Amaling
      @Amaling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@Artist_of_Imagination how much is "they"? For all we know there were human corpses everywhere on the floor

  • @WkShu
    @WkShu ปีที่แล้ว +148

    The Kowloon walled city was not as bad as it is described. I lived there for a couple of years when I was very young. It's a very interesting place. Lots of memories in there.

    • @jwlgoesfishing
      @jwlgoesfishing 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      yeah, this video is weirdly negative and has strong "youtuber clickbait" energy. Not too pleased with this one.

    • @jimmylabb5868
      @jimmylabb5868 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      He talking out his ass with no proof. Would love to see live video not just talk!

    • @KookieTheDog37
      @KookieTheDog37 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like, i dont think RLL has ever lived there.

  • @collinm9469
    @collinm9469 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17902

    If this place still existed annoying youtube vloggers would go and make "spending 24 hours on kowloon walled city 😮"

    • @grievingmom
      @grievingmom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1149

      if they could survive it....

    • @ueIl
      @ueIl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +876

      theyll be dead in the process lmao

    • @99999bomb
      @99999bomb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Nerdy_Jr.2737 Shut up

    • @joshgabrielll
      @joshgabrielll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +177

      logan paul new vid idea

    • @adinab478
      @adinab478 4 ปีที่แล้ว +535

      MrBeast be like: last person to leave kowloon walled city gets $100,000😂

  • @DaesoTheOne
    @DaesoTheOne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10598

    “You can call 911 and get no response”
    Yea because it’s not the Hong Kong emergency number

    • @roxlovesfearless
      @roxlovesfearless 4 ปีที่แล้ว +384

      Random Twig underrated comment

    • @brunispero9301
      @brunispero9301 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      oh....

    • @isaacng123456789
      @isaacng123456789 4 ปีที่แล้ว +428

      Actually, Hong Kong's emergency number is different from China's. Hong Kong: 999. China: 110. Calling the Chinese emergency number won't help either in Hong Kong.

    • @xxxgames4458
      @xxxgames4458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Lol 999 =666. No wonder they worship the dragon as satan is the great dragon. Not that you folks know about the elite and the occult codes

    • @UltimateBreloom
      @UltimateBreloom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@isaacng123456789 Got to love those vestigial Britisims.

  • @sgtpetergreen
    @sgtpetergreen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13386

    This is basically like the real life equivalent to the lower levels of a hive world out of some sci-fi universe

    • @strikeone7803
      @strikeone7803 5 ปีที่แล้ว +760

      *Star Wars' Coruscant Level 1 wants to know your location*

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +411

      @@strikeone7803 Excuse me but Coruscant level 1 is uninhabitable.

    • @eternal5930
      @eternal5930 5 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      @@Nugcon Then what about Level 1313?

    • @rileywags
      @rileywags 5 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Nugcon yeah it’s like a radioactive dump

    • @thedripkingofangmar6778
      @thedripkingofangmar6778 5 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      @Weeding that's only inside the hives, a lot of planets are relatively normal

  • @Mazxlol
    @Mazxlol 2 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Living in crowded spaces can be interesting because there's lots of people and you likely to have friends close by. No need to drive far away to hang out, just go down a few floors or buildings etc. At least as kids. As adults maybe it's not as fun.

    • @hunterinfected6
      @hunterinfected6 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It’s a literal slum city dude. Garbage, drug needles and poo and urine. It’s equivalent living situation of animals being hoarded. This is people hoarding and not fun for a child lol

    • @Mazxlol
      @Mazxlol 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@hunterinfected6 hmm I see. Ok maybe it depends on what kind of people live there. If it's the way you described it you are right then

    • @budhrajarahul3
      @budhrajarahul3 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When you grow up you build concepts and get yourself entangled into it.. I always say, either be a king who rule world and get to do whatveet he likes
      Or be a kid who doesn't cares and lives his own little life
      . Anything in between is cursed.. Hell or heaven is in mind

  • @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978
    @door-to-doorhentaisalesman2978 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3742

    The dentists in Kowloon used skillshare.

    • @ges105sb6
      @ges105sb6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yes

    • @rfs1506
      @rfs1506 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      A
      Door-to-Door Hentai Salesman are ya? You know what to do
      pls gib amine tidy

    • @Rydo416
      @Rydo416 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      PentaLad you should buy a better channel banner pal

    • @ren96706
      @ren96706 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      PentaLad spelling 100

    • @derpdudtennoherelol4053
      @derpdudtennoherelol4053 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ren96706 He ClEaRLY SaId IT LiKE ThaT oN pErPoSE.

  • @WafuBro20
    @WafuBro20 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4119

    Hong Kong: demolishes the walled city, builds Disneyland for tourism
    Japan: makes a replica of the walled city as a tourist attraction

  • @charliemccoy7731
    @charliemccoy7731 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1888

    They brought that one chunk challenge from minecraft into real life

    • @Kni0002
      @Kni0002 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      lol, makes me want to play a modded version of chunk survival

    • @charliemccoy7731
      @charliemccoy7731 5 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      @Micah Jamaica Bell thanks holmes, glad you figured out my master to plan to fool all of the youtubers. Btw It was a joke i didnt mean it literally

    • @graczwymiatacz1032
      @graczwymiatacz1032 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Micah Jamaica Bell yeah, u know, that was a j o k

    • @Sudupe16
      @Sudupe16 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @Micah Jamaica Bell It's a really simple joke, I don't understand why people still don't understand things like this.

    • @dminecraft999
      @dminecraft999 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Micah Jamaica Bell
      r/whoooosh

  • @TheNuclearGeek
    @TheNuclearGeek 2 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    Kowloon was so beloved by the people that lived there, even military threat didn't drive them out. Apparently they had the best noodles in Hong Kong. Dentists, Doctors, Barbers, Air Conditioning, Postal Service, even schools all located in there and grown organically.
    With a chaperone that actually lived there, I would have loved to spend a couple of days living there and get to experience what the truest freedom in the modern world was like.

    • @MrKruger88
      @MrKruger88 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ah yes, nothing says "true freedom" like poverty, addiction, disease and sex slavery!
      Pull your head out of your ass, these people were suffering some of the worst living conditions of the modern era. If you want to experience this "true freedom" right now, you can. Walk away from everything you own and just start living as a homeless person in your nearest slum.

    • @alamo2336
      @alamo2336 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shhiiiiidddd

    • @--Traveler--
      @--Traveler-- ปีที่แล้ว +11

      people in this region save face.
      so I wouldnt expect those stories to be true.
      same goes with china, they talk big, but peel back the surface and it's falling apart at the seams.

    • @TheNuclearGeek
      @TheNuclearGeek ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@--Traveler-- Well I certainly wouldn't call it paradise, but it was certainly a freedom they only had there. Now, admittedly, I can only go off the documentaries I saw about the place and the protests that were documented when condemning it, but those things were all shown.

    • @Glockmog2007
      @Glockmog2007 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Based. Id rather live in a cramped city but be free than be a slave to the state.

  • @FakePale
    @FakePale 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2036

    Fifty thousand people used to live here... now it's a park

    • @tahabashir3779
      @tahabashir3779 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Baseplate, this is Bravo Six. Going dark.

    • @sergioqueznoness398
      @sergioqueznoness398 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      I wonder if the park is haunted

    • @ReyLobo_BreezyBX5
      @ReyLobo_BreezyBX5 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      Insane when you think about it.

    • @15leungc3
      @15leungc3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      the picture has the wrong park. the one shown is kowloon park not kowloon walled city park.

    • @tomgassy4220
      @tomgassy4220 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      "Our so called leaders prostituted us to West!"

  • @peterthepanda
    @peterthepanda 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12341

    But how many Toyota Corollas would fit in there?

    • @Myname-jy9pb
      @Myname-jy9pb 5 ปีที่แล้ว +211

      Beat me to it

    • @Vengir
      @Vengir 5 ปีที่แล้ว +201

      Not a single one

    • @amblypygi6651
      @amblypygi6651 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@Vengir 😧😧

    • @um-yu9lo
      @um-yu9lo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Peter the Panda u have fat

    • @yurichan6557
      @yurichan6557 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Finally someone question about it

  • @kumoharu2033
    @kumoharu2033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1901

    “Kowloon” in Chinese means “nine dragons,” and this place was one of the biggest inspirations of cyberpunk, the landscape had influenced so many cyberpunk movies and anime

    • @StukovM1g
      @StukovM1g 4 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      @DANK No, Kowloon literally means "nine dragons".

    • @20PINKluvr
      @20PINKluvr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Ghost in the shell

    • @kumoharu2033
      @kumoharu2033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      DANK so you dumb ass think you know my language more than I do?

    • @kumoharu2033
      @kumoharu2033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      DANK ask any person from Hong Kong whether they speak Cantonese or “hongkongese”, and I live in a Cantonese immigrant family with ABCs who speak Cantonese as their first language. Also I have friends who’s parents are from Hong Kong, there ain’t no hongkongnese, my keyboard’s auto correct don’t even have that word. Just give up and admit ur wrong bro, that’s alright.

    • @kumoharu2033
      @kumoharu2033 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      BootsMcNab correct, the whole ghost in the shell setting and Kowloon have a lot in common

  • @RichSmithson
    @RichSmithson ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Where i live the population is 52,000. Just down the road is a Football field. I cant image the entire population of my town fitting on 4 football fields. No wonder they were living on top of each other.

    • @shashwatmali3640
      @shashwatmali3640 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      my city population i like 1.2 cr , 12 million , ahmedabad,india

  • @kirkjohnson9353
    @kirkjohnson9353 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1269

    You wanna believe that liquid dropping on you is 'water'. I get that.

    • @sgt_08x
      @sgt_08x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Probably sewage🤥

    • @michealjackson8716
      @michealjackson8716 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      ihuvNObrain Welp liquid poop

    • @christianmoore7109
      @christianmoore7109 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Some of it was. At least 30% of it was water. The other 70%? All bets are off.

    • @sgt_08x
      @sgt_08x 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@michealjackson8716 Yea they have like poor sewage treatment they just have to dump it outside their window...Too weird

    • @bluedragclaws
      @bluedragclaws 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Its liquid acid

  • @haroeneissa790
    @haroeneissa790 5 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    Imagine what this city looked like if there wasn't an airport nearby and everyone built flats with 50 floors

    • @playlistenthusiast
      @playlistenthusiast 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      it probably would have become a massive sky scraper made up of smaller buildings stacked on each other

    • @thestudentofficial5483
      @thestudentofficial5483 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Just watch MatPat's Ready Player One theory.

    • @wooshc
      @wooshc 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      This video contains wrong information. I think nyc data pertains to residents not the people working in Manhattan.

    • @08grad2010
      @08grad2010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It would have been like Jenga towers.

    • @taln0reich
      @taln0reich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      they probably would have continued stacking more floors up until the building collapses, then shrugged their shoulders going "okay, now lets try it again with more strouts"

  • @engr.enciso
    @engr.enciso 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2772

    "UNFORTUNATELY we can no longer visit because it was demolished in 1994"
    unfortunately 😂😂

    • @hilol3656
      @hilol3656 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      lol

    • @MustraOrdo
      @MustraOrdo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +187

      I rather live in that "lame" park than this disaster of an infrastructure.

    • @dawgKev
      @dawgKev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      *It was a master dirty ass peace*

    • @Discosaturn
      @Discosaturn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Meanwhile nearby Kai Tak Airport where planes landed after flying over the Kowloon Walled City was also demolished - four years later in the year 1998. It was, at that time, one of the most dangerous airports in the world since it exceeded capacity and caused a lot of noise pollution in nearby neighborhoods. A new airport was built on the island of Chek Lap Kok off Lantau Island and has been there ever since; the last departure from Kai Tak was a Cathay Pacific CX3340 ferry flight to the new Hong Kong International Airport at 1:05AM of July 6, 1998. What's left of Kai Tak Airport is currently a redevelopment site where new buildings would stand including a multi-purpose sports complex, a metro park, the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, a hotel, a housing estate, and commercial and entertainment construction projects over an area of more than 328 hectares (or 810 acres).

    • @eniotanaka2229
      @eniotanaka2229 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just wanted to post it too

  • @No-wt3mf
    @No-wt3mf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +620

    Did you guys know that the architects and dentists of Kowloon Walled City used Skillshare?!

  • @lemonbie9308
    @lemonbie9308 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4051

    I bet claustrophobia itself had claustrophobia after seeing this city

    • @glennzagelasius643
      @glennzagelasius643 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      This 😂😂😂

    • @genedrakes686
      @genedrakes686 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      My 1st MRI attempt I freaked out fast! When I lived in Toronto we had a huge park North of the building I lived in! Not a fan of suburbs now but no way would I live there!

    • @lalalalalalala179
      @lalalalalalala179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Nice try, claustrophobia! But there is no santa claus here!

    • @kamkam1a334
      @kamkam1a334 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Jum-B I would die in this place just by looking or breathing the air

    • @aliveandunwell430
      @aliveandunwell430 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ikr

  • @ExploreLucidDreaming1
    @ExploreLucidDreaming1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8158

    imagine hosting a minecraft LAN world...

    • @kk_aep
      @kk_aep 5 ปีที่แล้ว +233

      Explore Lucid Dreaming that would be kinda lit

    • @-zgizmo224-5
      @-zgizmo224-5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +104

      Fu man, you’re just trying to gain subscribers off advertising your Minecraft stream.

    • @-zgizmo224-5
      @-zgizmo224-5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      monkeysHK sorry, now I realize now I have to delete my TH-cam account for being such a selfish idiot. Goodbye

    • @-zgizmo224-5
      @-zgizmo224-5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      I don’t know why I said goodbye

    • @dunmo9582
      @dunmo9582 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      *STONKS*

  • @criticaltheories5222
    @criticaltheories5222 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    What amazes me is how humans can adapt to just about anything

  • @KRAFTWERK2K6
    @KRAFTWERK2K6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3015

    An introverts guide to places that MUST BE AVOIDED at all costs.

    • @theeyepatch1219
      @theeyepatch1219 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Oh shit...

    • @kKhanMC
      @kKhanMC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +90

      As an introvert, I can agree. This is a nightmare, believe me.

    • @brendanskinski2360
      @brendanskinski2360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      One could get their own room for $5 USD / month , what are you talking about? Hell I'd have like a whole section of rooms cheap AF

    • @KRAFTWERK2K6
      @KRAFTWERK2K6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @Christina Reynolds How do you do? Not really self righteous. You do know that not everyone loves to be among masses of people, do you? I never said how special introverts are so i wonder which one of us here really is the the self righteous ass? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @tanjirokamado2881
      @tanjirokamado2881 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @Christina Reynolds chill karen🙄 and get that stick outta your ass. You're being way too cranky like a menopausal granny lol

  • @LaggyMcstutters
    @LaggyMcstutters 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2581

    The rats and roaches must’ve been insane.

    • @averagefanenjoyer8696
      @averagefanenjoyer8696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +146

      They would've all gotten stepped on

    • @forstaken2254
      @forstaken2254 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Oh man

    • @angeloj3139
      @angeloj3139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +111

      I don't think so, they will eat it for dinner..

    • @melanielazare9
      @melanielazare9 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@angeloj3139 yup just nasty

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Do you mean the rats themselves were insane, or the number of them were insane? Probably both.

  • @CHMichael
    @CHMichael 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3266

    They should have made a movie inside of it before tearing it fdown.

    • @largol33t1
      @largol33t1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      The closest they came was filming "Bloodsport" inside, which featured martial artist Jean-Claude van Damme.

    • @tsubasamarya2815
      @tsubasamarya2815 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Slum Dog Millionnaire got you covered. Go watch it!

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      fight club

    • @Josh01815
      @Josh01815 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea a new SAW movie

    • @eriktrinh5501
      @eriktrinh5501 3 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Look for Hongkong gangster movies back in 80,90 you will see most of them filming from there. You will see Jackie Chang running around and jumping on those rooftop with his own stunts back there lol.

  • @zoidsfan12
    @zoidsfan12 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Woah woah woah woah. I already knew about Kowloon and the people that lived there. But the fact that the whole thing was built by the squatters too. Holy shit dude. That's outright impressive. Like that actually makes me proud of what we can do as a community.

    • @chrismill5303
      @chrismill5303 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      and those buildings were built without supervision nor guidance from hong kong authorities. when they needed more space, a floor was added. not more than 14 stories, though, or a plane could swipe your pad.

  • @ultragame4540
    @ultragame4540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3381

    “If you called 911 you probably wouldn’t get an answer”
    Well duh it’s in Hong Kong not America

    • @CheesyIsSalteh
      @CheesyIsSalteh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      lol

    • @keishakwok4333
      @keishakwok4333 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      It was
      The past

    • @changary371
      @changary371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      @@keishakwok4333 During British ruling, the emergency line was 999. BUT IT STILL IS NOW after China took over.

    • @sankarkumarn
      @sankarkumarn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Omg lol this comment is so underrated

    • @ChickenSlurpeee
      @ChickenSlurpeee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      🤣🤣🤣

  • @Tony.Turtle
    @Tony.Turtle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4731

    My parents were refugees and stayed in this city when they escaped the war to Kowloon Walled City. Indeed, it was very dense. It is not like what the majority said that negative. People lived in there and helped each other. Also not everyone in the world could or can have the western lifestyle. We work hard yet we can't get fair opportunities for study, for work, or for life.

    • @Heekyunchung75
      @Heekyunchung75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Ok

    • @IndomitableGanja
      @IndomitableGanja 3 ปีที่แล้ว +107

      Thanks for sharing .

    • @pineapplesareyummy6352
      @pineapplesareyummy6352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +332

      It's your typical hit piece written by a judgmental Westerner. Look at how many times he has to mention people eating dog meat, even though anyone who's born in HK knows it has to be extremely rare, and I've never seen it at all. I've never been in the Walled City myself - grew up in Taikoo in the 1980s. Of course I know slums and shantytowns and house boats were a fact of life until well past the 1990s. People just lived completely normal lives. I'm even willing to bet crime in Kowloon Walled City would have been lower than any US inner city. Certainly, I don't remember ever tripping over homeless drug addicts on the streets in HK. Judgmental Westerners watch these videos to say: "Look at all these dirty Chinese (or insert another group) and how superior we are compared to them."

    • @pineapplesareyummy6352
      @pineapplesareyummy6352 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      @Shaun Smith The entire world will be in permanent war if the US had its way. 👎

    • @Tony.Turtle
      @Tony.Turtle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      @@pineapplesareyummy6352 Right, I am Asian so you must assume me eat dogs. You are racist af.

  • @evaristegalois6282
    @evaristegalois6282 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4822

    *Claustrophobia has joined the chat*

    • @MustraOrdo
      @MustraOrdo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      More like *left the chat, since it's too crowded

    • @-nocapjayyy7368
      @-nocapjayyy7368 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@MustraOrdo yea so claustrophobia would join u prolly thinking about isolation

    • @kayleedesroches6318
      @kayleedesroches6318 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Fr tho. I’m not even claustrophobic but this video is making me feel claustrophobic

    • @jay5ivez
      @jay5ivez 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Imagine how smelly that city is😖

    • @iriscorporation5447
      @iriscorporation5447 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      *Social Anxiety has joined the chat*

  • @FrancisFabricates
    @FrancisFabricates 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    You’ve missed out a lot of important things. The city even had a set up a old folks home and pensions for the elderly and sick. There was a lot of amazing things set up by the people who lived there. It was also well known for its amazing food. People would travel to the city from outside to eat amazing food. Also they had cops and other folk who worked hard to keep order. So it wasn’t horribly violent. The rooftops were filled with kids playing and older folk sunbathing. The ‘they cooked dog’ feels pretty damn racist too. You could have done much better research on this.

  • @Jack-zy6ik
    @Jack-zy6ik 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2820

    heroin? dog meat? plane spotting? 5 dollar rent? sign me up!

    • @somerandomguy4812
      @somerandomguy4812 5 ปีที่แล้ว +339

      Plus a room available that’s barely larger than me? Sound like a great deal.

    • @mikecarmona4099
      @mikecarmona4099 5 ปีที่แล้ว +346

      Hotel? Trivago?

    • @aesthetical97
      @aesthetical97 5 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      @@mikecarmona4099 Meme? Dead

    • @mohammedsy1590
      @mohammedsy1590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      Insanity is a lifestyle

    • @jarodj1159
      @jarodj1159 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      same

  • @dbshamza4255
    @dbshamza4255 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1796

    Imagine how gangs work in this city , your opps are literally 50 feet away

    • @elizabethc3467
      @elizabethc3467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Lmao

    • @lockin222
      @lockin222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      5 feet

    • @sloppyoyster5779
      @sloppyoyster5779 3 ปีที่แล้ว +207

      Gang 1moves one inch
      Gang 2: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY TERRITORY

    • @ntm_jan
      @ntm_jan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      hhhhh

    • @7AM.Adrian
      @7AM.Adrian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@sloppyoyster5779 Imagine being a gang only for your rival to be 30 to 70 metres away from you

  • @sanaravdanricube4035
    @sanaravdanricube4035 5 ปีที่แล้ว +599

    Imagine saying "good morning neighbor" to 50000 people😂

    • @CM.25
      @CM.25 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      *gamers

    • @sy6396
      @sy6396 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Or you could just use a megaphone.

    • @PovidisII
      @PovidisII 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that's gotta be very boring...

    • @razielm10
      @razielm10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The morning end way faster to reach that number

    • @purplehc662
      @purplehc662 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hence the reason why we don't do this here lmao

  • @colindietrich5720
    @colindietrich5720 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I feel like this video is more sensationalist then actually informative
    It's feels like a movie reality you are discribing and not a place gouverned by actual social dynamics

  • @silvereagle404
    @silvereagle404 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1597

    how astonishing that this city just did not burn down to the ground. who did the electrical wiring?

    • @frut_jooos
      @frut_jooos 4 ปีที่แล้ว +206

      According to the video, unlicensed architects or metal workers. The rooms probably didn't have metal wiring. Probably just a square of concrete for you to live.

    • @houseofgrooving
      @houseofgrooving 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Nobody did the wiring nobody.

    • @danielmacias6564
      @danielmacias6564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Stevie Wonder

    • @Fatbutnotflat
      @Fatbutnotflat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Probably lots of trial and error

    • @AnksDilxMC
      @AnksDilxMC 4 ปีที่แล้ว +162

      They used skillshare.

  • @MrAjaywdhiman
    @MrAjaywdhiman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4720

    USA and only USA: Let's measure by football fields.
    Rest of the world:

    • @jackworcester
      @jackworcester 4 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      Thomas Long it’s the same for the rest of the world assuming you don’t call it soccer

    • @shieldtoad1401
      @shieldtoad1401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Galileo: hold my beer
      (only germans will understand 😅😂)

    • @2n974
      @2n974 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Brazil:am i a joke to you

    • @gregorvieira8861
      @gregorvieira8861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Brazil: What do you mean?

    • @maximlisichkin1183
      @maximlisichkin1183 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I'm not sure how an American football field compare to a football/soccer field...is it bigger?is it smaller? how much?

  • @jackbarnes7432
    @jackbarnes7432 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1345

    "If you called 911, chances are you wouldn't get an answer"
    Yeah no shit, Hong Kong wasn't American...

    • @biohazard724
      @biohazard724 5 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Dialing 911 will connect you with whatever country's emergency response you're in, after a short delay.

    • @redoktober8164
      @redoktober8164 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      We use 999 for emergencies in Hong Kong

    • @_bubulance_
      @_bubulance_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Dr Oktoberfest yea but calling 911 in HK will auto direct to 999 therefore the video was fair enough

    • @platanom3n
      @platanom3n 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jack Barnes lol

    • @biohazard724
      @biohazard724 5 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @Dylan sky Yes you can, it's common knowledge that 911 redirects to the local emergency services when outside of the US.

  • @rodneyfaulkner7453
    @rodneyfaulkner7453 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Wow great information, I remember and flying into HK and basically through this area in 1980, i would need to go through my old 35mm slides, but was so amazed to be this close to buildings and seeing people in their homes as we landed

    • @mycreativity7436
      @mycreativity7436 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello sir, would you mind sharing them??

    • @luiszuluaga6575
      @luiszuluaga6575 ปีที่แล้ว

      Caracas in Venezuela is like that as you drive from airport to the central part of the city.

    • @diannshoemaker6419
      @diannshoemaker6419 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm sure some of these commenters would have you believe the constant deafening noise from landing jet planes should be considered part ot it's "charm". They wouldn't have lasted a week there.

  • @sjskong
    @sjskong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4355

    No one:
    The US: since acres and miles are too confusing, let's use football fields and Rhode Islands as measurements!

    • @mohammedsy1590
      @mohammedsy1590 5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      And washing machines

    • @TheFightmaster22
      @TheFightmaster22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +164

      And cheeseburgers per obese people squared

    • @aliveandunwell430
      @aliveandunwell430 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      bruh stop discriminating dudes

    • @Camilo19832001
      @Camilo19832001 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      I rather live in measurement by football fields than 40 square feet of measurement

    • @ZayanGL
      @ZayanGL 5 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      Stephen Anthony no Football fields (soccer ones) are really different from American football fields and also most people have a sense of sq km or sq meters than how large is the Rhode islands

  • @redwolf1135
    @redwolf1135 3 ปีที่แล้ว +895

    He had me when he said the entire human race could fit inside rhode island if we packed ourselves like canned sardines like the Walled City.

    • @shygun3656
      @shygun3656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Titans: *Its free real estate*

    • @cyberfunk4580
      @cyberfunk4580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@shygun3656 Everybody gangsta until you hear "Tatakae" and fangirl screaming

    • @seriouspain4136
      @seriouspain4136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Aot opening starts playing

    • @DacLMK
      @DacLMK 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Speed Junkie The biggest problem is that there's not enough arable land to sustain all of us. If all the land on Earth was arable, I think the Earth could sustain 100 billion people.

    • @Shakedown1969
      @Shakedown1969 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@DacLMK the problem is that the majority of food we produce is wasted

  • @santiagorestrepo9504
    @santiagorestrepo9504 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4158

    Got to love Americans with their Acres, square feet and Football fields.

    • @ammosophobia
      @ammosophobia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +304

      I'm American and I was totally confused. I thought he started with sq km .... then I'm getting farm measurements, feet, and sports fields.
      It's like asking someone if they want to by a 1 sq Km of land of a 150 acre piece of land ... they pick the 150 acres, I laugh.

    • @TheUKNutter
      @TheUKNutter 5 ปีที่แล้ว +225

      Exactly. It’s stupid, and I had zero clue what the channel was comparing things too.
      Don’t forget that this channel only references American cities also

    • @ammosophobia
      @ammosophobia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      @@TheUKNutter This'll confuse the hell out of ya:
      Kansas City, Kansas
      or
      Kansas City, Missouri
      Washington - - - State or D.C.?

    • @IntelTV
      @IntelTV 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      @@ammosophobia If you refer DC...you either say Washington DC or DC...

    • @ammosophobia
      @ammosophobia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@IntelTV I was born in WA and when I say "I was born in Washington" people ask me "The city or the state"
      I agree. I use "DC" or Washington DC ... news articles still use "WASHINGTON - Today the President ..." which is kinda BS

  • @lolsaLlama
    @lolsaLlama 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Just like the walled city, the arcade 'Anata no Warehouse' in Kawasaki no longer exists. It closed down for "various reasons" but a main one was over disputes with the landlord in Nov 2019.

  • @russia1047
    @russia1047 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2572

    If I farted there it wouldn't be so crowded anymore

    • @andymadden8183
      @andymadden8183 5 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      If *anyone* farted there, it wouldn't be crowded.

    • @russia1047
      @russia1047 5 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      @@andymadden8183 nah dude, my farts are like atomic bombs

    • @akonnema
      @akonnema 5 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      They wouldn't even notice. With rotting garbage on the roof and no sewer pipes I guruantee it it always smelled like fart there.

    • @odinfromcentr2
      @odinfromcentr2 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@akonnema No, worse... 😨

    • @marcello7781
      @marcello7781 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      No Mexican all-you-can-eat for you.

  • @sampo2949
    @sampo2949 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1923

    I have subscribed to skillshare 6 times, so can i have my family back now?

    • @darthsmaul8089
      @darthsmaul8089 5 ปีที่แล้ว +277

      Why not create a family using skillshare!

    • @spirameowmeow
      @spirameowmeow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +80

      No. You have to also buy 6 years worth of brilliant subscriptions!

    • @davidbrown8303
      @davidbrown8303 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      No it will cost a hundred dollars to get your family back.

    • @markslaughter9497
      @markslaughter9497 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      No your family is a part of Skillshare now

    • @dawgKev
      @dawgKev 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I’m ded

  • @missMN2019
    @missMN2019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3449

    This city genuinely sounds like it came out of a sci-fi/dystopian novel. Like this would be the city the protagonists would have to travel to to find some mysterious dude called the "Cypher Man" to help them with their mission or something 😂

    • @raznaak
      @raznaak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      This is spacier and more well-maintained than the average hab-block in a hive city of Warhammer 40k 😂

    • @babla69420
      @babla69420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@raznaak what faction? Im tau niga

    • @raznaak
      @raznaak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@babla69420 I'm more of a lore nerd master than a tabletop player.
      But if I had to choose, it'd be either the Salamanders, Space Wolves or Militarum - Tanith Gaunt's Ghosts.

    • @flanagamer
      @flanagamer 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Reminds me of Ready Player One 😂

    • @finasteridesolution3849
      @finasteridesolution3849 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Imagine a zombie apocalypse film set inside the walled city.

  • @Mikuux0
    @Mikuux0 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    well in hong kong we now have uhm human cages for people to pay 6k per month and 20 people use the same bathroom and everyone uses the same kitchen

  • @JessicaN555
    @JessicaN555 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2786

    I have an old friend I met online in 2003 that grew up in that city. She said it wasn't AS horrible as videos make it out to be. Definitely lawless and dangerous, but she says people also really helped each other and living there got a lot of people out of poverty. We need to understand how adaptive humans can be in awful situations. How we're capable of surviving and finding happiness in the worst of situations. I fully understand my privilege, but I can't let that privilege allow me to judge other people's situation.

    • @TruthPrevail777
      @TruthPrevail777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      Sica: that's true and very well said. I've seen people living in Chawl and Slums in Mumbai. There many good people, rich, educated people living there. Not just all the negativity that's shown in the media.

    • @jackaube4327
      @jackaube4327 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@TruthPrevail777 rich?

    • @evilguardian089
      @evilguardian089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      @@jackaube4327 yep some of em are rich like they earn somewhere around 30-40k USD pa and still chose to stay there because of the community spirit

    • @Userjustdied616
      @Userjustdied616 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      2003 internet🙀 mam u r too early

    • @TSM657
      @TSM657 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yes, what he told in this documentary was like decades old, and the city is so big u cannot just tell by looking at some parts of it.

  • @TomJohnson67
    @TomJohnson67 4 ปีที่แล้ว +374

    I bet estate agents could still find a way to make this place sound nice.

    • @overdebted8734
      @overdebted8734 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      rent costs a cent per month

    • @joedaoust5942
      @joedaoust5942 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      The courtyard in the middle looks lovely.

    • @christianborkey5459
      @christianborkey5459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      overdebted I did research and it would be $5 usd per month

    • @krissyramsey3934
      @krissyramsey3934 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      "Never be lonely or bored in this unique and picturesque Far Eastern conclave with abundant amenities just steps from your person...Just don't bump into your neighbors when your enjoying your new home in paradise." 😊

    • @SupahFans
      @SupahFans 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      SoKo: South Kowloon

  • @kayleedesroches6318
    @kayleedesroches6318 5 ปีที่แล้ว +681

    *For real tho. How tf do they even build buildings that close together?*

    • @kakarot1234567891234
      @kakarot1234567891234 5 ปีที่แล้ว +226

      The buildings actually leaned into each other. It was quite insane. I had the opportunity to study in Hong Kong recently and even though the walled city doesn’t exist anymore you can still see some of the remnants.

    • @RealCadde
      @RealCadde 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Haphazardly.

    • @TXnine7nine
      @TXnine7nine 5 ปีที่แล้ว +235

      They joined Skillshare

    • @alessandropaleologo1534
      @alessandropaleologo1534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Should see some Italian periferies

    • @654jimbob654
      @654jimbob654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      A lack of building regulations or need for basic amenities led to some "creative" structures forming. I like to imagine that the whole city was constantly moving and flexing like a living organism.

  • @brentstar323
    @brentstar323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1165

    Living in Australia where space is abundant, this looks like literal hell.

    • @AlaskaPirates
      @AlaskaPirates 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      Tencer386 right! I’m in Alaska and I ant even imagine

    • @polpogiorno1115
      @polpogiorno1115 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Agreed

    • @ssr8555
      @ssr8555 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      As a Finn I gotta agree

    • @Conklin03
      @Conklin03 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

      Living anywhere thats not a major city, this looks like literal hell.

    • @xh3992
      @xh3992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      you need to thank god for bringing you to australia, not hong kong

  • @EannaWithAFada
    @EannaWithAFada 4 ปีที่แล้ว +819

    Hong kong is 63 times smaller than Ireland with a million more people

    • @The-zf1ed
      @The-zf1ed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      Well Bangladesh is 150 times smaller than russia and it has more people lol

    • @presidentjiang6762
      @presidentjiang6762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Low educated countries usually have a greater population density.

    • @defenceosprey983
      @defenceosprey983 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fsi4n that was a problem in 90s not now

    • @gunspeacialist
      @gunspeacialist 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They dont know what condom is

    • @PastLight
      @PastLight 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeah, even today Hong Kong is very crowded when compared to Dublin, Henry street or Grafton street on a Saturday afternoon? That's pretty much HK all the time 🤣

  • @johnrollex680
    @johnrollex680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +786

    Honestly that's incredible. The level of coordination required to ensure that it didn't collapse or burn down, it's truly awe inspiring.

    • @fishyfinthing8854
      @fishyfinthing8854 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I'm pretty sure lots of construction and maintenance are improvised. It's always amazing how well people can improvise if given the drive to do so.

    • @cutratecontractor1000
      @cutratecontractor1000 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Your the devil

    • @shannonyau6997
      @shannonyau6997 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I used to work with a lady whose dad was one of the developers of the city. They also live inside. They had a master map to off of since even they could get lost without the map.

    • @ianstuart5660
      @ianstuart5660 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shannonyau6997 So interesting, like navigating a maze!

  • @James-kv6kb
    @James-kv6kb ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Seeing those numbers is just mind boggling in Australia it's 3 people for every kilometre

    • @KookieTheDog37
      @KookieTheDog37 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      True. Our country is so empty. Even my suburb is like 500 people per kilometre.

  • @cameronlingo2969
    @cameronlingo2969 4 ปีที่แล้ว +811

    "You're probably watching this alone."
    That aged better than intended.

    • @thesalamilids
      @thesalamilids 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      most people watch youtube in their spare time alone so that’s just dumb to say

    • @Excalibur-pj3jb
      @Excalibur-pj3jb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No, I'm having a party over to watch this together..

    • @aliveandunwell430
      @aliveandunwell430 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      AstroTime quarantine?

    • @ihearttoast8162
      @ihearttoast8162 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Because god for bid you’d say something funnier than the same old quarantine jokes.

    • @aliveandunwell430
      @aliveandunwell430 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I Heart Toast you say that as if being funny is that easy lmao

  • @mr.hoodman5682
    @mr.hoodman5682 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2767

    Imagine having something like this for a cod map

    • @barrackobama5470
      @barrackobama5470 5 ปีที่แล้ว +103

      It already is

    • @benzenehydrocarbon
      @benzenehydrocarbon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      it’s called nuk3town

    • @x28v20
      @x28v20 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Looks like Aftermath

    • @robertbeloin4914
      @robertbeloin4914 5 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      It is a map in single player of bo1 the mission is numbers where you find dr Clarke

    • @LoserHands
      @LoserHands 5 ปีที่แล้ว +185

      There is a CoD map called Kowloon. It takes place on the rooftops of Kowloon. When the round starts a giant plane passes over both spawns.
      It was in BO1 as DLC. It was pretty great for SND. The singleplayer for BO1 has a level in Kowloon where you can run through windows and rooftops and through crowded apartments, tonssss of badass guns in that level.

  • @gingerleegirl6697
    @gingerleegirl6697 4 ปีที่แล้ว +834

    Can’t imagine the weight bearing on those buildings.

    • @99awr43
      @99awr43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      My dad was in the army and lived there for a short while and he always says it’s no where near as bad as anyone says in fact it was quite nice

    • @gingerleegirl6697
      @gingerleegirl6697 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@99awr43 that was 50 years ago.

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Maxwell Mcellis stop making me feel old

    • @donaldbestkorea2248
      @donaldbestkorea2248 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Maxwell Mcellis They might be american, they don't know that, stop scaring them.

  • @zihaowang6505
    @zihaowang6505 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love the Rode Island example

  • @gina4808
    @gina4808 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2969

    Funny that this was recommended during “social distancing” from Coronavirus

    • @alexandermontes7459
      @alexandermontes7459 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Gina hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahaha

    • @felizaniverseesaw29
      @felizaniverseesaw29 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Gina
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    • @abhinay172
      @abhinay172 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Hahahahahahahahahshshshshahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahafuckmehahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahah

    • @Michael-wo3pc
      @Michael-wo3pc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      You got the whole squad laughing

    • @solicoli
      @solicoli 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

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  • @blaise1016
    @blaise1016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1574

    Suprised nobody has mentioned the fact you play through this city in Call Of Duty Black Ops 1

    • @blaise1016
      @blaise1016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +173

      @Zouch yes

    • @Dragunovl33t
      @Dragunovl33t 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@blaise1016 good man of work

    • @Gogo-bu6rd
      @Gogo-bu6rd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Thank you it’s a dlc tho so it’s not as well known

    • @blaise1016
      @blaise1016 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      @@Gogo-bu6rd yes and don't forget the mission with Wever and your trying to get the Nova 6 Doctor

    • @ICECREAMane1017
      @ICECREAMane1017 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Gogo-bu6rd also a campaign mission

  • @takahashi5576
    @takahashi5576 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4781

    Imagine if coronavirus were to break out here

    • @frankcastle4715
      @frankcastle4715 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Yee fun 😂😂😁

    • @stevienguyen2047
      @stevienguyen2047 4 ปีที่แล้ว +286

      No joke, virus’s would thrive in high dense populated areas with no sanitation. I wouldn’t be surprised if a place like that was ground zero for one of these viruses.

    • @hb_gallary8694
      @hb_gallary8694 4 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      Well corona virus would be the first one will call 911 for suffocating

    • @martincamilleri7444
      @martincamilleri7444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Yürüyen Ansiklopedi 2 hours

    • @siciidaxmed2963
      @siciidaxmed2963 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@martincamilleri7444 less than seconds

  • @henrikandreason7261
    @henrikandreason7261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As a swede, where your private freedom and individuality are your most valued possessions, living here would make me wither. I do commend the courage and true grit of the people that live here because for most of them it's their only choice and they don't know anything else. You are truly lucky on where you are born.

  • @georgthesecond
    @georgthesecond 5 ปีที่แล้ว +656

    The garbage at 6:33 is actually from Russia (feels weird to recognise the bottles in a random pile of trash on the internet).

    • @jellyacw8751
      @jellyacw8751 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      lol

    • @playstationgamersrusak2490
      @playstationgamersrusak2490 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      George K. Ох,родная Балтика

    • @markmitin7397
      @markmitin7397 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      It's cause the whole country filled with trash and Soviet built, even the capital city.

    • @mykoladobrukha7266
      @mykoladobrukha7266 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      P4th F!nder mate, baltica is a modern beer brand. I can bet that this photo was taken in some kind of forest or park in Russia

    • @playstationgamersrusak2490
      @playstationgamersrusak2490 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      P4th F!nder We actually have a lot of Soviet buildings in Moscow,but all trash goes to countryside,where you can’t really live because of it(in some places,not in the hole countryside)

  • @jadisclemmer756
    @jadisclemmer756 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1133

    This would be the scariest place ever to live

    • @T_M_E_8
      @T_M_E_8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      France during the Black Plague was pretty bad, same with Poland in WWII and a lot of other places. There are some awful places and times across human history

    • @99awr43
      @99awr43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not really that bad just mate to sound much worse than it was

    • @T_M_E_8
      @T_M_E_8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@99awr43 be gone troll

    • @WalkerLarson497
      @WalkerLarson497 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@99awr43 be gone TH-cam troll

    • @Adomas_B
      @Adomas_B 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No, afghanistan would be worse

  • @anime_inoue
    @anime_inoue 4 ปีที่แล้ว +366

    Me going there and calling my mom right after telling her that her dream for me to become a doctor came true

  • @bodazaphfa
    @bodazaphfa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is the area where I unknowingly ate dog. The “waiter” thought it was funny. I still can’t believe I ate there. Never went back and thankfully didn’t get sick.

  • @Snowy0428
    @Snowy0428 5 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    But if Kowloon Walled City used Skillshare they could’ve fixed the city.

    • @OffendingTheOffendable
      @OffendingTheOffendable 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      And using TH-cam's ad attack

    • @trixteryt4661
      @trixteryt4661 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think the whole place was built by sharing dodgy skills acquired on their methane riddled streets🐩🥢💨😳

  • @arjent8247
    @arjent8247 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2244

    Adds “dog-eaters” with all the other people our society dislikes

    • @ammosophobia
      @ammosophobia 5 ปีที่แล้ว +188

      Then he goes and eats a bacon cheeseburger.

    • @TheOneWh0Knocks
      @TheOneWh0Knocks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +119

      Dog meat is even more delicious if you look straight into the dogs eyes right before you slaughter and process it.

    • @jcd776
      @jcd776 5 ปีที่แล้ว +143

      Typical Eurocentric semi educated hypocrite who enjoys munching on beef and pork like it's no big deal even when research says beef pollutes more.

    • @legendarytat8278
      @legendarytat8278 5 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      We don't eat dogs. The mainland does. We probably have better laws about animals than most countries tbh
      Also Hong Kong is more similar with a Western country than an Eastern one. The only exception is that the people per km² is ridiculously high, so our living space is minimal.

    • @jcd776
      @jcd776 5 ปีที่แล้ว +93

      @@legendarytat8278 Being more western does not mean Hong Kong is more civilized or developed or whatever, it just means that the colonial vestiges are still prevalent.
      Also there is nothing wrong with consuming dog or cat meat if beef, pork, chicken, fish, other seafood meat etc. is still considered fine. Please tell us who decides which is right/wrong.
      No matter how "western" you are, you will always remain an "asian" and an "oriental" in the eyes of the eurocentric media and WASPs.
      Like the Lannister guy said: "Never forget what you are; the rest of the world will not."

  • @joserea4019
    @joserea4019 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2393

    Some of the things you chose to focus on in this video were a bit trivial. Unlicensed medical practitioners, unsanitary food shops, brothels and drug use are all pretty common in most poverty stricken communities around the globe. I wish you had focused more on the personal experiences of those who lived there.
    Also, it’s pretty ignorant to think that the reason more and more people moved there was because they enjoyed that kind of environment. These are the places that you turn to when you’re so extremely poor that you have no other option. I guarantee you that most of those who lived in the walled city were good, hard-working people who were born with nothing. Not everybody who lives in the slums is a pimp, gang member, shady doctor or “dog eater”

    • @DoomJoy666
      @DoomJoy666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +203

      Not to mention dog eater is a Asian slur and incredibly racist. This video is entirely reactionary and based on outside opinions. Very few facts, and very VERY minor insight and knowledge on the city. Just another white kid on TH-cam pretending to know shit, and speaking Ill of other countries

    • @ileanaphillips1253
      @ileanaphillips1253 2 ปีที่แล้ว +97

      @@DoomJoy666 I couldn't said it better myself you hit that right on the nail

    • @TheRed4123
      @TheRed4123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@DoomJoy666 dog eater is a slur? but it is not something that is frowned upon, right?

    • @south514
      @south514 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      @@TheRed4123 it becomes frowned upon when many Asians are harassed, attacked, and seen as just dog eaters in the west or other places

    • @mlaforce
      @mlaforce 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      The bad things he did focus on are exactly the personal experiences of the people that lived there. Reality demands truth, not a candy coated turd.

  • @h0rze423
    @h0rze423 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I would love to see a high budget movie take place here

  • @samdaniel4803
    @samdaniel4803 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1459

    I love how dog eaters are included on the list of hardcore criminals

    • @hitnailhalfway2485
      @hitnailhalfway2485 4 ปีที่แล้ว +118

      dog eating is not any worse than cow eating, if cooked well :D

    • @IVANWONG1989
      @IVANWONG1989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@msmit3669 and what is different from eating cows to eating dogs?

    • @ExplosionChimp
      @ExplosionChimp 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      @@msmit3669 morally, what's the real difference between eating dogs compared to beef or pork?

    • @riseabovethehorizon1513
      @riseabovethehorizon1513 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      Pig are more intelligent than dog

    • @chanbeompark2402
      @chanbeompark2402 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@hitnailhalfway2485 correct!

  • @HNBGamer
    @HNBGamer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +571

    Let's make Kowloon Walled City in THE OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER IN MINECRAFT

    • @ceiling771
      @ceiling771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Where’s fitmc when you need him?

    • @aerojetrocketdyners-2538
      @aerojetrocketdyners-2538 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      1s in fitmc be like

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      b r u h

    • @tmfan3888
      @tmfan3888 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      2b2t shouldve been named KWC at that time…

    • @digitalwojtya3669
      @digitalwojtya3669 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Let's make THE OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER IN MINECRAFT in Kowloon Walled Cit, oh wait

  • @Jimmy-ds5wo
    @Jimmy-ds5wo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3425

    Sleepy Dean

    • @maniacgamer8362
      @maniacgamer8362 4 ปีที่แล้ว +289

      GTA: Walled City of Koowloon

    • @FuchiBooBoo
      @FuchiBooBoo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Oooh that'd be tight

    • @bakiretsu1351
      @bakiretsu1351 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Cyber Punk

    • @bakiretsu1351
      @bakiretsu1351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      David Large 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

    • @carter2351
      @carter2351 3 ปีที่แล้ว +189

      There’s a mission in Call of Duty Black Ops 1 in which you go through the city.

  • @henmat3000
    @henmat3000 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I’d love to hear the perspective of the people who actually lived there, not from a random TH-camr, because the Kowloon Walled City is often easy to villainize or romanticize.

  • @phoebexxlouise
    @phoebexxlouise 3 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    I actually hate watching this video again after doing more of my own research. Many people who lived there loved it and look back fondly on it. Most residents were refugees from mainland China fleeing communist oppression, including the doctors and dentists on the outskirts who were only unlicensed because they were not citizens. They couldn't practise legally but they did have qualifications from China. There were two elevators in the city but not every place could be accessed using the lifts. The community was actually very tight knit by necessity. People kept doors and windows open for airflow and anyone was welcome to pass through others' homes as a shortcut. The buildings were hastily built on top of each other by unlicensed builders, but in some alleyways light did filter through. The original military buildings of the courtyard can still be visited. One of the main issues was water access: very few people had plumbing to their apartment and most residents, even the elderly, carried water up to their homes from pumps on the ground level where everyone also did their laundry and poured out sewage. Many alleyways had open sewers running through them and the smell was constant. The most expensive apartments were ones with window views on the outside. People built cages on the outside to maximise space. Heroin was an issue, but there was a Salvation Army preschool in the city and a drug rehab centre run by Pentecostal Christians. The people who lived there were not crazy. They were desperate to make their own way in a country as undocumented citizens or ordinary people trying to survive in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world. You can find documentaries on TH-cam made at the time, and even a video showing how long it took to walk from one side of the city to the other (about 3 minutes). There's also a video of a guide telling amazing facts about the city in Kowloon walled park with a map made by Japanese surveyors. This video was overloaded with spectacle and sensationalism and barely contained any of the available photos and videos of the true city.

    • @kmh6261
      @kmh6261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Thank you for this info - an extra-ordinary place deserves to be understood for how it was seen by those from it and appreciate why this video would be hated for both its misrepresentation and (perhaps) purposeful sensationalism for the benefit of the people who made it. This video's statistics regarding the overcrowding was good in that it showed some perspective comparison to other places. Praying that the people that lived there be happier and better wherever they are now - God bless.

    • @Andrew-ev3ho
      @Andrew-ev3ho ปีที่แล้ว +4

      This is really great to read. Thank you for the effort of your comment. I figured it wasn't as scary as they were making it out to be. I live in a third world country and although it can be dangerous, I see a lot more community here than the first world country I am from.

    • @m4TT5
      @m4TT5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sorry, but you’re objectively wrong if you actually think this place was nice to live in

    • @caesiumx1334
      @caesiumx1334 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Any specific videos/sources you can recommend that give more detail from this view point? Would love to see/read more.

    • @tawi2522
      @tawi2522 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@m4TT5 did you not read anything they wrote? They never said it was nice but the way this video narrates this city is completely wrong.

  • @martinkevill8853
    @martinkevill8853 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1955

    Imagine being a postman and your first day on the job is ' The walled City'🤣

    • @ElidaeDanh
      @ElidaeDanh 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      There is an actual mail man that mails to knowloon. Apparently he said it nice but everyone was high.

    • @genghiskhan6809
      @genghiskhan6809 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      *Dark Souls area theme plays

    • @GcubePlayer8
      @GcubePlayer8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      How to torment someone

    • @GcubePlayer8
      @GcubePlayer8 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think you found a new way to torchor people

    • @ElidaeDanh
      @ElidaeDanh 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@GcubePlayer8 I’ll build a new city for that

  • @patrickdulfo7792
    @patrickdulfo7792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +261

    Imagine being a delivery guy delivering something in there

    • @danyaudet7444
      @danyaudet7444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i would ask the customer for a tip in advance if they want me to in trash hole 😂

  • @kafka9627
    @kafka9627 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    American units are amazing. Not only units but scale; the idea of ONE PERSON living in an 111m3 apartment is just absolutely insane in Stockholm. Here that’s an apartment for a family of 5-6 people.
    And to be fair it seems pretty good that they got rid of it it seems like it was actually pretty awful no matter how fascinating

    • @JohnnysCafe_
      @JohnnysCafe_ ปีที่แล้ว +6

      what about the tent cities in every US city, those people living on the streets would be glad of the walled city.

  • @thecool887
    @thecool887 4 ปีที่แล้ว +630

    someone needs to make a game that is set in this city

    • @WaffleEBay12
      @WaffleEBay12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      At least you would be able to get across the map quickly

    • @italoblu
      @italoblu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Mr. Pumpkin 2

    • @Azitem
      @Azitem 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      It was a DLC map in black ops 1

    • @WaffleEBay12
      @WaffleEBay12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Azitem Was it really? I'm kicking myself for not playing that DLC.

    • @RMeitzen
      @RMeitzen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      CD Projekt Red got your back homie

  • @quitebad459
    @quitebad459 5 ปีที่แล้ว +586

    This actually sounds like the lower levels of Coruscant

  • @THEMATT222
    @THEMATT222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +812

    If this still exists, Mr.Beast would quickly join the population for 24hours, shortly followed by Morgz!

    • @smalford7778
      @smalford7778 5 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Then by German Morgz

    • @bogdan5
      @bogdan5 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@smalford7778 then by Romanian morgz

    • @No-wt3mf
      @No-wt3mf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Samim Tezdiker by the Mexican Morgz

    • @user-yj9yw5ht9z
      @user-yj9yw5ht9z 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      I hate those types of youtubers

    • @hi2407
      @hi2407 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Dick Head then American Morgz

  • @UnleashedTraining101
    @UnleashedTraining101 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    For someone like me, with ASD, this is a nightmare. The less densely packed humans the better. The only exception is at a gig. But even then I can only handle so much

    • @MrMrKeeg
      @MrMrKeeg ปีที่แล้ว

      A GOOOOOOOOOOOOG!

  • @Crazyuncle1
    @Crazyuncle1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1926

    Looks like a perfect setting for a post apocalyptic horror movie.

    • @urbanistgod
      @urbanistgod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That’s what Agenda 21 is about

    • @Crazyuncle1
      @Crazyuncle1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@urbanistgod Otherwise known as a Socialist Utopia.

    • @urbanistgod
      @urbanistgod 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Crazyuncle1 Yep and we need to fight this. Not just complain

    • @BREDSCorolla
      @BREDSCorolla 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like a zombie movie 😁

    • @LongVu-lh9el
      @LongVu-lh9el 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@Crazyuncle1 In fact, this area is located in one of the most capitalist cities in the world. So it's more like a Capitalist Utopia.

  • @naranciabestboi2544
    @naranciabestboi2544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +508

    So basically, a dystopian future city in some sci-fi movie

    • @darthkek1953
      @darthkek1953 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Literally Ghost in the Shell (see the anime version if you can, but even the ScarJo version has elements of this).

    • @lamp2419
      @lamp2419 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It would sound kinda fun to live there until u get beat up by one of the gangs 😂

    • @naranciabestboi2544
      @naranciabestboi2544 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lamp2419 nah, i wouldn't wanna live there

    • @lamp2419
      @lamp2419 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@naranciabestboi2544 now that i think about all the down sides i wouldnt either 😂

    • @naranciabestboi2544
      @naranciabestboi2544 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lamp2419 lol

  • @komlat253
    @komlat253 4 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    Bro u can't even fart without the neighbor knowing about it .

  • @diannshoemaker6419
    @diannshoemaker6419 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is exactly like a sci fi futuristic movie. The noise, the smell, vermin, squalor, uglyness, lack of basic services and sanitation, or anything approaching privacy, alone, had to be nearly unbearable.
    This is poverty at its very worst, and desperation can make even good people do terrible things to survive. The worst people are another story. And you live inches from them. Daily fear for safety, or your children's safety. Crime had no legal recourse. Human nature is what it is...
    A lot of comments here are, oddly, glowing. Nostalgia is never accurate. And the very fact that you survived removes living with the daily fear of what could happen next, from that that equation.
    And yeah, humans can be remarkably enduring, resourceful, adaptable. Even kind. People survived the Camps. But there is a point where you are ground down, hopeless.We all have that point. Every year you age here, makes leaving that much less likely.
    This is not some happy but poor 70's commune. Or your crappy city starter apartment, sort of roachy, in an iffy neighborhood. The poorest American doesn't live anywhere NEAR this badly.
    While some may have gotten out, through hard work and thrift, they had to know THAT tiny hoard could be stolen, effort whiped out, in an instant.There is nothing secure about these buildings, apartments.
    And an untended injury, or disease, poor or quack medical care, could be crippling, even deadly.
    Most probably lived and died here. Even born here. I, for one, am glad they leveled this horror.

  • @REEEPROGRAM
    @REEEPROGRAM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +858

    Imagine a earthquake suddenly happen in that walled city

    • @alexandersilva3327
      @alexandersilva3327 4 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      It would have been catastrophic

    • @liljay8750
      @liljay8750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bruh

    • @johnindigo5477
      @johnindigo5477 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I wonder what happened during strong typhoons. Hong Kong is q series of islands.

    • @eVill420
      @eVill420 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It was so dense that it protected from winds pretty well, one earthquake woulda killed everyone tho :D

    • @loualbino5536
      @loualbino5536 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Not such a bad thing. Nasty bastards should be ashamed.

  • @JKMT
    @JKMT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +594

    My mum lived in there, she said everyone are really close and nice, she kinda missed and hate it at the same time

    • @martincamilleri7444
      @martincamilleri7444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Really?
      Was their any unique diseases
      What did she think about dog meat
      How did the evacuation plan work
      I want answers

    • @JKMT
      @JKMT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      @@martincamilleri7444 Not that i know, i don't know any chinese that eat dogs and i won't eat as well, not sure she just stay there for not long time but she was working in the factory when she was 12, and after meeting my father she never worked again

    • @martincamilleri7444
      @martincamilleri7444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@JKMT oh ok

    • @JKMT
      @JKMT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +99

      @@martincamilleri7444 actually i just asked my mum, she actually had a flat inside which was beautiful before everyone came in and ruin it. But after that because it was too hot inside, her grandpa and herself moved out of the flat and rent it out and they went and rent another place. she said it there were few factories inside which was illegal causing heat and noise, but the flat she had was normal to apartment and very clean. She was living in the outer skirt of the city.

    • @martincamilleri7444
      @martincamilleri7444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ooo lucky

  • @herculean616
    @herculean616 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1746

    Me: I want Cyberpunk 2077
    Mom: We have Cyberpunk 2077 at home
    *Cyberpunk 2077 at home:*

    • @nuryashifainsyiraah663
      @nuryashifainsyiraah663 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Night city is way better than this city tbh

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Kowloon is better than night city it has better graphics too

    • @EatMyShortsAU
      @EatMyShortsAU 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Kowloon is better because it functions better because it has less bugs in the source code.

    • @krimson8317
      @krimson8317 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@EatMyShortsAU but lots of bugs crawling around in the city

    • @NoobsDudes
      @NoobsDudes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Even better

  • @taserrr
    @taserrr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yeah that looks like a nightmare, endless corridors of dark claustrophobic rooms, no sense of security ever, no way to quiet down as everything is permanently noisy, pollution everywhere.
    It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from.

  • @centauria9122
    @centauria9122 4 ปีที่แล้ว +647

    Just imagine the WIFI there...

    • @ridgefrost
      @ridgefrost 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Imagine imagining wifi exists there

    • @munemshahariar2503
      @munemshahariar2503 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Wifi woukd be great....a general line(strong one) with repeaters in every home who wishes it.. And ur never losing a signal ever...no matter which part of the city ur in

    • @nourouerfelli8740
      @nourouerfelli8740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You mean the internet in my country
      Welp I'm used to

    • @ClumsyYT
      @ClumsyYT 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wifi would go slower than a potato

    • @mew.shroom
      @mew.shroom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      YoUrNoIsYnEiGhBoR-WIFI
      KowloonKidWIFI
      URMOMJOKEISNOTFUNNYwifi
      EggsAreEggy@wifi
      DontUseMine@wi-fi
      USEMYWIFIDEFINITELYNOVIRUS-wiifii
      hellogarretWIFI
      all this but a hundred more

  • @plantiron
    @plantiron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +491

    *Manager: Can you deliver pizza to this address*
    *Me: I quit*

    • @antoniong1449
      @antoniong1449 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Underrated comment 😂

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      *Stands in front of the city
      IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIImma just leave this right here you get it for free…
      *puts the pizza down
      *slowly steps back
      *turns away
      *runs

    • @saxenas
      @saxenas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@Ballin4Vengeance trips over shoe lace. Falls down and loses one of his teeth. One of the walled city dentists comes over and offers service hahahaha

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@saxenas Ni Hao good sir will you need the others too?

    • @Jobe-13
      @Jobe-13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

  • @gig2734
    @gig2734 5 ปีที่แล้ว +532

    Now we know what has been the role model for dystopian city in movies since the 1980s.

    • @civixsgames5483
      @civixsgames5483 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      im getting some ready player one vibes

    • @CEWThree
      @CEWThree 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Yeah... this is literally just the setting for Dredd.

    • @restreven4455
      @restreven4455 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      C E Three thank you! Thought of Dredd 30 secs into the video!

    • @felipevera1575
      @felipevera1575 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Psychopass inspiration jaja

    • @kaifriedrich1763
      @kaifriedrich1763 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Blade Runner

  • @madamelebuff
    @madamelebuff 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So many families, where did they all go when the city was demolished? These are the poorest of people. Very sad.

  • @Vapegician
    @Vapegician 4 ปีที่แล้ว +330

    It's unimaginable how fast gossips spreads in that neighborhood.

    • @vi3w3d
      @vi3w3d 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ooh

    • @jameeboo
      @jameeboo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Get yo ass whooped and a population of millions know

    • @Vapegician
      @Vapegician 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@jameeboo A pretty girl farts, thousands laughs...

    • @eduardochavacano
      @eduardochavacano 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      LOL!

    • @noriyakee
      @noriyakee 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      wHat GiRls FaRTS?!¡! oH heLl nO.

  • @roosa8159
    @roosa8159 4 ปีที่แล้ว +320

    I remember my arts teacher told me about this. It really fascinates me! I am a huge sucker for places where you can actually get lost in, example castles, catacombs etc. (As long as it isn’t natural caves tho)
    So she, my art teacher told me there were even lots of people who had NEVER touched the ground. They were born there, and they had no needs to leave Kowloon, so they never got around it. And I think that’s scary, but fascinating to me. I like to compare it to Star Wars (ik lol) and the planet of Coruscant, where people born on the under levels have never seen the Sun or believe that the sky exists. That’s so weird of a comparison, but I like it. It is so scary to me.

    • @drewinsur7321
      @drewinsur7321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      fascinating right? the same reason foreigners comes to pacified favelas in rio de janeiro, all the alleys and zig-zag stairs makes a breath taking concrete jungle, a mesmerizing maze. specially at the top, where you can actually see the extremelly rich downtown beaches while you standing on a needy community.

    • @Amit-sp4qm
      @Amit-sp4qm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can still visit somewhat similar places ..

  • @xirtlem616
    @xirtlem616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    Sounds like a cyberpunk setting

    • @sunken_lilies
      @sunken_lilies 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I heard from someone that cyberpunk was based on Hong Kong

    • @alanyang18
      @alanyang18 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes it's the origin of it.
      Also, you can see lots of low flying plane scene in Ghost in the shell because of this

    • @lowriedwards8236
      @lowriedwards8236 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      it did actually inspire a lot of cyberpunk movies

    • @jordandennis6794
      @jordandennis6794 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lowriedwards8236 hey sexy can i buy you a drink?

  • @stroescurazvan
    @stroescurazvan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Every pizza delivery guy's worst nightmare!

  • @danielleg.1084
    @danielleg.1084 5 ปีที่แล้ว +433

    SkillShare: how many sponsorships would you life from us?
    RealLifeLore: *Yes*

  • @kokomel23
    @kokomel23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +818

    You don’t typically hear “dog eaters” mixed in with drug dealers, gangsters and sex workers 😂

    • @MarkAlcarezBoston
      @MarkAlcarezBoston 4 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      Dog eaters are worse

    • @henrywong2725
      @henrywong2725 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Well, cause it is illegal in Hong Kong since the 50s
      So, they are on the same level

    • @benjaminpadilla1464
      @benjaminpadilla1464 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Henry Wong Not really, being a sex worker is much worse...

    • @hkpfalldie
      @hkpfalldie 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Benjamin Padilla sex workers actually help solving some of the problems in a society

    • @mjzafe5326
      @mjzafe5326 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@benjaminpadilla1464 idiot some of the sex worker are forced either by poverty or something else.