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Japanese Housewife Spent Life Savings on a Fake K-Pop Idol

#popidol#mexicanfood#japanese#lifesavings#underground
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0:00 I can't believe you would do this to me right wait where'd you find a story I found it on all kpop.com don't judge me so I can explain so so like what happened so okay so what happened yeah explained this way Japanese housewife lost her life savings to a man pretending to be a K-pop Idol that's on you how do you do that so he it's like reverse like he's only can only fans and she's the simp huh exactly well good for him it's about time yeah it is it is Progressive equality get yours bud so the housewife spent her entire life savings on this guy 5000. 2.5 million Japanese Yen 18 Grand actually 18 Grand yeah that's her life saving that's her life savings is she uh

0:50 you said housewife is she married or single well let's get to that so so she is age 44. she was deceived by a man um who he calls himself an underground Idol underground huh so he that means they're independently managed they perform small venues and they're interacting closely with fans kind of like the backyard wrestling right he pointed at us for the backyard wrestling you guys like that ████ no but like K-pop but Japanese pop underground Idol culture is what it's called it allows fans to meet closely with their beloved artists build a strong bond with them early almost like what happened with Bart and uh what the ████ is his name who was at the Super Bowl Bruno Mars Bart knows Bruno Mars oh yeah yeah yeah what no wait one of our close friends

1:41 um kind of semi-discovered him and they used to record all the time and Bart was just there yeah so he would invite us to be like I got this artist he's really good so we would just go and watch nobody shows that we would go to Bruno shows and it was like not his show but the the roster was like it was bad because it's just he's just performing it's like what remember Lady Gaga right before she came up she used to do piano bars and stuff like that like yeah just like open mics and ████ underground ████ yeah no no it was it was out here like um it was like in King King in Hollywood or it was just like spaces here but then like it would just be like his family and a handful of us just there supporting you know like such a good performer so in Japan there's about 10 000 of these underground Idols were active and in the case of the male Idols they're called menchika does that I don't know [Laughter]

2:33 um so yeah while living in Tokyo with her husband and and her and her daughter this household I fell in love with this K-pop um Idol during covid but she had to stay at home more often but then when he revealed his mask was she like oh that's ugly yeah well probably bummed out um so she receives a flyer for a performance and she was excited to see the words come see the performance by a member who looks like a Korean Idol and then she visited looks like this guy named Shin okubu weekly and spent 294 dollars per visit on tickets she competed with other women to spend what they would they have this like session with them right so it's like you could spend 100 seconds with this Idol 100 seconds 100 seconds so she would spend money every week to just go hang out

3:23 with this guy for 100 seconds this is a thing over there I wonder if there's like a dude with a timer and go guarantees I'll take that job I'll be that guy this is the part that I was like this is a reveal turned out that this person was actually a Japanese person who spoke Korean fluently got gypped she couldn't tell the difference huh so the moment she found out the truth she felt dumb she spent her savings but she'll take this as a lesson wait so she didn't get catfished not catfish it was what she saw everything she got to talk to the dude talked to him but he's not Korean he's Japanese so that's the only thing that's a deal breaker he's Japanese that's the worst thing to find out about something ████ funny he's like I got Scandal I guess I'll learn the funny thing is she's Japanese yeah

4:14 let's do the math how many seconds she spent with him and she's devastated that he's Japanese not Korean she wanted a K-pop Idol and she got a Japanese guy who was LARPing as a K-pop Idol Oh my God that's ████ hilarious who knows Korean wow that's ████ hilarious I can't believe you would do this to me right wait where'd you find a story I found it on all kpop.com don't judge me I can explain so so like what happened so okay so what happened yeah explain it yeah it's like my little brother um he's like super into nerd culture like anime stuff and he was like he sent me this like link to like some anime thing that I and then I found it that because he's into it yeah yeah does it happen yeah that happens yeah yeah I don't like anime by the way did she did

5:04 she find out in front of him or did she notice like that she was devastated like no he's ████ Japanese it doesn't say it just says that she found out the truth and then she felt like a ████ idiot what I don't understand is like so she blows all this ████ money right 294 a pop no nobody gives a ████ it's crazy you think other people would react like that like the other fans or is that at least one did so there's gonna be more damn you're a dirty ████ Japanese yeah seriously wow maybe because then if you want like a real K-pop Star it it feels like it feels like you got the fake one if it's Japanese Chinese or something it's a little

5:54 different there right you say Asia because everyone's intermingling like a sexyama is he Japanese is he Korean I think he's what's called a design Ichi which is Korean people born in um Japan oh we're getting in he's born in Japan what's that term again is it still Korean so there's like hella it's like Chinatown right like imagine if for hella Generations Koreans were in Japan yeah and they adopt Japanese names but they marry other Koreans it's like that it's like being Jewish in America you Jewish people you're like whatever but you have English names or whatever yeah it's kind of like that so so there's there's a lot of Koreans that can speak Japanese with Japanese names so it's the same ████ right yeah they all look the same to me but they give me one give me one of those guys

6:44 when you go don't do it Steve to a Japanese restaurant right you go to it's like and then you're like oh we're gonna get some ████ sushi right yeah I put down the water I go yeah you feel like they're Japanese as ████ right and then you look and then you go wait a minute hold on they're speaking Mandarin in the kitchen oh yeah and then and then you look back and then there's like Hector in the back and you're like what the ████ yeah and then do you feel like why am I paying these prices it's not even real do you ever feel like that because I know you do erase the son of a ████ yeah I do yeah hey Hector don't serve me raw fish yeah unless it's Ceviche that's delicious so I was on a trip with with some friends right and uh we went to this match of whites or what no mixed race okay so straight while I say

7:36 that so he has a very diverse group of friends um so yeah some of my friends from Mexican right and so I went to some of them now but but I went to go pick up like Mexican food from the spot right and we weren't in a place that traditionally has Mexican food right so when I brought the food back you know one of my friends the Mexican um opened up the food and then then he's like oh this isn't this is white people ████ Mexican food and then I actually went to pick up the food so I'm like oh like everyone there was Mexican from the customers yeah everyone like yeah like no like the workers like you could see it all through glass everybody was Mexican so you could just say like it's not good but like it was literally just Mexican food Mexican people saying Panda Express not Chinese but it's like the owner is

8:26 Chinese yeah it's Chinese as somebody yeah so if you go it says Chinese As It Gets in Hawaii right Panda Express why are you asking me I'm not from there I mean I'm telling you in a question okay cause you don't have to take account exactly you're telling me in a question ████ can you do more of that that part but yeah yeah classic and I was just like no there's everyone's Mexican and they just did he just didn't know what to say after that he's just like oh like whatever like ████ Whopper eats very water that makes it white people food they look at the rice they're like no flavor that's like I saw some video there's some videos like this chick who takes she takes her Italian husband to Buca di Beppo and it's like yes I saw that what the ████ are you even doing like other than just being a pessimist yeah like why are you thinking

9:18 it's more a son of a ████ he's like he's like from Italy ████ Italian I don't know and then she's like he's like weeping like a little Italian grandmother like oh that boy wondering if they do this too beautiful Italian food and it's like you're booking a ████ Beppo in Albuquerque New Mexico what do you expect what do you ████ sitting there doing are they do they all look like mazes yeah dude and you walk through the kitchen they want you to accidentally go in the back and wash some dishes I think so you can't find your way back to the Sea it's so big yeah I like how you you can pay extra to sit in the kitchen but then like you're under the Cleveland it's like these lights and it's like really oh yeah you can get a chef's table Chef stable what does that mean you're just eating in the kitchen you get to watch them put it all in the microwave

10:10 [Laughter] now the tomato sauce out of a can out of a jar Hot Plate it's like yeah I just seen you take it out yeah I know I didn't know that yeah but the garlic bread is banging bro do you think yeah do you think the inverse happens in other countries like let's say there's a Johnny Rockets in like China and then they go to the back and they don't see a white person they get pissed like what the ████ what's the vice versa they're Chinese too yeah this is authentic they're not fooling me it's not real American yeah I feel that too if you go to Denny's in Japan they better be white oh Denny's in Japan's really good it's better it is it's way better you know how Denny's out here is like what the ████ why we gotta go to Daddy's right

11:01 over there it's like different I heard I heard yoshinoa is good and they don't give it to you in those s█████ ass like styrofoam bowls they give it to you in a like porcelain bowls oh ████ porcelain whoa good and they crack an egg on top and all that ████ it's good dude it's probably because they don't have homeless guys chucking their ████ silverware they still take EBT ████ I mean come on yeah that's why I think that's why maybe I'm nuts that's why I don't have porcelain out here maybe it's crazy it's like controversial opinion whatever this video is over

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