Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
Back in February of this year, RESCENE member Woni teamed up with Solfa Studio for her YouTube channel, Hello I Am Woni Nice To Meet You. It’s hard to believe this was the same producer who was doing Koreans React videos during college, which even had some of the reactors commenting here at one point. Regardless, basically everything he touches seems to work, so it’s no surprise this recent project has blown up as well.
The channel’s overall content seems to give new meaning to “variety” (as you’ll see later), but the most notable series — and the one which initially caused the channel’s boom — was Woni trying to learn how to be a gyaru from fellow member (and apparently former gyaru) Minami. In it, she shares some of the secrets to the craft, and the first part concludes with karaoke, which ended up being genius foreshadowing.
The next video was mainly about adopting not only the gyaru styling but the attitude as well, the latter of which in particular is important thanks to the former. Minami, naturally, seems to know ball, which is fascinating since she was born in 2006, notably after most of these trends were well past their peak popularity.
In particular, the gyaru walk she’s teaching Woni reminded me of Morning Musume‘s Mari Yaguchi doing an Ayumi Hamasaki impersonation, and it had me damn near in tears.
All this blew up enough that the arc ended up culminating with Minami in full gyaru-face hijacking the channel and doing like a Killing Voice-style karaoke of gyaru songs. She did “Mamushi” by Megan Thee Stallion (Feat. Yuki Chiba), “Luka Luka Night Fever” by samfree (Feat. Megurine Luka), “Love Again” by globe, “Cutie Honey” by Koda Kumi, para para danced to “Change My World (Going Mad Mix)” by Hitomi Sakuma, and, finally, “Mister” by KARA.
Incredible.
I hope Woni, Minami, and RESCENE get all the popularity they deserve. Gold.
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Back to the channel at large, the content is … random. Some of the first videos were two options for fighting off a bear attack…
…then there was listing the top five most dangerous animals to humans, to learning how to eat at fine dining…
…to tips on how to hold in your tears, to another viral video with the pair and Zena (from Gyeongju) only speaking in dialect (that isn’t subbed yet, sorry), to celebrating 100k subscribers with a Q&A.
An insta-sub if there ever was one.
