One time I accidentally clicked into a chinese live stream, and while trying to figure out how to exist the live streamer called out my username. I panicked and closed the app.

'If something is free, you're the product' never gets old

i once mentioned the filter glitching and got blocked😅😅😭😭

one time i stumbled into one of these live stream and saw a girl doing the same dance over and over again for 20 minutes. i stayed and watched to see when will she get a rest but eventually got bored. 2 hours later i came back and still saw her doing that same dance. this industry is so weird

Aesthetically gifted individuals 💀💀

I got sucked into it in 2023 which was about the time these Chinese groups started gaining momentum in TikTok. I actually became friends with a few of the girls from this one particular group, we still follow each other on our private instagrams to this day. One of them filled me in on all the details and they got a comfortable salary and their accomodation was all paid for. They would get bonuses depending on how many gifts they received but the threshold was quite high. The companies were a bit predatory as they would guilt trip the girls if they tried to leave and then they were not allowed to continue their online careers for 1 year minimum after meaning their company due to the contracts. I can’t imagine it’s a bad gig there but I personally will never get involved in those groups again, I definitely was parasocial at one point and wasting too much time in those live streams because I was a regular and known viewer that they would always greet, then they eventually added me to become a moderator for the channel which only fuelled my compulsion to be in every live. It was a really weird era of my life lol.

i too am guilty of participating in the rat race to escape the rat race

If Kpop is the AAA gaming, group broadcasting would be the mobile gaming

This videos comedic value skyrocketed just from the fact that 'kaka" mans poop in my first language. I've been laughing at the "million dollar poop" for a good while now ...

This is literally that one kpop Time Turner survival show lmao

i know china has strict beauty standards, but I genuinely want to know if these streamers know that the filters, and shape-shifting makeup are so very obvious to the naked eye.

douyin groupstream idoling makes the normal kpop industry seems like heaven, and SM exists 😭

lots of these streamers are actually being scammed, they sign a contract that they dont know the details of and arent allowed to leave. if they leave they have to pay an unreasonably big fee

I dont Know why  but chinese lore is insane and interesting at the same time😂

3:58 Kaka means "shit" in my language😂

1:20 oh it’s like those streamers on Tiktok a while ago acting like a video game character, like the “ice cream yum yum” lady… I wonder what they are up nowadays

I watched a creator on Xiao hong shu talks about whether团播 worth quitting your 9-5 job, and he said they have to control their expression and live dancing for 6hours straight, plus train and rehearsal for another 6hours everyday, and no day off for the entire year with 8-10k(he's speaking Chinese so I assume it's Yuan)base salary per month.
That's only the work load, we haven't yet explored the culture and mind set of people working in that industry. He said if your boundary is not strong you might end up losing your mind and body. And according to him if you don't understand or pay attention to the contract, even if you blow up you still won't get the money, also if you want to GET OUT you'll have to take debt with you wherever you go.

I’ve seen a couple of these and one time, there was this girl who kept being paid to dance the same thing over and over again until she collapsed. She leaned against some of the other girls for a little and then after regaining consciousness, she got right back up and kept going. It was strange to say the least. I hope they’re alright.

3:11  holy fuck wizardry. He made an old man look like a young guy.

Nah the dad stuff is crazy.