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The gopnik took over the world via meme culture in 2010s, but where didnit come from?
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wtf was that!
I am from Balkan and the slav squat came from the old outhouses where people had to squat to take a shit.
Skanger in Ireland
We call the wiggers in the states
Football casuals and hooligan sub culture next would be class
I spent my childhood in a depressing region of Russia in late 90s - early 00s, where the word "subculture" didn't even exist and every street kid was "gopnik" by default even if they didn't consider themselves as such. To me this "aesthetics" was strongly associated with rough life when street gangs, poverty, opioid crisis and random acts of violence were prevalent and part of everyday life. Seeing this trend becoming so popular in the West, albeit ironic, was absolutely bizarre and a bit cringy tbh.
Now you know how we Italians feel when we see the mafia glorified in Hollywood movies. For us it's nothing more than a cancer that needs to be destroyed and this romanticized vision that they have of it is absurd.
Yes everything in the west is so nice, you are so surprised... Well get over it, same sh.... in the west, poverty, crime, corruption etc
@@idizzzful Statistics tend to disagree with yoy
African American Hip Hop from the 70s and 80s (like Run DMCs song "My Adidas") had more influence on the adidas fashion trend in the west before any 90s Gopknik influence did.
Hip Hop from the 70s was wearing Track Suits as a fashion statement, and Run DMC in the 80s really made it fashionable with the white kids in the suburbs in America.
Had nothing to do with Russian fashion from the 90s.
@@demoniack81 The Hollywood movies tend to focus on USA mafioso, not Italys Mafia groups. And they were a cancer in the states as well, especially during prohibition.
Hollywood rarely does stories on Italy's Mafia organizations.
As a Russian I was hoping for you to cover gopniks after the chavs video. At least in Moscow they are far less common than they were in the mid 2000s. But I believe they are big outside of big cities. Teens nowadays are much more influenced by western culture, but there are a lot of places where everything western is hated and gopniks represent the "true and cool" Russian youth. But I regularly see a lot of people in their 30s or 40s dressed like gopniks. And also they behave like them
You can use yt in russia during the war XD?
@@antkodziej7318 the government wants to block yt for like 5 years. It’s all about disinformation and bad influence from the west. Same with twitch now. But for now we are fine. People are still using ig even tho officially it’s illegal
Чел, где ты их видел? Они уже 10 лет как вымерли
@@antkodziej7318 you can use your brain? Wow
@@antkodziej7318 what an idiot. do you still think there is bears with vodka wandering around in moscow?
The most hilarious part of this for me, as a citizen of Russia who grew up in that time, is the fact that "gopnik subculture" was basically dead and extinct by 2012, the same goes for hardbass (nobody actually called it that back in the day, it was "pump") the last time I've seen people listening to it unironically was 2005-06. It was the Western memes, what basically resurrected it in 2014 and created a subculture, that never actually existed as is.
You undervalue Russia's influence on the culture of post-soviet countries. In 2013 still had unironic gopnik kids that enjoyed hardbass and called it "Hardbassi". Not all kids just understand what enoying ironically means, culture takes some time to entrench itself in more distant regions and their gopnik parents are a strong influence on the kids.
ну кстати в регионах сейчас среди молодежи действительно есть пгт-гопники)) отличаются только модными полубокс-причёсками, что довольно комично, в остальном всё такие же
I grew up in Latvia were we had gopniks that would unironically listen to hardbass
@@chelovek-jpeg это не те гопники среди которых мы жили в нулевых, когда практически каждый был с ними связан и когда за неправильную причёску или одежду тебя могли покалечить. Новые гопники это просто пародия, волна искусственно воскрешённой памяти, которая накатилась на молодёжь уставшую от цифровой жизни в интернетах.
I'm from New Zealand and have been blasting hardbass since 2012 im 24 now lol
The "Slav squat" is something that people all over the world do. It's an apparently comfortable position to assume in a place where there is nowhere to sit. It's also called the "Asian squat" because you see tons of people in the far East doing it for the exact same reason. If you don't do it regularly then you probably aren't flexible enough to just give it a go and not stress your knees, but if it's something that you do daily then it's supposedly comfortable.
My partner spent a year teaching ESL in Japan right out of college and got into the habit of this style of squat. Appearantly most public women's restrooms use squatting toilets rather than seated toilets (she never went into the men's room), so she was essentially forced to learn how. Almost a decade later she's still got a better ass to grass squat than I do, and I was an active weight lifter who put effort into flexibility far longer than she was in Japan.
the funny thing is, if you lift your heels while trying to slav squat, a gopnik might actually tell you that you are a phony for doing it wrong, and if it's a particularly aggressive gopnik he might even start a conflict over it.
The answer is simple . Save up and buy a chair ...or walk bow legged for the rest of your life .
Yeah, no idea why and who came up with the idea of "slav squat", but squatting as a resting position is something as old as humankind, and is still present in cultures of primitive people. Funny detail though - they usually squat with whole feet laying flat on the ground, with body weight put on the heels of feet. Civilized people, when they squat, usually squat on their toes, with heels above the ground, which position, from what I understand, wouldn't work too well for a longer period.
In the video you can see images with both positions. I imagine you could differentiate by how these people squat between those who actually do it daily, and those who mimic something they've seen.
@@rask8121 Boris says "Heels touch ground when Slavs squat around" and the always useful "Heels on ground, comrade found. Heels in sky, western spy"
About Adidas culture: as a Russian, i think you made it kinda more complicated as it is IRL. During 90s there was no chance that some gopniks could afford themselves original adi clothes. So they went to one of the street markets, where there were lots of striped sport cloths (basically poormade adidas copies). They were cheap, affordable. And so that is how it started :D
He did mention that but what he said is the Olympics were the main reason for starting it...
They just copied the hip hop scene in USA
@@hmu05366 Nah more like chav UK culture.
@@jameswatson5807 Do you mean the chav culture that was derived from the US hip hop scene?
@@answerman9933 Where did you get that nonsense chave culture came from Jamaican culture.
Even a famous British conservative guy said even middle class white are trying to speak as if they are from Kingston Jamaica.
later on with MTV base the hip hop scene has some little influence.
So are we just gonna pretend that Russian Hard Bass doesn't go hard?😭
it does go hard ☝🏼
@@Dj.Ray.Von. you are literally agreeing with what he said. @duagcyrus says he likes hard bass and you say you do as well
DJ Blyatman bangs
@@b0zz1380y exactly. russian village boys and boris as well 🤟🏽
Russian Village boys and DJ Blyatman!
This video taught me that Moscow is pronounced as "Mockba". Thank you for accurate information.
A cyrillic "B" is pronounced "V". Moskva
Nah fr I almost threw away my phone when I heard that
its mosvka
moskva
MoskVa Brudda 🥶🥶🥶
Loved the vid, altough as the native Russian citizen, who lived through 00's criticism I have a bit of points to correct. For example - Hardbass, despite it being associated with gopniks nowadays, was nowhere to be found at the time. It was in fact "blatnyak" (from Russian criminal jargon "blatnoy" - pronounced like "blat-noj" - roughly "respectable criminal"), which was a mix of chanson and author's song mainly focused on life of crime, philosophy and, bizzarely, religion (offtop: fun fact, around 80% of post-Soviet countries' criminals consider themselves orthodox) and our own kind of gangsta rap, which became popular around 2003-2004.
They were widespread among the whole post-Soviet space, because most of these kids were children of criminals which served their sentence or at least grew up in the Soviet Union, so saying that they were entirely Russian thing is not really fair - there were plenty of gopniks in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus, for example. Russia is just the biggest of them all.
And, well, gopniks were not a subculture, they were more like a lifestyle. Like, in the place where I grew up, you was gopnik by default and had a chance to evolve into something else if you had enough willpower or was unlucky enough to not became a part of any social group. Gopnik is not about style, or music, or whatever. Gopnik is about petty crime, "ponyatiya" (which means "terms", as in "termin" - pronounced like "pawn-ja-tea-ja" - which was a sort of unwritten codex of rules among post-Soviet criminals which they pretty strictly obeyed), and street life. They were mostly uneducated, had little to no parental care (if they had parents at all - mind you, it was 90's-00's we are talking about, it was a really rough time out there) and came from a really poor conditions
Jimmy should really learn how to separate memes and parodies on social media with the real thing. The research for this video was extremely lacking imo.
As a famous Russian poet once said: Tri poloski, tri-po tri poloski. hard bass tusovki, adidas krossovki.
each Shoe sold separately!
@@jaguar4u2012 stolen separately*
@@HalIOfFamer XD
Hahaha 10/10!!
@@afrolitious7930 from a person who had it before wtf isn't it obvious?
Hard bass was linked to gopniks only ironically. I didn't know any gopnik who would listen to this at the time. The gopniks I know listened to prison songs (Blatnyak), pop songs and generic EDM. Maaaybe low quality russian rap. And yes, the big gopnik wave happened not so long after gopnik hard bass meme was born. Also, the winter hat of choice was a short beanie (worn on top of the head when just hanging around or walking around drunk). Thanks for the video, Jimmy!
Actually hardbass originated from the UK i think
@@letsgonowxd it originated in St. Petersburg.
Generic and bland taste in music tend to be more connected to poor morals than more extreme taste in music. Slavoj Zizek notes that fascists often listen to sentimental, dumb and soft music. Edit: I use Fascist as an umbrella term for anyone with a violent, oversimplified and antiintellectual worldview.
Fascism is linked with seeing it like your group has enemies that your'e in a continuous total war with. With no respect for universal laws and furthermore seeing these laws as just an application of power by some other group. You can see aspects of this mentality in conspiracy theories.
Hmm generic EDM and low quality rap... literally every 15 years old kid on TikTok and even grown ups.
Hardbasss in itself is an ironic genre, created as a parody of culture at the time. There is a video about the creation of the genre that speaks about it. But it's in Russian and I don't know if there is English subtitles to it.
I lived in the nineties in a small town in Siberia. No one was called gopnik in my environment, only a normal kid or a man and a sucker. It was only after moving to a big city to study, after I joined the dnb club subculture in the early 2000s, that it became clear to me that everyone I used to know was a gopnik, and I myself was like that.
The 'Gopnik quiff' is a hairstyle that has been around for decades in Ireland among the countries working class and traveller kids, it's a very old haircut that was popular among the Celts and, no doubt among others as well like the Vikings of old (isn't t all viking related stuff old? Apart for films and documentaries about them of course).
Skinhead girls also had a version of the hairstyle, mostly seen the late 1970s & early 1980s.
In Brazil Adidas and Nike were quite expensive due to taxes and poor wages.
So it was fashionable and a status symbol. I was quite shocked when I came to Japan and saw how affordable they were.
Still I wore them everywhere because they look good and are quite comfortable until a japanese friend told me that to japanese ppl those kinda of clothes are specific for sports and that if you wear them everywhere it gives the impression that your wardrobe is poor 😭
thanks for sharing your unique insight
Hi Omar, that is correct, Japanese people mostly wear sport shoes only when doing sports.
@@tryingtotryistrying yeah, if I looked young enough ppl would think im a student, i see them everywhere with sports outfit
Carry a football around with you to transform the look from poor to athlete
So now you stopped wearing Adidas - because you’re afraid the Japanese will think you have a poor wardrobe?
The core of gopniks is not about look, it is about crime activity. It's "honorable" to steal mobile or money on streets. The verb is "гопнуть" - to gopnut' or gopnoot', last syllable is u, don't know how to transliterate it properly. I remember a case with a master class of senior gopnicks taught gopnick-juniors how to approach a person to frighten them and make successful steal. Our group were bigger and master-class was not very successful.
It reminds me of the Czech word čapnout, in English to nab (something between grab and steal), but it can also mean to squat, which is interesting considering the habits of gopniks, but maybe not relevant to Russian meanings.
It's also 'honorable' to kick a gopnik in the teeth I presume? Action reaction etc?
@@blueredbrick doesn't look like you'd have a lot of targets to aim for.
@@zachariahpoltergeist4516 doh, lol.
The gangs in the west fight over market share not petty cash and cell phones... 😂
Very funny and very true - I lived in Russia in the 1990s and some of my very first friends were Gopniks - the local lads where I was living at the time. We had some laughs - they even taught me to sit like - like well, a Gopnik as well as the history of sitting as such. They were all teenagers and good guys!
@3:54 i see what you did there, EATING SEEEEEEDS IS A PASS TIME ACTIVITYYYYYYY
😂
As a Russian, I've always considered gopniks as a social class, not a subculture. They simply were dirt poor, disenfranchised people and/or petty criminals who likely grew up in "unfavourable circumstances", to put it mildly (gangs, prison, violence, neglectful families, no education, etc). It wasn't about esthetics. The fact that there are people in the West who love the esthetics is a bit weird to me lol
Btw, gopniks never listened to hardbass (which actually originated in the UK! It was called donk/hard bounce/pumping house/...). This genre just ended up being associated with the gopnik "esthetics" because the music sounded oldschool and very late 90s-early 2000's. In Russia, this genre is considered as a joke rather than something serious. Some hardbass producers aren't even Russian speakers...
thanks, didn't know that hardbass originated from the UK. thankfully things still evolve, albeit more slowly, so it doesn't need certain demographic or genes to try out new ideas.
лично мне нравится эстетика гопников, хотя самих гопников как людей не люблю ахах. так что не удивительно, что иностранцам тоже может нравиться эта эстетика, для них это что-то "экзотичное" можно сказать
@@cubertmiso From my understanding Donk started in and around Liverpool (some people referred to it as Scouse House at the time).
@@lovelymill Когда тебя всё детство не прессуют на улицах, для таких поней в розовых очках гопари и правда в новинку.
Hardbass started in the late 90s in the Saint Petersburg underground scene. It has roots in pumping house, you are right, but that does not mean that it is the same thing. This is like saying that dubstep is actually just UK garage, or that hardcore is just techno.
As a person born and raised in a provincial Russian town, I spent all my childhood and youth amidst the gopniks constantly being one of their potential victims 😅 I would say that our gopniks have never been organized and have never formed something like a subcultural movement.
They were just a product of total poverty and depression after the fall of Soviet Union. People lost their jobs because factories were stopped and closed. Those who were working for government run enterprises in the education and health care systems managed to keep their positions but had not being paid for months. Police forces and army were deeply corrupted so they can not control the streets.
So, "gopnik" was just the convenient word for designation of those uneducated and uncultured hooligans and small criminals who flooded the streets in the situation when there were no police control.
Interestingly, Adidas sportswear was really percieved as prestigious those days but common people mostly just went to the local bazaar and bought cheap tracksuits and shoes imported from Turkey, China or Vietnam. I personally had never been in the branded clothing store till I reached eighteen and went to Moscow 😅
So, gopniks are not memebers of a subculture like skinheads, goths or emo-kids. They were almost "normies" of those tough times on post-Soviet territory.
No fam they looked like dumbfucks
For the west, those not wearing athletic clothing for fashion wore it because its comfortable. :)
@@LV-sp7gjand they can't afford uzis
@@20ege008 gangsters aren't exactly wealthy either
you didn’t watch the video did you
Now, that was a good video, nice research and such good info of a subject a knew nothing about, thank you.
I lived in Minsk (Belarus) in the drug addict-proletarian region in the 90s. Our youth is a bench next to the entrance, guitars, seeds, beer and vodka, girls. We were gopniks. Nobody had money for Adidas. If there was money, then they were spent on vodka :)
Now I'm a respectable businessman, but my past is still great :) By the way, now we don't have gopniks at all, that is, absolutely.
Блин, что вы тут рассказываете, это вовсе не называется "гопник" если вы не беспредельничали. Гопник - это беспредельщик, адекватные пацаны с таким стилем в 90х не называются гопниками.
As a Russian I can say this video 's reality/internet memes ratio is around 60/40. The hard bass connection is for sure just a meme. They usually listen to the Russian criminal music and to "gopnik boom bap"
Yeah, I can't even remember hard bass ever being a thing in Russia... I personally only learnt of its existence in the mid 2010's, with the hard bass "wave". Really weird lol. So I highly doubt gopniki listened to it.
Even now, there barely are any Russians who listen to it unironically.
Во времена моей юности они очень любили группу "кровосток"вся гопота любила эту группу
@@user-hc8ky8zb8cиронично, что они просто поэты, которые писали тексты на такие темы лишь ради прикола
Кумирами гопоты 80х-90х были Цой и Кинчев
@@user-hc8ky8zb8c кровосток больше умные люди слушали, я бы назвал рыночные отношения какие-нибудь, ноггано, ак-47
It's kinda funny how the universal sign of low class is sports brands. (Also, Shame on you for not mentioning Boris beyond that little clip. I feel like he really is the one who spread the fascination of gopniks to the west.)
Used to be Champion when I was a kid. A few years ago everyone wanted their sweaters. weird.
Thats because 100% of them were cheap Chinese copies they been selling in their little overstocked Chinese shops
Jock sniffers are a global phenomenon. People who are not intelligent have no frame of reference to imaging being intelligent, but anyone can imagine being stronger. I respect those who make money from sports because that is their purpose, to entertain for profit, but sports fans are beneath my respect.
Мне кажется Борис просто выстёбывает стереотипы
Or an autist but again not an intelligent one.
Love your videos bro, been watching all of them. My fav is king Robbo's one so far
I have met one Australian person in my life. He was a friend of my brother's who was here visiting America. Happened to meet him at the beach. He said I looked like a beach bogan. I had never heard the term before, and naively thought it was some harmless Aussie slang. I'm just now learning I was insulted to my face.
First time I came across this urban tribe was 2006. In Japan this culture made huge success back then and it was widely adapted in japanese mangas. Street villains always hangout like gopniks to this day.
*Heh...this was originated in India. Like how yoga was. Indians from centuries ago, especially in the villages or suburbs, used to sit in groups or alone in what these Russians call as "gopnik". And yes, if you see Indian films long back, till the late 90s, the squatting posture (smoking cigarettes), were used by actors or villains to show how badadd they were too.*
This ain't big deal to us. Heck we even used to go to the toilet like this...have you seen the Indian toilets?! LOL.
So yea, this is child's play to us. Every Indian (minus the snowflake generation of today) can do this "gopnik" easy.
To this DAY!
@@rosbifle413 lmao
Yankee swari😂
My favorite Gopnik is Boris, from "Life of Boris". Great Videos to include cooking. Worth watching. He introduced to Hardbass and Ladas.
My first encounter with J the G. Love it!
By the way, Jimmy, your Russian pronunciation is quite good. Well done!
Similar thing we have in Poland, we just call them dudes differently: "Dresiarz" instead of "Gopnik". The name comes from their sporty wear, which in Polish is called "Dres". These outfits should be preferably also made by Adidas or, eventually, by Nike (shoes, of course, as well). Usually one can hear from them "Szefie, dasz 5 zloty na piwko?" (Boss, can you give me 5 zloty for a beer?) and "Masz problem?" (Do you have a problem?), least of them usually followed by "Chcesz wpierdol?" or "Wyjebać ci? (both "Do you wanna a beating?"). Yep, surely different countries, but similar cultures.
its similar in slovakia too. we have vagoši
or stokár
A nie sebix?
@@craftahEnglish women have vagosi too. It's easy to catch something though 😂
polska gurom
Just wanted to clarify that the shoes weren’t called mockba lol Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet which is different from the Latin one it’s called the Moskva but the translation was correct
mockba, lol.
Ikr the way he said it had me rolling
Ye, kinda shows the level of his research.
@@SoberCake haha same, I actually double checked to see if I heard it right because I thought no way this guy thinks that Moscow in Russian is Mockba lol
@@fazex4185 bangkok, bangdik, bangpusy, bangtits
I’m dying 😂😂
These guys are amazing
Track suits including adidas were always prevalent in hip hop culture and sports culture in the 70's through the 80s to even today in the US.
I believe the popularity of gopnik on the internet was closely tied to the video game STALKER, which sort of introduced the post soviet slavic subculture to the internet.
CHEEKY BREEKY
Nah, it was life of boris 100% and the funny thing is he's not even Russian or slavic
@@THE_TRACKMAN Isn't he a Russian from Estonia?
Not gta iv?
no those games are pure dogshit and it was a thing before them
We here in Germany too have a "subculture" thats very similar to the Gobnik, the Assi. Assi is an abbreviation of Asozial (antisocial, but thats a changed meaning as originally Assi was short for Assistent) and is used for a certain type of person, who coincidentaly likes to wear track suits, often features small time criminal and overall bad behaviour and has a tendency for drinking too much beer or hard alcohol. If you have ever seen one, you will know who I am talking about. You can also find similar versions in other european nations, with some cultural differences in how they act and appear in detail, but there is a striking resemblence in major poinsts, like the antisocial behaviour, alcohol, and track suits. Kind of like evil clones from paralel dimensions, but its only evil clones all the way down.
Equivalent in the US are the thugs
Yeah we have those types here in the Netherlands as well, we call them "tokkies" or "chappies", no idea where those names came from though. They usually also wear stone island and other (fake) expensive stuff and are linked to hooligan culture as well.
in Poland we have "Dresiarze"
in lithuania we have them too. we call them marozai. their ultimate life dream is to get driving license and own a shitbox bmw and after that their life is complete. Absolutely pathetic
In America we haven't worn track suits since 1988. It had its peak in 1984. With Run DMC and the Fat Boys. I honestly thought that the only young men left wearing track suits were football hooligans from Europe, primarily England. I always thought that the popularity of the track suit was so popular due to the fact that you can wear it for days , weeks without washing it. Learned something new everyday. The velour track suit made a short lived comeback for a few years, but nah... nobody wears that crap anymore. At least not out in public.
I thought for sure you were going to say.."today's sponsor is....... Adidas!!"
Since u mentioned the Hardbass thing i think it's high time to make something about the Gabber subculture in The Netherlands with the very distinctive Gabber Hardcore music
It's Moskva, not Mockba. It's hard to recognize Cyrillic when all the letters also exist in the Latin alphabet, though the tiny upper-case B should've been a bit of a give away
"Москва" -С=S; В=V;
I love how in the minecraft inventory he has 3 cigarette butts
Loved the MOCKBO one 😂
In Australia nowadays the closest thing to "gopnik" might actually be the "Eshay". Urban public housing, expensive sports fashion, glamorisation of street crime etc. Meanwhile bogans are probably closer to modern "rednecks". More associated with outer suburbs and regional areas than urban centers. And many "bogans" are now "cashed up bogans" since the mining boom. Aussie muscle cars and utes (as well as several spare parts donors in the front yard) were always standard bogan status symbol, but now a cashed up bogan might be running a heavily modified 150K Toyota Landcruiser dualcab ute around town, a far cry from a poor houso kid looking for an identity.
Eshays are basically Australian chavs
We do have a bogan subculture but I agree that the eshay subculture is a far closer comparison. Bogans are typically harmless and aren't rolling you for ciggies like eshays, chavs, and gopniks are hahaha
And don't forget gronks.
I’ll take 10 bogans over an eshay.
AKA a scumbag. Got it.
Yup, in Romania every sport shoe was called an Addidas, like a noun
Same in Poland
@@pinkbike211 yep, and I hate it. Why call nike shoes "adidas"
Just found your channel! Very cool content. You should make a video about the subculture of street workout. It's an interesting one with American scene vs Eastern European scene.
Hey man, cheers for a great video.
Just to clarify; one of the theories is that the term "Gopnik" loosely translates as a petty thief, or an adherent to "gop-stop" counterculture (basically beating random people up to pinch their phones, money, cigarettes and so on).
Like the chavs in the UK, gopniks all but disappeared by the early 2010s, especially after "Rapper Syava", a random DJ who parodied Gopniks so successfully that they thought he was one of them and played his music. Once he was exposed as a major troll, it made gopniks the laughing stock of the country.
They've now been replaced by "Gopsters"; working class guys who wear original Adidas tracksuits (unlike the dodgy fake ones worn by Gopniks) and listen to depressive urban rap. They're nowhere near as drunk or aggressive as Gopniks and no longer squat or drink beer and eat seeds in the street. Hard Base was pretty much replaced with Drum and Base by the mid 2010s as the gopsters go-to party music.
Interesting.
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Another look into a subculture I didn’t know existed yet you make it so interesting.
It's never been a subculture in the post-Soviet countries (one of which I'm from). I'm 41 and I've lived with these guys next door.
Eastern Europe here, we got Gopnik's when I was kid. They didn't wear hats, or special haircut, and I don't know what kind of music they listen as there was no phones back then. They did squat, but I believe it's just because it's hard on legs to stand all day on one spot waiting for prey. They did eat seeds, but it's because they where just extremely cheap and good way to make yourself busy, because most important - these guys were poor, basically that was how they make their living
drinking near the local store, and waiting pray. sounds familiar
Ha-ha!Fair play to you man!I lived through that life myself and so funny to remember that ridiculous "style "😎 GOPNIK-it means just ONE person, GOPNIKI-bunch of them....,the commitment of crime called -GOP-STOP💪👊👏👎 ADIDAS was on top of the game. ....but leather shoes with that tracksuit looked so ridiculous 😂😆 Never forget that time! Thanks for the video 👍Good luck ☝
I have ex-military friends that always ask me to stand up when I squat like this, they say I look like an afghan. Very good video, kept my attention and that is hard to do believe me.
6:10 Do not pronounce it Mock Ba, its pronounced Moskva holy fuck. those are not english characters. lol
Calling it Mockba... I'm dead. 💀
The sunflower seeds thing is also a common thing amoung other eastern european countries like Lithuania. I have a good friend from the and when i went on holiday there with him, how and when to eat sunflower seeds was one of the cultural things i was taught haha
The semki obsession is international 🌻🌻🌻
Turks love them too!
Yeah, semechki are not just a gopnik thing. They are popular with Eastern Europeans and Slavs in general. It's not even frowned upon among the higher societal class to stand in the street and crack sunflower seeds.
The Spanish love them too. I'm half and half so I have an extreme predilection to semechki/pipas
@@arturoperez8879 When I traveled to Barcelona, I also saw tons of people wearing Adidas.
This is a good one - had no idea bout this sub-sub-sub culture. Cheers!
I think gopnik comes from "gop-stop", which is a blatnoy (criminal/prison slang) expression for mugging someone.
One more thing:
I can't recall hearing hard bass at any point of my life in Russia during 90-s and 2000-s.
Gopnics have listened and still do listen almost exclusively chanson, blatnyak, rap and Soviet pop music from 80-90.
I went to a lot of raves in my city and neighboring cities and yeas they were some gopnics but they were like a very tiny minorities.
SUBSCRIBED for sure! Anybody who puts this much effort into research, production and editing deserves support! Best of luck moving forward forward to see what's coming next!
Beer and sunflower seeds have been a staple in my world for decades. Had no idea this was a “thing”.
many Western people, when portraying gopniks or talking about them, miss one important detail - this is the length of the hair and hairstyle. a gopnik will never wear long hair or a stylish hairstyle. in fact, in the 90s, one of the main reasons for the gopniks to attack was precisely the length of the hair. The gopniks were very homophobic and in their stereotypical view, a man with long hair allegedly looked like a woman and therefore was gay. for this reason, the main enemies of the gopniks were all sorts of metalheads, punks, hipsters, and so on. therefore, if you cosplay a gopnik, always cut your hair under 0.3
Yeah,true,been there,done that,not were proud of it...
quite right
True, we called them "ushastiki", becaues the ears were so prominent with such short hair
In Poland we have a very similar group to the Gopnik, they are called "dresy" (sweatpants) and the main difference is less uniform clothes and listening to Polish rap instead of hard bass
At a flea market some time in the 90s I saw some knock offs called "addidums". One side had 4 stripes and other side had 2.
On average it was correct amount of stripes
@@story350 Yes, you juat addidums and dividums by 2
@@mikekelly5869 That's brilliant lmao 🤣
If my name were Adam, I would’ve snagged those up. Be well!
This is actually quite fascinating. You should do one on the other subcultures, the Chav's, etc. Edit: I just saw that you did, haha
If you haven't loitered with your friends under a bridge, you haven't lived.
Nice video man. I found Adidas and more recently New Balance are very popular in Thailand
now. More so than say Reebok or Nike.
1:38 u aint fooling me with that brown spot on the p i know u animated that separately
Weird that you showed members of the IRA as Russian "high end mafia bosses". 6:59
Hahahhaha was looking for a comment mentioning this
Lol I saw that too
What a wholesome gopnik love video. It wasnt fun being mugged by one of them tho.
Nobody likes being mugged.
Comment section is very informative. Thank you all
- from Canada
Considering the video title, not much was said about how it's hated in Russia. But I hope it is.
Glad to see we have so much in common. Not sure what you'd call our Stateside equivalent. (I'd list a few but they're all offensive) Cheap track suits are the planet-wide uniform of shady proles. There's probably a guy selling bootleg phones in Tierra Del Fuego looking like the fraternal twin of a meth dealer in Anchorage.
Hahahah so funny that you included KUKU$, a Croatian Hip Hop group. Not really related to the topic, but they did make the song "Real Slavs", so it makes sense that you used footage :D
I'm from the baltics and the "Gopnik" trend absolutely took over my school in 2017-ish, that lasted up to 2 years.
Dope video, but most from US u see rocking Adidas is from hip hop / Run DMC era
This is the best CZcams video I've seen in a long time. I always wondered what that culture of Russians wearing tracksuits was and you explained everything including the squatting so educational and I always wanted to look into this. I'm subscribing
I've heard of it refered to as the caveman squat. Been around as long as people. It's actually a comfortable and easy way to relax anywhere, without a chair. I use it when i have to work on something close to the ground.
The British army call it a chogy squat, as it is how a lot of the middle east sit, very uncomfortable position for westerners!
It's only comfortable if you've been used to not having chairs. If you've always sat in chairs you probably don't have the ankle mobility to do it and it is extremely uncomfortable or just straight up impossible.
@@demoniack81 the Gurkhas where extremely proficient at shooting from the squat, as it was one of the shooting positions allowed during range day, no fat westerners could even hold a rifle in the squat, never mind shoot it in the desired direction!
@@user-lf3wr8rh7r Why I could never fathom the squat toilets in Latin America and Asia. Seems impossible (to me) to squat over the hole without falling in.
I find it quite uncomfortable, because it puts a lot of strains on my legs, but it's better than sitting on the ground.
Cool analysis. If you have the chance to, try to dig into the Legea-Givova tracksuit Italian subculture. You may find it interesting
I love how he put the french in there 😂
The squat is not uniquely Slav. I’ve seen people across Asia sit like this, from China to the Middle East.
Great video ❤
It’s just a sitting technique.
Known as a Noggy Squat in the Australian Army.
@@MicMc539 Ha! Fantastic, I have to remember that ❤️
It's a natural sitting; you can see toddlers do it naturally.
Everyone in world who stands a lot does it. Natural resting position
Excellent video. A few points though:
- You barely touched the crime part. When I was a kid in Kyiv in the 90s I felt uncomfortable walking in poorer neighborhoods alone or with a girlfriend. I could have my pockets emptied, shoes and clothes taken, harassed, or even beaten up for no reason. One of the main reasons why martial art was so popular was to protect from gopniks.
- In the 2010s Kyiv became a bit of a hub for commercial and music videos. Some of them rode the trend of gopniks while popularising it even further.
- As for the culture itself it remains alive in some areas. In 2014 I met a young guy from a poorer neighborhood in Kyiv and he told me what's life like there. All the bullshit was still alive, like extreme violence for no reason.
- Nowadays it seems like some of them are transitioning into more trendy subcultures like raves/drugs, ultras, far-right groups, etc.
why did gopniks punch someone without a damn reason?
also were gopniks almost always looking like they were after some fight (bruises and stuff like that) and on drugs?
Most cases I heard was them trying to take stuff from you - money, clothes. But also to publicly humiliate you… out of boredom I guess.
When I think of gopnics I think more like beer and sunflower seeds. Not necessarily bruised and on drugs.
You would be shot or stabbed in the US
Gopnik is from the prison slang term "gop-stop" which means robbery.
In America the "Slav squat" has been called the "prison pose" since at least the 1970's that I'm aware of.
as a 29 year old American I can say that I've heard of slav squat before this video but never prison pose.
In America, before Adi Dassler sold you track suits with high quality YKK zippers, everyone hated the newly invented hobby of jogging so much they would probably find any excuse to put the joggers in prison.
And soon after there was Shaytanic panic, and aspersions cast on why DO american joggers keep wearing those 70's hotpants for trips across the playgrounds and parks. Is it ONLY because they're getting uppity after watching Dolemiteand a bt too comfortable? Well, establishing a giant vanity market of price gouging sports shoes would put an end to that.
It’s not a prison pose just a pose black Americans been doing forever.... Idk why anyone here is pretending their entire “aesthetic” like most “street fashion” (so called) of the world DIDNT come from
Black american influence when it literally ALL did dang near.
In Poland we had in 1990s (after fall of communism) something quite similar to this subculture - we called them "dresiarze" (read as something like 'dre-sha-je') because of they clothes style. They also wore Adidas-clone clothes, haircuts to zero, drank alcohol, smoke ton of cigarretes, robbing and beating random people. Some of them was asociated with hard-core football/soccer fans (hooligans) and criminal. Using infamous baseball bats were not so rare. Music was also in similar vein - very early polish and american hip-hop, techno and eurodance. They were big problem in bigger cities, poorer districts, we feared of them often. Hopefully about past 2010s it's seems the past, never again.
I can't believe there wasn't any reference to the Stalker cheeki breeki memes.
I did not know you could make a video about gopniks on youtube and get 1M views... I should have done it years ago, lol
Gopnik has definitely to do with gop-stop which is mugging a usually weaker victim caught by surprise, when a bunch of those jump at them from around the corner (there's even an eponymous name) that is when the victim stops, being put on their heels.
Absolutely, and this video is inaccurate and judgemental, because it equates the style with the word gopnik. In reality all kind of people had this style in the 90s, but only the ones who did antisocial behaviour were actual gopniks!
In the early 90's I knew a guy that was paying good money for any old Adidas gear and shipping it to Russia, where it sold for top dollar on the black market. He said the Russian kids used the word Adidasovski, to express that something was cool.
I always new the look of that subculture, but growing up in Texas I never new the term Gopnik. I just thought that was all of Eastern Europe. 😂
Bit late to the party but for a couple of years we had a "small indoor concert"(?) in the Netherlands called Tri-Poloski. It was like 500 people max. Yes, people were drunk and/or high on various substances but it was such a meme-able party. There were never any fights. Nothing weird happened despite of some people's state of being. I went to like 3 of 4 of those parties. It was great fun. It literally was just a bunch of memers having a good time. Sadly Tri-Poloski stopped existing. I did go to a follow-up-attempt once but it was by far not as fun. I miss Tri-Poloski, it was great fun.
In Quebec Canada we have our own, they're called "BS" it is a derogatory term but not what you think it's initial shorts to "bien être social" which was the ancient name for social security now called: "aide sociale" or social help. Anyway if you see a bunch of baggy pants dude drinking beer on a corner you bet they're gonna ask for a cigarette and properly insult you when you say you don't smoke ...
I don't smoke, just so I can piss people off when they ask. Now I really want to head on up there
They sound the same as eshays here in Australia. It's comforting knowing that such terrible people exist in every country.
Imagine insulting someone because they _don't_ waste hundreds of 5 a month to poison themselves, lmao
@@tdb7992 in Poland we have Dresiarze (plural) for Dres which litteraly means a tracksuit
Pfft everyone in Quebec is on the dole. Have been since 1957.
"Oh they chew sunflower seeds well that's a good healthy alternative to cigarettes."
"They also smoke cigarettes? Oh."
Hardbass was created because somebody fiddled around with an FM synthesizer and that made a somewhat techno sound. Gopniks were more into pop songs of the region, or chanson.
This episide cracked me up :D Tracksuit and long pointy shoes. Absolutely genius hahahaha
Jimmy, you got check in on "Ned" culture from Scotland. Ned beats, Buckfast and doing laps in a slammed saxo. The culture has like a nostalgia night called Iamaraver - There was a culture of youtube dj who now do tours. Dj Badboy is the lyrical goat. Do it.
I'd say this is the best most informative and detailed documentation of Gopniks I've seen so far. Even as a Russian I learned a few things
Да нифига не коректное описание. Гопники это те кто беспредельничают, это не этот стиль сам по себе. Это вообще стандартный стиль для 90х, можно назвать пацанским или дворовым, это не значит что эти люли сразу гопники!
It is not their SUB , it IS their culture. And that's why they hate it. They hate themselves first of all.
Ahh.. Shufitinsky’s Taganka and Black BMW songs come to my mind.. topped with a golden necklace..
The best explanation I've ever heard. Made me smile a lot. Thanks, Jimmy.
NO, bad description altogether.
There is this CZcamsr , Boris ,that guy got me loving the gopnik culture 🔥
this video here is the first time I heard the word gopnik outside of a Boris video 😂
Love? That's an obsession result of misinformation and brainwashing
You're loving Boris, not gopnik culture. If you met real gopnic you'd feel nothing but disgust
Yes
This shit literally changed my life. When the gopnik memes came out, I was fascinated by them, and we all used to joke around with gopnik culture with the boys. And then I found hardbass. Hoooly fuck, when I was really in love with that music was a magical era of my life that I kinda miss. First the old traditional hardbass tracks that you'd hear in memes, then the new wave of hardbass which I loved just aswell (Uamee, Alan Aztec, etc...). I always listened to them. And the channels I watched during that time, LifeOfBoris especialle. It's a shame youtube fucked up his channel for no reason. I've started to get more and more interested in Russian culture, and today, I'm actually learning Russian, and it's going pretty well. I might become a translator later on, I'll see. I wanna learn the other Slavic languages aswell once I'm fluent, but for now my sights are focused on Polish and Dutch.
The Slav Squat looks just like the pose inmates in US penitentiary take when being photographed.
You're not a gopnik unless you've got a dent in front teeth specially for sunflower seeds. It's something that takes a lot of time to develop. Speaking from the experience.
lol I usually open up the seed in my mouth with 4th tooth
I found the gopniks, fellas
@@Lucas_Jeffrey run for your life ;-)
I got one of those because I ran into a dude at full speed by accident when I was like 10 and it chipped the shit out of my front teeth.
Мишаня, ты чему забугорных учишь?😆 они же щас начнут себе дырки в зубах делать, чтоб соответствовать моде
Most Americans are completely unaware of gopniks and chavs, or anything else that goes on in Russia. I only know about them because I watch CZcams videos like this. This was a well-done video on the topic.
becuase we got our own shit to worry about in this country, as others do too; than to worry about a street gypsy
Most Americans are ignorant about EVERYTHING 😑
Adidas tracks suits and squatting has been an urban american thing since the early 80's. Not much randomly squatting in the streets but it's a go to pose for photos and things...it's a prison photo requirement .
Funny how the exact same culture trend happens in two separate countries at about the same time. That was when the "iron curtain' was up in Russia.
Some also speculate the tracksuit trend originated from former athletes that became mob bodyguards or bouncers in the 90s