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  • @biofear5732
    @biofear5732 Před 6 lety +7094

    Pizza delivery guy's worst nightmare

    • @epocheon2901
      @epocheon2901 Před 5 lety +259

      That's on top of trying to find the correct Chen

    • @ForgottenKnight1
      @ForgottenKnight1 Před 5 lety +238

      Imagine climbing fucking 20 stories, then ... fuck. Wrong block.

    • @Jenny-lt6oq
      @Jenny-lt6oq Před 5 lety +91

      like they could afford pizza...

    • @rattle_
      @rattle_ Před 5 lety +47

      @@Jenny-lt6oq you know... some random fake cheap pizza... :P

    • @montblanc3133
      @montblanc3133 Před 5 lety +9

      🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

  • @Piddgie
    @Piddgie Před 4 lety +1316

    I grew up in this place, moved out until the very last day before they boarded it up for demolition. It was never a dangerous place for us. Felt very comfortable living there, and we knew every single alley ways inside the walled city. The book “City of the darkness” portrays and documents the place very well and accurately.

    • @alanthampi4718
      @alanthampi4718 Před 3 lety +69

      Wait what thats a pleasant surprise.

    • @sumantjaiswal3811
      @sumantjaiswal3811 Před 3 lety +28

      Wow.. did the government give you compensation when the structure was demolished

    • @Curiosity403
      @Curiosity403 Před 3 lety +21

      @@sumantjaiswal3811 no, he got compensation to write this here 😂

    • @otakusailor2925
      @otakusailor2925 Před 3 lety +3

      Read that manhua long back...so its real huh.

    • @deepanshu564
      @deepanshu564 Před 3 lety +13

      Ikr, as in India also there are places which are quite dense but not this much and living space here is also quite smaller, but it feels completely natural too me

  • @chillectro4893
    @chillectro4893 Před 5 lety +1429

    UPS, FedEx, and DHL be like “yeah....no, I’m just leaving ur mail out here, I ain’t going in there”

    • @Ayveh
      @Ayveh Před 4 lety +26

      I wouldn't blame them

    • @eiebsrebla
      @eiebsrebla Před 3 lety +22

      I’m a delivery guy and I’d honestly just say fuck it and complain to my boss he couldn’t possibly expect me to go in there

    • @vukdelic7000
      @vukdelic7000 Před 3 lety +2

      They had "everything" inside, even delivery ...

    • @NatronFatumallafalla
      @NatronFatumallafalla Před 3 lety +2

      I'd go in...it was very intriguing...that's the difference between me and most people i guess

    • @warningshotdesigns
      @warningshotdesigns Před 2 lety +1

      @@NatronFatumallafalla delivery places dont pay you to explore. you're paid to be quick.
      So in this case you'd end up fired.

  • @supertajnykana8146
    @supertajnykana8146 Před 4 lety +911

    As an introvert this give me a little bit of anxiety

    • @Ayveh
      @Ayveh Před 4 lety +31

      I feel the same way looking at that. I'm an ambivert however when I have my distant moments (introverted moments where I just want some fucking peace and quiet for the next few days) I would lose my shit living there....I can already imagine how loud, smelly and cold or hot it would be living there.

    • @cravinbob
      @cravinbob Před 4 lety +19

      Introvert? I would say you have claustrophobia and agoraphobia stemming from anxiety disorder.

    • @5people829
      @5people829 Před 3 lety +21

      @@cravinbob no introverts just get their energy from being alone and unlike most place you would never be alone there.

    • @525jwsp
      @525jwsp Před 3 lety

      Same! 😬

    • @alexanderfretheim5720
      @alexanderfretheim5720 Před 3 lety +5

      As an extravert I started getting excited and contemplating a new career as a Triad enforcer.

  • @Panyc333
    @Panyc333 Před 6 lety +4406

    A story about the children of this city would make an amazing movie

    • @sixstonks9385
      @sixstonks9385 Před 6 lety +42

      Matt Something wow. Great idea

    • @DRGIZMO29
      @DRGIZMO29 Před 6 lety +82

      A noir movie about tearing down triad in KWC. Imagine in the free city, the main character is some kind of private detective

    • @firellio070
      @firellio070 Před 6 lety +36

      Kung fu hustle

    • @Panyc333
      @Panyc333 Před 6 lety +7

      Tara the Elusive Runaway Pea I’ll have to look into that. I was originally thinking along the lines of “City if God”.

    • @yuriboyka7201
      @yuriboyka7201 Před 6 lety +29

      Nah, a story about the gangs and prostitutes

  • @xkittykattrinx
    @xkittykattrinx Před 6 lety +2939

    33,000 people living on 6 acres!!! I grew up on a farm which is 6 acres and there were three of us living there!

    • @sadiqyl
      @sadiqyl Před 6 lety +130

      Bob the Cat can I come live with you?

    • @caskians
      @caskians Před 6 lety +62

      In my village population is 250 and it is 100acre.my family 5 of us living on 5acre

    • @chrisrichy
      @chrisrichy Před 6 lety +39

      Blame the British for your loneliness Bob the cat

    • @rovicgabor2485
      @rovicgabor2485 Před 6 lety +8

      Three of you hunt farm rats?

    • @rohisg3709
      @rohisg3709 Před 6 lety +88

      Not all are as privileged as you.

  • @BobbyT.
    @BobbyT. Před 5 lety +1588

    The thing that is crazy to me is how it was able to function as well as it did despite the no laws thing. Also how did the whole thing not catch fire or something like that.

    • @yeano9314
      @yeano9314 Před 5 lety +89

      Laws are what have us fucked up. probably not you but yea

    • @jenniferray8569
      @jenniferray8569 Před 5 lety +168

      because it was mostly build with concret, it did catch on fire tho, but it rarely spread becaus youknow concret floors, walls and ceiling.

    • @thegombie
      @thegombie Před 5 lety +66

      Just goes to show how civil the Chinese are back then. I read that it was no less dangerous in there than outside of the walled city.

    • @alyssasylvia3375
      @alyssasylvia3375 Před 5 lety +7

      They put electrical wires running outside of the perimeters I think

    • @Ahoooooooo
      @Ahoooooooo Před 5 lety +154

      What amazes me more is how they kept building on top of each other without the ground building crashing in .

  • @zeek7617
    @zeek7617 Před 3 lety +125

    Me: “I got accepted to college!”
    Mom: “amazing!, where?”
    Me: “two blocks away”

    • @mmbb0j30
      @mmbb0j30 Před 3 lety +5

      😂 "3 doors down"

    • @Dejanp1505
      @Dejanp1505 Před 3 lety +5

      The 3rd room in the right in alleyway on the left from the 5th block on the 7th floor in block 19b

  • @TheMissionOfSubmission
    @TheMissionOfSubmission Před 6 lety +3961

    1:08
    " It all started out with the British.".
    *Why am I not surprised...*

    • @apemoon1731
      @apemoon1731 Před 5 lety +226

      Of course, everything is our fault.
      Nobody else is ever to blame for their own shit..

    • @petyrparker
      @petyrparker Před 5 lety +8

      😂😂

    • @5sauce62
      @5sauce62 Před 5 lety +320

      @@apemoon1731 I mean it IS though? Lmaooo you can't say that it didn't start with the British because it DID

    • @apemoon1731
      @apemoon1731 Před 5 lety +135

      @@5sauce62 I agreed.
      Everything is the fault of the British. All other races and nationalities are perfect. That's why the world is now a utopia since the fall of the British Empire.
      Oh, hang on.......

    • @freddymarcel-marcum6831
      @freddymarcel-marcum6831 Před 5 lety +55

      So did computers. What started in your country? Oh I dunno, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks.

  • @VezeTech
    @VezeTech Před 7 lety +212

    I used to be a banker, but I lost INTEREST

  • @MensVersion
    @MensVersion Před 5 lety +554

    they destroyed a natural paradise and put a park there? sick world.

  • @jonathanprime1507
    @jonathanprime1507 Před 4 lety +817

    Imagine if corona virus was there

    • @zolikoff
      @zolikoff Před 4 lety +178

      With the immune system those people needed to have? The virus would just bounce off their body...

    • @Quoteunquot3
      @Quoteunquot3 Před 4 lety +19

      Seems to really only care about western countries and totally ignore most others, it's really smart in many ways.

    • @anandsuralkar2947
      @anandsuralkar2947 Před 4 lety +6

      Next day everyone infected

    • @GodSmacK5181
      @GodSmacK5181 Před 4 lety

      Sjadap

    • @jonathanprime1507
      @jonathanprime1507 Před 4 lety +11

      @@Quoteunquot3 what are you talking about?

  • @zeromailss
    @zeromailss Před 7 lety +856

    seems like a good place for parkour

  • @maximumg2397
    @maximumg2397 Před 7 lety +2969

    This is what happens when God spends too much time on Sim City.

  • @jonnda
    @jonnda Před 4 lety +48

    I’m impressed that what looks to be an improvised structure, was structurally sound enough to support 14 stories.

    • @devonkelly44
      @devonkelly44 Před rokem +2

      ESPECIALLY since the tofu dreg buildings are such a huge problem .

    • @fungo6631
      @fungo6631 Před rokem

      @@devonkelly44 Chances are it was actually of higher quality than modern Chinese Tofu Dreg buildings.
      It lasted for at least a few decades. These Tofu Dreg buildings only last a few years before shit happens.

    • @CatherinePuce
      @CatherinePuce Před rokem

      @@devonkelly44 well, when you will inhabit the house you built you are less likely to cut every corner possible. You will at least try to make it solid enough so it doesn't kill you. Self preservation is a powerful thing.

  • @ayingrosit8541
    @ayingrosit8541 Před 5 lety +1094

    imagine if you play pokemon Go there? 😂

  • @shybutopinionated1428
    @shybutopinionated1428 Před 6 lety +1803

    poor delivery pizza guy :(

    • @bogelins
      @bogelins Před 6 lety +157

      yourplainjean how do you give your damn adress ? In x y z coordinates?

    • @Vijimn1
      @Vijimn1 Před 6 lety +7

      Grégory Z. Lol

    • @M.Happie
      @M.Happie Před 6 lety

      😄😄😄

    • @quazar-omega
      @quazar-omega Před 6 lety +5

      Pizza time

    • @josefstone5232
      @josefstone5232 Před 6 lety +16

      He'd probably quit the job after one single delivery

  • @boi9176
    @boi9176 Před 7 lety +882

    hey, 42 here

    • @Luis-pi7fh
      @Luis-pi7fh Před 7 lety +1

      boi Boiiiiiii

    • @EvoYas
      @EvoYas Před 7 lety +4

      boi I hear the same thing ! 😂

    • @markreilly6912
      @markreilly6912 Před 7 lety +1

      Yasiel Hernandez every one does... it's been a meme for years

    • @Exite21
      @Exite21 Před 7 lety

      Dank Crisp Meme!

    • @jayden4409
      @jayden4409 Před 7 lety +8

      Better than scarce

  • @carlcjjohnson7147
    @carlcjjohnson7147 Před 5 lety +295

    Kowloon Wall City = Answer to housing crisis

    • @jeff8253
      @jeff8253 Před 5 lety +14

      Well in fact, u see these kind of architectures and communities in Cyberpunk/Science fiction movies

    • @woody7138
      @woody7138 Před 4 lety +1

      @@jeff8253 name me a few decent ones

    • @jeff8253
      @jeff8253 Před 4 lety +7

      @@woody7138 Ghost in the shell, Blade Runner, Akira

    • @woody7138
      @woody7138 Před 4 lety +1

      Jeff thx bro, was hella bored lmao

    • @jeff8253
      @jeff8253 Před 4 lety +1

      @@woody7138 We can all relate :)

  • @Varalakshmidhanapal
    @Varalakshmidhanapal Před 3 lety +68

    If Kowloon existed till now it would be the hotspot of covid19

  • @milk3275
    @milk3275 Před 7 lety +434

    That city would have definitely been bound to be a cyberpunk city

    • @HaggisDruid
      @HaggisDruid Před 7 lety +38

      Icy Vloger I know and now it's fucking gone. damn.

    • @user-iz3ns6vb2c
      @user-iz3ns6vb2c Před 7 lety +15

      Rip Kowloon walled city

    • @PixelatedPerfection
      @PixelatedPerfection Před 7 lety +4

      FOREVER STEAMPUNK! CYBERPUNK IS SECOND BEST

    • @cross7fu
      @cross7fu Před 7 lety +13

      Hong Kong in general is full of cyberpunk elements, you can still find tons of neon light signs and old/new buildings mesh up together, exactly like Ghost in the Shell

    • @masloking12
      @masloking12 Před 7 lety

      if it would go Shadowrun route HK potentialy could be screwed

  • @user-yw6ee4cg4g
    @user-yw6ee4cg4g Před 7 lety +472

    Can you imagine a student going back to the classroom to get something, then seeing his teacher taking her bra of for random men...

    • @ashrab9164
      @ashrab9164 Před 7 lety +17

      the kid would be scarred for life

    • @minidwarfdude9230
      @minidwarfdude9230 Před 7 lety +73

      Scixon unless she were fit

    • @DueNorthGaming
      @DueNorthGaming Před 7 lety +5

      mini dwarfdude lol so true

    • @SpaceCattttt
      @SpaceCattttt Před 7 lety +38

      Don't need to. I'm the one taking her bra off.

    • @123lowp
      @123lowp Před 7 lety +7

      hookers are great... sometimes... if you know where to find good ones

  • @DeadlyDeadlyBeees
    @DeadlyDeadlyBeees Před 5 lety +53

    I WISH so badly that Kowloon was still standing today as a massive museum/archaeological site. I know it wouldn't be practical for the city, and sketchy things would inevitably happen there, but God what a fascinating place.

  • @TheCoastalAVENGER
    @TheCoastalAVENGER Před 4 lety +239

    why do I feel like this (or a fictional city like this) would make an amazing location for a game? Cyberpunk 2077: Cyber Slums

    • @DatCrazySharkGirl
      @DatCrazySharkGirl Před 4 lety +7

      Your not the only one who gets the Cyberpunk vibe out of it

    • @playnochat
      @playnochat Před 3 lety +11

      It is location in the cyberpunk game "Shadowrun: Hong kong".
      Actually I thought that game went over the top to create such an unnatural place and then I learned that this place actually existed.
      It proves that reality is stranger than fiction, because we demand fiction to make sense.

    • @TheCoastalAVENGER
      @TheCoastalAVENGER Před 3 lety

      @@playnochat good to know : )

    • @zetazimmer4769
      @zetazimmer4769 Před 3 lety

      LOL I'm here doing research for game dev

    • @tylerperkinson1677
      @tylerperkinson1677 Před 3 lety +6

      The Cyberpunk genre, in general, was heavily influenced by this place

  • @Kingricky76
    @Kingricky76 Před 7 lety +2498

    No rent sounds very appealing to me!

    • @jonathantan2469
      @jonathantan2469 Před 6 lety +363

      Until you have to pay 'protection money' to the triads.

    • @UtkuTefek
      @UtkuTefek Před 6 lety +179

      Probably still less than tax we pay to the government.

    • @talaverajr391
      @talaverajr391 Před 6 lety +3

      Utku Tefek yep

    • @argentoartico852
      @argentoartico852 Před 6 lety +6

      HEY 42 HERE

    • @pankajranga7611
      @pankajranga7611 Před 6 lety +6

      Crown Rick Auto XTRAS maybe that was the real reason it was demolished

  • @samerm8657
    @samerm8657 Před 7 lety +1031

    It gives off that cyberpunk/blade runner vibe. Anybody else feel the same?

    • @erikaitsumi7198
      @erikaitsumi7198 Před 6 lety +18

      Zilverbolt Malproximate yea it looks like a cyberpunk so cool

    • @4Angel4cross4eyes
      @4Angel4cross4eyes Před 6 lety +18

      This may be what inspired some of that

    • @chrislake552
      @chrislake552 Před 6 lety +12

      Thats what would happen if we had anarchy and no government.

    • @MG-zw5qx
      @MG-zw5qx Před 6 lety +1

      legit just was thinking that cuz i was looking up pic's while watching this and thought blade runner

    • @anonimus966
      @anonimus966 Před 6 lety +6

      Dudes go check out Shadowrun Hongkong

  • @richardwood160
    @richardwood160 Před 4 lety +262

    I used to live in 32b on the 4th floor. Sometimes I'd get home to find someone else cooking my noodles.

  • @nickfriend3629
    @nickfriend3629 Před 4 lety +88

    .....earthquake, I think if one of those buildings collapsed, the rest like dominoes.

    • @alexso820
      @alexso820 Před 4 lety +4

      No earthquake in Hong Kong

    • @jfletcher1029
      @jfletcher1029 Před 3 lety +3

      Volcano, I think if one of those erupted it would be like Pompeii.

    • @mr1dul460
      @mr1dul460 Před 3 lety +6

      @@jfletcher1029 tsunami, if one of those toilets clogged, it'd be like Japan

    • @Ev_box
      @Ev_box Před 3 lety +2

      @@mr1dul460 meteor, if one of those hit it would be like the dinosaurs

    • @shriek_howl21
      @shriek_howl21 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Ev_box drainage system, if one main line of sewage pipe get blocked it would be like going 1km away with one water bottle

  • @Jack.Strait
    @Jack.Strait Před 6 lety +1167

    I'm surprised none of the buildings collapsed

  • @aolbeto
    @aolbeto Před 6 lety +1178

    Would you imagine Tindr in that place? It must explode if you open it there haha "two steps away" 😂

  • @tombeast1786
    @tombeast1786 Před 4 lety +161

    I live on six acres. That many people living in my yard is just crazy, but is tempting for some real estate opportunities.

    • @shiblyalrahaman1425
      @shiblyalrahaman1425 Před 3 lety +17

      Can I please live in your back yard?

    • @cobalt7678
      @cobalt7678 Před 3 lety +5

      @@shiblyalrahaman1425 Lmao

    • @NovajaPravda
      @NovajaPravda Před 3 lety +3

      @@shiblyalrahaman1425 its probably at middle of nowhere

    • @danayalaytor
      @danayalaytor Před 3 lety

      @@NovajaPravda EXACTLY. Would NOT want to live on 6 acres in the hick country/mountains/desert.

  • @TheGummybears101
    @TheGummybears101 Před 3 lety +6

    Can’t imagine the bathrooms they must be so crowded but hey the bright side is you’d never be lonely !

  • @PaulMauser
    @PaulMauser Před 7 lety +34

    It's a human ant colony.

  • @philip1875
    @philip1875 Před 7 lety +65

    *Me*: "Hello can I get my teeth done here" *Dentist:* " Sure you can" *Me:* Ok... where did you learn to be a dentist? *Dentists:* "... CZcams"

  • @DanielleSamoneJohnson77
    @DanielleSamoneJohnson77 Před 4 lety +123

    This seems to be the what inspired the poor district of Ba Sing Sei in Avatar the Last Airbender.

  • @mariakelly5
    @mariakelly5 Před 5 lety +70

    Imagine having to deliver the mail to all of those people.

  • @plazmaburngaming5163
    @plazmaburngaming5163 Před 7 lety +321

    it would seem like a very interesting FPS map!! you would barely find anyone!!

    • @ditalos
      @ditalos Před 7 lety +34

      Joe Marvin Black ops 1 dlc

    • @plazmaburngaming5163
      @plazmaburngaming5163 Před 7 lety +1

      ditalos I know there is a map that is similar to this in the bo1 dlc. But I am on about having the whole city as a map, it would be fucking ridiculous!!

    • @plazmaburngaming5163
      @plazmaburngaming5163 Před 7 lety +10

      *****​
      search and destroy:
      "the bomb has been planted"
      Me: "how the shit do I get there then?!" (asks teammate)
      Teammate: (gives directions to bomb location)
      Me: "say again... I didn't quite get that"
      Teammate: "I dunno I lost track myself"
      Me: (facepalms)
      A few seconds later...
      (bomb goes off)
      Me: "OH FOR FUCKS SAKE!!"
      Next round...
      Me: (rage quits)

    • @wookiecookie1647
      @wookiecookie1647 Před 7 lety +3

      Black ops one had a DLC multiplayer map there and a campaign level in this city

    • @plazmaburngaming5163
      @plazmaburngaming5163 Před 7 lety

      Wookie Cookie check the 3rd comment

  • @hairstrand5798
    @hairstrand5798 Před 7 lety +544

    Anyone else love this channel 😘

  • @smokeybrown8752
    @smokeybrown8752 Před 4 lety +15

    3:39 this mailman is gonna have a hard time finding the correct people.

  • @pflau1
    @pflau1 Před 5 lety +22

    Not even the creator of Blade Runner would've imagined something like this.

  • @HideorEscape
    @HideorEscape Před 7 lety +572

    This should be rebuilt but in a futuristic way, painted in white, all symmetrical, roofs covered with green landscape for plants, solar panels, thermopane window, insulated and decorated perfectly. It would be 1 gigantic apartment.

    • @HristijanJovanovic
      @HristijanJovanovic Před 7 lety +3

      Wut you talk about? xD

    • @ottogren1
      @ottogren1 Před 7 lety +74

      Toxic Potato If anyone can make it happen, it's the Japanese.

    • @supertornadogun1690
      @supertornadogun1690 Před 7 lety +1

      yup

    • @ThisPageStaysREAL
      @ThisPageStaysREAL Před 7 lety +30

      No, it can be made anywhere. What you meant to say is if anybody could make it without it eventually being crime ridden, it would be the Japanese.To which I would agree.

    • @wenotdeadyet4241
      @wenotdeadyet4241 Před 7 lety +6

      Nobody Never Reads My Comments I GONNA REMAKE THIS CITY!

  • @ERICWAGNERSLUCID
    @ERICWAGNERSLUCID Před 6 lety +10

    Flying into Kowloon, in the eighties, you would go right over "through" this! It was so cool! It felt, looking out the plane window, like you were going to crash into it! There were millions of colorful lights from the buildings in and around it! Incredible! I had no idea what it was until now!

  • @Psychocoko
    @Psychocoko Před 3 lety +13

    Just imagine how fast a pandemic would spread in this area …

  • @lucluk3313
    @lucluk3313 Před 4 lety +51

    my biological grandparents had literally been to this place when they were young, it was quiet filthy and had a lot of gangsters

    • @Ayveh
      @Ayveh Před 4 lety +7

      I bet, it looked super dirty.

    • @marinefrod7685
      @marinefrod7685 Před 3 lety

      That is really tough and scary😨😨

    • @SirWaltham
      @SirWaltham Před 3 lety +1

      biological? atleast be logical 😂

  • @rons9404
    @rons9404 Před 6 lety +817

    Maybe the children who used to live there were playing like Super Mario on the rooftop of the buildings.

    • @pyeltd.5457
      @pyeltd.5457 Před 5 lety +5

      Son Son NES to expensive

    • @baonkang5990
      @baonkang5990 Před 5 lety +33

      @@pyeltd.5457
      I think he meant the children would jump across the gaps between rooftops like Mario.

    • @dannynicastro3207
      @dannynicastro3207 Před 5 lety +6

      Denatra Lewis ....who gives a crap. If you couldnt give them a decent life, why procreate????

    • @loundrelaque8897
      @loundrelaque8897 Před 5 lety +5

      more like Aladdin

    • @stevenwheat3621
      @stevenwheat3621 Před 5 lety +5

      Lol.
      I could immediately hear the jumping sounds and turtle shells bouncing around..

  • @Swampzoid
    @Swampzoid Před 7 lety +773

    Thank God that place never went up in flames. What a horrific event that wouldn't been.

  • @slvyc
    @slvyc Před 3 lety +8

    That "city" woud look soo cool as an enormous art piece

  • @WarHawk-
    @WarHawk- Před 4 lety +5

    I wasn't aware that Kowloon had been demolished. I guess I'm fortunate to have been able to spend a couple of weeks living there in 1970. It was a very strange place, indeed.

  • @bigguy7537
    @bigguy7537 Před 7 lety +200

    Just realised this is the city in cod black ops

  • @errorinscript1127
    @errorinscript1127 Před 6 lety +247

    They could make a movie out of this.

    • @ellischanyinhong2995
      @ellischanyinhong2995 Před 6 lety +6

      We Hong Kong people don't actually like making movies out of dark history of Hong Kong

    • @thegigadykid1
      @thegigadykid1 Před 6 lety +17

      @@ellischanyinhong2995 than the west should

    • @epocheon2901
      @epocheon2901 Před 5 lety +2

      It's called district 9

    • @westcoastwonder88
      @westcoastwonder88 Před 5 lety +1

      It's called judge dredd. The new one not the original

    • @jeff8253
      @jeff8253 Před 5 lety +1

      Yeah they should make a cyberpunk movie in there. One of those movies that was kinda similar was Judje Dredd

  • @wendystwitter7199
    @wendystwitter7199 Před 4 lety +8

    There’s a place in Hong Kong denser than anywhere in the world. To Tai, which a constituency area of Kwun Tong, which is a council district of Kowloon, which is a territory of Hong Kong.
    To Tai has about 300,000 people per square kilometer, but a population of a little under 20k

  • @ambiguity7085
    @ambiguity7085 Před 5 lety +143

    I wanna live in something like this. What if people got together to rebuild that but using modern technology?
    Would be epic I think

    • @ilmihaqim3186
      @ilmihaqim3186 Před 4 lety +20

      Cyberpunk vibes

    • @onirione
      @onirione Před 4 lety +37

      The houses sucked healthcare sucked lots of gang activity and thieves why is everyone glorifying a response to a housing crisis.

    • @sarthak.30
      @sarthak.30 Před 4 lety +30

      No, you wouldn't. It seems cool. But shifting from your comfortable house to a slum like this, you wouldn't survive 24hours there.

    • @DOMDZ90911
      @DOMDZ90911 Před 4 lety +1

      Sooo like a prison?

    • @Ayveh
      @Ayveh Před 4 lety +1

      I was thinking that! I hope someday they do...although I doubt it :/

  • @iscreamman6344
    @iscreamman6344 Před 7 lety +57

    This is my first comment ever on CZcams. You guys should feel honored.

  • @kale8133
    @kale8133 Před 6 lety +25

    I really think this city is a prime example to show the amazing adaptability of humans. When there seemed to be no space, they somehow made some. Its quite impressive really

  • @Vision_Voyagers
    @Vision_Voyagers Před 3 lety +4

    His delivery is like a robot with a human interface AI trying to mimic human mannerism.😂😂
    Nice video thought, really amazing.
    Hope you get enough likes and subscriptions so that Netflix can make a show about the city.

  • @bigdbigooo7829
    @bigdbigooo7829 Před 5 lety +70

    There is a certain beauty about it. Really beautiful to me,minus the human and living being suffering.

  • @invidofinp1828
    @invidofinp1828 Před 7 lety +21

    All I can think of while watching this is omg the smell must have been terrible.

  • @SpacesMedia
    @SpacesMedia Před 7 lety +124

    If you're reading this, have a nice Thursday.

    • @TheSniepShow
      @TheSniepShow Před 7 lety +13

      Its Friday where i am (Soo technically i'm in the future for you lol)

    • @XtraFilm-zf8jq
      @XtraFilm-zf8jq Před 7 lety

      Protoss Voidray r u from aus or nz

    • @MrTed-xi2iz
      @MrTed-xi2iz Před 7 lety

      Spaces It's friday for me

    • @maxfi878
      @maxfi878 Před 7 lety

      i have friday

    • @khorps4756
      @khorps4756 Před 7 lety

      Max Plays NO I HAVE FRIDAY YOU LIAR

  • @akshitagupta2447
    @akshitagupta2447 Před 3 lety +2

    This is DANGEROUS as HELL!!
    Imagine how many men, women and children would have been exploited and raped there.
    Cannot imagine myself living there!! 😶

  • @user-bt9xj2if1l
    @user-bt9xj2if1l Před 5 lety +58

    Bro!! Pause the video 0:14 tell me that doesn’t look like that scene in Wall-E when he’s stacking up the trash

  • @DesertEagles007
    @DesertEagles007 Před 7 lety +147

    I kinda wish this was still a thing. The place looks so badass. You know, the crime and stuff could be removed though :/

    • @Neironify
      @Neironify Před 7 lety +4

      He said it was impossible for China to police the area.

    • @DesertEagles007
      @DesertEagles007 Před 7 lety +1

      ▂▃▄▅▆▇█▓▒░♠Black Rabbit♠░▒▓█▇▆▅▄▃▂ I know that, that's why I said "the crime and stuff could be removed though" like have it better policed and stuff. Nevermind. I just thing this looks neat

    • @Neironify
      @Neironify Před 7 lety

      TheDesertLad
      Yeah, i think it's neat too.But i don't get why you said it CAN be policed when you already know it CAN'T.

    • @DesertEagles007
      @DesertEagles007 Před 7 lety +3

      ▂▃▄▅▆▇█▓▒░♠Black Rabbit♠░▒▓█▇▆▅▄▃▂ I mean like evacuate people, map the whole plot. There you go. OR just make a new one that's more organized and police friendly.

    • @hotbx119
      @hotbx119 Před 7 lety +1

      Fuck the police!

  • @MineKynoMine
    @MineKynoMine Před 7 lety +100

    I'll stick to Australia (1 person per square kilometre)

    • @Engineer9736
      @Engineer9736 Před 7 lety +2

      Patch143 Don't spoil this secret. I want it to be still be like that when i come over in a few years :D

    • @MineKynoMine
      @MineKynoMine Před 7 lety +10

      *****
      Fuck those 90% pompous retards

    • @A.D.D.O.C.D.T
      @A.D.D.O.C.D.T Před 7 lety +2

      But the masses are on the coasts,not too many people living their sqkm in the Simpson lol.

    • @Eggemeyers
      @Eggemeyers Před 7 lety +2

      I'll stick to Alaska (1 person per square mile)

    • @blazesmith2577
      @blazesmith2577 Před 7 lety +6

      I'll stick to the ocean, all to myself.

  • @painkillerjones6232
    @painkillerjones6232 Před 4 lety +15

    I heard about this place when I was a kid, decades ago, but I never realized the scope of the situation.

  • @LukeVilent
    @LukeVilent Před 4 lety +12

    The most appropriate music for that is Kenji Kawai's "Reincarnation", the opening to Ghost in the Shell.

  • @kennybrooks8374
    @kennybrooks8374 Před 6 lety +362

    Kowloon was one of my favorite maps on Call of Duty Black Ops. Now I know it's history. The plane flying over the map makes sense now!

    • @juliebyrne9131
      @juliebyrne9131 Před 6 lety

      life is not a damn video game!

    • @9yugin5
      @9yugin5 Před 6 lety +58

      julie byrne chill bro

    • @undrachevr
      @undrachevr Před 6 lety +7

      I'm glad someone else knows this COD map.

    • @minners71
      @minners71 Před 6 lety +1

      julie byrne how do you know?

    • @kaylynn8386
      @kaylynn8386 Před 6 lety +1

      Kenny Brooks it was a good map. one of my favorites too

  • @kiwon1974
    @kiwon1974 Před 7 lety +1187

    It would give a nice movie

    • @pretzelstick320
      @pretzelstick320 Před 7 lety +41

      Rafael GS look up the new dredd movie.

    • @Patara.
      @Patara. Před 7 lety +3

      Pretzel Stick filmed in this city? pretty cool

    • @pretzelstick320
      @pretzelstick320 Před 7 lety +10

      patara pataranawach no but it's set in this city that's a huge tower with like 70000 people.

    • @mordant221
      @mordant221 Před 7 lety +14

      Look up Blood Sport, with Jean Claude Van Dam.

    • @jjmiller1993
      @jjmiller1993 Před 7 lety +8

      i no its like the mega blocks of judge dredd haha

  • @Chip-Monk
    @Chip-Monk Před 5 lety +6

    "Lets take a step inside.." -*never takes a single step in/out of anything*

  • @illdrumatik391
    @illdrumatik391 Před 6 lety +30

    Wow. My mind was blown. They say the world is small, yet I would have never known this place existed weren't it not for the internet. What an amazing world we live in.

  • @ccxlolz
    @ccxlolz Před 6 lety +17

    This is endless inspiration for a cyberpunk movie.

  • @JohnnyJohnJohnson
    @JohnnyJohnJohnson Před 5 lety +1

    This looks like one of those shanty towns in apocalypse movies that just kept growing bigger and bigger. Also, the place didn't burn down over the years because it looks to be made mostly, if not purely, out of concrete. Concrete does not burn. An uncontrolled blaze might have spread to the interior of a couple of buildings that had wood inside them at the most, but there was no way this whole place could burn to the ground because it wasn't made of flammable material.

  • @fonzworthbentley7455
    @fonzworthbentley7455 Před 3 lety +8

    It's probably a blessing that it was eventually demolished. Imagine a fire starting in there. Or even worse, the COVID pandemic 😟

  • @marknc9616
    @marknc9616 Před 6 lety +183

    Major fire hazard.

    • @gg-ry7vw
      @gg-ry7vw Před 6 lety +30

      But how fucking cool is it that a fire never occurred?? Shit never broke down either just how well did they build it

    • @ArtieArchives
      @ArtieArchives Před 5 lety +8

      And there were no smoke detectors or fire alarms.

    • @nightonthetiles6923
      @nightonthetiles6923 Před 5 lety +3

      Mark NC shit don't burn.

    • @cvtt3194
      @cvtt3194 Před 5 lety +1

      It would be such a shame if that disgusting hell hole went up in a magnificent ball of fire.....

    • @robertcalifornia9641
      @robertcalifornia9641 Před 5 lety +1

      Yea how tf did it not burn down

  • @piplupsuper0
    @piplupsuper0 Před 7 lety +66

    that city reminds me of the one in kill la kill

  • @mschuhler
    @mschuhler Před 5 lety +20

    I'd live there, for a week or so, just to see what it's like

  • @TheSwain18
    @TheSwain18 Před 3 lety +6

    This place sounds like the start of a final fantasy game lol

  • @stron2004
    @stron2004 Před 7 lety +299

    The reason why unlicensed dentist went there was because they got their license in China but once they went to Hong Kong, they couldn't use it, so they went there.

    • @chrisanator96
      @chrisanator96 Před 6 lety +1

      stron2004 thank you dr

    • @ellischanyinhong2995
      @ellischanyinhong2995 Před 6 lety

      No,because they didn't have any professional practice

    • @CatherinePuce
      @CatherinePuce Před rokem

      @@ellischanyinhong2995 Some of them had old Chinese diploma, not all of them but if you were lucky you could find the qualified ones.

  • @baconwizard
    @baconwizard Před 6 lety +621

    A small part of me would actually want to live there.

    • @baconwizard
      @baconwizard Před 6 lety +96

      Did I offend you with my opinions?

    • @nevinkuser9892
      @nevinkuser9892 Před 6 lety +9

      My dick wants to live there with that old lady.

    • @baconwizard
      @baconwizard Před 6 lety +56

      Damn, and I thought that people at my school were messed up.

    • @nickyd5433
      @nickyd5433 Před 6 lety +2

      Dancing Spiderman LOL

    • @Maki-00
      @Maki-00 Před 6 lety +51

      Bacon Wizard, if they had a structure like that, which was clean and safe, it would be pretty cool!

  • @luiscamacho1996
    @luiscamacho1996 Před 3 lety +31

    Imagine having to give your adress in Kowloon. Like, "Ok you need to turn right and count forty houses, then, climb an almost-broken stair made out of cans"

  • @PropaganderTV
    @PropaganderTV Před 3 lety +4

    Someone needs to make a movie on this haha.. Looks like something straight out of Judge Dredd

  • @13afan
    @13afan Před 6 lety +11

    I've been in Hong Kong for my entire life and I know almost nothing about the history of this place, you've actually taught me a lot! Great video

  • @FixItAngel
    @FixItAngel Před 6 lety +541

    0:58 how the hell did this happen?

    • @AwesomenessIskey
      @AwesomenessIskey Před 5 lety +1

      That's one of the best CZcams mechanics guys

    • @freakazoid9276
      @freakazoid9276 Před 5 lety +6

      Good question. Maybe somebody will make a video that explains it and put it on that youtube thingy.

    • @davidahern7188
      @davidahern7188 Před 5 lety +2

      The British

    • @svyalinirnhut890
      @svyalinirnhut890 Před 5 lety +2

      @@jayanderli3277 lol Google transalted Chinese. In Chinese grammer, we usually don't use "don't like" to express our hatrd towards a group, nor would we critise people on their eyes. We usually just tell people we don't like to fuck off.
      Also, technically it wasn't British's fault. The only thing British did was to banned QIng dynasty's troops from entering the city back in late 20 century, which basically banned all government in there. The Kowloon walled city became an acutal "city" with all those tall buildings and dense population after Chinese communist took over. They were mostly refugees who escaped communist regime but couldn't get their proper residency in Hongkong. Beware that it had never been British terrority, but an Enclave of mainland Chinese government. PRC once set up a people's represnetation Assembly for that place, but no government was responsbile for what happened in there.

  • @brozolotamang6269
    @brozolotamang6269 Před 4 lety +41

    It's a heaven for doing parkour.

  • @superschmexybnana
    @superschmexybnana Před 3 lety +5

    This had to be the inspiration for the stacks in ready player one

  • @pinotchio
    @pinotchio Před 7 lety +47

    They should kept it for NXL paintball world cup.

  • @reorourke
    @reorourke Před 7 lety +80

    Makes me wonder how they managed to not contract a deadly plague to run nearly unstoppable in such conditions.

    • @rahmanidibansa6791
      @rahmanidibansa6791 Před 6 lety +27

      Maybe they were not that filthy and are conscious of the things that will happen if they dont maintain cleanliness.

    • @samperry1443
      @samperry1443 Před 2 lety +1

      and i oop

  • @alltogethernow2738
    @alltogethernow2738 Před 4 lety +24

    One of the most interesting places to ever exist

  • @wendi2819
    @wendi2819 Před 4 lety +4

    That's worse than those mazes in Morocco. Getting lost inside those alleys with no way out gives me a panic attack.

  • @LuigiShroom12
    @LuigiShroom12 Před 7 lety +47

    Sounds just like DarkRP

  • @meetcarter
    @meetcarter Před 7 lety +258

    real cod gamers remember Kowloon from black ops 1

    • @Gilbertify1
      @Gilbertify1 Před 7 lety +30

      We've got plenty of Windows!

    • @xXxKAMIKAZExXx
      @xXxKAMIKAZExXx Před 7 lety +1

      Gilbertify LMAO xD

    • @tp8jcon689
      @tp8jcon689 Před 7 lety

      meetcarter yes yes yes yes yeeees

    • @sahbre3403
      @sahbre3403 Před 7 lety

      meetcarter fuck cod

    • @tp8jcon689
      @tp8jcon689 Před 7 lety +4

      Chronic Depression ur a 20 year old virgin that works at a pop vinyl shop

  • @tanmaychandra6650
    @tanmaychandra6650 Před 3 lety +9

    Imagine this place in a zombie outbreak, I mean where would you run to😂😂

  • @saberblue
    @saberblue Před 5 lety +25

    I know the park is more functional, but I wouldn't have taken it down, it was something unique and kinda cool to look at

    • @markussimonsen1419
      @markussimonsen1419 Před 5 lety +10

      Probably way too risky, if that place had a fire maybe half of everyone living wouldn't have time to get out. That's a lot of people who would die just because it's unique

    • @natalielam8969
      @natalielam8969 Před 5 lety +3

      The park was the best part of my childhood. It’s quiet peaceful inside, really. It’s just kinda sad the Japanese demolished the wall. Bits and pieces can still be found in the park.

    • @alexso820
      @alexso820 Před 4 lety

      Um you do realise that the place was run for mafias right?

  • @entrippyZ
    @entrippyZ Před 7 lety +60

    Spoiler alert: Fallout 5 takes place here

    • @AishaDracoGryph
      @AishaDracoGryph Před 7 lety +5

      Would be amazing if it did take place in a mega city like that. Perhaps a secret miles deep underground vault complete with giant rooms with skies painted on them and gigantic pools to serve as oceans.
      This could be a secret vault meant only for Vault tech employees, and maybe it's all gone to shit because they lost surface communication or something went wrong.

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava Před 7 lety

      Alex Groh
      Ahahah.

    • @MikhaelAhava
      @MikhaelAhava Před 7 lety

      Alex Groh
      Wonder what's the story, a Nationalist China refugee hiding from the Communists above him in a Vault tech lab? Or an enclave outpost?

    • @wenotdeadyet4241
      @wenotdeadyet4241 Před 7 lety

      Alex Groh Rip

  • @donjuan42566
    @donjuan42566 Před 6 lety +460

    They show too much of him instead of the community.

    • @Otoskire
      @Otoskire Před 6 lety +32

      donjuan42566 it’s his channel

    • @elchungo5026
      @elchungo5026 Před 6 lety +20

      donjuan42566 he's the host. BOI.

    • @Milesco
      @Milesco Před 6 lety +52

      @ Otoskire and Chandler: That's not the point. The point is, this video is about a highly unusual, if not unique, community. Yet they show relatively little of it, and instead spend inordinate amounts of time with the camera on this guy's mug.

    • @torilee6677
      @torilee6677 Před 6 lety +23

      Captain Quirk It’s been demolished, they can’t exactly go interview them dude

    • @Milesco
      @Milesco Před 6 lety +5

      Who said anything about interviewing anyone? I'm just talking about footage of the unusual community, which I'm sure there's lots of, even if it's not there anymore.

  • @b.m.5068
    @b.m.5068 Před 5 lety +36

    Now imagine if the building gets infected with T virus
    And you land on the building for a rescue mission but somehow the communication is blocked and you're on your own

    • @aames1089
      @aames1089 Před 5 lety +1

      H. N. Chriiiiiiiis?

    • @b.m.5068
      @b.m.5068 Před 5 lety

      @@aames1089 pretty much
      But he will be overwhelmed at this place

    • @aames1089
      @aames1089 Před 5 lety +3

      H. N. It feels like an Isaac Clarke type of situation

  • @Tumanic1996
    @Tumanic1996 Před 3 lety +4

    That creepy wink at the end 😂

  • @curtisgregory517
    @curtisgregory517 Před 6 lety +3

    one of my favorite places on Earth.
    I was there first time in 1958 and many times later.
    So many delightful memories, never any serious problems as you would expect in densely populated cities.
    I walked the streets and alleys ALONE late at night, I was obviously an outsider, never a problem.
    All the Chinese were impressive, helpful and always good to me.

  • @WCGwkf
    @WCGwkf Před 7 lety +590

    am I the only one who hears 42 not thoughty 2

    • @kanadetachibana4130
      @kanadetachibana4130 Před 7 lety +28

      No, he says forty two in every video.

    • @BrieanaOmega
      @BrieanaOmega Před 7 lety +7

      WCGwkf it's how he pronounces it, and it's due to his accent

    • @motherintoronto
      @motherintoronto Před 7 lety +4

      Southeast England pronounce it that way. It's a hard habit to break.

    • @YSFmemories
      @YSFmemories Před 7 lety +1

      not true, he used to be "thirty two".

    • @munificentdancer1618
      @munificentdancer1618 Před 7 lety +2

      It's a pun and he has talked about this earlier

  • @thewanderer9740
    @thewanderer9740 Před 5 lety +2

    I've been there to the site . There is a nice museum there now. Beautiful park as well. Well worth the visit.

  • @deancowley8045
    @deancowley8045 Před 3 lety +3

    I went inside the Kowloon walled city in 1989, a very intimidating place to visit. I’ve lived in HK since 1988.

  • @ZubinB
    @ZubinB Před 7 lety +223

    I expected this to be another crappy clickbait CZcams video but it turned out to be quite the opposite. Nice to see good videos being made on CZcams, learnt something new today, thanks!

    • @terrencekelly1256
      @terrencekelly1256 Před 7 lety +4

      Zubin G all these videos are quite interesting

    • @ZubinB
      @ZubinB Před 7 lety +2

      Terrence Kelly Yes, been watching more videos from this channel

    • @davidbrown8303
      @davidbrown8303 Před 6 lety +2

      Zubin B. Some people are never happy.