if Karens exist in Japan meaning they might also have their own version of Florida Man.

@JC-lz2ud

2 ай бұрын

That would be fun to watch!

@definitlynotbenlente7671

2 ай бұрын

Okinawa man?

@oscarsantiago1038

2 ай бұрын

I love how a barely 200 year old country believes that a much older civilization has "their version of Florida man" again, astounding

@StormySky48

2 ай бұрын

If Karen's exist in Japan meaning they might also have their own version of the Cali girls.

@roboticzamat

2 ай бұрын

They 1000000% do.

The woman with her legs tightly crossed took up way less space than the man sitting there with his legs planted wide, wtf.

@Myladyinred999

Ай бұрын

Definitively, he inconvenienced others more ....

@Clark-bh1cf

Ай бұрын

Are you trying to blame the man? Men naturally take up more space because they're bigger and they also have to keep their ball temperature regulated? Are you seriously siding with the Karen right now? Hopefully you just misspoke.

My personal "Japanese old people" story: I was in an elevator in the Ueno cinema. Just stating and chilling there, minding my business, having normal Japanese elevator etiquette. Suddenly this very old lady started to speak to me VERY loudly, something about "Newer generations always on the phone and not paying attention" - dude, I literally checked google maps. AND she said "BAKA GAIJIN" to me which made me really angry, because I try very hard to learn the language and to behave in a Japanese way, so that I won't make any "stupid foreigner" mistakes. I said, "I am very sorry that you feel that way" to her and left the elevator at the next stop.

@Goleon

2 ай бұрын

I would pay anything to have seen her reaction to that.

@indullgent

2 ай бұрын

@@Goleon was probably mad he was respectful to her disrespect

@sleepysartorialist

2 ай бұрын

Ooo I bet she was fuming after.

@TheRaspyAspie

Ай бұрын

​@@Goleon What does it mean?

@JVision1

Ай бұрын

@@TheRaspyAspieStupid foreigner

Even with her legs crossed she was taking up the exact same amount of space... That man has too much spare time. Not in Japan but we had a lady in a wheelchair abuse her disability status to get away with harassing us at our job. You try and get her banned for the verbal abuse she'd spew at your staff and she'd accuse you of discrimination against her disability. Threaten to go to the newspapers about it. She came in at least 3 times a week, for hours at a time. We finally got her when she threw something at a colleague. Caught on camera. Can't play your disability card when you're quite able to cause harm!

@kanna231

2 ай бұрын

That man is very unhinged about it and the comments don't know what they're talking about trolling this poor woman over something that is normal to do.

@StormySky48

2 ай бұрын

​@@kanna231 Nah that insane woke and abusive Karen is manipulating everyone making herself the victim just because she has nothing better to due then to cause drama where there is none.

@gyrozeppeli4862

Ай бұрын

@@StormySky48 if this is satire, very well written. Otherwise this is clown nonsense

@hatsAreForDonkeys

14 күн бұрын

​@StormySky48 woke? the term karen literally started because of anti-woke aka racist ppl were harassing black folks for being outside. the fact that diversity triggers y'all into rage is the actual issue here. you are literally what the term karen was created for.

I think the Japanese cultural tradition of honoring elders gives the elderly in Japan an extra level of entitlement. I watched a Japanese KZreadr say that many young adults in Japan are so fed up with being subordinate and overruled by their elders in the office and other situations, that they are choosing to leave Japan which is making the dropping birth rate problem worse.

@yohannessulistyo4025

Ай бұрын

Being East Asian-descent of late 30s, I think it is easy to spot perpetrator of these cases: some insecure elderlies that hasn't achieved anything, yet wanted all the respect and recognition they never actually earned. Younger people in our culture, not just Japanese, look up to you, they want to have some of what he perceived to be "success". They ask you for life experience sharing, and tips & tricks. It happens. The Asian karens you see are typically overreactive old farts exercising their old people privileges unsolicited. The problem with Japanese youths today are not too far off from their elderlies - some of the Japanese olds are actually well-travelled wise guys, not all of them, but they are more outward-looking than the Japanese of today, which feel secured, sheltered, and inward-looking. They quit Japan, because they felt driven out, not because they know what's out there is better fit for them. A neighbourhood chief in Ikebukuro is 80-something years old Japanese man - he just graduated from his Indonesian language course. He never been to Indonesia, nor planning to visit, but learning and constantly getting better is a spirit that never dies with age. Meanwhile, in one of the world's prestigious global firm: a late 20s Japanese guy tell my friend, after mistaking him for a native Japanese: "the only worthy skilled immigrants for Japan is probably Americans" -> meanwhile, the guy can't even speak English properly, nor have any other second language other than Japanese, worse of all, never been to USA, let alone go outside Japan. A lot of Japanese youths in the office always forwarded English e-mails to my friend, since they are either not confident or simply not skilled in English, the senior ones typically has much better credentials and speaks multiple languages - and yes this is not one of those Japanese "black companies", so quite an exception, but maybe soon turned into one if these youths get promoted. Complaining young people typically never realise that they are part of or will eventually become the problem too. Japan don't react to criticism well, and don't understand root causes of their problem. For example, in order to relieve educational pressure, they develop "Yutori" curriculum, which makes people demotivated, and a generation mocked by the seniors. Then the infamous birth rate problem: Kishida just throw money at it. Money can't buy time, money doesn't cure psychological pressure, money doesn't cure self-doubt (including commitment to marriage and having kids) borne out of being prone to making mistakes due to poor guidance from the seniors and elderlies who refused to take responsibilities. Money does solve a lot of problems, and there are those that it can't. In USA, there is some degree of this too. People complaining about rock music being satanic, Elvis music and dancing being labelled blasphemous and ruin teenager's mind, and then video games causes violence and stuff. Annoying old people who poorly adapt to changes and fail to understand are everywhere.

@rebeccachia

Ай бұрын

oh dang, you opened up my mind. I thought it was only the work stress level. Turns out people can't take the elderly anymore

@justice5897

Ай бұрын

@@rebeccachia they be annoying to and sometimes I believe they become a bit like a temper tantrum baby if they don’t get they way

@FransceneJK98

Ай бұрын

I do believe in respecting elders BUT it goes both ways. Respect back. If they treat you like crap, no respect. And if they pull the age card on you and treat you like you’re nothing just cuz you were born later, that’s no reason to respect them.

@stefum2709

Ай бұрын

@@FransceneJK98My thoughts exactly👏👏

We don't tip in New Zealand, we pay our staff instead. Workers will accept tips, but no-one is being chased out of a place for not tipping.

@Elicynderspyro

Ай бұрын

You won't be chased in Japan either if you tip discreetly though, Aki saying that tipping is "literally illegal" in Japan is just not true.

Agreed, I hate the tipping culture in the U.S. I always feel guilty about not leaving good tips because of the fact that (specifically food service) employees rely on their tips to make a living, and don’t receive a livable base pay. The companies are guilting the customers into paying the wage of the employees when they are the ones who should be paying their staff, and tips should be completely voluntary, reserved for those that provide exemplary service.

@Kawaiispidertattoo

Ай бұрын

I agree I am in uk but I rely on tips to help pay my bills. But why do I feel like I slave away, go home exhausted all to receive a pay that barely meets living standards

@Hay8137g

Ай бұрын

No one should eat out anymore

aki what is that pin on your beanie 😨 “Bigfoot is real he tried to eat my ass” BLAWHG AMWHAT

@B0OBIES

2 ай бұрын

Bro how did you read the tiny text on that small ass pin 😭

@LacieAnimations

2 ай бұрын

I want that pin so bad 💀

@idontevenknow3852

2 ай бұрын

​@@LacieAnimations I saw it on Redbubble that's maybe where she got it from.

@pixielies

2 ай бұрын

@@LacieAnimationsfound it on shein 🗣️🗣️

@Superfan109

Ай бұрын

Oh damn 😅💀

I have a Karen story. I was in Shiga Prefecture when this happened. I was waiting in this small local station for the train (it came every hour) when I saw this old man holding an umbrella. He went through the ticketing gate (I'm guessing wait on the platform). Outside of the ticketing gate there are chairs where you can sit. I was sitting waiting. Another man wearing a suit was, too. Then there was an older woman standing in the middle of the waiting area. She seemed a bit stressed, but I didn't think much about it. The old man that went through the ticketing gate ended up coming back out. He walked towards the older women and told her that she needs to go in with him. She refused to acknowledge him. He pulled her arm, but she resisted. He started to yell at her and hit her with his umbrella. My instinct was to stand up and get in between then, but as soon as I stood up the man in the suit started to yell at the grandpa, basically telling him wtf are you doing and to stop with his nonsense. But you know what broke my heart? The woman turned around and repeatedly said I'm sorry while bowing towards us...I felt so sad and frustrated at this situation. Japan is all about not causing an inconvenience to others. While that can be a good thing, it's also a bad thing. And I feel like this way of thinking makes it harder for women to speak up. In order to not cause an inconvenience you need to apologize or keep your mouth shut. I don't agree with this at all.

@user-gy3zz5lm6o

Ай бұрын

It means gratitude. "Thank you" doesn't mean much, so she said, "I'm sorry." She apologizes exaggeratedly to show that she really appreciates it. This is done to elicit cooperation from the other party. Men of this generation are from a generation that was burdened with hard labor, and they tend to treat their wives lightly. Many couples divorce at the same time as the man retires.

@kora4185

Ай бұрын

I have family in Japan and spend every other summer there and I have SO many Japanese Karen stories my brain is actually combusting, I’ll need to calm the f down in order to pick one and comment later. I love it there, but when people think Japan has no defects (or worse, deflect it when you bring any up) I almost pass out 😅

@luluflowers9277

Ай бұрын

@@kora4185 I'm Japanese living in the US. Sorry to hear you met many Karen. Oh my god, I didn't know that when I live there or every time I go back, I've actually never seen Karen but I was yelled by drunk guys on the street a few times but I know they were so drunk. I don't know what happens to Japan now.

If crossing your legs is prohibited so should be manspreading. Dude was taking up way more space than her

The one about the lady crossing her legs is crazy, because the way she's holding her legs really takes up less space than the man hitting her. Her feet are not at all touching any other passengers, so this man is definitely entitled and wanted to show his authority or something. And good thing on her to keep sitting there, cause like you say if she listens to the man and moves, he will probably do that again to others.

Family mart (convenience store) worker here🙋🏻‍♀️ We once got a complaint from a Karen saying she saw us (two part time working students) just walking around the store “doing nothing” Ma’am, walking around the store and making sure everything’s fine IS my job-

@Blackshadow164

Ай бұрын

What’s family mart like? What does it smell like?

@MASTEROFEVIL

Ай бұрын

100th like

When old people get upset about things that would not be done when they were younger I think it's more anger about the passing of time, of getting older.

"I don't want to hear you speaking" then go home ?????

@TheAncientGeekoRoman

2 ай бұрын

The thing that boggles my mind is people like this literally put themselves in front of others who were minding their own business when the Karens could literally just walk away. If something in an area I'm in is upsetting me or making me angry for any reason (usually legitimate ones though, like there's too much overstimulating activity that can cause me to meltdown because I'm autistic), I literally just remove myself from the situation. I don't understand people who go *up to others* and then complain about them. We weren't talking to you nor in front of you, YOU came over here??? It's so ridiculous.

@rainmeh4255

Ай бұрын

I would just answer back "I don't want to hear you talk either"

I had a Karen call the cops on me because I was walking on the sidewalk.... I would still have the Karen's in Japan over the U.S.

@FaithPixel

2 ай бұрын

As someone who walks nearly everywhere I need to go that blows my mind.

@MattMatt77

2 ай бұрын

@@FaithPixel Maybe I should have added that I'm Mixed Race and Artistic aswell.... Doesn't go well with Karen's 🤷‍♂️

@Anreii

Ай бұрын

​@@MattMatt77Artistic ?... Autistic ? Idk how they'd be able to tell when you're just walking anyway

@Jags-ps3we

26 күн бұрын

​@@MattMatt77Artistic or Autistic?

@Hanakowasright

16 күн бұрын

@@MattMatt77 Had to assume you weren't white for bullshit like that to occur, sorry to hear

I recall getting forwarded a call at work from a woman who was a student. She needed help with something that literally requires nothing more than simple knowledge of Word. She starts asking me if I'm a PhD, I go "no" and she asks if I have a Bachelor's or Associates... I tell her "no" and finally she's like "why am I talking to you?" and she could not get over the fact I didn't have a degree for the simplest of Word solutions that doesn't require any sort of super IT knowledge. She finally hung up on me despite me trying to walk her through the options to get to what she needed and it just irked me so much I had to go walk around the area we worked in cleaning up or I was going to scream. The woman was hung up on the fact she was a PhD and she was doing PhD work and I didn't have a degree whatsoever... I honestly don't get bugged over not having a degree but it bugged me I could help her and couldn't cause "she" was getting upset at me not having a degree. I could have helped her in 5 mins but she took 15 mins of my time arguing about degrees (grrrr)

@luluflowers9277

Ай бұрын

Oh my god, I'm sorry to hear that. As a Japanese it's so embarrassing. As we take care customers so politely, some of them are so spoiled. So now even Japanese are talking that we don''t have to be polite to rude customers and can say NO. But I'm glad you could prove that you are smarter than her in your field without PhD.

that guy who complained about the guy eating potato ice-cream is such a killjoy

13:08 "Where as in the west..." As in the US you mean. US tipping culture fortunately isn't a thing in all of the west. It shouldn't be a thing anywhere, it's very exploitative.

Not surprised that nowhere is safe from a Karen. 🤣

You just have Karen’s in Japan, we have Karen’s with guns.

@helloMerrMerr

2 ай бұрын

Do you actually know Karen with gun stories ??? I haven’t heard any, so I’m on the edge of my seat

@lilli4222

Ай бұрын

​@@helloMerrMerrOh hey wanna hear one too! I love hearing stories about batsh*t insane people

This Karen just complained about the worker who's on their lunch-break eating ice cream infront of the store is out of control and should've mind their own business because it's normal to eat infront of the store almost everywhere including the stores that I go to have workers eating infront of the store.

@rainmeh4255

Ай бұрын

Not in the UK... But that's because of the rain. On the few days we might.

@kanna231

Ай бұрын

@@rainmeh4255 Aww man what about in the heatwave days?

When I was in Toyama, I swear to your favorite deity, on the same day, I had a wonderful conversation with an old lady for like an hour walking, she walking I believe on the same direction I was, because she wanted to know what I was doing in Toyama, I guess not many foreigners in Toyama in the winter... and she was amazing to know I was Brazilian and an architect and was there to study a building in their city, and it was wonderful and amazing. Like 30min later, I was smacked with an umbrela by another old lady because I took a photo of a temple from the street ( I did not even walk in... just stopped and took a photo and an old lady walking home with her groceries, walked towards me to smack me with an umbrela screaming in Japanese things not related to photo or shashin or Gaijin... I have NO idea what happened there )... and by the end of that day... close to the hotel, which was close to the train station, a weird dude walked towards me while I was waiting to cross a street and the lights were red... and just stood in front of me, facing me silently, and started poking me in my shoulder. The crossing lines went green, I moved on to the hotel, but completely spooked by that dude. 30 days in Japan, only those two incidents to talk of as really weird interactions, but both on the same day, on the same city. I am still wondering if being a redhair with western face made me a kind of target for weirdness... :p

@Qai_Xy

2 ай бұрын

its sad that im not suprised..i dont really expect bad things from japanese people but SOME just stare at foreigners like we dont exist💔

@helloMerrMerr

2 ай бұрын

I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve heard some Japanese folks who hate foreigners will try to instigate fights because Japan WILL arrest foreigners and can keep you there for months (I think aki actually made a video on this?)

@jessicaluchesi

Ай бұрын

@@Qai_Xy Most of my interactions were largely positive and the more I moved awar from larger cities the better it became. The language barrier increased and my poor japanese was more of a barrier but I am on a level I can understand more than I can speak... or at least understand what is being talked about... and some forth and back phone passing also helps. But this day was the "weird day", but if I had only met that lovely obaachan in the morning, how perfect the day would have been? Guess the world had to compensate somehow, lol

@jessicaluchesi

Ай бұрын

@@helloMerrMerr Japanese police can hold you without a formal accusation for a while. I never heard of japanese people picking fights with foreigners but for me it looked more like he was shocked to see me and I also think he might, english is nor my native language, but he might have had some dawn syndrome traits as well... he looked "off", so I atributed the poking to that, more than agressiveness or something else. When I look back, I feel it is more towards finding my presence odd.And not knowing how to handle. This was the only instance of such an odd encounter, the more I move away from cities ( and Toyama isn't even a large one for Japanese or Brazilian standards... it is smaller than Rio de Janeiro for example and I live in São Paulo, which is very Tokyo like in many instances, so large for me is LARGE... Toyama was a very cozy medium sized town ) the better interactions became. In Yusuhara, down in Kochi, I had a very very cute delightfil experience to see those grandpas with hard hats and plaques controlling traffic for school children to cross... and I walked to a busy road... there was no one else... he stopped the traffic for me, I was so embarrassed ( I could have waited the red light ) and at the same time, happy and grateful, I crossed the road thanking him and beaming. So... those experiences did stick more. I still have to write about this travel, lol

@jessicaluchesi

Ай бұрын

@@helloMerrMerr That being said... japanese police CAN detain you... they will not be of much help in issues regarding scams ( they prefer to ignore it... even more if there's Yakuza involved such as bars and stuff )... so it can be an issue of if you come across the wrong cop at the wrong time your experience can be horrible. So I was aware of that and had my passport on me at all times. Because such an interaction can render you also unable to return to Japan in the future. That being said... I would not fear random fight pickets. I realized there is so little stress from crimes happening in Japan, smallish news such as that bubble up and seem to be more present than it actually is. I do think I faced some prejudice, but it was so diminute not to matter. A Japanese or African guest would face more here in my country. A friend who lives in Tokyo worries about being stabbed on the streets, because it seems there are cases of people going crazy and stabbing people. There are also those here in Brazil, but when we have the actual crimes we do in Brazil and such a violent police that killed 53 people in a "botched" police raid intended to send a message... those disappear. Japan is VERY safe, I did not find myself in any situation I could not just walk away from.

in the US, a majority of states allow businesses to include employees' tips as part of their wages. No tips mean criminally low wages (often getting paid below the minimum wage), in a country that already doesn't provide living wages. If servers actually made a decent wage, tipping wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately, this country has allowed Employers to put the burden of providing even a minimum wage, onto the customers. I've had friends whose hourly wage was $2.50/hr because tips were considered wages.

@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198

Ай бұрын

And the federal minimum for tipped employees is 2.13 bucks

@RoseWaltz

Ай бұрын

in my city tipping has plummeted - they couldn't add any more taxes so eating out including a brand new non-tax "Entertainment Fee" (did not last long) - but tipping never recovered they also tried to pass a law that would give tipped workers minimum wage if you didn't get enough tips to make minimum wage, but it was shot down we need to abolish tipping and just pay livable wages

@notaperson9831

27 күн бұрын

Yeah, this is why I hate how upset people get with servers about tipping because it isn’t their fault. They’re making practically nothing without tips. If they’ve worked your table for hours just to not get paid, of course they’re going to be upset.

Imagine having a country and wanting to gatekeep it, even if it means your economy will become batshit💀

@KTCC13

Ай бұрын

Japan doesn’t need tourism, they never did. 😂

@c.a.sreacts

11 күн бұрын

Japan should be like america let in all the immigrants sure it will turn out great​@@KTCC13

The old people being mad at you for taking a break is very much a universal thing, I think. Like, I (from the US) had multiple older people make rude comments when I was on my phone, sitting at a table, or eating while in uniform on my BREAKS. Most of them were scoffing or saying "working hard or hardly working?" in a condescending tone. One of my favorites was this older lady who yelled at me and said that I was being lazy while on the job, and it's such an insult for those who paid for good service and they shouldn't have to see "the help" out and about. I smiled and said " 'kay!" and went back to eating. She went off in a huff and I felt very satisfied with myself lol. (Funny thing is most people in the Midwest could probably tell where I was working at based on this woman's behavior. It was Cracker Barrel lol. Some of the worst Karens I've dealt with were from there and I worked there for two months)

Tipping people should not be mandatory ever, it should only be optional.

I have a funny story about a Karen while I was visiting a foreign country: So last month I was in Paris France waiting for a train with my family. My mother went to go grab us some dinner so I waited with all of our luggage and saved her seat. important note: I’m an American who can only speak fluently in English (I know a little Japanese but that’s not exactly gonna help you in Europe). So anyway, this French lady walks up to me and points to the seat next to me speaking in French. I tried to explain to her I’m saving it for my mom (even though I only know y) but she gets angry and starts speaking angrily in pretty loud French, making everyone in the general vicinity feel awkward. I think rather my dad or this other guy offered up their seat for this lady before my mom came back. Me and my family laughed it off later but just goes to show you can find rude people in every country.

As a 7/11 employee I get into with older people on a daily and one time I had a guy call me a pussy, TWICE, now as a man I don’t take kindly to comments like that but I’ve been Ina fair share of fights and an older guy isn’t worth the time of jail at all, but the 2nd time he came back and apologized to me later on in the day and explained just life stuff was getting to him, I told him I understand and just know if you are up here and feeling that way I’m not gonna trip as much cause I can already tell he was going through it

Ive gotten that urusai thing. I spoke LOUDER! It was public space in Tokyo and we were being hissed at by a miserable old dud just because we were speaking in Filipino. People like this could go kick rocks, cos I've lived here long enough to notice just how urusai the Japanese can be in such spaces, and im not bowing down to racism.

@maro_vela_22

Ай бұрын

As a fellow Filipino, I’m deeply disappointed that this happened to you. I guess 79 years since WWII is all for nothing 😞

Akidearest has forgotten that everybody can be racist even the countries that are considered to be polite. And forgot Japan has a history of it, so of course, old people are gonna get up in their business. 😢

@kaiya1zumi139

Ай бұрын

Yup, anyone can be racist. I should know, went to valley scare(valley fair) when I was 12 with some friends. Mom is a worry wart and asked that I txt her a few times to make sure I was alive. Did that while in line for a corn maze horror house and the black (yes it’s important I point this out) guy employee that looked to be in his late 20’s early 30’s spotted me with my friend, head down looking at my phone texting my mom that I’m good at 9ish. Only to then yell out-AND I QUOTE-“AY YO WHITE GIRL PUT DOWN YOUR PHONE!” TO A FECKING 12 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO IS LETTING HER MOM KNOW THAT SHE WASNT KIDNAPPED OR DEAD! Wish I said something back but I was a small girl more than half his age and suffering from a whole buttload of mental issues, anxiety being one, who just looked back in shocked disgust before rolling my eyes to cover my shaky body. Mind going haywire to distract myself from reliving some past trauma I gained the last time I was yelled at in front of a giant crowd.

Aki floating face: Debut. I tell You, in 20 years, we will got floating faces, like in POWER RANGERS. 🙌 Don't ask me why. Floating Aki just triggered it in me. I love Your hairstyle now, too. ✌️

Old people in Japan are either absolutely adorable or the WORST WHINY KARENS EVER! My interactions with them have either been them trying to practice their English with me or giving me Japanese speaking tips and being genuinely helpful and kind and informative or glaring at me, shouting at me in Japanese ( just for existing ) -- No in between xD It really is an experience when some little obachan just stops to shout at you in the middle of the streets when all you are doing is walking lol.

That's why I cannot stand when some non-Japanese people that visit Japan are like "omg Japanese people are the nicest people in the world!" and so many tourists take advantage of their kindness. Japanese people are just taught in customer service to literally treat customers like God, like they're above the employees. My fiance in Japan constantly vents to me about customers and his coworkers and how he constantly gets treated like trash. Maybe I don't know, treat employees like human-beings or how you would treat yourself? Like yeah, many Japanese people are extremely kind, but they tend to get walked all over.

@wildflower62k

Ай бұрын

Also as a waitress I'm literally paid under minimum wage so tips are a part of my paycheck :') not that I would chase a customer down for not tipping me, but yeah I'd be kinda mad.

As someone who worked in customer service I have delt with a few Karens myself and honestly some of the things they yelled at me for was so stupid 😂 like one lady was mad that I wasn't ringing her grocery correctly....like what!?

Are we just gonna gloss over the fact that potato ice cream exists!?

@Busha69

22 күн бұрын

Beni imo, the Okinawan sweet purple potato...makes fantastic desserts and when I lived in Okinawa, I've had the ice cream and tarts all the time. Recommended.

Why do people care so much about other people's lives 💀

I had a Karen at the family Mart I work at, this was like 4 or 5 years ago now, she got angry that I said "good evening, welcome to family Mart" in English. She said "you're in Japan, speak Japanese"

I'm a half Japanese living and working in Japan and I get a lot of old people saying stupid shit to me. I was looking at a pop up shop outside of a train station who was selling cups and rice bowls. I was browsing and the old guy didn't want me to buy from him saying to go away its all expensive and I'm like looking at the prices and they were 1000-2000 yen for handmade cups etc. Then there is my job that treats me like shit. I'm called stupid gaijin all the time and yelled at and hit at work so there is that also >_>

If I ever become a father of a biological daughter, (however unlikely that would be) I'm likely going to avoid calling her Karen.

Also the American tip thing is 100% companies not wanting to pay their employees a livable wage and wanting to shove that responsibility partially onto the consumer.

This reminds me of when my classmates and I were in Japan for a few months for our studies (we majored in Japanese language and culture). We were sitting quietly in a train, a girl went to sit next to one of my (very clearly not-Japanese) classmates, and all of a sudden this old man starts yelling at the girl for sitting next to a "kuso gaijin" (fucking foreigner). Poor girl looked so uncomfortable, so at one point my classmates and I spoke up in our best keigo and asked him to leave her and us alone, we were literally just sitting there and not even doing or saying anything. The man looked so shocked that he left and got off the train at the next stop. I think he thought we didn't understand Japanese and so he could say whatever he wanted and then some level of shame came over him, or he wasn't used to people talking back to him (because Japan) and didn't know how to handle it.

I ordered a collectible from Japan that I couldn't get from the US. I know that culturally it's standard, but I was oddly moved by the handwritten "Thank You" (In english no less) on the business card that got shipped with it. I don't know. It was just a really nice thing that cheered me up for a few minutes and made me smile. And it's not like I haven't seen exceptional customer service in the US. But it just struck a positive chord in me. Maybe it was just knowing that I got something cool from somewhere else in the world, and there was a brief human connection with a faraway place. Talking about the exceptional customer service at the end made me think of that.

That intro about deliberately triggering ourselves is too real. Like, I could be watching doll makeovers or diorama building. Instead, I mix in predator hunting and youtube drama videos with those

@Anreii

Ай бұрын

Same unless I'm feeling Uber depressed and know it's only gonna make me feel worse. I wonder what the psychology behind it is

Us servers are underpaid hence why their so rude when it comes to tips I don't think it's the workers fault for wanting a tip or a customer's fault for not wanting to spend extra $ it's honestly the businesses fault

@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198

Ай бұрын

I mean it is kind of both the business' and customer's fault. The customer goes in knowing that the waiter needs a tip, as that's how they are paid. So if the customer isn't tipping, the customer is just getting cheaper food at the expense of cutting someone's salary. In a system in which tips aren't needed the customer would have paid the waiter via the business.

In the US, many restaurant jobs for servers, bar tenders, and some food delivery jobs, the employees has to step down in pay while serving customers. For example, in Texas minimum wage is $7.25/hour. Many server and food delivery jobs the employee would drop down to about $3.50/hour while they are serving customers. They are expected to earn $3-4 in tips during their shift serving customers. When they are doing other duties like cleaning, inventory etc they go back to minimum wage rate. Also they are required to report their tips to the IRS as it constitutes as taxable income. Such policy is a way for employers to reduce their expenses on employees and reduce the amount the employer has to pay the IRS

@Teachidoll

2 ай бұрын

Was a server in texas. I never got paid regular minimum wage when cleaning/opening/closing only server wage. And I've worked several restaurants.

@OtakuAnime01

2 ай бұрын

@@Teachidoll It varies by restaurant. At Pizza Hut servers stepped down in pay when serving customers, then go back up when they weren't. Delivery drivers also step down in pay when taking deliveries, but then go back up when they were in the store washing dishes. I'm told drivers for Dominos never step down in pay on deliveries. Things have changed a lot after the pandemic and restaurants were allowed to re-open.

@pyrylehtonen-caponigro3198

Ай бұрын

And the federal minimum for tipped employees is 2.13 bucks

@7:00 actually sadly people with dementia behave like that. Its best to ignore them otherwise they get even more loud. Dementia is a terrible disease and sometimes the patients say outrageous things so its the duty of the caretaker to inform the person getting shouted at and also take the patient away from them

@6telephone

Ай бұрын

Does not mean you can't set boundaries with them. You may always set boundaries with people with dementia if you want.

13:29: You just reminded me of something that happened when I went out to dinner with my family like.. 2 decades ago. We had just finished up at this very small restaurant we had been to several times before. Literally, they never had more than 1-2 front staff workers, and then probably 1-2 people in the back. TINY. We paid, and left a generous tip with their copy of the receipt-- sticking out of the receipt book! We had walked almost all the way down the street to our car when we saw, and heard, the waiter! He was running at us and YELLING. We thought maybe we left something behind so we stopped, but then realized he was ANGRY. He started yelling at us on a busy, restaurant/shop clad street about how dare we not tip him for all of his hard work. Wouldn't let us get in a word. (Keep in mind he had left the restaurant unattended that entire time.) So we walked all the way back, with him still screaming at us about it. A family member of mine quietly went back to the table, picked up the book, took out the tip, showed him, and put it back in their pocket. Dude was stunned. "Didn't even check the table. After that abusive behavior you get NO tip, and we will be filing a complaint." -- And so they did 🤷‍♀ I don't think we ever returned and they're getting 1 star reviews about their rudeness to this day, like 2 decades later! Shame, their food was awesome.

Here in 🇳🇱 we changed the Karen name to Gerda as they are quite common here as well unfortunately. I'll say I fully understand your struggle 😂

I'm Japanese living in the US. I've never seen Karen there even though I grew up there for 20 years so I was skeptical but I just remember "Obatarian" 😂 So Obatarian is a old or middle aged lady who live in Osaka area and who is kind of shameless, fearless and selfish. But you know what, Obatarian was so funny for us and popular in 90's as we don't see so many shameless ladies there and often comedians do parody 😂 One of my dreams is to go to Osaka, and see real Obatarian in person LOL 🤣🤣🤣

Years ago I read a story online posted by an English lady who was being harrassed by an old Japanese guy on a train (he was yelling at her while forcibly adjusting her legs) and how confused and mad she was. This video clears up that confusion. Still, I feel extra bad for foreign women in Japan because we're probably the easiest targets.

👀 Bro that face swap at the beginning had threw me off 👁👁😭😭😭👌 so much at the beginning I was like damn okay.

the train video was triggering for me because when I visited Kawagoe last year, an old man came up to me and started yelling at me in Japanese, walked away and came back and punched my backpack. no one did anything to help. to this day, i still have no idea wtf he was so pissed about.

THIS IS MY FAVORITEST THING IVE SEEN... THE PUTTING YOU'R FACE OVER THEIRS AND MOUTHING THE WORDS IS THE FUNNIEST THING IVE SEEN IN LIKE 2 WEEKS ON KZread 😂😅😂I LOVE YOU

As someone who works in food service, i hate when it's framed as our fault for NEEDING tips. We ARE NOT paid enough to make ends meet and rely on those tips, and there are a lot fewer people chasing customers for not giving tips than a lot of people make it seem. It is not our fault that our bosses won't pay us a livable wage. Also, tips are voluntary. Like i said, not very many people are chasing customers to get tips. we aren't harrassing you to get tips, and it's frustrating when people make it seem like it's our fault and like we're beggars for money we're not we are working long ass shifts to just barely scrape by and to get harrassed by customers. I get called names by customers and yelled for things out of my of my control EVERY DAY, and i still have to go into work to serve ya'll just to be miserable and not have enough money for groceries. This is one of those things where we need to be careful how we phrase things bc you're phrasing, which makes us seem like lunatics that harrass customers and bully customers for tips, is not good when we are struggling to unionize and get rights in the workplace and if people belive us to be the bad guys we wont get that help that we need

I need a whole video of you memeing the Karens like you did here! 🤣 It was perfect! I had to replay "TERRY ANN BLUES" a few times to get the giggles out enough to watch lmaooo

I need to lookout for Karens in Japan. I do not want to get up caught up in their nonsense.

The worst "Karen" I saw was an older man who yelled at me for throwing small stones into a pond. I had no idea what he was yelling, but I was with a group of friends and we just left. He kept yelling. Whatev!

I was only in japan for 7 months and 2 separate times older japanese ppl verbally passive aggressively called my group of friends or me and my one friend out. Both times it was in a way where they did it in a crazy talking to themselves type of way, where they wanted us to over hear or feel uncomfortable. When it was just my one friend, she was speaking korean on the phone and the fact an older Japanese person was harassing her was disturbing given History. One time i was even with multiple japanese ppl but that didnt stop an old lady from scolding us for quietly hanging at the park and night and drinking. In a leas aggressive way i found restaurants would like push us or hurry us out.. only once tho

A trigger is a stimulus that elicits a reaction. In the context of mental illness, "trigger" is often used to mean something that brings on or worsens symptoms. This often happens to people with a history of trauma or who are recovering from mental illness, self-harm, addiction, and/or eating disorders

@TheRaspyAspie

Ай бұрын

In my case, autism, especially with sensory disorder, loud noises and bright lights trigger me. Over-stimulation and sensory overload

Opening scene with your face over the lady had me dead on the floor, top tier A+ comedy editing 👏👏👏

That husband must love her to stick by her side like this he probably really cares for her and is trying to get her to understand the new world better and she is just not with it

That intro skit had me dying 😂😂🤣💀

You can tell that this video was really needed to get this off your chest…….. love you AKI your such a character 😂

FINALLY, someone else who believes tipping in America should go back to being optional! It seemed like no one else I've said this to could see that it's a toxic practice. Thank you, Aki!

@ohhello937

22 күн бұрын

Trust me, everyone wants it to be optional. The problem is the greedy companies who don't pay their workers properly have made it so if you don't tip your server they can't afford to live. Tons of people want companies to pay their workers livable wages so we can go back to optional tipping. It's not even a hot take. Her saying servers should be "ashamed" and stuff for wanting tips so they can live is a different story though and not a good take.

Always nice when aki puts a new vid out 🎉

The reason why the US restaurant wait staff requires tips is because most states get paid $2.13 per hour, so they make their living based on tips and get understandably tetchy if you don’t tip, or leave a poor tip. It’s optional, yes, but it’s in poor taste not to tip. It’s a different story entirely if the service wasn’t good. My husband has a habit of leaving $2-$5 tips and I have to pull teeth to make him pay more (or I will if I’m tipping) because he isn’t a fan of tipping, and it ticks me off. He doesn’t understand WHY it’s important to tip wait staff, but I guess I can empathize more having been a waitress before.

@2WheelsGood.01

27 күн бұрын

We all know why it's a thing. We just want it NOT to be a thing, like in the rest of the developed world.. Pay the servers more so the tip isn't required.

@Avelithe

27 күн бұрын

@@2WheelsGood.01 Yeah, I agree :)

Karens in japan now?

@magicflierplays

2 ай бұрын

always has been 🕺

@animeboy200p2

2 ай бұрын

Damn

@shadow1sd

2 ай бұрын

The immigrants

@travistreadway3180

2 ай бұрын

Life is scary sometimes

@themajesticspider-man6116

2 ай бұрын

Now? Lol

13:57 "Don't be a butthead." Great advice, Aki!

Not yet in Japan, but I’ve been asking a share house company a few questions over email and now they’re refusing to answer me UNLESS I make a zoom call. Which I think is ridiculous since they could simple answer via email and I’d have record of it. It’s even more ridiculous because the timezone is an overkill for me. I was only able to schedule it for 4 am. F- it if it’s inconvenient for the client, we won’t answer emails unless meeting 💀💀💀

It’s been so long since I watched anything you dropped. I hope life is good for ya

The last guy was already talking to her in an angry tone before she crossed her legs...i can't speak Japanese so i didn't understand i wonder what was it about?

The older generation is just entitled and they get on us for calling them out for it. I had an old lady tell me to shut up because we're not suppose to talk in a store, Ma'am this is a store not a library.

Amazing video akidearest,fantastic job.

It reminds me of that scene in the manga of "I Want To Eat Your Pancreas" in the diner. For some reason they changed it to a dude harassing an old lady on the street for the movie, but in the manga it was a old lady Karen harassing a waitress 😅

thank you so much for todays video aki. i always get so happy when you upload a new video :) wish you a great weekend.

indeed i am procrastinating studying over watching a video about karens 😭

The thing on tipping especially in the US is because the places that hire people to be waitstaff pay them way less BECAUSE they know that tipping is a thing that is ingrained in the culture for waitstaff these days. So it's not the fault of waitstaff for expecting tips, it's the fault of the businesses that pay them like $2 an hour because they know they'll get tips.

There was one time in Umeda, Osaka, at the train station, when I was paying for groceries at one of the station's grocery stores. I was putting the cash back to my wallet when from the back left I saw a small figure approaching, and suddenly I was being pushed by a rollator. A small elderly person was just nonchalantly ramming to my thigh to push me off the way to get to the cashier. I was ready so I just left. I dunno if it was because I was unconventional looking youth or a foreigner, or both, or maybe they had a bad day, but that was truly an experience. Besides that I have not been harassed tho.

Tbf with the tipping, specifically with America, servers and staff need the tips to gwt a full paycheck as they're only legally due the minimum of like $2.50 and hour. Tipping makes sure the servers have money the establishment refuses to pay them. Which the majority of foreigners fail to understand.

@xXuberflutesXx

2 ай бұрын

This this this! When I found out that to make anywhere near an actual living wage waiters and waitresses have to pray someone doesn't leave without a tip, I decided to physically hand them their tip where I can (I swear some places take a percentage of that off the top too). It's awful that the tipping culture is a thing that bled into their paychecks.

@CankovaMa

2 ай бұрын

I bet they’re paid accordingly to their responsibilities and all, where as some countries, there’s just different tipping culture and the servers are not provided with proper salary which is a big problem, but you can’t really change anything and the government doesn’t care

@jesssc402

2 ай бұрын

It’s their choice to have that kind of job though. I don’t think it’s fair to put the obligation to the customers. It should be the shop owners’, but they won’t do it, so might as well get a different job. Not to mention the minimum now is like 20%!

@thatgoblin5739

2 ай бұрын

@@jesssc402 that's just. . . No. People can't just quit for another job willy nilly. It's not feasible if they can't afford that initial 3 weeks of unpaid work that generally happens when you start a new job due to the timing of paychecks coming out. No, the customers shouldn't be paying tips to make their paycheck, but blaming them for chosing that job and saying the solution is 'just get another job' is ridiculous.

@cedardryad

2 ай бұрын

​@@jesssc402it's a choice that's sometimes forced on them. It's not that easy getting jobs nowadays. Sometimes you take what you can. Sometimes these shitty jobs are more flexible when the person is attending school, has childcare needs, is closer to where they live, better hours. There are many reasons why someone will take a less than desired job. It shouldn't be on the person either. It should be the job to pay their employee federal minimum wage, not some fucking work around so they don't have to "waste" money on their employee. Just how many jobs rather hire a room if part timers so they don't have to give them insurance.

I HAVEN'T WATCHED YOU IN YEARS OMGGG

Tbf, Karen is also a Japanese name too. I watched this Japanese idol survival show, and one of the contestants was "Otsubo Karen (大坪 楓恋)"

Keep up the great work and videos Aki love the video

Akis face covering all the Karens is just hilarious!1

Leg crossing thing - in the states you should probably move away because old guys nutty guys are sometimes packing heat.

Not gonna lie, in all my time in customer service and just generally in public, the rudest people I've ever encountered have ALL been old people. Their sense of entitlement and rudeness is *insane* and yet in the same breath they'll still complain about how "today's youth has no respect for the elderly". Absolutely unhinged.

In Thailand they play the national anthem before every movie at the ecinema and generally you need to stand for it (otherwise it's illegal to disrespect the king - yeah I know) an old woman sued one guy for not standing when the police didn't arrest him. The case was thrown out when it was revealed the guy was a paraplegic in a wheelchair

"The customer is king." Until they abuse that privilege. They don't pay enough to deal with this shi-

For my mom, sister & I we already are dealing with a Karen in our neighborhood personally towards us and we haven’t done anything bad in return to her 😅😔😅

On the grumpy old people: lotta people of the same age group out here in Michigan are the same way, just being angry at younger people TALKING...-sigh-

America: The customer is always right! Mr. Krabs: We shall never deny a guest, even the most ridiculous request! Japan: THE CUSTOMER IS _GOD._

I had to deal with a male Karen once and spoke back 😂

I Love your content and the amount of knowledge you have in the country of Japan. I love the Spice and your perspective. I hope one day to Visit Japan and you've helped me so much in my future bucket List.

You are insanely good at lipsyncing to Karens and using that to cover their faces in videos had me laughing more than I ever would have at the original videos. Genuinely would watch a multi-hour compilation of just you lipsyncing to face-censored Karens.

My old job had this thing where customers could basically leave us reviews, whether it’s specifically about an employee, product or if it’s very generic. I got a review that said word for word. “The employee was too busy doing her job to do her job.” Why do customers….. exist

If that lady that told you and your friend to shut up did that to me I would have 100% cried and thought about it for weeks so you’re so valid in your feelings about it girl! I love that you don’t let yourself be silenced & speak up for yourself! Keep shining queen ❤

The edits with your face are 10/10 appreciated

Aki’s face edits are hilarious

Everytime I have a Karen moment it's a situation where I can't record them but I should for evidence 😂

Oh I didn’t know tipping was illegal. Probably explains why when I tipped a Japanese tattoo artist, in New York, she was so grateful. She seemed shocked and like I was doing her a big favor. She did beautiful work and honestly her prices were extremely fair.

Aki's fast on the Karenz makes it so much more funny xD lol