Rotten Mango - Korean TikToker w/ 55M Fans Is LYING To Fans About Being Innocent After Being Found GUILTY of SA

Episode Date: October 30, 2025

What do you do when your favorite creator, YouTuber, or tiktoker stops posting? They just completely disappear. No warning, no community post. Just gone. Are you convinced they are sick?That they’re just taking a break and coming back? Usually the first two are the natural internet reactions especially when creators go missing for too long. Sometimes the real reason is lot scarier than that… Mamaguy, a Korean tiktoker swears that it wasn’t him who roundhouse kicked the woman in Busan on the CCTV. He swears that’s NOT the reason why he took a few years off from the public eye. Which, to be fair, is true. The real assaulter who went viral for randomly round-housing a woman was found and charged with 20 years in prison. So then why was ‘Mamaguy,’ absent from social media? Absent from society as a whole? Sometimes when creators go missing online it’s completely nothing. They’re taking a break. Or just decided to stop making content. Maybe they’re burnt out. Or, it could be much more sinister than that.    Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Bada being baddaboo What do you do when your favorite creator, YouTuber, Takedoker, they just stop posting, they disappear, there is no warning, there is no community post, they're just gone. And you think that maybe they're coming back next week or maybe they just need a two-week break maximum, but they're gone forever.

They make no updates on any other platform. I mean, are you convinced that they're dead? Are you convinced that they've been kidnapped? Or do you think that they're just off in the middle of Montana joining a cult. Usually I would say the first two are the natural internet reactions, especially when the creator has gone missing for too long, but sometimes the real explanation is much weirder than all of that. A YouTube channel run by a father and son by the name of Mac Adventures, their main thing is going on their motorcycles and exploring places that they

really should not be exploring, like Area 51, the restricted areas. The last video ever uploaded to their channel is titled Area 51. Camo dudes held us at gunpoint again, extended version, which they're just straight up vlogging themselves committing crimes. It's showing them trespassing past the point of the signs that read. Warning, no trespassing, maximum punishment, $1,000 fine, six months imprisonment, or both strictly enforced. But they do trespass. They upload the video and then they vanish. They disappear completely. For years, they're just gone. before they finally come back with a video, and this time it's just the sun talking,

and everyone thinks that his entire behavior is unsettling. It's bizarre. He has suddenly changed his mind completely to stating that there really is no reasonable reason in which anybody should be going to Area 51 past the gate. In fact, it's actually boring. There's nothing to see there. There's nothing there at all,

which are all very fair, valid points, but the way that he's expressing it is very odd, because their entire channel was about exploring Area 51. It's not like he's saying, hey, listen, when we got in there, we got fined, we got in trouble. And if you're watching this, we just want you to know, don't be dumb like us. We didn't even see anything cool in there.

It was boring, and we lost money, and we almost went to jail. Don't do it. There's nothing behind those gates. That's not what he said. He says, if there were actually people planning to do something, anything past the gate, like a raid, that's just like dumb. I never really understood that.

I never really understood this whole Area 51 thing, whether my videos or other videos out there in the world on Area 51 got people wanting to do a raid. Like, who cares? Like, I'm not trying to be mean, but like, who cares what's back there, you know? Like, it's just like, it's just like a military base. It's like going to Camp Hilton and saying, let's go raid Camp Hilton. Like, it's just a military base. And I'm sure they have testing, like, equipment and like, whatever.

Cool, you know, that's cool. But, like, why? Maybe because it's out in the middle of the. nowhere and there's like you know science fiction and movies about it i don't know like it's just it's boring quite frankly it feels evasive and vague the whole time he's recording this video he keeps glancing to the side people say that he just seems not normal he seems not like the sun that they remember in all of the videos when they would explore area 51 how old is this son he looks like he's in his mid to late 20s and how long was he gone for they were gone for two years

They're gone for two years And then they upload this Very strange, hard to put your finger on video About Area 51 and how it's boring And then they disappear again And like I said Sometimes when creators go missing online It's nothing

Sometimes they're just mentally burnt out Or it's just worse than all of that Like July 3rd, 2023 Mama Guy post what appears to be his very last TikTok For a long time Okay, before Mama Guy Yes. Are they just gone?

Yeah, they're just gone. That's it. Mac Adventures is just gone. Nobody knows what's going on. I mean, there's conspiracy theories and that's it. We assume that they're safe. We assume that they're fine. They said that they sold their motorcycles because they just weren't into it anymore.

So that was their main method of transportation and exploring and the basis of their videos, but they got rid of the motorcycle. So there's really no point in making videos, which then just made everybody even more suspicious. But I don't think that they're in jail. I don't think that they're being held by aliens or any of that. I think they're okay, but just what happened in that two-year span, everybody's got a lot of questions. And the same thing is happening in real time right now. July 3rd, 2023, Mama boy, Mama guy, whatever you want to call him. And this guy is going to be very familiar to you once I start explaining what he does.

But he is someone who has over 50 million TikTok followers, 50 million. And he posts what appears to be his very last TikTok for a very long time. This is in 2023. If you don't know Mama Guy, Mama Boy, he's one of those TikTok reaction guys. I mean, you see someone doing a hack, like putting a popcorn kernel in the middle of a hair straightener and then watching it pop. And then it's a stitch to a creator testing it out to see if it works. But his whole branding, his whole trademark and why he's called Mama Boy, Mama Guy by people is when he's scared, impressed, excited. He screams like, Mama.

But in like a really, um, Koreans call it like a like. a really nuky-y-un-way. Oh. Like, it's very perverted-sounding. I don't know if it, I don't think it comes across as perverted to people who don't speak Korean. But, like, I guess in, like, the Korean humor sense, it's kind of like that, like, niki humor.

Very, oof. Yeah, but he's famous. Very famous. Is he, was he the number one followed or no? He was the number one followed on TikTok in South Korea aside from celebrities like BTS and Black Pink. So he was number one. influencer in Korea, you can say.

But what's crazy is no one in Korea knows him. Really? Nobody knows who this guy is. In fact, he was invited to this massive award show with Korean celebrities, Korean actors, A-list actors, Korean idols, and everyone is confused about who this guy is and why he's acting a mess on stage. It was weird. That's just so crazy to think, like, how big internet is now, like TikTok and stuff.

You can't have 50 million followers and nobody knows you outside of it because I've never heard of this guy until this. Really? You haven't heard of him. I think I came across a few of his videos before. The way that I would describe his videos is it's feel good content. It's the epitome of brain rot. If your FYP is as depressing as mine can get where it's just like a dark hole of political dysfunction and what's going on in the world, you see his video and you're like, oh, okay, I guess a straightener does pop a popcorn kernel and then you move on. But it's not necessarily riveting. You're not going to go and look for his videos, or at least I don't. He's one of those people. By 2023, he had over 50 million followers on TikTok. He was one of the bigger creators

doing this type of content before he just vanishes. There's no goodbye. There's no hiatus notice, no mention of a mental health break. He just straight up vanishes. His last video uploaded is another reaction video. Like there's no reason for anyone to believe that Mama Guy has been kidnapped by aliens or that something sinister happened to him at Area 51, he just is gone after a very normal post. His fans naturally think maybe it was mental health struggles. But two years later in 2025, he comes back with a statement. It is a long-winded, confusing statement that starts, hello.

The statement is in text, right? He's not talking. No, there was like a brief TikTok video that he uploaded, but then it got deleted. But it wasn't lengthy. It was him like bowing an apology was a mess. It's just text in Korean and in English. He writes, Hello, to everyone who knows me,

I want to express my deepest apologies for the disappointment and hurt that I've caused. I should have shown you only my best side. But due to my poor judgment and mistakes, I cause discomfort to many of you and hurt those involved. I deeply reflect on my actions and offer my heartfelt apologies. In short, he writes, since July 23, I have fully cooperated with legal proceedings

related to this incident. after a long and difficult process I was found not guilty of the major charges that were widely reported a lot of people are confused at what's going on even like this is a very vague statement like what do you mean that you were found not guilty and like what were the charges

you're being very vague he says that the legal process was long arduous terrifying at first I was overwhelmed by fear some people advise me to admit to the charges saying it might result in a lighter sentence even if they weren't true but after long and difficult contemplation I realized that what I

most was not being able to tell the truth. Trying to prove something I haven't done was extremely difficult. I'm truly sorry. And I respectfully tell you that I am not the man who kicked a woman in the video. He is a different person. The video that Mama Guy is talking about is the viral CCTV video from a South Korean essay case. It's called the Pusan Roundhouse Kick case and we've actually covered it. In the lobby of an apartment building, a guy stalks a girl all the way home. Like they just made eye contact on the street. He stalks her home, approaches her. Before she can react, he spins and kicks her straight in the head, straight to her skull, knocking her unconscious. He then drags her to the stairwell area where there are no cameras so that he can try to assault her. If you're putting

all the information together based off of his statement, it sounds like he was accused legally of being the guy in the video that kicks and essays that woman. He's basically being framed for it. He fights the charges legally, the main charges are dropped, and he fought to prove his innocence. But regardless, he's still very sad at disappointing his fans for not being more transparent and for being gone for the past two years. That's the message that sounds like it's being delivered, right? If you know nothing about him or if you know nothing about the case, it would be understandable that that's exactly what happened.

Except when you look just a little bit further into it, you realize nobody really thought that he was the guy in the CCTV video kicking the woman. Maybe a few TikTok accounts, but this was not a widespread belief. Because that guy was caught, correct? Yeah. Like we talked about it. He was caught and everything.

Yeah. And even if you just look at the figure of both of them, it's not him. Mm-hmm. I mean, this is not a widespread belief. Nobody really thought he was the guy in that video until he posted the apology statement. And then everyone was like,

guys, remember how everyone thought that he was the guy in the video, which nobody really thought. Well, guess what he's not? I found more comments saying, hey guys, remember when everyone thought he was the guy in the video? He's not versus this is the guy in the video. Yeah.

I would say like 95% of them are these clarification comments. Crazy. And that's when the videos start popping up of people saying, see, look, this guy has a tattoo on his arm in the CCTV camera of the elevator bay, and Mama Guy does not. It almost feels like Mama Guy is the one spreading this rumor. that people thought that he was the one in the CCTV video.

Which, why would he do that? State of rumor that nobody really believes and then disprove the rumor that, again, nobody really believed in the first place? Why would he do that? It just doesn't make any sense. Why bring attention to it if it's not even true to begin with and nobody was talking about it?

Well, maybe it's because he's hiding something bigger. Maybe what he did is worse than being accused, falsely accused, of being the guy in the viral CCTV video. This is the case of Mama Guy, or Saoanjong, the Korean TikToker with 55 million followers who was found guilty of sexual assault and has now come back online and convinced his followers that he's innocent. He's convinced people to support a fully convicted rapist so that he can go back to posting TikToks. And it worked.

And it's working. We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support the Joyful Heart Foundation. They're working to transform society's response to SADV and CA. This episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support our growing team, and we'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes are available at Rottomanglepodcast.com. Today's case involves mentions of essay. Please take time if this is too much for you.

And we had help from our professional Korean researchers who worked on this case, but sometimes things don't translate perfectly with figures of speech. So please let us know if anything is missing or mistranslated in the comments. That said, one big thing that I want to clear up is that there's a rumor that Mama Guy was acquitted, and that is completely entirely false. That is not a true statement. He was charged and he was convicted. this is someone that has a charge of sexual assault against a woman on his record.

He was convicted of it. He has been found guilty of it. There's no question about his innocence because he is not innocent. I think the case is crazy because everyone thinks he's innocent right now. The whole internet thinks he's innocent. It's so infuriating. And when you, I feel like they've got to be bots or something. No, I think people are just taking whatever.

Because you said the information is so limited and nobody knows anything about this case is so hush, hush, right? Is that what's going on? Yeah, and he's such a blatant manipulator, and he is so, he has no shame. He has no shame at trying to twist words and twist his apology statement to make it seem like he's innocent.

I genuinely have a personal, deep-rooted, disliking for this guy, and I don't know, it's definitely not just me because my Korean researchers and the whole RM team have made it our second hobby now, aside from RM. If he ever is trying to do merch, if he's ever trying to have a video game, because this is what he was planning to do before he got convicted of SA, you better believe we will be on the front line saying something. The way that he is so blatant about his lies and manipulation is something that I haven't even seen before.

I feel like you see celebrities who are accused of crimes all the time and they try to make all these stupid statements of how remorseful they are. And it's kind of annoying because you can tell that they're not remorseful in any sense of the word. but the statement itself is like oh i feel so remorseful and ashamed but his statements are so blatantly i just it makes me so angry yeah with that being said let's get started there are a few dozen people out there that may have quietly changed the trajectory of the entire country. I mean, nobody really knows about them. Maybe they do, but they have no idea how they've impacted history, if you will. These handful of people just have weirdly specific skills that change history of the entire nation, and we barely

know about it. They are the sparring partners for potential presidential candidates to practice for the big presidential debate. So before each presidential debate, even the vice presidential debate. The candidates will have around 12 mock debates. Wow. Fake debates. And the sparring partner is the same person for all 12 of them. Is it for America or Korea? Typically for America. These debates are, I mean, you see them highly publicized. These are big moments. Although I think the statistics on how much the debates actually sway the voters are very limited. It's just a big moment in the campaign. But I think by that point, most people are very, they're decided on which party. It's party divisive.

These sparring partners, they're usually politicians or senators who are well-versed in the opponent's viewpoints. They will become that opponent for the candidate. They will mimic the opponent's cadence. More importantly, they will study all of their talking points, deliver them in a debate, in an effort to win. They cannot be people-pleasers. They cannot be yes-men. They have to truly be the opponent and try to tear down the candidate. By doing that, They're trying to help the candidate win. It's a very interesting idea. Mitt Romney, who is going up against Obama, stated about his sparring partner.

I wanted to kick him out of the room. He was so good. Other candidates have taken it even further. They want to replicate the exact debate room down to the positioning of the podiums and how close they are to the opponents. They even recreate the ambient temperature of the room to make sure nothing goes awry just because it's a little hot or a little too cold. They say for presidential debates, you spend at least.

half the time doing these mock debates. And then you leave the rest of the time for the murder board. That's what they call it. The murder board consists of subject matter experts. They're the board. And they come in just to murder every single one of your talking points to disprove you, to argue with you with science and facts that you probably don't have because you're a presidential candidate and you're not well-versed in every single aspect of the world in politics. It is to kill all of your inadequate statements before it reaches the public. You've got the mock sessions, the murder board. You have to be careful of all of your micro facial expressions. That can dominate post-debate debate coverage. Smirk, I roll, all over the news. That's it. But one person

who has been an advisor for many debate states, ultimately it doesn't really matter because the greatest politicians do better in the real debates than the mock ones. The greatest come alive when the stakes are high. They want that pressure. That's when they actually do their best. But other than that, some other small things that they have to worry about is you probably have to know every single logical fallacy in existence. No place breeds fallacies like the world of politics. This is their true home. This is their humble abode. Logical fallacies are little tricks your brain makes or people make on purpose to make you believe and think something is true even when it's not true. Basically, it's an argument that when you hear this argument, you think,

you know what, valid, that's a good point. But at its core, it is pretty much entirely flawed logic. Because they appear to be correct, people get tricked into accepting them. The most common being an ad hominem fallacy, which ad hominem in Latin means to the man. So instead of attacking the opponent's logic or reasoning, you just attack the person. You see there's so much in politics. It clearly has nothing to do with the opponent's argument. It's just about them.

when logically speaking, even an unethical, even an idiot, can make sound arguments. A quick example would be, Margaret says, we should consider implementing stricter environmental regulations to reduce pollution. Jacob argues, why should we listen to anything you say? You're not an environmental scientist. When have you ever cared about the environment? I heard you can't even keep a house plant alive. I mean, I guess you could argue if you really must that subjectively maybe these are good points. However, it's ad hominem fallacy. Margaret never claimed to be an environmental scientist, nor is expertise required to make a valid argument here. There is no proof being brought up that she doesn't care for the environment, and her affinity for overwatering her succulence has no

correlation to her statement. So this is just kind of a dumb argument. It's kind of like if you say my friend tells me to eat clean every day, but she never eats cleanly, therefore her advice is not worth listening to. Is the friend annoying? Yes. However, the friend's failure to eat cleanly does not really negate the evidence supporting benefits of eating well. Or there's like the straw man fallacy. This is when someone's brain shuts down at the idea of processing even an ounce of nuance or context. Someone who will go empty behind the eyes when something is not black or white. It's a, I wish you could help me more with housework. So you're saying I do nothing around the house? Then why are you even dating me? I don't want to go to

dinner tonight. You never want to do anything with me. You literally hate spending time with me. We need to increase funding for public schools. I mean, how do you disagree with something like that without seeming like an education hater or a certified dummy? So you say, my opponent wants to throw unlimited money at schools with no oversight, no accountability, and he wants to do that with taxpayer money.

That's not at all what they said. Essentially, you're exaggerating someone's point and then disproving the exaggerated point or finding issue with this exaggerated point. The position being attacked is not the position the opponent actually holds. But these things work. Yeah. Right?

Oh, yeah. That's what they do. Mama Guy is going to employ multiple of these. His favorite is going to be the red herring fallacy. Red herring is a type of fish that has a very pungent odor. It's believed that when hunters were training dogs back in the day, they would get foxes. And they would rub red herring all over their tails to confuse the dogs. before releasing the foxes to be hunted down by the dogs,

the dogs would smell the red herring, they wouldn't get the foxes, and then they would eventually have to learn that they need to go for the original initial weaker scent of the fox. That actually turned out to be a myth, like a red herring, okay? I think they actually used red herring, or unfortunately, dead cats when training horses for war back in the day. It was to train them to be able to withstand chaos

and the scent of death while everyone's dying in war. Regardless, a very depressing origin. but to put the red herring fallacy simply, it's when irrelevant information is introduced into an argument to divert attention away from the actual issue that needs to be discussed. For example, let's talk about Chris's misuse of campaign funds. Oh, really? Well, what about your voting record?

You're just distracting the audience and making them go down a second rabbit hole. And what's bad is that most of the time the second rabbit hole is pretty valid. But you're just taking the attention away. You asked me about X, but instead I'm going to answer and talk about why. Or just changing the subject to something that sounds more important to avoid answering the question that you wanted me to address. That's the red herring. Or the weak man fallacy, otherwise known as the cousin of the strong man fallacy that we went over.

The weak man, another one that Mama Guy loves to use, is finding the weakest point of the opponent's argument and only defeating that point, therefore pretending like you have won the war, that you are defeating their entire position. Let's say person A believes all food except pizza should be banned. Person B believes all food except burgers should be banned. And person B is explaining their burger theory. For 10 minutes, they're bringing up nutritional value, nutritional facts, the cost of making burgers, the way that it can be manufactured and made in a production line that's much quicker. And lots of people love burgers.

All of these things and at the end they make a compliment. meant probably more as a joke, that burgers just have a lot more fun ring to it than pizzas. Burgers is more fun to say. Person A, instead of arguing nutritional aspects, starts making fun of person B. Burgers have a nice ring to it. What about nuclear warfare? Doesn't that sound like a fun phrase? Imagine if we just did things because they sounded fun. Are we letting a toddler run this country get a grip? This is insanity. We're just going to do something because we like the sound of burger. They never address anything else. or these days the weak man fallacy is more centered around the weak man in the group it's like when you see a badly written horribly misspelled grammatically abhorrent comment made by someone who has the opposite political view as you and you take a screenshot and you repost it saying see if you're on that party side that means you're just as dumb and ridiculous as this person that kind of falls into the weak man fallacy but by all means go ahead i mean who are we to get in the middle of a political showdown on social media about grammar right

but you find the weakest part of their argument and you treat it like the whole argument when in reality they probably have a lot of strong points that you just don't want to touch on. You expect people to use these fallacies when they talk about politics, but you don't expect them to come from a random comedy skit-tik-toker with 50 million followers in his apology statement

after being gone from the internet for two years. The problem just comes down to the fact that people just don't care enough about mama guy to fact-check his information. Sohuan Zhang was one of the most followed South Koreans on TikTok. Most South Koreans have no clue who this guy is. They would see him on the street. They would not know this man.

Summer of 2020, he starts his TikTok account. I will say like most creators, myself included, he has very limited amounts of talent, relatively good Wi-Fi connection and moderately high tolerance for embarrassing himself. That's pretty much it. There's nothing particularly skillful about his videos, But it ends up working.

The first video he ever uploads gets 200,000 views. The next one, over a million views. And naturally, this convinces him that he has God's gift to earth and he must grace our measly presences with his infamous mama videos. In just a single year, he grows to have 40 million followers. I mean, so maybe he does have some sort of reasoning to believe that he's extraordinary. He was at one point, one of the top 10 most followed TikTokers in the world. Wow.

Yeah. Additionally, he secures a spot in the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Asia. He has a video with Jason Durullo that has 3.1 million likes. It's like the, you know that trend where it is greeting people in different countries? And you greet people in Korea and both sides are bowing. And then they greet in America and they're clasping hands. Oh, my gosh. And then the third one is just Mama Guy greeting in Korean and Jason Durillo greeting in the American style. And then he slaps him across the face because he's bowing.

Oh, my God. A lot of the comments are positive. You know, people are commenting on Mama Guy's videos. Today I found out about your videos from my siblings. And after I watched a couple of them, I subscribed to your channels. I haven't really smiled or laughed like that. I mean, that was like the first time in years. It's not particularly my style of video that I like watching.

So he doesn't talk a lot, right? No, he doesn't talk a lot. And, you know, I think I will say that sometimes Koreans, myself included, can have slightly bigger facial reactions. I know that in China, the recent Koreans reacting to food at dinner tables went viral. Your sister was showing us videos of like... Oh, the way he eats, the CEO. Yes, yes. But his is probably more over the top than all of that.

It just feels more catered to younger demographics, maybe, I guess. Like very exaggerated screaming. Like he'll open something and go, wow! And it's just like a box, you know? I think his main audience either just watching. his videos when they show up on his FYP and they're light, they're not politically dense or heavy, so it's a nice break from the depressing world, or people will just casually watch, or perhaps it's young kids that are following him. He makes viral videos that go viral, but he's not someone that people really know much about. They don't really know his life or his personality, but judging based solely off his mannerisms, he has a way of presenting himself to come off almost naive. he's shocked by everything he is amazed by everything he's entertained by everything therefore it almost presents him as this slightly more innocent guy

i see people were under the impression that this is just a nice guy on the internet making funny videos and like you know how people make those edits of influencers i would trust with my drink i feel like he would have ended up on a lot of those lists like that's the energy that he gives off but in korean bookstores there is probably, well, probably not anymore. But there was a book with a very poorly thought out title. It's called My 15 Second Seconds. Nobody told the author about any of the references or memes that could arise

in having your face plastered on the front cover next to the words in bold, My 15 seconds? 15 seconds of what? You know what? Or it could mean My 15 seconds of fame? Both could be applicable. Because this is Mama God. Guy's book that was sold in Korea.

My Korean researchers actually translated the entire book into English so that I was able to read it. All I know about this entire book now is that it's a very lengthy, self-congratulatory, affirmational book that is only interesting to Mamma Guy under the disguise of wanting to teach everyone how to start their own TikTok accounts. Oh, really? Yeah, he writes in the book, people around me often ask, what secret method I use to become a global TikToker? As soon as I meet them, many ask, how?

And countless inquiries come through my DMs and comments. What about me allowed such rapid growth as a TikToker? I even received questions about whether I was a child of a TikTok executive. But of course not. When I started TikTok, I was just an ordinary college student. He says that a 15-second video can take him 24 hours to film. If I had to sum up the entire book in one phrase, it would be the written variation of try being an influencer first.

a day. Like, that's pretty much the whole entirety of the book. It's hard work. That's what he's telling you. He writes in his book. I actually spent a whole week examining my face, my facial angles in front of my phone. Through repeated practice, I studied which angles made my face look good, which expressions were funny, how I appeared in natural light, how images were produced understanding lights, what hairstyles look best, and what should be in the background. Really? Yeah, because if you watch his TikToks, you would not believe that they're that highly produced. Doesn't add up. Something doesn't add up. Yeah. He says that starting TikTok was a very lonely endeavor. He says he didn't have anyone to talk to about his struggles or someone to give him

advice. He says, at those times, I would tell myself inwardly, the lonely you are, the more successful you will be. You need to know how to endure when you are lonely and struggling. You can't just give up because things are difficult. He has one chapter in his book that's just titled, I want to create a good culture and environment. He writes in that chapter, the role I want to take on is being someone who exudes joyful happiness. I want to share friendliness and healthiness that makes anyone want to hang out with me when they see me.

Whether on TikTok or in daily life, I know that followers and friends who watch me, they can only feel that joy if I'm genuinely enjoying myself wherever and whenever I meet anyone. I want to be someone who delivers joyful energy. He also just like randomly throws into his book that his ideal type is someone who is cute. and is very petite.

The book has just way too much information that nobody necessarily ever cared about and it doesn't particularly sound honest either. I was trying to put my finger onto what type of writing this is because I don't know why it is irking to a lot of people because even my Korean researchers were like, hey, so you know how it's bad in English, it's worse in Korean, so just letting you know.

It's like annoying, but in a way that you almost feel like you can't point your finger to why. And then I discovered why. It feels like when billionaires start writing memoirs and they romanticize all the obstacles that they had to overcome in their life and it's somehow annoyingly pretentious and also simultaneously if I can do it, you can do it too, energy encapsulated into one fucking annoying book that you want to throw across the room. So he's writing his little origin story like how much he grinded and that kind of writing? Exactly. but it's it's not truthful it doesn't feel honest it doesn't feel like hey no I was having a mental breakdown every single day and I read a hate comment and I wanted to jump off the roof of a building it's like I persevered for success because I want to at least change one person's life who's watching this and it's like you're doing reaction videos none of us do videos that are that important ever in any context of this world so it's just not that serious. He writes in his book that when he has to relieve stress, when the anxiety and the

stress of being a global TikTok star starts to get too much. You know, he has levels to what he does depending on the stress level. If he's moderately stressed, he will go to the gym and work out. If he's very stressed, he will walk in circles. He will pace his room. If he's very stressed beyond comprehension and function, he will go out drinking with his friends. He writes, when my mind gets complicated, I share soju shots with my friends. It will help clear my thoughts and drinking doesn't solve problems but I gain the courage to try and solve complex issues and I'm grateful for my friends who are by my side I don't have particular drinking habits at most I just get the urge to go home when extremely drunk you say when I drink alcohol

I'm solving problems inside yeah that's also an annoying thing in the book no you're just drinking alcohol what are you talking about yeah you're just like hanging out with your friends and like maybe that does help you but like it's weird but you're not solving anything Yeah. Then July 2023, Mama Guy vanishes from the internet. July 8th, 2023 in South Korea, the police get a call to an apartment. There is an emergency. It seems like someone is being held captive, is trapped, maybe not legally speaking, but it would make sense considering when the police get to the apartment in question, the people inside refuse to open the door. They have to call in the fire department to come. And when they get there,

whoever is inside still is refusing to open. They have to force their way in. And they find, mind, two people, two men. What happened to the girl that called 911? Or 112? The court document, which we were able to get a hold of in South Korea states. The defendant who has just identified in court documents is a famous influencer with over 10 million YouTube followers. The defendant goes to the bar and ends up meeting with a girl. So the court documents, we were able to get them and they say that July 8th, Mama Guy, defendant, goes to a bar, meets a girl by chance. Coincidentally, they exchange. Instagram and they start DMing each other. Two weeks later, they run into each other again at a

different bar. And this time, maybe it feels like fate. Like maybe they should be friends. So they start drinking together and then eventually they end up going to a second bar. They have two bottles of champagne and four bottles of soju. Then they go to a convenience store. Buy two more bottles of soju. Two people? Initially it was another friend of the victim that was there, but she decided to go home early so I'm not entirely sure at one point in the beverage consumption she ends up leaving but regardless it's a lot of alcohol that's a lot soju is like what is that oh soju i equated to like rubbing alcohol I know it's not it's not as strong as vodka but but it's pretty it's hard liquor right yeah it's not it's not a light time it's not a beer no yeah so they get four bottles of soju

two bottles of champagne, and then they go to a convenience store and buy two more bottles of soju, snacks, and other drinks. And the defendant, Mama guy, is like, hey, do you want to go to my friend's house? The victim probably is feeling safer around this guy because she's seen his Instagram. She knows that he's a very famous influencer. And there is a sense of safety that I think comes with interacting with people that have a large public presence. Because you're like, you're not going to risk your career and your whole life online to do something crazy. In fact, Like, I feel like I would feel a little bit safer, right? So she's like, okay, fine, I'll go to your friend's house.

They get there, continue drinking. It's a small studio apartment. There's really just a bed in there. It's about four feet wide, seven feet long. Four feet wide? Yeah. Seven feet long. Yes, it's wider.

That's a bed. Yeah. What? Okay. It's like a tiny apartment. So they just put a little bed in there. That's pretty much it. They're all cramped in there.

It's stuffy. the victim says she's way too intoxicated. She just wants to close her eyes for a second, take a nap, she can sober up, and then they can leave. Like, she just wants to go home, but she's so drunk, it would not be safe for her to try to go home right now.

So she's like, I'm going to close my eyes for a second. She knocks out, and the friend, the owner of the apartment, he brings over two pieces of protection from the sink. He starts groping the victim before fully essaying her. Then the defendant, Mama Guy, gets into the bed,

starts groping her, removes her clothing down there completely, and essays her. He claims that he used protection, but later it would turn out not to be the case because at the hospital, they found his DNA inside of her body. The friend, the owner of the apartment, is still groping her from the side of the bed while Mama Guy is fully essaying her. This is around the time the victim starts waking up, and originally, the way that she reported it was, because in Korea, you cannot record a video or take pictures without a loud sound. The silencing feature for camera taking pictures is disabled on all Korean phones because Molka, Molikamara, like a hidden camera, hidden picture, up-the-skirt pictures.

We're becoming a nuisance. We're becoming a very big problem. You know, these manufacturers, they disabled it. So she starts hearing these sounds, and it wakes her up from her intoxication. And she sees Mama Guy on top of her. She pushes him off and straight up tells him, this is essay. She calls the police. She gathers her belongings and she runs out of there.

The police get there, the two guys do not open the door and the firefighters are forced to break in. The news slowly starts spreading in South Korea that a famous influencer fully essayed a girl with his friend after a night out of drinking. But it's not until months later that this is all connected. This happened July of 2023. Mama Guy stops posting July of 2020. He just leaves the internet without any explanation. So there were a few people that were wondering, is the defendant

There were a few people in Korea that were very much into the case that were trying to be internet sleuths. But because of Korea's privacy laws, it's very hard to verify. Even the court document we received, it doesn't list him by name. His only identifying features really are is that he has a YouTube channel with over 10 million followers and that this happens around the time that he stops posting. So in July, was he taken to the jail or? Yes, he was arrested. Ah, so he, okay.

Korean mainstream media news outlets, they were either told. Holdmore or investigative reporters were able to figure out who this guy was and they decided that they were going to broadcast his YouTube page and his TikToks on their news channel while talking about this case, but with a blur filter. So you see someone's TikToks and YouTube videos playing in the background while the news anchor is saying, a man in his 20s with tens of millions of subscribers on YouTube and TikTok recently, suddenly suspended all of his activities. Our investigations have confirmed that he has been brought to on charges of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman with another man.

He has even appeared on TV programs as his subscribers reach tens of millions of followers. Technically, it could be anyone, because it's blurred footage, but only technically. You can clearly tell that this is mama guy, even through the blurred footage. His hair, his video style, I mean, his head shape, pretty distinct. His hairstyle is the butt crack hair is kind of like how you call it, the butt crack hair where it just splits perfectly in the middle, like butt curtains. His hair is like pretty distinct. He has curtain bangs looking like windows into his empty skull.

And the way his body moves, his mannerisms, and his videos. I mean, people were very quickly able to cross-reference the blurred videos to the real videos. And it's very much him. Coupled with the fact that he's on hiatus, it is certain that the essayor is mama guy. Subsequently and pretty swiftly, his TikTok account is banned. But his YouTube channel, the original one is still up. The comments read from that time. He's the person I would least imagine to do what he did.

He's a monster hiding behind that innocent face this whole time, brach. Another one? This dude took never judge a book by its cover to a whole new level, skull emoji. Imagine him in prison yelling, Mama, L.O.L. No, now he's saying daddy in prison. One comment in Korean just reads, live long and always be sick. Nobody thinks that this guy's ever coming back. I mean, that's pretty much the end of the mom.

a guy lore. He's essayed a girl while she was too intoxicated to consent. He's been convicted, long-lived justice, and may he rot in the Korean prison system? Until he does come back. Five months ago. May 27th, 2025, he posts a long-winded statement almost two years after disappearing. And his full statement reads in full and see if you can spot out all the ways that he's framing the story to make people believe that he's innocent. Because it's a masterclass. in shameless manipulation of facts. This statement is translated to English to read, Hello, this is Ox Deng, so Soo-an-jong.

To everyone who knows me, I want to express my deepest apologies for the disappointment and hurt that I've caused. I should have shown you only my best side. But due to my poor judgment and mistakes, I've caused discomfort to many of you and hurt those involved. I deeply reflect on my actions and offer my heartfelt apology. Over the past year, I've spent a lot of time looking back myself and facing the consequences of my actions. I was able to grow because of your love and

support. Thanks to you, I was given many meaningful opportunities and experiences, but I brought everything down with my own hands. And I let you down. Since July 2023, I have fully cooperated with the legal proceedings related to this incident, which he has, by the way, he argued in court during the original trial that the victim consented to the essay because he saw her open her eyes. That's crazy. So he said eyes open, she consented. Yeah, and she made noises. Was she drugged or was she just drunk? It seems like she was just drunk, but overly intoxicated. But there is suspicion. We're not sure. That suspicion has not been proven in the court of law, though, legally speaking. He continues, after a long and difficult process, I was found not guilty of the major

charges that were widely reported. Can you see why that that's a weird sentence? Yeah, yeah. Like, first of all, what major charges is he talking about? Exactly. Okay, so the major charge that he's talking about when he says, I was found not guilty of the major charges. That makes it sound like the worst charges, the essay charges were dropped because those are the most major charges, right? But then he adds that were widely reported. So in the very beginning when this case erupted. It was reported that he was filming the assaults. So a lot of the attention was on and he filmed it and he filmed it because he's a content creator and he's filming things like this. See, that's what I thought. Yes, that was dropped. The essay charges are still there and he was

found guilty of them. I thought he only was charged for filming. I didn't even know that he was assaulting. Oh yeah. Oh, it gets crazier. It gets crazier. So he's saying I, the charges, I was found not guilty of the major charges that were widely reported. So it's not the major charges in general. It's that were widely reported. Wow. He says, I never filmed the other party. The investigation was closed without charges.

The claims, and again, the investigation was closed without charges only pertains to the filming charge. Wow. Only the filming charge. He says, the claims about unlawful. confinement. So originally, like I was saying, it was reported that some media outlets were also based on misinformation of they wouldn't open the door for the police. So a lot of people thought the victim was in there with them. So they're like holding her captive and won't open the door. He's saying, well, that was misinformation. It doesn't matter. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's

just pointing out all the things that's the rumors that are false. Yeah. I mean, technically she left before they refuse to let the police come into the apartment. But that's not why people hate you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, this sounds like this has to be crafted by a lawyer, too. Yeah, so we reached out to his agency for comment. My Korean research, our Korean researchers are incredible. I love them.

But they didn't respond. We've been, like, hounding them. Yeah. Because it seems like every wording is legally correct. Yes, it's legally correct. And I also, and I say this with as much disrespect as possible, I don't think that he is anywhere near competent enough to craft a statement like this. Yeah.

And then don't you think like the way that he handled this whole case from the beginning, it's like so well prepared. Like he basically got away with everything. And a lot of Koreans hate him, even though they didn't know him, they hate him now because they're saying this is another case of money by Zinnisance because this guy was making like $40,000 a month and he was bragging about it. He probably used a lot of that to get a really good attorney. And in Korea, I think there's a little bit more context.

I think in America, we have the same sentiments of money gets you a good defense. But in Korea, it's even worse because connections are even more important in Korea. So if there is a really good defense attorney who used to work at the prosecutor's office, they will charge a premium because it's not even about how good they are. It's about the connections they have with the system. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He says, well, I did my best to present the facts, not everything was accepted.

Basically, you were found guilty. And I received a suspended sentence for a part of the charges. He says a part of the charges as if the charges that he was found guilty of was not the most important charge. He says, I was also able to communicate with the other party. He doesn't say victim. And bring the matter to a respectful close. So again, in Korea, another thing is it's so hard to get essay charges concluded

that victims will settle to get any sort of financial compensation because at that point it's like what else am I getting out of this? It's not like you're going to go to prison for a very long time because the justice system is the way that it works. So you might as well get something to help with your trauma and healing, maybe for therapy, maybe for health checkups, like whatever it is, right? So this is a very normal thing. But he acts like, I was able to bring it to a respectful close. Like we both agreed upon something. Once again, I want to express my sincere apology to everyone who is affected by this situation. At first, I was overwhelmed by fear.

Some people advised me to admit to the charges saying it might result in a lighter sentence, even if they were true. But after long and difficult contemplation, I realized that what I feared most was not being able to tell the truth. But I did everything to clarify the truth, including voluntarily requesting a polygraph test, even preparing a reenactment video. Side note, polygraphs are notoriously inaccurate,

and that's why they're not used in the Court of Law in the States. But he continues. During the appeal trial, a cross-examination was scheduled but couldn't proceed due to the other party's absence. Because the victim of SA did not want to show up to be cross-examined. Still, I did my best to prove my innocence. It was a long and disorienting time, so much so that I even began to question my own memories.

Throughout at all, I had the chance to reflect. I was careless and my actions led to all of this. I failed to live up to my own standards and hurt many people along the way. I take full responsibility for the consequences of my poor judgment and thoughtless behavior and I deeply regret them. This is so crazy. Poor judgment is a very low-level word to place on something as devastating as I say. He continues, I take all your criticism and disappointment to heart, which again makes it sound like he's being canceled online for a social issue rather than a literal crime against woman. He continues, when I first started creating content, my only wish was to bring comfort or strength

to even just one person. I once met a student who told me that at a moment when they were considering self-exiting, they happened to watch one of my videos and laughed. And that laugh gave them the will to keep going. They told me that I had saved their life. I now understand more than ever the weight of the responsibility I should have carried from the beginning. This experience has truly helped me rediscover what truly matters. From now on, I will live with greater responsibility and do everything I can to ensure something like this never happens again. To everyone I've heard or disappointed, I offer my sincerest heartfelt apology. I am truly sorry. And I respectfully tell you that I'm not the man who kicked a woman in the video. He is a

different person. What's crazy is this part where he says that he's not the man in the video that kick the woman, the Pusan Roundhouse kick, he doesn't say that in the Korean version of his statement. It's only in the English one. So everything else is exactly identical, except that final statement. Because if he put that in the Korean one, every single Korean would go, what the fuck are you talking about? Shut up. Like, no one was thinking that.

They would be genuinely upset. And that's what a lot of Koreans who also understand English are writing in the comments. Like, shut up. What are you talking about? Wow. He is really good at this. He's throwing in this. CCTV video of the Pusan Roundhouse

King. No way. Yeah, well he didn't link it but he's throwing that in saying that's not me to make that the red herring of the conversation. This video was never even tied to this case. We did an episode on that video long time ago at no point ever did anyone say wait, is that that influencer

with 55 million followers on TikTok that screams Mama? Yeah. Even when Mama guy's sexual assault case came to light, nobody thought it was him in that video maybe like one or two people that were making like a i generated slop content on ticot that just wanted to get random like you know how those weird videos have been going viral

recently i didn't even see one that went viral i couldn't even find many of them or at any of them all i see are people saying hey guys he clarified it's not him and i'm like why would why would anybody even think it's him this is so random it's basically and it's such and roundhouse kick was such a big case too by itself. People already knew all about it if you do one Google search. So how could anybody connect that to him? I will assume he probably did it himself because nobody would think that they're related. In fact, the roundhouse kick situation, that case itself, it went viral for the reason that there was another YouTuber involved who released his identity without the court's permission because his identity was protected information. So everyone was like, oh, we know his

information because it got leaked and so his identity is even more talked about so no one would ever equate that to being him it doesn't even look like him in the CCTV camera like nothing about it's just two Korean guys yeah like for someone to genuinely believe that even before he made this statement you'd have to be not a great fact checker or a Googler and you may be racist a little okay like that there's just no way it's very much hey this random thing that nobody thought was me, let me tell you it wasn't me so that that's all you talk about. And it's working. When people, people are fighting in the comments. People are telling, okay, there's lots of people in the comments saying he's innocent. And when people say, no, he's not.

He's literally not. People will fight back and say, the guy in the video has a tattoo on his arm and mom a guy doesn't. Wow. Then you have the weak man fallacy. He's boiling down his entire essay charged just to the fact that he didn't film the assault. And he's acting like that's the main point. He's choosing the weakest charge that he was not convicted of and disproving it. It does not mean that he wasn't charged and convicted with essay. Just the wording itself, I think, are terrifying like these phrases. I was found not guilty of the major charges that were widely reported. I never filmed the other party. I take full responsibility for my poor judgment. I received a suspended sentence for a part of the charges. I did everything I could to prove my innocence.

So if he was found guilty, did he serve time? What was it? Okay, that's another reason why I think that a lot of people are genuinely believing that he's innocent. And, okay, my thing is, if you read his statement and you believe he's innocent, I think that's a reflection of his shameless morality. I think that's on him and everyone should hate him for it, is my opinion. However, I think if you are going there and you keep defending him and every comment section and when people are informing you, you need to look into it. And then I see some of his

fans, I guess, that are like, no, but he's innocent. He said so. And it's like, okay, well, that doesn't mean anything. You got to look into it, right? But they're like, no, he said so. And he doesn't have a tattoo. Those people, I don't understand. The reason that I think from the surface level, he appears to be innocent is because in America, you typically don't get a suspended sentence for essay charges whereas in Korea you do a suspended sentence means hey I'm going to give you

a year and six months however it's going to be suspended meaning in the next two years you're going to be free but if you commit any other crime straight to jail for a year and six months that's crazy so because he's free

people think that he is innocent It worked so well that the top comments on that post are This has to be the most incredible apology someone could ever make Another one reads, bro crazy We were all hating him for the thing he didn't do After reading this, I don't know why, I'm crying though Don't know how much, like how bad he felt by everything

Another one reads, for two years you fought to claim yourself not guilty Wow And this apology post is way more better and personal than other apologies. You wrote it in two languages, two. And I also couldn't believe that you were not guilty. I think this is the most honest and respectful and responsible apology ever.

Another one says, The guy who kicked the girl in the video has a tattoo while you don't. He's not guilty, guys. I missed you. I'm glad you're back. Out of every YouTube apology I've ever seen, this is the most honest and most sincere, good job, man, apology accepted.

No, you don't have to be sorry. Social media does, you know, we all owe you a big apology and you shouldn't have been treated this way. There's very few Korean comments, but the top ones in Korean read, let's crack open the indictment, shall we? Oh, so Koreans do know what he was charged for. Yeah, they know he's guilty, guilty. So the international viewers have no idea. They just took his statement and nobody knows what's going on. And that's why I'm saying I don't blame a lot of the people that read his statement, take it at face.

value and they accept his apology or they think he's innocent. I do, however, take problem with people that are getting responses of like, hey, let me link you a few, very few articles, because there's not a lot of articles out there, but like the very few I could find in English, and they still keep posting. Like, no, he's not. He's not. And I'm like, are you not reading? What's going on? But another comment in Korean just reads, all the comments are fucking foreigners, ha ha. Because they're like, how are people following for this? And again, it's just the lack of information in English that's available. But some people just don't care about the truth. I see some people they keep commenting on every post. It doesn't matter how many people respond to him telling them

the truth. There's someone who goes around commenting on like every video. Why do people not forgive him? He was found innocent. He is not guilty. The man who kicked the girl had a tattoo on his arm, but wangang does not have a tattoo on his arm. Plus he is sorry for scaring people even if he didn't do anything wrong. I hope you guys can all understand. And I'm like, okay. Wan Zhong, is this you? Another comment is, they're passionate. They write, dang, if you look at the comments from back then, people really thought he did it.

They act like he was not a human being. People took this way too far. People said, LOL, about him going to jail. Some people probably even sent him death threats. We should all apologize to him for what we put him through. Wow. Other people are commenting, Wang Zhang, you look so sad. You were so happy in your older videos.

What happened to that happy smile? Please stay happy. Do whatever you want. Fly around the world. eat your favorite foods, eat the famous food you missed out on, but just do something. Please don't be sad. You can be sad, but not all the time. He goes on to like that comment.

Wow. I will say, I think, again, for the people, the mass population who didn't really dig into it more, and they trusted him to tell the truth, I don't think it's their fault. It is very confusing, and I think there's a few elements to it. So during the first trial, there were two trials. during the first trial both defendants Mama Guy and his friend they tried to argue that this was all consensual

that they never they never wanted to commit a crime so there were two things they were charged with special quasi essay now this is very important okay so there's also a translation error that makes a lot of English speakers

feel like it's not essay and this is true okay we're going to get into that in a second but they had to prove that this was essay the prosecutors and they had to prove that there was a conspiracy to commit a crime which would be like aggravated essay. It would be like gang essay, if you will. That gets dropped.

The aggravated part gets dropped. But other than that, I mean, it's pretty much everything about it is just asinine. They argue to the judge that the victim definitely consented and was conscious because she made noises and opened her eyes. At one point, she made eye contact with them. She also did not actively resist or fight them off. That's what they argue. They also argue that this is not gang essay because while the friend, the owner of the

apartment was essaying the victim, they argue Mama Guy was asleep, so they were not gay essaying her. They're both individually rapist. You know, they didn't plan to be rapists together. That's pretty much what they're arguing. I mean, the court clearly thinks all of this is about as sensible as a squirrel operating heavy machinery. They procured protection together. Also, moving her eyelids doesn't mean consent. We don't even have to, like, go down the path of pointing out how ridiculous their whole defense is. During the first trial, Mama Guy was found guilty and sentenced to three years and six months in prison. He appeals it. Then he goes to a second trial and then he's sentenced to one year in six months and a two year suspended sentence,

meaning he doesn't have to go to jail anymore. That's crazy. But there's really barely any international updates on this case. And if there is, there is a huge translation discrepancy. And also you say like he was a closed court or something? He requested. He requested it. like everything's private or something like that yeah that's why even more limited information out there even in korea yeah most articles state that he is convicted of quasi rape in english the word quasi means seemingly apparently but not really being partly or almost so in some sense or degree like that's the that's the meaning of it so people are taking that as oh it wasn't fully essay like maybe it was harassment like maybe it was something else but like like

It can't be fully essay because the definition of quasi in English means not completely or just seems like it, but is not really it. It's just miscommunication. Like that's not at all what happened. So in Korea, what it means is technically the term quasi essay when you translate it in Korean and the way that it's used in his court case is that it just means there was an essay that takes place. But essay, that charge in Korea typically is intertwined. with force, physical, or threats. So the word quasi in front of it means the victim did not resist

because they were incapable of resisting. So if you just charge them within Korea, the legal definition of regular essay, then they would have to prove that the victim resisted. So this is just their saying of, hey, it's a different charge where we don't have to prove that the victim resisted because we can prove to you

that they were not in a state of resisting. So whether that means that they were too intoxicated, whether they were blacked out unconscious, whether that means they were mentally incapable of resisting at that time, whether they were in a coma, whether they were not at the developmental stage of being the age that they are on their driver's license, like there's all these different factors. Or they could have been on drugs, like prescription medications.

So they're saying it's just essay where someone is incapable of resisting. But because it gets translated into the word quasi, which means not really in English, People thought that he was not really charged with essay. Yeah, that's what I read back in the days. Yeah, but that's not at all true. And then he goes on to argue that the major charges that were widely reported were dropped. Those are the filming charges, because you remember, she had originally stated to the police that she heard some sort of recording noise.

They took their phones, but they couldn't find a recording. But even the defendants admit, Mama Guy tells the judge that he thought that when his friend was essaying the victim, he says he thought it was consensual and he wanted to film it as. a prank. I don't know how that's a prank. That's crazy. Yeah. But he himself stated that in the court. Then there's an argument that his charges were lowered, which they kind of were, because initially he was convicted of, I guess, the aggravated version of conspiracy to commit. But that gets very complicated in the court of law and they were already going to get him for the essay charges. So they do end up dropping that. But still, it's full on essay charges, like full essay charge. making this entire situation

even more unfortunate is that there is a lack of media coverage on the case, even in South Korea. Nobody really knows him in South Korea and if they do, they don't really care about him, which seems to have always been a sore spot for him. He writes in his book, I'd establish myself as a TikToker with the third

largest following in Korea after BTS and Black Pink. With the title, Korea's representative TikToker feels somewhat burdensome to me. I clearly feel pride and responsibility as a short-form creator in Korea. And then he gets kind of uncomfortable when he goes on these reality shows

and nobody knows who he is. So because of that, the lack of coverage and the mistranslation of the words and the fact that South Korea does offer suspended sentences to convicted essayers, he uses all of this to trick his audience into thinking that he's a good guy.

Something to note is that he is restricted from working in facilities that deal with children, youth, and people with disabilities. But I would say that a lot of his TikToks are targeted towards younger kids, which is terrifying, considering how hard that is to regulate. And just generally speaking, this is not particularly a defensible person. He's just not that special. And again, I mean that with so much disrespect and rudeness, I disliked him even more

after reading a book that he had written to showcase how good he was. And I end up disliking him more. So much of this book was just a back patting session. It's subtle. I mean, one or two, you won't notice it, but it's practically on every page. And make it's a cultural thing. I think if you're familiar with East Asian culture, you can see the annoyance perhaps seeping through the pages a little bit better, but it is the worst annoying way of bragging. I would just rather someone come to my face and say, ha ha, I'm better than you and spit in my face. That would be more refreshing than whatever this dumpster fire of a book is. He writes, according to my mother, I walked and talked unusually early. But in my memory,

I was just an ordinary kid who listened well to my parents. I received quite a few awards in elementary school. My grades were always good, and I had a talent in arts and physical education. So I remember receiving many awards each year that made my parents happy, from excellence awards to writing competition awards. But while doing TikTok, my luck with awards exploded. TikTok Korea gives awards every season based on domestic and international views, combined with share accounts and video upload frequency,

they announced top rankings by category monthly and select first place every three months. In these TikTok Korea Creator Awards, I have constantly been selected as first place. Nobody knows you in South Korea, but go off. I was a boy with many dreams from boxer to singer. I never easily gave up on my dreams. Good for you. You are neither a boxer nor a singer, so I guess you did give up. In middle school, I ranked third out of 230 students, and in high school I ranked seventh out of 550.

So I wasn't someone who couldn't study or did poorly, but my dreams were always a little bit different. Let me guess to help people. Yeah. Many people praise me as someone who's achieved their dream as a TikToker, but I'm still dreaming. In my freshman year of college, I hung out and drank with classmates just like everyone else,

but they were surprised when I achieved a 4.5 GPA, calling it a plot twist. I was the type to play hard when playing, but concentrate intensely when studying, even staying up late. He also goes on a multi-page tangent, seemingly taking shots at students who take part-time jobs working at cafes and tutoring because that's easy money. He says he wanted to experience hard work, which is why he wanted to build thick skin and take jobs working at construction sites or popping rice crackers on the street. He then goes on to rant about his time during the military inscription that every guy in Korea has to enlist for a mandatory two years. minus few exceptions, he says that he wanted to, quote, I felt that I should take away something more from military service.

I headed to the fitness room. I picked up dumbbells with the mindset of just trying something. I exercised consistently and really hard. And he says the month that he was discharged from the military, he does one of those bodybuilder profile photo shoots showcasing his physique. Even that, he is very holier than thou explanation. He says, rather than taking photos for the purpose of keeping them, I wanted to remember the thrilling experience of overcoming my own limits.

People might just glance at the photo on page 148 of this book, thinking, Wanjong, man, nice body. But to me, it is an intense record of overcoming my personal limits through pure effort. Bro, what is he saying? I don't know, but even my dad was jacked after the military service.

Like, I don't know what he's talking about. Everybody gets jacked after the enlistment. Yeah. And it's also like, It's not really something to write home about or dedicate a whole page for the picture on your book for It's I don't know how I know it sounds like I'm nitpicking and maybe I am in hindsight He sounds like a pick me like so annoying

It's I feel like it's especially what kind of person he is like you just know that's what I'm saying He's full of himself He continues to complain it's always half woe is me to don't worry guys I'm saving the world with my tic talks I do think that his crime is definitely tainting my perception because had I not known what kind of person he was, maybe none of this would strike me as annoying or maybe I would just say, oh, it's maybe not my personality type to be friends with him.

I just imagine this kind of condescending attitude seeping into the trial the way he even settles with the victim or was talking about the victim, talking to the victim. His arrogance and not opening the door for the police when they get there, all of these traits, I think in hindsight, make him entirely metaphorically punchable. He says, while my friends say it's unbelievable

that I've become a world-class TikToker, they really support me and say it's cool. They say, I knew you would do well at whatever you tried. When I'm with my friends, though, I'm just 27-year-old Soan-jong who wants to live an enjoyable life. He says after he won the TikTok Gold Award from the TikTok headquarters, which is like I guess like a gold play button from YouTube which like it's exciting it's fun it's

great but he said I really felt the weight on my shoulders it was an unavoidable weight of having to continue to living up to wangjong and that name going forward nobody knows you dude like yeah he's so annoying very applicable I guess but like maybe understanding train of thought Everyone has pressure at whatever they do. However, no one, no one, including myself that makes videos for the internet, should ever, in any situation, take themselves this seriously.

Like the weight of the world on his shoulders after getting a gold award from TikTok is... Another one reads, if there's a friend who doesn't know what to do right now, I'd like to tell them to do what they love most. My case is in a case of success without effort. there were many lonely times. Sometimes it was a solitary work, you know, pioneering a path no one else had walked.

But because I loved what I was doing, what I loved, you know, even that loneliness was bearable and that hardship was enjoyable. I didn't really have role models. It's impossible to find role models around me in the process of expanding activities as a TikToker. While I often felt like I was walking a long path alone, it was something I liked it. I developed a desire to pioneer ahead of everyone. It's hard to walk a path that no one else has walked. Which is actually not true.

It's not really an uncommon path to have content creators commit sexual crimes against women. So I don't know why he's patting himself on the back. That is a long, frequently journeyed path that a lot of content creators take. He writes in his book under the chapter, The hardship beyond being a global influencer. That's the title. He writes, I recently lost weight, and people around me were very worried when I suddenly lost nine pounds compared to last year. Even I was surprised. I just had become so busy that I didn't even

have time to exercise. But you had time to essay someone, so I'm pretty sure that you could make time if you wanted. I think that's the most dangerous thing about him, is that, well, he's free, but also he has no shame. He has no remorse. The way that he talks about himself in the book, the way that he talks about himself in that statement, he clearly thinks that he is a great person, everyone with his presence. And that's terrifying. Obviously, if you are someone who gets convicted of essay, you cannot be a good person. But even that statement alone is shocking. There's just no backbone. Like, just get off the internet. What are you doing? This manipulation of his word usage, all of these different fallacies that he's employing in his statement is so terrifying that there are

people out there like that. In 2023, before all of this news became public, before the conviction and his morally corrupt wordplay apology. He wrote in his book that he was in the process of launching a video game and a full clothing line because he wants a brand to exist outside of him. And I just want to say if that does happen, I will be there every step of the way. I don't care if this was 20 years later. I'm going to be there and I'm going to be reminding him of this case because I also like being a nuisance. He's just back on TikTok and everything.

So his YouTube has never been suspended. He's still actively posting on YouTube. He does not get the views that he used to, but he's still posting on YouTube. And he made a new second TikTok account because his first TikTok account was suspended. So if you ever come across his videos, block it, report it. So is he like how many like followers and stuff he has now? He only has like 50,000, which is not only, but that's a lot. So he lost his like main account.

Yeah. He lost all the followers. And he hasn't gotten any of them back. No. Okay. That's good. Yeah. but I'm so annoying.

Yeah, but that, yeah, I know. I don't know why he's even allowed to be talking. I think it's most frustrating when like literally you're watching him and you see that he fooled every single person. You know, it's crazy. He fooled everyone to the point of when his initial charges were brought to the surface in 2023. There were a lot of TikTokers that were saying, hey guys, this is what's going on with this

mama guy. And now if you look at their recent comments, people are saying, oops, this is. video aged badly because they think he's innocent and I'm like it's actually worse yeah yeah wow I don't know why I'm so emotional right now but I'm so annoying it's like that unjust feeling that's yeah so he's trying to get away with it and that is where I leave you with today's episode be safe and I will see you guys in the next one