GOPNIKS IN 2023?
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- I think you all know what Slavs do most of their lives - they squat and wear Adidas tracksuits. Squatting Slav is probably the biggest Eastern European meme out there...and I hate it, really. Because this image is based on the depiction of Gopniks - a real "subculture" that roamed the streets of Russian cities in the 1990s and 2000s. Just like their foreign counterparts - chavs or bogans, they were despised by literally everyone else. The Gopnik’s origin dates back to the 80s, when this name was used to identify badly educated, lower-class, bigoted guys who are at the edges of the criminal world. In the next 10-15 years gopniks were a real nightmare for all those living in disadvantaged neighborhoods of Russian cities: every late night encounter with them could have ended with you losing property, being humiliated and beaten. Miraculously, their appearance and style (shaved heads, tracsuits, weird hats) somehow became popular on the Internet in the middle of 2010s, and now everyone pictures a typical Slavic male as a gopnik. Today let's talk about how real, traditional GOPniks were born in the Soviet Union, how this "movement" was reborn after the collapse of the USSR and gave birth to the image of a dude in an Adidas suit with a shaved head, which has become one of the biggest memes about Russia. And lastly, about how this movement finally died...and what came to replace it!
00:00 Introduction
02:17 History of Gopniks
07:53 Gopniks as a meme
11:27 Who came after gopniks?
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Weebs beating up hooligans in a mall is pretty cool. Props to the weebs.
Only in Soviet Russia weebs beat up the hools
Sad
trash vs garbage
Now you will understand...
... *WHY THEY CALL US MALL NINJAS!*
I'd be proud if it was the other way around
2007: what, guys....anime?
2023: what guys....not anime?
Imagine the disappointment a idealist 20-something Russian who studied to be in police just to get assigned to monitor some teen weebs (& not even the degenerate kind). LoL
Well, that's good, less risk.
weebs are a greater threat to society than gopniks ever were
There are almost no idealists in Ru police also they usually come from the same strata of society as common criminals. Most of the low ranking police officers were just too dumb to find a better paying job.
@@fgjjdgb3949 maybe… until the regime decides the police are soldiers now and sends desk workers to battle with no fighting experience.
They did arm police in Belgorod I think
from GOPNIKS to weebs. dam this world is to crazy
Even gopniks couldn't survive post-modernism.
postmodern philsophy killed gopniks???
Imagine getting jumped and beat up by a bunch of femboys in maid costumes.
That’s metal
That's gotta be someone's fetish
Poland in a nutshell.
I can't imagine it because it wouldn't happen to me lol. Too big and stronk. I'll imagine it happening to someone else.
@@blastermike_sd70ace80 You can just increase the number of femboys to match your strength, if 6 femboys can't beat you just imagine there's like 5000 of them
As a polish person who lives in Ireland and goes to school there I am proud to wear my Slavic Adidas drip 🇵🇱🇮🇪
W Polszy teraz moda na dresiki Adasia przeżywa renesans 🙂Jeszcze ze 2-3 lata temu dres to był obciach, teraz na szczęście do druga młoda osoba w czarnym Adaśku. Czekam jeszcze aż na dobre wrócą tamte popularne ok. 10 lat temu zgrabne buty w stylu jak np. Puma Ferrari.
As a Russian person in America my “ casual clothes” just look like a stalkers’s from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series.
@@AnnaLuchia of course it does!
@@AnnaLuchia np 👌
@@obywatelcane6775 Puma Ferarris are 🔥
Weird how "Slav Squat" got picked up at all in the ENG web. Always surprised in your creativity with what subject you cover. Thanks
Squatting Slavs are more like Pooping Slavs. Assume the position! lol
0:23 Blame Life of Boris
I'd have done anything to drop kick him
In Mongolia, we had them too, during late 80s to early 2000s in the cities. Especially in the capital and the biggest city beside the capital. We called them hooligans or хулиган in Mongolian. Some teenagers from countryside sums (something akin to towns or villages) and small hamlets tried to emulate these guys during early 2000s but they quickly died out. Hooligans were exclusively from the third worst poverty stricken part of cities around shittiest apartments.
Bro the mental image of a gopnik mongol horde is too funy
Amazing video and as an Aussie I kinda understand where you're coming from it's like when people assume all Aussies are Bogans, keep up the awesome work mate! Love your videos!
Ikr... Only half of us are :D
I mean I'm from Canada and 100% of Canadians are hosers.
Obviously not all Aussies are bogans. That would exclude all the spiders, abos, and emus.
I don't assume all aussies are bogan I assume they're all like Koala-man.
@@berniekatzroy The only man on UA-cam to correctly assume what Aussies are like, it's true most of us are like Koala-man.
The fight between the weebs and the ofnikis reminds me of the mexican subculture fight between emos and punks like 15 years ago XD
There is missing part about the 80th in the USSR. Those gopnik fellows were mostly in Leningrad and Kazan terrorizing the streets of respective cities and sometimes touring to Moscow.
In the city of Moscow there were so-called Rockers (named after Britain subculture) vs not Mods but Lubers. Moscow Rockers were actually weed smoking hippies that listend to gothic rock performed by mr.Tzoi of North Korean etnicity and considered themselfs as 'the westeners'. The Lubers dressed in similiar checked pants of that modern Re-dun weebs and had a buzzcut. Luber subculture was based on two pillars: so-called true-leninism (being a typical proletariat) and pumping weights.
So Lubers raided and attacked Rockers for inproper dress for the soviet people and humiliated them by cutting long hair with a knife. In the 90th Lubers were gone away with leninsm and thus converted to ordinary gopniks.
Iv been emo 15 years ago and we fight with gopniks too ))
In Poland gopniks are called "dresiarze" (literally tracksuiters) and today their existence mainly revolves around football. And it seems that dresiarze era came to an end with joining EU as many started looking for bread in the West and didn't have incentive to seek bumps anymore.
In russia they exist mainly in police
in slovakia we got vagoši
That's strange, I didn't see any diminishment of the numbers of Dresiaże. To be honest i think they are not possible to fully eradicate as they are spawn of specific living conditions and values passed down from generation to generation. I personally see as many of them as before and I thing that as long as we will have "patologia" (colloquial name of people -mostly poor- who exhibit undesirable thug like behaviors.) And yes, I would sey that Dresiaże and Gopniks are different culture from the rest of their respective societies, if not an different Civilisations.Theyre moral code and unwritten law of conduct on the street is very different from the rest of the society - to the point of culture shock.
I encoutered classic gopniks in the late '00s when they tried to harass us at anime fan gatherings in my city. They were mostly pathetic by then. Also helps that I'm a big guy, those guys were easy to intimidate lol.
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You didnt meet quality gopniks in your city?? In the early 2000snds i saw many great examples
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 Kaliningrad is a bit out of the way from the rest of Russia. I feel that we had more junkies than gopniks.
@@Flint404 hahaha european civilizations influence
@@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 hahaha, we won't get nuked because we're too close to Poland. haha... This is sad really...
Несколько лет назад я узнала, что, оказывается, я родилась и выросла в неблагополучной районе. В интернете я видела много шуток про гопников отсюда. Но первый и единственный раз я увидела настоящего гопника (в адидасе, на кортанах, с сигаретой в зубах и дружками вокруг) 5 лет назад на вокзале в Москве...
Cанкт-Петербург, станция Ломоносовская. Видел "гопника" год назад. В тренировочном костюме, в кепке, тощий, беззубый, пьяный уже утром.
Now we need a video about the impact of anime in Russia
Will lead Russia to its downfall
@@Setarko Russia is led to downfall by other, more stupid people than anime fans.
@@Setarko the east has fallen
The tried to ban it. Or at least death note.
@@benismann it's so over
omg the last subculture you mention is frickin' awesome :D PMC Ryodan haha epic :D
Can't have been all bad to have been a Gopknik, after all, one was released from prison, went on to become a chef and create his own mercenary force, and the other allegedly drove a taxi round Moscow and went on to become president of Russia.
Quiet Спокойная Ночь got me feeling some kinda way. Great video 👍
The gopnik meme was and is very popular in german-russian communitys.
Thats very interisting for me.
German Russian friend told me about them a little earlier than they appeared in the English web referring to them as Holzrussen. Wooden Russians.
@@johanneskuhrt146 thats how we call them in germany
Thank you for the update.
Excellent posting!
i agree that "gopniks" do evolve. obviously you mentioned how it was in Russia but you didnt really develop for Poland. and having read the page about "dresy", they are pretty similar with how they used to be in Romania (maybe Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia too but borrowing some Russian concepts).
dresy in Poland (from dres - slang for tracksuit) were basically a middle point between the Russian gopnik and the British chav, whereas in Romania we called them golani or cocalari, the former term was famously used by our first post-communist president to describe those who protested against him.
anyway these people basically have the same traits as you described, usually short hair (not always), at first wearing trackies, but now they wear pretty much anything, like puffed up jackets, hoodies, leather jackets, tank tops, whatever, they usually have nothing better to do so they are aggresive for no reason, they drive clapped out German cars with rolled back mileage, they just love everything macho, they are pretty anti-intellectual and behave like absolute "peasants". but they are basically evolving in the sense that back in the 2000s they were broke as shit but now they can afford what most of the urban population can. still, that doesnt change the fact that they are pretty despised by lots of people and have such a high image of themselves. i think thats pretty much it tho. oh yeah PS, you can see some of these people as politicians, usually in local politics acting like thugs and indulging in corruption ;)
Cursed thumbnail, I don't want to get mugged by an anime girl.
You'd have a chance to change it if you signed up for patreon :Trollface:
@@Setarko now I understand why the anime girl haha
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May 15, 2023 2:46AM
What the...? But everyone should want to get mugged by an anime girl. Don't you understand? It means you're not getting mugged, but a zany adventure's about to begin.
Ahh the gopnik, really don't miss them. We had our own derivative in Lithuania called Marozas or Kentas and for the lowest of the Zekas. Same reasons as you described elevated them into existance and same reasons most likely got them to go away. But in smaller cities like mine it's still a thing in the sleeping districts
Kaune rajonuose yra dar senių kurie nepuola jau nieko,bet drabužių madą palaiko,adidasai Tomo šelbio kepurė,greičio akiniai,adidasiukai padielkiniai ir cepos aplink kaklus, būriuojasi po 2-4 prie pūslės ir siemkų lukštų kalnų savaitgaliais
Sleepinh districts?
@greengeck0 I disagree with your assessment. Marozas is a word for alcoholic, Zekas - prisoner, Kentas - your friend. Gopnik in Lithuania are called Forsas or Urlaganas. They usually gather by house entry or somewhere on the bench, drinking beer, eating sunflower seeds and harassing passerby which could lead to mugging or a fight. Usual phrases are "you are not prom here", "why are you looking", "do you have a smoke?", "do you have money? im short of", and in 00's "do you have a phone? i need to make a call" and if you say you don't have, follows "what if i find", then you get fleeced. It was scary if they gather around your house and you ave no choice but to walk past them. In the big cities they were active in the 90's and first have 00's then slowly disappeared. That's how I remember.
At 200X Estonia also had very similar version of people - called "rullnokad" who really listened Hardbass, drove old BMW, worked or stole in Finland usually, worn adibas (Turkey cheap copy of Adidas) drank vodka etc. They didn't had real connection with criminal world, but were sometimes aggressive, especially when were fueled by 2L of inexpensive beer in plastic bottle.
Is there an overlap between them and tiblas?
@@stariyczedun not really. Tibla is expression about person who believed to Soviet union, basically Estonian version of "Homo sovieticus" sometimes also used, about Russian speakers generally.
@@wesseallik9991 so it more like ethinc slur like sheepshager for welsh, froggy for french or n* igga for african-american, isn’t it?
@@emmanuelfrancois3717 nope, you needed to have that specific outlook, way of speaking and old car what you always drived with maximum rpm.
As I said, Estonian version of gopnik but without that Russian blatnoi stuff.
Thanks! Very interesting look at a slice of modern history.
I’ve been hanging out with Russians for like 4 years and wasn’t till the last two years when anyone brought up Gopniks or the stereotype culture I cringe hard cause Russian culture is way deeper then that.
I have to say that weebs are still significantly better than a furry subculture. Could you imagine getting mugged or watching a street fight consist exclusively of people in fur suits?
Furries are mostly tech workers.
Well you don't need to imagine it we have rhis in Russia as well ua-cam.com/video/MMR5KfiSf9Y/v-deo.html
Now that you said it, I want to see gopniks being beaten by furries
There's already that vid of the Russian road ragers where the guy gets his ass beat by Disney characters, so why not a Russian futsuit mafiya?
@Radio Mars Nah, I want gopniks get ground into paste by pegasisters.
They got drafted and came back as Cargo 200 (in case the mobiks cared to pick them up)
getting beat up by weebs is the worst societal decline that can hapen to someone. rest in pieces gopniks.
In Soviet Russia, Weebs beat you.
Uh
Very informative.
The media panic about the shopping mall fight is adorable. I'm honestly envious that such a thing is considered dangerous to society. In my country's capital, getting attacked by gangs carrying machetes is frequent enough that it doesn't make frontpage news anymore
Went I went to Russia in 2018 I saw Gopniks in Saransk.
That was “offniki” - the very ones, who evolved into football fans
I’m polish and the one thing that remains from these types of people is adidas socks and sandals as well as squatting as there are either not enough bench’s or there is a hungover guy on them
the mental image of tough weebs just cracks me up
weebs replacing gopniks was surely an unpredictable plot twist
Would be good if you make a video about the "bandit music" common in many eastern european countries.
As a Russian as a --second--- 4th language learner, Shansom was music I found quickly and could understand. A lot of Russians think it's cringe, but I very much love Alexander Rozenbaum, Vanya Vorobei, Arkadiy Severyj, and in general dvornyj romans. Voennyj Shansom remains a compelling respectable genre, and I wish more people paid attention to it.
As this GOPnik term origination is a subject of debate the other version that it comes from bandid songs 'gop-stop' (a robbery) and 'gop so smykom' (a gop(nik, a robber) with a violin bow)
I learned a lot
WEEBs RISE UP!!!!!!!!
Emo Weebs beating up some hooligans who attacked them first is fucking hilarious.
Всегда удивлялся, как таких "джентльменов удачи" прославляют всякие сериалы и АУЕ движения. Мол, они "родные", хоть и упыри, а значит мы их за всё бесчинство, вредительство, издевательство и откровенный сволочизм по отношению ко всем окружающим должны прощать. Ведь у них есть "кодекс чести". Ну, Соловей-Разбойник тоже был земляком, да только Илье Муромцу это не помешало ему по шее надавать.
Well after this war is over the gopnik is about to make a comeback.
Отличный разбор.
17:00 pmc ryodan 😂
Russian weebs are on fire yo
gopnik subculture is gone. because state itself became gopnik.
Because people , who rule russia now - is the last gopniks
Another thing that screams "Russia" is seeing a carpet hung on a wall
In the first few sentences of your video, you basically spoke the initial lyrics of "Tri Poloski Cheeki Breeki Gopnik Anthem", from Hardbass School. 😂
The weebs won the fight? Good on them I guess 😂
Ha! When you mentioned the "traditional gopniks" some neurons in my brain flashed and I remembered something. And don't you dare judging me, but when I was a kid there was a book, not favorite, but interesting enough for me to read a couple and more times, and yes, of course it was "Флаги на башнях" or in bulgarian - "Знамена на кулите" or in english - "Flags on the Battlements". I've always rooted for Igor, felt sorry and angry for Vanda, but there was this damn SOB, good for nothing lowlife - Гриша Рыжиков...Grisha, Grisha, Grisha... The true "bezprizonik" and proto-gopnik. And it's good that they're disappearing! :) Cheers
Another great and informative video! I just dont comprehend why this channel has not that a lot of views and subscribers while some clowns who are not even living in Russia (either have left or have never lived at all) but relay some stereotypical made up nonsense are getting hundreds thousands of views.
I always try to slav squat anytime I can.
I asked for this video like 6 months ago.
Still up to it
if i go to russia and not see some track suite and har bass i will ask for a refund
My favourite
In the 90s & 2000s we had a big "gopnik" culture in germany because of a lot of russian immigrants came here and still to this day a lot of inmates in germany are from russia or kazakhstan
Weebs beating up gangs? Russia is a different world
Probably most famous Gopnik around - Eugene Hutz in "Everything Is Illuminated" movie version
So just chavs then, they made the switch from Adidas to Burberry to hoody here in under a decade
Considering the lower class/ blue collar environments these youths are coming from, I’m surprised that there hasn’t been a Russian off shoot of the greaser movement.
We in Spain had the " canis " in the 90s ans early 2000s, wierdly enough that was a good time from the economic perspective, but they were somewhat similar, cheap sports clothes, a los of golden " jewels ", massive amounts of cigarettes and alcohol, involvement in criminal activities (the most serious being heroine trade), though they had a somewhat distinct flavour from eastern european similar groups or british chavs
9:45 Here in Germany it's called "Russenhocke" which roughly means Russian sitting and I think this goes back to german pows who learnd this way of sitting in gulags during their captivity following ww2
Ah, da propa' ladz subculture. It didn't really die out, somewhere it just evolved into the digital
Can you make a video about A.U.E. specifically?
It is told that Волжский stays a museum of 90s. Not quite every city still has enough cameras.
In Novosibirsk Ашановские were acting during 2020-2023. Band of 60 members. Cameras, you say?
how has the SMO affected the situation?
Squatnik Tracksuitski
I might fail but I'm bringing it back. I wore them in the 90s as a kid. Getting 3 stripe classic black. I too love semechki
Weebs beat up gopniks. Most russian things in a least russian way. Sorry I can't resist stereotype.
Wait wait.. I practiced my slav-squat for years.. Its over?
Where do you live currently Setarko?
Man... I can't stop thinking what the weebs would do when drafted...
Look at the air force intel unit
Blasting Nightcore 24/7 over the comms and having waifu wars against Ukrainian weebs and themselves on Telegram before it soon got out of control and the next day you have a bunch of mobiks from both side charging over No Man's Land all guns blazing while waving around flags with anime chicks in it. The winner will then loot the loser of their merchs (Dakimakuras being the most sought after) while "persuading" the ones that surrendered for "nuke codes".
Probably already happened at least once, but it's simply covered up by being too wacky.
Lately we don't see those dangerous people on the streets anymore
Probably they were all sent to Ukraine
Hopefully they won't come back, the streets now are much better
That's how the LES APACHES of Paris died out; they were all sent to the front lines when WW1 started
i wonder if the STALKER games had any hand at all about making the gopnik meme more viral in the west
what about hard bass slavs ? the ones that make the music videos .. i saw you showed a short clip of Boris from youtube channel "Life of Boris".. or DJ Blyatman or dlb... is that an actual scene in Russia , how are they looked at?
There are several missing parts of the story and here is one of them.
In the 90th when this subculture was at its peak the norm for real gopnik was to sorta relax in a dancehall. The relaxation part was to have a long french kiss with a random chick, to kickstart a fight with a random guy... or to actually dance if you are in St.Peterburg, not other Russia. Why? Because LSD and XTC were huge in that city and local gopniks enjoyed them a lot. That's how drugs brought gopniks to the emerging rave scene of SPB where a new genre of Russian donk aka hardbass was created. Later on SPB dance radio started 90th revival with that viral balley 'gopnik' video that was all over internet and shown in here... and it made a meme as we know it.
Hardbass scene is almost the same since 90th and development there is minimal. Preferable electronic dance music among youngsters now is Russian Phonk with dumb bass hard in another way. And the drugs are no more LSD or XTC but spice and meth.
No, comrade. Gopniks are primitively immortal, like the protozoa. They arise from the ashes wherever the conditions are favourable...
ah yes CHVK Ryodan
the mafia too prefers to be called goodfellas or wiseguys :D
with how many young men are fighting this war , id be suprised if there are any gopniks left at all
This is just what a gopnik would say, were onto you, now get your track suit and kvass
Well, certain event affecting Eastern Europe for the last 1,5 year kinda replaced old memes related to post-Soviet subcultures as well... Also, Russian weebs are savage.😅
Does anyone have a link to that version of Спокойной ночь in the last part of the video?
It's this one ua-cam.com/video/dtrx1ThI5EE/v-deo.html
Gopnicks are a culture icon! It’d be very sad if they disappeared from Russia
Life of Boris 2013 moment
6:42 Харчооооок! :)
0:30 I mean, like when foreigners address Italy and us, Italians, by saying pizza, pasta, mandolino, The politician of the moment, and god knows what more.
I was literally on my gopnik phase 💀
Phase? You either live like one or don't and yea I'm still a Gopnik in 2023
@@toporgabrielconstantingeor2586 dont know why past me said invalid shit but deep inside im still an asian goonik that loves hardbass
I hope economic and political/social development will make it completely unattractive to young people to glorify anti-establishment/criminal lifestyle. The system should be so attractive that nobody should have to or want to be outside of it.
I'm sure this guy played Doki Doki, or just went to runet and typed in "gopnik anime".
In Soviet Russia, Doki Doki plays (with) YOU!
You know I am something of a Gopnik myself...
Why hello, my Fellow Gopniks, how do you do?
3:00 Jesus, i didn't realize "Gopnik" had the same origins as "Welfie" , i will never say it again, fuck..
The weebs have taken over Russia too? No place is safe 😂
Thanks for sharing the history of gopniks though. It’s nice to know context behind stuff
In Slovakia there's stokári or vagoši they are basically hooligans
My classmate tried to act like a gopnik, and that was 2015. I cringed so hard
But, but, but, Aren't there open hard bass parties in parking lots anymore?????? Could I just go to Russia and make one?? 🥺🥺🥺 🥺🥺🥺
3 strips for life 😎👍🏻
Boris wants to know your location :P
In Poland "dresy" (dresiarze, sebixy, prawilnusy) polish counterpart of gopnik are popular concept mainly due to guy who makes cartoons about them on yt. There's even a russian version of it: www.youtube.com/@user-ld8co5ry8e/videos
Actually, the first thing I think about when I think about Russia is Tzar Nicholas getting betrayed by Jews, but...I guess gopniks come in at some point as well.