 This new dating advice video geared towards Asian men asked the question which of these three archetypes most closely describes you and which one should you pick for dating purposes. Yeah, let's place some clips from the video in question. There was a lot of reactions on the internet. Here we go. This video specifically from my South Asian and Southeast Asian brothers out there who are down bad in the dating market. You have been only three paths you can take and the road ahead won't be easy. But I can honestly say with personal experience that it's possible to escape the rice pill or the curry pill. So let's do that right now. Let me start this off with one simple question. I want you to answer with 100% honesty. Have a look at these three photographs. Now place yourself in one you think you can honestly strive to work towards with your given genetics. Now, whichever one you chose, that's going to be the one that you go with often go for a more Chad like Apollo sort of look. But I found their experience that I have far, far better results, leaning to the pretty boy archetype. Although it eliminates my potential for women who have other preferences. My results with them were low anyway, making this trade off a fairly easy decision. Boom. So this video is from a YouTuber called Kagan Rose, Andrew. I believe he is Southeast Asian. I'm not sure from which particular country. However, there's a lot of looks maxing advice on the Internet that's going really viral for guys, Andrew. But this is one of the first times I've seen an Asian guy put it and he specifically in this video label Southeast Asian guys in Indian guys or like Daisy guys for the advice. So pretty interesting, generated a lot of discussion. Make sure you like subscribe and turning your notifications Andrew. But you know what can food max food taste max, taste max your food with smaller sauce guys. It's got a lot of umami, a lot of spice from Sichuan to Sicily, garlic, onion, spiciness, salt. It just tastes good on everything. Check it out. Shake it up. You know what I think that that is Sichuan flavors for people who might not like Sichuan or didn't grow up with it. Um, Andrew, I think that looks maxing advice is going so viral right now. Even though like some people they grow up organically learning from their dad, their uncles, their cousins, but a lot of guys get zero coaching in this particular lane of life. So they need to go to the Internet to supplement it. Yeah, I think the key to just getting better is being self aware and just being honest with yourself of like where you might stand. And it's all relatives to society and your environment, right? Different environments can view you differently. It's true when you're in college in a certain if you're an engineer, you're going to be viewed as an engineer. So then you just need to be a cool engineer. Or if you're in this place of America or if you're in that country, you are going to be viewed differently. So it does depend on a lot of different factors. This is why advice on the Internet is helpful to get your mind going. But you shouldn't just take it like at face value to supplement it with a lot of real life reps. Listen, guys, a tiger shark can eat a human. A great white can easily eat a tiger shark. Anyway, let's just get into this guy's breakdown, Andrew. This guy says that here are the three different archetypes. Andrew, you're either a pretty boy, E-boy, which is Timothy Chalamet. You're an Apollo, which is like half pretty boy, half warrior, which is was the Zayn Malik. And then you're either that or a gigachat, which is like a hyper testosterone, you know, big strong jaw. I don't even know who this guy is. Or you could put Jason Momoa in his place, right? But this guy's like a pretty boy, Jason Momoa. Yeah, what? So to me, I get what he's saying with these three archetypes. I understand. To me, though, I view them more almost these are just like body types and facial structures. Because you're saying what? This Timothy Chalamet ectomorph, Zayn Malik, mesomorph. This guy, I mean, I would have picked a buffer guy for the gigachat. No, but I'm just saying it just goes from skinny, skinny, like clearly not a warrior. And then you have the in between, which is like the guy that can kind of do everything well balanced. And then you kind of have the guy who's seen as a destructive, dangerous warrior that could be more toxic. We'll probably, you know, ladies will, uh, we'll protect you, but also fold you up in a chair. Right. I mean, body type, Andrew, is this just the Tyrese Halliburton, the DeMar DeRosin. And then you have like the LeBron Zion on like the gigachat. Yeah. It's just low middle high, right? I mean, they're not really styles because you can be viewed as dangerous, more or less dangerous and edgy in all of these styles. Right. Like Tyga, I guess is a skinny guy, but he's viewed as kind of. Yeah. If Timothy Chalamet got full sleeve tattoos, he would be seen as more as a machine gun Kelly. Right. And then we got Kelly. I got the height. That's why it's so variable. I just want to use this different celebrities here just to paint it for people. Andrew Justin Bieber would be a pretty boy, E boy. Zach Efron would be an Apollo, which is the mid tier, right? And Jason Statham, would you say he would be the gigachat? Yeah. Beard usually gigachat. You're going to associate it with facial hair and buffer muscles. All right. For black guys, I was thinking about it, Andrew. The entire spectrum is probably shifted a notch more masculine at a baseline, right? Okay. Just because that's the archetype. That's the societal perception, but I don't know. Because some people would say the pretty boy E boy would be Kelly Ubrey, Andrew. But Kelly Ubrey is 6 10 and an amazing athlete. So does that still put him in that lane? Then Michael B Jordan would be considered like probably in between a pretty boy and an Apollo, right? He still plays boxers, right? And then you've got Odell Beckham, Jr. And then maybe on the more gigachat side for African Americans or I guess he's British. Idris Elba. Yeah. Yeah. I can see that. Here's what we came for AZN Americans. These are Asian Americans. Do you agree with me? I got Keshi as the pretty boy. Or any skinny TikTok guy. Right. And there's so many of the broccoli cut dudes. I can't name them all, but you know what I'm talking about. Keshi Song or something in their background. Right. Then we got one notch starting to get more masculine. Andrew Chris Payne. Yeah. Not a super buff guy, but good looking and kind of in the medium. Often plays a rich guy in a suit. Right. Like not a warrior type. The guy who hires the warrior. Right. Or a lover. Chris Payne is a lover. Then we got one notch even more masculine than that. Andrew Young Manzino. Okay. Yeah. No. He's got like a six pack. Works out. Right. Right. And he's got more than average masculine. Like way more. Andrew. You got Tim Chung. Kylie Jennings bodyguard. Randall Pick. Who is a guy who's actually a Cambodian athleisure wear owner. He's all tatted up. Then you've got Kevin Kryder or Simu more into the gigachat lane. Yeah. And this is of the Asian tier. Right. It was hard to think of a lot of Asian gigachats. Andrew. Like I don't even know like some of these people like our Asian gigachats might be like almost considered Apollo in the in another bodybuilders. I guess. I was talking about but everybody here is good looking. Everybody here is pretty. Right. That's a thing. So I'm saying in a way they're all pretty boys of their tier. Respective body type. Right. Or a height or just archetype. Yeah. Maybe some of the guys from physical 100 especially the bigger guys would be the gigachats. Right. I also think that there is a hood version to preppy version to hipster version of all of these. Of course. I think they're subcategories of these three. Right. Right. Right. Types of Asian guys or types of guys. Right. But I think the first three E boy to Apollo to gigachat are types of masculinity I guess masculine characters. And then there's also styles in between and you can be a hood or preppy of each of each one. Yeah. Right. Somebody said I think that guys by the way I think some of these guys stay in one archetype their whole life. But wouldn't you say that as you got get older it could be theoretical that somebody could have been a pretty boy when they were young was Apollo in their like 20s. And then as they got older became a gigachat. Yeah. I feel like that is like just a maturation pose. Just how you express your testosterone and oxytocin is things also your height how your face looks facial hair or not. Like we said Ecto mezzo endo on your body type they could all impact it. He also said Andrew in his video that Southeast Asians should probably not pretty boy max. They should more end up towards Apollo or gigachat because of their different bone structure because like a lot of Indian guys they tend to look better and they can grow really thick beards. They're saying South Asian guys South Asian guys. Oh yeah. That's what he says in his video. Could you agree. I guess but how do you even be a pretty boy if you don't got that body type to me. I guess that's my whole question is genetically how you can't some of these things are not an option for you. Yeah. I think the only reason why I sort of didn't like some of his things is if you see in this video right here where he switches these two average looking guys to like model faces and he's like yeah you should become these models. I'm like but these two guys in these photos cannot become these two models. It is impossible right. But he does also go on to say Andrew that hyper gigachat bodybuilders with really low body fat are unattractive. Bodybuilders are not for everybody. I know a lot of women who do not find bodybuilders. Bodybuilders are so buff and ripped in their lifestyles all around bodybuilding. It's like in a different tier. But how do you justify how popular Arnold Schwarzenegger was in the 70s and 80s. But I was also saying that that was kind of a different time right. Yeah. I don't think every woman wanted to get with Arnold either. Right. And you're definitely like on steroids probably. He goes on to say if you're five seven and below definitely go for the pretty boy look. And this is where a lot of disagreement was because a lot of people are like if you're small and you go for the pretty boy look that's not going to work. And I guess my answer to that is like it could or it couldn't work depending on what fishbowl you're in. It depends on what fishbowl you're in. And also like to be honest what you can even achieve. I feel like to get that floppy hair haircut. You need a lot of hair. But like you need a lot of density. You can't be a pretty boy and be shave your head bald. Can you. Like you know what I mean. I don't know. Do pretty boys only have a hair. I don't know. So we're just talking about body types here. Maybe you're a pretty boy that always wears a beanie. I don't. I don't know. Listen guys. Here's the weird thing about his video is he picked a lot of photos of models. So if you look like a model in your face. I don't care if you look like a model bodybuilder. A model mid tier body or a model skinny guy. It's going to work because you look like a model. You have options if you look like a model. If you're born to look like a model you have options. That's when you get to choose and let's say. Like to be honest I guess if you're born in the middle you have the most options because if you just slim down you can look more like a pretty boy. If you want to bulk up you could be more of the giga Chad. So I don't know. I get that I hope this video that he made and our video that you're watching right now is helpful and to get you into getting you to start thinking. Get your brain worrying. But it is not the answer because we're not. We don't know you. Nobody knows what you look like. So we can't give you exact advice. Somebody said man how come it seems like a lot of Asian guys are just super unaware of this. Whereas other more socialized people in their childhood just organically know this. Do you agree with this that this is information that somebody just like sort of organically picks up. Because these are this is a more like this is not normal terminology. But these come from conversations over years of like talking about things like in your family because like I know in generally this is a generalization that in Korean families they might talk more about looks specifically then even a Chinese family. They're like oh that is your look. You should go for that. They'll be very specific like oh yeah like she's really pretty when she does this or like oh my gosh yeah I look like this this k-drama person I'm gonna like you know be influenced by them. Like no you get a bunch of Koreans in a Romander it's like watching ESPN detail work with Kobe breaking down. So I'm saying like yeah a lot of people are missing out on it. So I don't think it should ever discourage anybody because I see some people in the comments that are like oh well you know it's so hard for me. I don't know. I'm like dude don't just watch one video and feel bad but only if you've actually like really tried to do something in real life. Right. The next up was like oh yeah of course this Asian pretty boy guy is gonna say that Asian pretty boy look is the best. And then there was a huge argument about k-pop saying well why k-pop only works for celebrities. Some people said no. If you k-pop max it's gonna work for regular girls who can't get to those celebrities. And there was just a ton of arguing back and forth. Other people bringing up photos of old Samurai's saying those old Japanese Samurai's look you know or the actors that play the Samurai's look like really masculine and then you know people saying they can why not be look versus the k-pop look versus the k-drama look. It is true that each one of those lanes Andrew the guy you would get to play a Samurai the guy you would get to pay like a chibble evil executive k-drama and then a k-pop guy would all have different looks. And that's what I'm saying is how come there's so much argument over like whether the k-pop look is good or bad for Asian guys. He's a LeBron better than Jordan and better than Kobe. What are we debating about? What are we debating about guys? Like are you I think that all this advice is good for putting it out there but it does not give you the answers because there's just a round of course guys if you take this lane and over here and you have this body type that works if you have this body type you try to do this in this environment maybe it doesn't work as well. Well guess what you never know until you try. Like being a thick buff Asian guy is going to work if you want to be the first Asian guy to be a country singer because I would imagine in the country singer lane they seem to be a lot more into like both that's a country body. But if you try to play like a indie pop guy in your like super buff like like an ultra Jason Momoa looking at with that also what is your personality let's say you're a big stocky Asian dude well work out trim down and then also if you are very Americanized and you like like blue collar women then you can like then that the body is like more blue you know what I mean like there's all these like micro situations that you need more detail for so that's why I just I don't these videos are just like it just gonna go in a circle man well should I set the screen on the right or the left in a high picking role it depends right you got to read the defense somebody said the pretty boy look will fade after 30 you have to start transitioning in your mid 20s and then people were pointing out this Japanese guy who was young and he used to get compared to Johnny Depp but then he kind of looked weird when he got older using the pretty boy look but who knows I don't know he looks like a vampire yeah RIP to him though I heard he was a really huge rock star but yeah I will say this people with that look you know that crow look yeah certain looks like they age differently I say this and I don't think Justin Bieber is gonna make as good looking of a 50 year old as he did a 15 year old probably well because maybe he's gonna look too skinny maybe I don't know who knows man that's what I think but yeah I mean it's just different for everybody I can see somebody maintaining that look throughout their years too right this guy just said man I was trying to be buff and grow out my facial hair and it never worked and then I K-pop max finally and my life has turned 180 degrees around good you got a breed and react man this guy said as a Southeast Asian guy we cannot pull off the pretty boy look of the Koreans because it is much a stereotypically slender frame for example I think we should pull off more rigid vibes because Southeast Asians were historically seen as bad boys and gangsters or also F boys in the early 90s and 2000s somebody said yes Southeast Asian dudes should go for hood maxing which is stuff like buzz cuts tattoos and a built body do you agree I would say this in America going for a more edgy look if I was a Southeast Asian dude and I was darker skin that's the way I would go because then I could siphon into some of that like like urban energy that I just think that when East Asian guys do it like nine out of ten times it doesn't even look right you know what I mean because that's just not the I'm not saying what is actually people's background or not I'm just saying like how the society subconsciously perceives it yeah I believe that that is true because if we look at Randall Pick he's tattooed up and even this guy Brian Poos post who is a lead dancer he's playing that more like edgy tatted up lane you know full sleeves you don't have to get hood tats though you could just get like you know not something goofy though ultimately Andrew this is the last one somebody said that this guy found a study said in the UK is that men that have very negative behaviors who have been to prison and have lower IQ are more likely to have more sexual partners because women select for dark triad abusive traits this is what this guy said by the way I'm not saying I agree with this and somebody said yes I know some broke Asian dudes that work blue collar jobs that have better dating lives than way more educated way more guys with way more money what do you think of this because people are saying that it just comes down to fitting what a girl wants to get with when it comes to dating because I would say this in a very late stage capitalistic society sometimes people stop caring about what your mom told you to care about which is having really good grades getting to a really good college and having a really good career I will say there's some truth to that I mean first of all bad boys have always been popular ever since Greece what is it the 60s but is that an American thing a western thing in UK I think bad boys have always been popular so to me it's I think that it's just that when you you know maybe you're an ex con and you come out of prison there's a group of women who are okay with that and those women tend to be maybe more promiscuous like there's a market of the promiscuous women will be more attracted to you because you look more promiscuous girls promiscuous girls generally what do they want they want clean cut guys or they want a promiscuous guy to date to date yeah I mean so it's just human nature I don't know I mean to me that's not surprising though are they picking Doug funny or Roger that's funny because I'm more likely picking Roger than Doug funny and this is where dudes need to make a decision they're like oh am I trying to date around and have fun as in hook up or am I trying to just find the best mate and lock him down guess what people are locking down later in life so the play around phase is larger so they're playing around a little bit longer and more so therefore when people are in that mode what do they look for probably more of the bad boys during that phase and that phase is a little bit longer nowadays I would agree I would say this my one piece of advice for and this is specifically for if you're from a similar background even a lot of the people in my family or that I know not everybody is but like a really educated Chinese like scholar family that like hates tattoos and like ears piercings and stuff like that you got to accept some of it because you know your grandparents your parents that are so Confucian and telling you all you got hearings you're a degenerate they are not living your life and they're not like they're not just going to deal with whatever options that you have in the dating world so I would say learn to accept some more edginess because it plays really well in the Western world ultimately Andrew what is your takeaway I think that all these posts like you said helpful for somebody who doesn't know anything but could be a little bit weird if you're just only going to this guy Kagan Rose's page and that's the only time you ever think about it you have to have some discussions in real life with people who actually have real life experiences I 100% agree art everybody let us know in the comments down below about our analysis what do you think about our dating advice you know because I feel like it's I'm not here to I can't tell you what to do but I'm just trying to tell you how to think about their videos and their advice because I feel like their advice needs interpretation sometimes hey listen guys e-boy pretty boy Apollo or giga Chad I didn't even know the spectrum till we made this video let us know what you think in the comment section below until next time with the hop-hop boys we out peace