Performing under the stage name Lelush
Fucking weeb.
Fans... called him “the most miserable wage slave”, and celebrated him as an icon of “Sang culture”, a popular concept among Chinese millennials referring to a defeatist attitude toward everyday life. “Don’t let him quit,” one viewer commented on a video of a dejected-looking Ivanov performing a Russian rap. “Sisters, vote for him! Let him 996!” another fan commented, using the Chinese slang for the gruelling work schedule that afflicts many young staff, especially in digital startups.
Jesus Chinese millenials are brutal.
On the Chinese social media site Weibo a hashtag related to his departure was viewed more than 180m times and reposted more than 59,000 times, including by the Russian embassy. “Congrats, have a good rest,” the embassy said.
LOL. Even his own embassy, dude!
Something something, the goal of the oppressed is to become the oppressor
“Becoming a member of a boy band is not my dream as I can’t sing and dance,” Ivanov said in Chinese on the show, according to SCMP. “I hope the judges won’t support me. While the others want to get an A, I want to get an F as it stands for freedom.”
Negative dialectics are still dialectics
This sounds like Mark Fisher description of Kurt Cobain as Icon except for millenials
Cobain knew that he was just another piece of spectacle, that nothing runs better on MTV than a protest against MTV; knew that his every move was a cliche scripted in advance, knew that even realizing it is a cliche.
Here, even success meant failure, since to succeed would only mean that you were the new meat on which the system could feed.
Maybe the guy isn't 100% ethnically Russian but somehow he does look like one of those k-pop dudes. It's uncanny.
There are a lot of Russian ethnic groups it's like being ethnically Chinese it covers quite a large number of ethnic groups
The guy is from Vladivostok which is 80% Russian and his name is Vladislav Ivanov (though most yakuts, for example, seem to have stereotypical Russian surnames) so there's a good chance he's like Russian Russian...
Edit: Russian news seem to imply he's Russian Russian.
they definitely slapped a lot of makeup and such on him for the show, they probably have a 'standard package' to give people that k-pop look.
Judging by the ethics and business practices of those industries and those like them, it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn he's been made up to look more Asian to suit their target audiences
