There was a record-breaking number of Asian celebrities
that walked their way down the red carpet
at the Met Gala this year,
and we are going to tell you why
it was kind of important that they did.
Or not, depending on how you view
the development of Asians in America.
The Met Gala is an elite institution.
It is a very big deal to get an invitation, in a way.
You know, it used to be reserved for New York's elite,
sort of like the Bruce Wayans of Gotham City,
Jacqueline Onassis used to go.
Then, of course, it started shifting over
to be more like celebrities and arts and fashion over the year.
But is it significant that a record number of Asians
from America, from Asia, from Europe
got invited to the Gala this year?
Yeah, because they kind of have to be validated
by a certain group of people.
We are talking about the elites,
like Anna Wintour has to know your name.
Anna Wintour knows who Simu Liu is,
and Michelle Yeoh, and Stephanie Su.
She knows these people by name.
But, of course, us, you guys,
you know we have our mind in the industry,
but we also are very, very much in tune
with what your average Asian American
just trying to have a good life in America is into.
And I do think your average Asian American, Andrew,
probably has no idea what the Met Gala is.
No, I don't think they really care.
You maybe don't need to care.
But it's essentially like the New York's version
of the Oscars, except it's for fashion.
Anyways, guys, we're going to go through the list
of the Asians that showed up at the Met Gala,
that got invited.
Some of them are familiar,
and some of them are not so familiar,
but they're all bonafide stars in their own way.
So we'll talk about Asian representation.
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David, who's the number one person
that we got to talk about?
We've talked about it before. Who is it?
We got to lead off with the new queen
of the Chinese-English speaking world,
or Asian-English speaking world,
Michelle Yeoh, born in Malaysia,
got rich in Hong Kong and China,
and at 60 years old,
reemerged as an Oscar winner in America.
Yes, you know, I know that many people
are arguing about my origin,
whether I am from Hong Kong or from Malaysia,
but either way, as long as you call me the queen.
You know what's funny?
I know that she hasn't got that official title,
but I can't personally,
I personally cannot think of another older woman
that is so revered in the Asian celebrity world right now.
Right.
I'm sure there's some in Japan and Korea
that I don't know, and even of China,
but globally, she's kind of the it one.
She's it.
I would say so.
She wore a gown inspired by Karl Lagerfeld,
and that was the whole theme of the event, Andrew.
It was a gown tuxedo,
but I felt like there was still some ancient Chinese traits
to the way the silhouette was cut,
so I thought that was cool.
I like it whenever they do that.
You know, they can tie in culture
into the more Western gown.
I mean, I think my cultural hot take on Michelle Yeoh
is it's really cool to see Asian celebrities
come over at 60,
and they've been rich and famous,
and they've gone through these roller coasters in the East,
but it's like they get on an upswing
playing like mom or grandma characters in America,
which is like Michelle Yeoh's story now,
and I think that's pretty interesting.
I do think it's tough to say that, you know,
she really represents like people who struggled
because I think she came from quite an illustrious family
and had a great, you know, career.
You know what I mean?
But like, I still think it's good.
She definitely doesn't like represent
like the regular common person,
but I will say this,
at least you know all you Asians out there
who are in the industry
and can't make it for a couple decades.
Who knows?
When you're 50 or 60, they might call you back.
Well, you just have to be super successful in Asia first.
Do you think it's weird, though?
Like, do you think any Asian American kids
watching media right now are like,
why are we looking up to like Rich Brian and Michelle Yeoh?
They're from like Malaysia and Indonesia.
Is that the best Asian rapper and best Asian actress?
I'll be honest.
I think the Asian American identity
pretty much is just Asians who speak English.
Right, I'd say like eight or nine out of ten.
Yeah, like it could even be with an accent.
Like, it doesn't matter.
As long as you're Asian and you speak English.
You do not have to be an American passport holder.
Dude, as long as you're Asian and you speak English,
you can represent and still help Asian Americans
because it's true that a lot of Asians
still living in America speak English with an accent,
to be honest.
Right, statistically speaking, that is true.
Yeah, so like she represents our parents
or our aunties or whatever.
Moving on to number two, Andrew Kee Hui Kwan.
An incredible comeback story.
He shut out of the game for 35 years.
He was a refugee from Vietnam.
He moved to the 626, graduated from Alhambra High School.
He became data in the Goonies, short round in Indiana Jones.
And then now he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Yo, his suit, the Karl Lagerfeld like homage,
that was pretty cool.
I honestly thought he was dressed like an assassin.
Yeah, that's a good point.
And then I realized that's how Karl Lagerfeld used to dress.
Yeah, he was a fashion assassin.
You know, I only remember Karl Lagerfeld
really from that one line.
From J.R. Ryder, right?
Yeah.
J.R. Reynolds is hard as hell.
With a gun, it'll hit you from far as hell.
Something Karl Lagerfeld.
Yeah, anyway, shout out to Dipset.
Yeah, we really remember that line, yeah.
I think that he also took some stuff from In the Mood for Love
because he actually had that scene in Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
where he was, you know, very classical, wearing those exact same glasses.
That's true, that's true.
Andrew, what is your hot take?
Because, like, for us, I think I've been hearing a lot of stuff
from a lot of people in Hollywood.
They're so proud of Kee Hui Kwan.
He's very pro-Asian.
You know what I mean?
He's got mixed Asian stories, Chinese, Vietnamese.
But some people are like,
do you wish that Kee Hui Kwan would have called out the industry
for shutting him out for 35 years?
Or is it just good that he's so grateful
that they finally gave him this great award after 35 years?
You know, like in Michelle Yeoh's case,
I don't personally connect with them that closely.
But I like to hear the story.
I'm happy for them.
I think it's good.
Obviously, we grew up watching Michelle Yeoh.
I remember Kee Hui Kwan from watching the movies
when I was younger that were already old
because he's a lot older than me, obviously.
But personally, like, yeah, he's super grateful for the industry,
even though the industry shut him out.
So it's kind of weird.
But either way, I guess overall, I take it.
It's great.
No, I'm happy for Kee.
Moving on to number three, Andrew, Stephanie Su.
Stephanie Su played the daughter in Everything Everywhere all at once.
Apparently, she was actually in some other stuff, too,
that obviously I hadn't seen prior.
But that was her big breakout role.
I think the thing that really strikes me about her
is like she's very like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, very Silver Lake.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would say of the Asian stars,
I guess I don't want to say I was surprised that she was here,
but because she was a supporting actress in Everything Everywhere all at once,
you know, even though Kee Hui was the main male lead
and then she was a second.
She got a nomination.
But she is kind of like in that hipster world and she's artsy,
even though that's her biggest movie yet.
But she is in some upcoming projects that are also pretty big.
So I like her look a lot, man.
She went with a Valentino tuxedo inspired 1970s dress,
but with a tie and a dress and the Janelle Monáe like haircut.
And I thought she did a good job
because she's obviously trying to represent her identity.
Yeah, and I do like how the Asians who came to the Met Gala,
you know, they try to fit into the theme.
They try to do something like really cool and edgy
as you are supposed to when you go to the Met Gala, right?
You want to stand out and let people know like,
yo, I'm here. I made it.
And I think everybody was looking at everybody's like unique twist
on the Carls Lagersfeld theme, right?
I mean, my hot take is generally like,
man, it's really dope to see an Asian-American make it
that does feel like somebody I know.
It's not necessarily somebody from the city I grew up in
because I think, you know, from a nicer city for sure
than the one we grew up in.
But like Bellevue or something, Bellevue, Washington
could totally produce like a Stephanie Su.
And I still went to church with people like this
and it's pretty cool to see them get big.
Jenny from Blackpink, Andrew.
Jenny is the most popular member of the K-pop group Blackpink
after Lisa.
And she actually spent five years in New Zealand.
She could speak English,
but a lot of people describe her as sort of like Westernized
but still shy.
So yeah, did you know who Jenny from Blackpink was?
I knew of her.
I didn't know her backstory.
I didn't know she's from New Zealand.
Yeah, she speaks English pretty fluently.
I think that's cool.
I mean, she does kind of remind, like, I think, you know,
because I know that they used to sometimes make K-pop stars
out of, like, Korean-Americans and American,
like, Asian-Americans.
But I think it's cool that these stars
now are a little bit more Westernized or American.
They're not necessarily specifically American,
but New Zealand is like, you know, Western world.
It was like a British, you know, colony originally.
So I guess like...
Are you surprised that more and more of the younger Asian stars
are super fluent in English?
Yeah, but I think a lot of them have influences
and a lot of them spent time in at least Australia,
Britain, New Zealand, or America, right?
Or Canada. Canada. Canada.
Her outfit was Karl Lagersfeld-inspired,
but almost more of like an Aubrey Hepburn-type vibe.
It was from Chanel, has the Coco Chanel vibe to it.
I don't know much about fashion.
I just made that up, literally.
So I just said it looks like Austin Powers to me.
I mean, honestly, I had no idea really who she was.
I had seen her photo everywhere, but I'm a fan.
I watched a bunch of her interviews
in preparation for this video.
No, I had friends, some of our friends went to Coachella.
They went crazy when Jenny and the Blackpink,
they headlined Coachella.
So that was crazy. Yeah, I went to Lisa too.
Number five, Andrew, Simu Liu.
Simu Liu is probably the biggest Asian-American male
representation we have in Hollywood right now.
He's a friend of ours.
We hoop from time to time.
I'm rooting for him 100%.
He had a Donatella Versace personally-designed
Karl Lagersfeld joint, which was super flashy
because on his, what, is this the lapel or his chest part?
It had that like ribbon ice cream cake thing
that Italians eat, you know?
Like the ribbon-y, the cake, the ice cream cake
with the ribbon top.
I believe they call those, I don't know, ruffles, layers?
I don't know.
It was cool.
I liked how his suit looked different
because it had a different pattern on it.
So, you know, that was already standing out.
No, no, it's dope that he stood out,
but I'm not gonna lie, that's not the suit
that's the best looking to me.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I mean, overall, I think Simu was out there
to stand out, to be a good representation.
And yeah, I mean, overall, talk about,
I mean, it is true, I guess on the internet,
some people, as much as Simu says great things
and people love him, people try to like bring him down.
But it's like weird because he hasn't really done anything
that big, but apparently some people don't like
his like online persona.
No, I think it's just because he speaks on a lot of stuff
and he, like, as engaging as he is,
as engaging as you are, there's gonna be some people
who don't like you.
And just like us, like if we were to engage more
with people, maybe, I don't know,
there'd be more people who liked it
and then some more people who didn't like it.
I will say this, I think he challenges the idea
that an Asian star is just trying to stay neutral,
make as much money as they can and not polarize anybody.
Right.
Because he's not shy to share his opinions
on issues that are potentially divisive or polarizing.
I will say this, he does not care
if someone said, oh, Simu, you suck.
Like, he'll like, he'll run with it.
And I'm saying in a way, like the most Asian-American
to me stereotypical thing is somebody who's like
so worried about their career and just trying to make
as much money that they almost never even show
who they are.
To me, that would be super Asian and stereotypical.
That's a good point.
Moving on to number six, Andrew, we got Jackson Wang.
He's probably the only Chinese pop star
who is crossing over to the West a little bit,
but especially with Asian-American audiences.
You know, I was just got to think about it,
between Ki Hui, Simu, and Jackson, pretty good representation
for Asian males and Asian women, of course, too.
But I'm just obviously focused on the Asian male
because we usually get shafted the most.
So, yeah, I would say between all these guys,
I'm pretty proud of them, man.
They're all cool dudes, chill dudes.
I've been able to interact with all of them on some low.
Even Jackson, I exchanged some messages with him.
He seems really chill.
He did Coachella this year, too.
And he used to be an athlete, right?
He said he hoops, too.
Yeah, he hoops a little bit.
Or at least he used to.
And he's a cool dude.
Yeah, I mean, I'd say he had on the Michael Jackson
blacked-out Matrix Karl Lagerfeld fusion joint on.
Yeah, I mean, he pulls off stuff, you know,
that maybe I would have trouble pulling off.
No, I mean, I'm a fan of Jackson's stuff.
I would say, you know, his music videos
and maybe sonically the music, it's not for me.
No, it's not for you, David.
It's not for me.
It is not for you.
But I can see the artistry
and he's pushing the envelope and the boundaries.
David, hey, guess what?
It's not for you.
Moving on to number seven, Eileen Gu.
Eileen Gu, who won a gold medal, Andrew,
interestingly enough, for China, caused a huge controversy.
So are we calling her Asian-American
or are we calling her Chinese and just leave it at that?
Well, here's the thing.
Once she won the gold medal, she came back to America,
called herself Chinese-American or Asian-American.
And then some fans in China got mad
because they thought that she had taken on Chinese citizenship.
But she didn't.
No.
I mean, let's be honest.
A lot of countries are giving temporary citizenship nowadays,
six months, one year.
Yeah, you know, Eileen,
you can be a citizen of China for the next four months.
She had a very Asian-American or Asian-inspired dress on
from a Hong Kong designer named Robert Won.
What is your hot take on this, man?
Because this one gets real, actually, like geopolitical.
I'm pretty sure presidents know who Eileen Gu is.
I think, to be honest,
the average person does not really care about who wins the gold
medal for skiing.
Like, to be honest, like just the average person, right?
But Eileen, to me, is almost more of like an icon and model
at this point, you know?
She's very good-looking, but she is also talented
and obviously she still won the gold, like, you know.
What do you think about this argument over like,
are you loyal to America?
And then people are like, I thought you said you're Chinese.
It seems like all your friends are white.
I mean, dude, I don't know, man.
I think being a superstar hopper is complicated.
I'm sure you're just trying to do your thing and not even
think about any of this because you're worried about your lane.
But I do think that it's legitimate, I guess, as cultural
analysts, you know, analyzers, for us to analyze the fray
because we're not, I'm not Eileen Gu living her life.
All right, I'll watch this.
Watch this.
This is the credit I give him.
Who knows that maybe in 15 years from now, we realize that
what Eileen Gu did in bridging Chinese and Chinese America
and hoppers was actually fairly significant.
It could be.
Right, right.
No, I'll give her credit.
We don't know how the dominoes and the butterfly.
You don't know because it's just the first.
It's kind of jumbled.
It's kind of weird.
And yeah, anyways.
I'll say this, man.
I think a lot of hoppers, let me say this, most hoppers are
generally not going to be freedom fighters and revolutionaries
for like Asian causes like Muhammad Ali, you know, they're
not going to be that style.
They're going to be more like Jesse Williams or Doja Cat
for their causes.
You know what I mean?
Because they're kind of like in between.
Yeah, hey man.
There ain't nothing wrong with it.
Hey man, live your life.
Number eight, Andrew Song Hai Ko.
She is one of the top K-drama actresses in Korea.
Shout out to her, man.
I definitely recognize her face.
Yeah, I recognize her face.
I'm not familiar really with her work, but I think it's
really cool that she got to meet up with Jenny from Black
Pink there.
So that's kind of like this like buddy, but like look like
Korea in the house.
Korea number one.
Yeah, and she did the Fendi thing.
She didn't do the Karl Lagerfeld thing.
And interestingly enough, Andrew, we got to bring up
this point that I researched.
Obviously, I did not necessarily know this.
K-pop fans were mad that her and Jenny's dresses weren't
as spectacular as they could have been because they kept
it pretty clean, simple.
Of course, still a super expensive designer, but they
were like very like kept it simple.
Because the K-pop fans were like, no, you guys missed
your opportunity.
You could have stood out.
Right, right, right.
You could have worn something really loud.
So I guess what does it say about K-pop fans?
Because they make you rich.
They make you famous.
They follow your every move online.
They analyze it almost like, you know, how basketball
fans in Taiwan were analyzing Jeremy Lin's every move.
But then I guess I could see how that could be bad in
a way too.
Well, you could look at it one way that they kind of
stood out by the fact that their dresses were so simple
or who knows some people were kind of like, you know,
Jenny and Sung, you know, maybe you go more humbly and
then we don't try to do too much and just present yourself
as like humble women from Korea.
Yeah, I mean, honestly, I thought it was cool the way
they were taking photos there because it was more like
squad, right?
You know, I think that's tight.
You're not even supposed to have your phone out there.
So I don't know.
There's like a bunch of rules with the Met Gala guys,
you know, you know, you regular plebs may not know how
the high society of Bruce Wayne and all the philanthropists
go. Moving on to number nine, Andrew Ashley Park.
She's been in Emily in Paris Joyride.
She went with the fishnet dress from Michael Kors.
I've been seeing Ashley Park pop up a little bit.
She's actually from Michigan.
Just like Steven Yuen.
She was also in beef.
Yeah, so I mean a lot of Koreans from Michigan getting
on right now and my cultural hot take is that sometimes
you need to be from a very Americana Midwest Merican Middle
America type place.
I'm sure they're from good families there, but you know,
it's around them, you know, people eating chili bowls
and all that stuff to like navigate media.
Yeah.
No, it definitely helps to be very American at your heart,
but also Asian and I think that you have to have like
a countryside.
I think that's what Steven Yuen and Ashley Park are.
I know that they're proud of being Asian.
They can play those characters.
Obviously, we know Steven can from Minari, but I'm saying
like it's cool that they're from a very American place.
Like we're talking about the Midwest.
Yeah.
I mean, it's like an Asian rapper would probably have
to be from the inner city to pass to get by in the rap
world to get respect in the yes, probably something
like that.
It's basically along those lines.
All right, David number 10.
We got Mindy Kaling.
Mindy Kaling has been a star for like two decades.
I mean she was in with the office the office and then
she had her own show and then she doing this and she
has another show and didn't she like right on the office
to her.
She wrote 30 rock, right?
So I forgot.
I'm not gonna lie.
I mean she's respected in the comedy writer world and
she's a hilarious actress obviously like I guess her
new Netflix show Velma is a little bit more controversial
though.
Yeah, I heard that up and down up and down.
I watch some of it.
I did not think it was as bad as the critics.
This is our first South Asian on the list.
Yeah, she's wearing a Iranian designer called Jonathan
Simchi.
I mean, I think my big takeaway was that you know, I
think her writings always been super smart.
It's always interesting talking to my Daisy comedian
friends about what they think about Mindy Kaling and
but I would say generally they they're way less like
critical of her than like internet comment.
No, but I think at a time a lot of people were viewing
her somewhat as like a sellout brown girl because she
would always like just a white guy right of interest
and I'm sure she in real life.
She probably does date a lot of white guys, you know,
but she's in the industry like that's a lot.
I mean it is what anybody even the guys in the industry
probably date white people to be honest.
Yeah.
I mean a lot of people just do because it's just American
entertainment and it's just like right, right, right to
white people at Met Gala.
Don't you have to rise some ladder of the Anglosphere
whether it was an arts and fashion, but it's not arts
and fashion in Asia.
Unless you're from fashion of the Western world.
Yeah, and I've been overall a fan of Mindy Kaling.
I think she's funny.
So shout out to her but controversial too.
Yeah.
I mean some people look good after all these years.
I'm going to say she looks good after dude any every community
is hypercritical of like the first person from their world
to like enter echelons of a new industry.
I mean, well, I mean if jeez if the fans want to get mad
about a brown girl dating a white guy here the next one
we got Priyanka Chopra Jones.
I'm sorry Jonas Jonas.
Yes.
She is a Indian actress and pop star who is married to Nick
Jonas.
She wore a Valentino dress inspired by Karl Lagerfeld.
I would say that the back part was pretty cool.
It looked almost fantastical to me.
Like I had never seen this like big thing that she was holding
in her hand.
Yeah.
I mean, I think Priyanka she does a lot obviously probably
controversial in India probably for like patriarchal dudes.
I mean, I think she's controversial on the internet for internet
guys.
Yeah, for sure.
Not like IRL necessary, but for sure.
I know.
I mean, let's be honest.
She is she was at one point considered like the most beautiful
celebrity in India.
She was the next one after Aishwarya Rai kind of age.
So for her to marry a white dude who's Nick Jonas is cool.
I think no one really has a problem with him.
He's like a chill white dude, dude.
He's not white bro.
He's Italian.
He might be part Sicilian bro.
He's a little dark hair.
I would say that she fights for a lot of women's rights in
areas of the world that might be more old school, which is
pretty dope and she married a Jonas brother and I think it
actually is a really interesting story.
I to be honest, I didn't know much about it until I just
researched it for this video.
It's very interesting.
It's multi-layered.
Yeah.
No, I think they have a great marriage.
It looks cool good for them moving on to number 12 and we
got Vera Wang a famous Chinese American designer wearing
Vera Wang.
Vera Wang has been around for so long man.
She has been she's still designing.
She's been famous in the fashion world for like I don't even
know how many decades dude shout out to the Taiwanese energy
Z out of line.
Do I to you look like a lame who don't understand abroad with
a mean shoe game?
Who's up on dot dot dot Vera Wang.
He probably has met Vera Wang multiple times to be honest,
you know, what's interesting about Jay-Z Andrew Jay-Z is
from the streets where a lot of people I'm sure they probably
don't know what the Met Gala is either but he actually is
a pre Annie like perennial person at the Met Gala now.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sure he's like probably one of the only guys who made
that transition number 13 and or we got Olivia Rodrigo.
She is a huge pop star obviously was an actress when she
was younger.
She is half Filipino.
She's wearing Tom Brown in a stringy eye-catching string
dress Olivia Rodrigo.
I will what do you think David?
Do you think that obviously I think overall Filipinos are
pretty happy for pretty proud of her.
Does she need to do any more Filipino things or or I do you
think like as far as her proving that I mean, she's Filipino
this shit is not to really prove it.
Yeah.
I mean I saw the photos with her and her grandparents.
I mean, I would say she's definitely Latina passing.
I'm not saying that she ever leaned into it or like faked
it or anything like that, but I would also say a good amount
of Filipinos are also Latino pass.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would like to see her do more Filipino stuff in
the future.
But if she doesn't man, I don't think anybody's gonna really
say anything.
How about this guys?
It's different than Eileen Gu who won a gold medal for China.
I know a lot of people are like, oh, maybe Olivia.
She needs to like I need to see her make Lumpiers.
I feel like do a song with Apple to app from you know, the
black eyed peas and stuff.
I feel like there's a more relevant Filipino artist right
now. I'm moving on Christine Chu Andrew.
She is a rich woman from bling Empire because everybody
on the show is rich ritual.
Um, she had the wild Madonna vintage Chanel dress on one
thing.
I thought was cool about it is who was going to think you're
going to bust out a dress from the old days from like 30
years ago.
Um, you know, shout out to Christine Chu.
I think she is I guess I'm surprised that she's here at
the Met Gala.
I wouldn't expect like a reality show star from bling Empire,
but she's really rich in a philanthropist.
That's it.
In fact, then might even be holding more true to the old
ideals of the Met Gala before all the celebrities polluted
it. Well, shout out to her man, you know, and here's the
thing guys.
You do need rich Asians to to care about Asian things.
And do you need the rich Asians that were already rich
because they're actually low-key guys.
I don't know if you guys know this.
I'm sure you guys do there are a ton of rich Asians in
the world, but actually in terms of rich famous ones like
Christine Chu, not a lot.
Yeah, you do.
You need these people to be high-profile.
You don't need them to be high-profile, but you do need
them to care about Asians on some level, right?
Moving on number 15.
We got Wendy Deng and Grace Murdoch, who is our daughter
that she had with Rupert Murdoch and interestingly enough
Andrew Wendy Deng from Jinan Shandong, same place as
Huangmenji, yellow braised chicken, your favorite dish.
I bet Wendy Deng might know how to cook some Huangmenji.
Wow, that's crazy to think about.
Now Wendy Deng herself a little controversial on some
levels, but we don't have to go into her story.
If you guys are interested, you just Google her.
Let me just say this.
I think she might read power levels Andrew more better
than Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z.
Let me just tell you this that when someone is able to do
a biopic of her it will be pretty interesting.
Yeah, you guys got to look into it.
Moving on number 16.
We've got Sora Choi who is a very famous model in New York
City from South Korea and probably had the craziest
Tom Brown dress out of everybody.
It looked fantastical.
Sora is already a cool name.
Yeah, I mean, I had no idea who she was but I think she
had the best dress there.
Honestly, I've never seen a dress that looked like this.
This next dress from this next person, this next celeb
was designed by someone that we know.
Yeah, we're talking about Aaliyah Bhatt who is a British
Indian actress and had a pearl dress made by Prabal Gurung
who we know.
Shout out to Prabal.
Prabal Gurung.
We see him around New York all the time.
He's Nepalese.
He's a cool dude and very supportive of the Asian movement
of Asian empowerment.
I thought her dress stood out just because she didn't do
the Karl Lagerfeld thing.
I was kind of getting sick of seeing people with the leather
gloves because I was like man, shout out to Karl Lagerfeld
but man, there was a lot of too much influence.
I don't know.
I mean, it's just nice to see a switch up and last but not
least Andrew, we've got Cai Xu Kun, which is one of the
top male models in China.
He's wearing Prada.
That's who he's signed with and it still kind of looked
at some ancient dynastic drapiness to it.
But David, David, he's actually not even a model.
Oh, he's not a model?
He's a singer and rapper.
Oh my gosh.
He's one of the hottest like, I wouldn't say he's like,
he's not a rapper.
Probably like a Jay Chou or like a Chris Wu type of rapper.
He's not a rapper like Higher Brothers, but he does rap.
I think I've heard him rap.
He's actually kind of good at it.
Yeah, he's got some tracks.
Dude, he's big in China.
He's huge in China, actually.
So this is what they love in China, you know, I mean,
he's, he's, he's beautiful, man.
David, would you think, all right, to wrap this all up,
that was actually 18 Asians.
Is there a 19th one?
I think we doubled up because of the Grace Murdoch and
stuff. Anyway, so should the Asians even care that Asians
are showing up at the Met Gala or this is more for the
industry to care?
All right, it's definitely more for the industry.
If you're in the industry or your industry adjacent like
us, I guess you, you, you already knew a lot of these
people off the top of your head, but I don't think your
average Asian American should care.
But what they should know is that there's more Asians,
I guess, entering high society and fields or like rising
the ladder in fields that previously had not a lot of
Asians at high level.
Do you think, do you think it is, do you think that once
you get invited to the Met Gala, you are actually part
of high society or are you not real?
I mean, it's not like you're part of the Illuminati.
No, I don't think so.
But I think there are people who for sure, if there is
an Illuminati, know them that are at the Met Gala.
Do you think it's good that more Asians are getting up
to this tier because the more Asians that get validated
by the powerful systems, that means there's more Asians
with some leverage or say, and as long as that they are
like good people and pro-Asian and care about the goodness
of the world, then overall, that makes it better.
Ultimately, it's good.
But in terms of like how much good it does, it really
depends on what they do with their power and their influence
in their platform, right?
If they bring it back to the Asian American community,
what tiers, what income levels are they impacting, what
issues do they value and prioritize because everybody
only got 24 hours in a day and so much brain power?
I would say this, the narrative, the narrative and the
image is that Asian celebrities are generally like nicer
better people than a lot of the other celebrities.
I feel like that's the general, like Simu was seen as a
very good boy, good man in Hollywood.
Right, right.
He's not going to do a lot of drugs.
He's not going to get in a scandal, all this other stuff.
It's like clean people.
So I guess there's more clean Asians, whether or not they're
rich or super talented or good looking or whatever.
It doesn't matter.
A lot of Asians have been told to be a doctor at some point.
I don't know if Johnny Depp, Charlie Sheen and Robert Downey
Jr. had ever attempted to be a doctor.
Basically.
I'm just saying maybe there should be more Asians in politics
and at the Met Gala because Asians are nice people.
Long story short, the reason why it's impactful to people
who don't care and really don't care is because Asians have
to be strong in particular fields that they were always
traditionally weakened.
Yeah.
So anyway, long story short, let us know what you think of
the Asians at the Met Gala.
Let us know what you thought of our analysis, what you thought
of their outfits.
Let us know in the comment section below.
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