How does he have the money to do this and decided it would be easier to just never let the cleaners in? Hotels literally will take out the trash and clean the toilet for you. Isn't that kind of the point? Otherwise just rent a regular apartment.
If he's addicted to gaming, he probably doesn't want to get bothered, hence why the cleaners never came in. Why would he get a regular apartment when he can s*** on this one and leave?
She'd be like, "I don't have a physical body or the ability to smell or taste, but even I can tell it smells so bad in here that you can taste it. I'm out." She'd then turn herself off quicker than he turned her off.
I've heard that some professionals softly call the idea of hikkikomori - these shut in hermits that basically go NEET and no-contact and only ever play games and pee in bottles - a sort of modern, polite version of suicide.
Like, instead of ending your life physically, you just end it socially. Shut in completely and stop doing literally anything.
Sort of like people that drink themselves into early grave, but even less socialisation.
Thats an interesting take. It basically is suicide, minus the death, if that makes sense?
I think a lot of these hikkikomori are drawn to playing video games or being on the internet because its a great distraction from the state of their lives, and its instant dopamine. Dopamine and serotonin they might not get anywhere else.
I hope the person from the video got help, and didnt go to end their life elsewhere.
Yeah, that's basically what I saw being said. They basically die to the world, but they don't take their literal life.
Especially since in some cultures - or maybe even like, social circles within broader cultures - literally failing just below expectations is already grounds for never recovering. And they never do, so what's the point of even flopping if you can just pull the plug basically?
Of course this is mental illness. I can't even believe the article would insinuate addiction to video games could lead to this WITHOUT any underlying mental health issue.
I can't even believe the article would insinuate addiction to video games could lead to this WITHOUT any underlying mental health issue.
See, first you have to realize that this is from The Sun. An organization with the journalistic integrity of that mountain of used toilet paper.
Second, it's not even an article that I see. Only a short form video. They're not interested informing people or exploring the nuances of the issues. They only want to get some of that sweet, sweet advertising clicks when people click on the "video games bad" article.
Something isn't adding up, he can afford to live in a hotel/hostel for 2 years straight while being, I assume, unemployed? Only conclusion I can come to are parents sending him a monthly stipend that he then pays for the stay and food.
A lot of people in China and South Korea make money boosting. People pay them to get their accounts into higher levels if the game is competitive. If he's addicted to a single game he's probably good enough at it to boost accounts.
There are plenty of channels that don't show streamers face. Some do a character or animated image instead of face or vtuber where you have a 3D model representing you. Or just their gaming and voice alone.
Many don’t reveal their faces. Either no visual at all or maybe a vtuber. Could also green screen or blur background. Theres also been popular creators that have gross backgrounds
The cheapest hotel I stayed at in China was like $25 usd a night (there are cheaper ones though). Admittedly, it was smaller than this AND was in Beijing (more expensive than smaller towns) so I can't adequately estimate this one's price.
But even at that price you'd only need $18k USD to live like this for two years. Food is also very cheap, though takeout costs a little more. This is something that is far more possible to do in China than in the US. Now, $18k USD is a lot of money in China and you could certainly have a far better life, but if for some reason you want to do THIS (ew), well, you could do so on small savings or money earned from playing the games or winning championships.
I agree, this is highly suspicious. If anything, I've never heard of a hotel that wouldn't insist on periodically entering and checking the room... and that's ignoring the facts of cost, smell and that the room would be absolutely infested with ants and cockroaches.
A lot of these people are extremely embarrassed by their state too. Once it gets to a certain point they can’t bring themselves to ask for help and so it only gets worse and worse.
That's the part that seems silly to me. They come by everyday or even twice a day. They would've handled whatever mess you could make in that time, and if you felt bad I'd just give them a tip. They can come in while you're gaming. You don't need to stop. Especially if he was just farming some game for money, which is super popular in China, like I'd tell them to go ahead and work around me. I'd let them come in when it was just a days worth of mess so it wasn't that bad and leave them a couple bucks for it while I continued to grind. If dude was able to afford a hotel and all that take out, he wasn't struggling for money. Even if they're streaming, it's whatever. They could even tie it in like "cleaning lady is here lol. Say hi." The chat would love it. It never had to get that bad.
Social anxiety and depression. Sure the solution is easy, just let the maid in, but your anxiety makes that an uncomfortable prospect so you go for the easier option of just doing nothing until it gets to the point that you're living in filth and you know it's disgusting. You should do something but you just can't find the motivation and by this point you know this is messed up so you start actively trying to hide the state of you living conditions from the outside world.
And in China the cleaners come in while you are in the room, so there's literally no reason for him to not let them in--he doesn't even have to stop gaming for it to happen.
That said, Chinese hotel rooms can be VERY cheap compared to US ones, and often have really good wifi, so why not an apartment kinda makes sense. I've never lived in an apartment there with as good of wifi as a hotel had.
I know much less about rent, except that the rentals that I lived in (paid for by my school so I didn't have to deal with it) had meters you had to pay at for electricity and water, and while cheaper than the US were not considered super cheap by my neighbors. If the computer equipment he was using was energy intensive it might be cheaper to pay the flat rate for a hotel room, I just can't say for sure. (But let's face it--most Redditors are saying this guy had to be wealthy or funded by his parents because they come from countries where this would be prohibitively expensive, which is the only point I'm really arguing against here.)
How the fuck does a hotel let somebody turn a small room into basically a long term rental without realizing this is happening inside. I wouldn't be surprised if the answer that this isn't really a hotel operating as hotel but rather as basically a fly by night apartment block.
I used to work at an apartment complex and we once discovered a tenant was living like this, literally in amongst piles of trash, rotting food, and bodily waste (human and animal). Somehow the neighbors never noticed or cared about the smell. The tenant was seemingly normal when we talked to him (up until he realized we had found his trash). I had been in his apartment about a year prior to the discovery, so he'd amassed all this nastiness in under a year.
He was baker acted when the discovery was made (as he threatened to end his life), and his family ended up sending professionals in to clear everything out. When he returned home, we were faced with having to give him a warning (essentially he needed to finish cleaning the apartment and keep it habitable or we would evict him, because it was unsafe for him and his neighbors). This was not something we wanted to do, but we had a responsibility to his neighbors, and we also couldn't force him to accept or seek help. When the time came to inspect ten days later, we found he'd already started amassing more trash again (A LOT for such a short amount of time). The best way to describe it is that he seemed compelled to collect it and be in amongst it.
My neighbor was a personal trainer. I’d see him in the park telling fat people to run faster etc. he was a bit chubby himself too though. He moved out after a year. Dog shit everywhere, 50 bags of trash removed — poor pup. He seemed normal in person.
There are some pretty wide distributions of wealth in China based on region. If you were from Shenzhen and your parents were educated working in Western firms they could be comfortably making 10x what the average person in Changchun makes (which is where this story originates).
Plus you could rent a hotel for 150-300 a month. Long stays are usually not far off local rental prices if you get something modest.
Food deliveries in China are crazy cheap too. Probably costs like 20-50 cents to get delivery here and eating out is cheap in China. When I lived in China and worked for a Western firm, I was only on like 3500 a month and I could order in pretty much all my meals and pay rent with loads of money left.
People who live like this dont tend to put much thought into things like that. They have an exterior source of money and they just exist in a space, never giving any thought to anything in it.
He probably only left because the trash pile had overtaken his only living space
Get involved in streaming and e-sports and you can make a livable amount of money, especially if you don't care where you live and move to a very cheap part of the country.
Also, perversely, people pay handsomely to watch a streamer ruin themselves. Mukbangers are able to become too overweight to even leave their homes, "prank" trolls are able to travel around the world and harass people and businesses for years before they end up in a Korean prison, and this guy could've had a fanbase that paid him for every bottle he threw into the pile.
Yeah good on them, especially since anyone who took even ten minutes to research the Korean justice system would know to be on their best Ps and Qs there.
Johnny Somali. He was (in)famous for his antics in Japan but they let him off the hook. Then he tried the same in Korea but they ain't having any of his shit.
Are they allowed to flush toilet paper there? I've been to places (Mexico) where the plumbing can't handle it and you're expected to put the toilet paper in the trash can next to the toilet. If he's "not allowed" then that pile is what 2 years of ass wiping looks like.
That's what I was thinking. In many countries in Asia, including the more developed ones, you are not allowed to flush toilet paper but have to throw it out with burnable waste.
Was that the wrong word? Sorry, English isn't my native language.
However, here in Europe where I am, we recycle heavily and then there is a category which is 'burnable waste', and basically includes whatever cannot be recycled after the given rules.
It's not wrong, it's just not a thing that many English speaking countries have so it sounds weird. But, that's how I'd describe it too, I've just never had to describe trash you can burn before.
No problems, I haven't seen any toilets like this in China especially a hotel that couldn't take toilet paper, it might clog if he throws too much at the same time. (I'm from China)
The gaming addiction was probably not root problem. Mental health issues like depression, chronic stress, CPTSD can all lead to severe executive dysfunction, a complete lack of motivation, or avoiding to face the fact that you live in trash.
Plumbing in some places doesn't handle toilet paper and room service won't do their thing while you're in the room. Then, at a point, I would assume that things got bad enough that he actively avoided having room service enter for fear he'd be kicked out.
The hotel in Changchun specialises in stays for Esports competitors, offing private rooms kitted out with high-end computer gaming equipment, fast internet and dedicated gaming chairs.
Staff said he still owes more than 10 days of unpaid fees totalling almost £300.
I’d be going in with a respirator, a full body suit, a dude holding a tether outside the room in case the pile shifts and I need to be hauled out, and an exorcist
I feel for the person cleaning this. My husband and I cleaned a friend's place that literally had 3 feet of bottles, rotten food, wrapping, poop, bottled pee, and everything else you can imagine. We tried to help him by bringing him to our place - we have a separate unit within the property that he would be able to have some independence, but still be around us. We gave him cleaning tasks, cleaning supplies, bought him new clothes (from underwear to shoes), paid to have his property not taken by the government and made sure he was not having any contact with drugs or alcohol. He stayed with us for 2 years. You could talk to him for hours and he sounded and seemed just like old friend. When he moved back to his place and we went to clean his apartment.... we took 89 contractor bags of gross all sorts of trash you can imagine again. And thats when we understood that you can try to help with all your tools and care, but anybody with this level of mental health issues need way more than friends and a new clean space :/
My maternal grandma was an alcoholic, and a hoarder. When she has passed away, my mother was left with her half of the house, and after going there, it was filled to the ceiling with trash. Approx 2.2m high, and about 60sqm of space. It took my parents 3 full days of working 14h a day of just taking it out, and hauling it into a burning pile.
You already did enough to help, but was it possible to visit him weekly or biweekly when he moved back to his place? People like that sometimes do best with accountability. It's easy when others are around but then it's hard to care about just yourself when you're alone. I've been in his place to an extent, it started from an injury when I already have a physical disability. Thank for for helping, it means lots to these people. Would adult protective services or a social worker have been able to help?
A hotel I was just in made it mandatory for housekeeping to check in every 72 hours. Likely to intercept human traffickers, drug abuse, and stuff like this.
Yah I was going to say that I think in a lot of places there's a rule about living in a hotel, you've got like 27 days (or something, just under a month) in 1 room before they will move you to another room due to squatting/rental laws or something. They can't let it become a fixed address. So long term stays will get moved.
And yah. A lot of hotels are now pushing mandatory cleaning every 3 days to counteract a lot of shady shit.
There are still some hotels operating on COVID cutbacks, and only sending housekeeping services after checkout. My husband has worked at a couple major hotels in Atlanta, and they're still doing this. One of them only has a single microwave for the entirety of the hotel guests... Which never made sense bc that made the microwave a high-contact surface and probably made even more people sick.
Often times people who are struggling like this won’t let others into the space for fear of embarrassment. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happened here, housekeeping may have come by but he just turned them down.
I can tell you from experience that the plumbing in China can't handle paper. You are expected to put used paper in the bin and empty it every day. This guy was just letting it pile up like everything else
My intro to the poopy plumbing concept was early 2000s working at age 18 in a restaurant in South-Central Texas. I used an employee bathroom in the kitchen and this cramped broom closet kept stinking like… just straight-up poop.
I had to throw something out so I lifted the little trash bin lid and noticed a bin full of poop smeared tissues and paper towels. I went to my buddy the head chef and was like “yo man what the fuck is up with the bathroom?”
He told me it was from the other guys in the kitchen, that it’s a Mexican thing, because they apparently have bad plumbing in Mexico so they just do that here because it’s routine for them and they don’t want to mess anything up. As a kid from a nice area I was confused and culture shocked by this but I learned something new that day: To use the customer bathroom lol
Why is he called a "gamer ? He clearly has some mental problems. Video games was just one thing he did. What we see in the video is not the result of gaming. It's the result of a mental issue.
💯💯💯💯 I worked as a housekeeper at an extended stay for a time. When we had people staying years on end, we definitely still came in the room to grab trash and give towels, even swap the sheets and at least once a week to swap bed items. They royally fucked up here. This was pure laziness on their staff for sure!
Multiple Ppl stay years?!I didn't even know that was even an option. I imagine it varies from hotel to hotel, but is it not way more expensive that an apartment?
Yeeesss. Freakin YEEAARSS. Don't get me wrong...I'm not knocking it. A lot have really great customary breakfasts, room/furniture set up, and deals. Sometimes, it's cheaper than having your own and it would be a lie to say I hadn't thought about it myself... cause I HAVE thought about it before 😹... Then I think about how much I love having everything as my own. I know a few folks who would stay for their 3-week deals and then move to another one. They have a whole rotation going on between 3 to 5 of them. When I worked at my first hotel. There was a woman who had been really dirty. Been there for 3 years and counting. State worker. We would see her laptop, printer, and hella papers just thrown about on the desks and bed.
I honestly believe that the majority of the long-term guests are there cause of necessity and not by choice. So, I guess they make it work however they do. I've always been curious about their stories tho. Like, was it that ONE emergency? That ONE check? That ONE family member? It's scary.
100% it's a mental illness. This level of squalor is a huge sign of crippling depression.
When you're depressed you don't feel anything. No need to clean, no need to be hygienic, no need to leave the house. You don't feel emotion. You're just a robot.
So you latch on to anything that makes you feel good and ignore everything else.
In this case it's videogames. In alot of other cases its drugs or alcohol.
My room looked similar to this when I was in high school. I had a severely abusive father that I was forced to live with and I was scared to leave my room growing up.
It's very different than hoarding because you feel absolutely no connection to the trash around you, in fact you feel disgusted by it, but doing anything to clean it feels impossible. I don't miss those days
How the fuck can they afford so many stuff yet be so unhygienic at the same time?
Are they a streamer that people just donate to them? Some gig where they boost other people's account? Fuck, the hotel room looks good as well. How were they able to afford a 2 year tenure???
The hotel in Changchun specialises in stays for Esports competitors, offing private rooms kitted out with high-end computer gaming equipment, fast internet and dedicated gaming chairs.
Visibility is too high in this… I’d like to see as little as possible if I’m the one cleaning this shit up 🤮
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HAAANS, BRING ZE FLAMMENWERFER!
https://i.redd.it/vn67xdkl9f8g1.gif
Literally shit
That's to protect from another Covid contagion.
How does he have the money to do this
How does he have the money to do this and decided it would be easier to just never let the cleaners in? Hotels literally will take out the trash and clean the toilet for you. Isn't that kind of the point? Otherwise just rent a regular apartment.
If he's addicted to gaming, he probably doesn't want to get bothered, hence why the cleaners never came in. Why would he get a regular apartment when he can s*** on this one and leave?
Holy fuck that's depressing.
This looks like depression and/or other untreated issues.
Depression mixed in with addiction mixed in with not wanting to socialize or see other people
Why you calling me out like that?
I can fix that
This is depressing. His AI girlfriend would've left him.
She'd be like, "I don't have a physical body or the ability to smell or taste, but even I can tell it smells so bad in here that you can taste it. I'm out." She'd then turn herself off quicker than he turned her off.
You are here, aren’t you?
I've heard that some professionals softly call the idea of hikkikomori - these shut in hermits that basically go NEET and no-contact and only ever play games and pee in bottles - a sort of modern, polite version of suicide.
Like, instead of ending your life physically, you just end it socially. Shut in completely and stop doing literally anything.
Sort of like people that drink themselves into early grave, but even less socialisation.
Thats an interesting take. It basically is suicide, minus the death, if that makes sense?
I think a lot of these hikkikomori are drawn to playing video games or being on the internet because its a great distraction from the state of their lives, and its instant dopamine. Dopamine and serotonin they might not get anywhere else.
I hope the person from the video got help, and didnt go to end their life elsewhere.
Yeah, that's basically what I saw being said. They basically die to the world, but they don't take their literal life.
Especially since in some cultures - or maybe even like, social circles within broader cultures - literally failing just below expectations is already grounds for never recovering. And they never do, so what's the point of even flopping if you can just pull the plug basically?
Agoraphobia, depression, and addiction in one disgustingly sad package maybe.
Excuse me sir, but this man had TWO gamer chairs, hes clearly a social butterfly
Nahh he probably just liked Pac-Man too much /s
Of course this is mental illness. I can't even believe the article would insinuate addiction to video games could lead to this WITHOUT any underlying mental health issue.
See, first you have to realize that this is from The Sun. An organization with the journalistic integrity of that mountain of used toilet paper.
Second, it's not even an article that I see. Only a short form video. They're not interested informing people or exploring the nuances of the issues. They only want to get some of that sweet, sweet advertising clicks when people click on the "video games bad" article.
Something isn't adding up, he can afford to live in a hotel/hostel for 2 years straight while being, I assume, unemployed? Only conclusion I can come to are parents sending him a monthly stipend that he then pays for the stay and food.
He probably just streams, or makes money playing whatever game he does, it's not out of this world
If he streams, the viewers would have seen the piles of garbage. And he’d have to be a mainstream content creator to have enough money for that.
Brudda there's like an audience exactly for this type of shit, its literally called trash streamers, and its popular in china
Because of course that exists.
The real TIL is always in the comments.
For real. Wth
Today I learned, and I hated it.
For the Western version of this, see: Asmongold
https://i.imgur.com/3GxwJi6.jpeg
Is this a Kafka reference? I don’t know who that person is but still.
Azmondgolds audience has expanded I see.
Is that really the explanation? just because trash streamers exist it doesnt mean he was one
A lot of people in China and South Korea make money boosting. People pay them to get their accounts into higher levels if the game is competitive. If he's addicted to a single game he's probably good enough at it to boost accounts.
So you're saying there's a non-zero chance this guy was boosting for Elon.
A lot of those games are china only. Even World of Warcraft has its china only servers.
There are plenty of channels that don't show streamers face. Some do a character or animated image instead of face or vtuber where you have a 3D model representing you. Or just their gaming and voice alone.
He could also just green screen the stuff out or maybe he does vtubing, there's lot of ways to hide what's actually happening.
Many don’t reveal their faces. Either no visual at all or maybe a vtuber. Could also green screen or blur background. Theres also been popular creators that have gross backgrounds
The cheapest hotel I stayed at in China was like $25 usd a night (there are cheaper ones though). Admittedly, it was smaller than this AND was in Beijing (more expensive than smaller towns) so I can't adequately estimate this one's price.
But even at that price you'd only need $18k USD to live like this for two years. Food is also very cheap, though takeout costs a little more. This is something that is far more possible to do in China than in the US. Now, $18k USD is a lot of money in China and you could certainly have a far better life, but if for some reason you want to do THIS (ew), well, you could do so on small savings or money earned from playing the games or winning championships.
the real TIL is having another confirmation on the west being expensive as fuck
I agree, this is highly suspicious. If anything, I've never heard of a hotel that wouldn't insist on periodically entering and checking the room... and that's ignoring the facts of cost, smell and that the room would be absolutely infested with ants and cockroaches.
I'd bet this hotel was skirting housing rules and basically operating as a flop house apartment block.
i get that logic but why wouldn’t you move more often than once every 2 years?
Probably depression and other untreated issues.
And wouldn’t a hotel kick you out after you are staying for 2 years and refuse to let staff come in and clean….?
I used to be a hotel manager, and if a customer had a do not disturb sign up for 3 days, I’d enter the room.
It’s in the paperwork, we can enter for their or workers safety and health and to make sure the room is not damaged.
A lot of these people are extremely embarrassed by their state too. Once it gets to a certain point they can’t bring themselves to ask for help and so it only gets worse and worse.
That's the part that seems silly to me. They come by everyday or even twice a day. They would've handled whatever mess you could make in that time, and if you felt bad I'd just give them a tip. They can come in while you're gaming. You don't need to stop. Especially if he was just farming some game for money, which is super popular in China, like I'd tell them to go ahead and work around me. I'd let them come in when it was just a days worth of mess so it wasn't that bad and leave them a couple bucks for it while I continued to grind. If dude was able to afford a hotel and all that take out, he wasn't struggling for money. Even if they're streaming, it's whatever. They could even tie it in like "cleaning lady is here lol. Say hi." The chat would love it. It never had to get that bad.
Social anxiety and depression. Sure the solution is easy, just let the maid in, but your anxiety makes that an uncomfortable prospect so you go for the easier option of just doing nothing until it gets to the point that you're living in filth and you know it's disgusting. You should do something but you just can't find the motivation and by this point you know this is messed up so you start actively trying to hide the state of you living conditions from the outside world.
The most mind boggling part. He CHOSE to be surrounded by this filth. Mental illness is nuts.
And in China the cleaners come in while you are in the room, so there's literally no reason for him to not let them in--he doesn't even have to stop gaming for it to happen.
That said, Chinese hotel rooms can be VERY cheap compared to US ones, and often have really good wifi, so why not an apartment kinda makes sense. I've never lived in an apartment there with as good of wifi as a hotel had.
Comparing to US pricing isn’t really fair. It’d be more important to compare them to local rent prices.
Like, HOW cheap? Because that looks like a more modern looking hotel, not a cheap roach infested middle-of-nowhere motel.
I know much less about rent, except that the rentals that I lived in (paid for by my school so I didn't have to deal with it) had meters you had to pay at for electricity and water, and while cheaper than the US were not considered super cheap by my neighbors. If the computer equipment he was using was energy intensive it might be cheaper to pay the flat rate for a hotel room, I just can't say for sure. (But let's face it--most Redditors are saying this guy had to be wealthy or funded by his parents because they come from countries where this would be prohibitively expensive, which is the only point I'm really arguing against here.)
That’s the wild part to me. He is staying somewhere where if he unlocks the door while he is playing, people will come in and clean around him.
He is paying for that service. They will give him more toilet paper, more soap (haha), and haul out his trash.
If you are addicted beyond reason, the daily cleanup service could make a hotel room tempting.
I have no idea how you do this and just opt out of that as you live in a pile of shit that the staff is asking you daily if they can clean up.
I suppose after you block them out for a week or two, you might be too ashamed, then it spirals out of control.
Diogene syndrome.
People who have it can't throw things, having stuff (including garbage for some) sooth them. And they don't want someone to throw their stuff.
How the fuck does a hotel let somebody turn a small room into basically a long term rental without realizing this is happening inside. I wouldn't be surprised if the answer that this isn't really a hotel operating as hotel but rather as basically a fly by night apartment block.
Sometimes it's just mental illness.
I used to work at an apartment complex and we once discovered a tenant was living like this, literally in amongst piles of trash, rotting food, and bodily waste (human and animal). Somehow the neighbors never noticed or cared about the smell. The tenant was seemingly normal when we talked to him (up until he realized we had found his trash). I had been in his apartment about a year prior to the discovery, so he'd amassed all this nastiness in under a year.
He was baker acted when the discovery was made (as he threatened to end his life), and his family ended up sending professionals in to clear everything out. When he returned home, we were faced with having to give him a warning (essentially he needed to finish cleaning the apartment and keep it habitable or we would evict him, because it was unsafe for him and his neighbors). This was not something we wanted to do, but we had a responsibility to his neighbors, and we also couldn't force him to accept or seek help. When the time came to inspect ten days later, we found he'd already started amassing more trash again (A LOT for such a short amount of time). The best way to describe it is that he seemed compelled to collect it and be in amongst it.
My neighbor was a personal trainer. I’d see him in the park telling fat people to run faster etc. he was a bit chubby himself too though. He moved out after a year. Dog shit everywhere, 50 bags of trash removed — poor pup. He seemed normal in person.
There are some pretty wide distributions of wealth in China based on region. If you were from Shenzhen and your parents were educated working in Western firms they could be comfortably making 10x what the average person in Changchun makes (which is where this story originates).
Plus you could rent a hotel for 150-300 a month. Long stays are usually not far off local rental prices if you get something modest.
Food deliveries in China are crazy cheap too. Probably costs like 20-50 cents to get delivery here and eating out is cheap in China. When I lived in China and worked for a Western firm, I was only on like 3500 a month and I could order in pretty much all my meals and pay rent with loads of money left.
Clearly the guy is mentally ill. Logic doesn’t figure in at all.
Renting a house and hiring a cleaner is surely cheaper
People who live like this dont tend to put much thought into things like that. They have an exterior source of money and they just exist in a space, never giving any thought to anything in it.
He probably only left because the trash pile had overtaken his only living space
Get involved in streaming and e-sports and you can make a livable amount of money, especially if you don't care where you live and move to a very cheap part of the country.
Also, perversely, people pay handsomely to watch a streamer ruin themselves. Mukbangers are able to become too overweight to even leave their homes, "prank" trolls are able to travel around the world and harass people and businesses for years before they end up in a Korean prison, and this guy could've had a fanbase that paid him for every bottle he threw into the pile.
Lol that dumbfuck "prank" troller is still stuck in Korea. Get fucked, I love the Koreans for not letting him off the hook.
Yeah good on them, especially since anyone who took even ten minutes to research the Korean justice system would know to be on their best Ps and Qs there.
Who? Id love to see one of these guy's get what they deserve lol.
Johnny Somali. He was (in)famous for his antics in Japan but they let him off the hook. Then he tried the same in Korea but they ain't having any of his shit.
Johnny Somali he is the worst possible example of harassment streamers and he’s getting REAMED it’s such a treat to watch and keep up with
This is false, probably only 5% of streamers and esports players make any money.
5 percent is probably even a bit generous.
Idk had to do a clean out of a similar situation.
https://preview.redd.it/napqyem0ce8g1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=af67c58dd12167f5480a30b7fbba8fc6c8b243a8
Inheritance money
He is a Chinese Trash streamer. His viewers pay him to do this to his room. I have no idea why this is popular in China.
I think he had a lot more going on than a gaming addiction. Addicts are capable of flushing toilet paper and throwing out garbage
Are they allowed to flush toilet paper there? I've been to places (Mexico) where the plumbing can't handle it and you're expected to put the toilet paper in the trash can next to the toilet. If he's "not allowed" then that pile is what 2 years of ass wiping looks like.
That's what I was thinking. In many countries in Asia, including the more developed ones, you are not allowed to flush toilet paper but have to throw it out with burnable waste.
Edit: typo
burnable waste xD
Was that the wrong word? Sorry, English isn't my native language. However, here in Europe where I am, we recycle heavily and then there is a category which is 'burnable waste', and basically includes whatever cannot be recycled after the given rules.
It's not wrong, it's just not a thing that many English speaking countries have so it sounds weird. But, that's how I'd describe it too, I've just never had to describe trash you can burn before.
American here, burnable trash is definitely a thing.
No problems, I haven't seen any toilets like this in China especially a hotel that couldn't take toilet paper, it might clog if he throws too much at the same time. (I'm from China)
Yeah, toilet paper can flush in China in 2025.
I’ve never run into any issues with that in China over 20 years, but I have in Greece, Portugal, and Spain.
Nah not at all, It’s way more location specific than that, even on the same city block some buildings aren’t set up for it.
China does not have uniform standards.
You can be in the most beautiful modern mall in Shenzhen and the shitter would still be a squat hole in the ground in the bathroom.
This. 'Gaming addict' because they need something for the headline.
The gaming addiction was probably not root problem. Mental health issues like depression, chronic stress, CPTSD can all lead to severe executive dysfunction, a complete lack of motivation, or avoiding to face the fact that you live in trash.
This is what extreme crippling depression looks like
Depression with like 2 other major psychiatric illnesses, sure.
This is a pretty average r/neckbeardnests user. Lol
Plumbing in some places doesn't handle toilet paper and room service won't do their thing while you're in the room. Then, at a point, I would assume that things got bad enough that he actively avoided having room service enter for fear he'd be kicked out.
but what made him check out?
He could've been kicked out, that smell had to travel
I would hope he was kicked out, ideally well before two years but sounds like not
The employee who discovered the source of the smell:
https://preview.redd.it/j6ra54fyde8g1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54359b6230296f5f4908152d36f18a314185a550
and this is exactly why most hotels require a room to be serviced every few days.
Both, both had to travel
Ran out of money. Or decided to reset to a clean room. But he left his chair behind, so probably some emergency.
If he can afford a hotel for 2 years and food being delivered constantly he can afford a new chair that isnt disgusting if hes starting clean again
If he's been buying this stuff on credit or savings he could have hit his limit
It’s not his chair. Per the article:
Nice investigation. Surprised they aren't also charging a biohazard fee.
But I am not surprised that he owes for some unpaid days. Looks like he was hunkered down and lost access to whatever funds were keeping him going
Implying he was paid up for the other 700+ days of the 2 years.
So yea, seems likely he ran out of money. Wouldn't be surprised if he was burning out his last resources before heading for an early exit.
Judging by what I can see in these pics, he probably died.
And didn't re-spawn
I'm pretty sure the hotel staff decided to check on the room, found that state, and called the police. He is probably in a jail somewhere.
Remember kids, jail equals zero DPS on boss.
He finally lost
She's there in her normal shoes and jeans. No thank you. Hazmat suit all the way.
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I’d be going in with a respirator, a full body suit, a dude holding a tether outside the room in case the pile shifts and I need to be hauled out, and an exorcist
Her body language seems to say "ah, this shit again"
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave
We are all just prisoners here, of our own device
Such a Lovely Place..
Such a lovely face
🎶 PLENTY OF ROOM AT THE HOTEL CALIFORNIA. ANY TIME OF YEAR, YOU CAN FIND IT HERE 🎶
Why did it take me until 2025 to understand what this song was actually about. Like it was a month ago the lyrics clicked
insert cool ass guitar solo of all time
I feel for the person cleaning this. My husband and I cleaned a friend's place that literally had 3 feet of bottles, rotten food, wrapping, poop, bottled pee, and everything else you can imagine. We tried to help him by bringing him to our place - we have a separate unit within the property that he would be able to have some independence, but still be around us. We gave him cleaning tasks, cleaning supplies, bought him new clothes (from underwear to shoes), paid to have his property not taken by the government and made sure he was not having any contact with drugs or alcohol. He stayed with us for 2 years. You could talk to him for hours and he sounded and seemed just like old friend. When he moved back to his place and we went to clean his apartment.... we took 89 contractor bags of gross all sorts of trash you can imagine again. And thats when we understood that you can try to help with all your tools and care, but anybody with this level of mental health issues need way more than friends and a new clean space :/
Oh god.. I can’t even imagine how heartbreaking this was for you and your husband. Thank you for not giving up on your friend!
My maternal grandma was an alcoholic, and a hoarder. When she has passed away, my mother was left with her half of the house, and after going there, it was filled to the ceiling with trash. Approx 2.2m high, and about 60sqm of space. It took my parents 3 full days of working 14h a day of just taking it out, and hauling it into a burning pile.
Thank you for trying. And also for making me feel better about my own depression mess
Thank you for helping your friend ❤️
That was really great of you guys to help him. But I feel like you’d kind of expect him to do the same thing to the unit you set him up in.
You already did enough to help, but was it possible to visit him weekly or biweekly when he moved back to his place? People like that sometimes do best with accountability. It's easy when others are around but then it's hard to care about just yourself when you're alone. I've been in his place to an extent, it started from an injury when I already have a physical disability. Thank for for helping, it means lots to these people. Would adult protective services or a social worker have been able to help?
Ugg… That’s not enough PPE…
She does not get paid enough for this shit.
Literally
That poor woman hopefully got some kind of hazard pay after cleaning all that shit.
I can feel her disgust in that one bottle she picks up at the end. "Where do I even start??" encapsulated into one moment.
In most places you hire crime scene cleaners for something like this. They're really the only people capable of dealing with it properly.
More than any horror movie before it, that toilet scene will haunt my dreams.
That poor cleaning crew. They certainly don't get paid enough to deal with that disaster.
I'd just burn the place down and be done with it. 😭😭
I lifted my turtleneck over my nose immediately. Did they just scrape their shit on the rim and then throw used toilet paper all over the floor??
Imagine she’s elbow deep in that paper and gets cut by the poop knife. 🤮
No room service in that hotel?
do not disturb
A hotel I was just in made it mandatory for housekeeping to check in every 72 hours. Likely to intercept human traffickers, drug abuse, and stuff like this.
Yah I was going to say that I think in a lot of places there's a rule about living in a hotel, you've got like 27 days (or something, just under a month) in 1 room before they will move you to another room due to squatting/rental laws or something. They can't let it become a fixed address. So long term stays will get moved.
And yah. A lot of hotels are now pushing mandatory cleaning every 3 days to counteract a lot of shady shit.
There are still some hotels operating on COVID cutbacks, and only sending housekeeping services after checkout. My husband has worked at a couple major hotels in Atlanta, and they're still doing this. One of them only has a single microwave for the entirety of the hotel guests... Which never made sense bc that made the microwave a high-contact surface and probably made even more people sick.
Often times people who are struggling like this won’t let others into the space for fear of embarrassment. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what happened here, housekeeping may have come by but he just turned them down.
What the fuck
I don't think there was any fucking involved
https://preview.redd.it/it5mldqfae8g1.png?width=1536&format=png&auto=webp&s=ffe27ed58588c26b341b1e65f1f320bac8f23357
That dog as a clean table, considering the rest of the room.
Somehow, that makes it even more unnerving. 😕
Was he.. good at least?
He was the best hello kitty island adventure player in China
silver rank who calls teammates bots then leaves matches early type energy
The real question is: why he didnt flush the paper down?
I can tell you from experience that the plumbing in China can't handle paper. You are expected to put used paper in the bin and empty it every day. This guy was just letting it pile up like everything else
He clearly needs mental help, but that wouldn't stop me from suing him.
My intro to the poopy plumbing concept was early 2000s working at age 18 in a restaurant in South-Central Texas. I used an employee bathroom in the kitchen and this cramped broom closet kept stinking like… just straight-up poop.
I had to throw something out so I lifted the little trash bin lid and noticed a bin full of poop smeared tissues and paper towels. I went to my buddy the head chef and was like “yo man what the fuck is up with the bathroom?”
He told me it was from the other guys in the kitchen, that it’s a Mexican thing, because they apparently have bad plumbing in Mexico so they just do that here because it’s routine for them and they don’t want to mess anything up. As a kid from a nice area I was confused and culture shocked by this but I learned something new that day: To use the customer bathroom lol
Also the movie Waiting…(2005) is a documentary.
My guess is the toilet clogged
Why is he called a "gamer ? He clearly has some mental problems. Video games was just one thing he did. What we see in the video is not the result of gaming. It's the result of a mental issue.
Reports were that authorities found a copies of Solitaire AND minesweeper on his pc.
Oh good Lord.. A no lifer
It always starts with pinball until they move to the hard shit 😔
How do you, as management, allow even 3 days without checking ?
💯💯💯💯 I worked as a housekeeper at an extended stay for a time. When we had people staying years on end, we definitely still came in the room to grab trash and give towels, even swap the sheets and at least once a week to swap bed items. They royally fucked up here. This was pure laziness on their staff for sure!
Multiple Ppl stay years?!I didn't even know that was even an option. I imagine it varies from hotel to hotel, but is it not way more expensive that an apartment?
Yeeesss. Freakin YEEAARSS. Don't get me wrong...I'm not knocking it. A lot have really great customary breakfasts, room/furniture set up, and deals. Sometimes, it's cheaper than having your own and it would be a lie to say I hadn't thought about it myself... cause I HAVE thought about it before 😹... Then I think about how much I love having everything as my own. I know a few folks who would stay for their 3-week deals and then move to another one. They have a whole rotation going on between 3 to 5 of them. When I worked at my first hotel. There was a woman who had been really dirty. Been there for 3 years and counting. State worker. We would see her laptop, printer, and hella papers just thrown about on the desks and bed.
I honestly believe that the majority of the long-term guests are there cause of necessity and not by choice. So, I guess they make it work however they do. I've always been curious about their stories tho. Like, was it that ONE emergency? That ONE check? That ONE family member? It's scary.
This is 100% on the hotel for not forcing housecleaning once or twice a month.
Is this kind of scripted? Can you eve live there that room?
Okay. This looks a lot like mental illness. Dude needs help
100% it's a mental illness. This level of squalor is a huge sign of crippling depression.
When you're depressed you don't feel anything. No need to clean, no need to be hygienic, no need to leave the house. You don't feel emotion. You're just a robot.
So you latch on to anything that makes you feel good and ignore everything else.
In this case it's videogames. In alot of other cases its drugs or alcohol.
Definitely, help is needed for his mental health.
My room looked similar to this when I was in high school. I had a severely abusive father that I was forced to live with and I was scared to leave my room growing up.
It's very different than hoarding because you feel absolutely no connection to the trash around you, in fact you feel disgusted by it, but doing anything to clean it feels impossible. I don't miss those days
Agree. I hope he gets professional mental help.
These are the people I play against after winning a single comp match btw
Since when is Asmongold Chinese?
This is funny but Asmon is Martha Stewart compared to this guy
He should be forced to clean it up .. seriously wtf
How the fuck can they afford so many stuff yet be so unhygienic at the same time?
Are they a streamer that people just donate to them? Some gig where they boost other people's account? Fuck, the hotel room looks good as well. How were they able to afford a 2 year tenure???
As a gamer, how the heck does he manage playing his games while using hotel wifi. The lag has to be insane.
It was a hotel specifically for gamers.
Imagine the smell
I dont think I'll be doing that, thanks
I can guarantee you that guys in game inventory was the cleanest and most organized on the server
Equally as shocking, the game he played for 2 years was Minesweeper.
I have no clue if this is a joke or not...
Average Reddit mod POV.
Me when Halo 2 was released.
they only stopped bc the roaches were getting on the screen 😂
What game was he playing
I hope he gets some mental help
Chinese AssMold
Do you think I’ll get my deposit back?
They don’t do ANY cleaning or provide clean linens to their guests?
That poor woman at the end. Shouldn't she be in a hazmat suit?
https://preview.redd.it/eqgryohzre8g1.jpeg?width=1241&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2b83c9fc8dd2488273ebd812e1384ab1aa67998
lol asmongold is that you
Is that asmon golds hotel room?