In some videos he stands right at the entrance of a gogo bar while the door staff chat away to themselves unaware that they are being filmed. He sometimes moves so he is right in front of people and manoeuvres so that he can record them front on. Bangkok69 likes to get right up in to people’s faces and he often just stands there, right next to or in front of people. Bangkok69’s videos don’t have quite the same vividness as Bangkok112’s work, but they are still very, very good.īangkok69 is a young Japanese guy with his own distinctive style. But the content can.īangkok69’s videos are very good too, but either his gear is not as good as Bangkok112’s or perhaps it is the way he edits and processes his work. The quality of his videos cannot be questioned. In some of his videos he adds commentary by way of subtitles. He also has some favourite places to perch – the Balcony Bar on the middle floor of Nana Plaza is a firm favourite – and from there he operates the camera’s zoom, getting right in close and personal to girls and their customers. He moves slowly and points the bag – and thus the camera – in the direction of the action he wishes to capture. While the equipment he uses isn’t known, his MO is.īangkok 112 wanders bar areas with a camera placed in a bag. The low light of the bars is a nightmare to film in but he manages it with aplomb and many of his videos are crystal clear. What sets Bangkok 112 apart from the rest is the superb quality of his recordings. If the young European can keep it up for a couple more years he could set himself up for life. Bangkok112 could be making close to a million dollars a year posting hidden videos in the bar areas to YouTube. Informed estimates put his profits at between hundreds of thousands and perhaps more than 2 million baht a month. Bangkok112 has turned his passion in to a lucrative earner. With a catalogue in excess of 500 videos on YouTube alone – some of which run close to an hour in length, this is more than a mere hobby. And that has some people concerned.īangkok112 is the granddaddy of hidden video. They have captured people enjoying themselves without knowing they’re the star of a nightlife video. And there are two names that keep popping up, Bangkok112 and Bangkok69.īangkok112 and Bangkok69 are the big names of Thailand nightlife videos, and each has posted hundreds of high-quality clips taken in bar areas and even inside some bars. Fast-forward to 2017 – the technology has evolved and there are millions of videos showing the Thai nightlife all over YouTube.Ī search online for Thailand nightlife video returns millions of hits. In the end we felt video camera tech wasn’t there yet. Video online was a pipedream and YouTube was still years away. It was the start of the new millennium Stickman Weekly had not been launched and most webpages didn’t even have photos. In the students’ room in a Thai language school, an American and a Kiwi who had each just bought the same model digital video camera hypothesised how one would go about filming in the low light of a Bangkok gogo bar.