Even though Simple Pickup is now deleted, users can use the Wayback Machine to watch older videos. Some of his social media is terminated or removed such as Instagram for his old channel. Some of the older videos have closed captions, and the older videos are fairly short in terms of length. Wikitubia Explore.
Discord staff Approved bots. YouTube Wikis. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Kong Pham. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? But these Simple Pickup videos -- these guys -- were literally the first time I'd seen proof of pickup artists in real life. They weren't ridiculous fops like Mystery, the dusty and irrelevant host of "The Pickup Artist," with his feather boas and guyliner.
They looked like the dudes who'd gone to Yale with me -- normal-looking and nice, self-professed former nerds. Within a week, every guy I knew had either showed me the videos or been sent them by me. We were enamored with the even-keeled, irreverent way they approached women. More important, watching them had given us the deadly confidence that we could do it, too.
Not long after, I was at a summer concert with friends when a Russian girl with beautiful gray eyes sat across from us.
I looked at her and said, "Staring contest, let's go. I won the staring contest. Even better, I left with her number. All three of them live in what they affectionately call "the asshole of Orange County," Fullerton, in a dumpy apartment complex behind an alley. Their interactions with women, though, are anything but generic.
Here's a typical exchange :. Their style is endearing, irreverent and brash. They frequently deal in sexual innuendo, zoom off on absurd tangents, and act out for the sake of acting out. And yet, unlike That's the goal of Simple Pickup: to get numbers. Their videos show a subsection of all the numbers they've gotten.
For those keeping score, Kong has 46, Jason has 36 and Jesse has While their opening lines vary, they can be bucketed into one of four categories: innocuous questions, fake innocuous questions, direct statements and whimsical remarks.
Forty-four percent of their successful pickups use direct openers: "Oh my God. You guys are way too cute. I had to meet you. I'm Jesse. You know, I can't lie to you. I just came here because I thought you were cute. Privacy is respected: Faces are expertly blurred, only area codes can be heard, and ancillary information, like the names of college buildings, are off-camera. While their conversations display a flow-chart-like efficiency, the trio's ample personalities are evident as well.
Jason likes toeing the sexual-discomfort line: " You're like all about piercings , you have one here, one here, one here, obviously your nipples. While dressed up as Harry Potter during one of their "stunt" pickups, Kong tells a girl, " If you make fun of me one more time , I'm going to take my wand and stick it right up your Diagon Alley.
There's no universal applicability with regards to what they say. But that's what's inspiring. Jesse tells me, "When you're having a conversation, you can literally say whatever you want.
Girls are very forgiving that way. It also helps to have their body language: head held high, strong and confident -- and at the same time, displaying an almost professional sort of disaffection as well, with a shadow of a slouch and laconic, measured smiles.
While the videos mostly show successful pickups, it's surprisingly a reflection of the truth. Most weeks, they film their videos in less than two hours. Just a small fraction of the numbers they pick up in real life are interesting enough to make it into a video. And as for failures? On YouTube, where view count is king, their 16 videos have currently totaled 7.
But as a metric to measure Simple Pickup's reach, it doesn't tell the entire story. What's really important -- and where Jason, Jesse and Kong shine in a way no other pickup artists of their kind have -- is engagement with the audience: They read every single viewer comment there have been over 38, and use the spiciest for inspiration.
In July, one fan commented, "pick up girls acting completely gay, if you guys can do that hell I will call you guys my Gods. Drawing inspiration from viewer comments, they wear absurd outfits or take on challenges to inject every video with more personality.
They've picked up girls while pretending to be paraplegics in wheelchairs , and only using hip-hop lyrics. The trio maintains an active Twitter handle of more than 3, followers, makes instructional tapes directly answering viewer questions, and diligently responds to every direct message, whether it's a year-old in Oklahoma asking about how to make the first kiss, or a year-old in Denmark sharing an anecdote about how European women are different.
Of course, Simple Pickup doesn't appeal to everyone. Pickup artists tend to cater to a highly focused, highly invested audience. And just by definition, their videos don't speak to half of the human race. In August, female YouTube commenter fylothea wrote, "Ugh….
Give fylothea credit: She actually watched the video. When Simple Pickup first went viral, I eagerly showed it to one of my female friends, thinking she'd be as hooked as I was to their street magic. A minute and a half in, she turned to me and said, "How can you watch this entire thing? But that hasn't kept the broader online community from lauding their efforts. Action movie star the Rock has retweeted their videos; Ashton Kutcher has done the same.
Klout, the standard in measuring online influence, gives Simple Pickup a score of 46 Justin Bieber is 99 , which is more than "Social Network" star Jesse Eisenberg. Klout defines Simple Pickup as a "Specialist": "You may not be a celebrity, but within your area of expertise your opinion is second to none. Of course, other pickup videos do exist. SucceedAtDating lays claim to more than videos, one of which has over , views. But their video channels can't boast as loyal a subscriber base, higher average views per video, or a sexier production value than Simple Pickup.
And while other channels are marred by the ugliness of commercialization -- from in-video product descriptions to online store links -- Simple Pickup doesn't advertise anything except, well, how to get numbers. Jason, Jesse and Kong are a paragon of Web 2. Armed with just a Costco video camera and a voice recorder, Simple Pickup may just force a multimillion-dollar pickup artist industry to raise its standards. The commercialization of seduction began haphazardly.
It wasn't until when Neil Strauss' bildungsroman, "The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists" -- made to look like a Bible, gold trim and all -- tipped the seduction community into full sales mode. After Strauss' book appeared as Amazon. Over the years, a caste system for pickup schools has taken shape. The middle rung consists of successful one-man shops. Most are ruthless self-promoters who have seized the cultural moment to soak up fame: Paul Janka, a Harvard graduate turned pickup artist, has appeared on "The View" and Dr.
Phil; J. The lowest rung consists of two groups: armchair pickup artists and location-specific coaches. Quality is extremely variable. McDonald's for night game -- but most are snake oil operators hawking recycled wares.
Watchdog website PUA Hate lists more than of these companies, which means thousands more probably toil in relative anonymity. Books are pickup companies' cash cows. An overwhelming majority of males seeking pickup resources don't attend events; they read the books. Books are the industry's bread-and-butter: easy to create, easy to disseminate.
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