Thailands Most HATED Subculture..

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Not just Thailand. It’s rampant throughout Southeast Asia.

As a Thai, I'm very impressed with the footage you managed to gather. They are authentic and real! I do love to see how foreigners potray such a culture, Thank you so much man! Keep it up!

Amazing video. I'm Thai. From my persepctive, dekwan problems come from; 1. Limited public transportation especially in the rural area. This make the parents to have no choice, but to buy them bikes, even though they are not old enough to have a license yet. 2. Many kids in the rural area live with their grandparents due to their parents working big cities. The grandparents tend to spoil their grandchildren and buy everything they want including bikes and modification parts. 3. From the above answer, many grandparents in Thailand like to spoil their grandchild and when they do something illegal and get arrest, they will say something like "My boy is a nice kid", even though the cops see a pill of amphetamine in his/her hand. "My grandkid is always good". Anyway, nice research and presentation. Thank you so much for making a video about my country (even though it's something we are not proud of 55555555, in Thai language five is ha so 55555 is like lol.)

Yo I’m Thai. And this research was like 90%accurate you guys done a great job. Anyway that part about Hong kong movie’s not really relate imo. I think origin of Dekwan is nothing more or less like those boys you see in TFTF Tokyo drift. But in lower budget version. They seek for Gang reputation, Girls and just to be some kind of Street’s Legends. The mechanic who modified the engine also raised into fame If their engine work do well in the racing event. Which called in Thai “Test”. Thank you for a good well-researched content. Some province like Buriram is now solving problem by building a circuits for them to race on and become new lines of business. So they can race properly without disrupting people. Ps. Anan Anwar, we love you. One of coolest Thai talent. Happy to see your interview.

Love this content on these random sub cultures around the world. We have a very similar sub culture in the states now in urban areas but it's dirt bikes and 4 wheeler groups of kids just taking over roads.

Hi! Thai person here. Although the police have strike down a lot of Dek wann,but they have evolved into something even worse... a subculture call 'song A' and 'song sor' (A is shorten from of agents,as in agents who deal drugs,sor is a Chinese word used to refer to older,sassy women) basically they changed to drive Fortuner (why this brand???) Too many infos I can't fit in here...

If anyone's not clear on the phrase. I'd translate the phrase as the "Vroom kids" Dek = Kid Waan = Vroom I love the take you have on it. Thais just clamp down on this stuff. Because of the culture of seniority, the younger people's needs and wants tends to be forgotten. Kids only thought of in terms of "What can they do for us" So the level of thought given to them is simply "They make sound. just punish them and make them stop." The video made me realize that these guys are the local versions of the "sk8erbois" and to compare and contrast them really shows a difference in the cultural mindset both in the kids and society looking at them. Since they grew up believing that their feelings don't matter, they failed to realize the value of the hobbies and actions they do and respect it enough for it to grow into a thing. Perhaps the dreaded thai follower mindset stems from a lack of inherent internal value. Therefore value has to be pursued from other sources that people respect.

This kind of culture is also present here in the Philippines. We coined them as kamote (which is a root crop here in the Philippines). They are notorious for not following the traffic laws and for not having the proper driver etiquette. They also have loud and pimped out small displacement bikes.

Hi jimmy,in Malaysia we have the same here but its call mat rempit.A Mat Rempit is a Malaysian term for "an individual who participates in activities such as illegal street racing, bike stunt performance, petty crime and public disturbance using a motorcycle", usually involving 2- and 4-stroke underbone motorcycles, colloquially known as Kapcai or scooters

Chang international Race circuit and Football stadium in Buriram Thailand holds a DEK WAEN event on Friday nights. all legal and organized by the Race track organisers. FREE ENTRY! and lots of fun to attend.

My cousin's step-brother was a Dek Waen. He didn't have a complete family though we tried to be there for him. Got himself into trouble and accidents. Fortunately, he turned out okay. Doing pretty well as a bike mechanic.

As a Thai and someone that know a lot of dekwaen and former dekwaen. I think from the older person or foreigner it’s may seem like the government didn’t do anything to help them but from my perspective even though I don’t really like the government but I think they did help them but not directly say that this for dekwaen. They trying to advocate and teach them at school, building parks and sports courts in almost every town or city to channel their aggressiveness because from what I’ve seen dekwaen just kids that has some problems whether it’s from family, school or where else. And a lot of them I feel like they just wanted companionship, attention or just being influenced by environment.

Jimmy always upping the levels! Gone from making video essays to full on documentary style vids! Some fascinating stuff, a really interesting culture. Awesome to hear opinions stories from locals too. Amazing work once again!

Nowadays in Thailand bigger bike is now easier to get than a decade ago. It's now said that "Dek Waen" is about behavior than about the bike. While smaller 150-350 scooter is still popular. Grown up "Dek Waen" whose can afford larger expensive bike like Yamaha R1 or BMW S1000R can still be called "Waen Upgraded" if they still ride recklessly.

I’m from the uk, and I’ve been living in Thailand for the past few months. There’s nothing funnier than driving home on a late night then getting gapped by a group of these 🤣

This subculture is very similar to a subculture in Malaysia called Mat Rempit, I'm not sure how big it is but it is noticeable on an everyday basis

Never heard about it before, but thank you for educating me on another subculture I would never have heard of if it wasn't for you and your great vids! The animation in this one was friggin' fantastic - truly A-class! Keep going strong, I always smile when I get a notification from your channel! PEACE!

You'll find tonnes of these guys in the south of Thailand and they're known locally as jorakay, meaning crocodile. It seems like teens do this for a few years then grow out of it. I've never felt they are aggressive but the noise can get annoying and some do drive recklessly.

I am Thai and face this problem every day because most children are poor and do not have a good education and lack of family training. As a result, they cause problems for society and most of the consequences come from poor governance. If politics doesn't solve them, I want to be a developed country and not a underdeveloped country to be insulted.