Somebody actually paid a Jesus lookalike to sing the Salakau gang chant

Fiverr is this services marketplace where you can pay $5 to get freelancers from around the world to carry out tasks for you, such as graphic design, animated videos, voiceovers and any other stuff you can think of. And we mean anything — you could get a Jesus lookalike to record a video of himself delivering whatever message you want, for instance. Fiverr is also the platform that the Trump team used to outsource work to a Singaporean teenager, who helped create a presentation for his presidential campaign last year.

Salakau (‘369’ in Hokkien) is a Singaporean secret society that’s existed since the early ’70s. As one of the more prominent gangs in the country, they operate multiple illicit activities such as narcotics, extortion and even prostitution — and many of their members have been in and out of prison for violent attacks and rioting. They even have a renowned gang chant sung in Hokkien that’s usually accompanied by techno beats. It’s even been reproduced in Royston Tan’s teenage gangster flick 15:

Because we live in the age of the internet, where anything is possible, someone actually paid the Jesus lookalike on Fiverr to sing the Salakau gang chant. Welcome to the modern age.



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