Why are the “standing girls” in Okubo Park getting so aggressive?

Photos of these girls are regularly posted on social networking sites and have become a hot topic of conversation. Although a recent major bust has reduced the number of these girls, they still continue to engage in prostitution around the park.

The police patrol the area, and a major change has occurred in the way these girls continue to play stand-up, even at the risk of being arrested and taken in for questioning. They are now showing excessive reactions to cameras and smart phones.

After 9:00 p.m., when the police patrols end, women begin to line up at equal intervals around Okubo Park, waiting for customers. At its peak, there were many of them on the Okubo Hospital side of the park, but now they have changed areas and many of them line up in the alley next to the park.

Many chilled-out visitors and onlookers have come to catch a glimpse of the scene they saw on social media, and perhaps because of the boom in taking pictures, when a man walking down the street takes out his smartphone, the women standing in the street shout offensive words.

When the reporter visited the street,

The women in the street were shouting, “Chee-gyu (Internet slang for making fun of nerds, people with dark personalities, and people who are plain), go back to the Internet. You only get your jollies on the Internet and it makes me sick!

he shouted to a young man passing by.

The photos that are regularly posted on social networking sites are uncensored and without permission from the girls. The girls also seem to see such X postings, and when they see someone take out a smartphone, they begin to watch that person carefully.

This is probably the result of a sense of crisis among these girls, who do not want to be seen by many people if their posts are spread on the Internet.