PlasticGuys (膠街架) is a Macau online creator team built around parody and comedy, formed in 2016 when a creator nicknamed "Nakamura" and a few friends started making videos after a video contest. The team is known for reworking Mandarin and pop hits into punchy Cantonese cover-parodies and for second-creation sketches; it has roughly 40,000 followers on Facebook, and one of its most popular clips drew over 1.36 million Facebook views. Run as a hobby with members holding day jobs, its motto is "do plastic things seriously," and its name is a Cantonese pun on the robot anime *The King of Braves GaoGaiGar*.
"Do plastic things seriously." — a crew of Macau day-jobbers who rework pop hits into comedic parodies, with one Facebook clip breaking 1.36 million views.
PlasticGuys (膠街架) is a Macau online creator team centred on parody and comedy, formed in 2016 around a creator nicknamed "Nakamura." Known for punchy Cantonese reworkings of Mandarin and pop hits and for second-creation sketches, it has a notable following among younger Macau/Hong Kong online audiences and is one of the faces of Macau's amateur online-creation scene.
Profile
- Chinese Name: 膠街架
- English Name: PlasticGuys
- Founded: 2016
- Domains: Culture · Everyday · Online content
- Industry: Online parody · Cover songs · Second-creation
- Core member: Nakamura (中村)
- Motto: "Do plastic things seriously" (認真做膠事)
Background
The name "膠街架" is, per the team's own page and online sources, a Cantonese homophone of the 1990s robot anime The King of Braves GaoGaiGar. In Cantonese internet slang "膠" (gaau, "plastic") carries a self-deprecating sense of "absurd, nutritionless but funny," fitting the team's creative ethos of "doing plastic things seriously" and "making whatever comes to mind."
According to a 2019 Exmoo News (力報) report, the core member Nakamura, selling humour and parody, decided after a video contest to make videos and run a page with a few like-minded friends, reworking Mandarin songs into punchy Cantonese parodies — comedic, yet with respectable singing, a contrast that won viewers over.
Career
I. Founding and breakout (from 2016)
The team's page "膠街架PlasticGuys" was set up in 2016. Per an August 2019 Exmoo News report, the page had close to 40,000 Facebook followers, and its most popular clip drew over 1.36 million Facebook views — a strong result by Macau standards. According to third-party analytics (KOLScanner), its YouTube channel uploaded its first video in March 2017 and mainly produces music-parody content.