Here's something that surprised us when we saw it trending in China: the "handsome" men of the London public transport system.

The Tube - as London's subway system is known - is famous around the world for all sorts of reasons, from its history to its distinctive logo and map. But its reputation for gorgeous looking people wasn't something we were aware of at BBC Trending.

Yet that is what appears to be happening on the Chinese micro-blogging website Sina Weibo. Images of various male London commuters are being shared there, and one image alone can generate in the region of 100,000 likes and shares . Most of the comments about the images are very positive. "I want to take Tubes everyday!" wrote one Weibo user. "Handsome people really look good in anything," said another.

These pictures come from a British website that allows users to submit secretly taken photos of attractive men on the Tube. TubeCrush.net was set up four years ago by a group of friends living in London. "The third biggest source of traffic to our website is actually from China," says Stephen Motion, the site's co-founder. "The website isn't blocked in China. It's fully available in all of the cities. We see most traffic coming from Guangzhou and Shanghai."

There are privacy concerns about the site. After all, these images are snapped and sent in without the knowledge of the men themselves. Tube crush argues that the images are legal because they were taken in public places. A second concern is whether the images are objectifying men, but Stephen Motion denies this is what's happening. "Some people might not feel comfortable having their picture published on the website. We have a photo removal function where they can request to take it down," he says.

"Interestingly we don't receive many requests. When people discover they've been photographed, they're actually quite proud."

What is the appeal of these London commuters for Chinese internet users? "When Chinese people think about British men, we think they're true gentlemen, because of their good manners and politeness," says Ruhua Xianyu of the BBC's Chinese Service. "It's more about the perceived quality of the man himself, than how he looks."

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27425311)

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If you have found yourself on this page its probably because you are looking for pictures of the fairer sex travelling on the tube. We don’t blame you, when Tubecrush hit the internet back in 2011 many copycat websites sprung up that imitated what we had set out to do but with just images of women. These sites were quickly taken down due to (amongst other reasons) public outcry at the sheer idea of men (or women for that matter) photographing women in a public place, (crazy we know) but the debate continued.

Why did we just focus on images of men?

There was a simple reason we launched the site just showing images of men back in 2011. We decided that in order for Tubecrush to be taken seriously we had to set the tone of the website first, so people could understand what we were about and get what #Tubecrush actually stood for. Celebrating the attractiveness of the strangers we saw on the underground in our normal everyday lives. These people bring us smiles, make us realise we all have different types and highlight that as humans we are attracted to people of the opposite/same sex.

Our website is quite often tongue in cheek but always complimentary towards the subjects in the photographs, the comments are moderated, The copy is positive, the pictures are always clear and good quality and the feedback we have received from our global critics over the years has been vastly positive. Afterall the reason the image appears on the website in the first place is that someone found that person attractive enough to take a picture and send it in to us.

Connecting People

We have actually now connected three different couples via the website, matching a ‘tubecrusher’ with ‘tubecrushee’ and we know that they met up and have been on dates since. Connecting people, strangers who met on a train, people who exchanged a spark that was captured on camera and we facilitated them tracking each other down. Its a powerful thing we did right there!

Whilst we continue to battle in this world for equality, (of not only gender but race, sexuality, disability and spiritual belief) we appreciate that the world is not yet perfect and from a personal safety perspective Men and Women are unfortunately different. There are too many cases of street harassment towards women (more so than Men) and websites such as Hollaback London highlight this issue. We support what they do in stamping out street harassment and as such we delayed the launch of an updated Tubecrush.net website (which folks – will include pictures of women too) until we have got it 100% right and the messaging is clear.

So are we nearly there?

Yes we are – we are making tweaks to the website and even adding the ability to try and track down your missed connections! Kind of like The Metro’s Rush Hour Crush (which we inspired don’t you know!) but better! Watch this space!

For now though (since you are here already) wanting a picture of a girl on the tube here is a picture of a beautiful female passenger doing her make up – we found it online!

Make Up Tube

Thanks for enjoying Tubecrush – now head over and look at some of the guys that were recently sent in to us, if you are a guy reading this you might even find a picture of yourself!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27753759)

holy shit.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27425626)

Hahaha... nope, when it comes to asians and their deranged worship of whites, xo can only barely hope to imitate the absurdist reality of life. You must've forgotten about SNOWDEN, the original HANDSOME, certainly not a creation of this board. This is merely a reflection of the same deep-seated desire by all asians to be white, or at least to have the asian-ness bred out of them by getting fucked by one. How strange it is for a regular person to know that asians exist. To think these insectoid creatures carry on their lives within the hive, but always with an outside eye towards the white society. Does an average white family, living their ordinary boring lives, even realize that halfway across the world, packed in newly developed cities inside of millenia-old cultures, a billion robotic CHINKS are feverishly dreaming of them? That the chinks would sell their souls to get to ride the subway with them, to suck off nerdy computer programmers while attending Rutgers U with them? It's not something that normal people removed from the insanity of asians would be able to know about, or conceive in their minds without prior experience. But you can be damn sure that Snowden knows this. The men of the London subway know this. For decades, unemployed losers getting off the plane to bashful schoolgirls who readily admit that "foreigner" is synonymous with "cool" have known this. I have affluent chink relatives, female cousins for whom saying that "white men are handsome" and "white babies are the cutest in the world" just comes tripping off their tongue despite that they are married and settled down with children and have never met more than a few white people in their entire lives; so I know this.

I understand, however, why many westerners have turned a blind eye or can only muster bewilderment without a deeper understanding. This fetishization from a distance is so benign! There aren't enough white men to go around, only 0.01% of the population! Most asian girls never think about it, it's just stuff that they fantasize about in media, they're conditioned to seek asian guys; if white cock presented itself, they'd be too timid to even jump on!

For me it still chafes, though, these memetic episodes of white worship that erupt from the subconscious of a country that is 99.99% asian, an ostensibly proud country whose recent economic development has shed any excuse for this continued self-abasement in favor of a colonizer race. It just begs the question of, what happens when these self-hating whores who seem programmed to suck white cock, what happens if they were fortuitously relocated, born and raised within a multicultural or god forbid white country? Well I imagine they would get on with their ingrained natures and truly suck a lot of white cocks. I imagine they would do so unashamedly and proudly. They might disavow all asian men while pining for the blessings of a half-white family. Perhaps do it explicitly and openly starting from a very young age. My slutty asian american sister, y'all!

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27426492)

poast of the year candidate right here.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27426499)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27426689)

I can actually feel the fury in this post

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27427955)

no one uses Weibo anymore

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27426678)

very handsome man.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27749960)

http://tubecrush.net/

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27428063)

Yum.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27428670)

1. "handsome" is just the most childlike word that an already childlike race of girls can deploy to seek much bigger, more virile men of another, conquering race. it conveys wonderment and rapture. its usage seems almost intentionally designed to fulfill an anime dork's most pedophilic wet dreams. asian girls, on some level, must know this. but they LOVE it!

2. "handsome" is rarely used in the english-speaking world anymore, it's a callback to an earlier time. its usage in any earnest way just sounds off. its usage en masse - like when a thousand emaciated asian girls are screaming their heads off for white men - has an eerie "uncanny valley" effect like a bunch of rabid zombies that are pretending to be human.

3. "handsome" is so unassuming and naive, the word alone is evocative of fairytales for children - knights, castles, princesses. from this, you get the sense that asian girls have arrived at their conclusions of a strict racial hierarchy from reading Dr. Seuss! academics can debate the insidious effects of media in shaping racial narratives, but just like any toddler would naturally derive a basic sense of the universal themes of humanity from reading a fairytale book, an asian girl of any age cannot help but acquire that "white is right" if granted a rudimentary child's grasp of the outside world and the english language. a wise, sagely toddler? learning about good vs. evil from classic fairtytales. an asian girl cracking open the same Cinderella book? *drools* "the white prince is so handsome."

4. "handsome," while an awkward word, is also the perfect word. see, white girls might use "hot" or "sexy" to describe BBC. but this isn't the right word for an asian girl to use. one might have a casual fling with sexy, but one doesn't make sweet love to him while angrily professing the superiority of his race and at the same time cooing to him like a hello kitty sex doll. only Handsome can do that. now on the other hand, latina girls might favor words like "stable" or "responsible" to describe economically viable white guys. but this again doesn't capture what an asian girl sees. white guys are more than a meal ticket, they are food for the soul, a sublimation of everything good in the world. the views of Handsome are to be understood, the language of Handsome is to be learned, the culture of Handsome is to be dived into. Handsome himself is to be cherished and pampered and shown off. for Handsome is kind and generous, for Handsome can do no wrong, for he contains the very seeds of white baby. so you can begin to see that, while other races of girls might fetishize men of another race, they're just so boring and one dimensional about it. it's like they're not even trying hard enough. contrast once more plain old "cute" or "hot" with the awe-inspired religious zeal entailed by worship of HANDSOME.

5. "handsome" is a sad reminder that for stupid chinks, learning english is a national sport. the term "handsome" is not just spoken, but whispered and savored for example at english training centers across the country - these for useless rich chinks who have nothing better to do with their lives. in a linguistic sense, when they use the english word instead of the chinese word of the same meaning, i imagine half the time they're doing it in a wish-fulfillment kind of way ("wow i'm so cool i'm speaking english like a white person!") and the other half the time they're doing it simply to study and improve their english, as if proudly attaching the word "handsome" to the generic image of a white man for the 878347th time is the necessary next step in their lifelong super-study journey towards cultural enlightenment. i guess the girls all do it in a slack-jawed, drooling kind of craze, while the guys just silently repeat the holy word inside their heads.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27432373)

also, tbf, you are pretty weird.

(wait until a few months later tbf randomly blows up on me on his main account with some shit screed)

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27432433)

also, i'm not tbf, i'm ASIAN you dumb fuck.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27432461)

i assume the go to word is different depending on location, considering "Asia" is not one uniform mass.

dood, you are obviously tbf. just stop frontin' breh.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27432469)

you are taking an xoxo meme very literally, and just did a 1000 word screed thinking people actually did this in real life.

examine your life please.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27432489)

i'm asian american, so while in asia, yes i am a foreigner. my female relatives speak chinglish to me and use handsome all the time. they drop that shit when speaking specifically about white guys. all the females use it that way, all the white foreigners get called it by random females, guaranteed. i've met many girls who even have a good grasp of the english language, they watch american movies/tv all day and should fucking know better than to use that weird fucking word. but when it comes down to it, it's always "yeah my english teacher.. he so so... so handsome." *blush* and it's always just an average looking guy, and bitch what are you doing paying good money to learn english from a white college drop-out at the age of 24?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27432528)

YFWGI

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27432612)

I realize the article is about China, but in Japan the Japanese word for "handsome" is literally "hansamu," which is obviously the English word with a Japanese accent.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27434501)

Truly 190000000, the Nietzschean linguistic analysis here surpasses the overwrought overrated poast above thread.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27434488)

SHAMELESS, and why should they feel ashamed? it goes unnoticed, taken for granted by 99% of people.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27446928)

beat me to it

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27452289)

Are there any factions within these countries that encourage asian Pride and/or keeping the race pure and free from

delusion?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2821935&forum_id=2#27750080)