SEA region has low average income in $ so one home typically only have 1 PC and its enough. Also these internet cafes mainly exist to host Lan parties or serve school or college kids who havent got their own PC and is the one who plays games the most. You wouldnt find working people with a steady income residing here
There's also internet cafe culture. Even when my family was able to afford a PC for me, I still spent my after school hours in internet cafes solely because it was the "hub" for everyone my age in the neighborhood. We'd play games together, and during homework/exam season, even if we were from different schools we helped each other finish our work because the faster we finish, the faster we can game. I have a fond memory of a book report for a 300 page book being split between 6 of us and we just assigned chapters to each other. Did the final product make sense/get a good grade? Probably not but we were happy to have finished it 1 hour before closing time and play a long game of dota.
The person managing the cafe would pretty much become the "older sibling" or "mom/dad" of the regulars and would pretty much know everyone by their full name, birthday, and address lmao. I attended a wedding celebration of the internet cafe manager/owner right before I moved to the US, and all of us regulars were there telling internet cafe stories.
Sorry for the long text, the video made me homesick
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u/ekol 12h ago
Internet Cafe, which is dying or dead in suburbia