This Vice piece on “British Chaos” content cropped up in Jay Springett’s weeknotes, and with it came a sense of recognition. The phenomenon of their global visibility may be somewhat new—though there was a similar flurry back in the late Noughties and early Teens, as online video started to get established—but without my having seen any of the stuff mentioned, I found myself able to put faces and mannerisms to almost every character described.
