All it takes is appearing at the right time, using the right clothes, in front of the right person, and doing everything confidently.
A homeless man who lives from leftovers of people, managed to receive huge attention by a lot of females in China, after photos of him went viral.
"Those sad eyes/that sad expression, the sad mustache, the miraculous godly hair, and that messy hair, all of it has deeply captivated me," an online post reads.
"犀利哥", or "Brother Sharp," as what people refer to him online, is a homeless man in Ningbo, a major sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China. It's his fashionable trendy look that has given him that celebrity-like heartthrob to many online onlookers.
Since then, Sharp becomes famous on the Chinese language internet.
Soon after, the internet hailed the man as "Ultimate Gorgeous #1 Passerby" of the streets.
Sharp may be homeless.
But at first glance, he appears to be more like a model.
From the way he walks, to the garment he wears, which consists of a cotton sweater he paired with a leather jacket on the outside. Although they’re dirty, but they’re all in good condition.
Simply put, Sharp doesn't look like that kind of homeless man who find things and use them right away upon taking them out from the trash.
Some people online said that he looks handsome, and resembles Japanese or South Korean celebrity. Some even likened him to a Hong Kong actor, or the Oscar-nominated star Ken Watanabe.
Rumors said that Sharp is a university graduate who lost his mind after his girlfriend left him.
Due to the number of discussions, and thirsty posts from people on the internet, some people began asking talent seekers and Scouts to go find him and give him a proper job.
There is an instance of an online netizen who edited his photo as a "fashionable” beggar, while others have created a fake fashion magazine cover with Sharp on the cover.
Some others however, were skeptic.
They wondered, and reached the person who photographed Sharp, asking whether Sharp s really a beggar.
In an explanation, she said that she met the man back in 2008.
At that time, she said that most people who see him would avoid him, treating him as a beggar. But Sharp is part of a community of homeless people, who don't actually beg.
Sharp is poor and homeless. But he doesn't ask people for money or compassion.
Instead, Sharp who either has no family or relatives to depend on, survives from leftovers he finds in trash and on the streets.
The first time the photographer met Sharp, the man was picking up a discarded cigarette to smoke it again. When the woman asked him whether he's hungry, and he said yes, she gave him 10 yuan to buy something to eat. But instead of buying something to fill that empty stomach, he returned with a pack of cigarettes be bought from a nearby convenience store.
And when he was again asked why didn't he buy food with the money, Sharp only pointed at a trash can, and then pointed at his stomach.
"Every time I find him, I will always give him 10 yuan. And he always goes to buy a pack of cigarettes," she said.
When Chinese netizens responded to the woman, and said that they wanted to help him out, and even wanted to offer him a way to return to his hometown, this frightened him, said the woman.
He would only cry without speaking, the woman said.
Regardless, many people love him.
From the way he walks to the rag-tag but with a well-coordinated overcoat, a fan described his appeal and confidence as "a deep and penetrating way"
Others considered him the coolest man in China.
Internet users in China started calling the 35-year-old man the "Beggar Prince", the "Handsome Vagabond", and, of course, "Brother Sharp".
In China, begging is technically illegal, as the Communist Party-run state provides all a citizen could need.
But in reality, the rapid development of the Chinese economy as marginalized many of its citizens.
As a result, not everyone could afford a decent living.
And here, Sharp is just one of the unfortunate. The main difference between him and many other homeless men in China is that, he captivated the internet with his fashionable looks, and the internet couldn't hold back from praising him.
