Manner Culture

History

Foundation

Expansion to Hong Kong

Suspension of operations

Members

• Sixtycents, known as 六毫子, is a co-founder of Manner. When he was an elementary school student, he was very quiet and had little interaction with other students. When he was 13 or 14 years old, he started to learn magic. He enjoyed performing it in front of an audience. He won first place in the Macau International Magician Association's Macau International Close-Up Magic competition when he was 14. Through his new hobby of magic, he became more social. As a student, he was not interested in school. He switched schools a total of seven times, including five times in secondary school. He was expelled from a school because he spoke too much and misbehaved. He attended one university and switched to a second one. He studied communication first and then tourism, each for one year, and eventually dropped out. When Sixtycents was 19 years old, a friend of his died in a traffic accident. The incident had a lasting impact on him, causing him to reflect on the fleetingness of life. Viewing human life as being like a falling star, Sixtycents wanted to live a bright and splendid life that even if short would not be filled with regret. He started Manner when he was 20 years old in 2013. Initially, Sixtycents was primarily responsible for the creative side of Manner. As Manner grew, he spent more of his energies on the business management side.
• Jacky Lei is a co-founder of Manner. He graduated with a university degree related to science and engineering. When he was in his second year of secondary school, he self-taught himself how to make special effects on the computer. Lei acts as a director and film editor. He funded the purchase of video production equipment through money he made from promotional films.
• Nathan Lam, known as Wasabi and 加蔥, previously worked in the marketing department of a casino and is an amateur magician. Lam has a secondary school education. After he collaborated with Sixtycents in their "Not Magic" group, he started to be a guest performer in Manner videos. He started Manner as a joint venture with Sixtycents and Jacky Lei after he was impressed by their song "When Studies Become Mature", which changed the lyrics of the song "When Grapes Become Mature". In 2016, he quit his casino job and joined Manner to be an actor and screenwriter. He writes most of the skits he performs in. Originally, his name was Wasabi, but after he did a short film called "Eat Noodles, Add Onions" that received rave reviews, people started calling him "Add Onions", so he changed his name to "Add Onions". He performed in the short film "Nonsensical", which received attention from fans.
• Yelo was introduced to Manner by Weng Chan and knew Sixtycents since her senior year of high school. After doing a job interview, she received a call the night before the Mid-Autumn Festival asking whether she wanted to join. She joined Manner part-time. While she was a student at the University of Macau's Department of Communication, she attended classes three days a week and did filming one or two days a week. She is a street dancer.
• Carl Ao Ieong, known as 豪Dee, received a degree from the University of Macau's Department of Marketing in 2016. While he was still in university, he learned from Weng Chan that Manner needed an extra and was offering a $100 hourly salary. He took the job even though it was the day before his midterm exam. He later accepted Sixtycents' offer to join Manner to make films. The Hong Kong Economic Times said in 2018 that Ao Ieong was "Macau's most popular Internet celebrity" as he had 190,000 followers on Facebook and 100,000 on Instagram. Ao Ieong has acted as a taxicab driver, boyfriend, and soldier in Manner skits. He made a commercial with the entertainer Louis Cheung.
• Rachel Lau grew up watching TVB. She made a short commercial film for the rice noodle chain Tamjai Yunnan Mixian with the TVB actress Rainbow Ching Hor Wai. For the commercial, she wrote and performed a song about family love. When she joined Manner, she wrote songs and did not intend to be an actress. Manner gave her a character to play and she grew into a key opinion leader. Rachel has a hummingbird tattoo on her back. When she was very little, she had ornithophobia which could have been caused by seeing a bloody chicken at the supermarket or from seeing a bird suddenly get close to her. To overcome her fear, she would look at birds every day. After doing this for a while, she found hummingbirds to be cute so decided to get a tattoo of it. In her second year of university, Rachel wrote and sang songs that she uploaded to her YouTube channel. After a Macau music company found her, she created her first album titled "0430". She received an accounting degree because she thought it would have good financial prospects.
• was a hotel management university student who worked two years in hotel management after graduation. He wanted to make films but could not find enough time to do in his job so he resigned and took a paycut to join Manner as an entertainer. He is a boxer and part-time model. In his youth, he enjoyed playing basketball, helped his secondary school team go from the fourth division to the first division and win the championship, and wished to play basketball for the rest of his life. But shortly after secondary school graduation, he was riding a bicycle in the rain and an old woman with an umbrella suddenly darted out in front of him. He swerved to avoid hitting her, fell, and suffered serious injuries that led to the doctor's telling him not to ever do strenuous exercise including basketball again. The accident also ended his dream to become a police officer.
• Sofia Paiva won the Miss International Macau 2017 title and competed in Miss International. Paiva is mixed race with Chinese and Portuguese heritage. She started the FiDan Siblings group with her brother to compete in the Taiwanese singing competition Million Star. She uploaded YouTube videos discussing makeup tips. On 4 October 2019, Manner announced on Instagram that Paiva would be joining the group. She received a psychology degree from the University of Saint Joseph in 2020.
• Sulin Ip won the Miss International Macau 2016 title and competed in Miss International where she reached the top 15. She appeared on the TVB game show Liza's Online in a collaboration between TVB and Manner.
• Joao Ramos, known as 雷諾, Black Joe, and Joe, is a member of Manner. Nicknamed the "African Tiger", Of mixed Angola and Portuguese ancestry, he grew up in Macau and became fluent in Cantonese after he and his family moved from Angola to Macau in his youth because of the Angolan Civil War. Ramos is a Muay Thai practitioner who has garnered numerous Macau fans who support him when he competes. He began practicing Muay Thai when he was 17 years old so that he could fight better with his friends, whom he frequently lost playful fights to as a skinny youth. He trained in Phuket, Thailand. In a 2017 competition, he was a contestant in the division. A full-time boxer who practices nearly daily, he has competed in Muay Thai boxing rings including in the Kunlun Fight. In an interview with HK01 in 2019, Ramos said he was in his 30s and planned to retire after finishing two more boxing competitions that year. He participated in two Hong Kong films, Isabella and Poker King. Through his being an acquaintance of Sixtycents and because he was interested in making films, he joined Manner. He has acted in numerous comedic roles for Manner including as a construction worker and as a man wearing women's clothing.
• Weng Chan, known as 雞Wing, is one of the earliest members of Manner, recalling that they used to film videos using their cell phones. Chan knew Sixtycents when they were in secondary school because they both enjoyed making movies. Chan had a cameo in the 2019 Hong Kong film Missbehavior. He collaborated with another Manner member, Wonton, on "Wonton Called Chicken", a series of videos. Chan and Wonton came up with each episode's theme. While Chan took care of the filming and editing, Wonton found the guests and filming locations.
• Isabelle Ip, known as Puinam and Older Sister, joined Manner in January 2019. Ip appeared as a guest in a 2017 episode of the Manner video series "Wonton Called Chicken" and received praise from netizens. In 2020, she had over 280,000 followers on Instagram. She is the older sister of Yuki Ip, who is also a member of Manner. With her sister, she hosted the 2020 ViuTV show Home Field Goal. A model, she has received attention from numerous brands. The Macao Daily News said she has a "hearty and playtful personality and beautiful appearance that has made her become more and more popular among netizens".
• Yuki Ip, known as Sinam and Younger Sister, is a member of Manner. She is the younger sister of Isabelle Ip. With her sister, she hosted the 2020 ViuTV show Home Field Goal.
• Roberto Madan is a songer-songwriter and member of Manner. Madan is of Chinese, British, and Indian ancestry. Chessman Entertainment signed Madan as an artist when he was 16 years old. Since his family wanted him to focus on his studies, he did not renew the six-month contract. Madan visited Hong Kong weekly for singing lessons. He became an independent singer when he was 18 years old. He received a music award from TDM when he was 18. Madan was overweight when he was in primary school, which he attributed to his love of eating and urging by his mother. When he was in secondary school, he looked at himself in the mirror and found himself to be obese and would have difficulty to find a girlfriend. One time, after he played a basketball game, in referring to Madan, an opposing team's coach told his coach, "If he keeps getting fatter, he will not be able to play anymore." The mirror and basketball incidents motivated him to lose weight and begin weightlifting. Madan joined Manner in 2018 and originally only sang. He later grew interested in acting which led to more people internationally become aware of him. When he was just a singer, his audience was primarily people in Macau. Once he began acting, people from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Malaysia grew aware of him. Madan sang the Cantonese version of the theme song for Us and Them. He had a role in the 2020 film Missbehavior.
• Tina Chan, known as 陳田娜, joined Manner because she enjoyed acting, had spare time outside of her studies, and enjoyed working with other Manner employees who were close in age to her. In her Manner films, she wears Japanese attire, acts in cute roles, and acts as a wife who henpecks her husband. She debuted her photo album at the Hong Kong Book Fair in 2019 and planned to publish a cookbook.
• Edward Lei has acted in numerous skits and micro movies. He usually acts in comedic roles and according to the Macao Daily News, he is "also good at performing distressing and tear-jerking roles". Manner co-founder Sixtycents was his classmate. After Lei, who was interested in acting, saw online clips of Sixtycents' videos, he expressed his interest to make films with Sixtycents. Sixtycents said he would think about it and then invited Lei to join.
• Rosalina Lei, known as R, frequently plays the role of a teacher in Manner films because of her "gentle and generous appearance" according to the Macao Daily News. Her childhood dream job was to become a teacher. Another frequent role she portrays is a gong nui. Before she joined Manner, co-founder Sixtycents was her friend and mentioned to her that Manner's advertising department needed staffing. In college, Lei had been the director of her student union's public relations department, where she spoke with companies to seek sponsorships. As she considered herself well-suited for working in Manner's advertising department, she joined the company. She spent approximately one year in that position, after which she switched to an on-camera role because she enjoyed performing and wanted to share her ideas with the audience. By March 2019, she had been at Manner for a little over two years.
• Sophie Lei, known as 蘇菲, has filmed several videos for Manner. She attended an American university abroad before returning to Macau. Lei enjoys fitness and cooking.
• Hugo Chen is a member of Manner whose "expressionless" face during skits was well received by viewers who called him a "poker-faced comedian". Before joining Manner, he was acquainted with members of Manner's creative department because several years prior, he had helped worked on a music video with them. Manner approached him with the suggestion that he play a role they felt was well-suited to him. Chen agreed to the role after reviewing the script which he found hilarious. The audience reception to the character, who adopted an expressionless face, was very positive, so he continued playing it in several more skits. Chen said he enjoyed the freedom the performers had to "say no" to participating in any scripts that they consider unsuitable.
• Gong Lau is a screenwriter for Manner and a film enthusiast. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Macau, he remained at home and watched numerous movies. He created a YouTube channel called "Youngster Gong Lau's Movie Watching Diary" where he shared his film analysis. The channel received 10,000 subscribers in one month. Gong Lau said that "good movies are worth watching more than once". His strategy is to watch movies three times. He focuses on the plot the first time, the film frames the second time, and the actors' performances the third time.
• Doris Lee, known as 多多 and 多姐, is a member of Manner. When she entered university, she was deciding between studying communication or education and settled upon communication. She received a degree from the University of Macau's Department of Communication. A graduation requirement was to create a film. After observing her performance in the film "Girl" when she was a third-year college student, Manner co-founder Sixtycents was impressed with Lee's acting skills and asked her to become a Manner member. As a child, she frequently draped herself in blankets to pretend she was wearing ancient costumes and pretended she was a mother while hugging a baby doll. As an adult, she enjoyed mimicking the expressions and tone of people she saw on television with her sister. After graduating from college, she joined Manner full-time and for a month after joining she was uncertain about what artistic direction to take before deciding to focus on makeup. On her fan pages, Lee published videos about makeup tips and released a series of beauty products. A frequent role Lee portrays in Manner videos is a goddess who attracts the attention of numerous men. She received attention in mainland China after filming a 10-second comedic video for Manner called "打包", which has two meanings, the first being to pack up a leftover meal and the second being to hit a bun. Lee travelled to Taiwan to film a music video with the singer-songwriter Eric Chou.
• Wonton made micro movies during college which led to him joining Manner. He frequently portrays women in comedy skits. Manner co-founder Sixtycents was the originator of the idea for Wonton to portray women. Wonton acted as a breastfeeding mother for the Breastfeeding Association in an advertising skit titled "No more loneliness in the road to breastmilk". In 2019, Wonton created a new program called "Wonton and Big Sister" which he co-hosted with Puinam. In the show, he and Puinam visited new restaurants that were recommend by netizens to introduce those restaurants.

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English subtitles

Videos

Theatre shows

Advertising

Commerce

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