IN FEBRUARY, WHEN CONTENT creator Alex Choi posted a video to Instagram of his matte-black Porsche — which he explained is equipped with a remote-controlled spotlight, bullet-resistant doors, a night-vision infrared camera, and an AR-15 mounted on a rack in the back — plenty of his millions of followers compared him to Batman. On the surface, the 26-year-old Angeleno and the hero of Gotham City have a lot in common: They’re both known for their tricked-out rides, their wealthy families, and their frequent appearances at dangerous urban crime scenes.
But that’s where the similarities end. Choi, unlike the Caped Crusader, doesn’t catch criminals or fight villains. Instead, he films the chaos he hears about on police scanners— sometimes arriving before police and paramedics do — and uploads the footage to Instagram and YouTube, where he’s racked up roughly 2 million followers and nearly 1 million subscribers, respectively.
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