The recent ABG/ABB maxxing seminar in San Francisco tried to turn Asian “baddie” culture into a teachable, ticketed skill set—and the backlash shows just how over these hyper‑engineered identity workshops the community really is. What looked, on paper, like a fun crash course in becoming an “Asian baby girl” or “Asian baby boy” instead exposed the awkward overlap between tech‑bro self‑branding, Asian American insecurity, and the algorithm’s obsession with hotness. What actual