there is a grain of truth in this. chav culture certainly existed and still exists in the south of england but they came in around 2000-2010 or so for much greater demonisation than their northern (scally) or scottish (ned) counterparts, likely due to UK media being concentrated in the south

the great chav danger was blown wildly out of proportion and i've no doubt the term expanded beyond the original sense of a sort of tracksuit/burberry clad antisocial petty criminal youth to include just about any working class kid in the minds of home counties handbag clutchers

so to say they never existed is false, and to say they never caused anyone any bother is false. but the middle class media confected version of them never existed in any great proportion either

I've always seen chavs as the tracksuit wearing, loads of kids, living off smokes, scratch cards and pot Noddles that sit around soaking up benefits. I know that nay not be the proper definition of chav but I'm not sure what else to call them

Not snobish at all. And even i was scared walking threw fratton Portsmouth

Aren't chavs the tracksuit wearing shitheads, like the thugs working for Eggsy's stepdad in the first Kingsman?

No... that culture of violence was very very real. The stories may sound ridiculous, but that's just because of how extreme that culture was.

What is your obsession with 'chavs'?

Of course they exist, ya dummie! I'm working class and they definitely exist.

Grew up in the era there were definitely chavs it wasn't a class thing either as a lot of them tended to be role-playing middle class kids who wanted to look hard as usual.

Walking through local shops and being challenged about which part of town you lived in or getting called a "greebo" all a day in the life of the era.

Roadmans are currently being made up. Kids wearing balaclavas wearing bomber jackets talking with a heavy London grime artist accent dont exist.

Is this déjà-downvote I feel?