As the dynamic Nongjin disco version of "Can't afford to be hurt" played, a handsome, well-dressed and smiling man wearing a "skating boy" slipped into the camera. In the video, this beautiful man exudes charm from the inside out. When you first see him, you have to sigh: It turns out that "charming" and "enchanting" can one day be used on men.
Then, I clicked on the comment area and looked at those familiar smells - I knew that this was my mother's second idol.
Seeing this, some people may say: "Huh? New idol? Where is the old Jin Dong? Where is my scholar brother?" To those friends who are unaware of this, my good brother Jie once said:
"He, the scholar, can sit in this country, but I, Wang Sheng, can't?"
But the laws of our ancestors are immutable. Our leaders have said that when talking about things, we must first explain the causes.
So, 3DM's quick report: "Sad news! The scholar who was so famous for a while and was talked about by young, old, women and children has died some time ago."
I won’t go into details about the specific reasons. They are just financial disputes, and there are also some stories of online dating turning into online fraud, but this time the protagonist is a little older. In addition, I won’t go into details about how the scholar eldest brother’s previous love affair captivated thousands of women. If you are interested, Mr. ROOT from the editorial department has written in detail.
Now, without mourning for the passing of the scholar for even a moment, the one who immediately rushed to the love scene was China's own Yuzuru Hanyu and Roller Skating Wang Sheng.
Even the poses of the avatars are quite similar.
Taking Xiucai as an example, his videos are nothing more than a series of model plays of "touching the head, sticking out the tongue, raising eyebrows, and lip-syncing." Once the fixed process is over, countless women are impressed and obsessed with his watertight performances.
Sheng Ziran also has his own charm.
In the simple and empty room, Sheng, who was wearing stiff clothes and a thin figure, was pacing in place. After realizing he was staring at the camera for a little too long, he straightened his coat and pursed his upper lip shyly. The next second, he began to slide back. After successfully showing his whole body to the audience, Sheng's legs began to slide alternately and draw circles on the spot. Then, he pointed at the camera with one finger, caressed the back of his head with the other hand, then stuck out his tongue to lightly moisten his lips, and then swayed from side to side to the BGM drumbeats...
With such smooth and skilled roller skating, some people say that he is China's Yuzuru Hanyu, and I'm afraid there is a certain truth to it. It is worth mentioning that Japan's Yuzuru Hanyu has been pursuing four and a half turns in the air throughout his career, while Sheng easily has the ability to turn six and a half times on the spot.
After watching Sheng's roller skating skills, in the comment area, people around Sheng's age began to recall their own youth, and praised, "With your ability, you held many girls' hands back then" and "I used to like men like you in the roller skating rink who can skate like you."
Obviously, the comment area here is still dominated by the memories of ordinary middle-aged and elderly people. At most, they can say "I used to like men like you", and there are no disgusting comments like direct confessions.
However, the strength shown by Sheng is just the tip of the iceberg. After skating on the spot became a regular part of his performance, he also added other content on this basis, such as ogling and dancing the gentlemanly dance of Korean Uncle Psy:
Maybe in the eyes of today's young people, roller skating is no longer a great thing, but for those older middle-aged and elderly people, the meaning of roller skating is different.
You know, for young people living in the last century, they did not have as many entertainment devices as today. Therefore, most of the young people at that time hung out in various entertainment venues, and the roller skating rink was one of them - an oval ice rink, a worn floor, a shining light ball and loud music in their ears... This was a place that every young person in that era flocked to.
It is also a relatively common way to have one person take the lead and skate with countless people behind, commonly known as "stretching the dragon". And this way of stretching the dragon requires everyone to hold the hands of those around them tightly, which just gives boys and girls a legitimate reason to hold hands. Doesn’t love in this world all start with an inadvertent touch? These young men and women who started at the roller skating rink and wrote countless stories, if you calculate their age now, they are not the middle-aged and elderly people today.
He is also in a suit, gentle and elegant, and Sheng Hui also likes roller skating that people of his generation love - so, it must make sense to say that he can become our mother's new idol, right?
Moreover, I carefully looked forward and found out: Sheng is not the bamboo shoots that spring up after the scholar ban. Since a year ago, he has become a youth idol among middle-aged and elderly people. During the time when Xiucai became popular, on the other side, under Sheng's comment section, there were still some people praising Sheng's roller skating skills and recalling "thinking about those days" and "when we were young."
Perhaps these middle-aged and elderly people did not express their opinions as wildly as the scholar’s comment section, but the middle-aged and elderly people here all resonated with Sheng’s roller skating video.
They recall their past here: when they went out to work alone, they were full of excitement and joy about the unknown. On weekends, they walked far away to find fellow villagers roller skating and asked for songs at roadside stalls. In addition to the joy, they also had memories of sleeping in parks when they were in embarrassment...
And the aunts will remember that when they were ignorant girls, they would hold hands and skate with the opposite sex at the roller skating rink, and they would feel like little deer bumping into each other.
There are also uncles who shared how they caught up with their aunt and their lives with her afterwards:
During this period, Sheng's comment area became a memory chat room for middle-aged and elderly people, where everyone happily chatted about themselves and thought about the past.
However, the good times did not last long - Sheng himself has not had any problems yet, but his comment area has entered the abstraction 2.0 period.
At the beginning, it was just a few simple words of love:
After that, there were some sultry words, which sounded like a joke between an old couple:
If these comments are still in the realm of petty fuss, then when you open my live broadcast room, you will find that the comments here are even more vulgar and explosive.
Contents that I would normally be too embarrassed to read carefully are now being blasted across the screen like a straight shot:
If there is a legitimate reason for young netizens to invade Xiucai by "looking for his mother in the comment section," then on Sheng's side, it seems more like some kind of unintentional disaster - he has not yet experienced the old lady maxing out his pension card and giving gifts, but he has experienced the torrent of cross-talk and jokes after Xiucai became popular.
This inevitably makes people wonder, why did "spots" appear when Sheng was not so popular that everyone knew about it?
With this question in mind, let me tell you a story first.
When I was a kid, some people older than me always liked to play weird jokes on me. The most common one is to imitate my words and deeds and re-interpret them in a more exaggerated way. There is no other reason. Those who are older than me think that they have the right to speak, and I am in a weak position that can be manipulated by others. To exaggerate, I am easy to bully.
Imitating my words and deeds is just a tactful way of teasing. If they make me angry and cry, they will laugh and say, "You're just kidding, this kid really doesn't know how to tease." At this time, they get the satisfaction of playing tricks on others, and then continue to look for the next "funny" child.
Just like every adult who deliberately imitates children when they were children, young netizens aggressively occupy the comment area and point fingers at the middle-aged and elderly people with their own high profile.
Because we are young, we can understand and accept some trendy memes more quickly. We should be the main force in the Internet era and the "predecessors" of the elderly on the Internet.
And those middle-aged and elderly people will inevitably be slow to respond to Internet torrents and find it difficult to understand its connotations. At this time, the "seniors" will jump out and ridicule them severely.
The comment section of the previous scholar was like this, and the comment section of Sheng is also like this now:
But if you insist on talking about it, they will definitely say, "They (the elders) can say it, but we can't? It's just a joke, I really don't know how to be funny."
It's confusing, but not that difficult to understand. After all, when everyone goes out to surf the Internet, the most important thing is to be happy - everyone understands that a dead Taoist friend will not die a poor Taoist.
However, one fact that cannot be denied is that as of June 2023, the proportion of netizens aged 40 to 59 has increased from 33.2% in December 2022 to 34.5%. The Internet has been penetrating into the middle-aged and elderly groups. In other words, in this era where everyone can use the Internet, China already has about 300 million middle-aged and elderly Internet users, but it seems that everyone has been ignoring the voices and demands of this group of people on the Internet.
Source: China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) 52nd "Statistical Report on China's Internet Development"
Think about it carefully, when they opened the comment section of their idol and wrote those words, did they only like the enchanting middle-aged and elderly man on the screen? Not necessarily, they may also like the youth they had and the way they looked when they were young.