Hu Xijin is one of the most recognized representatives of “positive energy” on the Internet.
On February 25, 2021, it was the 10th anniversary of Hu’s Weibo account. To commemorate this special day, he posted a long Weibo post.
This Weibo post is too long, so I won’t post it. In addition to some roundabout nonsense, Laohu also boasted a lot about himself in the tweet.
- 10 years ago, when he first appeared on Weibo, he was one of the “big V”. Now, looking around, many of those once-hot voices on the Internet have disappeared.
2, Laohu knew early on that these big V’s would disappear because they were too naive, while Laohu is more serious in his thinking, and he is one of the people who can stand up to the blows and tosses in the Chinese public opinion and information field.
Overall, this microblog has a strong “Versailles” flavor.
However, Laohu does have pride in the fact that, after ten years, most of the Vloggers who can compete with Laohu (most of them are publicists who are considered negative by Laohu and others) have disappeared from the Chinese social media platform.
Nowadays, Laohu is proud of the world, and is at ease in both civil and official circles. With 24 million followers, he has become the “leader” of the current public opinion arena, and is quite lonely.
However, Laohu’s complacency still lacks the bottom line, and his “loneliness” will not last long. Without the public opinion field of publicists, Laohu was targeted by those more radical people.
In the view of this group, “publicists are no longer the main danger,” but rather Laohu is a “variant of publicists” and a “concubineism and surrenderism under the banner of patriotism,” a “main danger. The “main danger”.
After the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Guo Songmin scolded Fan Meizhong (“Fan Run Run”), who had escaped before the students, with so much rhetoric that he earned the nickname “Guo Jump”. He earned the nickname “Guo Jumping”.
Guo Songmin’s idol is Kong Qingdong. Kong Qingdong is also one of the representatives of positive energy on the Internet. He is known for his foul language and is nicknamed “Kong Sanma”, the kind of person who keeps the words “traitor” and “traitor” on his lips. Guo Songmin praised Kong as “a true chivalrous and brave man, a true lover of freedom.
Guo Songmin’s views can be seen in his articles: “Talking about a Revolutionary Spring Festival”, “The Evolution of the “Spent Dog””, “Today, Mankind Needs Lenin More Than Ever”, etc.
Guo Songmin believes that Hu Xijin is “using a kind of concubinism to impersonate nationalism, so it is a kind of pseudo-nationalism”.
It is interesting to note that Guo Songmin also has an explanation for concubinism: “Concubinism is a kind of eunuchism.” I guess old Hu could shiver with anger when he knew this explanation.
Guo Songmin’s criticism of Hu Xijin has never been interrupted, and he almost always scolds Hu.
Another person, Yu Nei, criticized Hu Xijin more powerfully and more extreme, directly denouncing Hu Xijin as a “traitor”.
Hu Xijin has always prided himself on his tough attitude, defining himself as a warrior who fights for China’s voice in the international public opinion arena, disliking the U.S. empire from the outside and the publicists from the inside, with an overwhelming combat power. But strangely enough, there has been no response to the criticism of Guo Songmin, Yu Nei and others.
Instead, Guo Songmin’s fans are rising, and more and more people are gathering around Guo to launch a relentless criticism of the subjectivists with Laohu as their flag bearer.
This also reflects the current ecology of online public opinion, when the voice of reason becomes weaker and weaker, the Internet is gradually occupied by radical voices. In order to attract more attention, the radicals have started a competition (“in-roll”): whoever is more extreme and radical, whoever is more hateful to the US-led West, is more patriotic, more energetic, and can attract more fans.
So, you say “a thousand nuclear bombs”, he will come to a “nuclear flat earth”; you say the United States began to decline, he said the United States has long been in deep water; you say 30 years after China exceeded the United States, he said it does not take 30 years, 5 years is enough.
The most frightening thing is probably the mentally handicapped Mr. Defeat Luck of the Palace of Learning, even the rumor of “human flesh bun” has come out. Although the palace was eventually taken down because of the evil, but it is said that after changing the signboard, it continues to spread those extreme ideas in a community way, harvesting believers and making money every day.
I don’t like Hu Xijin, but when he was criticized as a traitor by more radicals, I was only worried, not happy at all.
If such extremely bigoted rhetoric is allowed to dominate public opinion, it will only push society further and further to the dangerous edge of extremes.
Are these vloggers, who are more extreme than Saisu, really patriotic? Is it really positive energy?
No!
They are performing, in order to cater to domestic nationalist sentiment and to enrich themselves by vilifying the West and scolding the US.
Peaceful development is the mainstream of the world and the direction that China always insists on.
True patriotism is to make the people of this country live happier, and true positive energy is to carry a compassionate feeling for the world’s people.
But what about these more radical than one big V, they never care about the people’s livelihood issues. Migrant workers are owed wages, they do not speak; delivery boy died suddenly on the street, they do not speak; weak women are bullied by the black forces, they do not speak …… Despite their enormous influence, but never for the vulnerable to say a word.
Their so-called radicals are just a performance, a business, or a tool for enrichment.
What is particularly odious about these so-called radicals, such as Chen Ping’s stream, is that they spout anti-American rhetoric while purchasing property in the United States. The sad thing is that a large number of netizens, who already know that Chen Ping is harvesting domestic leeks to make money and buying properties in the U.S. for the New Year, are still obsessed with defending Chen Ping.
This kind of radical speech over the years has had a very serious psychological poisoning effect on netizens, especially the post-90s and post-00s. On public social media platforms such as Weibo and today’s headlines, a slightly more moderate speech risks being accused of being a “traitor” or “traitor to the country”.
This is a very bad phenomenon.
In an environment where public opinion is becoming more and more radical every day, rational writing is destined to be a minority.
But I am writing this article in the hope that it will wake up those readers who are indulging in extreme rhetoric and radical emotions.
When Laohu, who is considered a hawk, is criticized as a traitor and traitor on the Internet, should we not reflect on what is true patriotism and what is true positive energy?
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