Recently, Chinese official media Xinhua News Agency and People’s Daily issued an article criticizing the so-called wealthy videos for “deviating from mainstream values” and naming a netizen “Big LOGO Eating Down Beijing” for uploading videos of high-spending food and drinks to ” The “paper drunk” routine harvests short video traffic. The websites then followed the official guidelines and blocked the videos showing off their wealth.
The gap between the rich and the poor in China is getting worse. Some netizens have recently been criticized by the official media for uploading videos of themselves spending money, showing off their access to high-end consumption places and staying in presidential suites, and urged to stop immediately. Xinhua News Agency, People’s Daily and other official media have recently criticized the “experiential wealth show-off videos” for deviating from mainstream values, and named a netizen “Big LOGO Eating Down Beijing”. Big LOGO has filmed videos such as “300 yuan a couple of Wagyu steaks”, “3,700 yuan afternoon tea”, “75,000 yuan for a night in the presidential suite”, “1,990,000 yuan for a month’s birth” and “1,990,000 yuan for a month’s birth”. The video of the rich people’s high-end consumption experience, such as “spending 1.99 million yuan to sit on the moon”, highlights an “expensive”, triggering the curiosity of netizens.
The official microblogging site of Xinhua News Agency recently commented on the trend of showing off wealth on some short video platforms, which mentioned the “presidential suite” and other short video content to show off wealth for the sake of traffic. “In the future, we will choose video topics more carefully.”
Authorities fear that hatred of the rich will intensify social conflicts
Mr. Yu, a Beijing resident, believes that officials are worried that the videos will deepen people’s hatred of the rich, which in turn will intensify social conflicts. As a government, I hope people will be prepared to live a hard life under the impact of the epidemic and reduced income: “Let people tighten their belts and cut back on food and clothing because the current situation is forced. Cautioning people that this kind of luxury wind is not to be proclaimed, the netizens will have actions after seeing more, such as vandalism and robbery. This is one way of control.”
Xinhua News Agency named and criticized the video of ostentatious wealth. (Web screenshot)
However, many netizens believe that officials have no right to stop people from browsing lifestyle consumption videos in the name of so-called positive energy, besides, such high-priced consumption can bring viewers more experience. Some netizens also left a message, why the consumption of the rich, ordinary people can not afford to eat, look at it can not?
Some scholars believe that the current prevailing social hatred of the rich, especially when the wealth of officials and corruption at the same time, this mentality of social injustice will form a hatred of the rich, and the gap between the rich and poor increased, dissatisfaction with the reality will further amplify this emotion.
Collusion between government and business creates a large number of wealthy people
Zhang Kunlun, a scholar from Taiyuan, Shanxi, told the station that collusion between government and business to collect wealth is a common problem of the current system in China. In essence: “It’s the poor subsidizing the rich and the rich plundering the poor. And under the epidemic, under the economic environment, such a conflict between the rich and the poor, but become more violent. Officials want to avoid the gap between the rich and the poor to provoke more rebellion from the people.”
Left: A netizen who uploaded a video showing off his wealth publicly apologizes. Middle photo: The People’s Daily criticizes the show-off video by name. Right: Big LOGO shows off food on his account “Big LOGO Eats Beijing”. (Screenshot)
After the official criticism, many netizens actively or passively deleted the high-priced food and drink videos uploaded to their personal accounts. Mr. Zhao, an Internet writer, said in an interview with the station that there is no legal basis for the official media to interfere with netizens’ posting of food and drink videos or for websites to block videos of high-priced food and drink. He said: “This matter can really be big or small, it is a legal issue, in the end is the question of whether to follow the rule of law, a question of having the law not followed, not in accordance with Article 35 of the Constitution to give freedom of expression of civil rights. Where exactly is the boundary of freedom of speech, law enforcement also has no basis, is the rule of man.”
A corrupt official’s fall has unearthed more than 200 million yuan
In China, the number of billionaires is growing rapidly, according to the Hurun 2021 Rich List released March 2, which shows that despite the coronavirus pandemic that is shaking the world economy, China ranks first in the world with 992 billionaires, far ahead of the United States, which ranks second, and India, which ranks third. However, the birth of many billionaires is directly or indirectly related to systemic ills. For example, in the case of Ye Guobing, former deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Public Security Bureau, who fell last week, police recovered more than 200 million yuan, 8.1 million U.S. dollars, 6.2 kilograms of gold, and one submachine gun and one pistol each with more than 900 rounds of ammunition from his son’s home.
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