Tencent PR director Zhang Jun posted an article on Weibo on the 4th, stating, “While we are busy doing all kinds of planning to pay tribute to the youth, the youth are sleeping.” The article immediately hit the hot search list, and more than 20,000 mainland netizens marched out en masse. Some netizens criticized back, “Can’t you still sleep during the holidays? You need to get up at six to shower and dress for a ceremony? Is someone forcing you to do tribute planning? The yin and yang.” The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public.
The company’s public relations director, Zhang Jun, issued an article that caused controversy and was confronted by 20,000 young netizens. (Photo/revised from Zhang Jun’s microblog)
The company’s public relations director, Tencent, said in an article on 54 Youth Day on the mainland that he was doing a tribute to the youth when the youth were sleeping at home. (Photo／翻攝张军微博)
The company’s main goal is to provide a platform for the development of a new generation of young people. Zhang Jun’s “youth sleeping theory” has sparked an outcry from netizens, especially from the younger generation, with more than 20,000 comments underneath the article, all of which were overwhelmingly negative.
Some netizens thought that it was a kind of cool talk from a high position, and said, “The weasel is worshipping the chicken, but the chicken hasn’t gotten up yet.” Others asked Zhang Jun rhetorically, “Aren’t the various tributes to youth planned by the youth?” Some even said, “Yin and Yang, young people have been exploited, do not allow people to sleep on May 1 will be lazy?” The youths of 996 can easily take a vacation, do not sleep, do not uprising? Overthrow you group of capitalists?”
The face of the netizens question, Zhang Jun once in the comments “back to dislike”, Zhang Jun said, “I said I can not understand what you are saying”, “the original is from the young people’s grievances” and so on. However, after the incident fermented, in the face of a mountain of criticism from netizens, Tencent and Zhang Jun turned a low profile on the controversial remarks and did not make an official response.
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