On Weibo, the topic of “Mocha official” has generated 580 million reads and 266,000 discussions. In the initial narrative, Mocha dropped out of school at an early age and was abandoned by his Parents, his Life was only part-Time jobs and live streaming, and he would not complain about fate when he was seriously ill. After confirming that Mocha had indeed passed away, people could not accept that such a person who suffered from the hardships of life, but was still actively fighting how could he die alone in a place where no one could see him?
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On June 16, 2020, a B-site UP owner called “Mochaofficial” posted a dynamic.
He wrote that he had a lump on his nose, and when he looked in the mirror, it was bleeding out and couldn’t be stopped. It was making him breathe badly. Like talking to himself, he said, “I don’t know if I can last until the day I have surgery ……” Then it got worse and his left bite muscle began to hurt so much that he couldn’t sleep and was afraid to open his mouth to eat.
That dynamic only got 3 replies and was quickly skipped over by people. It seemed inconsequential, nothing more than a game anchor that no one was watching sharing a minor ailment he was experiencing.
But there were those who noticed that the ailment was not a simple one. People later recalled that various fellow groups, Mocha once mentioned his difficulties to the group, “torture you than death, I am still trembling, can only hang on by water, can only find you guys to borrow some …… Help me to relieve the next, I hope to buy insulin or something ……” he told the group of friends, he has type 2 diabetes, the disease is saved, but they can not afford to use the drug, so so painful.
In the mouth of Mocha, his father because his grandmother is seriously ill, debt and run away, divorce, he was sentenced to his mother, his mother will beat him, will smash his computer, because the vocational high school cheap, even if he has good grades also sent him to vocational high school, forcing him to go out to work, do not give him a penny living expenses, even if they request it. His father, on the other hand, would grab the compensation for the demolition of the house left by his dead grandfather and drive him away. His parents’ “insensitivity” made him not ask for help even after he knew he was sick, but rented a 200 yuan house in Huili County and worked part-time.
At that time, facing a virtual account, no one really knew what kind of person “Mocha” was, and he sent out intermittent distress signals until January 2021. This account completely lost its voice on the Internet. Later, people pieced together the life of this B-site UP owner, who had less than 200 fans, through the dynamics on B-site, before he disappeared.
When he broadcasted the horror game, he was scared himself and wished he could have more people to accompany him. He wanted to make the video better and improve his ability to split the shot and composition. At night, he hears dogs barking outside his door and sees mountain fires burning in the distance, so he is worried and doesn’t know if he should sleep. Six months ago, he moved to a new place and bought a small rice cooker for 20 yuan from Poundland, and at 9 pm, he would use it to cook instant noodles to satisfy his hunger. Even if the number of fans is only 100, he said, “This is a good start. Through the dynamics of netizens, he learned for the first time the custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice. But what he wanted to eat most was strawberry. He couldn’t afford to buy them because they were too expensive.
After June 2020, his dynamics could not get around his condition, he often had stomach pains and his nose lump bled from time to time, “If this continues, his body will soon be dragged down by the disease …… “In November, he began to show symptoms of fainting, and one day, he passed out for two hours. By mid-November, he told the network that he was starting to be hospitalized and waiting for surgery. He photographed the information on his medical card, the medications were bought one by one, and after the surgery, he had $2,049.34 owed. a hospital report dated December 17 showed that he had a bulging dermatofibrosarcoma, possible type 2 diabetes and liver impairment.
A group called “night school project”, people have launched a fundraising campaign for Mocha, and also want to help him start a business together, but the start-up capital has become a headache problem. They thought that Mocha might be able to become a Vup (virtual anchor, referring to the use of virtual images on video sites to cast activities anchor), through the production of videos and live games can increase income. Thus, an online mutual aid began. The community’s modeler designed his appearance, other group members assembled his computer with obsolete parts, and netizen Ilyich took out his old sound card and monitors and sent them to him one after another. They cobbled together basic live streaming equipment, hoping to get Mocha through the rough patch.
The image of Mocha that is circulating today was created through the collaborative efforts of these netizens. He had short black hair, bangs, droopy eyes, and would appear in the bottom left corner to explain the game to the netizens when he was live. Because of the lack of hardware, Mocha often encounters computer hang-ups or broken headsets.
Before the live broadcast, he rarely sent a teaser, did not look for channels to attract traffic, just silent live, diligently broadcast two hours. Someone into the live room, his voice will be excited. But in more time, he is to the screen, and talk to himself. Netizen Ilyich recalls, except for the group of friends and one or two old viewers, no one watched Mocha live. In the eight months of becoming a virtual host, “Mochaofficial” has released a total of 28 videos, this is an active creative UP owner. But someone found that Mocha’s account so far has not been able to meet the requirements of the opening of the B station creation incentive, that is, in the matter of live or production video, he can get the income is nearly zero.
As a virtual anchor, Mocha failed to get recognition.
The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to the public. But he reassured netizens, “the problem is not big, the next live broadcast will pay attention. “Because of the disease, he always vomited and vomited what he ate. Mocha’s last dynamic, resting on December 31, 2020, “and yet I’m still lying in a hospital bed, lamentable. “
Ilyich found that after Jan. 4, Mocha did not speak in the group again. He was more familiar with Mocha and knew that his financial situation and physical condition were not too promising. In the later “Life of Mocha (First Edition)” Ilyich wrote that he and his groupmates had first assisted Mocha back in about April 2018, when Mocha told them that the employer of his part-time job did not pay him, he had lost his source of income, and his rent was about to expire, so he decided to go Home. The travel expenses to go home is the group of friends for him a little bit to put together enough.
After confirming with Mocha’s cousin and father, Ilyich posted a short obituary for Mocha on his account, “Vup@MochaOfficial belonging to Night School Project passed away earlier this month (exact time unknown) due to a combination of poverty and illness. “
Widespread sympathy and questions ensued, with some questioning whether this was another fictional Internet narrative. The day the obituary was released, netizens wanted to confirm: “Mocha” really existed this person? Is he really dead?
The news was later confirmed that on January 10, a young man was found dead at home by his landlord in a rental house on Yingbin Avenue in Huili County. Later, after verification by the local Public Security Bureau, it was determined that he died due to illness. He followed his mother, surnamed Chen, another name in the network world, called “Mocha”. The virtual network and the real world were connected at this moment. People confirmed that the young man had really passed away, extremely lonely passed away.
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Not only on the network, Mocha in reality has already experienced a “elimination”.
The real situation and Xiao Chen’s own story, there are many factual differences, but one thing is similar, in real life and Xiao Chen told the story, he was at odds with his parents. No matter which side he was with, he was unhappy and felt unloved.
Grandfather Du Zhengming told Daily People that after Xiao Chen’s parents divorced, his father was unwilling to raise him, and it was his mother Chen Xia who single-handedly took over, “You don’t want the doll, I want it. “
Mother Chen Xia stays in Xichang all year round, doing various jobs, making money to support two elderly people and a child. Those years, Chen Xia only came back every other day, Chen followed his grandmother and grandfather Du Zhengming life, Chen never read his mother, his grandmother once asked his grandfather suspiciously, “how this child so introverted? The mother is not at home, at least ask ah. “In the middle of a few years, Xiao Chen’s father took him to Huili County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, but Du Zhengming said that Xiao Chen was not happy in his father’s life there. Xiao Chen’s father worked as a contractor on the site, there is a small restaurant next to the site, every day, Xiao Chen will eat there alone, and after eating, his father found time to settle the bill.
Whether it’s people in the village or relatives, when they mention Xiao Chen, they say he’s introverted, withdrawn, not talkative, and adults have no way to understand what he’s thinking. Only when it was time to eat did Xiao Chen come out of his room. In Chen Xia’s opinion, he often stays in the house, plays on the computer, doesn’t know how to find work to do, and can’t integrate into society, and the two often argue over these things. One time, Xiao Chen shoved Chen Xia, Chen Xia got angry and pushed his computer to the floor. Du Zhengming could not be persuaded from the sidelines, but could only watch his daughter always crying after each quarrel. Chen likewise does not talk to her grandfather. The only interaction they have is when Du Zhengming cooks a meal and calls him to come eat it, and the two face each other and finish the meal in silence, “I feel as if he hates us. ” Du Zhengming said.
Later, both parents each had the intention of starting a Family. The father had another child, the child is about 10 years younger than Xiao Chen, “is an inviting doll. “The grandfather said the father later gave the computer he bought for Xiao Chen, passed it on to his own later child, and the mother had to buy him a new one.
According to Interface News, Chen Xia sent Xiao Chen to a training school in Meishan City, spent more than 10,000, when the other party to ensure that after graduation will be assigned to work on the railroad, but Xiao Chen did not finish reading, he called home, saying that “the school is crooked (fake) “. After this, Chen returned to the state of no landing, he asked his family for money, said he had to find a job, went to Chengdu, and stayed for a long time.
At the end of 2019, before the Epidemic, he returned home from Chengdu, 1 meter 78 grew to more than 200 pounds, and his belly was big. Grandfather Du Zhengming and Chen Xia thought it was just his bad habits, joking him that “it took more than 10,000 to buy this meat. “Chen Xia told him to go to the hospital, Xiao Chen reluctant, said “what obesity “.
Xu Ling knows Xiao Chen’s mother’s family. In a few months ago, she listened to Chen Xia very worried, and her son rarely communicate, call him on the phone and do not answer, grew a couple of hundred pounds, like to play with the phone, play computer, young body is not good. Xu Ling was surprised that she hadn’t come across Xiao Chen in the village for a long time, and she thought she wouldn’t recognize him if she did. When she was young, she always saw Xiao Chen playing in the sand at the door because she went to Huili County and stayed with her father for a long time, and other children in the village can not play a place, always alone, very thin, do not like to talk, she thought, it must be the reason for the divorce of parents.
Xu Ling said Chen Xia is very strong, the Marriage broke up, she alone with the children, and later conflict with the two brothers, alone to support the two elderly, to treat a very sick mother, in partnership with someone to open a footbath store before, 11 or 12 at night is still running black cars to make money. In the description of Chuan Guan News, Chen Xia bought a car in 2014, and later bought two houses that add up to 60 square meters, but grandfather Du Zhengming told the Daily News that in 2016, his partner fell ill, more than 100,000 medical bills, are Chen Xia out, the money earned is spent in, the family conditions are not very good.
Has been to make money for the survival of the whole family, Chen Xia gave Xiao Chen to his grandparents to take care of, rarely care about him, his son went to junior high school, the more and more do not know how to communicate, she occasionally and Xu Ling complained impotently, “I told him to go back to Xichang, and he does not come. “
Chen Xia told Daily People that when Xiao Chen was young, like other children, he also loved to laugh and play, and she showed visitors photos of Xiao Chen’s childhood, their photos together. But after growing up, it became more and more away from themselves. Chen Xia knew that “it was the adults who gave less companionship. “When Xiao Chen didn’t listen to her, she scolded him, and gradually he spent more and more time in his room.
Xiao Chen finished junior high school and did not do well, and did not get into high school. His mother arranged a vocational high school for him, he did not finish reading and returned home, “he did not say why, just do not want to read. Chen Xia gave him a job in a real estate company, he did not want to go. Chen Xia can’t understand her son, she doesn’t know what he is always doing on the computer, “see him playing games, think it is not a proper thing to do. “She is anxious, because anxious to scold him, the two quarrels. Chen Xia thought, let a soon-to-be adult child learn to support themselves, is not a normal requirement? If always do not learn skills, what will he do in the future?
Xiao Chen was at home for a long time, and one day in the spring of 2020, mother and son had another conflict. Xiao Chen loaded the mainframe of the computer and a few pieces of clothes into the box, and just went out the door. Xiao Chen said, “I will be in Huili in the future”, his father is in Huili County, Du Zhengming’s The understanding is that he went to his father, he might find a job in Huili and stabilize. After all, his father’s residence is only two or three kilometers from the hut Xiao Chen rented.
After Xiao Chen’s death, Du Zhengming couldn’t figure out how the boy was so stubborn and didn’t go to his dad.
Xu Ling is to see Chen Xia’s circle of friends, only to know that Xiao Chen had an accident. Chen Xia said, very sad, these years did not accompany him, from his dynamics posted on the B site to know, it turned out that he was eager to eat strawberries. Chen Xia’s circle of friends wrote, son, it’s raining, is it cold over there in heaven? She sent a photo of Xiao Chen as a child, saying that her mother’s heart was tearing apart.
The last part of Xiao Chen’s life, Chen Xia all absent. When she learned that Xiao Chen was going to have surgery in November, she urged him to tell his mother when he had the surgery, and she came over to stay with you. When Chen Xia called again, but learned that his surgery had already ended, “how do you not tell mommy? “Chen Xia wanted to come to the hospital to take care of him, but was refused by Xiao Chen. Chen Xia thought that, in her absence, Xiao Chen’s father might be there. Unexpectedly, the child was alone through that period. The father only accompanied him for the examination, “Xiao Chen’s father has other elderly people to take care of at home. “
▲ Mocha had posted a dynamic, “the surgery is finished, there is no accident, I hope it will not leave too ugly scars,” with a picture of a hanging IV. Photo/Mocha OfficialB station memorial account
According to Chuan Guan News, in 2020, Xiao Chen was examined for a nasal tumor in Xichang, and was later brought to Panzhihua Hospital by his father for surgery, and paid for the surgery, but it was also discovered that Xiao Chen also suffered from diabetes and hypertension. After the surgery, Xiao Chen had conflicts with his father, went out alone and did not answer his parents’ phone calls until January 10, 2021, when Xiao Chen was found dead in his rented house on Yingbin Avenue in Huili County.
When Chen Xia rushed to the rental house, she was heartbroken to see that Xiao Chen had blood on his face. During the interview, Chen Xia kept reading, “If only I had gone to stay with him in the hospital at that time. “As soon as she mentioned her son, she felt a deep sense of remorse. Body leaning forward, frowning, dropping tears. The more she thought about it, the more she regretted that if she had stayed with her child in the hospital, maybe it wouldn’t have turned out this way.
“It must be sad, it’s your own doll. She thinks she is still responsible for the divorce of two people hit him hard. “Du Zhengming said.
The company’s main business is to promote the development of the company’s products and services. Du Zhengming remembered that only seven or eight relatives came that day, together with a ride to the grandson. There is no ceremony, only the action of burial, after sending, we all went home.
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After that silent funeral, Chen Xia was slowly swallowing the pain of losing her child. She still works without interruption, speaks quickly and does things quickly. Only when mentioning Xiao Chen, she had to struggle to adjust her emotions. Online accusations of their own remarks, Chen Xia saw, reluctant to make a response, Du Zhengming encouraged her to face the matter, do not avoid, “you have to let everyone know, how you treat your doll, to eliminate the rumors. “
Little did Chen’s family know that the matter was far from over. Xiao Chen’s death has set off a powerful and lasting network tribute.
On Weibo, the topic of “Mochaofficial” has provoked 580 million reads and 266,000 discussions. In the initial narrative, Chen dropped out of school early and abandoned by his parents, his life is only part-time jobs and live, seriously ill and will not complain about fate. After confirming that Mocha had indeed passed away, people could not accept that such a person who suffered from the hardships of life but was still actively fighting how could he die alone in a place where no one saw him?
Netizens who wanted to mourn him flocked to the site, and the number of his B-site followers rose from about 200 to 1.56 million. The original 28 videos had a total play count of only 12,000, but now the latest installment has reached 5.639 million. On the B site, there are 34 accounts that have been purposely renamed in honor of Mocha. A netizen sent 10 cups of milk tea to the hospital where Mocha had visited, and he left a message on the takeaway order: “Thanks to all the medical staff of the hospital, in the case of Mr. Mocha already owed money still willing to heal and sell Medicine to him. “
After seeing the news, Wu Peng, who has lived in Huili County for eight years, decided to go see the rental house where Mocha had lived. It was a five-story residential building, in an alley next to a fruit store, the sun came in through the roll-up door on the second floor, and the one where Mocha had lived was at the end of the corridor on the second floor.
He saw the house of Xiao Chen, a single room with bathroom, Xiao Chen once got up in the middle of the night scared by the sudden light in the bathroom. 10 square meters of the house had been emptied, and a drying rack was left in the corner.
The landlord only realized something was wrong after finding the house lights on for four days in a row, just in time to pay the rent, she called Xiao Chen’s phone, but no one answered. This is located in Huili County Welcome Avenue, facing the ancient city of Huili and Huili County Government seat of the house in the edge of the county area, rent 200 yuan a month, water grid 80 yuan. The landlord’s impression of the boy who had been renting for six months was “a little fat, a good boy”.
Compared with the hustle and bustle of the network, Mocha lived in the small streets seem particularly quiet.
On the 26th day, Wu Peng also saw a cat, small, long brown hair, lying in the sun on the threshold of the kiosk door, but he was not sure if it was the one Mocha picked up – in December, Mocha said in a group that he found a cat, dying look, he wrapped the kitten in rags in a paper box He wrapped the kitten in rags and put it in a paper box, not knowing what to do, shouting in the group “family, something big is happening. He wanted someone to tell him what to feed the kitten, and finally, he bought softened milk and poured some for it.
In the season of orange harvest, the fruit stalls are piled with a whole side of oranges, where Xiao Chen has picked up pears. Some netizens left a message that it was hard to imagine him coming back from his daily job and walking past so many fruits, but only going back to eat instant noodles. After Wu Peng updated his post on the posting bar, one after another more than 300 netizens added him to thank him for his record, and some sent him red packets to buy some more strawberries, or to transfer the money to the landlord. Fruit stall strawberries 20 yuan a pound, Wu Peng bought a small bag of sugar cane and strawberries, placed in front of the rental house, as a souvenir.
The dynamic of Mocha’s life became a cyber tombstone for netizens to pay their respects, netizens left one after another on it what they wanted to say.
“At that time I was struggling in the final exams, right, that day after the exams I went to the supermarket to buy fruit, looked at the price of strawberries gave up. If only I had known you earlier, maybe I could have bought it and we would have shared that box of strawberries. The next life and I meet it, it is possible to eat a box of strawberries together in winter fellowship. “
“My house has a strawberry field how much you want to eat eat how much inconvenient if you entrust a dream to the little orange cat that often comes for a walk meow three times I will know it is you come”
Along with the flood of sympathy came a flood of questions. The image of the perfect victim was shaped and destroyed in a very short period of time. Netizens also began to dig, Mocha also has another unknown side: disrespect for women; repeatedly borrowed money and did not pay; some media reports that he had been detained; when he died, a large number of drink bottles left in the rental house.
These disputes will not be left with answers. Wu Peng asked the owners of the fruit store downstairs and the kiosk across the street, he tried to find evidence that the young man had lived, trying to figure out what face he had once existed in the world, but the store owners did not know about the online furore, only that a young man had died in the alley and that the police had investigated the scene.
Beyond that, there was nothing more. No one knows who the dead one was, what he looked like, and whether he ever stopped briefly from their door.
(At the request of the interviewer, Chen Xia and Xu Ling are pseudonyms)
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