05/04/24 - Who would even be worried about a hole in the middle of the highway normally?
The latest hubbabaloo on weibo is that a professional e-sports player, Fat Cat, has committed suicide after long-term emotional abuse by his girlfriend. His sister has made a post, “Hi, everyone. I’m Fat Cat’s sister. Thank you, everyone. I’m sorry to have taken up so much public resources. Thank you for weibo’s staff for getting my weibo account back. Anyone who knows the truth and is willing to stand witness, please message me in private so we can get justice for my brother. I believe that my brother can feel everyone’s warmth even in another world. Thank you, everyone!”
Comments say, “If you suffered injustice, go to the courts. They’ll give you justice. We’re just normal citizens and can’t help you with anything. Without knowing the truth, I can’t very well spread awareness either, and I can’t call for anything on your behalf.
“Can people please pay some attention to the dozens of lives lost in the highway collapse in Guangdong?”
“So call the police? Stop airing everything online.”
“Some parenting scenes I noticed while on vacation:
In Shenyuan, a couple had cornered their kid by an arched gate. The little girl was about 7 or 8, crying, wringing her hands. The mom’s voice was very loud, very harsh, and she’s talking about how the girl wanted something from the gift stands, that she’d bought over three things in the last two days, making mom super angry. The mom was very angrily telling her off, “Have we spoiled you rotten? Do we not give you good food normally? Do we not buy stationery for you? We’re even taking you on vacation! And you want this, and you want that! I got everything you want for you, and now you think you can make demands with no end? Is it our fault for spoiling you this much? How much stuff have you bought the last few days!? What’s gonna happen next? What a waste, giving birth to you. What are we supposed to do with you as you are? Should we have another kid? So? Do you still want it?” In the end, the little girl admitted she was in the wrong and agreed that she’ll only buy one trinket per day on this vacation.
Ate at a little diner in the evening, sitting next to a family of four. The mom and dad and younger brother are sitting down and eating, and a little girl was standing with her back to daddy, 5 or 6 years old, with tear tracks on her face, looking very stubborn. It’s pretty obvious she’d just fought with her parents, and she’s protesting by staying standing and refusing to eat. Maybe she thinks in her little heart that her parents love her so much, they’d surely soften down and come comfort her. But as an adult, I know what’s going to happen. Grown ups are never going to go soft. Just like I predicted, the family of three kept pretending like nothing was wrong and continued eating and chatting as though the little girl didn’t exist. She’s hugging her arms to herself like she couldn’t bear it, and edged over to look at the food. Her dad gave her a look and said, “Why don’t you go back to standing around?” So she stood back behind her dad again. Her mom never said a word. Up until we were done with our meal and left, she never went back to the table.
Outside of a bathroom in the old town in Anchang, a little boy (around 4) was holding a big bag full of stuff. Maybe it was too heavy, or maybe he was naughty, but it fell on the floor and everything in it rolled out. The mom slapped him across the face without saying a word. The boy didn’t cry either and just mumbled, “It was too heavy, I can’t carry it.” And an even smaller boy came over (about 2 or 3) and put everything back in the bag and picked it up and went, “I’ll carry it.”
Comments say, “Seems like the first story is the most controversial. I definitely don’t think you should let kids demand stuff, or that you should give in to tantrums. I think there’s complicated motives behind why kids want stuff, and you need to maintain a good parent/child relationship to solve that. Families with good relationships almost never see kids suddenly demanding stuff from gift stores. A lot of parents can’t keep up with consistency. When they’re in a good mood, they buy a ton of stuff. When they’re in a bad mood, they fly off the handle right away.”
“What the hell kind of childhood nightmare is this.”
“Everything else aside, I really have the same problem as the first story. My son wants everything he sees, never mind whether it’s expensive or cheap. We’ve thrown away a ton of toys at home, and it still piles up half a room. He doesn’t care about his toys either. He has a ton of the same ones, and he’ll break them in no time at all. He’s the same in gift stores. He doesn’t even play with them, but he still insists on buying a bunch of trash from gift stores. I really can’t help but get angry every time.”
“But how should you deal with the first scenario? I’ve been hanging out with my little niece lately, and I’ve found that kids really do want just about every toy they see, and if you refuse, they’ll get super upset. But everything is at least twice as expensive in a gift store, and it’s a pain to carry it around all day, and you don’t want to have to buy a bunch of stuff everywhere you go either. But I don’t really know what I’m supposed to do, except to promise to get her the same thing off of the internet once we get home. I still don’t think she gets quite the same impact out of getting the gift though.”
On the Fat Cat case: ”The internet is just a landfill full of people patting themselves on the back…
When netizens order takeout for someone who committed suicide, why don’t they think about how they’re wasting food and feel sorry for Grandpa Yuan? [made GMO’d rice for China] When janitors have to work overtime to deal with all of these afterlife takeouts, why don’t they think about the hardship of minimum wage workers? When Meida’s highway collapsed and killed dozens of people, why doesn’t anyone direct their ire at the government officials responsible for this massive project?
“Family of five dead.” “Driver saves six people.” “Old man kneels down to stop traffic.” etc, etc. Why aren’t we paying attention to what actually matters?
When it comes to relationships, I don’t want to say too much w hen I don’t know the whole story. But this is a couple in a relationship who sent each other money, and all of it was given back when they broke up. Based on their transaction history, even the police said nothing was suspicious, but people are still calling it “fraud”? The guy’s committed suicide, the girl’s been doxxed and is being bullied online and has a bounty of 7.5 million on the dark web. Everyone is freaking out, feeling bad for their precious baby boy, twisting the truth to try to prove that she was the one who killed him. Every time the internet bands together to witch hunt a woman is another dick-worshipping party.
How many cases have we had over the last couple of months of girls being conned with romantic lies? Girls getting forced into lewd streams by their boyfriends, and getting reported by their boyfriend and getting their videos linked to their family. Underage girls committing suicide after being conned, and it doesn’t get on the trending hashtags? Intellectually disabled girls getting 4.5 million taken from then, and we never hear the end of that story? Even a friend of mine, an only child in Hangzhou beloved by her family, got conned into buying a house and car for her boyfriend, and now she has nothing left. That guy’s still wandering around a free man, and she’s the one getting criticised for wanting to stay single the rest of her life.
Every time I open up tiktok or weibo, it’s nothing but the Fat Caat case. I’m so sick of it. It’s been blown up beyond its proportion, used to turn people against each other, used to witch hunt women. All kinds of bloggers are saying their piece to try to get a slice of the exposure pie. I just want to know when this shitshow is gonna be over.”
Comments say, “I totally agree. I’m starting to wonder now if this guy even exists for real. I hope it doesn’t turn out to be completely made up by the end. People have dug up the whole timeline and transaction records, but I still have a lot of questions. And with all the attention, we still haven’t had any official government announcements about this whole case.”
“Not only does this manbaby have bros feeling bad for him, there are even pregnant bimbos crying for him to reincarnate into their bellies. Jesus Christ.”
“With all this bullshit going on, is anyone paying attention to spies stealing our GMO rice seeds?”
“Girls can’t seem to get away from one question, “How do you balance work and family?” Yesterday, I saw Chinese female astronaut Liu Yang get interviewed by Lu Jian, and I was very impressed with her answer.
Look at what she said: “After I became the mother of two children, I’ve found this is a false paradox. If it was up to women to work at their career and take care of their family by themselves, then I wouldn’t be able to do it. The idea of balance is that the whole family is going to achieve that balance with you. It involves your lover, your family, your parents. They’re the ones protecting your wings—one wing is your career, the other is your family. Only when the two are in balance can you fly.
You shouldn’t only be asking this question to mothers or wives. This is something to be done with the whole family.”
Comments say, “The reality is, nobody asks men with kids how they balance work and family.”
“It’s true. Why did Tu Youyou become successful? Aside from her own talent, it’s because she had a great husband to took care of everything at home. If she had to maintain a household and do research at the same time, her efficiency would be way too low to produce any results.”
“I remember Yan Ning talked about an interview where she was an interviewer, and another interviewer asked a woman how she balances work and family, and Yan Ning told her, “You don’t have to answer this question, because they never ask this of men.””
“After the Meida highway collapse, a physics teacher named “Jian Ling Hu” [internet handle, not real name] gave his professional opinion beneath the People’s News: “As a physics teacher, I gotta do a little PSA here. If you’re driving at night, and it’s sunny or cloudy, and there’s no water on the roads, then if it’s completely dark ahead, that means there’s a hole in the road. If it’s raining, then completely dark roads means it might be water or a hole. Super bright places might also be covered in water. The safest roads are the ones that aren’t too dark or too bright and just sparkles a little.””
Comments say, “If you’re driving at over 100km per hour on a highway, you don’t have time to react.”
“It’s safest to just not drive at night.”
“Who would even be worried about a hole in the middle of the highway normally?”
“Tiktok has been arguing all day over this math question. You guys try it:
Mr. Liu has two children. We know that one of them is a boy. What are the chances that the other is also a boy?
A. 1/2
B. 1/3
C. 1/4”
Comments, “There are four possibilities for two children: 1. The first is a boy and the second is also a boy. 2. The first is a boy, the second is a girl. 3. The first is a girl, the second is a boy. 4. The first is a girl, the second is also a girl. There’s a total of four possibilities, each with 1/4th chance. We know one is a boy, so only 1, 2, and 3 are possible, so the correct answer is B.”
“It’s 50% chance whether you have a girl or a boy. No matter what you’ve already had, the chances that your other kid is a boy is 1/2.”
“People picking 1/2 probably failed high school math.”
“Yeah, it’s 1/3. That’s the only question I remember from my probability class.”
More on the Fat Cat case: “Fat Cat’s passing exposed five surprising truths:
A genius that has a 92% win rate in a game only charges 20 RMB to play a round of game on your behalf. That’s unbelievable.
Despite such low pricing, he still made 4-5K a week, and saved up over 500K in wealth in two short years. That’s shocking.
Despite having far higher income than his peers, he lived an extremely frugal life, living alone in a rental apartment, and only spends 10 RMB a day on takeout.
And yet, surprisingly, he was very generous towards his girlfriend and spent almost all of his money on her. He even transferred her 66K just before he died.
After he passed away, people began ordering takeout to commemorate this man who once dreamed of having McDonalds, but ran into restaurants who would send out empty packages. That was very painful.
After Qilu Evening News reported on the case of Fat Cat throwing himself into a river to end his life, many people have spoken up and painted a picture of the whole event.
Cat was born in 2003. He turned 21-years-old this year. He comes from Hunan (the guy in a blue shirt you see passed around on the internet isn’t actually Fat Cat). He has an older sister and a younger sister. He’s a professional gamer [that is, grinds games on people’s behalf so you don’t have to grind yourself], and loves the character Mengqi [in Honour of Kings], and had a game handle of “Fat Cat”.
His parents divorced when he was still little, and he became a left-behind child [children who live with their grandparents in their hometown while their parents work in the big city, only seeing them once a year at most], living with his maternal grandma. He was raise by his older sister, and it was his sister’s efforts that made this case go viral. Like most left-behind children, he never felt the love of his parents and lacked a feeling of safety. His grades were also very problematic, and he had no diploma, entering society early. But Fat Cat was very talented at gaming, to the point that he was able to make a living off of it (a member of the Honour of Kings Qianlang Team, 90% win rate with Mengqi in 8000 games, you can see how talented he was. He had 1.09 million fans in life, charged 20 RMB per game which would last around 30 minutes, and made up to 5K a week). He had made 500K by gaming by the time he was 21.
The girl is named Tan Zhu, from Chongqing, internet handle “Xiao Zhi”. Born in 1997, she was 27-years-old, 6 years older than Fat Cat. She was good-looking, had a great voice, and met Fat Cat over the internet through gaming. He was skilled, and she actively pursued him, and he instantly found love and home in her. They quickly became lovers.
On the 10th of April, 2024, at 7PM, he called his sister and they chatted. He never showed any signs of suicidal behaviour. Morning of the 11th, when his sister got the call from police, she thought it was a conman at first and ignored it.
At the time, everyone thought he’d just dropped out of touch for a while. Nobody thought something had happened.
After confirming that Fat Cat had committed suicide, the police contact Tan Zhu, and with their arbitration and witness, she gave Fat Cat’s parents 130K and both parties signed the arbitration agreement.
Things had more or less ended by here, and Fat Cat’s family had more or less accepted these events. At the time, everyone took Tan Zhu’s word for it, and nobody knew how much money Fat Cat had given her.
And yet, things turned around: while his sister was going through his things, she found his phone and checked his chat log. When she saw Fat Cat had sent well over 500K to Tan Zhu, and how Tan Zhu had PUA’d Fat Cat into giving her money, she was absolutely furious. And she decided to expose Tan Zhu to get justice for her brother.”
Comments say, “He’s a genius at gaming and a fool at relationships. He never learned how to love himself.”
“This isn’t any relationship conflict. She was just using their relationship to con him.”
“TL;DR: Treasure your life, keep your mind clear, stay away from gaming.”