People’s Daily News posts music video of a song about what it’s like to be born, named “I remember”.
Comments say, “She works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Yes, with no breaks and no pay. You must be surprised. That can’t be a real job. It’s totally against labour laws. But honestly, there is such a group in the world, who works like this every day. They are mothers. Today is an important holiday. Happy Mother’s Day. I hope all the mother sin the world can be happy and healthy and in a great mood every day.”
Beneath this post is someone posting an AI singing the same song, using famous singer Sun Yan Zi’s voice, a video which has millions of views, with the blogger saying, “AI Sun Yan Zi has reached top influencer status the first day of its creation. Its song, Hair Like Snow, has millions of views. But the creator of this AI has never gotten permission from the original performer. Surely, this is against copyright laws?”
Comments say, “That’s really good, though.”
“Feel like this is definitely a copyright violation though.”
“It’s not as good as the original version. Doesn’t really sound like Sun Yan Zi either.”
A girl writes, “My boyfriend broke up with me because I’m too fat. I’ve been stress eating a lot lately, and my boyfriend’s brought up several times that I need to eat less, but I just really couldn’t control myself. And now this happened. I’m 168cm and 71kg. Am I really that fat?”
She shows screenshots of her boyfriend’s texts, reading, “Let’s break up. Don’t try to salvage this. It’s cause you’re too fat. You’re an embarrassment. Understood? I’ve sent what I owe you over Zhifubao. Gonna delete you now.”
Comments say, “It’s your own fault. Can’t blame other people when you can’t keep your own weight under control.”
“I don’t know if you’re really fat or not, but he’s a pretty decent person. He gave you a clear reason, he paid you back the money he owed, can’t really say he did anything wrong here.”
“Even a man who’s 175cm would be pretty fat at over 70kg, tbh.”
“That’s not fat. That’s a hamplanet.”
A blogger writes, “Don’t get curious about foreigners and talk to them. Keep your distance from strangers. A 5-year-old boy talked to a westerner and got told to go away, and his father got furious.” He posts a tiktok video where this happens, where the father starts out in a man’s face, demanding, “Did you tell me son to get out? He just wanted to come over and say hello. What did you say to him? Get out of here? What the fuck did you say to him?”
The westerner mumbles, “I didn’t say anything.”
And the father continues as he follows the man around the restaurant, “You didn’t say anything—bullshit! He’s just five years old. How dare you use such violent language against him! Why don’t you call the cops!? We’ve got security cameras around here!”
The westerner puts his hands together and apologises, “I’m sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Did you want to say hello? Hello, hello! I’m saying hello back. I’m sorry. Sorry.”
The kid asks, “What did you say just now?”
The westerner once against insists, “I didn’t say anything. I’m asking you to stop bothering me, don’t bother me while I’m trying to eat.”
The father presses, “But what did you say? What is up with your expression? Are you trying to imply that I’m forcing you to do this?”
The westerner asks, “What expression?”
The father asks, “Are you implying I’m forcing you to apologise to him?”
The westerner asks, “Are you threatening me?”
The father says, “I’m not threatening you. I’m demanding you apologise to my son.”
The westerner says sorry again, and the video ends.
Comments say, “I’m on the side of the westerner.”
“This time, I’m on the whitey’s side.”
“This kind of people will get taught by society eventually.”
“God, this dad is so annoying.”
A childcare blogger writes, “I saw a video yesterday where a kid was rolling a ball around on the dining room table, while the rest of the family eats and laughs along with him. A bunch of commenters were getting upset in the comments, all like, “Why isn’t anyone doing anything about him? You’re spoiling the kid. He hasn’t been educated properly at all.”
But what is education? Every family is different. If you think about this topic at all, you’ll realise that childcare is a word that lacks a subject. It would be more complete as “parental childcare”, that’s a more clear expression. You can’t talk about kids without talking about parents. People keep forgetting that there’s two aspects to childcare: One is the kid’s behaviour, and two is what the kid’s family finds acceptable.
What a kid is and isn’t allowed to do is entirely dependent on what the parents find acceptable.
For example, if a kid brings back a 95% exam score and some parents will be overjoyed, and some parents will get pissed off. A kid can break a bowl at home, and some parents will say that it’s alright, it’s not a big deal, not like you meant to do it, let me clean this up, be careful with your feet, go put some slippers on or you’ll get hurt. And some parents will slap the shit out of the kid and tell them they’re being a wasteful bastards. Some parents don’t care if their kid picks his nose. Some parents will slap away the kid’s hand every time.
When us outsiders are looking in, are the second kind of parents the only ones doing any education, and the first kind don’t care about raising their kids? Of course not. Every family has a different atmosphere. There are different things they find acceptable.
Are we not all envious of families that don’t care that much about grades, that primarily uses encouragement, who don’t jump on every little mistake, who try to be understanding and let go of the details? Do we not want fun parents?
When we watch videos, maybe we should try to imagine we’re the kid, how we would feel about the parents we have, whether we would be happy. We shouldn’t be putting ourselves in the shoes of the parents every time, imagining having to deal with awful kids. This way, we can recall more childhood memories.
We’re already adults. It’s not hard to empathise with other adults—it’s as simple as controlling everything and being in charge of everything. It is much harder to empathise with kids.”
Comments say, “Just my personal feelings, there are lots of places to play with a ball. At least, you shouldn’t do it on a table with food and soup. If there wasn’t any dinner on the dinner table, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. According to later weibo posts by the family, it seems like their kid can’t even understand the rules. They decided that since he won’t listen, then they might as well roll with it and make him happy.”
“What if the kid does the same thing when he’s eating out? You’ve got to establish the rules at home.”
“I don’t care whether shoes or clothes are dirty. My MIL insists on cleaning shoes every day and handwashing dirty clothes. Every time the kid plays in a sandpit, she gets super upset. Every time she goes to clean shoes or clothes, she feels the need to tell me. It’s not like I asked her to, and now I feel like I’m in debt to her for working so hard. Almost every morning, I’m woken up early by the noise of her scrubbing shoes with a brush. Today, my kid went into a crying meltdown over dirtying his shoes. He’s never done this before. I feel like she’s giving my kid OCD.”
Someone posts texts with their MIL asking how to respond. The MIL texts, “Don’t use profile pics with animals. It looks scary.”
OP: “Sure, Missus. I’m taking a walk outside with my friends.”
MIL: “K. A lot goes into the fengshui of profile pics. Your current profile pic depicts a love triangle. Do you think it’s appropriate? Why not use some lovely natural scenery? Most people don’t use other people’s faces in their profile pics. Maybe it’s none of my business, but still.”
Comments suggest, “I’m glad you noticed it was none of your business. It’s alright, just be more careful next time.”
“Your son picked this profile pic.”
“Just read and don’t reply. What the fuck do you care?”
An influencer uploads videos of her c-section experience, talking about how, “This is such an unforgettable experience. I was so certain I was going forward with vaginal delivery, but the baby just kept getting bigger. By 38 weeks, he was already 3.7kg. So I was forced to choose a c-section. But after my experience, I’ve gotta say it was all pretty nice. I chose a private hospital, because I’m a total wuss. I’m scared of pain, and I’m scared of delivery. But I’ve gotta say, my hospital had great pain management and my incision was super pretty. Of course, you gotta choose what works for you. Right now, I’m still in the middle of recovery. I’ll talk more details another time. Happy Mother’s Day!”
The video shows her and her husband signing the paper work for the c-section, getting a final checkup, returning home for her to wash her hair one last time, then returning to the hospital. They stay the night, and early next morning, neither of them were able to sleep at night. So she gets up early to do her make up, and the month-sitting nurse showed up to braid her hair in a “Giving Birth Hairstyle”, and soon, she’s going off to her execution. She hobbles her way to the operating room, wanting to run away but not being able to the whole time. Her family has to wait outside, but the nurse is comforting her through the epidural the whole time. Her surgeon is chatting to her to keep her calm. Soon enough, the baby is born, and her husband is led in to see her and take the baby.
Comments say, “OMG, I’m so happy. Feel like I’ve been watching your life from 2015 like it’s a TV show!”
“I cried. Good job, Feifei.”
“C-sections aren’t scary at all, at least not compared to vaginal deliveries. I was super scared when I had to go get induced, and felt a lot more relaxed when they said they were gonna have to do a c-section. My body was still uncontrollably shaking, but my mine was a lot more at ease. At least it’d be over quickly.”
A blogger writes, “This whole rule of not allowing loud children on trains is only causing a suppression of the willingness to have kids, no matter how hard the government tries to encourage kids. Most trains run during the day. Babies aren’t going to be able to stay quiet for the entire multi-hour journey. The parents want their kids to be quiet just as much as you do, so they can rest.”
Comments say, “Stop finding excuses for rude ass behaviour.”
“People aren’t against kids. People are against shitty parents and their attitudes.”
“They should make a child-only carriage.”
“Is it embarrassing to be a fruit wholesaler? I overheard some classmates talking about me. I heard them as if I was wealthy, and another classmate said, “They’re just shitty fruit sellers.” My family owns a fruit wholesaler. I always thought we were middle-class. I’ve got 6 people in my family, living in the same house, two cars. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard my classmates talk this way about me though. I just want to know if fruit wholesale is something to be embarrassed about or not. I’m really starting to get insecure about this.”
Comments say, “I’m so jealous. You can have as much fruit as you want.”
“They’re the one who should be insecure.”
“I’m pretty sure this post is just to show off wealth.”
What was the original Chinese for 'hamplanet'?