The comments section on Youku videos are a terrific place to get a glimpse into the psyche of China’s netizens — what they’re thinking about, what their values are, and what really pisses them off. Check out this list of Youku’s Top 10 Controversies for 2009. Some very amusing stuff here!
Isn’t There a Two-Bottle Limit?: [...]
We loved this video, which appears to have been shot at Adventure World, Shirahama, Wakayama prefecture in Japan. There’s a video on Youtube featuring the same twin baby pandas - not like I can tell one panda from another - in what appears to be the same enclosure. Not sure it’s the same video. In [...]
It’s the time of the year for list making! This Youku video clip named the nine hottest lines on China’s web this year. The Yangtze Evening Post, an influential newspaper, is the original list compiler.
According to the list, ge (哥, older brother, big brother) is without doubt the hottest net word of the year. Both [...]
This seed ad from Hyundai — they make little effort to disguise its intention — is part public service announcement, with a list of driving no-nos, and part plug for the Elantra. It’s been viewed about a half-million times in the 24 hours since it was posted, with the overwhelming majority of votes going thumbs-up, [...]
This started making the rounds on the social networks like Kaixin001, where my wife first saw it and showed it to me just yesterday. Easily one of the most creative and side-splittingly funny videos I’ve seen. Hats off to the creative team behind this. If someone knows who they are, please let me know! Personally [...]
During the economic downturn, everybody seems to be working harder than ever before. Some of my friends, especially the bankers and consultants, often complain via MSN or Kaixin001, “To survive the layoffs, I’m working my ass off recently. No more hitting the gym on the weekend! So how can I lose my spare tire?”
“Why not [...]
Naturally it wasn’t going to take long before Cai Mingchao, the mystery man who’s become a hero to many patriotic Chinese, would be celebrated in song. With accompanying video. This is titled “I’m Not Paying” (就不付你钱）and it comes to us courtesy of H.O.T Video Studio (H.O.T视频工作室).
Cai Mingchao, as you may already know, was [...]
This was shot at the Lingwu Muslim Middle School in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. The rather enthusiastic choral conductor, leading her tracksuited singers through the vocal section of the “Yellow River Concerto,” is named Jiang Aihong. It’s testimony to the strict discipline instilled in China’s pedagogical institutions that these kids aren’t falling off the dais [...]
Even a month after the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, Chinese people are constantly talking about the funny performance delivered by Xiao Shenyang (小沈阳), digging out every single video clip tagged with his name, and riffing on his humor style in e-mails, on QQ chats, and in SMS messages.
Who the hell is Xiao Shenyang (or Little [...]
The latest installment in our continuing series about sadly misguided men making asses of themselves for the women they love. This guy, from Tailai County in China’s northeasternmost province Heilongjiang, strips to the waist in -30 degree weather to profess his love. If the woman didn’t promptly leave him and get a restraining order, [...]
