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It is roundtable here with myself Laiming, Sam Duckett and Luo Yu. Let’s talk about online sarcasm. If a person asks a question in a Wechat Group chat, like: "My boyfriend hasn't touched me in two weeks. What should I do?" she will get responses that she never expected. For example, "Your breasts are small, but your face is big," "No need to lose weight. Your ugliness has nothing to do with your weight," "When is the last time you had a shower?" Of course, they were most likely jokes; but I’m sure as the victim of online sarcasm, the girl feels uncomfortable. Have you encountered this and how do you go about it?So online sarcasm recently became increasingly popular among young Chinese people, with Chinese net users sharing jokes with negative energy. In the United States and Europe, this is actually called trolling. Trolling is a term that refers to extensive sarcasm to the point where you actually get a person believe in the sarcastic comments you are making. So if Laiming says why is my boyfriend not touching me, I say it is because your breasts aren’t big, your face is small, whatever, your face is big, sorry. You’d say …That’s was an example about a girl, not about myself.Oh, sorry, you would say it to Laiming or the girl, so much that he or she would actually believe the sarcastic comment his face is actually very big and the breasts small. It is called trolling in the US, it is very popular among the young people.\Why do people do that?This is it, this started off as something you would see occasionally online, but it’s now become a plague of society. There is a popular TV show in United States, called South Park. You guys have seen it,, Luo Yu, you have seen it? On the latest Season 19 Episode 5, which is called Safe Zone, it talks about how dark the Internet has become. And one of the characters on the show he hires another character, Butters, to help me filter through and delete all the negative sarcastic comments on his Internet.That’s not one man’s job.And when he finishes doing it, the person mentally breaks down from too much negativity. And the point of the show is to highlight how negative the Internet has become, in large part that’s due to sarcasm.Yeah, online sarcasm. Thank you for telling us another word, that’s trolling. The popularity of online sarcasm to me makes a little bit sense. For one thing, most of the sarcastic comments are often very funny, right? They make you laugh. Sometimes, some of the comments made by the netizens are very creative, innovative and thought provocative even. The second thing I want to say is, sarcasm is a way of venting stress out. You can easily vent your frustrations out, so probably it is a very good way to vent frustration. However, for this girl who is actually asking for advice from the Internet, she might be feeling very hurtful after reading all these comments.It shows how the Internet has become a place where you can’t ask for advice any more, because people are gonna troll, they’ll just keep trolling you. I would say it is sad, but it is just the way the Internet is and I think it is just becoming a norm now, you see it more often than not.Like in China, we have a similar show, earlier this month actually, 糗事百科.com, which is a humor site, did a voxpop interview in Beijing, asking people to share their favorite sarcastic jokes. Some of them made me laugh so hard, I think every individual will be dead after hearing this. For example, there was one person saying, 比你优秀的人还在努力，那你努力还有个屁用。Those better than you work even harder, then what on earth do you still work hard? And another comment, 虽然你长得丑，但是你想得美啊。Although you are ugly, but you think very well. You know, all these comments, to me, I will feel very hurtful. And how do you go around it? Just forget about it?I think a lot of times, people find it really hurtful when they touch home. So if you call someone who is ugly, who actually thinks he or she might be a bit ugly, then if you say that to them, it is going to be much worse. Why are you laughing?So the last time I said you were ugly, you felt really bad, because you believed you look ugly?No, I look really good, I thought that was definitely a joke.The thing with sarcasm is, people think it is funny, and so these sarcastic words, they travel fast. They are shared in the friend zone, they are sent to people’s friends. It travels very fast, and that makes people feel very good about themselves, because people have this desire to express themselves, to have their witty remarks appreciated.So from my perspective, I tend to agreement with these statements, because some people say, people can actually gain some positive energy after releasing, or commentating on these negative comments.I actually do agree.How can you possibly benefit from someone calling you ugly?No, if I disseminate the idea and release the comment on other people, I feel proud probably.Actually, Laiming, the one thing I would suggest to you is, in the United Kingdom, I would say sarcasm has evolved and has become very droll now, and quite intelligent. And it has moved past the point where we use sarcasm to insult someone personally, we use it in a manner to describe a situation, and it is what made British comedy so renowned worldwide. I think you will be able to appreciate it as well, because you do watch a fair bit of British comedy from time to time.You mean I enjoy vulgar content?See that was actually quite good, that was quite troll of Laiming, that was very British. And I think what we are all hoping for is that the general level of comedy on the Internet and the general level of sarcasm used can elevate a bit, so everyone can enjoy it and it is not making people feel bad. But I do, if I’ve got to be honest, think that this is something that is not going to happen because I don’t think everyone, as a society, as an international society, can evolve in that manner, I think it is very difficult.Well, I am quite an optimistic person, I believe if people realize the negative impact on people’s psyche, they might have an incentive to change what they do. But, since sarcasm spreads so fast, at least here in China, they’ve become kind of like a business. We see a lot of sarcastic shows being made.\Not alone sarcastic shows, there are a lot of 段子手, those people, the playwrights.Yeah, they profit on making up these sarcastic remarks, so that’s not going to be cured anytime soon.But I think people have to be very careful, because if you watch a comedy, you have a pre-condition, that is a comedy, it is going to make me laugh and even think, but a person around you say something really negative on you, you will definitely feel very hurtful, so don’t hurt other people, that’s my advice.Yeah. The Internet certainly have offered us a venue to express ourselves, but we need to be careful not to lose ourselves in the mere expressing.
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