Old Man Yu Zeqin
The Douyin account "Cai Yun'en", which now has nearly four million followers, is actually named after her grandmother's granddaughter.
Grandma's popularity also stems from a careless willow planting by her granddaughter. "In April and May last year, we applied for a Douyin number, which was originally just to record the tour in India, but the travel video did not catch fire." Cai Yun said.
Drink coke, shabu-shabu duck intestines, eat ice cream... This is the video of Grandma that was originally uploaded by the "Cai Yun" account. In the words of her granddaughter-in-law Ma Lu, "She eats whatever garbage she is." It is such an image of an "elderly foodie" that makes netizens call "Grandma's body is too good" and "super cute", and quickly won everyone's love, a hit.
Eating hamburgers and eating dentures, quickly installing and pretending to continue to eat as if nothing happened; stealing pastries before dinner was caught, facing the family questioning "where is the nutrition of eating snacks", but unexpectedly answered "don't ask, ask people, nutrition is packed in", Grandma always uses her unique set of thinking mode to surprise netizens.
In addition to the cute foodie attributes, "frequent golden sentences" is also another magic weapon for grandma to become popular. "Know a shovel" is her most popular classic quote.
"Grandma, how old is your grandfather?"
"He's five years older."
"Does he know not to murmur?"
"He knows a shovel, and I'm in control."
In the video, Grandma is proud of this secret that has been kept all her life, covering her mouth and smiling like a child.
"Our fans are very sticky, generally can't go out when they come in, and often private messages I update quickly." Granddaughter Cai Yun said that grandma is a person who loves to laugh, and she believes that most fans start with grandma's "funny", but in the end they are concerned because of "positive energy".
The shortcomings of others should be discovered by themselves
Yu Zeqin sat on the sofa at home, carefully examining the mini trash can on the table, which was the new topic she wanted to shoot - garbage sorting.
Recently, the reporter visited grandma's home in Pidu District, just when the granddaughter and his wife came to help the elderly shoot a video. "Today we shoot garbage sorting." Although the topic was new to Grandma, she was not averse and read curiously the words on the trash can, "Kitchen waste, there is ... Hazardous waste! ”
Cai Yun said that grandma's eyes are still good, and when she is empty, she still has to read the newspaper, and her favorite reading is "Chengdu Business Daily". "Dong'an Lake Park is coming" "Chengdu Science and Technology Incubator has driven employment of more than 100,000 people", choose the thickest bold font on the newspaper to see, is Grandma's "unique" way of reading newspapers.
"She can't read the small print now, she was able to wear needles and threads a few years ago, and some of her clothes were sewn by herself." Among them, the most proud is a white shirt. Grandma liked butterflies, so she sewed a few of them with blue thread at the corners and plackets, which looked simple and generous.
In her spare time, Grandma's favorite thing to play is the Rubik's Cube. "Once I got up at two o'clock in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, found that there was movement in her room, walked in to see, she actually quietly took the Rubik's Cube to bed and played." Grandma's "naivety" often makes the family cry and laugh.
As for why she loves Rubik's Cube, her granddaughter believes that this has a lot to do with her grandmother's profession. Grandma was a Chinese medicine practitioner when she was young, and this profession requires boldness and care, and this habit is still maintained to this day. "She can't hear us talking when she's playing Rubik's Cube now, you don't call her, she can play like this alone for a day." The grandmother sitting next to Cai Yunn took advantage of our small talk and began to turn the Rubik's Cube again.
The highly sought after grandmother can attract a lot of attention on the street these days, but she doesn't really know that she is on fire. "She has no concept of the Internet, and sometimes when she goes out and meets fans and asks for a group photo, she asks us afterwards if it's because she looks good." Cai Yun said that becoming an Internet celebrity has little impact on her grandmother, and she still lives in her own simple world.
A mobile phone, some simple props, daily scenes, this is all the preparation of Cai Yun and his wife to help Grandma shoot a video.
As the "producer" behind the grandmother, cai Yun and his wife after the 80s have always insisted on shooting two people.
"We didn't add a production team, we didn't want to make a profit, we just wanted to record Grandma's life and bring joy to everyone." Cai Yun told reporters that a private message from netizens touched her very much. Netizens said in private messages that whenever they are in a bad mood, they will open the video of Grandma Yu to see, their grandmother died very early, grandma Yu let her see the shadow of grandma, feel very warm.
The video content of the "Cai Yun' account" is gradually enriched. From the beginning of the foodie grandma set up, to now take grandma to drive a car, do spa, practice yoga, picnic, when new things and grandma's unique thinking collide, always can rub out a cute spark. An optimistic, try-out, curious old man makes people feel positive, but also brings a new round of fans.
Currently, Grandma's video likes range from 100,000 to millions.
In the past two years, with the development of the mobile Internet and the narrowing of the "digital divide", some of China's "new elderly" groups have begun to rise. On Douyin, accounts like "Cai Yun' " are not in the minority, often sitting on hundreds of thousands to millions of fans, no less than young Internet celebrities.
Cai Yun and her husband Ma Lu
Because of the funny, I chose to watch, because of the positive energy, I chose to pay attention, I hope that grandma can be healthy and bring us more positive energy works.