Laughing and laughing, I cried.
About the past two years, a word used to describe emotion, sadness, and sadness has become popular on the Internet, called "emo".
The word is an abbreviation for emotional in English, which originally referred to "Emotional Hardcore", which is an underground rock style that emerged at the end of the last century, and performers will make some emotional performances, such as anger, tears, etc., hence the name.
In this century, this musical style has gradually become popular with the mainstream, and the word "emo" has also been extended to the universal answer for netizens to pour out negative emotions. Whether we are frustrated in our careers or emotionally frustrated, we have become lost, sad, depressed, decadent, and "net suppressed", we can always use the word "emo" to cover it.
By this year, we search for "emo" in search engines or video sites at home and abroad, and "Emotional Damage" will appear in Lenovo results. The phrase literally translates to "emotional hurt" or "mental trauma," as if the "emo" that has plagued us for more than half a year has not gone, but has become more serious.
Fortunately, there is no causal relationship between these two statements. Unlike the long pain of "emo" sad all night, "Emotional Damage" is a sudden short pain and labor pain, metaphorically breaking defenses in front of a moment or a certain detail.
From domestic to foreign social media and video applications, many people have used this sentence, and what accompanies their "Emotional Damage" memes is generally the following generous face that breaks the big defense. The owner of the face holds the gamepad in his left hand and throws his slippers to the ground with his right hand, posing with an unbelievably funny look.
If you're lucky enough to brush up on the video, you can still hear him shouting in a distinctive and rich accent, "Emotional Damage." Although it is not known whether his accent originated in Southeast Asia or the southeast coast of the mainland, this accent is quite magical, if you brush it several times, most of the time you speak English in the future, you will be involuntarily biased by this accent.
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The man, Steven He, is a Chinese-Irish actor and a video blogger with more than 4.5 million followers. A clip of him breaking the defense is from the video "Being an Asian" is a game difficulty released on September 22, 2021. The video has more than 33 million views on Youtube, the most played video to date.
The version of Station B also has millions of views
According to the game's author's "self-description", the "Asian" difficulty is designed for five-year-old Asian children who "spent five minutes speeding the game and blamed the game for being too simple", and he could not understand why the "Asian" played the game so well.
As a result, the "Asian" difficulty is full of the author's malice, and any element can make the game end. Hidetaka Miyazaki's "Eldon's Ring of Law" has at least a blood bar, while the "Asian" difficulty is more like "Contra", and the character manipulated by the player seems to have a serious cleanliness habit of dying when he encounters something unclean.
Stepping on the branches will die of the feet, touching the falling leaves will also die, and if you are exposed to the sun for too long, you will die, and the player must press the button in time to block it.
The cause of the character's death is highlighted in large red letters on the screen, which is more taunted than the single "death" word in "Only Wolves". Fortunately, the "ragdoll system" prepared for corpses in this game is as good as GTA, and the character dies as if he has lost his skeleton and collapses and collapses to the ground.
But stupid ways to die don't offset the frustration of not being able to pass the level. The boss of the game is an aunt who does not know what blood relationship you have, and the move used is a mental attack that resides in speech, and it is difficult to resist as soon as you open your mouth: "When did you become so fat?" If this sentence is not blocked, the character will die of Emotional Damage.
Steven went on to show off all sorts of absurd ways to die in the game: "social anxiety," "overthinking," "being disappointed," "forgetting to breathe," "overspnucking," "too dry food," and even dying because "chairs are too soft and comfortable."
The four videos in the When "Asian" is a Game Of Difficulty series, and the sequel maximizes the details of the fictional work and the more bizarre ways of dying in the "Asian" difficulty.
For example, the player character's legs and feet are worse than Geralt's in The Witcher 3, and he will be killed by "fall damage" just by walking down the steps. In the cutscene, the player character will be killed by the weapon thrown by the NPC, unless the health-replenishing item is ingested before that to prevent a one-hit kill.
Later, the game added the "Chinese" difficulty to the "Asian" difficulty. The boss the player has to face is the "neighbor's child", and like the distant relative above, his first words will cause the player character a powerful and difficult to heal Ambiguous Damage, although he only reported his next door: a graduate of Harvard Law School in the United States.
"Ultimate Defense"
In the end, the word Emotional Damage itself transcended the limitations of the human race and became the most difficult game.
The player assumes the role of a killer who is tasked with sneaking up behind a large tree and raising a gun to shoot some important person. It sounds simple, but this killer would be stupid enough to crash into a tree and die with a pestle.
It is not a good idea to get to the designated tree, if you don't hide your body, it will alarm the target and cause the mission to fail. After the player hides his body, the target will pretend that there is a killer behind the tree, and emit a series of cannon-like mockery, seemingly laughing at the killer, but actually laughing at the player in front of the screen.
Emotional Damage difficulty will also combine the player's own career and emotional situation, tailor-made targeted mental attacks, such as not daring to talk to girls, can not find a girlfriend; the brain is too stupid, can not be admitted to Harvard, at most mixed with a liberal arts degree, and so on. Before the player scolded the "chair moo brain stupid sister paper", the killer has been one step ahead of himself, angry to break the defense, violently killed.
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If the details of these hilarious videos and the dust accumulated on his clothes that have fallen to the ground several times reflect Steven's passion for games and performances; then references to jokes such as "Asian games" and "neighbor children" prove that Steven knows enough about "Asians", at least in the Western stereotype of "Asians".
Steven opened his own video channel in 2019. In August 2020, he used "Asian" for the first time in the title of his video. In the impression of foreigners, Asians must be very good at mathematics, there is no need to use calculators, and the name of this video is called "Why Asians Don't Use Calculators".
Because they will be beaten by their parents
The video is only 1 minute long, but it is Steven's first video to break through a million views. The word Asian is like a wealth password on the Internet, and Steven will get far more views than other videos by adding this word to the title.
Steven clearly intends to "go through the moment." He has developed a set of "Asian parents" and "Asian children" personalities, giving full play to his ability to decorate multiple roles by himself.
According to the setting, "Steven He, the Asian Kid", speaks very standard English and is the operator of the video channel; the person who scolds "Chair Moo Brain Girl Paper" with an "Asian" accent is actually "Steven his father" and the real protagonist of steven channel.
"Steven His Dad" is the spokesperson and founder of the well-known brand "Old Beijing Canned Corn", although his accent will refer to "Beijing Corn" as "Sad Beijing Kong".
As an older generation, "Steven his father" loves to rely on the old and sell the old, exaggerating his courage: "When I went to school, I had to walk 20 miles (about 32 kilometers) every day, going uphill every day, walking 26 hours a day, and using only one foot, and my other foot was starting a business..." "Every morning I had to fight with two lions to the death, and now these two lions are filing taxes for me..."
Steven and his dad "used to "repressive education," calling Steven "Failure" and calling his profession "Failure Management." But whenever Steven got a B grade instead of an A in any of the subjects in school, "Steven and his dad" had to say to his son: "You're an A-sian, not a B-sian!" ”
Some evidence suggests that the phrase was not original to "Steven his father."
"Steven his father" would physically punish children, and the most handy weapon was his slippers, which are said to have been passed down from his grandmother. Slippers are suitable for melee combat, and the shot is fast and efficient, which can be called "Chinese-style living". But he didn't always take the initiative, sometimes just holding up his slippers and threatening: "I'm going to send you to God."
His kung fu is also not limited to slippers, and any item at hand can be used as a throwing object, smashing the head of unlucky child Steven with a 100% hit rate.
Steven's Growth
In the "Asian Parents' Punishment Methods" series of videos, "Steven and his father" pointed out that not only to cause physical harm to the child, but also to take into account the "chair moo brain dumb sister paper". One way to do this is to leave his penniless son alone in line while shopping at the supermarket, flash to the side, and enjoy the anxiety, panic and despair on his son's face as he approaches the cash register step by step.
"Steven the Dad" is adept at speaking of his opponents without uttering dirty words, and this ability applies not only to his own son. He would reason with the troublemakers in the house, scolding him that "the only place you are scary is that you don't even have a job"; Santa Claus came to his house, said that there was no milk for Santa Claus at home, and advised him to "drink more hot water".
The only occasion when "Steven his dad" can accumulate some words is probably the "face war" that unfolds when comparing with his Asian neighbors. At this time, "Steven his father" had to brag about his bravery to praise his son's achievements, such as "cooking a 1-minute instant rice in 58 seconds."
"Effect Group" translation: B station @ cixiao G subtitle group
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With the typical "Asian" parent image and brainwashing accent of "Steven His Dad", Steven has tied "Emotional Damage" to his square face, and in the eyes of many audiences at home and abroad, the "Asian" stereotype is his basic disk.
However, the "Asian impressions" that Steven presents and exaggerates in the video are not all "stereotypes"; even if there are "stereotypes", it does not matter, after all, stereotypes are good or bad; some impressions are more negative, but they are likely to be in line with the real situation. "Hell jokes" written against a certain region and based on the misfortunes of some people do not appear in his videos.
"Steven his dad's" "leniency and strict treatment" will indeed make some domestic audiences feel the Environmental Damage. But similar cases of "Asian parents" are not lacking in our lives, and some examples may be based on Steven's personal experience.
"Steven the Dad" likes to take photos around when he travels, has a fondness for things that are not beautiful at all, or even a scenic spot, and uses them as background boards to take pictures of himself and his children. When we think of our parents traveling and taking pictures, we can't help but empathize with Steven's reluctant look.
"Not a good guy to get to the pole"
"Steven his father" is as stingy as Grande, as long as there is room for bargaining, he will never tolerate it, never miss any e-commerce promotions, and always stare at the most meaty and expensive dishes when eating buffets.
But when he encounters something he particularly wants, such as a Rolex watch and a designer coat, he behaves unusually atmospherically, and when he is not budgetary enough, he is eager to embezzle his son's New Year's money for the New Year – in many cases, our pressure money seems to be so lacking.
"Steven The Dad" will also show a "double standard" side. One second he was still forcing his son with all kinds of raw seafood, and the next second he suddenly frowned: "Why are you so fat?" ”
When he hears that his son has a girlfriend or a female friend, he will first say, "You don't have time to be a girl, you have to do your homework," and then ask, "When are you going to get married?" ”
He often talks about his son's video channel as much as his own waste (Failure), and often has different words and deeds, insisting on taking his son's Youtube medal and showing it off to others.
Perhaps influenced by the introverted Confucian culture, "Asian parents" are reluctant to reveal their true feelings, and thus show extremely contradictory double standards for their children, which cannot be said to be bad, but sometimes really annoying.
However, artistic creation is only artistic creation after all, and our parents probably will not explain their own education methods so clearly as "Steven and his father":
"We never encourage children, we always compare them to better people so they always feel like they're not good enough, and then they make them feel like they're not worthless by constantly surpassing others..."
We are engaged in all walks of life to become independent, and we also face different life setbacks; but the first few Examplenad Damages in life basically come from the "Asian parents" who get along with us day and night, but are as cute as "Steven and his father". Depending on the audience's experience, Steven's video will cause many consequences such as "laughing to death" or "breaking the defense and dying", and may also make us unconsciously fall into this kind of thinking:
If we also have a day when we will start a family and raise our children, how should we educate our children so that their growth path will bear less of the Emergal Damage that we still remember?
Unfortunately, many of us may not have the potential to start a family at present, or lack the hard and soft power to maintain the family, and the assumption of starting a family is probably an Emergent Damage.