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The news of elderly women chasing "fake Jin Dong" has been heard endlessly in recent years. People always express pity for their long-overdue love passion, or ridicule its absurdity.
Chen Yuan (pseudonym) in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, has witnessed his mother searching for "Jin Dong" twice.
After long-term observation, she found that her mother's addiction was not only due to the so-called "love brain", nor was it like young people's pursuit and worship of idol stars, but more like a 63-year-old peasant woman who fell into the digital divide and was accurately hit by an algorithm, fantasizing about the possibility of an omnipotent "male god" saving her from life's difficulties.
She saw that the content her mother swiped on Douyin and Kuaishou was just the product of stealing celebrity images and videos, and then synthesized them through post-dubbing, and the interaction was only to induce likes, followers or rewards. These tricks, which can be easily recognized by young people, are convinced in the eyes of the elderly.
Faced with a mother who struggled to distinguish between the real and virtual worlds, her children uninstalled her TikTok, untied her bank cards, and even smashed their mother's mobile phone. Chen Yuan personally took his mother to find "Jin Dong", just to convince her that she had been deceived, but to no avail.
As the "initiator" of teaching her mother to play short videos, Chen Yuan also has to face the blame from her heart and relatives: Why did she kindly teach her to play short videos lead to this ending? Is it that I don't care enough about my mother? How can I help her and love her?
She heard that a Jiangxi netizen sent Jin Dong's mother, who was addicted to fake Jin Dong, to a psychiatric hospitalization, and she didn't want to do this. But in the face of endless fake accounts and addicted mothers, until now, Chen Wish has not come up with a good way.
The following is compiled from Chen Yuan's account.
Looking for "Jin Dong"
The first time my mother went to the county to find "Jin Dong", she was stopped halfway through. She rented a private car from the same village, and my brother and uncle contacted the driver to stop it, and this time reluctantly gave up. After returning, everyone told my mother bitterly that Jin Dong in the short video was fake and there was no Jin Dong in the county, but she couldn't listen to it at all. My brother called me, and I learned that my mother had been poisoned by a short video like a case in the news. Later, she secretly went to the county to find Jin Dong, and my brother went to the county again to bring her back.
Mom is usually a very frugal person, and she is reluctant to buy a bottle of water when she is thirsty when she goes to the gathering, and she will not drink water until she gets home, but she is particularly generous to the liars on TikTok. The front foot just sold watermelon and corn for thousands of dollars, and the back foot immediately spent the gift in the "fake Jin Dong" live broadcast room.
At first, my brother untied her bank card in order to prevent her from continuing to give tips, but she would always find someone else to help her reopen it. Later, because her hometown had to pay on the bus in her hometown, she learned to bind the WeChat card, and it was not difficult to bind the card on Douyin.
There was a tobacco farm near my hometown, and when the season came, my mother would go to work, picking tobacco and making it bundle after bundle to flue-cure. She worked from six or seven o'clock in the morning to the end of two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and after returning home, she began to brush the fake Jin Dong on Douyin, and stayed up until one or two o'clock in the morning, often people fell asleep, and her mobile phone was still broadcast there. Staying up late and staying up without energy, people's reactions have become particularly slow, she is like an Internet addict teenager, staring at her mobile phone when she has time, telling her that she doesn't know how to answer.
Later, my mother heard the person in the video say, "Dear sister, I'm waiting for you in Changsha xx", and the place she dreamed of changed from the county seat to Changsha. At that time, I happened to have some spare money, and I often went to Changsha to get acquainted, so I said to take her out for a walk.
I led my mother around the sights in Changsha, and she was absent-minded the whole time. I said you tell me a location of Jin Dong, and I'll take you there. She said that Jin Dong stayed in a certain hotel, we went to ask, the front desk said no, others speculated whether it was such and such a hotel, rushed over and finally could not find it.
She is like fishing for a needle in a haystack that does not exist, but she firmly believes that this person exists, and she thinks that she has not tried hard enough and has not found enough places.
When the old people who are helpless face the new world of digital
My mom was born in 1960. She only read one year in elementary school, her education level is very low, and she can only read half of many words when playing with her smartphone. Our generation of young people has experienced the development of button mobile phones and various software step by step to the present, knowing mobile phone p-charts, AI transformation, video face changing, etc., familiar with the changes in technology, and able to distinguish between reality and reality. But for my mother, there is no transition period, short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou are completely unknown new worlds, and she is caught in the waves when she is rushed by the tide of the Internet.
Open my mother's mobile phone, and I can see that the big data pushed her all the videos chanting "Dear sister, give me a plus, give me a careful heart", one after another. The 63-year-old mother thought that the voices in these videos were addressed specifically to her.
People may only use to put a picture of Jin Dong's avatar in the live broadcast room, there is no real-time picture, and even in order to avoid risks, only put the back, more careful scammers will use a voice changer to process the sound, looping "Dear sister, how are you doing lately", my mother really feels that the other party is asking her, will excitedly voice in the live broadcast room to tell what she has done recently, desperately replying that "you also have to care about your body". I told her that it was just a picture, that no one was talking at all, or that Jin Dong's avatar was singing with someone else, and my mother insisted that she could hear Jin Dong's voice. I even demonstrated to her how to use a voice changer to change what I was saying into another voice, but she just stubbornly didn't understand.
I saw on Douyin that there were aunts who were in a similar situation to my mother who were sent to a mental hospital by their children, but I never thought about sending my mother to a psychiatric department. She is now just like when I watched horror movies for several nights and couldn't sleep and watched TV when I was a child, but she was wrong in cognition and couldn't tell what was happening on the screen from what happened in reality.
There will be universities for the elderly in the city, taking mobile phone classes, teaching the elderly how to identify telecom fraud and how to use the Internet, my mother does not have this channel, and then take a step back and say, even if I bring her to the city to take classes, she may not be able to listen.
On the Douyin platform, another blogger shared his mother's addiction to the fake Jin Dong. Network screenshots
Middle-aged and elderly rural woman trapped in mobile phone
There are also many middle-aged and elderly women like my mother in our village. Some people swipe fake Jin Dong on Douyin, some people watch movies all day long, and some aunts call relatives and friends on WeChat videos every day, anyway, they can't do without mobile phones.
Separated from working on the land, they seem to be out of touch with society and can only find some comfort in cyberspace. In addition, most of our rural areas are sons supporting the elderly, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law live in a room, it is inevitable that there will be friction, if the family atmosphere is not very good, these aunts are more likely to feel spiritual emptiness.
My family's situation is more complicated, my mother died of illness when her ex-husband was young, she and my father each took a son, partnered to reorganize the family, and gave birth to me and my sister. About ten years ago, my eldest brother got married, so I asked my little brother (my mom and ex-husband's son) to take my mom out to start his own business. Although my parents are still emotional, they have been living apart since then. My brother is usually busy with excavators, and my sister-in-law and my mother do not get along very well.
My eldest sister got married early, and after marriage, I had less contact with my mother's family, and I went home less often after I joined the work. I don't know if it's lonely after separating from my father, or I don't get along with my two daughters-in-law, or maybe my children don't care enough, my mother heard a sister in those videos, maybe for the first time in my life, I was loved and cared for, and I can get some solace.
My mother didn't know who Jin Dong was before, and she hadn't watched his TV series. It was after she brushed Douyin that she told Jin Dong's message head-on: what position Jin Dong has, what songs he has sung, and what is his wife's name. For her, Jin Dong is more inclined to be an all-round "male god" than love fantasy. She felt that Jin Dong was omnipotent in heaven and earth, walking on the street and listening to some music in the store, she said "this is Jin Dong singing", even those tips, she said that Jin Dong would collect their money and donate it to the disaster area.
My mother has always hoped to have her own house, and the fake Jin Dong said in the video, "I will get you a house in Changsha, come to me, give it to you", she is particularly yearning for Changsha. In addition to Jin Dong, she will often forward some content from other bloggers to the circle of friends, and the middle-aged man in the video is also saying things like "my sister is in difficulty, I'll help".
A short video account that Chen Yuan's mother followed. Photo courtesy of interviewee
Confused daughter
Around 2019, when I taught my mother to play TikTok, I didn't think she would be "poisoned" at all. Originally, I wanted my mother to see the outside world and learn new skills such as cooking, but when I realized the existence of the "fake Jin Dong" video, she was already trapped in it.
My mother brushed TikTok every day, and my brother was very angry, he smashed the smartphone I bought for my mother not long ago, and replaced it with an elderly machine. As a result, a few days later, my mother went to the mobile phone store in town and bought a new Xiaomi mobile phone for two or three thousand yuan.
We felt sorry for her hard work in making money and advised her not to give rewards to scammers at every turn, but she said that she was happy to spend money and didn't use much, and others lost playing mahjong, and she spent the same in TikTok. In the past, he occasionally gave her some money, but now he tries not to give it, let her spend the hard-earned money and stop, and turn a blind eye to other tips and gifts, and go with her.
I have a good relationship with my brother, but now he has little patience with his mother, and when he is particularly angry, my brother will blame me for downloading TikTok for my mother in the first place.
It seems that the initiator is really me. Earlier, the old TV at home broke, I bought them a digital TV, the members were all turned on, but I don't know why, how to teach her digital TV, my mother only looks at the mobile phone. Her mobile phone only has WeChat, so I gave her Douyin, and after some operation, I couldn't imagine that it became like this, and I regretted it.
Once when I picked up my mother to play with me, I turned her mobile phone to children's mode, and pushed out all the videos watched by children, and she didn't like it, so I asked a stranger to help him unlock it. I thought, why didn't the platform have an old age model?
Once, I was so angry that I uninstalled TikTok on her phone, and her tears immediately flowed down, as if I had done something wrong by taking her out to relax, and I was going back the next day. The first thing she did after getting in the car was to ask someone else to help her download TikTok again.
On March 15 last year, I called the helpline but didn't hear back. I also complained to the backstage of Douyin, saying that such accounts were suspected of fraud, and the reply was "We will continue to pay attention". These scammers open live broadcasts, elderly people like my mother go to give tips, and the platform also has a cut. Sometimes I wonder, if you rely on the platform to be conscious, will you not correct it, if you can make money, why be nosy?
In the past two years, I have taken out a loan to buy a house in Chenzhou City, and I plan to simply decorate the house by early next year at the latest and let my mother come and live there. It's just that her mother has been in the countryside all her life, and she may be uneasy when she leaves the land, if she is still kept in the dark by this kind of fake Jin Dong's video, and comes to Chenzhou and nests in the house all day to swipe her mobile phone, it is also a shame. I'm still confused, what should I do next?
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