Wu Yanni's public opinion is in a situation of ice and fire, on the one hand, black fans crazy online violence, on the other hand, the official media is extremely protective

It is rumored on the Internet that the "hurdle goddess" Wu Yanni was invited to attend the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Dragon and received the highest level of courtesy from CCTV, but the author did not find a reliable source for this rumor. In fact, Wu Yanni's widespread recognition by the official media is certain, and there is no need for such gossip as evidence. After the Asian Games rush storm, Wu Yanni's public opinion situation was two days of ice and fire, on the one hand, the cynicism of netizens fell into the well; On the other hand, it is the strong support and warm care of the official media.

As soon as the women's 100m hurdles final of the Hangzhou Asian Games ended, the Internet was overwhelmed with Wu Yanni's crimes, including "habitual running fouls", "framing Indian athletes", "robbing Lin Yuwei's national flag"... Whether someone brings the rhythm to smear, or everyone empathizes and thinks that Wu Yanni hates it, anyway, the lethality of this round of online violence far exceeds what Liu Xiang endured when he withdrew from the Beijing Olympics due to injury. Almost at the same time, all the official media stood on Wu Yanni's side and tried their best to support her, and none of them criticized her.

Global People, affiliated with People's Daily, featured Wu Yanni on the cover of the magazine and also published a column entitled "Wu Yanni, One Step Regret", defining Wu Yanni as "a representative figure of China's Generation Z." China Newsweek, a subsidiary of China News Service, published a commentator's article "Wu Yanni, you can be crazy if you don't win" seconds after the final. What's even more powerful is Xinhua News Agency, which published "Hangzhou Asian Games Idol Wu Yanni: An aspiring hurdler athlete" on the official website of the English version on the second day of the competition.

For a long time, Chinese athletes have given the impression of the West as reticent and promise-based, and even European and American media have disparaged mainland athletes as "impersonal gold medal machines." The Chinese sports community has also carried out self-reflection, believing that it is necessary to get rid of the shackles of gold-only theory and championship doctrine, and cultivate dynamic and charismatic sports stars, rather than using good or bad results as the only measure to evaluate athletes. Paradoxically, how many people scolded the "gold medal theory" at the beginning, and now how many people advocate "athletes don't look at what they look at their results", I suspect that they are the same people, although their views have changed, the "love spray" instincts have not changed.

It is clear that the People's Daily is guiding everyone to get rid of the thinking model of gold medal supremacy, because the rising power of China no longer needs gold medals to inspire a sense of national honor. Wu Yanni, who appeared on the cover of "Global People", is a typical representative of the new idol in China's sports world, she is optimistic and confident, beautiful and generous, good at expressing herself, and has even been regarded as an interpreter of the spirit of Generation Z, which has long gone beyond the scope of sports and the level of victory and defeat. If you measure Wu Yanni with numbers like 12 seconds and 13 seconds, it can only mean that you have a small pattern.

"Global People" believes that Wu Yanni focuses on the distinctive characteristics of China's Generation Z: "the diversity of personal development, the willingness to express opinions and opinions bluntly, and the perspective of looking at the world from "looking up" to "looking up". China's Generation Z is blazing wildly with a rational, autonomous, self-respecting and confident attitude. "It's not just level-eye, in the author's opinion, Wu Yanni has a sense of staring at the world, it's simply looking down... Of course, this is just my personal feeling, the official caliber is "look at the world at eye level".

Unlike "Global People" who uses "China's Generation Z to burst out" to promote Wu Yanni, "China Newsweek" chooses another angle of entry, that is, blocking the knife for Wu Yanni, summarizing the absurdity of black fan criticism, and pointing out sharply: "(trolls) look at faces according to the standards of the current entertainment industry, and when evaluating, they use the stereotypes of evaluating athletes in the last century to measure, just like that, Wu Yanni has become a contradiction complex." Some people's complaints about Wu Yanni come more from a certain stereotype of Chinese athletes, especially among female athletes. ”

"China Newsweek" did not understand that "Wu Yanni has not done anything out of the ordinary (but was attacked by the Internet)", not to mention that the attack of framing her opponent and grabbing the national flag is not in line with the facts, take 10,000 steps back, even if she did this, did it hurt heaven and reason? Immoral artists who have taken drugs, evaded taxes, and raped have been condemned on the Internet, and there is no violent incident of Wu Yanni running away, why? In fact, it is very simple: drug use does not hurt the trolls, tax evasion is the loss of the country, rape happens to others, and Wu Yanni's high-profile, rebellious, and self-directed actions really hit the so-called self-esteem of the keyboard man. In particular, Wu Yanni's feminist declarations such as "women should not be defined" and "pleasing oneself and not pleasing others" are the most unbearable for those online straight men.

From a psychological point of view, people subconsciously believe what they want to believe and do not believe what they don't want to believe. The statements of "framing opponents" and "robbing the national flag" can be found to be full of errors with a little rational analysis, but for netizens who are rhythmic, they think that this is Wu Yanni's "heinous crime".

What is flag grabbing? The national flag in Lin Yuwei's hand or on her body was taken by Wu Yanni before it was called, did Wu Yanni take it? Who stipulates that the champion must be the first to wear the flag? As for framing the opponent, it was just that Wu Yanni was highly nervous and a little blindfolded at that time, saw the wrong reaction time, and shouted at the referee "She reacts faster than me". In this regard, I have written a clarification article, which is generally recognized by professional track and field people, of course, you can't wake up people who pretend to sleep, those black fans and brainwashed kind netizens will definitely say: "I don't listen, I don't listen, she is framed!" ”