Nonsensical text: Anger youth in the era of the internet

Author: Sina netizen
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: "Absurd" was originally a colloquial term from Foshan, Guangdong, describing someone who looks ridiculous and talks without bounds, yet actually has their own logic. With the emergence of the "absurd" image in the movies of Stephen Chow, the unfounded pretense of depth, and the laughable exaggeration, the language of absurdity almost swept through the young generation in China. The language of absurdity has now become a form of internet slang among young people in our country. It not only contains the humorous exaggeration from Stephen Chow's "A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: Cinderella," but also incorporates numerous elements such as satire, humor, irony, self-deprecation, and helplessness. From the grand issues of the world to the trivialities of daily life, everything is approached with a sense of humor. It reflects the young people of today's generation's skepticism and denial of everything, the deconstruction of all authority and conventions, as well as their helplessness and self-mockery toward the realities of life. Behind the words may lie profound meanings that we still cannot fully understand. Every era has its own "angry youth," and the current young generation is the new angry youth online. They mostly lack the impoverished background and suppressed ideals of the older angry youth of the 1980s. They live in and are helpless in the new social form: the ever-changing cities, the unstable jobs, the oppressive offices, the paper marriages, and the ups and downs of relationships. These new issues have shaped the unique image and language of the new angry youth.