Very erotic very violent
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Very erotic very violent is a Chinese
internet meme
that originated from a news report on China Central Television
's flagship Xinwen Lianbo
program allegedly quoting a schoolgirl
describing a web page. On the Chinese Internet, this incident was widely parodied and weakened the credibility of the state broadcaster's newscasts.
This Chinese
phrase, which combines the intensive adverb
hen 很 "very; quite; much" with huang 黄 "yellow" (denoting huangse 黃色 "yellow colored" or "sexy; erotic; obscene; pornographic") and baoli 暴力 "violence; force", follows the form of very good very mighty
, a snowclone
for Internet slang popularized earlier that year.
were posted by internet users ridiculing the comment and CCTV's credibility in part.
The incident also questioned the reliability of Xinwen Lianbo, noting the unlikelihood of a web page being both violent and erotic at the same time (even though such pages do exist), and the age of the student interviewed. Personal information of the interviewed girl was later also leaked, identifying the girl in the report by name. Online message boards were populated by large threads about the incident, and a satirical work even stated that CCTV's website was the number one "very erotic very violent" website on the internet, with some users even creating their own toplists of sites which meet these criteria, the "top 8 very erotic very violent sports events" and even identifying things that are yellow
as being erotic (since 黄, huáng, the Mandarin character for "yellow", also means "erotic").
In addition, the girl interviewed in the report was never actually identified. It was also pointed out by some media, that the outcry from the community about this report showed a dissatisfaction for the content of the report, and the censorship of the Internet in China in general, and an explosion of long term dissatisfaction for the production practices of Xinwen Lianbo.
Some critics also emerged, expressing discontent about the internet outcry and large amounts of parodies related to the report, some using her real name, as revealed by a letter written by the girl's father.
Most Chinese media intentionally ignored the role CCTV played in the report, focusing more on the violation of the girl's privacy. Wang Xiaofeng, chief writer of cultural department, Lifeweek, claimed that CCTV and the users have lack of consciousness for protecting minors. There were also some claims that “what the girl really needs is benevolent critique from the adults other than fleer from entertainers”.
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internet meme
Internet meme
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that originated from a news report on China Central Television
China Central Television
China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV, is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 19 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers...
's flagship Xinwen Lianbo
Xinwen Lianbo
Xinwen Lianbo is a daily news programme produced by China Central Television . It is shown simultaneously by most terrestrial television channels in mainland China, making it one of the world's most watched television programmes...
program allegedly quoting a schoolgirl
Schoolgirl
A schoolgirl is a girl attending either primary or secondary school, generally aged between four and eighteen years old.-Academic performance:This has led in some countries to calls for greater equality for education in the school system...
describing a web page. On the Chinese Internet, this incident was widely parodied and weakened the credibility of the state broadcaster's newscasts.
This Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
phrase, which combines the intensive adverb
Adverb
An adverb is a part of speech that modifies verbs or any part of speech other than a noun . Adverbs can modify verbs, adjectives , clauses, sentences, and other adverbs....
hen 很 "very; quite; much" with huang 黄 "yellow" (denoting huangse 黃色 "yellow colored" or "sexy; erotic; obscene; pornographic") and baoli 暴力 "violence; force", follows the form of very good very mighty
Very good very mighty
Very good very mighty is a catch phrase and internet meme in China that originated with the WoW Chinese-translation group in June 2007. Using the syntactical structure very X very Y became increasingly popular among netizens of Mainland China as internet slang and snowclone.-Very erotic very...
, a snowclone
Snowclone
A snowclone is a type of cliché and phrasal template originally defined as "a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn, quoted or misquoted phrase or sentence that can be used in an entirely open array of different variants"....
for Internet slang popularized earlier that year.
CCTV News Report
On 27 December 2007, Xinwen Lianbo aired a report about the wide and easy availability of explicit content on the internet. The report appealed to juristic institutions and government to hurry to make relevant legislation in order to purify the internet environment. In the report, a young student described a pop-up advertisement she saw as being "very erotic very violent". After the airing of the report, many parodiesKuso
Kuso is the term used in East Asia for the internet culture that generally includes all types of camp and parody. In Japanese, means shit, and is often uttered as an interjection. It is considered milder than its English counterpart, more comparable to damn. It is also used to describe outrageous...
were posted by internet users ridiculing the comment and CCTV's credibility in part.
The incident also questioned the reliability of Xinwen Lianbo, noting the unlikelihood of a web page being both violent and erotic at the same time (even though such pages do exist), and the age of the student interviewed. Personal information of the interviewed girl was later also leaked, identifying the girl in the report by name. Online message boards were populated by large threads about the incident, and a satirical work even stated that CCTV's website was the number one "very erotic very violent" website on the internet, with some users even creating their own toplists of sites which meet these criteria, the "top 8 very erotic very violent sports events" and even identifying things that are yellow
Yellow
Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, with no significant stimulation of the S cone cells. Light with a wavelength of 570–590 nm is yellow, as is light with a suitable mixture of red and green...
as being erotic (since 黄, huáng, the Mandarin character for "yellow", also means "erotic").
Response
According to a general consensus, it is said that the girl in the report would have not been able to access a web page describable as "very erotic very violent" unless she did it intentionally. It is thought that the line was actually a form of distortion by the reporters and not actually the views expressed by the girl, trying to make the problem look more serious. Even though the internet is already heavily filtered in China, the news report may have suggested that the current filters are not enough.In addition, the girl interviewed in the report was never actually identified. It was also pointed out by some media, that the outcry from the community about this report showed a dissatisfaction for the content of the report, and the censorship of the Internet in China in general, and an explosion of long term dissatisfaction for the production practices of Xinwen Lianbo.
Some critics also emerged, expressing discontent about the internet outcry and large amounts of parodies related to the report, some using her real name, as revealed by a letter written by the girl's father.
Most Chinese media intentionally ignored the role CCTV played in the report, focusing more on the violation of the girl's privacy. Wang Xiaofeng, chief writer of cultural department, Lifeweek, claimed that CCTV and the users have lack of consciousness for protecting minors. There were also some claims that “what the girl really needs is benevolent critique from the adults other than fleer from entertainers”.
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