The U.S. government just spent $1.6 billion to smear China in the past year, only to be crushed by the influence of some personal Internet celebrities.
Recently, American Internet celebrity IShowSpeed's trip to China set the world Internet ablaze. The YouTube blogger, who is known for his exaggerated facial expressions and realistic reactions, used unscripted live broadcasts to show his 37 million followers a different side of China. Media commented that Hyperthyroidism Brother's live broadcast allowed 200 million Americans who had never traveled abroad to see the real China. Regarding the “Hyperthyroidism Brother” China tour, an American blogger said, “The U.S. government just spent 1.6 billion U.S. dollars to discredit China in the past year, and the result was that some individual netizens were crushed by the influence of the netizens. They just need to personally go to China to walk around, live up, let the U.S. government sky-high propaganda hit the water.”
A marvelous journey to the East that subverts Western filters
Hyperthyroidism brother's live broadcast is like a mirror, reflecting the huge change in overseas perception of China: when he used his cell phone to shoot the smooth image of 4K live broadcast on the high-speed rail, he was teased by American netizens, “I can't brush out the text in the unpleasant-smelling New York subway, but you don't drop out of the line of 2K live broadcast on the high-speed rail in China with a speed of 350 kilometers per hour.” , completely breaking the western stereotype of China's backward and inconvenient transportation. And at the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province, his studies under a martial arts master not only allowed him to appreciate the charm of Chinese kung fu, but also allowed the global audience to witness the profound heritage of Chinese culture. The ancient art of Sichuan Opera Face Changing, with its ever-changing techniques, made Hyperthyroidism's eyes widen as he exclaimed “unbelievable” again and again. As for the street culture, from the food stalls to the impromptu performances of the street performers, every place is full of the fireworks of life and cultural diversity, which makes A-gang call out that he is “too late”! From the skyscrapers on the Bund to the hard kung fu of the Shaolin Temple, from the 350 kilometer per hour high-speed railroad to the simple street vendors, his footage has both the technological sense of cyberpunk and the humanistic temperature of the city's fireworks. While the western media is still exaggerating the “China threat theory”, Hyperthyroidism's astonishment and laughter let the world see a real, three-dimensional and energetic China.
Hyperthyroidism shows China from the most realistic and grounded perspective.
Hyperthyroidism's trip to China has opened up a whole new path for cultural communication. In the past, most of the cultural communication relies on official channels and elites, and the communication content is often carefully planned and packaged, although rigorous and standardized, but also inevitably appear a bit stereotyped and lofty, and it is difficult to really enter the hearts of ordinary people. As an ordinary netizen, Hyperthyroidism Brother, with his most realistic and grounded perspective, presents China's bits and pieces in front of the global netizens. He has no fancy rhetoric, no deliberate propaganda, just with their own eyes to observe, with their own feelings to express, but let the world see a full of fireworks, full of human flavor of China. This kind of folk spontaneous cultural dissemination breaks the elite narrative of traditional foreign propaganda, and makes cultural dissemination more diversified, more three-dimensional and closer to life. In his live broadcast, we saw the powerful attraction of Chinese culture and the great potential of folk power in cultural communication. It makes us understand that cultural communication does not necessarily rely on the official power, every ordinary person can become a cultural messenger, as long as we have a heart of love for culture and a pair of eyes good at discovering the beauty of Chinese culture can be transmitted to every corner of the world.
China's charm of the world “fan”
Whether it's the “hyperthyroidism brother” riding the high-speed rail into the tunnel, the live screen is still smooth and silky, or the high-rise buildings in the city let foreign netizens sigh “living in the future”, in fact, this is not the first time. As early as 2024, “City not City” has become a common buzzword between Chinese and foreigners, and the number of views on the topic of “China Travel” related to it has rapidly climbed, easily crossing the 700 million mark. Thanks to the further optimization of China's immigration policy, especially the significant expansion of the scope of benefits of the 144-hour visa-free transit policy, the enthusiasm of overseas tourists for China has continued to rise, showing unprecedented attraction. And those foreigners who have not yet visited this mysterious country, after reconciling their accounts on Little Red Book at the beginning of the year, have long had a marvelous time. In the small red book, they not only actively participate in the discussion of the topic of Chinese learning, some have learned simple Chinese characters and Chinese, but also let Chinese netizens correct their homework. People who don't know any Chinese at all have started posting on Xiaohongshu to seek Chinese teachers, which has also brought a lot of heat to the profession of international Chinese teachers. And behind all this is the epitome of the surge in global interest in China.