Chinese livestreamer dances almost nonstop for 4–6 hours, every time viewers send gifts, she has to dance

[u/T-StrangerXD]

[u/loseitthrowaway7797]

So fucking dystopian holy shit

[u/No_Worldliness_7106 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

This definitely feels like a black mirror episode.

[u/Ok-Cancel-3114 → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

The bicycle one. Yep.

[u/a_duck_in_past_life → u/Ok-Cancel-3114]

I was thinking the healthcare one with Rashida Jones and Chris O'Dowd. He ends up doing Livestream stuff where people tell him to do things to hurt himself so he can continue paying for the health subscription that is keeping his wife alive, because the company changed the tier cost and now she has to blackout and spout commercial ads at random throughout the day. It's so fucking sad.

[u/SherlockScones3 → u/a_duck_in_past_life]

Peter Thiel taking notes

[u/TheLostRanger0117 → u/a_duck_in_past_life]

That one fucking hurt me psychologically and emotionally, holy shit!

[u/empathetix → u/a_duck_in_past_life]

That was the only one I watched from the most recent season and I haven’t watched any since. Idk, Black Mirror starts to feel more and more real as we go on, makes me anxious

[u/Full-District- → u/a_duck_in_past_life]

Man... I decided to watch an episode of Black Mirror after a couple years of not watching it because some of the episodes are straight up disturbing. This was the episode I watched and I've been thinking about it ever since. Can't do that show anymore even though I acknowledge its a masterpiece in many regards.

[u/doors801 → u/a_duck_in_past_life]

15 million credits

[u/DepressedDynamo → u/doors801]

The episode you're thinking of is called "15 Million Merits", but the episode the comment you replied to is discussing is called "Common People"

[u/doors801 → u/DepressedDynamo]

You are correct. I meant to reply to the comment above it.

[u/DIX_ → u/a_duck_in_past_life]

That episode broke me quite bad, I haven't watched too much of Black Mirror because I get very existential/down about certain topics, but watched this blind with my GF.

Holy fk did I not sleep well after that.

[u/neo_sporin → u/Ok-Cancel-3114]

And I was thinking about the Pop and Lockathon from Community

[u/astralchanterelle → u/Ok-Cancel-3114]

Well, I mean, it wouldn't be the murder robotic dog episode, would it?

[u/ForeignAd73 → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

r/im14andthisisdeep

[u/NickRick → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

it is one.

[u/Feeling-Yogurt839 → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Or movie „Gamers“

[u/kmariie94 → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Yall see they’re making a new season?

[u/FishermanExpensive → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

It was one

[u/TyruntasaurusRecht → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

We're in a black mirror episode.

Each day just gets worse.

[u/KittiesNTittiesPrime → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

It is but not for the reasons you think. These are done played on a loop and/or filters on her face to make her look more tortured. It's a scam, not torture.

[u/andiinAms → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

Very The Long Walk vibes

[u/MATCHEW010 → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

I had to turn off the one where the lady gets the brain subscription and they keep putting prices up and new “tiers”. Its too fucking real and genuinely upsetting

[u/GamingGo2022 → u/No_Worldliness_7106]

looks like one too

[u/OxbridgeDingoBaby → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

Yeah holy shit, I don’t know if this is a skit (or performative) for views, or if she really is this scared. If it’s the latter, get her into Hollywood and if it’s the latter, please get her the help she needs.

Edit:

Seems it’s the former:

> This girl is acting distressed because that makes people donate more. The disturbed feeling you’re getting is exactly the intended feeling. It makes the people donating get the impression that they’re prolonging a torture and not giving their money away.

> Also, the background is a loop. I can’t believe I’m the only one here to point that out.

[u/great_apple → u/OxbridgeDingoBaby]

lol I love that your "source" is just another random reddit comment

[u/ritikusice → u/great_apple]

I love that most people here are making wild comments about slavery, black mirror based on a random Reddit title.

[u/Flimsy_Share_7606 → u/OxbridgeDingoBaby]

I mean that doesn't make it much less dystopian. People are donating because it feels good to torture her. It's just that maybe she is just pretending to be tortured for their pleasure. Which is better ...but not by a whole lot.

[u/James_Chandra_Hubble → u/Flimsy_Share_7606]

I mean she could stop at any time...

[u/Flimsy_Share_7606 → u/James_Chandra_Hubble]

That's why it is at least some what better. She isn't actually being tormented, but we still have a live "donate to torment a pretty young girl" service that is successful. Better. Still super fucked up.

[u/Radiant_Safe1228 → u/OxbridgeDingoBaby]

There's another genre of this where it's a monster and kids in a hut with some water feature hammering grain. 

They do something for donations and the longer they go the more "stressed" they look. 

[u/Independent-Dust5122 → u/OxbridgeDingoBaby]

fuck you

[u/Any_Mortgage_9890 → u/OxbridgeDingoBaby]

You should go to her house and rescue her.

[u/Rocky_Bukkake → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

dystopian if she’s genuinely distressed

arguably worse that she’s giving a performance acting distressed

definitely worse that this is a valid form of income

infinitely worse that there is enough viewership to make this a valid form of income

i stg china is ground zero for the horrors of digital modernity.

[u/VenPatrician → u/Rocky_Bukkake]

Nah, surely you jest. Didn't you hear? China is a socialist paradise because they made some vague law to protect workers from AI and they made some really rad videos about Shanghai /s

[u/ritikusice → u/VenPatrician]

It's hilarious because Americans do the same thing

[u/Rocky_Bukkake → u/VenPatrician]

HAVE YOU SEEN CHENGDU? HAVE YOU SEEN CHONGQING?? CYBERPUNK!!!

WALKABLE WALKABLE WALKABLE WALKABLE

[u/ritikusice → u/Rocky_Bukkake]

Lmao Americans do this without the walkable cities

[u/Rocky_Bukkake → u/ritikusice]

THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR UNIQUE POINT OF VIEW

NEVER TALK ABOUT CHINA ON ITS OWN TERMS

ALWAYS BRING THE US INTO IT

[u/EmotionalMind855 → u/Rocky_Bukkake]

USA literally does the same thing lol

[u/Rocky_Bukkake → u/EmotionalMind855]

RELEVANT IMAGE

YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT A BOT

[u/wikowiko33 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

*hory shit

[u/The_Tooter_Snooter → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

We’re in the endgame now, boys

[u/dramalama-dingdong → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

Welcome to the new world!

[u/Actual-Jelly-309 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

No way. TikTok and communism rules.

[u/Alternative_Mix6836 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

most healthy people don't get like that after dancing for 4-6 hours

This is manufactured/contrived to make sick fucks feel like they are prolonging some torture to fish for more money

[u/Independent-Dust5122 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

except shes literally doing it for money... and not actually in trouble...

[u/CaryTriviaDude → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

may the same time though, she could just stop at literally any time, no one is making her do this

[u/infinite_in_faculty → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

Sophie Ellis Bextor once danced for 24 hours on live TV to raise 1 Million for charity.

[u/InsectaProtecta → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

Woman does silly thing to make money, world ends shortly after

[u/kupozu → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

I dunno, is anyone forcing her to? Is she not making an awful lot of money from this? Genuine questions, I have no context for this

I could see it as dystopic if she was forced to do something like this to survive, and she was forced by people with a lot of money and power. But if she does this out of her free will, and the donations are done by everyday people, then it seems to me she just found an excellent business, profiting nicely (I assume) by fulfilling a market.

If anything, I'd be a bit worried about those donating while seriously thinking they're harming someone

[u/Sbarty → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

it’s literally just faked to pull more money out of kids TikTok wallets Reddit is so dramatic.

[u/Miserable-Role9555 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

Its performance being done for money. If someone livestreamed biking for 6 hours nonstop no one would bat an eye. Dancing is not that different from any physical activity

You people are absolute buffoons if you think this is what dystopian means

[u/SpotPsychological263 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

And not even for the reasons you think, it is a manufactured product by HER to make money, nobody is forcing her to do this as it is implied. She is barley even dancing and I would suspect that her "sweat" is reapplied every so often to keep the illusion going.

[u/RocketBilly13 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

It's fake dumbass

[u/Natural_Baseball_779 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

You know what else is crazy? She choose to do that 🤯 Why are ppl in the comments acting surprised, ppl do dumb shit for money all the time...

[u/loseitthrowaway7797 → u/Natural_Baseball_779]

Did she though?

[u/playnite → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

Dumbass

[u/BatOwn9955 → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

You know that people go to raves and dance for 6 hours right?

[u/Neeto_Misquito → u/loseitthrowaway7797]

Sill better than a coal mine.