使用者:CaoPig/二舅的奇妙賽博冒險

去年（2024）英語新聞與採訪課讓我們寫篇作業，我選擇了二舅作為主題。

英文原文

Second Uncle's Bizarre Cyber Adventure

On July 25th, 2022,唐浩Tang Hao, a pre-teacher working at an online extracurricular institute and a self-media person for now, posted a video titled "How second uncle cured my mental friction after being back in the village for three days" on Bilibili, a video-sharing website in China. Within a few days, the video soon became viral, but it also trapped him in a muddy plight.

As the Time Finance reported,11 years ago, Tang Hao was a "Beijing drifter", a person migrating to Beijing from other places in China seeking opportunities and a better life. He taught history at a private high school in Beijing for a living.3 years later, he joined a more profitable and popular industry-----after-school tutoring. He first worked for New Oriental, and then Yuanfudao.In there, he was famous for his attractive teaching style and honed his skills in diction."I really enjoyed his classes, and it felt like taking a history lesson by listening to a talk show. "Chen Bo, a student taught by Tang, told Time Finance how interesting and efficient his classes were. There are many clips of his classes recorded by his students on Bilibili.In the clip named the introduction of Noble Tang, Tang Hao revealed more information about his past by himself."I was born in a 'well-to-do' family in a village in the central area of Shandong province. We keep scores of livestock and both of my parents are rural cadres. That is why you should call me 'Noble Mr.Tang'"

However, Tang Hao’s Beijing dream as a respectable teacher suffered a major blow in 2021, when the Double Reduction Policy was carried out by the government, which strengthened the restriction and regulation on after-school tutoring. The policy reduced students』 burdens but also forced online extracurricular institutes to contract at the same time, meaning a large body of employed teachers would lose his or her job. Tang Hao never mentioned the relation between his resignation in 2021 and the Double Reduction Policy, and he was probably excellent enough to survive the redundancy. Still, such an industry crisis might leave a deep impression on him. He has to feed his family with two babies in a big city where everything is expensive. In the clip the last class by Tang Hao 2021, Tang said to his students"Math almost killed me in the senior high school. After three years』 efforts, My math scores still failed to reach 120. Then I learnt 'The harder you work, the sweeter the reward' is totally a lie.""Gin up your guts and fight against the world!"

Before his resignation, he had already had a Bilibili channel with a few videos uploaded.His username is 衣戈猜想Yige Hypothesis(Yige History previously), and Yige was from his daughter. In 2021, he began to make more efforts to update his channel. The content of his videos is inclusive, varying from the history of the Ming dynasty, the origin of life on earth, to the postpartum care for sows, all along with his humorous writing style. Within a year, his last video in 2021 had already got millions of views. The students of Tang still missed the lessons taught by him. Under the post"How do you see Tang Hao’s resignation from yfd? (the abbreviation of Yuanfudao)" on Zhihu, a Quora-type question and answer site in China, one of his students answered "Exaggeratingly speaking, my history scores were earned by him.""Tang once said Yuanfudao treated him well, and he also liked Yuanfudao well and he felt reluctant to leave it. The reason why he made such a decision was that he wanted to be a self-media person, which fits with his knowledge and wit."On 26th July 2022, a reporter from Time Finance found the poster and commented leaving a phone number. The self-media would soon put Tang Hao into trouble.

On July 25th, 2022, Tang Hao uploaded How second uncle cured my mental friction after being back in the village for three days on Bilibili. The 11-minute video told the story of a resilient villager "Second Uncle".When he was a child, he was "disabled" by medical injections, so he had to give up his studies, which he had always excelled in. However, he struggled to become a carpenter, then a handy repairman respected by the whole village. Nearing the end, Tang appealed for 莊敬自強 "solemn self-improvement".The video story moved countless netizens. The video soon went viral on all of China's social media platforms. Within one day, the video reached No. 1 hotest on Bilibili and got over 5 million views with 30 thousand people watching at the same time. Many of them were deeply touched by the video and left comments like: "He struck down all of life’s tragedies like a god of war", "Real-life clips with a humorous text described the life of second uncle, like a literary essay by a master" and "I have a sound body but often complain about everything around me. I lack an example like the second uncle otherwise I would be full of hope for life."

But what happened next beyond Tang’s anticipation. Second Uncle was so popular that some of the audience sent messages to Tang urging him to start live streaming on short video platforms."What do you expect Second Uncle to do? Repeating his sufferings again and again like Xiang Lin's wife? (a character created by a famous Chinese writer Lu Xun)Playing PK with strangers out of nowhere? Then kneeling down bidding for points from 'besties'?Suddenly yelling out to advertise tissues?" "Please leave second uncle living with grandma unbothered in that village. That’s the best ending for the story".Tang posted his response the day next to "D day" on Sina Weibo, a microblogging website in China Compared to X.Today, the blogs of his are set invisible to others. This post was unintentionally archived on WeChat, a chinese social media, by another self-media person----粥左羅Zhou Zuoluo.

To some degree,Zhou is Tang’s more successful version.You can find Zhou’s legend and scandals everywhere in Chinese Internet. In the article Let’s talk about one of the Self-media Stars these years on WeChat, Zhou was also a "Beijing drifter" like Tang and turned from a street vendor to a rich self-media person all through his efforts. But under a Zhihu post "How do you see Zhou Zuoluo?", the hottest answer denounced his unfair ignorance of the small and medium enterprises suffering during the Covid-19 Pandemic, not to mention his white elephant online courses. Zhou Zuoluo posted a WeChat article Second Uncle Made a Hit! A Sentence Under the Bed Moved Countless People adapting the video into a text version just after Tang’s response on Sina Weibo. Though Zhou’s article included the response, it still heated up the topic of Second Uncle more, which was contrary to Tang’s wish.

As you might have "foreseen", within a short time, the video of Second Uncle fell victim to numerous cyber rumors. The authenticity of the story was the first to be doubted. In the story, Second Uncle failed to apply a disability certificate for an unknown reason. But as the Redstar News reported on 29th July, they interviewed the local cadres, who said the disability certificates had been already applied back to 1990. The Cover News, City News, and The Paper all sent reporters to the village where Second Uncle lived and proved that the second uncle was not Tang’s but his wife’s.On 31st July, the Phoenix Weekly even posted a Weibo reporting that the video had been canceled feed on Bilibili. But it was the post that got canceled in no time because every Bilibili user could easily check the fact by clicking a few buttons. To Tang’s sadness, his favourite science writer 方舟子 Fang Shimin when he was young also joined the army of doubting Second Uncle’s existence. Zhou Zuoluo, on 1st August, gathered these rumors in another WeChat article Second Uncle Took a Hit! The Complex Humanity Behind is Worth Reflecting for Everyone."Actually, fabrication is quite common among us self-media" Zhou said "It’s a matter of money"

Even worse, the video was also involved in political issues. On 27th July, VMZ, a radical leftist influencer supporting the establishment, uploaded a video Your Second Uncle is Not My uncle: Unrelentingly Against Cultural Bourgeois Ideology Infiltration as Primitiveness on Bilibili.In this video, the most popular and controversial leftist leader in China questioned Tang why he chose the idiom 莊敬自強 "solemn self-improvement" as the video’s keyword.Didn’t he know it was a slogan used by the ROC regime in Taiwan when their delegates in the UN were replaced by the PRC’s in 1971? Under the Zhihu post "How do you see How second uncle cured my mental friction uploaded by Yige Hypothesis?",飛鳴鏑 Twanging Arrow, another radical leftist influencer against the establishment argued "The video distorts the fact that alienated people are forced not to express their suffering under capitalism and conceals the inequality by replacing Second Uncle in the flesh with Second Uncle as a symbol of suffering. Over the seas, 解濱 Xiebing,an exiled Chinese dissident and Trump supporter wrote in his blog "Second Uncle was a new sick man of Asia fabricated by CCP central publicity department". The comments under the video also condemned Tang for "Praising the Suffering", which meant he diverted people’s attention from the suppressing system.

On 20th September, when the topic was to cool down, Tang posted the video I am to respond.Actually the video should have been uploaded earlier if he was not interrupted by another crisis waged by a reporter who was mistaken by Tang as an old friend. In the video, he not only defended the authenticity of the story against rumors but also described how the villagers were troubled by flocking reporters. As Tang had informed Ningning to drive Second Uncle and his family to another village, the reporters had to conduct a blanket search."My grandma was born in the 1930s. If she has a good memory,she would recall the last time that the village was carpet searched in such way was 15th December 1937, when the county was occupied by Japanese invaders" He also satirized his self-media peers "A sophisticated self-media can make, expose, ruin and save a person within 4 days. Day 1, recommend a social hot clip to those who have not watched it. Day 2, dig up the details behind the event. Day 3, condemn the clip makers for stirring troubles intentionally and brainwashing the people. Day 4, reflect on what the characters have experienced in the last 4 days and then complain cyberbullying. Every day you can attract more clicks and cash in."

As for the accusation of "Praising Suffering", Tang said"I don’t want to negate this. Writers are to write and readers are to read. There’s no power for me to intervene in readers』 minds"In fact, Tang always sways between idealism and cynicism, or, in other words, takes different sides when facing different people. In the clip "That’s because Second Uncle live well, not I wrote well" where he was interviewed by a reporter from the Xinhuanet, an official media, he repeated what he said in his last lesson "I hate to find young people watch my video, feel cured, and go back to the bed. I advise you young guys no matter how hard the situation gets, just gin up your guts and fight against the world!"When he was interviewed by another young self-media man Tim in the clip Appealing for unfollow?! With one video viral across the nation, is the success of Yige Hypothesis a coincidence?,Tang repeated another sentence "Math almost killed me in the senior high school. After three years』 efforts, My math scores still failed to reach 120. Then I learnt 'The harder you work, the sweeter the reward' is totally a lie.""I once liked to yell 'Long Live the People', but now the most frequent four words I say is 'Oh. Yes, my boss'" He also mentioned he was strongly inspired by the Black Humor works he read and watched in his campus days,which influenced his writing style a lot.

When it comes to money, some netizens persisted in persuading Second Uncle to become an influencer for a better life. In I am to response Tang replied "All the commercial campaign plans presented by the advertising agency were discussed by Second Uncle and me. He refused because he was scared. Of course, I will not keep him away from his cash cow, instead,I will become his cash cow."Though he scorned some pop culture on the Internet like PK by innuendo as I have mentioned, he was also caught by some other pop culture like 喊麥mic-shouting. Besides, he is really good at adapting to the video clip mode. In truth, Second Uncle the video can be regarded as a video clip to some degree. The last video he posted on his Bilibili channel is Accessing Middle School History Textbooks in South Korea, which was uploaded on 22nd December 2023. Under the video, one comment claimed that he had signed a profitable contract with TikTok selling books. I didn’t find more hard proof to ensure the existence of such a contract. But you can search Second Uncle on TikTok and find Tang Hao with his new name----范大山Fan Dashan.Most of his works on TikTok are in the form of video clips. In every clip, he seems to become a teacher again in front of a class facing a group of invisible students and promoting a book with his typical humorous and ironic tone.

When Tang was talking with Tim, he revealed the fact that he was just a writer and had no idea how to film and edit a video. It was his wife who burdened all of these, but she never appeared on the screen. Second Uncle couldn’t find himself on the screen either. Because the algorithm only feeds him clips about mending."My Second Uncle became a scammer,a billionaire, a puppet of Taibei, a puppet of Beijing, a cryptocurrency, a Patron God, a symbol of suffering, and an object of medicine. I didn’t find my Second Uncle in these images, but found the Internet" In Tang’s response clip, he said jokingly "Second Uncle never sees Second Uncle"

中文回翻

中文回翻由ChatGPT完成，部分我修改使之更符合原文。原文沒空加來源，來源是我後來在這注的：

二舅的奇妙賽博冒險

2022年7月25日，唐浩，一位在線上課外教育機構工作的准教師、現自媒體人，在中國的視頻分享網站嗶哩嗶哩發布了一則題為《回村三天，二舅治好了我的精神內耗》的視頻。幾天內，這個視頻迅速走紅，但也讓他陷入了一場泥潭。

據《時代財經》報導，11年前，唐浩是一個「北漂」，為了追求機會和更好的生活從外地來到北京。他在北京的一所私立高中教歷史為生。三年後，他進入了更有利可圖、更受歡迎的行業——課外輔導。他先後供職於新東方和猿輔導，因風趣的教學風格而小有名氣，並磨練了自己在表達上的技巧。「我真的很喜歡他的課，就像聽脫口秀一樣學歷史。」他的學生陳博在接受《時代財經》採訪時這樣評價他。他的許多課堂片段被學生錄製上傳到了嗶哩嗶哩。在一段名為《尊唐的自我介紹》的視頻中，唐浩自述道：「我是魯中某山村的富二代和官二代」「家裡面牛羊成群，我爸是村長，我媽以前當過村裡面的婦女主任，所以說就這個家庭條件來講的話，肯定不是你們這幫同學能比得起的，所以說你們以後跟我說話都得客氣一點。對吧。你們這種小門小戶的孩子就得叫我『尊貴的唐老師'，謝謝。」

然而，唐浩作為體面教師的北京夢在2021年遭遇重創。當年，國家出台「雙減」政策，對課外輔導加強管控。這項政策雖然減輕了學生負擔，卻也迫使大量線上教育機構收縮，意味著很多教師會失業。唐浩從未提及自己的離職是否與「雙減」有關，他很可能足夠優秀能保住崗位。但這樣的行業危機必然給他留下了深刻印象。他要在物價高昂的大城市養育兩個孩子。在2021年他最後一節課的視頻中，唐對學生說：「我高中三年差點沒要我的命啊」「高三讓我知道了一件事情，什麼事情，就是付出真的不一定會有回報的。一分耕耘一分收穫那是放屁，那是哄小學生的。」「上歷史課，我從來不上。上政治課，我從來不上。上地理課，我從來不上。所有的時間包括晚自習，我全部在學數學。結果到最後，高考數學連120都沒到啊」「你知道我寫日記，我寫過什麼樣的程度，這麼長這麼厚的大本子。我寫日記，我整個高中三年我寫了六七本日記，我現在我都不敢回頭看，一打開看裡面全部都是各種各樣的，就是在那兒每天都在給自己加油，然後，哎呀，一定要努力啊，沒事啊，每天都在分析什麼樣的學習的數學的方法，數學今天又進步了什麼，然後再翻兩頁之後，數學又一次考試，成績又降下來了」但他還是鼓勵他的學生「喝了這碗雞血，干翻這個世界！」

其實在離職前，他已經開設了嗶哩嗶哩頻道，發布了少量視頻，用戶名為「衣戈猜想」（原為「衣戈歷史」），衣戈來源於他女兒的名字。2021年起，他開始更加努力地更新頻道內容，話題從明朝歷史、地球生命起源，到母豬產後護理，內容包羅萬象，文字風格幽默風趣。2021年年末，他的一條視頻就獲得了數百萬播放。他的學生仍念念不忘他的歷史課。在知乎上一則「如何看待唐浩從猿輔導離職？」的問題中，一位學生留言道：「誇張點說，我的歷史成績是他教出來的。」「唐老師曾說猿輔導對他不錯，他也很喜歡猿輔導，之所以離開，是因為想轉做自媒體，發揮自己的知識和才華。」2022年7月26日，《時代財經》的一位記者在評論區留言留下聯繫方式，媒體的麻煩也隨之而來。

2022年7月25日，唐浩發布《回村三天，我治好了精神內耗》視頻，長約11分鐘，講述了一個堅韌村民「二舅」的故事。小時候因醫療事故致殘，被迫放棄原本出色的學業，但他自學木匠，成為了村里尊敬的維修匠。視頻結尾，唐浩呼籲「莊敬自強」。這個故事感動了無數網友。視頻迅速在全網走紅，僅一天便登頂嗶哩嗶哩熱榜第一，播放量超500萬，三萬人同時在線觀看。許多網友留言：「他如戰神般擊倒人生悲劇」、「真實畫面配幽默文字，像大師手筆的散文」、「我身體健全卻整天抱怨，缺少一個像二舅的榜樣，否則早就對生活充滿希望。」

但接下來的事態出乎唐浩預料。二舅太火，觀眾紛紛催促他開直播變現。他卻說「謝謝大家的關心，二舅可以直播，然後呢？一遍遍的像祥林嫂一樣重複自己的苦難，然後跟一幫傻子打PK，跪求大哥們上上票，再然後突然開始扯著嗓子賣抽紙？」「請讓二舅和姥姥在村里安靜生活，那才是最好的結局。」唐浩第二天在微博回應，如今他已關閉微博公開權限。但該回應被另一自媒體人粥左羅保留在了微信平台。

在某種意義上，粥左羅是唐浩的「高配版」。在中文網際網路，你能找到粥左羅的傳說和爭議。他也是「北漂」，從擺地攤起步，靠努力成為富有的自媒體人。但知乎熱帖「如何看待粥左羅？」中，點讚最高的回答指責他在疫情期間忽視中小企業的苦難，更不提他那些「華而不實」的網課。2022年7月26日，粥左羅發布文章《二舅火了！床底那句話感動無數人》，將視頻改編成圖文形式，雖引用了唐浩微博回應，但反而進一步炒熱了話題，違背了唐浩希望低調的初衷。

如你所料，視頻很快就被各種網絡謠言攻擊。首先質疑的是故事真實性。視頻中稱二舅申請殘疾證未果，但《紅星新聞》7月29日報導採訪當地幹部稱，1990年起殘疾證就已開放申請。《封面新聞》、《都市快報》和《澎湃新聞》都派記者前往村莊調查，發現二舅是唐浩妻子的親戚。7月31日，《鳳凰周刊》甚至發布微博稱視頻在嗶哩嗶哩下架，結果該微博很快被刪，因為用戶點擊幾下即可驗證。更令唐浩心碎的是，他少年時最喜愛的科普作家方舟子也加入了質疑二舅的行列。8月1日，粥左羅又發布文章《二舅挨打了！值得所有人反思的人性複雜》，整理各種謠言，並坦言：「其實我們自媒體造假很常見，說到底，是錢的事。」

更糟糕的是，視頻被捲入政治爭議。7月27日，「左派」網紅VMZ在嗶哩嗶哩發布視頻《你二舅不是我舅——旗幟鮮明地反對文化布爾喬亞的「手工業方式」的意識形態滲透》，質問唐浩為何選用「莊敬自強」這一台灣地區曾用口號。知乎問題「如何看待衣戈猜想發布的視頻」下，另一位左派博主「飛鳴鏑」則批評該視頻「掩蓋階級不公，把二舅符號化美化苦難」。而在海外，流亡異見人士、川普支持者解濱在博客中寫道：「二舅是中共宣傳部門捏造出的『新時代東亞病夫』。」評論區也充斥著「美化苦難」的指責，批評唐浩轉移對壓迫制度的關注。

9月20日，當熱度漸退，唐浩發布《我來回應》。其實該視頻本應更早發布，只因一位被誤認成老友的記者突然造訪。他在視頻中不僅回應謠言，堅稱故事真實，還講述了村民被記者騷擾的經歷。因唐讓寧寧把二舅一家送至另一村，記者只得地毯式搜查。「我奶奶生於上世紀30年代，若她記性好，會想起上次村里被這樣地毯搜查，是1937年12月15日，縣城被日軍占領那天。」他還諷刺同行：「一個成熟的自媒體帳號，能在四天內捧紅、扒皮、毀掉、再挽救一個人。第一天推薦爆款視頻，第二天挖背後故事，第三天譴責造謠洗腦，第四天反思網暴，每天都能漲粉變現。」

至於「美化苦難」的批評，唐浩回應：「這個我不想否認。作者負責寫，讀者負責讀，我沒有干涉讀者想法的權力。」事實上，他始終在理想主義和犬儒主義之間搖擺，面對不同受眾立場也有所不同。在新華社記者採訪的片段《那是因為二舅活得好，不是我寫得好》中，他重申自己在最後一課說的話：「我討厭年輕人看完我視頻感覺治癒了，然後回去接著躺平。我勸你們，無論多難，咬咬牙，跟世界干一架！」但在另一個自媒體人Tim採訪的視頻中，他卻說：「數學差點要了我的命，三年努力沒過120，我才知道『努力就有回報』是謊言。」「我曾高喊『人民萬歲』，現在最常說的是『哦，好的老闆』。」他還提到大學時期接觸大量黑色幽默作品，深受其影響，造就了他現在的創作風格。

關於賺錢，部分網友仍勸二舅「做網紅改善生活」。唐浩在《我來回應》中表示：「廣告商提出的所有商業化方案我都和二舅討論過，他怕了，拒絕了。當然，我不會擋他財路，反而願做他的搖錢樹。」雖然他諷刺過直播PK等網絡俗文化，卻也被「喊麥」等流行文化所吸引。事實上他很擅長製作短視頻，其實《回村三天》也可看作一條短視頻。他在嗶哩嗶哩最新的視頻為《走進韓國初中歷史教材》，發布於2023年12月22日。評論區有人稱他與抖音簽約賣書，但無確切證據。你在抖音搜「二舅」，會發現他的新ID是「范大山」，大多是短視頻，他再次化身教師，面對「看不見的學生」，用他那標誌性的諷刺語調推薦圖書。

他在與Tim的訪談中透露，自己其實不會拍攝和剪輯，是妻子承擔了全部製作，但她從未出鏡，二舅也未能在算法推送中「看到」自己。「我的二舅成了騙子、億萬富翁、台北傀儡、北京傀儡、數字貨幣、守護神、苦難符號、醫學標本，但我沒在這些形象中找到我的二舅，我找到了網際網路。」他在回應視頻中調侃說：「二舅從未看過二舅。」