Very erotic very violent () is a Chinese
internet meme
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that originated from a news report on
China Central Television
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's flagship ''
Xinwen Lianbo
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'' program, allegedly quoting a
schoolgirl describing a web page. This incident was widely parodied on various internet forums.
This Chinese phrase, which combines the intensive
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''hen''
很 "very; quite; much" with ''huang''
黄 "yellow" (denoting ''huángsè'' 黃色 "yellow colored" or "sexy; erotic; obscene; pornographic") and ''bàolì''
暴力 "violence; force", follows the form of
very good very mighty, a
snowclone
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H ...
for Internet slang popularized earlier that year.
CCTV news report
On December 27, 2007, ''Xinwen Lianbo'' aired a report about the easy availability of explicit content on the internet. This report made an appeal to judicial institutions and the Chinese government to manage and filter the internet. In the report, a young student described a
pop-up advertisement
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she saw as being "very erotic,
ndvery violent".
Internet users
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then began to ridicule and
parody
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the quote and question the program's credibility, believing that it would be unlikely for a person of that age to find a web page to be both erotic and violent at the same time. Personal information of the interviewed girl was also leaked, identifying her by name.
Kuso
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that is commonly translated to English as curse words such as fuck, shit, damn, and bullshit, and is ...
events caused by "very erotic very violent", on 7 January 2008, Yangtze Evening News
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Online message boards were populated by large threads about the incident, and a satirical work stated that CCTV's website was the number one "very erotic very violent" website on the internet, with some users even creating their own top lists 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").
Response
The general consensus
is that the girl in the report would not have been able to access such a web page unintentionally. 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 heavily filtered in China, the news report may have suggested that the current filters are not enough.
It was pointed out by some media, that the outcry from the community about this report showed a dissatisfaction with the content of the report, the censorship of the Internet in China, and a long-term dissatisfaction for the production practices of ''Xinwen Lianbo''.
Some critics also emerged, expressing discontent about the Internet outcry and many parodies related to the report, some using her real name, as stated by a letter written by an individual claiming to be 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 lack required conviction for protecting minors. Claims followed that "what the girl really needs is benevolent critique from the adults other than
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References
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Chinese Internet slang
Internet censorship in China
Political Internet memes
Internet memes introduced in 2007