Save the Rhinos!: To Pokimane, pt 22

(Cue search for lyrics translation that isn't wrong)

(sugao)

1. unadorned face; a face without makeup

2. (by extension) the true self, without embellishment

And of course I'm going to link the WoW PvP video where I heard this song, Orangemarmalade's first PvP video that he deleted because someone said they had suffered emotional damage from being mind controlled and drowned.

Before I looked up that word, I heard it as "sunao" which means "honest" and it's possible I'm biased towards forcing that incorrect meaning of the lyrics.

Compare Lamb. by GARNiDELiA, lyrics:

“I want to see you”, the true nature hidden behind these words
Did you think I won’t notice it?
The mark of a ring on your left hand
There’s no lie sufficient to cover that

If you’re just lonely, any other girl will do, right?
I’m sick of meeting men like you

Some people are honest (see what I meant about forcing misheard lyrics). Some people are less honest. Often, people are rewarded for not being honest, even if they are openly not honest, like doing it on a livestream, or publishing a video that shows exactly what they did. People often see it as a game, or a prank, and that being able to lie well is good, at least if it's not about things that are important or that are known to be false. For example, "I am someone you will find attractive": this is something that many people try to convey with their words and actions, without knowing whether it's true.

My belief is that I have always been honest. I would like for other people to be happy, and I think I don't try to hide that.

Anyway, your TikTok video. A Valentine's dinner. Aka, I look crazy again by talking about this. I have never been on a date. After I ran out of money for the second time, in 2012, I called and met my oldest sister, who lived in the same city (even though I hadn't talked to her like seven years). She took me to a nearby restaurant for breakfast, and I asked if it would be considered a date, and she confirmed that it was not. Literally the only time I have gone with someone to get food, if you disregard the fact that in the military, going anywhere alone was not allowed so any visit to the cafeteria (dining facility) was with another person.

Point: I often have a negative opinion of characters in Korean dramas when they go to an expensive restaurant. Like, how China has apparently banned storylines about "ordinary female meets rich, powerful male", and 'influencers' are not allowed to flaunt their wealth on social media. You probably have more money than whomever you went to dinner with, who I assume was male, but who has more money is not the point. I've probably mentioned the Japanese drama Hana Yori Dango to you before; in the movie, which takes place after all the events of the TV seasons, like the female lead going to the US to find her boyfriend because he isn't responding to phone calls or text messages, the female lead worries that they are incompatible because they have different values. The male lead is fine with just abandoning a car because their journey is taking them somewhere else, and acts like he expects a night of them alone in a hotel room together to escalate into certain activities, while she is concerned about recovering the expensive object they are chasing.

In viral clips, you have claimed that you aren't rich. But do you really have the attitudes of someone who isn't rich? I don't know.

According to his bodyguard or something, Mao Zedong slept on a wooden bed. From a search to try to verify this, https://spartacus-educational.com/COLDmao.htm

(7) Chen Changfeng was Mao Zedong's orderly. He wrote an account of Mao Zedong and the Long March in 1973.
Commissar Mao's life was very simple and I soon got to know his habits. His personal possessions included only two blankets, one cotton sheet, two grey uniforms, just as we privates wore, a worn overcoat, and one grey woollen sweater. Then he had a broken umbrella, a bowl for eating and a knapsack with nine compartments for his maps, documents and books. When we were campaigning or on the march, he carried the knapsack and umbrella himself. I would carry the rest. When we came to our camp site, I would find two wooden boards, put them together and spread the blankets and sheet on them, folding up his uniforms to make a pillow. This was his bed.

I have read an account from someone who was in the USSR's gulags, where they also had wooden beds, and the author said there was only one sleeping position that would work with those beds.

But anyway, maybe you went to an inexpensive restaurant.

About clothes, and appearance: there are people who have watched a lot more TikTok videos than me, but also people who have watched a lot less than me. Hopefully I do not demonstrate ignorance. In China, on Douyin (aka Chinese TikTok, sharing the same icon and using the same pool of consecutive numbers for the video ID), females are more comfortable with being 'sexy'. Showing too much exposed skin is banned, close cases require concealment like a blur or overlay, and so basically anything that makes it through is considered to be socially acceptable. On Chirp Club it seems to be an established thing for males to call females w****s for showing any skin, while in China that does not seem to happen.

So a lot of people in China publish videos that people in the US would not feel comfortable posting, due to the harassment that they would get in the US.

There is the pattern where someone posts themselves in baggy clothes, which in countries that aren't Islamic are seen as less attractive than clothes that reveal a narrow waist, and then does a transition to clothes that are sexier. One reason these videos are popular is that it shows that many people who don't look very attractive at one moment in time, could change to look more attractive. In other words, don't discriminate based on appearance.

Examples:

[fall]软妹冰 ruanmeibing #辣妹 Costume change [douyin 6936139224080977166].mp4

利奥利利 @160825686 巴啦啦能量#变装 #甜妹 transition, attention [douyin 7468613671652969737][a +0.19s].mp4

女屌丝 @36996057071 如果幸福的人请和我一起唱情歌～#很任性dj摇#变装 Costume change, hai yu shi [douyin 7534335090341449018][sync tuning].mp4

Doesn't start with baggy clothes, just lots of transitions:

超蓝布罗莉（自律版）@bolbol520 走一个#走路变装 #ootd #卡点 transitions, walking [douyin 7524290071434251579].mp4

(I noticed the red sign on the wall)