Better to leave posting alone
Since July 16, a posting without any content on the World of Warcraft Forum, "Jia Junpeng, your mother's calling you home for dinner", has attracted so much attention that it has become a catchword for many netizens. The phenomenon seems more ridiculous than the posting itself. The soaring popularity of "Jia Junpeng, your maotehr's calling " reflects the distaste popular culture generates, says China Youth Daily. Excerpt:
People may attribute the phenomenon to curiosity, which actually is not far from explaining the wave of responses to a ludicrous posting, "Jia Junpeng, your mother's calling you home for dinner". The real impetus for the posting could be a strong distaste for all things around or sheer boredom, which could get people involved in businesses that are not theirs.
Fastidium has gradually become part of popular culture and plays an indispensable role in a large number of people's daily lives.
This kind of culture is not serious, but significant. So when they feel bored, people often get together, chat and tell mediocre jokes to feel better.
The Jia Junpeng posting has generated an interest in the media, too, which is trying to explain it from a sociological point of view.
Some see it as a reflection of Oedipus complex, while others interpret it as an example of the humdrum cultural life during summer vacation.
But attempt at academic interpretations of a boring posting is no less boring than the posting itself.
Someone has even tried to give Jia Junpeng a literary image by writing a super-micro fiction, with a helpless mother, a son addicted to the World of Warcraft, and one of his friends as the characters.
The implication includes education, Internet addiction, online game, friendship and family.
Compared to other catchwords related to the posting, such as crime and immorality, this one is simple and light-hearted.
People can interpret it from their personal angles without violating any recognized criterion. So, please let Jia Junpeng alone and stop questioning the meaning of this posting.
(China Daily 07/24/2009 page9)
