Feng Ge Banned Across the Entire Internet, Who Still Dares to Speak Within the Great Firewall!! How Miserable Is It After Being Laid Off? The Fault Tolerance of Chinese Society Is Too Low, What Is Happening! Qiqi Baba TALK Episode 1021 20261105

Qiqi first discussed how Feng Ge stopped updating across the entire internet after being taken away during Halloween, noting that his transition from speaking out publicly to cautious expression, and finally to potentially being unable to speak at all, reflects increasingly stringent control. The video then played a personal account from a 35-year-old job seeker: while working a part-time fresh food sorting job, she encountered poor communication and impatience from colleagues, and felt exhausted after working for 6 and a half hours. From this, Qiqi talked about the employment pressure on 35-year-olds, the low fault tolerance in Chinese society, and the state of people being constantly stressed and afraid of making mistakes for a long time.

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After Feng Ge was taken away during Halloween, his current status is that he has stopped updating across the entire internet. It looks like a high probability that he is quitting the internet, but it is unclear whether it is temporary or permanent, or whether it is voluntary or forced. However, looking back at the end of September, it seemed to me that he had already anticipated this day would come.

In fact, looking at the content Feng Ge previously posted, including filming Majuqiao in Beijing and capturing real-life experiences of others in society, he was already a very restrained speaker. Yet even such implicit and minimal expression is no longer allowed. At present, it also looks like a soft ban; he has been invited to tea by the police and taken away many times. Therefore, just by looking at Feng Ge alone—from previously being able to speak out on the internet, to later speaking out implicitly and cautiously, and now to possibly no longer being able to speak—we can clearly see that as time goes on, the controls are becoming stricter and stricter.

So many people are still talking about how "the Great Firewall is about to fall" just because Alipay enabled a subscription payment? But I think, could there be a possibility that this is a honey trap? Every payment may actually be planting a landmine, because the Chinese Communist Party can monitor your account through your payments and subsequently monitor your every remark. This is not openness; I think it is like casting a net, baiting a spot, and throwing the bait in to see who will bite. Once you take the bait, you are caught in the net. As for whether or not they will pull it in, and when they will do so, they have absolute control.

[Video Clip · 35-year-old job seeker] 35 years old, going to work as a sorter for the first time. For 6 hours, I picked 150 orders and 250 items, and ended up making around 100 RMB, got three rolling eyes, was sent running around in circles twice, and finally got chewed out twice. Recently, whenever I open Douyin, it's all unemployed influencers. I scrolled past an influencer who said that after 35, the job search doesn't bring you offers, it brings you three things: insult, mockery, and contempt. I originally thought this sounded too harsh, until I tried it myself last month.

Let's make one thing clear, I respect everyone who earns an honest living through labor. What I want to talk about today is not whether a job is high or low, but how people step on each other under pressure. Just a warning, some people might curse me out, but I just want to record my feelings at the time, and what actually happened. Lately, I haven't been able to find a suitable job, and I figured I couldn't just stay at home all the time, so I found a part-time job as a fresh food sorter.

The recruiter gave me a heads-up beforehand, saying that during the interview there might be some pressure testing and obedience testing. No matter what the other person says, just act like you really want to do the job. I said fine, no problem. On the day of the interview, I waited for over an hour and no one came to interview me. I had even checked Xiaohongshu beforehand for a guide, which said this is also a form of obedience test, so I just waited—after all, I had nothing better to do. Finally, the interviewer showed up, pinched my resume, and told me, "You can't handle this, it's very tiring." I said no problem, I'm not doing full-time, just the afternoon shift.

Later, they arranged a probationary shift for me, and after passing the probation, I had to go back and get a health certificate. The day after the health certificate was issued, I successfully started working. Before my official shift, the supervisor assigned a young summer job worker to show me the ropes. This young man explained things very carefully and earnestly, and I am extremely grateful to him. Before starting, I asked about everything I could possibly think of, such as how to handle delayed orders, what to do if there are too many items to fit in one bag, what to do if inventory is empty, and what to do if there is inventory in the system but none on the shelf. I felt I was ready, but time rarely unfolds the way you prepare for it.

My very first order in the seafood section was white sea shrimp. A product might have many SKUs, but with such a pile of shrimp sitting in one pool, I thought there was only one specification. I went up to an older guy and said, "Brother, I need 500 grams of white sea shrimp right now, can you help me weigh it?" That guy didn't even raise his head and said, "Right?" I said 500 grams, and he said, "What 500 grams?" I said 500 grams of white sea shrimp, and then he raised his head and said directly, "Can you even tell them apart? And you're taking orders?" I just stood there frozen.

Then an older woman glanced at me and said, "Are you new here? These white sea shrimp have different specifications—there's 17 to 25 per 500 grams, and 21 to 30 per 500 grams. Look at how many are on your order." I took a look and, oh, it was the 17 to 25 one. I said I was really sorry, I'd know for next time. The moment I got the goods and turned around, I heard that guy muttering, "Doesn't understand a damn thing yet comes to work." My heart felt quite heavy at the moment, but it really was my failure to distinguish the SKUs, that was my fault, and I owned up to it.

Next was an order for a fish that needed to be cleaned. The label on the fish had been soaked and ruined by water, so the scanner couldn't read it. I went to the guy at the stall and said, "Sir, this won't scan. Could you please print me another label?" The guy then said, "Find someone right now to teach you how to print labels." Another eye-roll. I just stood there, a bit stunned. Isn't printing labels part of his job at the stall? If I were to do it, it would be because the order was urgent and they were too busy, so I was helping them out. I just couldn't understand it—I really didn't know how to do the task, but why did asking for help feel like committing a crime? Later, the matter was resolved.

By 8:00 PM, there were no more orders in my zone, so I went to the supervisor and said, "Supervisor, there are no more orders in my zone. I'd like to apply for the whole area." After applying for the whole area, I picked orders one after another. One of them was for ground pork. I went to the shelf to look for it, but it wasn't there, even though the system showed it was in stock. I checked the staging area, but it wasn't there either. I asked around and found the lady in charge of that section and said, "Ma'am, this ground pork isn't on the shelf or in the staging area." The lady was extremely impatient, pointed at a shopping cart, and said, "Go look there." I went and rummaged through it twice, but it wasn't there. I went back and told her, "Ma'am, it's not in the cart either." She said, "You can't see the ground pork? Keep looking, it's right in there."

I even started to doubt my own eyes. I went back to look, but it still wasn't there. I said, "Ma'am, it's really not here, and this order is already overdue." She reluctantly went to look herself, but she couldn't find it either, so she found a different type of ground meat and told me to use that as a substitute. I said, "Ma'am, it's not the same as the order. What's the procedure for a substitution?" She said, "I don't know, go find the supervisor yourself." I went back to find the supervisor, feeling miserable. The supervisor said they had held many meetings with them about this, and anything that couldn't be found should be treated as out of stock; substituting other items is not allowed. I went back and told the lady, and I was completely at a loss. I just want to ask, is this the rule of the workplace? Do newcomers have to be treated poorly a few times?

By 10:00 PM, large areas had already turned off their lights, and I was searching for items in the dark. A customer ordered a cleaned soft-shelled turtle. I realized I was destined to deal with aquatic products all day. The turtle section was also in the dark, so I went to check if anyone was there, just in case. I saw the guy who had rolled his eyes at me earlier that day, killing the turtle one knife stroke at a time, cursing as he did it: "It's so late, who knows who wants to eat turtle? Why eat turtle anyway?" I was afraid he might cut his hand, so I used my phone to shine a light for him. While shining the light, I suddenly felt it was a bit absurd: he had rolled his eyes at me just that afternoon, yet here I was, worrying about whether he would cut his own hand.

Just like that, in the dark, order after order, every single one was overdue. Finally, at 11:00 PM, I got off work. After six and a half hours, my arms were so heavy I couldn't lift them. I didn't mind the fatigue, but on the way home, I kept thinking about one thing: did the men and women who have worked in this position for years go through their first day the same way? Are those eye-rolls and that impatience something one must experience? Or could we have been considerate of each other from the start?

In fact, this is a display of the lack of fault tolerance in Chinese society—it basically doesn't exist. Now, if you are over 35, you might not be able to find a job in that society. Even though in other countries, a 35-year-old is considered someone with very rich work experience and at the peak of their physical strength, inside the wall, you are considered an old person.

So why do people always say Chinese people look mentally very tense? I think we should try to be more understanding. Because right now, I also have this tense state in myself—it is very hard to relax, hard to relax about anything I do. Most Chinese people's lives may really have zero margin for error. This is a human instinct, a perception of and reaction to danger. I am now slowly learning to let myself relax, but some things still have an impact on me, because I am genuinely afraid of making a single wrong step. In China, making a single wrong step might really result in eternal damnation.

So why is there such a feeling? If we look into it carefully, we will find that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has built a society and imposed such a rule of survival on you: if you make a mistake, there really is no margin for error. That is why every step might require extreme caution and constant weighing of alternatives. You do not get many opportunities for trial and error, no matter how old you are.