Xi Jinping Said in His Own Words That the Party Will Lose Its Ruling Qualification Sooner or Later! Rebel Concentration in State Media Higher Than in Society, Intensity of Yin-Yang Sarcasm Directly Proportional to Economic Decay, Southern Metropolis Daily Hides an Acrostic "Southern Weekly, Keep Going", Editors on 4,000 a Month Grow Their Conscience Back After Six Months of Unpaid Wages, Censors Can't Understand Black Humor! The Memorial Arch Erected Thirteen Years Ago Is Read Today as a Verdict

The video explores the concentration of rebels within Chinese state media and how intellectuals inside the system use state media to engage in sarcasm and dark humor. By analyzing the phenomenon of a thirteen-year-old poster featuring Xi Jinping's remarks on the Party losing its right to govern going viral on Douyin, it points out that against the backdrop of economic decline, fiscal crises, and long-term wage arrears, state media editors use techniques like compliant quoting, layout collages, and repetitive posting to engage in implicit resistance, reflecting deep dissatisfaction with reality within the system.

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Observe me as I am, and refuse fragmented cognition. Just a couple of days ago, I saw something really interesting. The Douyin account of China News Service posted a poster—hey, this one right here—it's fucking hilarious. They used a background image and put a long paragraph of text on it. What did it say? It wrote out a quote from that fucking idiot Xi Jinping at a work meeting over a decade ago. The quote goes like this: "If we fail to manage the Party effectively, fail to govern the Party strictly, and fail to resolve the prominent problems within the Party that the people strongly reflect, then our Party will sooner or later lose its right to govern and will inevitably be eliminated by history. This is by no means alarmist." Wait a second, I have to say, this quote is fucking disgusting, it's so trashy.

Underneath this poster, I took a screenshot of the number of likes. Hey, by the time I took the screenshot, it was 222,000, which perfectly matches the temperament of Emperor You Xi. Truth be told, for that piece of shit, usually a poster getting a few thousand likes would be considered a miracle. You think about it, who are those 222,000 likes actually for? Our goal today is not to recognize this poster, but to recognize a paradigm: how do those people inside the CCP state media, who write propaganda for the mentally retarded Emperor You Xi every day, manage to be such master trolls? Actually, there is no need to doubt at all that the concentration of rebels within the Chinese state media is not only not lower than in society, but actually higher. Let's first look at what kind of people make these posters. Let's clarify the first thing: these people are definitely not idealists. There is no such thing as an idealist in China; China is a testing ground for extreme pragmatism. But there is a rule that applies worldwide, and that is the journalist's law.

Teachers and financial practitioners are the three groups with the greatest demand for truth, because their livelihoods are directly tied to it. Journalists trade facts for writing fees, lawyers use evidence to win lawsuits, and traders use the real situation to trade for profit and loss prices. As long as the information is fake, the first person to lose money is themselves. Therefore, in Chinese society, the density of rebels among these three groups is the highest—not because their consciousness is high, but because the professional structure forces them to be. So what are CCP state media practitioners? They are actually very contradictory. Where is the contradiction? They have to rely on facts to make a living, yet they are forced into a machine specifically designed to produce lies. This makes Chinese media practitioners the biggest tearing point in the world. So what does this structure lead to? Hey, let's look at the experiences of these people. First of all, these people must have seen it all, run through all kinds of scenes, and even run through the front lines of pandemic lockdowns.

Some earlier ones even reported on the Wenchuan earthquake, and others reported on the Wenzhou train derailment. Anyway, they had covered the scenes of all kinds of natural and man-made disasters. And you know, they had also interviewed all kinds of officials. At the same time, this group of people is also the one that knows best about the linguistic corruption of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). What is linguistic corruption? To put it bluntly, it's failing to talk like a normal human being. Calling layoffs 'optimization', calling unemployment 'flexible employment'—it's just such a trashy group of words that sounds nice to the ear but is completely meaningless in language use. But outsiders are just watching the show; these people are the real professional screenwriters. Which slogan is the most bullshit? Which original quote from a mentally disabled leader can slap oneself the most if brought up today? Hey, these people are skilled workers, so when this group of people plays passive-aggressive games, they don't need to look for a knife outside; they can just pick a handful right out of their own vocabulary. Regarding this matter, there is a very ready-made saying in sociology. Years ago, a sociologist named James Scott was studying peasants in Malaysia, and he distinguished two kinds of discourse: one is the official public transcript that the weak say in front of the strong, and the other is the hidden transcript—the true words spoken behind closed doors with one's own people. To distinguish them, it's the frontstage talk versus the backstage talk. Oh, it is such a pity that Scott didn't come to China to investigate.

Otherwise, I estimate his investigative report would have been even more exciting. And if China can boast of anything since ancient times, the one thing that truly reaches the level of 'since ancient times' is definitely this theory of speech control. Placed in Chinese society, one can only say that this is something truly played out and discarded by the ancestors of the CCP. To what degree of proficiency? It's the degree where public talk and private conversation can split to the point of instantaneous, two-way polarization. But where is the special feature of CCP state-media journalists? It lies in the fact that their frontstage words are themselves their product. Where are their backstage words usually? Flowing around in dinners or WeChat small groups, but returning to the frontstage through some more covert channels. This channel is the old passive-aggressive path. Look at how torn apart CCP media workers are to this degree: they are people who know the truth but must produce illusions, and yet they don't want to affect their self-evaluation. Then learning the craft of this passive-aggressive path is no longer an optional choice, but a mandatory one. Like placing a quote from a mentally retarded CCP leader in an abrupt position.

Ah, hey, only making Hangzhou a flat boat! Look, aren't all these handicraft skills? Allowing ordinary people to understand while passing through the CCP's three-trial-and-three-teaching process—all of these require basic skills. Furthermore, these markers are not for changing anything. The psychological mechanism of these markers, hey, I've done some research, and I think what it is: hey, being able to maintain a bit of distance in self-evaluation from these obviously mentally retarded, brainless things. In this way, at least it won't affect self-evaluation too much. Passive-aggressiveness within CCP state media has never been a fresh thing that started today. If we stretch this timeline, we can see a pattern: the intensity of passive-aggressiveness among pen-pushers inside the system is always directly proportional to the degree of political chaos and economic decline of the CCP. The most typical example was the late Cultural Revolution in 1976. At that time, the economy had already reached the so-called brink of collapse, and things like grain, oil, and cloth coupons were running out of steam. Once Mao died like that, the Gang of Four and people like Ye Jianying and Deng Ai were tearing at each other.

It was a chaotic mess. At that time, the media workers at the bottom played this implicit resistance to perfection. What was the most fun? The most fun was acoustic passive-aggressiveness. At that time, the announcers at the Central People's Broadcasting Station didn't dare to change the copy, but they dared to change the tone! For example, when the Gang of Four strongly pushed the criticism of Deng, or the anti-Rightist reversal of verdicts, these announcers would deliberately use a funeral tone with zero emotional fluctuation and extreme coldness and stiffness to mechanically read the drafts. Those who didn't know would think Sadako had immigrated to the CCP, and instead of crawling out of the television, she changed to crawling out of the radio! Hey, that's the feeling. But once it broadcasted current affairs concerning people's livelihood, they instantly switched to an emotional and vivid tone! Hey, using the most appropriate speed for a completely different reading method.

That trick is not just limited to acoustic passive-aggressiveness; an even more malicious and ruthless trick is called 'legal heart-piercing'. Externally writing public press releases, journalists collectively gave up and played dead—faking it however they could. But turning around to write the so-called top-secret internal references, each one of them became extremely energetic.

Under the banner of reporting enemy intelligence to the central authorities, they frantically handed the ruthless truth to the leaders' desks: which village's peasants were digging wild vegetables to stave off hunger, which factory's workers were starting strikes to protest, and the monsters' satirical poems of the masses on Tiananmen Square. Hey, this part was raw and authentic, without changing a single word, staring right into Zhongnanhai to send reports like loyal eyes and ears playing the informer. In fact, what they used was the most flawless compliant process inside the system, directly slapping the most powerful slap from the folk directly onto the faces of these high-level CCP officials. Just in 1989, it also became a peak of public expression for state-media people. On May 4, 1989, journalists and editors from the People’s Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, and China Youth Daily all walked onto Chang’an Avenue. The banners they wrote were also very, very straightforward—news must tell the truth. And then on the night of June 4, 1989, CCTV's *Xinwen Lianbo* anchors Du Xian and Xue Fei were wearing...

Wearing very dark clothes, speaking in an extremely slow pace and lowered voice, they broadcast the news that the Kean troops began to enter the city. Shortly after, both of them were removed from their anchor positions. After June Fourth, the public path of telling the truth was completely sealed off. Then the expression of these media workers inside the system directly retreated to the technical level of page layout and typesetting. After that was the golden age of urban newspapers from 1995 to 2012. Look at this, who did Southern Metropolis Daily report on in 2003? It reported on the Sun Zhigang case, which directly led to the abolition of the custody and repatriation system. Immediately following that in 2004, Cheng Yizhong, the editor-in-chief of Southern Metropolis Daily, was detained for more than five months, and general manager Yu Huafeng was sentenced on charges of corruption and bribery. So you see, the Chinese Communist Party also retaliates; it arrests you later, and what happens to truly effective journalism? It gets liquidated by the Chinese Communist Party using charges completely unrelated to the news. Then came June 4, 2007, in Chengdu.

An evening newspaper published a classified ad, which said what? Paying tribute to the resilient mothers of June Fourth victims. Immediately three editors were directly fired. At that time, the ad censor was very young and had no idea what June Fourth was, which is exactly the same as Li Jiaqi's tank cake. Who had the most guts during this period? It was still the newspapers of the Southern Media Group; they really had guts. In November 2009, Southern Weekly directly opened a huge blank space on its front page headline—meaning the front page headline had not a single character on it, which is called running a "sky-opening window." The background at that time was that Obama was visiting China and exceptionally accepted an exclusive interview with Southern Weekly. After the interview ended, Southern Weekly had already finalized the layout and sent it down for printing, when the propaganda department of the Chinese Communist Party forcibly ordered the removal of the accompanying editorial and feature articles. These editors also had guts; to protest this censorship by the Chinese Communist Party, they refused to fill the space with any soft copy, carrying out a public silent protest in this way. Southern's antics were not over yet.

On New Year's Day 2013, what was the new feature article published by Southern Weekly? It was called "Chinese Dream, Constitutional Dream." In fact, what it called for was also very simple, and a very clichéd issue: putting power back into a cage. That year was also a year when the top echelons of the Chinese Communist Party fought fiercely without end. The fucking idiot brother had just ascended the throne and established his seat not long ago, and at that time, right before the final moment when it was about to go down to the press, that fucking idiot propaganda department of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee bypassed all normal reporting and editing procedures, forcibly pulled the article, heavily altered and deleted parts of it, and even changed the original manuscript into a neither-fish-nor-fowl eulogistic piece of official copy, changing "Chinese Dream, Constitutional Dream" into what? Into "We are closer to our dreams than ever before." It even left several very, very low-level, common-sense errors inside. This overstepping move completely ignited the anger of the entire editorial department. To what extent did these people have guts? The reporting and editing team directly and publicly rebelled and defied orders on Weibo, directly issuing a joint statement to tear off the masks. This incident quickly.

Festered into a nationwide public opinion storm, and then a large number of citizens, scholars, and supporters even ran from other places to Guangzhou to start presenting flowers at the courtyard of Southern Media Group, and also held up placards to protest. This was also an extremely rare street gathering targeting news censorship since the reform and opening up. Faced with the nationwide gag order from the Publicity Department of the CCP Central Committee, Southern Metropolis Daily, belonging to the same media group, also showed an extremely bloody side. These editors still made a fuss using the headline, manipulating the titles of the four sections on the front page. Each title looked normal on its own, but when you picked out the first character of each title and read them continuously, hey, it happened to be an acrostic poem—not quite an acrostic poem, just a phrase that, when connected, turned out to be: "Southern Weekly, keep it up." This was a legendary public prison break accomplished by the reporting and editing staff inside the system under the abnormal censorship of the Chinese Communist Party. As for this thing, the fucking dog Chinese Communist Party itself had a headache over it. Look at February 2016, didn't they launch some.

Urine, called the Party has no surname Party? But did you think the resistance was gone? No, the resistance fucking changed its shell again. Because of a very simple problem: when the space for independent speech is squeezed to zero, resistance will grow back in the form of 100% compliance, and the aggressiveness of this form will also change. What kind of change is this? Hey, it is completely supplemented by the readers' perception of reality, and its lethality is actually even greater. In February 2019, didn't the Chinese Communist Party issue something called opinions on strengthening the political construction of the Party? It was also the first time that low-level red and advanced black were written into this document. This was the first official acknowledgement by the Chinese Communist Party of this new form of resistance. The fucking Chinese Communist Party also knew that someone was blackening it in a compliant way, but just couldn't catch them. Ever since then, the density of their car crashes has been climbing all the way up. This shouldn't be intentional, but it's more fun than being intentional. In September 2020, didn't Fu Hua, the president of Xinhua News Agency, sign an article proposing the "three one-minutes," hey, which is studying Xi Jinping Thought for one minute.

You cannot wait a minute, you cannot stop for a minute, you cannot delay for a minute, and the whole internet burst into laughter. Things like the General Secretary only having one minute all came out.

Then in December 2024, CCTV News used terms like "production up, demand up, employment stable, duration short"—you know, that kind of summary to describe the economy at the time. The comment section was full of massive irony; this was likely intentional on their part. Then there was last October, when the Guangming Daily published an article titled "Pouring Out All My Heart and Soul for My Lovely Motherland." People felt the text sounded fucking soulless. It turned out, upon inspection, to have been AI-generated. Then, at the end of last year, there was that famous advertisement—you know, the one where CCTV collaborated with Meituan to create a character who was a shooter and then switched careers to deliver food? The line about "delivering food allows you to enjoy the scenery along the way at any time" completely ignited the entire internet's resentment toward "positive energy" narratives. Then in April of this year, the fucking Cyberspace Administration of China posted something about "foreign forces" tricking the public into lying flat, and the reaction in the comment section was fucking hilarious. How did they mock these people? They said the Ministry of State Security had already admitted that lying flat had become so widespread that they needed to find foreign forces to take the blame. Following that are these posters; there have been a lot of these lately. And look, among this long list of cases, which ones were intentional and which were mechanically executed? My judgment is that from the outside, it is actually very difficult to determine. But precisely because it cannot be determined, that is the core of the whole matter. Regarding that "one minute" incident with the guy from Fuhua, I judge it to be a mechanical execution, because this fucking idiot didn't have any subversive motive; he was just brain-dead. The fact that he's brain-dead is, I think, quite obvious. His words were just an excessive display of loyalty, and he overdid it, and by overdoing it, he let out the little secret of that fucking idiot Emperor You Xi, the "one minute" thing. As for this poster of Xi at the dinner table, I judge that the intentional component is significantly higher. Look, what was the editor facing? It was a speech from 2013. But in the last ten-plus years, Emperor You Xi has said, if not ten thousand, then at least eight thousand pieces of fucking nonsense, right? The phrase "sooner or later will lose the qualification to govern"—I'm sure it wasn't prominent in the entire corpus, right? But the editor specifically chose it, and used red font to emphasize "lose the qualification to govern," "eliminated by history," and "this is absolutely not alarmist talk." These three places were individually highlighted. The selection of the sentence and the color scheme were both active behaviors, and they were completely compliant.

At this point, you might ask, these things happened before, so why has the density significantly increased since 2023? The answer, I believe, still lies in the money. The local party media, or whether it's local or central, their income comes from three sources: fiscal appropriations, government-purchased services, and operational advertising. The advertising sector collapsed fucking years ago over the last decade. Last year was the fifth consecutive year of decline in the Chinese newspaper advertising market. The total scale of newspaper advertising has fallen by 72% overall from its peak in 2010, which is about the same rate of collapse as the CCP's land finance. Operational business mainly relies on government outsourcing, but this part of the business is exactly what local governments started cutting first when they compressed their budgets after 2023. It's a very simple problem: local governments are struggling to pay their own salaries, so this kind of dispensable peripheral advertising and propaganda is bound to be the first thing on the chopping block. We can see the actual impact just by looking around. Let's look at the wave of closures of official media in China over the past two years. Among the newspapers that ceased publication in 2025 are the Huzhou Evening News, the Daily News, the Literature Newspaper, the Nanguo Morning News, and the Hohhot Evening News. Then, on December 29th of last year, the Shenzhen Press Group announced that the Shenzhen Evening News would only be published from Monday to Friday starting January 1, 2026, and would not be published on Saturdays and Sundays. And the Beijing News changed from a daily to a weekly publication. Shenzhen's finances are among the most affluent in the country, right? If even the metropolitan newspapers in Shenzhen are in this state, everyone should be clear about the situation of newspaper media in other cities.

Shutting down and folding up is at least a clean break, but what is the system inside best at? It is bleeding people by status. Once you start bleeding people by status like this, resentment is bound to be born. Those with official staffing desperately protect their basic wages; as for the temporary workers without staffing, they are directly treated as disposable materials. Starting from 2023, various local broadcasting stations, local tabloids, and those small workshops shooting Douyin videos for Lizibao—the ones doing the dirty and hard work—are all contract workers, and it is nothing new for performance-based pay and wages to be delayed by half a year or a year. At the municipal-level propaganda units, let's not even talk about bonuses right now; failing to pay wages has also become a common occurrence. So how did this money issue transmit over to causing public relations car crashes? To put it bluntly, what are media professionals inside the system actually doing in the first place? They are selling their consciences to make money, right? I fucking sold my conscience to you, and yet you still won't give me money? Won't my conscience just grow back then? That makes things interesting. Well, let's take a look at the actions of different roles. Under the circumstance that the Chinese Communist Party doesn't give you money, do frontline editors still have any demands for the quality of the articles? There isn't a fucking demand left at all! As long as the quality of the article drops just enough not to cause a disaster, well, that minimum level will do. Take that mourning article in the People’s Daily as a sample. Once morale scatters like this, the willingness of mid-level reviewers to intervene in the signs of a car crash will also drop accordingly, because intervention means what? It means rejecting articles, and rejecting articles means having to work overtime and argue with subordinates, while the risk of letting it pass is shared across the entire workflow, and furthermore, the income gap between temporary workers and formal workers is still sitting right there. You say, for instance, as a temporary worker, making a few thousand yuan in wages a month, and then still having it delayed for half a year, while doing the most disgusting work. As for the editors of these local media outlets, their daily work is truly fucking disgusting, cutting short videos every day about sinking to the grassroots level, emotional masses, and all that for those fucking clueless CCP leaders who have never had their pay delayed. So you tell me, do they have a bunch of trash talk bubbling up in their hearts? They definitely do. You see, when several layers of this are squeezed together, venting dissatisfaction by using the fucking original words of Brother Xi as a shortcut becomes an option with almost zero cost? Because this fucking idiot's original words are the only thing that can both pass censorship and express an attitude, without spending too much time writing material.

There isn't just one method of passive-aggressiveness inside the system either. Let's trace these risks from low to high, starting first with the repeat-machine method—what everyone commonly calls the boomerang tactic, which is using the original words of the brain-dead leader of the Chinese Communist Party, or official historical resolutions of the Chinese Communist Party, relying on the choice of excerpts and timing to make them precisely align with current social pain points. Why can't censorship stop it? Because what does censorship review? It checks whether his citations have any errors! As long as the citation is verbatim and accurate, it can pass the verification against Xi Jinping's remarks. The censorship stage does not evaluate the contrast relationship between the citation and reality. That poster of Xi Jinping reaching this point is a standard sample. There is even more fun stuff: some busybody compiled an anthology of editorials from the Xinhua Daily in the 1940s regarding democracy and freedom of the press, titled "History's Teacher." At that time, the Chinese Communist Party was frantically promoting what? Promoting multi-party cooperation, establishing a joint government, one person, one vote—these were all things advocated by the Chinese Communist Party back then. This thing was published in 1999. Well, this 1999 publication of the 1940s Xinhua Daily compiled edition was then fucking banned by the Chinese Communist Party. Just chew on that—the Chinese Communist Party banned things it said itself back in the day, funny right? This is Hu Xijin. What's one level higher? It is page layout collage, meaning every single piece of content, when viewed alone, is politically correct, but through the order of the headlines, the accompanying images, and the arrangement of the context, it can create a certain sense of contrast. For example, reporting that the employment situation is generally stable, and then pairing it with a photo of a fucking long-ass queue at a job fair—these are all commonly used old passive-aggressive tactics. Another even older routine is using dead people to curse living people, where their mouths are full of what? Well, things like Chongzhen sitting on the old crooked-neck tree? Doing the Self-Strengthening Movement? Or how the Soviet Union was tricked into collapsing? Every word and sentence discusses ancient people and past events, but anyone with a discerning eye can tell at a glance that this is completely beating around the bush and poking at whose heartstrings? Catching this kind of violation is basically impossible to prevent. Even an AI cannot understand the hidden insinuation buried between these lines. And another even more awesome move is collective fucking feigned ignorance, completely letting the rot set in. These people themselves do not actively make trouble, but as long as they see absurd copy that is clearly destined to become the laughingstock of the entire internet, no one speaks up, no one modifies it, nor do they stop it, just letting you go ahead and do it. Knowing full well that once it gets published, the comment section will fucking undoubtedly crash and be criticized to pieces, they still intentionally pretend not to know and are too lazy to bother turning off the comment section. There is fucking nothing the Chinese Communist Party can do about this trick either, because if you want to catch a mole, you can't even find a handle; if you want to fix someone, you at least have to prove that they intentionally messed up, right? But people can just spread their hands apart, acting totally clueless! "Oh, boss, my capability is limited. At the time, I really didn't see it, I was being totally sincere!" Who can do anything about this kind of playing dumb? Take that delivery worker report published last year that became the laughingstock of the entire internet—you say from writing the copy to publishing it, so many directors passed through the middle, yet not a single person came out to remind anyone, just waiting to see how this joke would explode.

Now, if we put these methods on a single chart, we can see it very clearly. What is the vertical axis? It is political risk. What is the horizontal axis? It is the intensity of deconstruction. Historical shell-cracking is in the bottom left corner, which belongs to low risk and low intensity. Layout collage is in a medium-risk position because the responsibility for the layout can still fall on the specific editor, while malicious compliance like forcibly inserting quotations is a way of lying flat and letting things rot, with a moderate lethality. The most ruthless one has to be the boomerang—taking the original words of that fucking Emperor You Xi and smashing them back as a current boomerang. It is the only method on the entire chart that doesn't even need to be remembered word for word, yet it is the most ruthless one. Furthermore, this lethality does not lie in the language itself; the lethality is amplified layer by layer based on the readers' general perception of reality. What does this determine? It means that the mainstream method of current yin-yang masters must be the boomerang. Just look at the current situation: local government finances are cleaner than a shaved face, and relying on them to make up back pay and performance bonuses for government-backed personnel is completely out of the question. Then there is the CCP's censorship, which remains superficial, just looking at typos or checking article formats, and this stuff is still okay. But black humor is something that a censor who has to review countless drafts in a day simply cannot react to in time, and letting AI look at it is useless either, because your entire draft uses words spoken by the western region itself, without attacking current politics. Sometimes, even if they fucking react, if they happen to encounter someone who already has grievances in their heart, they won't say it when they see it anyway; if I see it, I definitely won't say anything. Anyway, looking ahead to the second half of 2020, this play still seems to have no end in sight. That stinking fucking idiot Xi Jinping has tossed and turned for a full ten years, and finally managed to weld the journalists' mouths shut, forcing everyone to just repeat his garbage rhetoric. As a result, who could have expected that the harsh words he uttered thirteen years ago would today turn into a full boomerang? Look at that poster; it actually solemnly prints things about losing political power. Thirteen years have passed, and when everyone sees this text again, the feeling is somewhat interesting. Back in 2013, people might have still regarded it as nonsense meant to put up a false front, but now they are very likely treating this nonsense as a judgment. The CCP's official media, as well as the CCP's journalists, should hold more of these activities that the common people love to see—they are great to watch.