College Students Are Doomed, China Is Heading for Chaos!! Anyone with a Normal Mind Will Find This Hard to Understand!! It's Really Not Their Fault! Qiqi Baba TALK『Mind-Refreshing 792』20261008

This video explores the current grim employment environment in China, the difficulties university students face in the autumn recruitment season, and the resulting sense of powerlessness and the lying-flat mentality. Through the experiences of netizens and social realities, the host analyzes issues such as the supply-demand imbalance for college graduates, the declining birth rate, and the increasing pressure of grassroots life. The host also satirizes the self-contradictory phenomenon of people praising the motherland while sending their family members overseas.

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Hello everyone, welcome to Qiqi Baba, I am Qiqi. Uh, I finally know, like, how these people make their money; it's just that we don't have their kind of brain, we really can't make this kind of money. It's this kind of logic, but I don't think you friends would want it either.

So far, our country is the safest country in the world. First of all, being born in this country, you, you feel especially proud. Proud, uh, and I, I spent a long time in the US when I went to my daughter's wedding with your uncle, and we went to tourist spots. Your uncle was holding that Canon, uh.

Good.

The big cannon 5D3, 5D3! You know, the Americans were all holding those small mobile phones or small point-and-shoot cameras, hmm, they looked at us and were out of reach. At that moment, I felt, oh, as a Chinese person, awesome!

Americans, Americans are not bad.

Mm, people are not bad. Mm, the residential area where our children live, uh, is basically all Americans.

Do foreigners have as strong a traditional concept of having children as China?

Is it thick? Uh, we spent a year there and celebrated every holiday, America's Easter, Halloween, that Christmas, uh, that Valentine's Day, we celebrated all these holidays. Mm, I think their holidays are not as good as our Spring Festival. Isn't our country's Spring Festival now designated by the United Nations? The Spring Festival is a holiday for the whole world. Our Spring Festival has such a great ethnic holiday atmosphere, it's very harmonious. You look at their Christmas, their country is a Christian country, when the holiday comes, everyone is in the Christian church. The first year we spent Christmas there, we were driving in the US and couldn't see anyone on the streets. Later we asked the children, they were all in church.

Isn't it really frustrating? Uh, everyone listen to the contrast in his words. China is too amazing, so he has to send his daughter to settle in the US. China is too amazing, and then, his spouse is holding a Japanese Canon in their hand, while Americans are all holding American mobile phones, so China is too amazing. It's just that his thoughts and actions are fundamentally opposed, completely contradictory, but he can't notice it, and yet he lives so self-consistently, and even tells everyone about it with such certainty. He doesn't even notice where the contradiction is, he doesn't think this is a contradiction, you tell me, how is this not a kind of skill? Right? So, this kind of person might indeed live very well inside the Great Firewall, and this is probably why they have the ability to send their daughter to live in the US, it feels like there's some logic to it, it's just that when we look at them with normal thinking, we definitely feel it's very awkward and very abstract.

There haven't been many interviews lately, and I just want to chat with everyone about how I've been feeling since the autumn campus recruitment started. My biggest feeling is a sense of powerlessness. You could say I'm anxious, but not really; instead, it's a sense of powerlessness after becoming indifferent to everything. All that talk about "my fate is decided by me, not by heaven"—the reality is that if heaven wants you to die, you have to die. Under the macro-environment of society, a person's power is truly negligible, and many things are not within your control just because you want them to be. I've really figured this out now. Many people probably don't know what the situation of this year's autumn recruitment is like, so let me show you. This is a recruitment information from ByteDance in previous years: two years ago there were 4,000 headcount, last year 5,000 headcount, and this year it directly became "come watch the scenery with you." It's not just this company either! You can go check out the recruitment notices released by various major tech giants this year; basically no one is writing down how many headcount they have this year. Isn't this signal obvious enough? It's practically written on their faces: "We are not hiring." The headcount across all major tech giants has plummeted, and many people who easily secured full-time offers in past years failed to do so this year, let alone those participating in the regular autumn recruitment. I feel like the major tech giants are just putting on a performance for autumn recruitment this year; on the surface, they open an autumn recruitment season, but in reality, they aren't hiring at all. Of course, I'm not saying they literally aren't hiring anyone—hiring one person still counts as hiring. From all the interviews I've done, basically every single one failed at the first or second round. Apart from campus hires converting from internships, I haven't seen any offers generated online. I probably aren't the only one with this feeling, right? At least my classmates and friends around me are facing similar situations. So, in an environment where no one is hiring, how can you possibly find a job? Every time I finish an interview, I do a review. But after every review session, I feel like I answered everything properly. My internship content is just like that, and it's already been packaged. I only have this one internship, and if you're not interested, or if you think the stuff I did during my internship is just mediocre, there's nothing I can do about it. If it's not vertical enough, there's nothing I can do, and I don't know what else to do. Interviewing every day and failing every day, I don't even want to interview anymore. Anyway, the result is always a failure—a complete and utter sense of powerlessness. Some people might say, "Well, that's just because you're not good enough?" If you put it that way, there's nothing I can say. What on earth counts as being "good enough" anyway? This thing itself has no end. There's always someone better; is having three internships considered good? Well, aren't there people with four or five? Is graduating from Nanjing University considered good? Well, aren't there people from Tsinghua and Peking University above them? I admit that I am very mediocre, but I just know that my undergraduate degree from a top tier university combined with an internship at ByteDance was definitely sufficient in past years. The macro-environment is bad, what can I do? This year, maybe three to four internships are considered excellent, but what about a few years from now? Perhaps having three to four internships will also lead to rejection, so does that mean those people are no longer excellent? Enterprise recruitment demand is shrinking, so requirements naturally become higher, but students' time and energy are limited. Many graduate students face pressure from writing papers and exploitation by their advisors; by the time autumn recruitment arrives, many grad students don't even have a single internship experience, or even if they have some, it's not enough, it's never enough. Just how competitive does this world have to become to be considered excellent? I'm quite looking forward to seeing what the final results of everyone's autumn recruitment will be this year. Of course, what I'm saying only applies to computer science-related majors; other majors might not have changed as much, and I'm not very familiar with them.

Right now, many Chinese people share a faint feeling, which is a sense of apathy. Because we know that generally, when human beings encounter a tricky problem that they cannot solve, they first fall into anxiety, then enter a state of hysteria, and afterwards drift into a faint lying-flat period. This isn't about figuring things out and achieving inner peace; it's about the heart turning to ash. As for the matter of job hunting, many college students nowadays probably experience this full cycle after graduation, which might last a year, or maybe two years, because in the end they will definitely enter that state of complete despair—and it's really not their problem that they can't find a job.

It has only been a little over thirty years since we truly had enough to eat, and only a little over twenty years since we could freely eat meat with rolled-up sleeves, yet they are already trying to teach others how to walk. To the young people, this is ignorance, because you have never been poor; to the older generation, this is arrogance, because you have forgotten the path you came from. Choose correctly once, and you think you are always right. When others become prosperous, it's because they are evil; when you become prosperous, it's because you are righteous. From applying to join starting in 1986 to officially getting the ticket in 2001, how much effort was made during those 15 years? How many years has it been since "Made in China" went global that you've already forgotten all the previous struggles?

Look at that, the macro-environment is bad now! People are sleeping outside, they can't even afford rent.

Ah!

Dragging families along, I can't be doing worse than that, brothers, take a look. There's one over here, so miserable, brothers!

Now so poor that we can't even afford meals, can only eat rice noodles, 2 yuan covers a meal.

At 42 years old, I can't give my parents dignity, nor can I give my children abundance. What's wrong with me?

Nothing works.

Give me more time! I am so afraid that the speed at which I make money won't keep up with the speed at which you age.

Moved to a new home again, this is my new home, just moved in. Uh, drying clothes is convenient here, fetching water is convenient, and going to the restroom is convenient. Ah, I'll settle down right here, settle down. Delivering food is also convenient; once the clothes are dried, I'll start delivering food tonight.

Here is Shenzhen, food delivery couriers sitting directly on stone benches.

Don't come here to deliver food! Look, there are more delivery riders than people ordering food. Look at how many odd numbers there are. There are more over here. How many riders are there? Just hanging around with no orders.

It's easy to starve to death delivering food now. I've been online for four hours and only delivered eight orders, earning 39 yuan. I feel like nobody is ordering food anymore, and there are just too many delivery riders. Sigh, it's tough, really tough.

I really want to make a living in the internet industry, but I can't find a job and I'm out of options. Please give me a chance, I'm begging you.

As for the current wage market for regular workers in Dongguan, medium-sized or smaller factories might only pay three or four thousand yuan, maybe a little over three thousand. Our biggest enemy right now is...

Is it the United States? Is it Japan? Actually, it's those corrupt officials, those who boycott foreign enterprises from raising wages for domestic employees. Take the incident where Musk apologized to the employees at the Shanghai factory; he tried every possible way to improve the workers' benefits, but what happened? Certain enterprises jumped out to boycott it, citing the reason of disrupting market balance. To put it bluntly, they just can't stand seeing ordinary people earn more money. Remember, no matter how strong foreign enemies are, they cannot hurt our foundation, but these internal parasites can truly drag us down.

These past few years, it has become increasingly obvious that money is harder to earn, industries are highly involuted, and layoffs have become normalized. The future is truly full of variables, and there is a great lack of security. I recently saw a theory that makes me even more certain that China's birth rate will be very difficult to rise, and young people in China will only have fewer and fewer children. I believe everyone has seen the news, right? In 2025, the number of births in China was 7.92 million, with a birth rate of only 5.63 per thousand, ranking second to last in the world, just slightly better than South Korea. In 2024, the scale of graduates was 11.79 million, but there were fewer than 5 million jobs suitable for graduates. In 2025, the scale of graduates reached 12.22 million, but there were only 5.67 million campus recruitment positions offered by enterprises, which means only a little over 40%. In 2026, I think it will only be more serious than before, because the number of college graduates this year has already reached 12.7 million, which means there is a very serious supply-demand imbalance here. Many graduates cannot find a job after graduation.

I've been looking for a job here in Shenzhen for many days and haven't found a suitable one. What should I do?

I don't know. Sisters, what jobs are you all doing? How did you find a job that suits you or can support yourself? We are both so lost. We've looked for so many, but there's just nothing suitable for us. It's really driving us crazy. Either the salary is too low, like one or two thousand, and I don't know how they can even say that out loud. Or we're afraid of being scammed. It's so frustrating. We don't want to go back to our hometowns so early either. If I go back, I won't be able to hold my head up in front of my relatives for the rest of my life. And what can I do back home? Blind dates, blind dates, marriage, having kids. We are still children ourselves, we're only in our early twenties. My god, I still want to work hard for a few years and become a little rich girl.

It's really so hard.

Really so.

So obvious.

So lost! Chongqing is so big, why isn't there anything suitable for us? Why? Why? Why? Why? I'm really going crazy. Families, who understands? Who understands? Are there any older sisters, or sisters around our age, who can share? What are you all doing? I want to grab some luck too, I also want to make money, please share with me.

The general environment this year is really too bad, too bad. I feel like next year will be even worse. Actually, last year, it was still fine to make plans for afternoon tea with friends, and friends who didn't see each other often would still call to exchange pleasantries, and then eat together when free. But this year is completely different. Unnecessary social engagements are basically all skipped. Anyway, I feel like next year will be even worse. I don't know what your situation is?

Well, friends might not know this, but there is a kind of business in the Philippines, a type of restaurant, I think it's in the Philippines. If I've misremembered the location, I apologize. Anyway, it's in a country in that region, where people take fried chicken that has been left over by others at fast-food restaurants—the kind with just a little bit of meat still clinging to the bones—that has already been thrown into trash cans, mixed in with all the other garbage. They collect it all, rinse it off with water two or three times, and then deep-fry it again and season it. Uh, as you can imagine, even if the fried chicken itself hasn't spoiled yet, because it has been mixed with all that trash, the taste is really, um. And then, it's sold to the very, very bottom of society. The people running this business don't make much money either, right? The owner himself eats this food too; they are all people who can barely survive. And they came up with this way to stay alive. Friends might wonder, 'Doesn't China have people like this?' They do; it's just that perhaps no one is doing this specific business right now, or maybe they are, but they're using more sophisticated methods, like grinding the meat up and reselling it, or something similar. But picking food that has already been thrown into trash cans is not something rare at all, not to mention that there are many children in the mountains who have never eaten a bite of meat, growing up to their teens eating only pickled vegetables. This isn't something that happened thirty or forty years ago; this is the present tense. Every country in the world has a bottom-tier population; no country dares to say it doesn't. Uh, except for the People's Republic of China, which now claims to have completely eradicated poverty. No other country in the world dares to claim it has no bottom-tier population. Yet, this country that claims to have completely eradicated poverty is supposedly more impressive than developed countries, more impressive than all the developed countries in the world, because even they can't truly achieve poverty eradication. And while they talk about how rapid their country's economic development is and how they are the world's second-largest economy, the number of people who can't afford to eat and have to dig through trash cans is increasing. So, since so much money has been created, where is the money?