Qiong Yao's comforting style becomes popular on the Internet: if you can cry and shout, you will never say it properly.

by mlwang on 2011-09-19 17:23:57

"I don't know what to eat tonight, can everyone give me some suggestions in the style of Annie Baby?" On a forum, a netizen named "Rabbit Hat" started a post and soon gained nearly 130,000 clicks and almost 2000 replies. From the end of August when "seeking TVB tone comfort" became popular online, there have been the emergence of "Chungking Express" style and "Annie Baby" style sentences, which have respectively ranked among the top hot posts on various forums.

Within two weeks, there has been a frequent emergence of sentence-making craze starting with "Can everyone give me comfort (advice) in ** tone", and its momentum is comparable to the previous Vanke style and Taobao style. However, the reporter found that in the recently emerged various sentences, the humor factor is increasing, but the difficulty is also gradually increasing. Sentences that could be finished in three sentences are extended to ten sentences.

In order to give netizens a direction, the floor owner made such an example: "Like me, independent, fierce woman, rarely follow the trend, no poison, it's good. An."

Short sentences are not enough for netizens, then came a prose: "You can wear a clean cotton skirt, barefoot in sneakers, with thick long hair like seaweed, quietly standing in the kitchen, in the sunset, slowly, carefully, cook a bowl of instant noodles. Until you meet him, with a flat head, wearing a white shirt, with a mole in his palm. He will say to you, let's go, I'll take you to eat crossing-the-bridge rice noodles..."

A netizen named "Blue Paper" was the most concise, directly telling the floor owner: "West. North. Wind drink it", besides, there was another one who directly told the floor owner: "You such a resolute and fierce woman, it doesn't matter if you don't eat. In the watery night, spread out your thick long hair like seaweed, lonely, like smoke."

Some netizens really want to give the floor owner advice, while others are specifically here to see the replies, resulting in those with higher immunity being amused by the parody "laughing on the ground", those who haven't been trained in such small-bourgeois language "leaning against the wall and leaving the post", and even a netizen named "Laughing Rabbit Losing Teeth" replied, "A feeling hit my convulsing stomach, I saved dinner again, all of you V5..." There are also "relatively professional" netizens who pointed out that making sentences in Annie Baby style is not just about adding a few periods or breaking into more paragraphs, one word per paragraph, one sentence per paragraph, that's Gu Long style. To get the essence, further research is needed.

What exactly is the essence of this style? A netizen summarized: So-called Annie Baby style is actually refusing long sentences, extending what could be said in two or three sentences into ten; using fewer commas and more periods to convey a cold, indifferent atmosphere; words like cotton skirts, women, fierce must be strung together in a prose-like way to make what you write full of sadness...

"Crying and shouting instead of saying it properly"

Before netizens began to mock Annie Baby's writing style, Auntie Qiong Yao, who has now been upgraded to "Grandma Qiong Yao", also had her moment. A netizen named "Not7Not8" posted on the forum: "Who can tell me what love is, please comfort me in Grandma Qiong Yao's tone".

Then a netizen immediately replied: "Love is: I love you, my heart loves you, my body loves you, my mouth loves you, my eyes love you, my nose loves you, my legs love you, my feet love you, every organ of my body loves you. I truly, truly, truly, clearly, and definitely love you."

For comfort, netizens were not stingy at all, "The reason the floor owner can't find a boyfriend/girlfriend is because there is always someone in your heart, waiting a lifetime, thinking a lifetime, resenting a lifetime, missing a lifetime, but still grateful to heaven for giving you this person to think about, wait for, resent, and miss, otherwise, life would be like a dry well, without interest."

Compared to Annie Baby style, Qiong Yao style is obviously more likely to make people break down, despite Auntie Qiong Yao being extremely proud of her dialogues. A netizen summarized the characteristics of Qiong Yao style as: "Language must absolutely be simplified rather than complicated, better excessive than insufficient, able to twist around three times will never just twist twice and a half, able to use complex sentence structures will never use single ones, able to use rhetorical questions will never use declarative sentences, able to use parallel sentences will never use single ones, able to cry and shout will never say it properly."

Both start with "seeking comfort seeking advice", inevitably having the suspicion of following trends, and some netizens even declared when opening the post that it was purely for entertainment imitation, but many netizens still enjoy participating. Obviously, the two styles that became popular after TVB style are not easy to handle, for example, those who haven't read Annie Baby or have poor immunity to Qiong Yao style may find it difficult to create paragraphs longer than ten sentences, however, precisely because it's difficult, some talented netizens haven't missed this opportunity, frequently showing their skills in these posts, winning much praise and "worship".