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Comment by est | Hacker News Reader

on a side note, "R U OK" is a meme in China, originally taken from a clip of Xiaomi's president LeiJun public English speach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRU-fwS6aAU

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Funny how four letters can take one in so many tangential directions. For some of us old farts, it's also a memorable KMFDM song from 1999: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEC1qpfLY1E

I was going to mention this song too. I'm glad to see someone (ultra heavy) beat me to it!

The top comment (2020年在看的) jibes with my Grand Unified Theory of youtube comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24406562 but no one seems to have been complaining that the kids listen to noise these days in the few pages of comments I translated, so that part may need revision.

Edit: thanks est! this meme gives me a valid roman search term for youku.

Edit2: compare and contrast

CN: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTM2Mjg4NDg2OA==.html

IN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AwgRqmdY6g

RU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWpgh93WWvo

US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lgCxWubUnU&t=60

Having also learned in passing about various historical soaps and that phone mounted ring lighting is a thing, so far the funniest "areyouok" to me has been the one chock full of inscrutable foreigners wearing their culture's traditional outfits to perform folkloric rituals that ethnographers say date back to the Warring Ranchers period:

https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzE4NTMyNjkyNA==.html

(I hope those CBP arena ads are PSAs, not paid placement.)

Seemingly all but syntactically unrelated: https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzcxNjAwNDgyNA==.html

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