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Today I was surprised to learn that the English translation of “Little Pink” is actually “Stupink”.
I have to say that this new English word really fits the meaning of “little pink”. “Stupink” should be a compound word of “Student” and “Pink”. Although there is no authoritative statistical data to show the age composition and education structure of the little pinks, but from my personal perception, the little pinks are mainly concentrated in middle school to university, especially the two stages of high school and undergraduate. The pink concentration should be quite high. And the word “Pink” is naturally a literal translation of “pink”. And when the two words are combined into “Stupink”, this word is similar to “Stupid”, which is inexplicably ironic.
The memory of the Internet is poor, and usually no one will continue to discuss news on the Internet after more than two weeks, so there have always been various controversies about the origin of “Little Pink”. What’s interesting is that although I don’t like “Little Pink” very much, I almost witnessed their birth and growth.
“Little Pink” was originally supposed to be born in the Danmei Leisure Edition in the Jinjiang Forum under the Jinjiang Literature City. Of course, due to well-known reasons, the Danmei leisure version has now been renamed the leisure version. Danmei Leisure Edition is the largest discussion forum on Danmei literature in the simplified Chinese world. The netizens here are basically young women aged 15 to 25. As far as the political spectrum is concerned, the Danmei Leisure Edition should be center-left. Note that the “left” here refers to the “left” and “right” in the context of international politics. Of course, Danmei Leisurely does not discuss politics by default, so my analysis of its political spectrum may be inaccurate.
As China’s economy takes off, a new generation of young people has become more confident, even to the point of blind “nationalism”. At this time, some people on Danmei Leisurely began to discuss politics, and the basic argument was “everything abroad is bad”. This kind of relatively extreme statement is naturally not very popular. In addition, the original netizens are not very interested in discussing politics, so conflicts between old and new netizens began to arise. Regrettably, in order to obtain more traffic, the forum managers at this time not only destroyed the discussion atmosphere of Danmei Leisure, but even encouraged the emergence of such extreme remarks.
Later, it was analyzed why the managers were so conniving. The big reason was that the Jinjiang Forum had a page called Wind and Rain Reading Sound at that time. Compared with the Danmei Leisurely Love edition, which is only center-left, Wind and Rain’s reading sound can be regarded as a very left-leaning page. It can’t even compare with the Tianya community’s international observation or the Kaidi community’s Maoyan people. Of course, to this day, International Observation and Maoyankanren have been rectified to be no different from the ordinary communication version, while the sound of reading in the wind and rain has been turned off and disappeared in the long river of time. Therefore, in order to counteract the impression of the relevant departments on the Jinjiang Forum, it is also a business strategy for the managers to condone the proliferation of ultra-conservative speech in the beauty and leisure.
The proliferation of political topics on the Danmei Leisure Edition, and the increasingly fierce attacks from netizens from the two factions eventually led to the disintegration of Danmei Leisure at that time. Conservatives formed the Fengyi Food Forum, and once merged with the so-called “Seven Character Party” on Weibo. It’s just that the internal political composition of the “Seven-Character Party” began to be chaotic and Weibo suppressed the “Seven-Character Party”, Fengyi resolutely broke up with them. Because Fengyi’s netizens are basically from the Danmei Leisure Edition, and the Danmei Leisure Edition has nicknames such as “pink JJ” and “pink” in the Danmei circle, so Fengyi’s netizens began to call themselves “pink” or “little pink”.
This is probably the earliest origin of “little pink”.
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