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Zhao Zhao and Wu Long: China's TikTok Freak Show
from The Chinese D’Amelios | The Tim Dillon Show #371 · #371
9 min
Tim goes deep on two Chinese TikTok influencers, a transgender presenter and her hunchbacked friend, spinning it into a theory that society is returning to Depression-era carnival sideshow culture and human oddities on display, while also recounting his Friendsgiving party guests.
- Tim suspects the children in the video were withheld food until they performed those movements.
- Zhao Zhao is a 36-year-old from a Chinese province who is big on Chinese TikTok, and her friend Wu Long is a hunchback.
- Tim says China's transgender presenter is polished, put-together, and really trying, which he appreciates.
- Tim likes seeing someone who is transgender commit and try to the best of their financial ability.
- Tim predicts that finding people who are deformed will become more common, part of society's final barbaric phase.
- Tim believes we're returning to a 1920s tent-era carnival sideshow circus, with fascination for deformed people and freaks.
- TikTok has become about putting human oddities on display and marveling at them, gawking at them.
- At his Friendsgiving, Tim spent most of the party reading about Zhao Zhao and Wu Long instead of talking to guests.
- Zhao Zhao and Wu Long started when Zhao Zhao performed at a benefit event; Wu Long previously spoke only one word before social media.
- Tim prefers Zhao Zhao and Wu Long over Charli and Dixie D'Amelio and predicts they'll become household names.
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