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The emergence and demise of Killing Matt, and the pain of China's bottom people hidden behind it

author:Xiao Chen said entertainment

When it comes to killing Matt, what do you think, burying the love family, colorful and bizarre hairstyles, or the personality dance on the cement ash, today we will take a look at the little-known story behind the killing of Matt who was once banned by the whole network

More than ten years ago, the rise of the Internet age, Jay Chou was the hottest time, a low-level teenager named Luo Fuxing was just an ordinary worker on the assembly line, the repetitive work every day made him feel boring, he had a dream, hoping to have a reputation on the Internet, but he was just a worker who dropped out of school to work, he would hang out on the Internet in his spare time, one day idle, through the search engine surprise found that Jay Chou published in the American People magazine 1995 – In 2005, the world's top ten ghost musicians list was only ranked tenth, Marilyn Manson ranked first, he was very shocked, but also very interested, along with Marilyn Manson, he learned gothic punk and other words, so he put on a gothic jacket, drew eyeliner, marked with nose ring lip nails, etc., soon after he was also fascinated by the Japanese visual department rock musician Ishihara Guiya, and imitated his right arm tattooed with the words of heaven and earth unique, tattooed on the left arm of a Li Luo Fuxing, He also made a red Saiyan-like hairstyle, and he took a photo of his changes and posted them on the Internet, unexpectedly, he received a lot of attention and had a lot of followers

The emergence and demise of Killing Matt, and the pain of China's bottom people hidden behind it

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The emergence and demise of Killing Matt, and the pain of China's bottom people hidden behind it

Early Lo Fu Xing

Luo Fuxing began to establish a QQ group, gathered people with the same hobbies, and planned to give his family a name, searched for fashionable English on Baidu, and found the word smart, so the family name was defined as killing Matt. The three words to kill Matt quickly spread on the Internet like a virus, strange costumes and exaggerated hairstyles were also widely circulated among young people, 16-year-old Luo Fuxing was also famous on the Internet, in one by one to kill Matt group called himself the godfather of Killing Matt, in the heyday of killing Matt, there were even hundreds of groups, a group of thousands of people, streets and alleys are full of their figures, but in the near future quickly declined, as if a gust of wind disappeared without a trace, then what is the reason for the disappearance of Matt, then what is the reason for the disappearance of Matt, What few people know is that behind the killing of Matt's group, there is the most cruel bottom pain in China

The emergence and demise of Killing Matt, and the pain of China's bottom people hidden behind it

In the documentary kill Matt I love you directed by Zhang Yifan, through the self-description of the young people who killed Matt, we learned the poignant history behind the killing of Matt youth. Almost all of the killing Matt, mostly from the countryside, parents work outside the country all year round, not much systematic education, in order to live well, most of them have chosen to work on the assembly line in the factory, the eldest fifteen or sixteen years old, the small one is only eleven or twelve years old, many people have not finished primary school with the tide to go out to work to make money, some people have to make money and have to send it back to the rural home to subsidize the family, for their younger siblings to go to school, their cognitive level is low, so it is very easy to be deceived, some unscrupulous bosses require a deposit when entering the factory, After the boss will always find a variety of reasons to withhold, many children are the first time to go out to work, very easy to be deceived, hard work for a month, the result to hand hundreds or even dozens of pieces, but also through the relatives to introduce into the factory, after going in only to find themselves deceived, and relatives have long been with the boss originally negotiated the price to escape, the work in the factory is mostly boring, day and night repeat the same work, some are even very dangerous, if you work too tired, will accidentally be hurt by the machine, some will even fall disabled, The boss will not compensate a penny, because there is no labor contract, they can only comfort themselves to want to open it, the working environment in the factory is not good, most of them are closed spaces, can not see the outside world, for a long time, the monotony of work and interpersonal relations and interpersonal relations between colleagues will make them feel very lonely, and even become pessimistic and world-weary, denying themselves, and the appearance of Killing Matt has saved them and become their spiritual outlet

The emergence and demise of Killing Matt, and the pain of China's bottom people hidden behind it

Teenage children, eager to get the attention of the outside world, want to seek the meaning of their own life, show their own difference, they use strange hair and dress to make themselves a little cooler, become like a bad bully, walking on the street by people pointing fingers will not be angry, because these lonely children feel the attention from others, they can't control anything else, but they can control their own hair, when they put on this coat for themselves, these inferior children have the courage to talk to others, communicate, They will feel like a changed person, living a more exciting life than the original, they come together, in the park, in the ice rink, make friends, discuss and study new hairstyles, close as a family, when people in the family are in trouble, can't find a job or are bullied, others will also come forward, killing Matt is a kind of belonging, a comfort, even a belief for them.

The emergence and demise of Killing Matt, and the pain of China's bottom people hidden behind it

However, the reality is very cruel, their happiness, soon also deprived, their behavior, caused a lot of netizens disgust, think that they are ugly and dirty, began to kill Matt on the Internet mocking and arguing, killing Matt also do not know what they did wrong, suddenly scolded, even the situation is getting worse, in the street will be inexplicably beaten, many kill Matt gradually can not stand to withdraw from the circle, this is also extremely painful for them, no one understands what their world is like, others see only ugly When killing Matt became a taunt, it gradually disappeared, and the killer Matt also lost his hair and became a normal person in everyone's mouth

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