The lengthy – awaited “feeling of real people” on the Internet.
Written by | Taro
Cover supply | The Annual Science and Technology Innovation Sharing Conference of “Luo Yonghao’s Crossroads”
He was greater than 40 minutes late. The BGM of Wutiaoren’s “It’s That Spring Again, Still That Spring” had been on loop for God is aware of what number of instances. Finally, the man took the stage in all black.
After the failure of Smartisan Mobile in 2018, he hadn’t made such a public look for a very long time. The final time we noticed him like this was effectively, the final time.
At final evening’s “Science and Technology Gala”, he self – deprecatingly referred to as himself an “old man in his fifties” and rambled on passionately for over 4 hours till the final day of 2025.
Old Luo remains to be Old Luo. Being late, refunding tickets, and talking with out restraint. The acquainted feeling is again.
From the very starting of the announcement, he emphasised that this was not a “live – streaming sales event”. There have been many novel issues like ergonomic chairs, exoskeleton robots, and desktop 3D printers. There have been each “recommendations” and “warnings”.
Besides the merchandise, the visitors on – website additionally introduced loads of surprises. When demonstrating the utilization state of affairs of a single – particular person dishwasher, Luo Yonghao stated he had discovered a well-known bachelor for everybody. Then the digicam panned to @MovieForce founder Tim, sitting obediently at the eating desk, consuming noodles and fried eggs. When it got here to demonstrating an AI music device, Luo Yonghao referred to as in the pre – organized “little singer”, and @WUTIAOREN took the stage wanting contemporary as a daisy.
At the “Science and Technology Gala”, he additionally introduced awards to chose Douyin creators. When presenting the trophy for the “Creator of the Year for the Best Visual Spectacle”, Luo Yonghao did not maintain again and stated that younger and artistic individuals like @MagicAyu gave him the creeps. He described the movies of @BiDao, the “Strongest Fancy Science Popularization Creator”, as “tricking” individuals into studying data. When it got here to @Uhang, the “Creator with the Most Crossroads Spirit”, whereas saying that the robots in his movies regarded scary, he additionally engaged in some enterprise small – speak, saying that he wished to have a look offline later.
To be trustworthy, the complete occasion was a little bit of a “disaster”. There have been PPTs with un – deleted annotations, flawed movies being performed, and the sound high quality was horrible… Even when it was time to show off the energy at the venue, there have been nonetheless a number of merchandise left to be demonstrated.
Making a idiot of himself appears to be Luo Yonghao’s “normal operation”. In the finish, he merely sat down and stated, “An old man should just sit for a while. Anyway, it’s all in a mess.”
But netizens stated they loved watching the complete factor. This sort of easy sincerity and idealism has introduced again the uncommon “feeling of real people” on the Internet.
Ph.D. from an Ivy League college or a excessive – college dropout?
The threshold is not in expertise, however in idealism
Is Luo Yonghao a profitable businessman? Let’s not talk about that for now. But saying the registration of an organization to make cell phones three months earlier than his fortieth birthday, he have to be an idealist. And those that play with expertise are simply such a bunch of individuals. In reality, they’re extra wonderful than the novel merchandise at the “Science and Technology Gala”.
@Uhang, who acquired a “friend request” from Luo Yonghao on – website, initially was only a “student abroad” who up to date cooking movies. More than a month later, when he confirmed off his Ph.D. admission presents from Oxford, Columbia, and UCLA, netizens realized that “things were not that simple”.
As the “most successful cook turned Internet celebrity”, the “devote ten years to one thing” written in his Douyin bio clearly would not discuss with cooking.
In June this 12 months, when 28 – 12 months – outdated @Uhang graduated with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, this million – follower blogger already owned a robotic firm that had accomplished lots of of thousands and thousands of yuan in financing.
Idealism comes with its share of twists and turns. @Uhang is not a “perfect” over – reaching pupil. To entry extra slicing – edge sources, he set the aim of finding out at a prime 30 college in the United States throughout his faculty years. For this, he took the TOEFL 9 instances and the GRE 4 instances. Douyin has totally documented the story of a “desperate graduate student” at a loss along with his analysis, pulling all – nighters doing unusual issues, to a “life winner” who graduated easily with prime – tier journal papers in the fields of robotics and synthetic intelligence.
He has expressed his want on a number of public events: to make synthetic intelligence and robots now not chilly instruments, however new species with our bodies, self – consciousness, and emotional resonance. When he snapped his fingers in the summer season of 2025 and used physique language to information the humanoid robotic to have a look at the digicam, the hole between expertise and humanity appeared to be narrowing.
Idealism has by no means been a story from an “elite perspective”. Just like Luo Yonghao’s expertise, @MagicAyu, who additionally dropped out of highschool, seemingly had a “terrible start”, however he has turned each setback into an expertise alongside the approach.
He constructed a flying wing with a tail flame, jumped off from 5000 meters above the floor along with his again to the setting solar, turning himself right into a meteor diving at a velocity of 300 kilometers per hour. @MagicAyu heals himself with excessive romance.
Three months in the past, he took a complete lounge into the air.
At the starting of the video, he calmly stated, “2025 has been a bad year for me.” This put up – 2000s man who makes “adventure” the major theme of his life spent all his financial savings constructing an airplane, which crashed, after which constructed a ship, which additionally sank. But he nonetheless believes that “all the bad things will pass”.
On a quiet morning, he cooked a breakfast in his “living room” 3000 meters above the floor and informed the story of rising up in rental homes and transferring regularly. Only then did individuals notice that this is not a narrative of “being rich and having plenty of free time”, however a hardcore fairy story the place each metal plate is minimize by himself, and he builds his dream along with his personal fingers.
Is there a threshold for “technology”? Both the Ivy League Ph.D. and the excessive – college dropout creator are recording the pleasure of creation in their very own methods and have gained thousands and thousands of witnesses.
Knowledge has by no means been as accessible as it’s on this period. What’s scarce is “idealism”.
Abstract or much more summary? The period of everybody creating content material on the Internet
Abstract meets summary. Luo Yonghao, a protracted – time fan of @BiDao, lastly acquired to satisfy him in particular person. However, in a reside – stream, one cannot keep away from making some well mannered remarks. @BiDao publicly stated that he was “very happy to bring the joy of science to the audience”, however in personal, he actually let unfastened when chatting about vulgar matters.
Five years in the past, @BiDao grew to become well-known in a single day for researching how one can make a splash when taking a dump. This 12 months, he thoughtfully identified that “in life, we may inevitably encounter situations where we have to pee into boiling water” and proclaimed himself the chief in the SNP educational discipline, main the analysis on “high – temperature urination mechanics”.
Thanks to the Internet, we’re extra more likely to consider that many outrageous historic anecdotes is perhaps true. In the previous, there have been solely written information, however now even the movies are in excessive – definition. If you did not see it with your individual eyes, who would consider that the bigwigs in the expertise and AI fields are so into summary and meme – enjoying in personal?
Looking round, the expertise discipline is extraordinarily aggressive. The AI monitor, which has been booming in the previous two years, can be a battlefield of the titans.
Who would have thought that when the CEO of a robotic firm went to the WAIC (World Artificial Intelligence Conference) as a visitor, the communication amongst friends wasn’t simply mutual flattery? One particular person simply blurted out, “Do your robots have a face?” Sure sufficient, honesty is the finest coverage. @Uhang took out his telephone and began exhibiting his human – face robotic merchandise to his friends. The abstractness unfold from the video to the remark part, and the so – referred to as “electronic shareholders” solely do one factor on daily basis: ask for the inventory code.
But with regards to abstractness, who can beat @LinYiLYi? While different AI bloggers are evaluating accuracy, practicality, and moral points, he instantly organized an AI model of Werewolf: locking up seven effectively – recognized home and worldwide AIs in a digital room. The recreation rule is that just one “person” can survive, in order that they must fake to be human to “survive” and even body one another if mandatory. It’s like “fighting crickets in the cyber age”.
Not glad with simply enjoying with AI, @LinYiLYi additionally invited people to hitch the enjoyable. Not way back, he invited @ShuangWen, the prime scorer in the 2024 faculty entrance examination in Zhejiang Province, to compete with AI in writing an essay. He invited massive – title judges like columnists, historical past professors, and effectively – recognized writers for a “blind review”. Sure sufficient, AI nonetheless cannot change people. A wrongly typed punctuation mark as a consequence of a “slippery finger” grew to become an unstated “signal” for people.
It appears that we have solely tapped lower than 1% of the potential for creating content material on the Internet. Douyin, what number of extra surprises do you will have in retailer?
What!? The Internet actually helps individuals study one thing
With excessive – velocity Internet, you possibly can come throughout all types of issues.
YouTube guru @willColgley has joined Douyin and is educating the “installation tutorial of a bionic mechanical heart” in particular person. From the features utilized in the code to the decision of 3D printing and the set up of coronary heart elements, it is all fingers – on educating. Don’t fear should you do not perceive the video explanations. The blogger has connected a compressed package deal of detailed supplies at no cost obtain.
So, does he imply that with a tutorial, I can construct a coronary heart myself?
However, in the seemingly all – encompassing Internet, most of the data is redundant. High – high quality and hardcore content material like it is a needle in a haystack.