intlsy also published a follow-up to his essay on WeChat and Zhihu^[1]. Below is a translation of it, as done by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and proofread by me (with some extra help from google translate):

A Supplementary Note on "I Had to Bury My Talent in Yesterday"

by intlsy (Sep 15, 2026)

Original article link: I Had to Bury My Talent in Yesterday

This article went viral this time. On the WeChat Official Accounts side, it got over a hundred thousand reads, hit No. 1 on the Zhihu hot list, and also sparked considerable discussion on X.

This wave of popularity was ac

I was born and raised in China and lived there for the first 20+ years of my life, till around 2020. The following is my personal view, as a self-identified autistic-leaning individual who never quite fit in, so please take what I said with a grain of salt:

While I agree that the dark world frame does present in my upbringing for quite a bit, I worry that it is not the full story. If you look at some of the western travel vloggers in China (here's an example), they would tell you that the Chinese people are very friendly and nice, giving gifts to strangers ... (read more)