Why there are so many E-GAO among young people?

Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:01 PM #central kindom #humor & fun #pic & video
first, this is from a series of "real person show" develped by a young couple, in which they designed the plot, performed by themselves and presented in a comic style through 4 or 6 photos (sorry i lost the link):



boy: wow, fantastic, you are wonderful, you are the most wonderful girl i have ever met



boy: that's your husband, right?
girl: nope



boy: your boyfriend?
girl: neither



boy: i see, it must be the person who keeps you as mistress
girl: certainly not, you are so ironic



girl: he is handsome? don't you find that he resembles me?
boy: oh yeah, he is your brother



girl: that's me! me before the transsexual operation in korea

so, why there are so much e-gao (i.e. spoof), satire, cynicism, etc. among young people?

i have three "theories" -

1) like any young generation of the world, spoof is a good way to have fun
2) in a rapidly changing society, chinese younth confront more frustrations than their peers in other parts of the world
3) media is controled here, so young people use satire and cynicism to criticise "sensitive issues"