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The term “#EvilCultivation#” might have lingered on trending lists for days, initially garnering little attention.
However, the sheer force of this trend became undeniable when it racked up over 450 million views on social media platform, Brand X.
From the first bite of juice-braised meat to a darkly comedic take on life’s struggles,
the level of obsession has even Voldemort raising an eyebrow.
For those familiar with Chinese fantasy novels, “Evil Cultivation” isn’t a new concept.
As one Reddit user succinctly put it, it refers to unconventional, often dark, methods of self-improvement that defy traditional practices.
Think sacrificing human life or stealing energy from others to boost one’s own power – a shortcut frowned upon by orthodox practitioners and often the root cause of “evil not prevailing over good” narratives.
Now, “Evil Cultivation” has morphed into a trending buzzword on social platforms like Brand X, embodying a playful approach to life.
The top definition? “Simplifying the complex – that’s the magic.”
“Everything can be Evil Cultivated,” they say, and that’s no exaggeration. A quick scroll through social media reveals just how pervasive this trend has become.
Forget tedious meal prep, “Evil Cultivation” aims to make cooking ridiculously easy – even safeguarding your home in the process. It offers unexpected synergies.
In this surge of culinary black magic, “food is paramount” takes on a whole new meaning.
The weapon of choice? Beverages.
Serious cooks know that acids like those found in fruit can tenderize meat. Marinating with kiwi or yogurt isn’t unusual.
But even with that knowledge, seeing a food blogger dump an entire glass of fresh orange juice onto ribs still gave me pause. Other concoctions include using Yakult for char siu, lemon-passionfruit for chicken feet, and orange juice for braised pork belly…
Even the classic ice cream sundae transforms into a genius ingredient, eliciting praise from Germans impressed by Chinese culinary ingenuity.
Who knew such simple sweets could unlock so many possibilities?
Beyond unconventional ingredients, the cooking methods are equally striking.
Want multiple dishes at once? A single rice cooker is all you need.
Chefs stack ingredients like a Jenga tower. When the timer goes off, just add different sauces.
Simmering below, steaming above – three dishes, one soup, and two staples in just ten minutes. Quantity is the name of the game. No complaints allowed.
If you’re not fussy about flavors mingling, ten dishes at once is child’s play. Clean the pot with water for a bonus essence-of-everything broth.
And dessert gets the “Evil Cultivation” treatment too.
Mix flour into melted ice cream, microwave for a minute, and boom – fluffy cake.
These culinary sorcerers churn out feasts: mincing meat with grinders, braising beef with canned tomato juice, making boba with Vietnamese rice paper… As long as you don’t look too closely at the process, everyone’s happy.
The “Evil Cultivation” method keeps both cook and kitchen spotless; but the rice cooker and microwave are taking a beating.
But cooking is just the beginning. The trend is infiltrating every corner of life.
Even the dedicated dieters are jumping on the bandwagon, developing unique branches to overhaul their physiques.
Some subscribe to the law of conservation of desire, believing that appetite, libido, and sleep are interchangeable – watching adult films or endless napping become substitutes for eating.
Others take a more visual approach, advocating for eating naked or wearing tight clothes for motivation. The bulging stomach or constricting fabric serves as a constant reminder of their goals.
Then there are the feng shui disciples, who believe clutter in the southwest corner of the house impacts metabolism or daily chanting works.
In fashion, the ‘no-pain beauty’ movement embraces the “Evil Cultivation” ethos.
Forget three-hour workouts or costly cosmetic procedures – external aids are the answer.
Instant S-curves with hip-enhancing pants, “elf ear” stickers for smaller-looking faces, tummy-control pants with room for a small apartment, shoulder pads, butt pads, nose pads…
Some fashionistas are decked out like Achilles heading for Troy, shedding tons of silicone at the end of the day.
Even outfits follow simple formulas.
“Want to look expensive? Never pair basics with basics.” A basic tee calls for leopard-print lace wide-legged pants; basic shorts demand a trendy oversized jersey.
With enough conviction, anything looks stylish.
Source: @Duolingo
After all this, people are waking up to a truth first revealed to them by political books decades ago—”consciousness acts on matter.”
And thus, a new school of “Evil Cultivation” has emerged, one that is cheap, easy for anyone to pick up, and growing rapidly: consciousness stream hypnosis.
For example, mental conditioning is of upmost importance when trying to get fit. Some have begun to encourage everyone to imagine that they are dogs, using great identification with their “canine persona” to ward off oily and high-sodium foods, “Dogs will die if they are fed this! I mustn’t eat it either!”
Self-hypnosis helps improve posture!
If their necks are leaning forward, they have to imagine that there is a pile of dog poop on their lips; if their shoulders are hunched, they must imagine laser beams shooting from their nipples; if they’d simply like to slump their shoulders less, then they have to imagine that they’re about to start crowing at the top of their lungs. Those with scoliosis can even be treated if they simply use the non-dominant hand to wipe.
Source: @Some Random WeChat Account
Those who are simply bewitched by rote-learning now form large congregations.
Those who simply can’t focus simply mutter to themselves: “I’ve transmigrated into another world, and those who live in this world are burdened by the idea that they want to play around on their phones all day long, it’s a crime to them that I have to study and learn! And thus, I must study for six hours per day while hiding my studies from their prying eyes!”
Some encourage roleplay-based rote learning with an emphasis and an accent on roleplay. Imagine that you’re a beleaguered Empress or a cultured princess, and that English study guides are spread out before you. Think of “studying in order to revive China!”
Some clever individuals substitute the urgency of showing off with the incentive to study. A fancy drink, a high-end cafe, combine all this with a heart that truly wants to make things happen, and one can rapidly achieve their tasks for the day.
As a vast majority deigns “Evil Cultivation” to be the most useful set of imperial decrees in the nation, another set of people have begun to sense the coming wave of “Evil Cultivation” marketing. Aside from methodologies, the term “Evil Cultivation” has become the secret password to greater exposure numbers.
Just summarizing the extant posts on Evil Cultivation on the market is enough to keep an account afloat.
This has caused the posts that one finds when searching for Evil Cultivation to be extremely homogenous.
And marketeers are simply losing their minds: they’re not burdened at all by looking for new material, because good material is all around them. And the worst case scenario is that all they have to do is slap the title of “Evil Cultivation” onto a video that they’ve already put together.
And even the goods that various video stars hawk have also enjoyed greater turnover after they were combined with the word.
And with assembly-line style notes being mass produced, media platform diversity is being led into the devil’s lair.
At first seeing such posts causes one to feel a sense of novelty, but after repeatedly scrolling through them, the wall of information being put up by Evil Cultivation feels even more unassailable than the commonly dreaded information cocoon
Evil Cultivation posts about fitness all emphasize that cursing others is a good shortcut to flex your core, and Evil Cultivation for fitness all ask you to drink more water and eat less carbs. 90% of Evil Cultivation posts on whitening and beauty all recommend using different gels and body lotions.
When something starts to be invoked over and over again, even the most jaded onlookers will find it boring. The concentration of information on the internet is once again being diluted on a massive scale.
More practical methods have been submerged by wave after wave of Evil Cultivation offensives, and the inner core is being rotted by high ratings and exposure.
This is perhaps the true state of the “evil nature” within the trend.
But just as all things in the world stem from one prime mover, Evil Cultivation simply looks like a real world mod, when in reality it’s not much different from the other known methods.
Dieting all comes down to starving, and studying always has to start with the first unit. Looking good isn’t about external physical aids, but those 3 old standards – ‘sleep early, drink more water, stay healthy’. Earning money and interacting with people are also the type of tutorials that are carved out of the same mold that existed long ago.
And that’s why one’s first reaction on seeing the more abstract examples is always questioning: will this even work?
In cultivation stories, the demonic cultivator receives the same benefits as the upstanding traditional cultivator. And after having tested some handy tips myself, I must admit that some Evil Cultivation methods are so useful as to be borderline exaggerated.
But just as in Jin Yong novels, there’s a danger to going down a more demonic path.
For example, part of it goes like this: The food created by Evil Cultivation tastes even more evil than the process used to create it.
One video star was deeply moved to tears after she used an ice cream cornucopia to substitute cream, “I’ve never had such a tyrannical taste in my simple life, to such an extent that I can only create this for my enemies.”
An enthusiastic netizen followed an Evil Cultivation textbook and made a hearty night’s meal only to discover that the ribs stewed in orange granuals reeked in one’s mouth. Eating the remaining three dishes also knocked the eater’s soul out of their body, making them shout “stay away!”
It’s all the same in the other fields as well.
For example, one video star, in order to quickly get up to steam, listened to the so-called “Evil Cultivation start-up method”, and as a result, had their account embargoed for seven days.
These are just the minor harms brought about by that set of trends. What deserves more attention are some long-term issues that can be substituted with speed.
For example, one person used a bag of potato chips to make a thick omelet. The replies warned: Though it saves time, it could allow small molecules of plastic to enter one’s body, and thus accumulate where circulation isn’t strong.
Someone who only drank water to lose weight contracted stomachitis, someone who grew used to wearing shoulder slips was unable to stop, and some who practiced rapid memorisation found that they would lose it faster than if they’d actually tried to memorize it step-by-step.
After all the fussing and struggling, people discovered that the time saved by these steps was roughly equal to the time they’d lose them later.
Those problems that were brought up after riding down shortcuts were only resolved for a brief period. The true effects didn’t last for long, and thus the benefits were soon pulled back later.
In conclusion, Evil Cultivation offers a shortcut. Compared to traditional cultivation, Evil Cultivation is extremely easy to use – easy enough one can complete after watching a two-minute video.
It must be emphasized that this topic is so fiery simply because we have always wanted to exchange the smallest of costs for the greatest profit. Such a bottom-line logic explains why the posts are so overwhelming.
Since the dawn of time, people have always loved and hated shortcuts; When new tricks appear, the opinions have always and only been two-sided.
On the other hand, those benefiting from the shortcuts celebrated and praised the new methods; on the other, those not understanding the methods question whether they are good for anything.
This is the same with this internet craze. Some are pumped up by this trend, but others are criticizing it.
It isn’t just the discomfort that the terminology brings, there’s also the opinion that this method of advocating shortcuts encourages us to rush for results, and this pushes the question into a mud pit about which of us can reduce long-termism the fastest.
This means that the reaction that Evil Cultivation is about to face has been set up for long ago. What those topics also show is just people’s anxiety.
The two-point routine, the meager social orbit, and the pressure to survive: these are all things that the media has talked about to death. While we know that our status quo is unchangable, rather than solving problems once and for all, we simply leave through short little hops that we could make with different methods.
Everyone knows that a dish or skill “learned” under an act of Evil Cultivation will certainly not be a permanent work. It simply compensates for one course of an meal or a quick flash of novelty.
We get this sensation, allowing us a rare peek at what life could be under different constraints.
It checks off our checklist of wonders, while also ensuring that both are bodily health and mental health are uncompromised. People can also try satisfying the curiosity that they feel by looking at the little pieces that might make up Evil Cultivation, and hope get in touch with something different from the humdrum drum that is the daily grind.
Under the social emotion that life is boring, is a useful to occasionally lean on Evil Cultivation as a way to create instant relief.
In the Chinese social parlance, our results have always been important to us the process. And we’ve always been hooked on a contest of achievements ranging from education upwards and beyond, to the workplace. This is truly the shared madness of modern man.
Evil Cultivation trends are emerging in this crowded era in particular.
For young people, simply living through the ages makes realizing many things that adults took for granted such as getting married, having children, and owning a house more and more difficult. And the disappointment is there to be felt.
And within that emotional black hole, the existence of an Evil Cultivation-style path to life has become a symbol of small successes, and thus are often copied and replicated.
According to the international consulting group WGSN’s report “Lifestyle Strategy: Youth Milestone”, there is much data as well countless past phenomena is that this generation of young people have, in time, turned from being unwilling to being accepting, leading to a sense of plain old frustration.
Differing from the past efforts to climb up in the world, this generation believes that it is unlikely that they will bridge the gap between either rich and poor, or the classes above and the classes below, and so they have simply given up on having overbearingly large ideas, allowing them to obtain a sense of achievement out of smaller goals like cooking a meal or dieting.
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