Manual Geng: I'm a welder.

Known as "Baoding Edison", "Handmade Fan Shaohuang" and "Useless Inventor", Geng Shuai has become a new generation of internet celebrities with his bizarre and useless inventions and cold and slightly neurotic performance.

Manual Geng released a new video.

This time, he designed and made a treadmill-a huge iron cage with a green conveyor belt inside. Set the time and close the cage door, the conveyor belt will start automatically, and the door will be locked until the time is up.

? In order to demonstrate, I entered the cage with my bare hands, solemnly introduced that "green will make you feel running on the grassland" and vowed that "I will roll in it for an hour even if I roll."

? The grassland is rolled up and the cage door is locked. Less than an hour later, long hair, a beard, and a hand-made Geng with a literary atmosphere of killing Matt began to shake the iron railing, so tired that he blew out Baoding dialect.

This treadmill, dubbed by netizens as "cross the rubicon", continues the consistent style of manual Geng-materials come from life and avoid life perfectly.

But netizens may just eat this set. On the screen wall of the handmade Geng family, on the iron plate of Captain America's shield hanging on it, and on the stainless steel sheet stuck on the wall of the workshop, the names of fans who have rewarded him are engraved. Yang Village, Dingxing County, Baoding City, a little-known village on the North China Plain, has now become a pilgrimage site for a large number of fans.

In this busy era, handmade Geng has replaced millions of fans and realized their dream of being a useless but free person. He has simply become a poet-like existence in the secular world, and his works are regarded as "the final redemption of innocence".

? Handmade Geng is famous, but Yangcun is still that Yangcun (belonging to Yangcun Township, Dingxing County, Baoding City, Hebei Province).

This was originally just a shabby and mediocre village, 60 kilometers away from Baoding city. Before the birth of "handmade Geng", the most famous thing here was burning ears and eyes. In Yangcun, most women will do clothing work at home, while men will install fire-fighting equipment outside. The choices left to those young people are even more pitiful. They just learn a trade, get a job, build a house and get a wife.

Not surprisingly, the handmade Geng who graduated from junior high school will live like most people in the village, year after year.

I forgot to introduce him. Now he becomes a manual Geng. His name is, he is an ordinary welder in the village. If Geng Shuai's life is roughly divided, then 30 years old is the watershed of this man's life.

Before the age of 30, Geng Shuai, a villager, lived in poverty-he was born in a welder's family and was the obedient boss. After graduating from junior high school, he went out to work, moved bricks, worked as a "worker" who smashed the wall with a sledgehammer, and also worked as a worker on duty beside endless assembly lines.

Marry a wife and have children, go to work and get off work, and this life is unobstructed. So in 20 13, he wrote in Weibo: "Being almost 30 years old, can it change your life?" I can't help but sigh, "I feel so sad and useless." In fact, I am also very useless. "

But now, useless has become an online celebrity Geng, and villagers are more keen to talk about his days after becoming famous. For example, a group of journalists came to visit this "Hebei version of Edison", even including foreign media. People I know and people I don't know all say hello when they see him, "Hey! Network celebrities! "

But the villagers have never understood how this man, whom no one looked down upon before, became famous overnight. Before that, no one would have thought that there would be a future in staying at home and doing handicrafts without going to work. Later, Geng Shuai said in an interview: "To put it bluntly, the countryside is afraid of neighbors' jokes, saying that you boys are doing it, and that we boys are working outside and happy. What have you been doing since you came to us? You can't talk at home. "

Geng Shuai still firmly chose the house.

In the spring of 20 17, he bought some raw materials and began to practice. Use a pipe wrench as a grasshopper-useless, just a huge arthropod; Use nuts as slippers-it doesn't hurt your feet, but it's hard to walk; Make a wallet out of stainless steel-only two thousand dollars can be stuffed. Geng Shuai wanted to write a manual, but later he thought it was not cool to write it.

These failed semi-finished products have laid a "waste" trend after "manual farming".

20 17 10, Geng Shuai was inspired by a funny joke on the internet, so he spent two days making a Gatling machine gun model with hundreds of nuts, and took a video of about ten seconds, which was released to Aauto more quickly.

Later, in an interview with the Beijing News, Geng Shuai recalled: "I still remember that the video was played more than/kloc-0.00 million times in 24 hours, and my account gradually increased by nearly/kloc-0.00 million fans. That night, I opened my eyes until dawn. "

Geng Shuai became a "handmade Geng" and became popular.

He first boarded the official website of Aauto Quicker with the title "How can there be such ridiculous people in the world? Ha ha ha ". More than three months later, he was ranked 42nd in the hot search list of Weibo as a "debris flow in the field of invention". Later, his self-made "brain-disabled assistant" also boarded a hot search in Weibo-Tiefu easily broke eggs, and fans jokingly called it "brain-disabled assistant". At Happy Camp, Geng Shuai wore his usual suspender overalls, brought a bunch of homemade articles and a serious introduction. He Jiong smiled and clapped his hands, and the scene was once out of control. In the live broadcast room, fanatical fans kept sending all kinds of gifts. There are five people's "A Zhen Ai Shang A Qiang" to set off the atmosphere in Geng Shuai:

"O cherish A Qiang,

On a starry night.

? The plane flew overhead,

? Meteors also crossed the night sky. "

? "People around me used to laugh at me for always doing useless things. At that time, I was a' madman'. Now, millions of people laugh at me, I am online celebrity. " This change caught Geng Shuai off guard.

Just about to start a business with "junk", Geng Shuai hesitated. He discussed the prospect of this business with his father. In his view, gadgets such as wallets and slippers made of steel are easy to keep and not easy to break, so there should be a market.

Father thought for a moment and said, "That shouldn't be sold."

My father's words became a prophecy. Although in 2065,438+08, Geng Shuai published 65,438+033 works in Aauto Quicker, and gained 300 million streams and 5.35 million likes, which perfectly contracted popularity. At the same time, it was rated as "the worst Taobao shopkeeper in history" and could not sell a few works in a month. Geng Shuai is a little depressed. In his values, selling well means making money and supporting the family.

So, in that workshop full of all kinds of articles, Geng Shuai is always thinking about making interesting and marketable articles. For example, a portable bench that allows people to sit on their feet; A "watermelon artifact" that can perfectly catch the soup from watermelon and hold the garbage; There are also some stainless steel fingertip gyroscopes and so on. But these videos often have a flat response.

The fans are unhappy. They don't like the useful "manual Geng"

? At the bottom of these videos, the most messages are "hahahaha" and the threat of fans "dare to do something useful". In the quantifiable praise and forwarding data, Geng Shuai finally returned to the commodity-free world.

Later, they successively made "brain-disabled assistants" who could pop up brain flowers; An umbrella that will definitely rain on others; It looks like a mobile phone case of a kitchen knife. And there are stainless steel "paper plane", stainless steel windmill and stainless steel rattle, which are collectively called "childhood three-piece set"; An iron comb that can comb people into bald scoops, so that they no longer have to worry about hairline problems; A big shell that can completely cover the neck above, Geng Shuai explained, this shell "can make you want to be quiet".

Geng Shuai also made an instant noodle bowl, claiming that he could eat instant noodles in the earthquake. Because there are iron rings around, the bowl can remain horizontal even if it shakes 360 degrees. Passers-by laugh and cry, and fans are used to it. Someone commented: "Please give the earthquake some basic respect?"

? Because he looks a bit like actor Fan Shaohuang, Geng Shuai is also called Gengshaohuang by fans. The things he invented are collectively called "useless good products", and they also have their own unique labels: the products produced by Shao Huang must be waste products.

In fact, it seems that Geng Shuai doesn't want to stay in the "garbage" world all the time. 20 19 1 month, he went to a speech activity. Before he came to power, some people said that everything this man did was useless.

"Tell me which one is useless?" Geng Shuai argued anxiously that after giving other examples, he explained the usage of each item. "How do you say? I feel that what I am doing now is only the first generation. It is definitely flawed, but it is still useful to improve slowly. "

The audience laughed.

In the next video, Geng Shuai will seriously introduce the usage of each "waste", and fans will have a strange sense of contrast, although no one believes that this item can really be put into use.

Someone commented on him, "Although he speaks a little intermittently, I don't know why he has a dull and deep feeling."

? Handmade Geng caught off guard and became popular, even he was a little surprised.

? Some fans have analyzed the reasons for his popularity: whenever he introduces funny inventions in a serious way, it actually coincides with the sense of dislocation that often appears in Stephen Chow's films, and has a unique absurd and cold humor.

"I make things easier to stimulate other people's topics. I don't know, hovering between useful and useless. At first glance, it is useless, but on second thought, it is still useful. Looking at it again, it is still useless. " Geng Shuai interprets his own works.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival on 20 18, he came to Joy City in Chaoyang, Beijing, and participated in the country fair held by Aauto Quicker. He was a welder when he came to Beijing last time, and this time he became a star.

The online celebrity with millions of fans showed his attraction offline: fans quickly bought the "junk" from the stalls, and some people came all the way from other cities just to take photos with Geng Ge.

They are young people living in this city, wearing exquisite makeup and holding expensive mobile phones. Some people explain that their crazy pursuit comes from curiosity, but perhaps those online celebrities who only do boring things are bloggers without supplies, but they provide a new way of life-no KPI, no rent, they just have some strange hobbies, and then they succeed in 996.

As for Geng Shuai himself, perhaps even today, he still can't fully understand why these videos and useless inventions are loved by these well-dressed urbanites. Earlier, a CCTV director found him and said he hoped he could inherit China culture. Geng Shuai promised: "I will try my best to think and do." .

But he thought to himself, "I'm a welder."

Author | Xu

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