How Chinese netizens express disappointment in the poor performance of highly paid actors
Annabel Yao, the daughter of Chinese tech giant Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei, is one of Chinese netizens’ least favorite actors. When she played the role of a narcotics police officer in the TV series Ice Hunt released on February 21, netizens criticized her exaggerated and wooden performance, especially when she was holding a gun. They labeled it “chicken-eating acting (吃鸡式演技 chījīshì yǎnjì),” as her gesture mirrors the animation in the popular online game PUBG (known as 吃鸡, literally “chicken-eating”).
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Zhang Wenjie is a contributing writer at The World of Chinese. She loves to share the lifestyles, voices, and concerns of China’s Gen Z. She is also fond of collecting and displaying the flourishing slang expressions in the Chinese language.
