Chinese Uni Grads Take Unhinged Graduation Photos, Recreating Iconic Movies & Memes
From dramas to political spoofs, students turn stiff traditions into hilarious, self-deprecating viral pics.
Who says graduation photos have to be stiff, boring, or even repetitive? Not another jumping photo with mortarboards in the air, please.
In China, university graduates are flipping the script, turning graduation pictures into full-blown memes that scream humour, pop culture, and that life is not meant to be taken so seriously.
Among the most memorable: the one that creatively copied a famous scene from Chinese drama Empresses In The Palace. Another Chinese grad, who presumably was unsatisfied with her result, took photos of herself throwing the diploma into a bin.
Arguably the most popular is where a group of students re-created the famous fist bump photo of US President Donald Trump after his assassination attempt last year.
Netizens can’t get enough, calling the photos “calm before the chaos” of adulting.
They even have a trending hashtag: “Don’t be so serious in graduation photos”.
“At least the trend shows that young people can deconstruct everything with humour,” a netizen commented.
Others even described many of the pictures as a bittersweet relationship with the school, while others interpreted the self-deprecating humour as a way of coping with the job market uncertainty.
According to the South China Morning Post, unemployment rates among Chinese aged 16 to 24 was at 15.8 per cent in April, an increase of 1.1 per cent year-on-year. Meanwhile, higher education research firm MyCos reported that the monthly salary of fresh university graduates in China was 6,050 yuan (S$1,091).
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