Black Silk Bar and Hidden Hot Desire: A Spiritual Haven for Straight Men in the 80s and 90s
Late at night at eleven o'clock, you stared at the screen of the cell phone. Work information has been dealt with, short video paddle to the aesthetic fatigue, want to find a place to talk about some "men understand" topics - but found that the circle of friends is too formal, WeChat group has coworkers prying, and even blowing water have to be careful. This is probably the most secret social dilemma of contemporary 80s and 90s straight men:Adult desires have nowhere to rest, public space is bound by rules, and hidden preferences need to be hidden in the shadows.
Until I found a strange Noah's Ark on the edge of the Internet: "90 Black Silk Bar" (or "Black Silk Bar").
This unassuming Baidu posting has gathered 830,000 followers, with thousands of daily scrolling updates. When you first point open, you may think that into a large male aesthetic exposition: some people analyze different light under the black silk fabric drape, some people argue lace hook how to enhance the visual impact, some people in a cafe in a black silk professional back photo to leave dozens of pages of follow-up posts.
Where is this a superficial erotic orgy? This is a group of engineering men deconstructing the aesthetic value of a silk thread with the spirit of studying precision rocket instruments.
01 Straight Men's Aesthetic Awakening: How Black Silk Bars Became a Floodgate for Social Emotions
The explosion of black silk culture in China has a clear timeline.
Around 2005, the Korean current wrapped in fine grid black silk girl group modeling swept through Asia; around 2010, Taobao explosive black stockings daily sales of 10,000 pieces; and 2013 is the turning point - an actress red carpet black silk see-through dresses detonated the whole network to discuss the black silk formally pushed into the mainstream cultural horizons.
Interestingly, however, as black silk moves from the margins to the mainstream, the voices of the average male are silenced instead.
The reality of social taboos leaves them nowhere to express themselves. Do you dare to stare at your office colleague when she walks by wearing a black silk skirt? If someone in your circle of friends shares a fashionable outfit, do you dare to comment that "this black silk really suits you"? So the bar has become a hidden expression of the field: some people posted a subway secretly photographed under the black silk photos written "today's commuting power +100%", there are programmers posted his girlfriend wearing black silk local close-ups begged to P off the background watermarks, there are also people to make up to a hundred pages of PDF "Asian actresses classic black silk moments graphic analysis".
Sociologist Lee Ann has pointed out:"When an aesthetic symbol breaks through class restrictions, it is bound to go through a period of tearing from stigmatization to commercialization."
The posting of an explosive article "Why is our generation obsessed with black silk" speaks to the essence: "Mom and Dad's generation said that black silk is 'immodest', and now there are people on the Internet who say that liking black silk is 'malodorous'. But obviously the malls are selling it, the stars are wearing it, why do we not even have the qualifications to discuss it?"
It was essentially a cultural revolt by a group of ordinary people.
02 Reconstructing community rules: from hormonal catharsis to orderly expression
In the early days, Black Silk Bar, like all male-oriented communities, went through a phase of muddy content. in 2015, a user posted a complaint that "the home page is full of stolen Netflix pictures and tons of spam ads, and the real enthusiasts are drowned out instead."
This confusion leads to net action.
The "Photo Audit Battle" launched in 2016 became a turning point. The owner of the bar "black contract" with the management team to implement the iron law: theft of private photos deleted and blocked, vulgar title party deleted and blocked, meaningless irrigation deleted and blocked. Some users still remember the announcement on the top of the bar: "Let aesthetics return to aesthetics, and clandestine photography return to the law".
Strict governance brings ecological wonders:
When a photography bar friend released "natural light black silk texture comparison", the focus of the comment area is "focal length lengthening will weaken the luster" of the technical discussion; someone to organize the Japanese and European and American black silk material difference table, bar friends spontaneously rearrange the data according to the transmittance, elasticity coefficient, fiber structure; the hottest will always be the wearing strategy "the golden ratio of gray coat with black stockings" this kind of technical post. Gray coat with black stockings of the golden ratio" this kind of technical post, the collection of up to 80,000 people.
When an anonymous user uploads an allegedly bootlegged image, someone immediately leaves a comment: "I suggest the owner delete it, the person photographed is probably working overtime at the company next door." Such details corroborate the observations of sociologist Howard:"The degree of evolution of community rules is positively correlated with members' perceptions of the rights of others."
03 Black Silk Culture Apocalypse: Unseen Social Emotions Need a Breather
From the evolution of the black silk bar, we clearly see the symbiotic chain of subculture development:
1.Emergence of cultural needs: Online Communities Spawned by Obstacles to Real-World Expression
2.Barbaric growth stage: raw desire dominates content output
3.Reconstruction of order awakening: User Self-Regulation Forces Norms to Take Shape
4.Establishment of a value system: Cognitive upgrading from aesthetics to technology
The posting, which has existed for more than a decade, is essentially a way for ordinary people to build, in the midst of mainstream culture and conservative ideas, astress-free breathing spaceProgrammers discuss fabric parameters to relieve overtime pressure. Programmers discuss fabric parameters to relieve overtime pressure, salesmen collect business black silk pictures to learn how to match clothes, art students study light and shadow techniques to improve professional skills - when the real world only allows you to play the role of "tool man", the virtual community gives an identity! Freedom of exit.
While our cities are dotted with Netflix hit spots, why is there a shrinking space for the real desires of ordinary people?
Emotional Lack in Steel and Concrete
The glass walls of modern buildings coldly reflect the tired figures of every office worker. When you are crowded in the subway in the morning rush hour and can hardly breathe, work overtime continuously until late at night in the cubicle of an office building, and lose sleep in the marriage anxiety articles pushed by your cell phone - all those suppressed throbbing, restrained expressions, and emotions labeled by the mainstream are thirsting to be released reasonably.
What is really needed is not only the channel of expression itself, but a mechanism of tolerance for the expression of diverse emotions in society as a whole.
Black silk bar user "Light" may represent the voice of many bar users: "We just chose a way to express the aesthetic needs of the mainstream, but in real life will also help the elderly across the street, pick up his wife from work, to the child tutoring homework. Why has it become an original sin to click on a few pictures on a cell phone?"
When sociologists criticize the online world for exacerbating the gap between circles, this posting instead presents a counter-example. Some people because of technical discussions into entrepreneurial partners, some people help long-distance bar friends to analyze the girlfriend's birthday to send which kind of black silk, more people are silently collecting wear Figure sent to the family - there has been an anonymous post to get high praise: "Yesterday, I gave my wife to see the bar strategy, and today she wore a new matte black silk, married for ten years after a long absence of The heartbeat accelerated.
This may explain why similar "hidden gardens" have been able to survive for more than a decade under strong regulation: when communities develop a self-regulatory order, and when users return to their real roles after acquiring emotional value here, such subcultures become a lubricant for the stable functioning of society.
The top post of the bar has a plaintive call to arms, "Post more good work so that those who truly love it don't stray."
Rather than over-interpreting the significance of the gathering of 830,000 users, it should be seen as an emotional refraction of urbanized life:
- Convenience Stores Open 24 Hours to Solve Food and Drink
- Offices provide workstations to carry productivity
- And all those pictures and posts in the black silk bar.
They're what keep millions of ordinary people's tired lives together.
The last bit of Romantic starlight
In an era of increasingly crude labeling, someone has to be allowed to say behind the screen, "That restrained blackness keeps my subway commute from being gray."
Black silk control is not a disease, but a throb in everyone's heart that is not willing to be extinguished;
The black silk bar is not a walled city, it is a gentle projection of the comfort of thousands of mortals.
