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‘I’m Toast’

The Chinese idiom “芭比Q” — it sounds like “barbeque” in English — is similar to the phrase “I’m toast.” It gained popularity after a gaming blogger used it to utter defeat in the mobile game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Chinese netizens now use the idiom to express similar feelings of loss or defeat.

On the Limits of HPV Awareness

The Limits of HPV Awareness

Moments From Beijing 2022 Paralympics

Wang Shiyu of Team China competes in the para biathlon women’s middle distance sitting during day four of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, March 8, 2022. Zhang Lintao/Getty Images/VCG

Young Chinese Are Losing Their Hair 

Sex, Lies, Deepfakes: The Secret Chatrooms Ruining Women’s Lives

Despite crackdowns, explicit chatrooms that incite image-based abuse and revenge porn still flourish in dark pockets of the web.