The meme about beating workers came from Tieba in 2005. At that time, the popular saying was "I can work wherever I go." Until 2020, there were rumors in Tieba about getting up early to go to work and being stopped by security because he was " The cold joke about "beating steel workers" was widely circulated on the Internet and became popular again.

On the Internet, migrant workers refer to people who do ordinary, hard work to support themselves. It is a relatively peaceful and complimentary term that is often used to ridicule netizens and related popular topics. There are also sentence patterns such as "Workers have the soul to work, and workers are all superior to others" and so on.

In addition, related to migrant workers is the famous saying of "Zhou" who stole a battery car in 2019, "It is impossible to work as a migrant worker", which aroused widespread discussion among netizens and was made into various videos. Various emoticons are spread on social and entertainment platforms, increasing the popularity of migrant workers.

Social evaluation

This meme is more of a self-deprecation. According to the traditional concept in the past, migrant workers mostly refer to workers who move from rural areas to cities and earn income by selling their physical strength. But in fact, who is not a migrant worker? Civil servants work for the country and the people; white-collar workers work for their bosses; individual bosses work for themselves. Even Jack Ma and Ma Huateng are working for the board of directors. Therefore, under the Internet culture, traditional concepts are gradually being broken, and everyone is using their own Ah Q spirit to add some color to life. ?