Cursing Xi Jinping, Rumored Arrest; Li Yi Refutes the Rumor: “Absolutely Nothing Happened”

In a video screenshot, Li Yi is seen slapping himself, his voice trembling with emotion as he angrily calls himself "not human."

[People News] Over the past couple of days, the most surreal spectacle inside the Great Firewall is probably this: Li Yi, a man dubbed a “state preceptor,” known for extreme nationalism and “accelerationist” rhetoric, was rumored to have been taken away for angrily cursing Xi Jinping. Then, 48 hours later, he personally popped up and, in a helpless tone, announced: “Absolutely nothing happened to me! Not today, not tomorrow, and nothing will ever happen!”

The image is far too comical — it’s practically a living piece of political performance art. Let’s sort out the timeline for a moment:

1. First, netizens watched as “State Preceptor” Li Yi furiously cursed “A-Dou” for inaction, finally losing all patience and launching into an open-mouthed tirade (A-Dou refers to Xi someone);

2. Then the rumors rapidly fermented, with all kinds of messages like “already taken away” and “about to be finished” flying everywhere;

3. Finally, Li Yi himself entered the fray and, with the eight characters “absolutely nothing happened to me,” completed an epic, on-the-spot slap in the face.

This isn’t just rumor-debunking — it’s practically grinding the faces of all the onlookers into the ground:

“Where’s the scene you were expecting of me getting arrested? None! Absolutely none! Disappointed? Then be disappointed one more time!” What’s even more bizarre is that the more he uses this tone of “I’m just this arrogant, what can you do to me,” the more it actually confirms one thing —

At this particular point in time, he truly does possess a certain degree of “immunity.” And the source of that immunity may well be the political credit accumulated from more than a decade of the “loyalty performances” he has been most proud of.

Extreme nationalist mouthpiece, anti-U.S. shock trooper, master of acceleration, spokesperson for the wolf-warrior style……

All these labels stacked together form a strange kind of protective coloration:

As long as I’m cyber-loyal enough, curse loudly enough, crudely enough, and without any bottom line whatsoever, then at certain times I might actually obtain a special franchise as a “controllable mad dog.” And so this absurd contrast aesthetic emerges:

Curse public intellectuals → safe

Curse American imperialism → safe

Curse Taiwan independence → safe

……
Curse A-Dou → still safe (at least at this very moment)

“The state preceptor curses A-Dou, and absolutely nothing happens” — this alone already constitutes a piece of news rich in black humor. It doesn’t even need any additional rhetoric to be sharp enough, sarcastic enough, or revealing enough. What it shows is not how special Li Yi himself is, but rather that —

Within this narrative machine, some performances are redder than some red lines. As long as you perform loyalty extravagantly enough, vulgarly enough, shamelessly enough, sometimes you are actually safer than those who seriously and earnestly try to reason.

After all, the machine sometimes needs this kind of utterly bottomless fanaticism as fuel. And the more shameless the fuel, sometimes the less likely it is to get burned up.

With the six characters “absolutely nothing happened to me,” Li Yi completed an extraordinarily precise political statement:

I not only know the rules — I also know how to turn the rules into a piece of performance art. This may well be the most spine-chilling part of this “rumor refutation.”

Not because nothing happened to him,

but because he dares to tell everyone, in such an arrogant way:

The fact that “nothing happened to me” is itself part of the rules.

(Author’s X account)
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