Netease has a thing for oysters

What do employees at a big web portal do for fun? Sit around eating oysters and drinking crates of beer, apparently.

This video, shot by and featuring the Netease online games division, supposedly represents a fusion of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean culture. Frightening, if true.

The full name of the video is 《蚝酒大会》之《我们放肆摇晃的青春尾巴》, the “Oyster Alcohol Party” presents “Let’s All Shake Our Young Tails.”

At various points in the video the actors shout 偶一西巴, which is a transliteration into Chinese of the Japanese おいしいば, “It’s really tasty.” (Corrections and additional translations of non-Chinese audio welcome.)

A few notes from the creators:

  • “Oyster alcohol” means eating oysters and drinking beer.
  • Most of the people in the video work in Netease’s online games division. Only “Bitch” (八婆) and “Veggie Pig” (菜猪) are from the website division.
  • Everyone wrote their own lines, and apart from “Bitch,” who was away and had to record long-distance, everyone appeared as themselves.

The video’s been up for less than a day, and viewers don’t seem to know what to make of it. One commenter who posted to Sina’s repost of the video probably has it right:

I don’t think this sort of folk program belongs in the Spring Festival Gala.

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