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This show changes a lot of things from the books, so certain plot lines in Ultimate Note will conflict. The videos were originally posted on the Chinese video app Kuaishou and Pangzai had no idea he’d gone viral on Twitter. A New Zealand comedian claims it was actually he who invented the “tornado chugging style” and not Pangzai, but that’s really neither here nor there and Pangzai is one of the internet’s foremost kings regardless.
It’s hard to know whether Pangzai’s notoriety in the US endangers him in China, increasing the likelihood that he’ll be used as a political pawn in a feud with a country that Donald Trump was demonizing even before he started trying to blame them for COVID. The short novel, Ten Years Later, which explains why Zhang Qiling shows up again after Tomb of the Sea, has yet to be adapted. Please contact your hosting provider to confirm your origin IP and then make sure the correct IP is listed for your A record in your Cloudflare DNS Settings page.A second season is currently planned (announced in a live stream in February 2021 by the author of the novels). If you’re aware of “Pangzai” or “Hebei Pangzai” at all, it’s probably as the guy with the incredible speed beer-chugging skills utilizing a “tornado” style. Pangzai — which apparently translates as “Chubby Dude,” or is “a kind of cute pun on “Pangzi,” or “fatty” — is a farmer in his early 30s named Liu Shichao who hails from Xingtai in the Hebei province.
Kuaishou videos tend toward the rural and the outrageous: a typical viral Kuaishou video might feature a guy playing two trumpets through his nostrils, or a man jumping into a frozen pond in his underwear. I assume “fish picture” was a mistranslation of “fish tank” or “aquarium,” as Pangzai occasionally films himself tending to some fish on his farm. Again, it’s all speculation at this point, we don’t know if Liu is really in danger of going to jail or just having a depressive episode.
The video below, of him chugging a giant jar containing beer, some type of flaming liquor, and an egg, all while smoking a cigarette, went viral some time last year, for obvious reasons. On Tuesday, the internet celebrity known as Pangzai released a tearful video on Twitter (since-deleted) saying goodbye to his followers and making cryptic references to his own depression and possibly going to jail.
This is a stand-alone prequel series that does not include the main characters Wu Xie, Zhang Qiling, or Pangzi.In any case, Pangzai seemed very depressed and for a while I was worried we might be watching his live suicide note. His web presence is a brief fulfillment of the internet’s early promise to connect distant cultures and promote empathy. UPDATE: After this article was published, Pangzai popped back up on Twitter to say he was just drunk.
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