The story of Liu Zi Chen & Inspiration – What makes them happy?

The reason I would like to collect different people video about what makes them happy is coming from a video about a Chinese internet celebrity, Liu Zi Chen (劉梓晨). He made many plastic surgeries on his face and photoshopped exaggeratedly on his selfies.

Liu Zi Chen

Therefore, many people also called him “Snake Boy”. In the video, the host asked Liu that when does he feel happy. And he thought a while and answered that he does not feel happy or has a happy time in fact. He thought to make himself famous and getting more people to know him will make him happy. He did many plastic surgeries and photoshopped his photo in order to make himself look like a celebrity to be famous. Although he achieves his goal now, he finds that he does not feel happy at all. 

The screenshot of the video

Although many people disgusted with his photos or think he is a monster, his story is also reflecting our society. He is not the only person who does these things to make himself famous in the digital world. Before we point our finger on him, we should think about what distorted value in our society makes these teenagers doing these. It also reflects our value on beauty nowadays and gains “like” in social platforms. 

From Liu’s story, he made me think deeper about what makes us happy. In this generation, is the digital world become the most important factor affecting our inner world? A “like” can make happy or even being lost. It also makes me curious about what makes other people feel happy. As when we grow up, more things and more difficulties we have to face. The standards from society affect us a lot too. Do these elements also affect our “standard” of how to make us happy from society?  

Besides of Liu Zi Chen, laughing yoga is also one of the reasons why I would like to make this work. As I interviewed my sister, the coach of laughter yoga, she said there are some patient really forgot how to laugh for a long time and the activities of laughter yoga becoming so powerful to them to get back this basic feeling. So, I’m thinking maybe this video can do the same way to make people also think about what makes them happy. Therefore, I start to collect footage of what makes people happy and see if I can find something interesting via it.