Posted: 投稿者： wtanaka (648) 投稿日時： 金, 2006-04-14 05:32 | 件名: You get your 15 minutes in China too

Back in October, these videos of two Chinese college students lip-synching to Backstreet boys songs was making its rounds around the internet.  They're (now?) called the "Back Dormitory Boys", and have (along with their Counterstrike-playing roommate who can be seen in the background in the videos) become quite famous.

Almost every Chinese internet user under a certain age has seen the “Back Dormitory Boys”, as they are now called. Web forums discuss their private lives. National radio and television shows have hosted them. . . .Last month, a media company in Beijing called Taihe Rye hired Messrs Huang and Wei to continue their lip-synching, for cash. . .

I wonder if the Star Wars Kid or other such English-language memes have made their way into the Chinese Internet consciousness.

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