I was halfway through making dumplings when my cousin from Melbourne video-called me, her face all scrunched up in frustration. ‘The stream keeps buffering right at the hurdles part!’ she complained. She was trying to watch the World Athletics Championships, specifically the men’s 110m hurdles semi-finals where our Chinese athletes were competing—only to be met with the spinning wheel of doom.
You know the feeling. You’ve got your snacks ready, your favorite drink beside you, and then—bam. ‘This content is not available in your region.’ Or worse: it loads… buffers… loads again… and just when the runner is about to jump, it freezes. I’ve thrown a pillow at the screen more than once, I’m not gonna lie.
It’s not just about sports, either. Remember trying to watch that new historical drama everyone was talking about back home? Or that variety show your mom said you ‘have to see’? Geo-restrictions don’t care about your nostalgia. They don’t care that you’re craving a piece of home while studying in Toronto or working in Sydney.
My friend Lin in Berlin told me she once tried to watch the Spring Festival Gala using three different apps, a VPN that worked ‘sometimes,’ and a very confused German roommate who thought she was hacking into the government. ‘By the time it worked,’ she said, ‘the gala was over, and my noodles were cold.’
And it’s not just us regular folks. Even my aunt—who still thinks ‘Wi-Fi’ is a kind of bird—calls me every time there’s a big table tennis match on. ‘The screen says I’m too far away,’ she whispered once, as if the internet could hear her. ‘I’m in New Jersey! How far is too far?’
There’s something uniquely frustrating about being emotionally invested in something happening thousands of miles away, only to be told you’re ‘not in the area.’ It’s like smelling your neighbor’s barbecue but being told you can’t have any because you live next door.
So what do we do? We get creative. We borrow accounts, we use workarounds, we pray to the internet gods. Sometimes it works. Sometimes we just give up and watch grainy YouTube uploads from someone who filmed their TV screen.
But here’s the thing—it shouldn’t be this hard. We just want to watch our shows, cheer for our teams, and feel connected to home. Is that too much to ask?
How about you? What’s the most creative way you’ve gotten around a geo-block? Share your stories below—maybe we can all help each other out next time there’s a big game or a must-watch finale.
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