When Overseas Fans Try to Stream Zhao Yibo’s New Song ‘Light Silk’, What They Discover Is Heartbreaking

When Overseas Fans Try to Stream Zhao Yibo's New Song 'Light Silk', What They Discover Is Heartbreaking

I was scrolling through my late-night Twitter feed when a fan edit of Zhao Yibo’s new song ‘Light Silk’ popped up. The thumbnail showed him holding what looked like a shimmering thread against a moonlit backdrop – and my first thought was, ‘This would be perfect for my weekend baking playlist.’

But when I clicked the official link from Ten Diligent Skies’ Weibo, all I got was that dreaded gray screen with the spinning loading icon. You know the one – it just keeps turning and turning like a hamster wheel of disappointment. My roommate from Shanghai called it ‘the great firewall’s spinning wheel of sadness’ when she tried to show me Chinese dramas last month.

What made it worse was watching the fan reactions roll in. Under the hashtag #赵一博轻丝, someone had posted a clip of their friend group doing a dance challenge to the song in what looked like a Chengdu tea house. The steam from their milk tea cups fogged up the camera lens slightly, and you could hear the laughter bubbling through the music. Meanwhile, I’m sitting in my Berlin apartment with three different VPN apps open, feeling like I’m trying to solve a digital Rubik’s cube just to hear a three-minute song.

The signature photo event hit particularly hard. My cousin in Guangzhou messaged me her entry – she’d drawn Zhao Yibo as a silk worm (weird but cute?) with actual thread glued to the paper. The notification said ‘only 2,000 participants will be selected,’ but what they don’t mention is how many overseas fans never even make it to the starting line because of buffering issues.

Remember when content wasn’t locked behind invisible borders? Back in 2019, I attended a Ten Diligent Skies fan meet in Shanghai. The girl next to me kept adjusting the silk ribbon in her hair – it kept catching the stage lights every time she moved. Now that same connection feels like trying to grasp those silk threads from across an ocean.

So here I am, with half-written fanfiction about what ‘Light Silk’ probably sounds like based on the 15-second clips that loaded between buffering. The comments say it’s about connections that span great distances – which feels painfully ironic when you’re staring at a ‘content not available in your region’ message.

Anyone else trying to participate in the medal event from overseas? How many reloads did it take you to finally see Zhao Yibo’s signature design without the pixelation? Drop your most creative workaround in the comments – mine involves screen recording my friend’s video call from China and dealing with the terrible audio quality.

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