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内容总结：

本周网络热点再次折射出现实世界的集体焦虑。伦敦南部以治安问题闻名的克罗伊登区因一则虚假视频引发争议：AI生成的“纳税人资助水上乐园”画面中，戴口罩的街头青年在根本不存在的设施中嬉戏，该视频实则为煽动种族对立情绪而刻意制作。与此同时，青少年游戏平台Roblox内正掀起双重抗议浪潮：玩家不仅通过虚拟角色重现美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）突袭场景，更针对平台新推出的年龄验证机制发起集体游行——该机制要求用户提交身份证件或面部照片方可解锁聊天功能，已引发隐私泄露和误判等多重质疑。

网络审美亚文化圈层中，“颜值最大化”群体正在推行一套名为PSL的量化审美体系，其中“高阶普通人”（HTN）指代相貌中等偏上人群，这种将外貌机械分级的行为在年轻男性中颇具影响力。与之形成鲜明对比的是，TikTok上正掀起一场无厘头模仿狂欢：用户以“如果猫头鹰是××”为主题进行创意演绎，从迈克尔·杰克逊版猫头鹰到“自学情绪管理的千禧代妈妈”版猫头鹰，甚至出现“ChatGPT版猫头鹰”，荒诞创意背后折射出网络文化解构现实的独特表达方式。

这些看似光怪陆离的网络现象，实则是社会矛盾、身份焦虑与技术伦理在数字空间的投影。当AI伪造内容成为煽动情绪的工具、游戏世界变成社会议题的演练场、外貌被量化为冰冷数值，而大众又以戏仿动物寻求情感出口时，虚拟与现实的边界正在这些喧哗声中不断重构。

中文翻译：

本周的脱线指南是一锅网络奇谈大杂烩，映照出真实世界的集体焦虑。伦敦某灰扑扑的街区因一座"AI水乐园"爆红网络——这座由纳税人资金虚构的水上乐园只存在于激怒种族主义者的AI视频里。在儿童向游戏《罗布乐思》中，用户正通过虚拟化身同时抗议移民执法与年龄验证系统。而网络世界的暗角里，"颜值最大化"信徒们正忙着给人打上"高阶普男"标签，抖音用户却集体宣告："管他呢，我们要扮成猫头鹰！"

克罗伊登水乐园是什么？
听起来像某种古怪性癖或80年代鸡尾酒名，但克罗伊登水乐园完全是另一回事，且需要费些口舌解释。克罗伊登这座南伦敦大镇以粗粝现实著称，总与水泥森林和犯罪率挂钩（无论是否公允）。这里也是多元文化区——51%居民自认属于黑人、亚裔或少数族裔——因此向来遭英国种族主义者嫌恶。所谓"水乐园"梗，源于网友用AI生成蒙面青年（俚称"街仔"）畅玩克罗伊登水乐园的视频，并刻意标注"由纳税人资金建造"。这座虚构乐园实则为钓取老派种族主义者怒火的诱饵。以下是典型示例：

克罗伊登其他AI造景还包括这座"纳税人资助自助餐厅"：

以及克罗伊登水族馆：

在这座网络哈哈镜迷宫里，你永远分不清评论区暴跳如雷的混蛋哪些是真货，哪些是扮演暴怒混蛋的青少年。不妨在#克罗伊登标签下自行评判。

《罗布乐思》爆发抗议：移民执法与年龄验证的双重战场
数字行动主义常陷混沌。近日为呼应明尼苏达州移民执法抗议，罗布乐思玩家在游戏内发起示威。用户@clipsforcloset带领众人重现移民执法突袭场景，高举标语宣泄对时局的愤懑。现场如图所示：

这场示威甚至出现移民执法车辆包围幼儿园的场面：

游戏抗议虽难直接影响现实，但对于向沉浸虚拟世界的群体传递外界讯息，或许卓有成效。不过对许多玩家而言，比移民执法更迫在眉睫的是平台新推的年龄验证机制。

罗布乐思新规要求用户提供身份证件或拍摄系列照片以确认年龄，否则将禁用聊天功能。从漏洞百出的年龄识别算法、隐私泄露风险到网络兜售已验证账号，新政策引发诸多乱象。部分用户为此组织虚拟游行，同时向移民执法与聊天限制政策表达抗议。

有观点指出游戏内游行反而会增加平台活跃度，并非有效抗议方式。但有趣的是，"抗议意义何在"的质疑与"偏离核心诉求"的困境，恰是现实社会运动的经典难题。说到现实影响——目前罗布乐思的年龄验证风波尚未波及母公司股价。

HTN代表什么？
缩写"HTN"指"高阶普男"。通俗来说可称为"帅哥"，但非超模级别。该术语源自"颜值最大化"网络社群，这群人痴迷于提升外表吸引力。他们采用所谓客观的面部吸引力衡量体系PSL量表，HTN在该量表8分制中获4.5-5.5分。这套理论固然荒谬，却俘获不少年轻男性。若你认识此类青年，请告诉他们：在"做个体面人"量表拿高分，远比PSL分数重要得多。

本周病毒视频：抖音猫头鹰模仿者
本周抖音掀起猫头鹰模仿狂潮。 meme模板如下：宣称"这是猫头鹰扮演X时的模样"并即兴表演。X可替换任意元素，名人版猫头鹰尤为热门，比如这只"迈克尔·杰克逊猫头鹰"：

群体模仿亦层出不穷，例如这只"意裔纽约客猫头鹰"：

深入挖掘还会发现概念化作品，比如这只"过度焦虑的千禧代妈妈猫头鹰——她在自学情绪管理时还得教孩子情绪管理"：

或是这只"ChatGPT猫头鹰"：

欲观赏数千款千奇百怪的猫头鹰，敬请移步抖音猫头鹰模仿者专区。

英文来源：

This week's out-of-touch guide is a mélange of internet nonsense that reflect real world anxieties. A gritty part of London is going viral for a taxpayer-funded water park that only exists thanks to AI videos made to enrage racists. Inside the kid-centric videogame Roblox, users are protesting both ICE and age verification without ever leaving their avatars. And in the darker corners of the online world, looksmaxxers are determining who is a HTN, while everyone on TikTok is saying, "Screw it. We're going to pretend to be birds."
What is a Croydon Water Park?
It might sound like the name of an outré sex act or a cocktail from the 1980s, but a Croydon Water Park is something else entirely, and it's going to take some exsplaining. Croydon is a large town in South London with a reputation as a rough, gritty place, known (fairly or unfairly) for its concrete and crime. It's also diverse—51% of its population identifies as Black, Asian, or from a minority ethnic background—so U.K. racists generally don't like Croydon. The "water park" bit comes from people posting AI-generated videos of face-masked men ("roadmen," in slang) enjoying Croydon's waterpark, which doesn't exist, often with "reminders" that it's "taxpayer funded." This is rage bait for old, racist Brits. Here's a representative sampling:
Other AI created locations in Croydon include this tax-payer funded buffet:
And the Croydon Aquarium:
In the online hall of mirrors, it's impossible to tell how many of the angry wankers in the comment section are legit, and how many are kids cosplaying as angry wankers. Judge for yourself on the #Croydon tag.
Protests break out in Roblox over ICE raids (and age verification)
Digital activism can be messy. Recently, in response to ICE protests in Minnesota, Roblox users have been staging their own demonstrations within the game. Led by @clipsforcloset, users are reenacting ICE raids, holding up signs, and otherwise expressing their deep feelings about current events. It looks like this:
Here's a demonstration featuring ICE vans rolling up to a pre-school:
Protesting in a game isn't likely to have an immediate effect on the real world, but in terms of educating an extremely hard-to-reach population about what happening outside their computers, it could be effective. But it seems that the issue that's most important to many Roblox users isn't ICE, but the platform's age verification requirements.
Roblox's newly rolled out restrictions on chat require users to either provide an ID or pose for a series of photos so their age can be determined—otherwise, they can't chat. From the guess-the-age bot getting it totally wrong, to privacy questions, to people selling age-verified accounts online, there is a lot wrong with Roblox new policy, so some Roblox users are organizing "marches" on the virtual headquarters of Roblox that seem to be against both ICE and the chat restrictions.
Some have pointed out that marching in a game means you're adding to the player count, so it might not be the most effective means of protest, but it's interesting that the same kind of "What's the point?" arguments and inability to keep protestors "on message" are known issues in real-life activism. Speaking of real life, so far, it doesn't look like Roblox age verification is affecting its parent company's stock price.
What does HTN mean?
The acronym "HTN" stands for "high-tier normie." In normal language, you might call a HTN a "good looking guy," but not like male-model good-looking. It comes from the online community of "looksmaxxers," people focused on maximizing physical attractiveness. Looksmaxxers use what they consider an objective gauge of human facial attractiveness called the PSL scale, and a HTN has a 4.5 to 5.5 out of 8 on the PSL scale. All of this is totally nutso of course, but a lot of younger men think it's truth. If you know any younger men like that, explain to them that scoring high on the "being a semi-decent person" scale beats any number on the PSL scale.
Viral videos of the week: TikTok's Owl impersonators
This week, TikTok is being overtaken by people doing impressions of owls. The meme works like this: You say, "This is my impression of an owl if it was X" and act it out. The X can be anything. Celebrity owls are popular, like this impression of an owl if it was Michael Jackson:
There are lots of owl impressions of groups, like this owl that is an "Italian American, but also from New York."
If you dig a little deeper, you get into more conceptual owls, like an owl that is "an overstimulated millennial mom who is teaching herself to self-regulate while teaching their child to self-regulate,"
or an owl "that is ChatGPT."
For thousands of videos featuring countless kinds of owls, check out TikTok's owl impersonators.