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Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou’s sarcastic and self-deprecating video went viral online

1,881 views · Published 18 May 2016 · 2:50 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: People's Daily, China 人民日报 · 2016 · News & Politics

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Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou uploaded a humorous and self-deprecating video on Facebook on May 18, in which he responded to his nicknames and ridiculed the words he said in the past eight years.
In the video posted two days before he leaves the office, Ma took a humorous approach to some of the most well-known nicknames given to him by netizens like “horse-brain jellyfish”, “death-grip handshake” and “deer antlers”.
Ma said he checks the comments on his Facebook page whenever he gets time, and said some of which are constructive criticism, while others often left him “not knowing whether to laugh or cry.”
The video then shows Ma holding a card showing comments from two netizens, who said a handshake with Ma would lead to certain death, calling it the “death-grip handshake.”
The term “death-grip handshake” was coined by netizens who compiled a list of misfortunes that had occurred to places Ma had visited and to individuals he had met.
“I never knew my hands were so powerful. I’d better take good care of them,” Ma said, before taking out a huge bottle of moisturizer and applying it to his hands.
“Deer antlers are hair from the animal’s ears,” the video continues with Ma reading out another comment from a card. Ma mistakenly said in 2014 that deer antlers used in traditional Chinese medicine were actually hair from the animals’ ears. “I admit I made a mistake and I am willing to be punished for it,” said Ma in the video, before he took out an elementary-school notebook and wrote the accurate definition of “antlers” for three times as a “punishment”.
The third netizen’s comment Ma read out was a question asked repeatedly in one comment: “Are you a horse-brain jellyfish?”
“Baobao is not a horse-brain jellyfish,” Ma answered in the video, using the popular Internet slang term “Baobao”, or “baby,” which is used as a first-person pronoun to jokingly proclaim oneself as being cute and innocent.
Ma concluded the video by expressing his gratitude to his supporters. The video had attracted over 361,000 “likes” and more than 37,756 comments, and had been shared about 68,212 times on Facebook in less than 24 hours.

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