My phone buzzed at 2 AM last night—it was my cousin Lina video calling from Melbourne. Her face popped up on screen, backdropped by her cozy apartment kitchen. ‘You won’t believe what just happened,’ she said, holding up her iPad. ‘I finally had time to watch that new historical drama everyone’s talking about, and guess what? Blocked. Again.’
She made this frustrated groaning sound I haven’t heard since we were kids fighting over the TV remote. ‘I even tried three different VPNs! One made the show buffer so much it looked like a slideshow from 1998.’
Lina’s been in Australia for five years doing her PhD, and these weekly video calls have become our thing. Sometimes we’d sync up watching the same variety show and text each other reactions—her from her couch in Melbourne, me from mine in Beijing. It was our weird, modern way of staying connected across continents.
But lately, it’s been harder. Either the video quality drops until her face pixelates into abstract art, or she gets that dreaded ‘This content is not available in your region’ message. Last month, she missed the entire season finale of her favorite singing competition because her VPN chose that night to stop working.
It’s not just about entertainment—it’s about that feeling of homesickness that hits at 9 PM on a Tuesday when you just want to watch the same show your family group chat is buzzing about. Lina told me, ‘Sometimes I just put on old episodes of Happy Camp as background noise while I cook. It sounds silly, but hearing Mandarin chatter makes this apartment feel less quiet.’
She’s not alone either. I’ve got friends in Toronto who organize ‘streaming parties’ where they all try to find working links simultaneously, and a colleague in London who says her mom mails DVD sets of Chinese dramas because streaming is too unreliable.
There’s something profoundly frustrating about technology simultaneously connecting us across oceans yet putting up these digital walls around the very content that makes us feel connected to home. Lina said it best: ‘It’s like being at a banquet but watching through a window—you can see everything, but you can’t taste any of it.’
So if you’re reading this from somewhere overseas, nodding along because you’ve spent hours troubleshooting why your variety show keeps freezing at the best part—I see you. That particular flavor of frustration is real.
P.S. Lina just texted me—she finally got through to an episode using a new method her friend recommended. Her message: ‘THE QUALITY IS ACTUALLY GOOD AND NO BUFFERING I COULD CRY.’ Mission accomplished… until the next streaming crisis, anyway.
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