My mom’s WeChat message popped up at 3 AM my time: “Did you watch Yang Jia Yu’s race? She got sixth! The video keeps buffering for me though.”
I was half-asleep, squinting at my phone in the dark. Of course I hadn’t watched it – I’m halfway across the world, and trying to stream anything from CCTV Sports without a VPN is like trying to walk on water.
I could almost hear her frustration through the screen. She’d been following Yang Jia Yu since the Olympics, and here was another moment of national pride that we were both missing because of some digital border.
“The video won’t load past the first minute,” she wrote. “It just spins and spins.”
Sound familiar?
I remember trying to watch the race replays during the last Olympics. My internet’s fine – I can stream Netflix in 4K without a hiccup – but the moment I click on a Weibo video from CCTV, it’s like dial-up internet all over again. Pixelated faces, endless loading circles, and that dreaded message: “This content is not available in your region.”
It’s not just about Yang Jia Yu’s sixth-place finish (congrats to her, by the way – still world class!), or Wu Quanming and Ma Li placing eighth and ninth. It’s about feeling disconnected from home.
My mom still lives in Beijing, and sports are our thing. We used to watch track meets together, yelling at the TV. Now we’re reduced to texting about results we can’t actually watch.
The weirdest part? Sometimes the videos work randomly. Last month, I could watch a full basketball game without issues. This week? Nothing. It’s like the internet gods are playing roulette with my nostalgia.
A friend in Toronto told me she gave up entirely and just reads the news summaries. “It’s not the same,” she said. “I want to see the moments, not just read about them.”
There’s something particularly ironic about being Chinese overseas and not being able to watch Chinese athletes compete. We’re out here representing our culture every day, explaining to people that no, not all Chinese people know kung fu, but we can’t even watch our own champions without jumping through digital hoops.
I finally told my mom I’d figure out the streaming issue and call her back. She responded with a crying emoji and: “I just want to see Yang Jia Yu cross the finish line.”
Me too, mom. Me too.
How many of you have faced this exact struggle? That moment when you’re excited to watch something from home, only to be greeted by the spinning wheel of doom? Share your most frustrating geo-blocking story in the comments – maybe we can all feel a little less alone in this digital diaspora.
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