The "Tech Gala" is back. There are more young people around the "fifty-something man".

The long - awaited "feeling of real people" on the Internet.

Written by | Taro

Cover source | The Annual Science and Technology Innovation Sharing Conference of "Luo Yonghao's Crossroads"

He was more than 40 minutes late. The BGM of Wutiaoren's "It's That Spring Again, Still That Spring" had been on loop for God knows how many times. Finally, the man took the stage in all black.

After the failure of Smartisan Mobile in 2018, he hadn't made such a public appearance for a long time. The last time we saw him like this was well, the last time.

At last night's "Science and Technology Gala", he self - deprecatingly called himself an "old man in his fifties" and rambled on passionately for over 4 hours until the last day of 2025.

Old Luo is still Old Luo. Being late, refunding tickets, and speaking without restraint. The familiar feeling is back.

From the very beginning of the announcement, he emphasized that this was not a "live - streaming sales event". There were many novel things like ergonomic chairs, exoskeleton robots, and desktop 3D printers. There were both "recommendations" and "warnings".

Besides the products, the guests on - site also brought plenty of surprises. When demonstrating the usage scenario of a single - person dishwasher, Luo Yonghao said he had found a famous bachelor for everyone. Then the camera panned to @FilmForce founder Tim, sitting obediently at the dining table, eating noodles and fried eggs. When it came to demonstrating an AI music tool, Luo Yonghao called in the pre - arranged "little singer", and @WUTIAOREN took the stage looking fresh as a daisy.

At the "Science and Technology Gala", he also presented awards to selected Douyin creators. When presenting the trophy for the "Creator of the Year for the Best Visual Spectacle", Luo Yonghao didn't hold back and said that young and creative people like @MagicAyu gave him the creeps. He described the videos of @BiDao, the "Strongest Fancy Science Popularization Creator", as "tricking" people into learning knowledge. When it came to @Uhang, the "Creator with the Most Crossroads Spirit", while saying that the robots in his videos looked scary, he also engaged in some business small - talk, saying that he wanted to take a look offline later.

To be honest, the whole event was a bit of a "disaster". There were PPTs with un - deleted annotations, wrong videos being played, and the sound quality was terrible... Even when it was time to turn off the power at the venue, there were still several products left to be demonstrated.

Making a fool of himself seems to be Luo Yonghao's "normal operation". In the end, he simply sat down and said, "An old man should just sit for a while. Anyway, it's all in a mess."

But netizens said they enjoyed watching the whole thing. This kind of straightforward sincerity and idealism has brought back the rare "feeling of real people" on the Internet.

Ph.D. from an Ivy League school or a high - school dropout?

The threshold isn't in technology, but in idealism

Is Luo Yonghao a successful businessman? Let's not discuss that for now. But announcing the registration of a company to make mobile phones three months before his 40th birthday, he must be an idealist. And those who play with technology are just such a group of people. In fact, they are more amazing than the novel products at the "Science and Technology Gala".

@Uhang, who received a "friend request" from Luo Yonghao on - site, initially was just a "student abroad" who updated cooking videos. More than a month later, when he showed off his Ph.D. admission offers from Oxford, Columbia, and UCLA, netizens realized that "things were not that simple".

As the "most successful cook turned Internet celebrity", the "devote ten years to one thing" written in his Douyin bio obviously doesn't refer to cooking.

In June this year, when 28 - year - old @Uhang graduated with a Ph.D. from Columbia University, this million - follower blogger already owned a robot company that had completed hundreds of millions of yuan in financing.

Idealism comes with its share of twists and turns. @Uhang isn't a "perfect" over - achieving student. To access more cutting - edge resources, he set the goal of studying at a top 30 university in the United States during his college years. For this, he took the TOEFL nine times and the GRE four times. Douyin has fully documented the story of a "desperate graduate student" at a loss with his research, pulling all - nighters doing strange things, to a "life winner" who graduated smoothly with top - tier journal papers in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence.

He has expressed his wish on multiple public occasions: to make artificial intelligence and robots no longer cold tools, but new species with bodies, self - awareness, and emotional resonance. When he snapped his fingers in the summer of 2025 and used body language to guide the humanoid robot to look at the camera, the gap between technology and humanity seemed to be narrowing.

Idealism has never been a narrative from an "elite perspective". Just like Luo Yonghao's experience, @MagicAyu, who also dropped out of high school, seemingly had a "terrible start", but he has turned every setback into an experience along the way.

He built a flying wing with a tail flame, jumped off from 5000 meters above the ground with his back to the setting sun, turning himself into a meteor diving at a speed of 300 kilometers per hour. @MagicAyu heals himself with extreme romance.

Three months ago, he took an entire living room into the air.

At the beginning of the video, he calmly said, "2025 has been a bad year for me." This post - 2000s guy who makes "adventure" the main theme of his life spent all his savings building an airplane, which crashed, and then built a boat, which also sank. But he still believes that "all the bad things will pass".

On a quiet morning, he cooked a breakfast in his "living room" 3000 meters above the ground and told the story of growing up in rental houses and moving frequently. Only then did people realize that this isn't a story of "being rich and having plenty of free time", but a hardcore fairy tale where every steel plate is cut by himself, and he builds his dream with his own hands.

Is there a threshold for "technology"? Both the Ivy League Ph.D. and the high - school dropout creator are recording the joy of creation in their own ways and have gained millions of witnesses.

Knowledge has never been as accessible as it is in this era. What's scarce is "idealism".

Abstract or even more abstract? The era of everyone creating content on the Internet

Abstract meets abstract. Luo Yonghao, a long - time fan of @BiDao, finally got to meet him in person. However, in a live - stream, one can't avoid making some polite remarks. @BiDao publicly said that he was "very happy to bring the joy of science to the audience", but in private, he really let loose when chatting about vulgar topics.

Five years ago, @BiDao became famous overnight for researching how to make a splash when taking a dump. This year, he thoughtfully pointed out that "in life, we may inevitably encounter situations where we have to pee into boiling water" and proclaimed himself the leader in the SNP academic field, leading the research on "high - temperature urination mechanics".

Thanks to the Internet, we're more likely to believe that many outrageous historical anecdotes might be true. In the past, there were only written records, but now even the videos are in high - definition. If you didn't see it with your own eyes, who would believe that the bigwigs in the technology and AI fields are so into abstract and meme - playing in private?

Looking around, the technology field is extremely competitive. The AI track, which has been booming in the past two years, is also a battlefield of the titans.

Who would have thought that when the CEO of a robot company went to the WAIC (World Artificial Intelligence Conference) as a guest, the communication among peers wasn't just mutual flattery? One person just blurted out, "Do your robots have a face?" Sure enough, honesty is the best policy. @Uhang took out his phone and started showing his human - face robot products to his peers. The abstractness spread from the video to the comment section, and the so - called "electronic shareholders" only do one thing every day: ask for the stock code.

But when it comes to abstractness, who can beat @LinYiLYi? While other AI bloggers are evaluating accuracy, practicality, and ethical issues, he directly organized an AI version of Werewolf: locking up seven well - known domestic and international AIs in a virtual room. The game rule is that only one "person" can survive, so they have to pretend to be human to "survive" and even frame each other if necessary. It's like "fighting crickets in the cyber age".

Not satisfied with just playing with AI, @LinYiLYi also invited humans to join the fun. Not long ago, he invited @ShuangWen, the top scorer in the 2024 college entrance examination in Zhejiang Province, to compete with AI in writing an essay. He invited big - name judges like columnists, history professors, and well - known writers for a "blind review". Sure enough, AI still can't replace humans. A wrongly typed punctuation mark due to a "slippery finger" became an unspoken "signal" for humans.

It seems that we've only tapped less than 1% of the potential for creating content on the Internet. Douyin, how many more surprises do you have in store?

What!? The Internet really helps people learn something

With high - speed Internet, you can come across all sorts of things.

YouTube guru @willColgley has joined Douyin and is teaching the "installation tutorial of a bionic mechanical heart" in person. From the functions used in the code to the resolution of 3D printing and the installation of heart components, it's all hands - on teaching. Don't worry if you don't understand the video explanations. The blogger has attached a compressed package of detailed materials for free download.

So, does he mean that with a tutorial, I can build a heart myself?

However, in the seemingly all - encompassing Internet, most of the information is redundant. High - quality and hardcore content like this is a needle in a haystack.