A growing number of young Chinese looking for low-maintenance companionship are turning their attention to jars of activated yeast that only need flour and water. So-called static pets such as stones, mango pits, paper boxes, and even toothpaste have become very popular with Chinese youths looking for low-commitment companionship to compensate for their stresfull daily lives and careers. However, one such static pet has been seeing massive popularity in the Asian country, “pet yeast”. Nicknamed “face worm” by netizens, the yeast can be “raised” in a simple container by feeding dry yeast with flour, water, and a bit of sugar. After stirring the ingredients, all you need to do is wait a few hours to see the yeast grow into a sticky, bubbling mass that emits a typical wine-like aroma. Apparently, this is enough for young people looking for easy companionship.
“No need to walk it, no mess, it’s worry-free and easy to look after!” one person wrote on a community board dedicated to pet yeast owners. “If you don’t want to keep it anymore, just add more flour and turn it into steamed buns to eat; there is no psychological burden,” another yeast ‘parent’ commented. Zhao Meng, director of the Department of Psychology at Wuhan Wudong Hospital, believes that young people’s enthusiasm for static exotic pets stems from the accumulation of academic, work, and economic pressures.
https://www.odditycentral.com/news/pet-yeast-craze-getting-traction-in-china.html
Compared with traditional pets that require a lot of time and money, static pets like pet yeast are low-cost and easy to care for. There is no need to take on responsibilities such as walking and bathing it, which is in line with the increasingly popular “lazy healing” lifestyle. Du Hemin, a psychotherapist at Wuhan Wudong Hospital, added that static pets provide owners with “secure attachment”. They are not going to get sick, and they don’t need constant attention.
“They are not like real pets that may get sick or make trouble, giving people a small but certain sense of pleasure,” Du said.
Just get an isopod at this point.
You don't have to walk a begonia...
>>4997988This. Plants are as living as animals/fungi and are much cooler than yeast, many are extremely easy to be cared for. These retards cant even water plants properly
>>4997876 (OP)Jesus christ imagine being Chinese and your only hope for companionship is a fucking single celled fungus.
>>4997876 (OP)This is what you get when AI attempts to emulate the behavior of souled beings
>HOW IS DOG DIFFERENT FROM COW? BOTH ARE STORED IN THE SAME DATA STRUCTURE AND ARE ASSIGNED CHARACTERISTIC: EDIBLE LIVING BIOMASS. YOU ARE PROCESSING INCORRECTLY. >HOW IS YEAST DIFFERENT FROM CAT? REFER TO DATA STRUCTURE. YOUR RETRIEVAL FUNCTION HAS A MEMORY LEAK.
>>4997876 (OP)not a bad idea if you bake your own bread.
I thought this was going to be a thread about cultivating yeast from your pet
Like a dog foot sourdough
Anyway im gonna get a 10 gallon heated betta tank and use it to cultivate sourdough yeast because my house is too cold to do it the normal way
>not taking your lettuce for a walking
>>4999161motherfucking pit corgies
I don't think they're deriving companionship from yeast, I think they literally have no souls and are attempting to act out "companionship behavior" to fit in with the humans
>is this not also a carbon based lifeform that responds to its environment. there is no difference. it is alive and responds to its environment, or it does not. beep boop.
Sound like someone you know? They don't have a soul.
>>4997876 (OP)>>4997877HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The chinkoid race the bottom never ceases to amaze me.
wow, that's pretty sad ngl
>>4998035Any updates anon with your dog foot sourdough?
>>4997876 (OP)I'm old enough to remember the Pet Rock. I'm not sure this is an improvement.
>there are people whose only hope of companionship is this shit
Today's dose of "man-made horrors beyond your comprehension" was a bit stronger than usual.
>>4999231>peopleonly genetically, something seems to be missing inside. there's no way a human being with a soul is capable of doing this as anything but a joke.
I have kefir grains in the fridge, Im just realising that I'm exploiting them, I hope they will forgive me...
>>4999469Keked but pet rocks are gag gift for white children rather than something an adult gets for comfort.
incidentally chinese children are probably forced to make the cardboard box.
>>4999167This too
>>4998027True but majority "grow" yeast then dispose it
>>4999489Jokes on you. My wife is a cat person and I got myself a pet rock to show her that my pet is superior. I talk to it sometimes. No litter box. No hairballs on the carpet. I can throw the fucking thing at an intruder without my wife screaming at me or the rock getting injured. Pet rocks are actually useful and don't meow annoyingly all the time.
>>4997876 (OP)>“If you don’t want to keep it anymore, just add more flour and turn it into steamed buns to eat; there is no psychological burden,”Jesus, they even eat their pet yeasts in addition to dogs and cats. What won't the yellow menace consume?
>>4997876 (OP)The worst part about all of this is that Springtails, one of the lowest of the low when it comes to an organism you can keep and call a "pet", feast on yeast while being one of the easiest creatures to care for. These people can't even do the extra step of having an actual complex organism feed on the shit that they ferment and grow in a jar.
Trully a miserable existence.
>>4999518their collectivism is so strong they're bordering on being unable to recognize nonhumans as lifeforms
>>4999534They come in rice form too, although that would be problematic in an asian setting
>>4997876 (OP)Chinks at it again trying to breed another pandemic huh.
>>4998012my yeast has no sovl... is it over...
>>4997876 (OP)So they started... making sourdough?
Man I'm proud of them, what will they think of next?
