I have to confess that I still can't get Xiaxue—the amazingly popular Asian blogstar who slammed the iPhone in favor of a Chinese knock-off earlier this month. At first I told Matt that I thought she was a completely dumbtastic bozo but, after seeing this, I think she may be the biggest toe-curling comedy genius since Ricky Gervais. There's something awkwardly funny about her reply to the Apple fanboys' flaming that made me laugh out loud. Wait until the end of the video and everything will make sense. Kind of. What do you think? Stupid moron or comedy genius? (Update: I just saw the previous episode on her series, a NSFW six-minute visit to a sex shop, including her take on toys and penis extender systems. She's definitely funny.)
No wonder she made our top 10 list of hot bloggers in 2006. [Clicknetwork via Fashion Funky—thanks Yash]








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"What do you think? Stupid moron or comedy genius?"
NEITHER! 'Hot Asian tittie girl'!! You dudes never give us enough choices on these daily questions!
I still think she's a stupid moronic bozo of galactic proportions.
wow. although i agree with her on apple keyboards (and apple computers) sucking ass, she's still a dumb shit. YOUR NAILS MAKE YOU LOOK LIKE A WHORE!!!
Did someone say something about puppy parades earlier this week?
I think we have our fourth IT Girl !
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I thought it was pretty funny, much better than the crap the fanboys/fangirls put out these days...
@Walter: Come to Brooklyn and say that. See what happens.
That point actually has some depth to it and reminds me of an excellent lesson that Jay-Z taught Macy's - white people aren't the only ones with money nor are they the only ones who like to spend their money.
Jay-Z worked out a deal with Macy's to start selling Rocawear. There was initial resistance to it, with some people asking what it would do for the store's image and the notion of the store's typical shopper. Of course, if you think about that point too much, you realized that it's just racism with a thin coating of "tradition". Macy's started selling Rocawear and, in doing so, expanded its customer base.
People with long nails shouldn't use the iPhone. Okay. Let's alienate the Puerto Rican billing clerk in my old office, my former Chinese colleague (she's a lawyer, but feel free to call her a whore - perhaps in front of the judge for whom she works), and any number of other women of color in New York who are neither bimbos nor whores.
And yes, she is brilliantly funny. The typical image of the Mac user is great when faced with the stark reality of Greg Packer. Now, if you don't mind, this Brooklynite has some blogging to do.
@Walter:
Long fake nails ... and a girl is a whore ... and you are 16 and a cousin marrying red neck ? right ?
That was funny! "Apple users, like touring war torn countries", lolol
...not that she isn't attractive. My point was more of it being a fluff piece.
She can stay!
I didn't want anyone to think I had unreasonably high standards or something.
An awful lot of people don't seem to be getting the joke here at all.
Xiaxue is hilarious!
An iPhone review that talks about how it costs $100 to put on fake nails and $30 just to get them off?
She's joining Yahtzee in my very short list of video bloggers worth watching regularly.
Not every video that includes tech is ABOUT tech. Sometimes it's just entertainment.
oh ewww. YOU AGAIN!
I saw this girl the last time you wrote about her and her fake iphone mishap..
well, either shes dumb, or this is simply a character shes portraying.. then shes one of the best actresses/comic geniuses i have ever seen, and then i have nothing but respect.
Stephen Colbert does the same kinda thing on his show, portrays a character that is a conservative pundit, and vividly illustrates everything that is wrong with media and politics..
That is my kind of girl!
maybe i'm still drunk from last night, but definitely comedic genius.
maybe i'm still sober from last night, but definitely a tranny.
too much?
No way, she's still a moron.
Only thing she's good for is keeping it eagle spread....maybe.
blogging from cambodia or laos or other war torn countries: priceless
she's funny
I dont know her demographic, but I am willing to bet its young women, who will want the info on how their nails will work with a phone, etc. We use diferent measures to decide on electronics than men do.
Nails dont make a woman a whore, charging for sex does. Of course, with many of you, paying is your only hope....
@all: Yeah, definitely she has talent. She's just yanking the chain of every Mac user out there (myself included.) Very funny. Her description of Mac users is so absurd, but it's all on purpose. I'm sold. She's hilarious.
She's culturally ignorant. It would do her some good to travel outside of the Asian world.
That accent haunts me. It drives me nuts.
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100% idiot. She's like an anti-iJustine, except for the whole complete moron part.
And how popular is she in China?
100 % comedy genius !
I love it.
anyone notice how she slides into a British accent occasionally?
I reckon she's putting on the predominant accent in the video for comedic effect.
@MikeRapin:
i think its singapore
@tuchel:
again, that's cuz she's in singapore
She is such a Xiaxue!
/if there is a God she is smiling!
@OMG! Ponies!: "People with long nails shouldn't use the iPhone. Okay. Let's alienate the Puerto Rican billing clerk in my old office... and any number of other women of color in New York who are neither bimbos nor whores."
Wow. Way to twist this into a racist debate. It's really simple. If you have long nails, you shouldn't be using iPhones or any other type of handheld touchscreen device without a stylus, or at least don't bitch went you scratch the screen all to hell. And are all women with long nails airheads and such? Nope. But the majority are, and you play the odds. Now feel free to take a cold shower and think about it for a while.
Please sit the crack pipe down and step away from the video camera.
Seriously, Paris Hilton and this brainless twit should have a baby.
That baby shall be named zooraster and lead all the scientologists to a small mountain region in Bhutan.
Then High Emperor Steve can send some B-52's over loaded with old 8gig iPhones and crush them all.
All of them.
Just a thought....
Haha...it's funny how you guys say she is culturally ignorant when most of you comment about her nails. You have to know that nail "decorating" has been a very big trend is most of far east Asia for a couple of years.
This is strange I must say.
She's an ethnic Chinese who lives in Singapore that speaks with a Filipino accent...
my wife and sister both have long finger nails (real ones not acrylics) and neither have a problem with the iphone. she reminds me of paris hilton, a pig-ignorant, inexplicably famous, sort of looks hot for the first five seconds, then you start to notice she's all make-up.
This woman is hilarious.
@DaOtter: Look, you're free to call Calani (the Puerto Rican billing clerk - who can type more than 60 wpm with her nails) or Eva (one of the court attorneys in Staten Island whose job includes contributing to large parts of caselaw) airheads.
I'm just saying that saying that a woman with long nails "looks like a whore" is sexist - at the very least. It's the sort of thing I'd expect to hear spouted from Don Imus.
Further, as someone who has spent the last 15 years living in 3 of the 5 boroughs of New York City, using the A, B, C, E, F, N, R, Q, W, 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines as part of my various daily commutes to and from home, not including PATH which I take to my job in Newark, the vast majority of women whom I have seen on mass transit with nails of that length tend to be "minorities". Moreover, they take pride in those nails and many men find them (both the women and the nails) attractive.
Last time I checked, money spends the same no matter who is spending it. Telling customers to change their behavior because it doesn't conform to your image of who your customer should be is, at the end of the day, elitist and very often vaguely racist. That is the Macy's lesson. Selling Rocawear led to other "urban" brands like Sean John and Ecco being sold at Macy's. And yes, Macy's image did radically change - from a nearly obsolete department store that didn't know if it wanted to be Bloomingdales or Target to a profitable business.
If you do research on the recent histories of aspirational luxury brands, you'll find a recurring undercurrent from long-time customers about how the changing demographic has cheapened the brand.
Apple's diehard supporters are some of the more recent and infamous complainers about how the great unwashed masses now are buying their product and diluting the product's luxury status.
It's snobbishness.
I think she's a fairly intelligent, funny bimbo.
There are such things, you know.
She's funny regardless of whether it is on purpose or not. I like where she claims PC's don't have a Windows button and then realizes what she said.
"They have an utterly splendid time looking at how poor people live their lives..."
This chick is AWESOME.
@OMG! Ponies!: If she doesn't want to be called a whore, she should stop wearing the uniform.
She isn't attractive...
I do love the end. Windows Movie Maker is far worse than iMovie (which also comes free on any new Mac) - even the new version of iMovie, which blows.
That is a Singaporean accent, btw.
A hot chick in a porn shop and I'm bored... man does she suck.
This doesn't change the fact that long nails are gross.
@MikeRapin: Dude, she's not from china. She's from Singapore.
I love her! She is ultra-uber-extremeo-funny.
I'd rather have 15 minutes alone with the Macbook Air.
Flaming start..........now.
Wish you guys wouldn't keep screwing the facts. She never said she favored the knock off, but she did say it wasn't bad for a Chinese shit phone.
I do enjoy the fan boy response to a negative review. Learn to take it like a man.
I think she's funny :D
you boys are freakin hillarious... its a spoofy review, you monkeys...
(from her blog)
"And also, some of you might have noticed that Gizmodo and Fake Steve, both very popular internet sites, picked up on my iPhone review, completely misconstruing what I said and taking my spoof phone review, very, very seriously.
Well, maybe the site owners themselves didn't, but the users surely did!
I laughed my ass off as I read comments like:
-that was hilarious, wow. It just proves iPhones are for smart people-
You know what dude? YOU EXACTLY PROVED MY POINT. I don't like Apple users because they TYPICALLY:
1) Think they are smarter than everyone else
2) Think they are cooler than everyone else
3) Most importantly, think they are more ENLIGHTENED than everyone else, and have a raging innate need to tell people what to do: Which is to use bloody Mac products.
Of course, there are also the typical Mac fanboys who are too stupid to argue logically, so they instead display their rage by saying I am ugly, a completely bimbo, stupid hair/eyelashes/make up/neighing voice etc.