吸猫是神经病吗？云吸猫，是精神******

“一日吸猫，终身想猫。”

这几年，互联网上大量关于“吸猫”的口头禅在流传着……“相信我们总会有猫的”、“别看有些人表面光鲜，其实背地里连只猫都没有” 相信大家都听了不少。随着互联网的普及，许多受客观条件制约，无法养猫的爱猫人士开始热衷于在网上“云吸猫”。

"cyber cat petting", a trending phenomenon among Chinese youths, the phenomenon refers to "addictive behaviors" such as watching videos and looking at pictures of cute cats on the Internet in a bid to make up for the loss of not having a cat in real life.

For many cat lovers, owning a cat is an absolute dream that may be difficult to fulfill. Therefore, the option of "raising cloud cats," has taken social media by storm with the group of devotees naming themselves "cat sniffers."

这次，有人直接把“吸猫”写进论文里。

浙江大学一名传播学硕士王畅以“云吸猫”为论题，对这一社会现象进行了一番深入的研究，并得出结论：

“云吸猫”是年轻人的精神******。

A student surnamed Wang, a "cat sniffer" herself, aimed to find out the ultimate reason behind these behaviors, calling “cyber cat petting” the “spiritual opium” in her 62-page thesis for her course at Zhejiang University in eastern China.

王同学的这篇题目为《乌有之猫：“云吸猫”迷群的认同与幻想》的论文共62页，先后从“吸猫成迷是偶然现象吗？”、“吸猫迷群的身份认同”、“乌托邦神话的生产者与消费者”等角度就互联网看猫的现象侃侃而谈。在摘要中，作者认为通过网络看猫的“云吸猫”行为容易让人上瘾，俨然成为现代人的“精神******”。

在这篇论文的结论中，作者提到，吸猫文化的背后是当代中国青年群体的无力感和精神虚无，是文化上缺乏真正符合当代中国青年精神气质的文化产品。并提醒大家警惕这种“虚无主义和犬儒主义心态的盛行”。否则“世界的终结不是一声啜泣，而是一声‘喵’。”

At the end of her thesis, Wang came up with the conclusion that the trend of "raising cyber cats" reflected Chinese young people's spiritual emptiness, which is linked to the country's growing number of "empty nest youth," the term used to describe single or unmarried people who live alone in big cities.

论文一经发布，立刻引起了网友的广泛讨论。许多网友就“云吸猫”作为硕士论文研究对象是否合适表达了自己的看法，不少人表示学术论文应该具有开放性，像这一类贴近生活的论题也值得研究。

Many netizens doubted whether "cyber cat petting" was a proper topic for a postgraduate thesis. Some netizens showed their support to her research as they found the thesis really innovative and to some extent, reflective of modern young Chinese lifestyles.

"Why can't the thesis focus on issues that are close to people's daily lives? 'Cyber cat petting' does reflect young people's psychological state," commented a user @Shaoniantingyu on Weibo, China's Twitter-equivalent.

王同学自己和指导老师都是“吸猫”群体，因为喜爱便以此为题，他认为自己的选题并无什么不妥，“云吸猫”群体作为网络时代的小群体亚文化，对其展开讨论研究可以“反映时代变化的方式”，从学术的角度存在研究价值。

对于“吸猫”被写进论文，你怎么看？