Chinese "Sibling Romance" Show Made Me Question Every Relationship I Know

Moral Of The Story

Stephanie Soo

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

“Are they siblings or dating?” It’s a question even the brightest philosophers cannot answer. One Chinese reality show decides to make every single person uncomfortable by bringing in a group of people to live in a mansion together for a month. The premise is - everyone in the house has a sibling also present. You cannot tell anyone who your sibling is but you must proceed to go on dates with other people while you’re there. A panel of judges will take a look at everyone’s interactions and question - wait that look that they just shared…. That can only be if they’re interested in each other right? But what if they’re siblings? Question every relationship you know with the new siblings or dating show from China.

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0:00.0	Um, a guvog, guac.
0:05.0	Um, a guad guac.
0:22.0	There's pretty much only one thing that makes me believe in reincarnation.
0:26.0	And it's this Chinese reality show.
0:28.0	And I'm convinced that Freud reincarnated as a producer for a reality show.
0:35.5	And this was his grand, big old idea. He said,
0:39.8	he said, remember how I said kids and parents have like very complicated relationships?
0:47.1	Are they siblings as well? Are they siblings or are they dating? That is the concept behind this reality show.
0:55.5	Listen, I think there have been many a spin-offs across the globe.
1:01.0	It must be a thing that I think the human race will one day hopefully ponder upon,
1:07.5	will come to a self-realization of like, was this incest? Was this like the fizzling out of
1:14.2	incest? Was this stage four? We don't know. But this is the Chinese reality show that we're
1:20.6	talking about today. I saw a few clips on TikTok and I became addicted and I binge watched like five
1:25.2	different episodes and Tiffany is like you need to stop watching
1:27.8	these Chinese shows because I don't know what you're doing to your brain but it's getting rotten.
1:33.2	What is the premise again? The premise is you know that Instagram premise where there is an
1:39.5	Instagram account called siblings or dating. They post a picture of two people. And you have to decide if they're siblings or dating they post a picture of two people and you have to decide if they're
1:46.9	siblings or if they're dating like and then like they're just like a little bit too close yeah or they just
1:53.4	like look a little bit i don't know you know it's like they're sitting on each other's labs
1:58.8	they're groping each other and then it it's like, oh, they're siblings.
2:02.7	And you're like, that's weird.
2:04.1	Yeah, but then you make, you start questioning.
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