What do you mean by eating melons? What is the origin?

People who eat melons refer to ordinary netizens who don't talk but watch.

In online forums, people post to discuss problems, and there are often a bunch of people queuing to follow the posts, or expressing their opinions or shooting the breeze. People often use "people who eat melons" to laugh at themselves or at each other, to express a state that has nothing to do with themselves and only looks at them without expressing their opinions.

The people who eat melons originated from a street news. Later, a reporter went to interview an old man, who said I knew nothing. I am eating watermelon. Later, someone commented in the news commentary: I am just a melon eater who doesn't know the truth and is popular.

Onlookers' psychology of eating melons.

Typical psychological defense mechanisms include sour grapes.

People usually say, look at those celebrities and successful people, they don't live that well, they are just good-looking, who doesn't worry about it, and so on. Because people need a balance of self-esteem, need to have a good impression on themselves and need to be respected, and to realize this psychological demand, we need to rely on social comparison and social relations to satisfy self-knowledge.

This phenomenon is called "mirror self-effect" in psychology. People will look at others as mirrors. If others live well, they will appear unhappy to some extent and make us unhappy. People will tend to ignore it. This is another defense mechanism called denial.

And if others are not doing well, we want to pay more attention to him, or even care about him, because it reflects from another angle that we are doing well, at least we have not encountered too much disaster or humiliation, which is also a compensation for our self-esteem.