yiheng’s mom - we chat / post

According to Microsoft Copilot (an AI), this is what it says:

Can I finally say something? Today, Yiheng performed really well—so well that I feel he already gave everything he had. We all know that being able to complete five recoveries in this match is already amazing. I told him, “I just want you to be happy when you finish competing.” I know exactly what he’s going through.

Last night, he even had psychosomatic reactions. Xiaoxiao and I stayed with him. He would vomit after a single bite of food, and he didn’t dare sleep with the lights off. He kept asking, “Why is Gan doing this? What did I do wrong? I’m nothing now.”

I told him, “Yiheng, your greatness no longer needs wins or losses to prove itself.”

These past days, I’m not blind, and I’m not stupid. Are you really targeting me because you dislike me? You clearly aimed everything at a 12‑year‑old child—Wang Yiheng. You’re just using your dislike for me as an excuse to attack him.

Gan, as Yiheng’s former team, provoked us again and again before the competition. Was it because you knew I wouldn’t fight back? Because if I did, we’d be dragged into an even bigger mess? You knew that perfectly well.

Your provocations—was that palace intrigue? From February 2023 to September 2024, for a year and a half, how many records did he break using the Gan12? Why didn’t we dare promote it loudly? I told many friends: We don’t even dare laugh too loudly, afraid of disturbing others’ peace.

That was the only thing I could do for his teammates. Has anyone ever shown even a bit of gratitude? I don’t need gratitude, but if anyone understood my intentions, I would already feel it was worth it.

Yiheng broke 14 records—so does that mean his era is over? Only those standing in the spotlight count as heroes? Didn’t he show everyone what this event could become? Over these years, hasn’t anyone used him for clout?

When Yiheng was at his lowest, it was Li Chunxiao who stayed with him, and Wang Jiayu who offered to help him train. Even at Worlds, when he was out of form, it was Pan Jiekang who supported him. He brings this up to me again and again. Are we ungrateful people?

Yiheng spent four years at Gan—did we contribute nothing? When the first‑generation 12ui came out, who did endless testing? When we were forced to change contract terms, what was said? And how was it fulfilled afterward? When we moved to Moyu, what was said behind our backs? Did I ever publicly say a word? What did we ever do to wrong Gan? Nothing. We never slandered our old team. Even when people kept using us for attention at the beginning, we endured it.

What, do you really need to see where our bottom line is?

We truly don’t have the time or energy to deal with everything from the outside world. I’m especially grateful to the fans who still stand up for us at a time like this. If I keep silent, then I’m being cowardly. I’d be letting down the fans who support us.

Yiheng has told me many times about the unfair competition environments he faced. All I could tell him was, “You’ll have to overcome it yourself. There’s nothing we can do.” Because no rule says they can’t do those things. I never fought for my own son—I only told him to accept it.

Now, I can say openly: we have not wronged anyone. In fact, we’ve treated everyone very well. Our long silence came from our upbringing—never attack others. But now, many people are crossing the line without restraint. I’m not oblivious. Don’t you have a conscience?

Again and again—what exactly do you want? You’ve really gone too far. As a major company in the cubing industry, you’ve gone too far.

Yiheng was amazing today. He walked into the venue with a headache, shoulder pain, and tinnitus, yet still delivered his best performance. I’ve never been this outspoken, but today I want to say: I am proud of my son. He deserves my pride.

Edit: nvm I’m stupid I didn’t see the translation under the image
 
Honestly, I ALWAYS had a funny feeling about extremely young children being sponsored by retailers and manufacturers. The power imbalance between a sponsor and a literal child is absolutely insane (even with parents involved) and can be very hard to maintain in a sustainable way (scratch that, probably nearly impossible).

If this is how GAN is treating their gurus, I am very very deeply concerned for all of their well beings (and frankly redact any statements I have said suggesting otherwise). Now, does that mean I have an issue with kids being good? Not at all, even if I have other reservations about coaching and proper "training" so to speak; this is the right time for children to learn to be competitve.

HOWEVER, after a certain point, people need to realize that we are dealing with actual children here, not just cube solving machines. Other industries (like acting and pagents) shouldn't be an excuse to justify it in our space. We need to take things back a decade and restore the humanity in speedcubing.

My heart goes out to YiHeng and his family. Nobody should lose sleep and be on the brink of throwing up all the time over a plastic puzzle.

Edited to mention parental involvement.
 
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it seems somone on reddit clarified what happened o_O


of course tiger mom / mama bear would be protective
a child suffering because of the rude and disgusting statements of a TOY COMPANY is unacceptable in the cubing community. The cubing community was always known to be fun and full of kind cubers. But when something like this happens, it breaks that. Because of GAN, Yiheng is probably extremely demotivated to cube, he might even want to quit at this point.
Imagine training day and night trying to improve as much as possible, as fast as possible, then when you finally your well deserved records, you lose them to some other kid, and that kid’s sponsor flames you because you lost the record. I find planning cross+2 to be a headache on normal solves, just because you have to track everything, but Yiheng? He can plan FULL F2L like it’s NOTHING. GAN is essentially saying: “hah, you lost your record to our sponsor, shame on you.” That’s pretty much putting Yiheng’s hard work into the trash, and Yiheng doesn’t deserve that.

I’ll probably stop buying from GAN now.
 
what... this is... disgusting. like come on, could they be respectful ? yiheng is clearly better than teodor (not saying he is bad he's s good cuber) and he did not deserve this. he is 11 years old. a milion dollar company is making fun of a 11 years old. humanity is cooked.
 
what... this is... disgusting. like come on, could they be respectful ? yiheng is clearly better than teodor (not saying he is bad he's s good cuber) and he did not deserve this. he is 11 years old. a milion dollar company is making fun of a 11 years old. humanity is cooked.
corrections:
yiheng is 12
GAN was congratulating Xuanyi on the WR average and then they just threw in “Your Record is Now in My Hands” because they probably wanted to brag that GAN is “superior”
humanity has been cooked for centuries😭
 
oh my bad i wrote 11 instead of 12 and its xuanyi and not teodor. 2h30 of math is too overwhelming for me (i have an exam in two days i only know half of what i should know)
 
oh my bad i wrote 11 instead of 12 and its xuanyi and not teodor. 2h30 of math is too overwhelming for me (i have an exam in two days i only know half of what i should know)
bro what???
you shouldn’t be doing 2h 30mins of math
and why do you only kmow half of what you should know??

ahhhhh
 
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