"Don't roll, don't roll" means: don't roll in. It is a protest against some vicious competition. Involution refers to some meaningless consumption or effort. Within a certain range, some people will start to pay first, and people around them will compete to imitate in order not to fall behind, but the final result has not changed qualitatively, but has returned to the original state. This is the involution.

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The earliest "source" of the involution is a few pictures of famous schools. A few pictures of college students exploding their circle of friends are like this: some people are reading books on bicycles, some dormitory beds are full of books, and some even write papers on computers while riding bicycles. These photos were first circulated among the principals of Tsinghua Peking University. Later, popular words such as "watching computer while riding a bike" and "Tsinghua Wang Juan" appeared in hot searches, and related expression packs also appeared in many college students' social software. And an article entitled "Grade Point is King: The Prisoner's Dilemma of Young People in Top Universities in China" played a role in fueling the situation. The author talks about the present situation of examination papers in Tsinghua and Peking University.

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For example, students with average grades strive to improve their grades, while students with excellent grades are unwilling to lag behind. Therefore, after the students' grades improve, their grades will also improve. I was admitted to a top student. Everyone has worked hard, but it seems that no one has worked hard. It is precisely because vicious competition will lead to meaningless efforts that people protested.