Meaning: “废话” means “nonsense,” and “文学” means “literature.” First seen in comments at streamsite Bilibili, this term refers to the contents that are meant to be humorous but with no substantial thoughts.
Many Chinese netizens enthusiastically participated in “talking nonsense”, and there were even “nonsense literature” competitions on major social media platforms, which were mainly for fun and were jokes about boring contents on the internet.
Example:
A: 我们终于又见面了。七日不见，如隔一周。 wǒmen zhōngyú yòu jiànmiàn le 。 qī rì bùjiàn ， rú gé yīzhōu 。 Great to see you again. I haven’t seen you for a week, so it’s like we haven’t seen for seven days.
B: 你这句话听起来说了就像没说一样。 nǐ zhè jù huà tīngqǐlái shuō le jiù xiàng méi shuō yíyàng 。 It seems you are talking nonsense.
A: 这是“废话文学”的经典句子。 zhè shì “fèihuà wénxué ”de jīngdiǎn jùzǐ 。 Yes. This is a classic sentence from the “nonsense