尽管周末巴黎街头抢劫和纵火的画面令人震惊，但最令我不安的，还是路透社的一段视频画面：一男一女在凯旋门不远处一家咖啡馆的户外桌旁，平静地喝着晚间饮品。不远处的火光在店铺的窗户上形成戏剧性的倒映，店内一名穿白色制服的服务员正在招待至少一位顾客。
As horrific as the images of looting and arson in Paris over the weekend were, I was most unnerved by the video footage from Reuters of a man and woman calmly having evening drinks at an outdoor table of a cafe not far from the Arc de Triomphe. A fire burns in the near distance, dramatically reflected in the window of the establishment, where a server in white attends to at least one customer inside.
这对男女身上带着一种近乎预谋的、电影般的光影，其中一人漫不经心地点燃了一支香烟；画面如此精心构图，宛如一幅活人静物画，以至于艺术史学家西玛·拉奥将其与巴洛克时期的暗色调主义相提并论——卡拉瓦乔等艺术家曾将达·芬奇等人发展出的优雅明暗对比法，戏剧化地推向了充满威胁的境界。若非路透社的背书，我本会以为这段视频是人工智能生成的。
There is an almost premeditated, cinematographic light on the couple, one of whom has nonchalantly lit a cigarette; it is so composed — like a tableau vivant — that the art historian Seema Rao compared it to baroque-era tenebrism, an approach where artists like Caravaggio took the elegant chiaroscuro developed by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and theatrically turned up the menace. If it were not for the Reuters imprimatur, I would have assumed the video was generated by artificial intelligence.
包括拉奥在内的批评者，将这段路透视频富有艺术感的现实，与一系列明显由人工智能生成的视频进行了对比：那些视频中，粉红豹在水炮中穿梭，向法国国家警察竖中指，色彩对比被精准调校（粉色在灰色背景下格外突出），还带着一种喜剧般的满足感——基本上就是一个毛绒玩具戏弄警察。对许多人来说，这种伪造内容削弱了年轻人抗议学校被忽视和被贬低等社会经济问题的正义性，他们勇敢地将这些问题带到了街头。
Critics including Rao have contrasted the artsy reality of the Reuters clip against a number of clearly AI-generated videos of the Pink Panther dashing through water cannonades and giving the finger to France’s national police, with perfectly calibrated color contrasts (pink pops against gray) and the comedic satisfaction of what’s basically a stuffed toy confounding the cops. To many, the fakery diminishes the righteousness of young people’s protests against the neglect and degradation of their schools, among other social and economic issues they’ve courageously brought into the streets.
但我认为，这不仅仅是假卡通扮演。煽动者或许最终会成为全球Z世代采用的愤怒象征之一，从印度尼西亚到印度再到法国，最突出的例子是日本漫画中那面草帽骷髅旗。
But I think there’s more to this than phony cartoon cosplay. The agitator may yet take its place among other emblems of outrage Gen Z has adopted around the world, from Indonesia to India to France, most prominently the straw-hat Jolly Roger flag from the Japanese manga .
首先，简述一位好莱坞小众偶像是如何成为归化法国公民的。动画形象“粉红豹”最初是1963年同名电影片尾字幕中的一段精致动画，该片由布莱克·爱德华兹执导，彼得·塞勒斯饰演笨拙的法国探员克鲁索警探。它作为剧情核心——一颗巨大钻石上粉红色瑕疵的卡通化身登场。这只猫科动物由弗里兹·弗雷伦构思——这位传奇动画师也是兔八哥和小猪佩奇（注：原文为Porky Pig，中文常译为“小猪佩奇”或“波基猪”，此处按知名译名）的创作者——深受欢迎，以至于它成为了奥斯卡获奖动画短片的主角，并主演了一部长寿电视剧集，于1969年至1978年间在美国NBC电视台播出。
First, a brief history of how a minor Hollywood icon became a naturalized French citizen. The animated Pink Panther was a filigree accompanying the end credits to the 1963 movie of the same name, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers as the bumbling French detective, Inspector Clouseau. It served as the cartoon incarnation of a rosy flaw in a huge diamond central to the plot. Conceived by Friz Freleng — the legendary animator behind Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig — the feline was so popular that it became the star of an Oscar-winning animated short as well as a long-running television series that aired in the US on NBC from 1969 to 1978.
同一部剧集在法国也成为了少儿节目的主打内容，一直播放至2011年。它几乎不需要翻译，因为——极少数例外除外——豹子和大多数其他角色都不说话。这只猫在法国已变得如此“本土化”，以至于2013年在总统府举办的一个活动中，它（由人扮演）与萨姆萨姆、笨蛋兔和蓝精灵妹妹等本土法语卡通形象一同亮相。
The same series became a children’s programming staple in France, circulating until 2011. It needed little translation because — with rare exceptions — the panther and most of the other characters did not speak. The cat had become so domesticated in France that it was represented (by a human in costume) alongside native French-speaking cartoon personalities like Samsam, Lapin Cretin and Smurfette for an event at the presidential palace in 2013.
在这种跨文化背景下，“粉红豹行动”这一行动主义团体应运而生，这是一个酷儿/女性主义团体，长期活跃于LGBTQ+游行以及支持移民和少数族裔权利的抗议活动中。其名称也是向美国激进马克思主义、黑人权力组织“黑豹党”的一种戏谑致敬。“粉红豹行动”活跃于2003年至2013年左右。这一时间跨度加上动画剧集在法国的长寿播放，覆盖了千禧一代和Z世代的成长期。因此，粉红豹出现在年轻法国抗议者身边，并非毫无缘由。
Against this cross-cultural context rose the activist group Les Pantheres Roses, a queer/feminist group that was a constant presence at LGBTQ+ marches and protests supporting immigrant and minority rights. The name was also a playful homage to the Black Panthers, the militant Marxist, Black power organization in the US. Les Pantheres Roses were active from 2003 until about 2013. That and the longevity of the series in France covered the coming of age of both millennials and Gen Z. And so the appearance of the Pink Panther on the side of young French protesters isn’t really gratuitous.
乐一通家族的亲戚能否被严肃对待，成为全球抗议语言的一部分？如果它加入《海贼王》的行列，那将是怪诞而恰如其分的：上周，这部作品的海盗旗不仅出现在法国，还现身米兰、阿尔巴尼亚和布鲁塞尔的示威活动中。今年印度的抗议活动以及2025年印尼和尼泊尔的示威中，这面旗帜也被广泛展示。
Can a relative of the Looney Tunes menagerie be taken seriously as part of the language of global protest? It would be weirdly appropriate if it joined the ranks of , which has seen its pirate flag appear not only in France this past week, but in demonstrations in Milan, Albania and Brussels. It was also widely displayed at protests in India this year and at the 2025 demonstrations in Indonesia and Nepal.
《海贼王》——尾田荣一郎1997年创作的漫画系列，全球发行量现已达6亿册——的吸引力直截了当：这群格格不入的船员反抗世界政府的统治，正如当下的Z世代所看到的那样，全球各地的统治阶层老人垄断了社会所有福利，却一无留给他们。（遗憾的是，日本流行文化的魅力也有阴暗面：罪犯趁抗议活动之机洗劫了专售漫画、宝可梦卡牌和动漫手办的店铺。）
The appeal of the pirates of — a comic-book series created by Eiichiro Oda in 1997 that now has 600 million copies in circulation worldwide — is forthright: Its crew of misfits opposes the domination of the World Government, very much the way Gen Z today sees a global confluence of ruling oldsters who have monopolized all of society’s benefits and left them nothing. (Alas, the allure of Japanese pop culture also has a dark side in the criminals who took advantage of the protests to loot shops specializing in manga, Pokemon cards and figurines of anime characters.)
法国人或许比大多数人更懂符号学的力量。抗议者已将一条本意渗透抗议者的尴尬警方短信，化作了呐喊。据报道，试图听起来像说阿拉伯语的街头青年的警方卧底，因方言差异在疑似诱捕行动中表现拙劣，说出了“奉真主之名，是阴影”这样毫无意义的开场白。抗议者像嘲讽一样反复高喊这句话，将建制派的话语反制其身。粉红豹肯定也能成为对抗当局的同样有力（尽管多半沉默）的嘲弄者。
The French also, perhaps more than most people, understand the power of semiotics. Already the protesters have taken a cringey police message meant to infiltrate protesters and turned it into a cri de coeur. Agents trying to sound like Arabic-speaking street youth reportedly stumbled badly with dialectical differences during an alleged attempt at entrapment, leading to the nonsensical opening line, (In the name of God, it's the shadows). Protesters repeated the phrase like a taunt, turning the words of the establishment against itself. Surely the Pink Panther could be a similarly powerful (if mostly silent) heckler against the authorities.
但粉红豹的最新化身不都是AI生成的吗？而这项技术不正是夺走我们工作（甚至生命）的邪恶阴谋的一部分？没错，但如果法国下一场大型抗议活动中，身穿粉红豹服装的人类在人群中欢腾穿梭，那岂不既滑稽又极具颠覆意味？
But aren’t the latest incarnations of the Pink Panther AI? And isn’t that technology part of the evil plot to take jobs (and perhaps life) away from us all? Yeah, but wouldn’t it be funny — and fittingly subversive — if the next big protest in France had humans in Pink Panther costumes cavorting through the crowds?
AI 可能催生了当前的黑豹图像，但未来仍可掌握在人类手中 —— 只要拉链不碍事。
AI may have prompted the current panther images, but the future can still be in human hands — if zippers don’t get in the way.