Unsurprisingly, The Economist’s article peddles a false narrative. Livestreamers and video games are merely the surface of a deeper phenomenon. TikTok and Xiaohongshu thrive only because China’s middle class isn’t impoverished. What makes these platforms persuasive is that they undercut Western myths by contrasting middle-class life in China vs the US.
China has a positive image in the world because it’s leading in sustainability, building world-class infrastructure, pioneering tech in emerging fields, and maintaining safe, clean cities at scale. Its foreign policy, while not flawless, is far more benign than the America’s. No constant wars. A major ally for developing nations. Growing global brands. Standing firm against a bully in the tariff dispute. Meanwhile, tourists who document their visits, are dismantling claims of a police state or genocide.
As soon as China figures out there are more types of shows than Young Aristocratic Woman in the Song Dynasty Takes Revenge on Her Husband’s Evil Family hollywood is cooked
Hey now, there are also Hong Kong corrupt cop dramas.
REAL!
If they can break out of their manhua and donghua wuxia rut too they’d break our weeb communities like snapping paper wrappers off of straws.
Lord of the Mysteries is being adapted, and that’s a kinda Bloodborne-y setting and story. It’ll be huge over here.
just found my new binging material for the weekend
Unlimited Romance of the Three Kingdoms adaptations on the first world
I really need more of that.
Know any good manhua adaptations?
They also have A/B/O mpreg shows.
I cannot explain how this has happened, but the fujos are winning big.
It’s because of government censorship that makes it difficult/lengthy for a lot of shows to be approved
When I was in college, I spent a few months there with a friend who was from China and still had family in both Beijing and Shanghai. They let us crash with them and run around. It was super beautiful, everyone was nice, and the infrastructure was amazing. It was a major part of my radicalization, because it was nothing at all like the
portrayal. I’d genuinely love to go back. It’s encouraging that people are starting to see that the American propaganda is absolute nonsense.i want to visit more than anything… we had a trip planned for July 4th but had to cancel it due to a scare with our dog and the difficult requirements getting visas coordinated from both US and Canada… so we’re going to imperial Japan instead which really stinks… I can’t wait to go to China
authoritarian past (and present).
Oh ffs how I despise Western “journalism” hinting at vibes. This article should come with a health warning.
It’s at the top of the page.
: “Buh…buh…buh…'murica has the yeehaw freedom burger! Quick, tell /pol/ to make more based and redpilled anime girls with out of context statistics about scary brown people!”lol, lmao even
These videos sound fun, but not sure which, if any, of them are good. Anyone know any good travel vloggers? In this list or not?
I used to watch a couple bald and bankrupt videos because he traveled places I had never seen before as a young lib, especially in the post post-Soviet states. But then I heard he was a creep or sex pest or something, plus stopped watching those kinds of videos in general when I got political, and discovered video essays and early Breadtube.
It’s been awhile but it might be nice to throw one of those travel vloggers who are having fun while destroying Western propaganda on the background while doing dishes or something. Any other good travel vloggers in that style? I tried one of iShowSpeed recent China streams but he was way too GenZ-streamer-personality for me, even to my ADHD-ass, he came off kind of annoying.
Let me find a good one, good idea to disregard pretty much any one with a blindingly white tourist in the thumbnail
These ones could be cool
Hilariously bald and bankrupt just made an identical video on “the China Western Media doesn’t want to show”
I found YouTube links in your comment. Here are links to the same videos on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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I watched the last one (josieliftsthings). It’s pretty good. I don’t know if it’s that video or another where she visits XJ that her partner(?) recounts an experience where he was stopped by armed police ij the street of Urumqi and asked to present his passport. He’s pretty matter-of-fact about it*. The rest of the video is super normal - visiting tourist streets, markets and cafes.
The reason her video has so many views is that she was singled out as ‘doing China’s propaganda work for them’ by the Australian media, following her vlog from her first trip to China after the COVID travel restrictions were lifted. So naturally people were like, okay well let’s watch her video then.
*(Though this guy goes on an anti-Roma sidebar in another video)
Didn’t have a problem when youtubers like l@owhi were dehumanising them. And before people say oh they’re pro taiwan mf was desecrating graves in taiwan. Fuck all these people.
i am once again asking for the immediate summary execution of all western journalists
Bury them all alive. It’s what
would have wanted.
My friend is currently doing this. He’s of the opinion that people in China eat up a certain amount of propaganda (probably true) but also says they have way more of a healthy scepticism towards their media diet than anyone in the west.
i wish i could be a westerner that visits china. i could even do a livestream while there.
(can’t tho i did a thing decades ago they do not approve of)
Do you think your government will tell them though?
Tourist visas don’t require a police check, and visa waivers no checks at all apart from 1) valid passport, 2) sufficient time remaining before it expires (I think six months), 3) if required - levidence of your accommodation, broad travel plans in China and ticket for your flight/ship/train out of the country. When you enter you will do some biometrics (fingerprint and face) before heading to immigration to get the visa-on-arrival, or visa stamp on your pasted tourist visa.
