First off the whole narrative about Winnie the Pooh being banned is asinine, and you lot just use it as thinly-veiled excuse to tint your enemies nonwhite colors. Where it came from originally is immaterial
No. One movie didn’t receive screening approval. China limits import for screening of foreign films to 34 a year. I’m not talking Hollywood films, I’m talking all foreign films. The Christoper Robin movie in 2018 didn’t make the cut after it had a disappointing box office and critical reception in Western markets. The IP still remains popular in China because Winnie’s cute.
Yes. The memes associating President Xi with Winnie are banned. You won’t find them on Weibo, for example, where they’ll be likely taken down. Weibo strictly monitors political discourse online and routinely removes content that is aggressively polarising, especially around major political events like the Two Sessions. This is partially at the behest of the government and partially a responsibility towards its userbase.
Some provocative political content is monitored and censored, and we’ve always known that, however, Winnie is not, as you originally said. This is a bald faced orientalist lie and it shows how hollow it is, seeing how quickly you had to abandon it in the face of readily available English language evidence.
I will direct you to the #1 thread on the subreddit you moderate: https://hexbear.net/post/497665
aw cool, cool! yeah, i saw that post before I removed it.
Too bad that the Xinnie the Pooh originated from Chinese dissidents who aren’t happy with their government lol. kinda throws a whole wrench in that “ITS RACIST” dealio.
No, it really doesn’t.
I can’t wait until either you defederate us or we defederate you
aw no! it doesn’t? how’s that one work, comrade?
First off the whole narrative about Winnie the Pooh being banned is asinine, and you lot just use it as thinly-veiled excuse to tint your enemies nonwhite colors. Where it came from originally is immaterial
It is banned, my comrade.
It originated from Chinese people about their government. They weren’t making the post to be racist to themselves lol
https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/attractions/adventures-winnie-pooh/#
Leaving the url in full as it should be self explanatory
aw cool! they have a little theme park!
still banned the memes and movies tho lol
No. One movie didn’t receive screening approval. China limits import for screening of foreign films to 34 a year. I’m not talking Hollywood films, I’m talking all foreign films. The Christoper Robin movie in 2018 didn’t make the cut after it had a disappointing box office and critical reception in Western markets. The IP still remains popular in China because Winnie’s cute.
Yes. The memes associating President Xi with Winnie are banned. You won’t find them on Weibo, for example, where they’ll be likely taken down. Weibo strictly monitors political discourse online and routinely removes content that is aggressively polarising, especially around major political events like the Two Sessions. This is partially at the behest of the government and partially a responsibility towards its userbase.
Some provocative political content is monitored and censored, and we’ve always known that, however, Winnie is not, as you originally said. This is a bald faced orientalist lie and it shows how hollow it is, seeing how quickly you had to abandon it in the face of readily available English language evidence.