A little bit of context (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy)
In 2019, competitive Hearthstone player Blitzchung was removed from a tournament and banned from future tournaments for displaying a sign saying "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times" in accordance with Blizzard's policy against political protest during events
Now that they've Targeted Gamers, there was a massive outrage, and the hearthstone community got pissed, so they protested in the following ways:
-Pretending to delete their account
-Preparing for some big protest at Blizzcon
-Some weird scheme to associate Overwatch's Chinese character Mei with Hong Kong protests, in hopes of getting Overwatch censored in China (obviously didn't do anything, based on the myth that Winnie the Pooh is banned in China)
-And most importantly, making big posts about how mad they are
Eventually, Blizzcon rolled around, no protest materialized, and they announced Overwatch 2, so everyone let this die, everyone let Hong Kong be forgotten. A stunning example of Reddit activism, I'll never forget it
mighta been fake but I remember a pretty hilarious post complaining about how Blizzard refused to undelete his account now that he'd had a change of heart
There was a bunch of funny posts by accounts who were big on the protests, a month later saying things like "is anyone else impressed how balanced this meta is?"
It's an easy fix, all you have to do is send them a video of you standing in front of a PRC flag pledging to uphold Mao Zedong thought while blaring The East is Red. Pretty sure the appeals process is well explained on the support page.
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And this is why whenever I see some new shit about PRC on reddit, I just yawn. We've been through giant media blitzes before and we'll go through more down the line. Big fucking deal.
As Guy Debord put it, "All that once was directly lived has become mere representation."
poster is Turkish and spent yesterday posting about Magic The Gathering
I had to stop talking to someone I played World of Warcraft with for several years over this. It was like something broke inside of them, and they began sending Xi Winnie-the-pooh memes to me, and all they could talk about were the Uyghur death camps and how Tencent was subverting American democracy or something.
I still don't know what the point of the Hong Kong protests was or what they accomplished.
(Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou is from Xi’an, PRC, not Hong Kong, and is fiercely loyal to the CCP since they funded her education(as they do for all citizens of China in the year 2070) and provided for her research grants.)
Bruh I thought Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou was a real person in Hong Kong politics. I google her and its just Mei from fucking Overwatch
https://www.reddit.com/r/Overwatch/comments/dfizf2/overwatch_hero_mei_is_becoming_a_hong_kong/
The top post of all time on the Overwatch subreddit too.
They wanted to turn the one Chinese character in the game into an anti-CCP reactionary.
IIRC the points of the protests were:
- to get a bill withdrawn that would have established an extradition treaty between China and HK ahead of schedule (this is happening in 2047 anyway)
- to reform the political system in HK such that a large share of the government are not appointed by corporations (based)
- to get investigations into police brutality (based if pointless)
- to achieve amnesty for all arrested protesters (based but not gonna happen)
- to get them to stop calling the protests "riots" (pointless)
From talking to people who immigrated from HK and still have family there, the protesters generally wanted some good things, the problem was that the US will use any opening it can as a wedge issue. About half didn't support the protesters because "they caused too much property damage" or fought back against the cops.
In terms of actual results, there was an election and a "pro-democracy" group won in a landslide... except for all the seats that are appointed by corps. I don't think any of the demands were actually achieved but I'll admit that I haven't been paying attention. In the early days of COVID, HK police shut down any large gatherings, and I think the movement just kind of died from there.
rrrrrrrr china bad me posting on a g*mer subreddit will have geopolitical consequences
idealism is a mfer
I know this is not what the reddit OP is going for, but maybe this will teach them that companies only care about profits and that capitalism = sucks.
this corporation is evil!
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because it's run by communists
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One reason it doesn't result in anything is because it's astroturfed heavily by US sockpuppet and upvote accounts with the goal of making people hate China, not actually to change anything. After all, if they actually involved people in changing something, those people might want to do it here too.
