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  • MaeBorowski [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    So where would be a good place to read about the context and story behind the whole Xi = Winnie the Pooh thing that isn't a bunch of western libs going on about the repression of :freeze-peach: ?

    • riley
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      1 year ago

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    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      The best place I've seen that took a technical look at it was a Financial Times piece (I think) where they pointed out that Pooh wasn't actually banned. They then look at the trending post numbers on some Chinese social media site and show the claim for banning made the Pooh images go viral as people proved that it wasn't banned. But then in a massive case of cognitive dissonance, after explicitly showing that the meme was in fact popular for a number of days with a massive number of posts, they claim that the drop off in posts after like 3 days (when the internet usually gets bored with stuff) was because of banning... even though there was still a higher number of Pooh posts than before the viral event. Just like 80% less than at its peak. It looked like any other epidemic line graph after the initial run through the population.

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      It's just a chinese internet meme. As far as I understand it goes literally no deeper than "haha he looks kinda like winnie the pooh"

      • determinism2 [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FvsHksV4Gup4p0VPPXMIKygR8utt.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

    • ToastGhost [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      its a picture of obama and xi and someone posted it next to a picture of tigger and pooh in the same positions, thats the whole thing, it jumps straight to "xi cee pee banned pooh" afterwards