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: ?
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.
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
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: ?
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Also every meme about it from white people is racist.
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Alsoeverymeme about it fromwhite people is racist.this is the perfect way to say it. Some white people aren't racist, but any group of white people deffo is
What do you call a group of white people? A klan
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Thanks the the thorough explanation. This is the kind of context I had been wondering about.
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.
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"
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.tmdb.org%2Ft%2Fp%2Foriginal%2FvsHksV4Gup4p0VPPXMIKygR8utt.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
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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
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