The average "propaganda has no effect on me" believer can't identify the propaganda in what they consume, so they believe it's not there.
Petition to call the 'pasty political commentator staring directly down the thumbnail camera' trend the 'sour milk stare'; cause just looking at them gives me fuckin indigestion
Man looks like he has some indigestion himself, it might just be the soullessness though
I think it's the former, as that's what happens when you ingest stacks of dollar bills.
Genuine question, what is with serpentza and laowhy? I used to watch them before I got deprogrammed and even then, something seemed off. They were expats living in China, who speak the language and have Chinese spouses and children. To this extent, I find it strange they reverted to/still view China through an orientalist sense, since culturally, they've been there long enough to understand the structure and way of things. Yet, here they are, hiding in Amerika, exercising what seems to be limited knowledge on Chinese economics, history, and politics. Pumping out constant fear-mongering takes while cherry-picking stuff on social media. Every video begins with "So I have friends back there who told me how it REALLY is with XYZ", and calling out anyone sympathetic to China a paid shill. They say they take no "sponsors", yet, here they are, incentivized to pump out takes after takes, with millions of views, more relevant than they were when they did their China vlog stuff. YT is platforming them hard, it's just pure fishy.
There was a period when foreigners, especially English-speaking white foreigners, were treated effusively in China, elevated above all Chinese people and often far above the natural social place these folks had back in their own countries. They got better jobs, better job situations and benefits, and Chinese people in general gave them respect and admiration based on their whiteness and exotic Westerness alone.
Then China opened up to the world at ever increasing pace, Chinese people became more sophisticated, and an entire generation of previously-fêted foreigners lost their elevated place in society. They crashed back to earth and drifted back to the social positions they always would have had based on their personal abilities and talents.
Laowhy and Serpentza lived through the tail part of that shift. The good and easy time they'd had in China soon ended, they were barely making ends meet, and soon had to leave. They became deeply bitter, and attributed that natural change in society to the CPC ruining the good times for everyone, not just themselves. Thereafter they fell in with various anti-China crowds within and without China, and also found just how lucrative anti-China videos are on yt.
So it's a combination of both a personal sense of being wronged, plus the good grift, that resulted in their channels and stance today. They were always grifters at heart, the change in money merely changed the nature of their content.
Thanks for your response; they lusted after Western dominance that is no longer present within social norms, felt betrayed when stripped off their status quo, and fell into some radical Sinophobic circles. However, I wonder if there is think tank-funding going on in addition to that, since he's South African but now living on America soil and seems to ignore everything wrong with it.
since he’s South African but now living on America soil and seems to ignore everything wrong with it.
The dude is a gigantic racist. To him the systemic racism of the USA is a feature he loves, not a bug.
There's a category of bitter white immigrant in Asia who, despite speaking the local language or marrying a local, refuse to actually integrate into local society because they think its "weird" or "beneath them". It's not an issue of the CEE CEE PEE being evil and oppressive because you see the same dynamic play out in Japan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, etc, etc.
A lot of them are white dudes from white countries who have never had to deal with being "the other" at any previous point in their life so they're hyper vigilant and perceive normal interactions as microaggressions. Offered a fork instead of chopsticks? Racism! People looking at them on the street? Racism! Being told they speak the language well? You guess it, Racism!
It's Serpentza, so he probably blames the end of Apartheid for killing his brother.
Doesn't everyone, including the "side" one agrees with, have multi layered propaganda efforts? From state broadcasters to paid "grassroots" shills. Best to assume everyone is trying to sell you their story and critically evaluate everything you are being fed.
Or just go wave your side's flag and drink the coolaide. It is what the powers that are want you to do.
No. They don't.
Perhaps you can offer a single example of the other side's multi layered propaganda?
Lemmygrad is an example of evil CPC propaganda, checkmate tankies
