Chinese Nationalists / Wumaodang (五毛党) / 50 Cent Party - CHINA NUMBAH WAN

[Marissa Moira]

Practically speaking Chinese construction aid has massively raised the standard of living of millions of Africans. Being called the gamer word repeatedly is a small price to pay for that.

United States did the same and apparently it's an original sin now.

Some even more autistic tankie threw a fit about Orwell being anti-communist and posted a review of 1984 by Asimov in the replies as a rebuttal. The only thing the review has convinced me of is that Asimov would have his own page on the forums had the lifespan of the two overlapped.

Asimov by the end became entirely demented. he couldn't even dress himself and could barely speak. His brain was that far gone and the final meeting between him an Harlan Ellison(who was his friend) Asimov struggled to say that He himself wished he was Isaac Asimov(because he knew how bad his condition got).

*edit*
Welp it's on youtube

 

[bluegenius8585]

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This guy's in going to be shocked when he sees how some of the Chinese view Africans.

Or how parts of China basically banned blacks due to them thinking they are responsible for the Wu-Flu

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Or how parts of China basically banned blacks due to them thinking they are responsible for the Wu-Flu

"Imagine my shock" as Paul Joseph Watson might said.

 

[bot_for_hire]

Beijing funds British YouTubers to further its propaganda war​

The Chinese government is funding British YouTube stars to produce pro-China propaganda videos, an investigation by The Times can reveal.

Sitting on a bench in a lush green park speaking to the camera in a Midlands accent, the only hint that the man in his 50s is in China are the characters on a small logo on his black hoodie.

However, the words being spoken in the YouTube video by Lee Barrett, praising the camps in Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims are held in effect as slaves, could have been lifted straight out of the Communist Party propaganda notebook.

Regarding the inhabitants of these camps, where according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Uighur Muslims are locked up because of their religion, he claims “when these young people come out of these camps, they see they have some sort of future for them, jobs, training, so they can do new kinds of jobs”.

The comments written by viewers below the video are unfailingly positive, including insights such as “we need these re-education camps in Hong Kong for those brain-washed young rioters”.

Lee’s son, Oli, 23, who previously had a successful following as a YouTuber making videos of him playing the computer game Call of Duty, addresses the Hong Kong protests himself in another video, called “Western media brainwashing”.

Oli, who moved to China in 2019 to live with his father, tells viewers that the “western media” is wrong to say Hong Kong protesters are “pro-democracy”.

He adds: “Police brutality is another thing pushed in the media of the Five Eye nations — that the Hong Kong police during the protests over the last year have been so brutal against their citizens . . . which is just blatantly not true.”

Amnesty International said in September that it had evidence of detained Hong Kong protesters being severely beaten in custody and suffering “other ill-treatment amounting to torture”.

The videos are one of several that push a pro-China government agenda and has led to the Barretts scoring a runaway success since they launched their channel in 2019.

Titles include “Western media lies about China” and “Camera surveillance is great in China” and several are in support of the technology company Huawei.

According to analysis by the computational propaganda project at the University of Oxford, their videos have been tweeted by members of China’s Communist Party across the world including the Minister for the Chinese Embassy in the UK, Ma Hui.

The Times has found that some of their videos were funded by Chinese Radio International, a media organisation that has been exposed as the secret owner of an international network of propaganda radio stations.

Grammarly, a writing app, has pledged to remove their adverts from the videos and JD Sports promised to investigate after The Times revealed its adverts were being shown.

The Barretts started producing videos about China and as their videos became more nationalistic, the number of subscribers increased exponentially.

Critics have claimed that pro-China YouTubers are benefiting from ad-revenues in part driven by an alleged Chinese Communist Party network of bots that promote videos supporting the state.

The Barretts have nearly 200,000 subscribers, and have produced 255 videos since the start of last year, gaining a combined 16.5 million views. Their videos are thought to earn them about £53,000 a year through advertising alone, according to analysis by Social Blade, a website that monitors social media channels such as YouTube.

In November they visited the Shaanxi district of China with several other foreign YouTubers who live in China and make videos supporting the government.

The trip was organised and funded by the Chinese Radio International and an official press release described the visit as “International Internet Celebrities Witnessing the Happiness of Shaanxi People”.

In a candid video about the visit that was subsequently removed, Lee admitted that a trip to a mountain was cancelled so they could witness “propaganda” regarding the area’s prosperity.

He said: “It wasn’t until the second day they started talking about cutting the trip short by a day, and there was no real reason given for that.” A fellow YouTuber Jayoe Nation said: “They had to fit in more propaganda.”

Lee replied: “They didn’t say that, did they, but that’s what happened.”

Various videos from the trip show the YouTubers visiting locations in the district including a farm where Oli performed a farcical dance while holding vegetables.

The Barretts are part of a growing number of foreigners who live in China making videos endorsing the government and criticising the West.

Jason Lightfoot, who went to university in Sheffield where he met his Chinese wife, has a channel, Living in China, with 35,000 subscribers.

His videos include titles such as “The World can’t compete with China’s Infrastructure!”, “The World is Hiding China’s Success”, “The Chinese Government is Doing a Great Job” and “The World Needs to Learn from China”.

In one, he walks around filming BMW cars and says: “This is one of the poorest provinces in China. China has become a beautiful utopia of this world. I’m astonished by it. Am I lying?

“Is this not a utopia? Is this not the way the world should be? People say ‘communism is bad’ Well maybe it’s not that bad. Take a look at China for example. Is it that bad? This is communism.”

Despite the praise of China, such YouTubers are not technically allowed to be posting such videos. YouTube, along with Facebook, Google, Instagram and Twitter, is banned in China. The Barretts and Mr Lightfoot rely on a virtual private network to bypass the Chinese firewall by routing traffic through a server in another country.

Gray Sergeant, research fellow at the Asian studies centre at the Henry Jackson Society, said: “This co-opting of influencers is something new and is quite clearly attempting to legitimise the regime.

“It’s probably quite wise to get in with YouTube because although it can’t be easily viewed in China without a virtual private network, it’s a way for them to get their message out to the West.

“If they were to step out of line and say something controversial then life would become very difficult for them. They clearly know that so it’s difficult to know whether you can trust anything they are saying.”

Hannah Bailey, who specialises in China’s use of state-sponsored digital disinformation, at the Oxford Internet Institute, said: “This strategy of using Westerners to project a positive image of the Chinese Communist Party is one that has been used by Chinese officials for quite some time.”

She added that such videos were not only aimed at improving its image to an international audience, but to influence thinking among Chinese citizens too.

“China is continuously aware of its need to maintain legitimacy among its domestic population. Part of this legitimacy stems from its perception among international audiences. In other words, if domestic audiences believe that the rest of the world admires China, this instils confidence by domestic audiences in Chinese Communist Party rule.”

The Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the Chinese Research Group, told The Times: “Vloggers shilling for tyrants is a new version of an old idea. Dictators have always used useful idiots to whitewash their crimes and sadly the current rulers in Beijing are following the same playbook.”

The Barretts, Mr Lightfoot, Chinese Radio International and the Chinese Embassy did not respond to requests for comment.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Or how parts of China basically banned blacks due to them thinking they are responsible for the Wu-Flu

One of my colleagues is doing research in Guangzhou.

Shit was fucking wild last year thanks to the CCP blaming COVID-19 on foreigners. Tons of Nigerians got kicked out of their lodging and just wander around the streets homeless now.

 

[Trapitalism]

There's a wumao account on instagram called... @wumao.memes_...

https://archive.md/55Ca9

"It isn't China's fault for the response to the totally-not-Chinese Kung Flu"

https://archive.md/URvrR

This one is by far the funniest. Mainly because this asspie doesn't seem to realize that America's dirty laundry isn't heavily censored like they the Glorious People's Republic's are.

The tankie also has a twitter.

 

[Least Concern]

Grammarly, a writing app, has pledged to remove their adverts from the videos and JD Sports promised to investigate after The Times revealed its adverts were being shown.

I've got a problem with this new trend of journalists running to the sponsors of people they criticize to get their funding yanked, and I'm intellectually honest enough to not want to see that happen even to wumao. Just report the story and don't touch.the.poop, journalists. (EDIT: Nice word filtering, Jersh.)

That said, I find it dismaying, but perhaps not surprising, that there are 200,000 Anglophones willingly subscribing to a channel full of nothing but CCP propaganda. I hope, most likely in vain, that most of them are just in it for scholarly reasons.

There's a wumao account on instagram called... @wumao.memes_...

I can't tell if they're showing these things to criticize the wumao nonsense they feature, or if they have actually bought into this and are a primary source. Are wumao proudly calling themselves wumao now?

 

[Disc]

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This one is by far the funniest. Mainly because this asspie doesn't seem to realize that America's dirty laundry isn't heavily censored like they the Glorious People's Republic's are.

The tankie also has a twitter.

It doesn't even make sense to put the words in Chinese here? The whole point is that it's in Chinese so even Chinese people who don't speak the english language know what they're saying.

 

[Trapitalism]

It doesn't even make sense to put the words in Chinese here? The whole point is that it's in Chinese so even Chinese people who don't speak the english language know what they're saying.

Not to mention that in the original copypasta, they include both Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

I can't tell if they're showing these things to criticize the wumao nonsense they feature, or if they have actually bought into this and are a primary source. Are wumao proudly calling themselves wumao now?

I guess it's supposed to be ironic.

Zoomers uncritically accepting CCP propaganda despite never having been to China is the wildest thing.

This is from /r/GenZedong. Like, dude, I've seen bat for sale in Yunnan. It was probably Indonesians or some other minority eating it and not the Han but last I checked Yunnan was in fact a part of China.

 

[albert chan]

There's a wumao account on instagram called... @wumao.memes_...

https://archive.md/55Ca9

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"It isn't China's fault for the response to the totally-not-Chinese Kung Flu"

https://archive.md/URvrR

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This one is by far the funniest. Mainly because this asspie doesn't seem to realize that America's dirty laundry isn't heavily censored like they the Glorious People's Republic's are.

The tankie also has a twitter.

Using the UNO reverse card meme is funny to me because I don’t know how you can compare the Dakota Access Pipeline to a literal historical protest that involved a tank almost running a person over.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Using the UNO reverse card meme is funny to me because I don’t know how you can compare the Dakota Access Pipeline to a literal historical protest that involved a tank almost running a person over.

Indeed, the Dakota Acess Pipeline will be a picnic if and when the Three Gorges Dam collapse.

 

[A Welsh Cake]

Using the UNO reverse card meme is funny to me because I don’t know how you can compare the Dakota Access Pipeline to a literal historical protest that involved a tank almost running a person over.

Haha yeah
Almost

 

[Flaming Insignias]

I hate people trying to compare the Social Credit System to FICO.

Spoiler: Punishing dissent is the same as tracking people paying their debts.

 

[albert chan]

I hate people trying to compare the Social Credit System to FICO.

Spoiler: Punishing dissent is the same as tracking people paying their debts.

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it’s always the Tumblr users, man.

always the Tumblr users

 

[MysticMisty]

Using the UNO reverse card meme is funny to me because I don’t know how you can compare the Dakota Access Pipeline to a literal historical protest that involved a tank almost running a person over.

None of these are even censored topics anyways. I can type in any one of these and find info on it. Hell, shit like the assassination of MLK is talked about in elementary school. And there's footage of Bikini Atoll nuclear tests on YouTube. And many others. Just because some people are ignorant shits doesn't mean it's a forbidden subject.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

I guess it's supposed to be ironic.

Zoomers uncritically accepting CCP propaganda despite never having been to China is the wildest thing.

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This is from /r/GenZedong. Like, dude, I've seen bat for sale in Yunnan. It was probably Indonesians or some other minority eating it and not the Han but last I checked Yunnan was in fact a part of China.

GenZedong has its own thread.

 

[bot_for_hire]

Chinese Government Defends their Foreign Assets​

 

[Doctor Placebo]

Beijing funds British YouTubers to further its propaganda war​

In one, he walks around filming BMW cars and says: “This is one of the poorest provinces in China. China has become a beautiful utopia of this world. I’m astonished by it. Am I lying?

“Is this not a utopia? Is this not the way the world should be? People say ‘communism is bad’ Well maybe it’s not that bad. Take a look at China for example. Is it that bad? This is communism.”

Yes, that is definitely how native English speakers talk naturally.

I've got a problem with this new trend of journalists running to the sponsors of people they criticize to get their funding yanked, and I'm intellectually honest enough to not want to see that happen even to wumao. Just report the story and don't pozload my neghole, journalists.

That said, I find it dismaying, but perhaps not surprising, that there are 200,000 Anglophones willingly subscribing to a channel full of nothing but CCP propaganda. I hope, most likely in vain, that most of them are just in it for scholarly reasons.

If it makes you feel better, a lot of them may be bots, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are native Chinese people watching with a VPN, feeling like their egos are getting vicariously stroked. The cognitive dissonance of what they're doing being technically illegal in the "utopia" of China doesn't stop the Wumoa, so why should the native bugmen not indulge too?

 

[Trapitalism]

Chinese wumao called 孤一蝇 used a VPN to report a Taiwanese YouTube channel called 摄徒日记Fun TV to the Public Security Bureau. For his snitching, he gets assfucked by the authorities.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.