Young Western social media users are embracing a “very Chinese time” of their lives, and China’s government is keen to use this moment to boost the country’s cultural influence worldwide.
Somehow I’m skeptical of how organically popular pro-chinese trends are on tiktok. It’s like trying to use youtube views to gauge the popularity of google products…
Mmm. Yes. Very. That’s exactly how it worked. You can trust the Trump admin, they for sure didn’t misrepresent how the deal worked when they explained it.
sure they faked the sale and Bytedance or anyone involved is in on it.
Is the orange also a Chinese agent according to whatever is under your tinfoil hat?
amercans lol
It’d depressingly telling that you’re trying to use “americans” to dismiss this when you’re just straight up swallowing the US propaganda about the tiktok sale… and presenting that as somehow the pro-china position. Perplexing.
Yes the entire world and press swallowed " the US propaganda about the tiktok sale".
But do explain, americans and their ideas are always good for a laugh.
I can find articles from the entire world believing the wild conspiracy theory that it was sold to the banana republic.
Can you at least try to make clear what your delusion is about that or if you even deny that?
IDK your level of insanity?
“I’m gonna insult you for a while, misrepresent your position then act like I’m going to be reasonable by asking for you to elaborate on your opinion”. Classic.
That article beautifully highlights the problem - you really have just swallowed the propaganda line that it’s a US app now, without doing any research into what the handover actually entailed.
It’s not just a TikTok thing, though. And isn’t the fact that TikTok has gotten as large as it has (despite its current status of being run under US oligarchs for US users), and how many USAmericans decided to start using RedNote when it initially was banned in the US, also evidence to the claim that China is having a big cultural moment?
I can at least say anecdotally that random people I’ve met who aren’t politically involved have been getting more into specifically Chinese cultural products. Games, movies, etc. And among my inner friend group (who, admittedly, are definitely much more inclined to support China politically, not just culturally) we make jokes about Chinamaxxing too.
Also, there is no equivalence between the relationship between TikTok and Chinese culture as a whole versus YouTube and Google products. “TikTok is to China as YouTube is to Google products” is not valid because TikTok is to China as YouTube is to the United States. And while checking how people feel about a country based on trends on social media wouldn’t be the ideal way to gauge things (polls are obviously better) it still seems reasonable.
Somehow I’m skeptical of how organically popular pro-chinese trends are on tiktok. It’s like trying to use youtube views to gauge the popularity of google products…
Those who haven’t lived under a rock know TikTok is now under control of the USSA regime.
As they don’t allow free media
Mmm. Yes. Very. That’s exactly how it worked. You can trust the Trump admin, they for sure didn’t misrepresent how the deal worked when they explained it.
sure they faked the sale and Bytedance or anyone involved is in on it.
Is the orange also a Chinese agent according to whatever is under your tinfoil hat?
amercans lol
Tiktok USDS is filled with former state department feds and this guy thinks they’d ever be on China’s side is insane
It’d depressingly telling that you’re trying to use “americans” to dismiss this when you’re just straight up swallowing the US propaganda about the tiktok sale… and presenting that as somehow the pro-china position. Perplexing.
Yes the entire world and press swallowed " the US propaganda about the tiktok sale".
But do explain, americans and their ideas are always good for a laugh.
Well no, clearly it’s not the entire world - but you sure did.
I can find articles from the entire world believing the wild conspiracy theory that it was sold to the banana republic.
Can you at least try to make clear what your delusion is about that or if you even deny that?
IDK your level of insanity?
“I’m gonna insult you for a while, misrepresent your position then act like I’m going to be reasonable by asking for you to elaborate on your opinion”. Classic.
That article beautifully highlights the problem - you really have just swallowed the propaganda line that it’s a US app now, without doing any research into what the handover actually entailed.
It’s not just a TikTok thing, though. And isn’t the fact that TikTok has gotten as large as it has (despite its current status of being run under US oligarchs for US users), and how many USAmericans decided to start using RedNote when it initially was banned in the US, also evidence to the claim that China is having a big cultural moment?
I can at least say anecdotally that random people I’ve met who aren’t politically involved have been getting more into specifically Chinese cultural products. Games, movies, etc. And among my inner friend group (who, admittedly, are definitely much more inclined to support China politically, not just culturally) we make jokes about Chinamaxxing too.
Also, there is no equivalence between the relationship between TikTok and Chinese culture as a whole versus YouTube and Google products. “TikTok is to China as YouTube is to Google products” is not valid because TikTok is to China as YouTube is to the United States. And while checking how people feel about a country based on trends on social media wouldn’t be the ideal way to gauge things (polls are obviously better) it still seems reasonable.