I tried it a few times recently when I’ve been down in the trenches of shitposting and it is very funny to make them try to explain their argument to you as if you have no idea what they’re saying. It’s so easy to bait them into thinking they’re about to bring up this amazing dunk about how China banned Winnie the Pooh or whatever and win you over, and then you get to just tell them that’s not true because you just looked it up plus now it feels racist.

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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was actually a Chinese internet joke to compare Xi to Winnie the Pooh. Supposedly people had social media accounts frozen for that and Western media outlets spun that into a story about Winnie the Pooh being censored/banned nationwide and if you posted a picture of Winnie the Pooh you would be thrown into the Uyghur death camps. Iirc there were also some Winnie the Pooh films that didn't get released in China?

Anyway, the ride at Disneyland Shanghai still exists so I suppose the evil CCP hasn't found it yet.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

A few years ago, I traced the original claim of it being banned to an article in Fortune or Forbes, or one of those sites for a paper magazine. And their reasoning for claiming it was banned is that, while it was still being shared, it wasn't as popular a few days later. tails-startled

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: