Wait that image comparing Xi and Obama to Pooh and Tigger was originally made by Chinese people and was meant to be endearing? I was under the impression that it was created by the same people who post those cringe yellowface edits like your second example.
Because the joke is that Pooh is fat and yellow & Tigger is one letter away from… yeah. It’s very unfortunate that the meme became what it is if it started out like that.
mainstream media says it was meant to be thinly critical of Xi since there are censors on Chinese social media, but I just can’t agree with their argument there, because the user who posted the first picture (they drew the artwork themselves) did not say anything about Xi or the CPC.
Possibly later it was picked up by colour revolutionists in China to use against the CPC, but again the MS media doesn’t provide any evidence for this that I’ve seen (apart from maybe one or two screenshots, hardly a trend).
It’s funny that libs say because it originated on Chinese social media, they are allowed to use it too – i.e. it’s not racist because they do it… These are the people that really, really, want to use the n-word.
Wait that image comparing Xi and Obama to Pooh and Tigger was originally made by Chinese people and was meant to be endearing? I was under the impression that it was created by the same people who post those cringe yellowface edits like your second example.
Because the joke is that Pooh is fat and yellow & Tigger is one letter away from… yeah. It’s very unfortunate that the meme became what it is if it started out like that.
mainstream media says it was meant to be thinly critical of Xi since there are censors on Chinese social media, but I just can’t agree with their argument there, because the user who posted the first picture (they drew the artwork themselves) did not say anything about Xi or the CPC.
Possibly later it was picked up by colour revolutionists in China to use against the CPC, but again the MS media doesn’t provide any evidence for this that I’ve seen (apart from maybe one or two screenshots, hardly a trend).
It’s funny that libs say because it originated on Chinese social media, they are allowed to use it too – i.e. it’s not racist because they do it… These are the people that really, really, want to use the n-word.