I dont know… with all the war in russia ukraine, then taiwan crisis… all this make me misses 2019 to early 2022 Genzedong Era OG subreddit… god those were the glory days. I still remember that ‘uyghur bullshit masterpost’, then the flares. And back then was some good shitposting bout china and based commies state (which we still do, but it doesnt feel the same to me as on the OG sub)… then the flares ‘ximp’ ‘shitpost maybe’ etc… the automod respons…and also lib cringe weekend… but those days are over… and boy do i misses those days… 😔

    • pavelchekaveli
      23·
      2 years ago

      its honestly baffling how much western media coverage around euromaidan changed after february. acknowledging the foreign/obama administration intervention aspects and far-right ultranationalism insurgence within the ukraine used to be a totally fine discussion to have and was even occasionally covered by some of the mainstream neoliberal media broadcasters; now if i even suggest euromaidan having coup d’etat characteristics i might as well be walking around with a fucking tin foil hat on and wearing a black shirt with a giant, white Z on it.

  • JucheBot1988
    32·
    2 years ago

    I miss the abrasiveness, and the whole “triggering the libs” (but in a commie way) that we used to do – just the general energy, like a worksite mixed with a high level college course. Most online political spaces have a pessimistic feel to them. R/genzedong didn’t. It seemed like we were part of a much larger ecosystem then, with Haz, Maupin and that whole circle not yet having thrown in clearly for the MAGA camp.

    What I don’t miss is the low-level hornyposting (though it was fun when a lib got caught out), and the near-constant discussions about porn and sex work. At a certain point, these happened almost weekly, and it was always a raging dumpster fire.

    Lib cringe weekend was epic, and we should bring it back.

    • TeezyZeezy
      10·
      2 years ago

      Exactly! I joined about a month before it got quarantined, then the war in Ukraine started and I immediately needed a place to seek refuge. I’m thankful, in a way. This place is great.

  • ☭ Blursty ☭
    26·
    2 years ago

    r/genzhou was the real loss. That got shut down with no stated reason, it was the real danger because it educated.

    • Preston Maness ☭
      13·
      2 years ago

      r/genzhou was the real loss. That got shut down with no stated reason, it was the real danger because it educated.

      When GenZhou was taken down while GenZedong stayed, I knew it was time to go.

  • chinawatcherwatcher
    24·
    2 years ago

    it is kind of sad how the subreddit is totally dead compared to before quarantine. but, i wouldn’t be here if not for it, so it is what it is. after all, nothing stays the same forever

  • MexicanCCPBot
    20·
    2 years ago

    The sub really is dying. Top posts stay the same for 3 days now. Not saying that we should make a “replacement sub”, but we should maybe look for other up-and-coming commie subs to hang out at and keep a healthy presence in Reddit. Some of you might say “tankie shitposting won’t radicalize anybody” but it did catch my attention and help educate me a lot as a communism-curious lib in early 2020. But answering the main question, yeah. For some reason it’s not the same vibe here as it was on r/gzd back in the day.

    • pavelchekaveli
      22·
      2 years ago

      i don’t wanna blow up the spot but the deprogram subreddit is sort of turning into the new GenZedong

      • lil_tank
        7·
        2 years ago

        Dialectics : r/chapotraphouse becomes more and more pro China, Reddit bans them, r/Genzedong take refugees and grows, new podcast, more radical, spawns with their supports, Reddit bans r/Genzedong, new podcast subreddit ready to radicalize even further

          • lil_tank
            10·
            2 years ago

            Chapotraphouse was a left wing political podcast initially. With time their dedicated subreddit went way further than the podcasters until the point they didn’t even listened to it anymore. Now The Deprogram is the new cool left wing podcast and they’ve got their subreddit as well

            • Bimbofied Reagan
              8·
              2 years ago

              ah thanks, i still listen to chapo because felix is just too funny. i’ll listen to that one.

        • MexicanCCPBot
          13·
          2 years ago

          So yeah, the community lost a lot of its humor and originality in content-creation. We don’t really produce the memes and jokes here like we used to.

          That’s what I was trying to pinpoint. It’s not very memey in here, plus no video support changes things a lot. No funny flairs or auto-response bots either.

        • Muad'DibberA
          11·
          2 years ago

          I’m kinda glad we’re platforming discussion over memey-content, but I agree the GZD sub had some bangers and top-tier shit-posting. We’ll eventually get those as we grow🤞

  • Kirbywithwhip1987
    17·
    2 years ago

    I miss the flairs😔 Is there any chance sub will be unqarantined some day?

    • Sunshiner
      20·
      2 years ago

      That sub will never be unquarantined. In fact, we are kind the only people with a political ideology that western media silences, no matter how many right wing liberals whine about them being silenced.

      • Kirbywithwhip1987
        9·
        2 years ago

        Why it will never be unquarantined? I wished that there is something we can do to get it back.

        It will eventually be banned then, and I will finally leave that god forsaken website, I’m literally still on it just because of the sub.

        • chinawatcherwatcher
          11·
          2 years ago

          short answer: because reddit is an op and highly curated by western governments and other various bourgeois forces. isn’t someone formerly part of the US gov literally working at reddit now? feelsbadman

          • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺M
            4·
            2 years ago

            not US government, but NATO’s Atlantic Council I believe got put as an exec, I think of strategic planning but I am not sure.

            • chinawatcherwatcher
              5·
              2 years ago

              so technically not but basically yes haha. that’s wild, i know the atlantic council has its fingers in things like facebook too, and probably twitter

        • Sunshiner
          6·
          2 years ago

          I’m scared that it will be banned. My memories are spent there, I remember joining the sub for the first time, it honestly felt like home. I also wish we could get it unquarantined, but we both know fascist reddit would never do that. Our best home is here on lemmygrad comrade.

          • Kirbywithwhip1987
            5·
            2 years ago

            I know, I’m following it and am on Reddit since 2019-early 2020, I really wish that there is a chance to be unquarantined, what are we supposed to do for it to get it back, what does Reddit want from us?

            • Sunshiner
              4·
              2 years ago

              Reddit doesn’t want anything but for us to be wiped from existence. They’ll do anything in order to get rid of the idea of communism, and to support the brainwashing of the masses into being selfish pricks who only care about money. They already teach children that this world is just a “cold world where every man is for himself” but it’s just not true at all, and it’s not even human nature.

  • chad1234
    16·
    2 years ago

    Miss it as much as you want, it won’t be coming back. there will be more censorship as global capitalism continues its death spiral.

    Anyway, Reddit is not profitable and will eventually shut down. People will eventually return to having their separate websites.

  • MrVladimirLenin
    14·
    2 years ago

    There is a lot of world development right now, it may not be good for all of us but it is certainly better than a USA capitalist peace. The rise of multipolar world is happening as we speak and it won’t happen peacefully. Let the world burn, let the people starve and loose jobs, it will only radicalize them and create a revolutionary situation in which a good organized party that will address the issues can thrive and gather a lot of supporters.

  • xxcvzvcxx
    10·
    2 years ago

    It just means the ruling class is more afraid now.