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People often ask me what Chinese propaganda says about Japan these days, especially with relation to their pop culture.

today on Government Propaganda Blog With Cool Branding Aimed At Young People, the headline was straight up just “it’s not okay to be a weeb.“

I hope that answers everyone’s questions 😂

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Ed Neal

@yukijoou Sounds about right. The character with the box (口、mouth) and meet/agree (合) probably suggests positive commentary about Japan, but I could imagine it also meaning speaking in agreement with the positions taken by Japan, like a collaborator or a propagandist.
The character is seemingly not used much if at all in Japanese, which may help camouflage its meaning amongst simplified characters as just more Chinese text on the net they wouldn't try to read ( just as if someone dissed me in Arabic, I'd have no idea!).
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I guess when you've got the full weight of the Chinese state behind you and can punish social infractions, it's not necessary to try to be cool and hip to motivate young people, you can just go with "tell them and look scary"?

Do you think it's that the government there is only capable of "stick" or is it that they just don't feel like they need "carrot"?

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halcy​

man i remember a few years ago CN anime style gacha games suddenly tried *really* hard to get away from being described as that for a while in favour of… I think „animation, comics and games culture“ or something (which absolutely did not work, at least not for non-domestic audiences, as indicated by me having to strain to even remember the term, and I think they maybe gave up)