04/23/24 - Anime dances are, comparatively speaking, extremely civilised and clean.

A blogger posts a screenshot of a tiktok video, where the captions say, “The first country in Asia to try out the four-day work week policy! If employers refuse without good reason, they may face warnings.”

OP comments, “Why is Singapore going farther and farther down the road to hell? Such a work schedule that doesn’t permit any hard work and exhausting labour at all—who are they trying to make jealous? <3”

Comments say, “Meanwhile, Chinese people are still working weekends to make up for their days off [vomit emoji].”

“Jealousy makes me unlike myself.”

“They have two day weekends?”

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“Two women chatting today, and landed on a thought that might be even more progressive than being childfree—having a kid without getting a marriage license. The benefits are below:

If the guy gets violent with you, it’s assault and battery, not domestic violence. You can also accuse him of rape and nail him dead.

Even without a marriage license, the guy still has child support duties, and if he dies, your kid still has rights to his inheritance.

If the guy goes to jail, it won’t affect your kid’s background checks.

Without a marriage license, you’ve got a way out, and you have much more agency. It’s a lot less hassle.

What do you think about this as a man?”

Comments say, “Aside from “domestic violence”, there’s also another term, “due to relationship troubles”. Girls, wake up. A lot of stupid assholes are making plans on your uterus, using this kind of “you’re the one winning!” post as bait.”

“Girls, don’t get tricked. It’s not nearly as simple as you think. There was a Beijing girl who had her kid, and since her ex-boyfriend’s family was better off than her, they stole the kid from her, and now she’s responsible for child support payments. And it’s not like you can accuse anyone of rape whenever you want—you have no idea how many criteria you have to fulfil to qualify for rape. Don’t get brainwashed and become a free birthing machine. Study some law first.”

“Monogamy is a backwards system anyways. It’s completely against human nature. It’s determined to vanish as time goes on. As humans get more civilised, should they become more tolerant towards the needs of human nature, or preserve justice and kill human desires?”

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A blogger reposts a news article by an economics news media, “America may be writing sanction policies that cuts off some Chinese banks off from the global financial system.

On the 23rd of April, Cai Lian She’s reporters asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Representative, “According to some reports, American may be writing sanction policies that cuts Chinese banks off from the global financial network, in the hopes that this can stop China from continuing to give Russia military support. In addition, the Chinese to America foreign minister has also said that America should stop its one-sided sanction against Chinese corporations and individuals. The Ukraine problem is not a Chinese or American problem, and it shouldn’t become one. How does China respond to this?”

China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs representative Wang Wenfu says, “We are adamantly against American pouring oil on the fire, and yet accusing China to shift its own responsibility. China’s right to engage in normal economic trade with any country, including Russia, is inviolable, and we will steadfastly protect our own legal rights.”

And OP writes, “I’ve always thought that it wasn’t worth it for China to shoulder the cost of worsening relations with America and the west for Russia’s sake. Not throwing a rock down the well in Russia’s fight with the west is kind enough for us.”

Comments say, “You mean we should embrace the west full on, give up on technological development, stop making electric cars, stop trying to make microchips, and just make t-shirts on our sewing machines every day?”

“Between Russia and China, America knows that China is the true enemy. No matter what China chose, we would get sanctioned.”

“Isn’t it a good thing that Russia’s in front, taking the firepower for us? What, you think we’ll be okay if the west really managed to kill Russia? After that, you’ll be the only target left. It doesn’t involve us, so it shouldn’t concern us? When it does involve you, no one else is gonna get concerned on your behalf too!”

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A video of…remarkable driving skills?

Comments say, “What if you’re back wheel drive?”

“I feel like this is similar to how bicycles work, but I couldn’t have pulled this off even on a bicycle!”

“I don’t know if he should’ve fell off or not, but I know his undercarriage is all kinds of fucked up.”

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A compilation of how studying overseas will change your socioeconomic class:

“Wow, so you really can change your class by studying overseas. Before I left China: normal middle class family. After I came overseas: Maybe it’s okay to steal.”

“One time, I went to buy some cake, a little over 10 bucks? I handed him a 100 dollar bill and asked for change, and he gave me 98 in change T_T <3”

“Supermarkets overseas are so lax. I didn’t even think about stealing, but I’ve got a whole bunch of trinkets that I’ve forgotten to pay for and accidentally walked out with.”

“Once, I bought something at a supermarket and forgot to pay. I had a fever and a headache at the time, and it took me a while to realise, so I rushed back to the supermarket and was like, “I didn’t pay!” And the cashier looked at me and went, “Eh, not my problem.””

“Empress Cixi already paid for me.”

“Brazilians think that if someone’s stealing, they must be desperate, so the owner and the store workers will both look the other way. Like, how do I put it…it’s certainly kind, but it’s caused a lot of thieves to spring up.”

“I frequently feel sad about that time I put ginger and garlic in my pocket in the supermarket and forgot to pay for them.”

“After I came overseas: how am I going to dodge paying for my subway ticket today?”

“Me: Why is this LV bag filled with glass?

Black guy: Please watch this VCR.”

“This Ukrainian refugee came up to me in England and was like, “Yo, where do you live?” And I was like, “I rent a house with five roommates.” Made him shut up real fast.”

“In China: eh, it’s okay, it’s just small change, you gotta live life. Outside of China: shopping bags cost 25p. I clicked “no” when the machine asked me if I wanted a bag.”

“In China: Let’s check out this import market.

Out of China: I will fight you for this clearance labelled meal deal.”

“I go to the clearance section every time I shop, and I know where the cheapest veggies and meat are placed.”

“In China: This is tasty, that’s tasty too. I’ll just have both. Out of China: This is cheap. That’s cheap too, and it’s 60% off! I’m taking that one!”

“Ahhhhh, there was a really strong wind a couple of days ago, and I glimpsed a 20 dollar bill floating along the road. I ran after it for 5 minutes and finally managed to catch it, and it turned out to just be a shitty promotional coupon. I’m so poor my heart hurts :(“

“I’m making money by being a test subject for psychology experiments. I did three hours of memorising words and getting my brain scanned, and got paid 30 bucks.”

“Lol. I went from an only daughter in a first line city to stealing ketchup packets out of McDonalds to make tomato and eggs with.”

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“This Xiao Bing Xin thing has been getting really big lately. She’s basically a legal knowledge content creature on Bilibili [Chinese youtube—basically Chinese Legal Eagle]. She’s super fair-skinned, pretty, got a great figure, great diploma, great grades. Normally, she talks about the latest news, uses her legal knowledge to give some analysis, and sometimes does anime dances. She commented on Xiao Hong Shu once that she makes at most 5000 RMB a month being a lawyer, but she can earn 20,000 a month being a sexy livestreamer.

This comment is probably just a little bit of self-deprecation, plus a jab at the current state of the legal field, but after some netizens saw, it started getting viral, got shared around everywhere. And then some asshole reported her to her law firm and the bar association, and now she’s not making videos anymore, and I think she’s having trouble keeping her job too.

Honestly, fundamentally speaking, this issue has nothing to do with sexy content creators or laws or lawyers or whatever.

If you say that it’s undignified for lawyers to dance sexy anime dances, then for years now, there’s been tons of adultery and corruption and sexual harassment and sleeping your way into positions in law firms and finance firms. All kinds of law firm partners and big fund managers get exposed for fucking the intern in their office in the early morning and scaring the cleaning lady into a heart attack or something. Is there a single clean law office anywhere in the world?

Anime dances are, comparatively speaking, extremely civilised and clean.

The problem is, most of these people never get punished at all. It doesn’t affect them at all. They can keep doing whatever evil, corrupt deals they were doing.

So why does a little girl doing anime dances get slammed so hard?

Because for most things in society, or maybe all things, it’s okay to do it quietly on the side, but you can’t talk about it in the open.

If this girl hadn’t made that comment, and just kept uploading her videos, being an influencer in her circles, getting more cases, getting her promotions, and once she’s become a big elite lawyer, she can delete all her past videos, change her name, and change her persona to be a solidly educational blogger instead. Or she could’ve quit being a lawyer and focused on being an influencer and still made plenty of money.

But she hasn’t accomplished anything yet, hadn’t made any serious money, and she already started openly talking about how she’s toeing the line. That’s not good.

Even if she’s just making a helplessly self-deprecating joke, to criticise this industry’s unspoken rules, she shouldn’t have said anything.

If she said something, people with ulterior motive will notice, and it’s going to ruin her life.

If she had kept her mouth shut, she could’ve kept going and kept making money.

This isn’t a singular case. It’s been happening over and over again.

Wang Gang [food content creator] makes a video about egg-fried rice, and gets bullied to hell and back by a bunch of nutters. Honestly, all food bloggers make videos about egg-fried rice, and they’ve all posted something or other near the 10th or 11th of March. Wang Gang was not an exception.

But Wang Gang apologised, and that was it, he got banned. Now he doesn’t get nearly as much traffic as before.

Mayday gets accused of lip-syncing at their concerts. The case gets more and more attention, but they insist, “It’s all rumours. We never lip sync!” And now it’s over. They’re still holding concerts, they’re still making money.

And a lot of people are naively asking, “Look at how much evidence we have! Why can’t they just admit it and honestly apologise?”

If they’d apologised, their band wouldn’t exist anymore.

And Mayday only might have a problem. A certain celebrity definitely has a problem. The screenshots are everywhere. A ton of people are bombarding her comment section. Has she ever responded? Forget apologising, has she addressed this issue at all? [I have no idea what is being talked about here.]

She’s still appearing in one TV show after another, making more money than she can count. Has she ever expressed remorse or apologise?

And Guo Jingming—he got ruled guilty in court [on plagiarism]. His coffin is nailed shut. But how does he talk about the whole thing?

“Justice is in people’s hearts! A lot of things aren’t about what other people are talking about. What’s important is that you keep working hard at it. All of this has passed. There’s no point in continuing to discuss it. What do you want from me, to go die? I think people have a lot of prejudices about me, and are looking at me with coloured glasses. I feel like this is really unfair.”

Like, does these kinds of lines make you want to beat this little shit up?

He’s the perpetrator, but he’s dressed himself up like a pure white lotus, like some kind of victim.

He only apologised when the pressure got too high for him to keep ignoring anymore. And this apology had a big impact on him too. Now you almost never hear from him anymore, and you don’t see him in public places.

Before he apologise, he was everywhere, in all kinds of events, making all kinds of money, at least several billion.

After he apologised, he vanished.

This makes this society’s rules very clear to us:

You can do anything, but you can’t talk about it.”

Comments say, “That sexy lawyer wasn’t just dancing anime dances outside of the Wall. She’s actually doing lewd dances. As for Wang Gang’s egg fried rice incident, he did it for three years in a row. It drew controversy the very first year. Any normal person would know to avoid those dates after that, right?”

“Guo Jingming waited 10 years to apologise. I suspect he only did it because the higher ups were making some moves to clean up the entertainment industry and it spooked him.”

“What everyone’s mad at her for is these screenshots from a past livestream, where she teaches a guy how to get away with rape.”