08/15/23 - Other images they have claimed the copyright on includes the Chinese national flag.
A blogger reposts someone’s post on instagram, showing off her eight daughters and one son.
Comments say, “Beautiful older sisters with a retarded-looking little brother and parents.”
“The oldest daughter can be called a beauty, but by number nine, they’re so obviously Hui Ethnicity looking. She can have my quota for three kids too, thanks.”
“Sorry, I’m a little blunt. In our grandparent’s generation, you could say that they just weren’t educated enough. Anyone who births eight or nine kids in our current society is just a sow.”
A member of a Chinese idol group writes, “I’ve thought about this for a long time, and I just can’t pretend it never happened. I don’t know if this is going to affect my life or work, but I’ve still decided to speak out about it. The day before yesterday, I went to Hangzhou to visit a friend. We went out to a bar at night and happened to run into TangoZ [a rapper, I think]. He knew my male friend, so after asking for permission, we started hanging out with him.
(I admit, I wanted to build a connection with him, because I’ve got a lot of Wu Lan’s demos [no idea, probably a rapper?] in my hands, and all of his songs are amazing, but he doesn’t have any connections or popularity yet, so I’ve just been holding onto it. I thought it was an opportunity. If TangoZ liked his stuff, then his songs would have a place to go.)
But I made a mistake. A terrible mistake. From the beginning, TangoZ didn’t treat us like normal girls.
After we were done drinking and while we were eating some late night snacks, S [her male friend] got into a fight with somebody over the phone and got really upset. I comforted him that he shouldn’t care so much what others think. He should focus on his music. Everything else will come naturally.
That’s when TangoZ turned to me and said, “You should blow him.”
I didn’t know what to say. I thought back on what I’d said. I don’t think I said anything wrong.
I have no idea why he would humiliate me like this. But the only thing I’m certain about is that he doesn’t respect girls. He just sees them as labelled goods.
He’s an OG in rap circles. He’s got a lot of influence there. We all respect him a lot. But respect has to be mutual.
We gave him respect, but he didn’t give us any.
I was on the verge of tears. There were a dozen people around the table, and everyone was looking at me. I wanted to disappear.
That’s when my female best friend told him very seriously that he can’t say stuff like that, that it’s very disrespectful to women.
And TangoZ said that he thought all the men and women tonight came in pairs, and we were all just hired escorts or something. Although he did admit he was drunk and said more than he should, he still didn’t apologise to me.
Their brand agent even interrogated me all like, “What, are you upset? Are you unhappy or not?”
His girlfriend kept trying to keep him back, apologising to me, saying he’s had too much to drink. All of these people use alcohol as an excuse for their mistakes.
I felt grossed out, disgusted. Treating women like toys, passing their time by drinking, carelessly humiliating and stepping down on others.
Maybe your songs are really great, but you’re a really shitty person. Maybe a lot of girls and boys will still want to hang out with you because of your fame and status. Maybe they won’t stand up to your verbal taunts, or even pretend to agree with you, but I never will!
Whether or not you act better in the future, it won’t change the harm you’ve already done to me. I don’t need your apology, and I’ll never forgive you, because you’re a scumbag.
If I don’t say anything and she didn’t say anything, then more people are going to get hurt in the future. So I want to be the one that stands out, so that no one else will have any illusions about you. This event has taught me a lesson. I’m going to remember this going forward.
Posting this blog, I’m really scared too. I know what’s coming next. I’m going to embrace both the good and bad.”
Comments say, “@TangoZ Dude, what the hell is going on with you? Do you just not care at all after a couple sips of liquor? Or do you just feel like everyone has to bow down to you now that you have a little bit of fame? Did you feel like you were being super cool and funny when you’re making shitty sexual jokes? If you don’t give everyone a proper explanation and just let this cool, then you can just go die. Come out and say something.”
“You’re so brave. The sun is going to shine in.”
“Girls help girls <3 If you don’t speak out for others today, who’s going to speak out for you tomorrow? You’re so brave! People who don’t respect women won’t be able to to far.”
A tiktok video of the aftermath of the wildfires in Hawaii, where people cry in front of their burnt out homes. The blogger reposting this says, “People who’s lost their homes are weeping in front of the burnt husks of their houses. No warning, no rescue, no internet, no electricity, the fires only burnt the houses and not the trees. Didn’t burn any churches. Didn’t burn any mansions. All the affected people only got $700 per household. You don’t even need to pay them for eminent domain now.”
Comments say, “You’re right—all the trees around those houses are perfectly fine O_O”
“It’s the same everywhere. Normal people are always hurt the worst by disasters.”
“Question: If capitalists want native Hawaiian’s land, what should they do? 1. Assassinate people. 2. Arson. 3. Drop poison in the water supply [Doge]”
An askreddit question, “Can the plot of “Hello, Mr. Billionaire”, where the more you try to spend money the more money you end up having, actually happen in real life?”
The top-voted answer tells the story of Gunther the Third, and now the Fourth, where the dog was initially left a fortune of 90 million USD, and after years of management by a trust fund, the wealth had now grown to 400 million USD, as an example of having more money the more you spend.
Comments say, “In China, all the money would’ve been lost a long time ago, just like in state-funded companies.”
“How does a dog express he wants to go outside, or to his other mansions?”
“What’s the name of the trust fund company? I’ve also got 9162 dollars and want to turn it into 40,000 dollars.”
A blogger reposts someone else’s social media posts, where they’re like, “Sorry, I just don’t deserve to eat Chinese food. Even now, I feel a fear and unfamiliarity with the concept of going back to China. I walked around and finally found a British-style Pub in China, and went in. “Heya! Do you happen to have cottage pies here? Can I get half cider please? Pay by card yeah? Cheers mate.” Looking at the Wembley posters on the wall, thinking of this place that I’ve only been to four or five times in my life, I strangely feel closer to it than my motherland of China.”
And the second post reads, “Once I got to the train station, I found that I’m still not very practiced at Chinese. [He posts a bunch of things he said that sounds like someone threw English into Google translate and turned it into Chinese and said it out straight, an affect that I don’t know how to achieve with my translations when turning it back into English.]”
Comments say, “The funniest part is this self-identified British guy getting into an argument with OP about how Britain’s not a part of the EU lol.”
“I know someone who’s been back in China for four or five years, and whenever anyone tells her to write her name down, she has to ask them if she should put the surname in front or behind.”
“Everyone in Shandong speaks this way. Doesn’t look unfamiliar at all, guys.” [Shandong dialects are infamous for being very screwy with gramma, where nouns, verbs, and subjects can appear in near about any order in a sentence.]
A compilation of images that Visual China Group, a stock image company in China, has claimed copyright on. This company has been in a lot of controversy lately, when they sued the original photographer over a series of images that he himself produced, saying that he violated their copyright. Other images they have claimed the copyright on includes the Chinese national emblem, the front cover of the Chinese Penal Code, and other legal codes, the front cover of China’s passports, real estate property deeds, professional certifications, marriage certificates, and teaching licenses, and China’s flag. The compilation ends with a screenshot of a notice put out by CCTV, saying, “A universal blackhole has revealed an industry blackhole. Protecting intellectual property is the only way to encourage more and more creative works—that is common knowledge now in society. China has been continuously strengthening its intellectual property laws, and its enforcement and regulatory efforts. But Visual China Group’s daring “what are you gonna do about me?” attitude has turned the law into its own sales department. They are harming the original creator’s legal rights with one hand, while extorting users with copyright with the other. CCTV is committed to aggressively punishing Visual China Group, cutting out this tumour in the intellectual property field.”
Comments say, “What, you think Visual China Group won’t sue you nine times over these nine images you just posted? [Doge]”
“They’ve got a good protective umbrella behind them.”
“The most amazing part is that they’ve been doing this for 19 years with no problems.”
The internet influencer who reported New Oriental [a tutoring agency] for illegal tutoring has started a stream where he sells stuff, to incredibly badly-received reception. The livestream was hurriedly ended early. The companies that bought slots in his livestream says that their customer service agents have been yelled at to the point of tears. They won’t ever work with this influencer again. The influencer claims, “I don’t understand. Do people have a sense of morality or not?”
The tiktok video compiling these events shows screenshots between commenters and customer service agents, where the commenter says, “You’re working with Tietou [the influencer]? Because of him, my children have nowhere to study! We were doing just fine with tutoring, and now, because of him, it’s all one-on-one lessons now! Everything is so expensive! All of my wages go towards tutoring now! Why would you work together with someone like him?”
The customer service agent says, “I understand. We’ve already blacklisted him. A girl at the customer service centre here is crying from how many people are texting in to tell us off.”
Other comments on his livestream reads, “Is this product from Tietou’s livestream? I want to buy a bunch, and then get refunds.”
“Where’s the yellow car? I’m gonna put in orders, and then file for refunds once you’ve already shipped.”
“I didn’t manage to grab an order. What a pity. I don’t even have the opportunity to get refunds and leave bad reviews.”
Comments say, “You don’t have children, so you don’t know that everyone who studies at New Oriental are all from average families. Rich people get one-on-one private tutors.”
“If they really wanted to do something about the tutoring industry, they need to start with Hengshui High School in Hebei or Maotan Chang High School in Anhui [famously hellish high schools known for physical abuse and overworking students]. Just fucking with New Oriental is fucking shameless.”
“What do people actually need? A cheap source of tutoring—that’s the actual way you can reduce students’ stress.”
“The handmade noodles in my hotel breakfast buffet is super tasty. I ordered a bowl today, and asked the chef three or four times whether he was ready. Every time, the chef told me, “Soon,” “Just five more minutes”, “it’ll be ready in no time”. I was so hungry, my eyes were about to fall out of their socket. The last time I went to ask him, I watched as he gave the noodles to another girl. That girl ordered after me. But I figured, it’s okay to give it to her first, and asked the chef how much longer I would have to wait. And the chef was like, “That was the last bowl”.
So he knew in his heart that I wasn’t going to get any noodles, and yet he kept my hopes up anyways. As soon as he saw a different girl, he forgot all about how I was there first. Every time, he was just blowing me off. What scumbag behaviour! Hate!”
In the comments, the top one is pinned by OP: “I didn’t officially file a complaint with the manager, because my family owns stocks in this hotel. I got to stay in a 1000+ RMB a night room for free. I just kind of groaned about it a bit to him, and he promised to take me out for a feast for lunch.”
“How could he be so evil T_T”
“Next time, just stand there and watch him make it.”
“I would flip out right then and there. I want my fucking noodles!”
We got hit by the New Oriental backlash as well... the whole private classes and tutoring business is so messed up at the moment :-(
The sympathy for the Hawaiian fires is very touching. I know many disasters in China don't reach the US media.