There was a meme passed around on Weibo, but it wasn’t the same meme the west uses at all, and wasn’t even censored to my knowledge. The west just made up a story whole cloth about Xi Jinping banning Winnie the Pooh and just expected people to never fact check it (they didn’t.) I think it may have been a kind of “testing the waters” thing, they wanted to see how much they could get away with, they started pushing the Xinjiang stuff much more heavily shortly after, so it’s likely they were seeing if people would believe an obvious and easily disprovable lie before moving onto their big lie.
Yeah, they rarely make things up by themselves, they just take existing shitty ideas that serve their purposes and give them a megaphone. That way it gives them plausible deniability.
The resurgence was Christopher Robin (2018) not getting a Chinese cinema release because of foreign movie quotas, and western media calling this a ‘ban’ and tying it to the old meme censorship story.
See here, the meme started circulating on western internet spaces after this media storm and obviously has done since.
There was a meme passed around on Weibo, but it wasn’t the same meme the west uses at all, and wasn’t even censored to my knowledge. The west just made up a story whole cloth about Xi Jinping banning Winnie the Pooh and just expected people to never fact check it (they didn’t.) I think it may have been a kind of “testing the waters” thing, they wanted to see how much they could get away with, they started pushing the Xinjiang stuff much more heavily shortly after, so it’s likely they were seeing if people would believe an obvious and easily disprovable lie before moving onto their big lie.
According to the KYM research the meme heavily predates 2019, however it does mention a 2019 “resurgence”.
This resurgence is where the cia lies imo.
Yeah, they rarely make things up by themselves, they just take existing shitty ideas that serve their purposes and give them a megaphone. That way it gives them plausible deniability.
The resurgence was Christopher Robin (2018) not getting a Chinese cinema release because of foreign movie quotas, and western media calling this a ‘ban’ and tying it to the old meme censorship story.
See here, the meme started circulating on western internet spaces after this media storm and obviously has done since.
Mid movie relying heavily on nostalgia I doubt many citizens of China have