• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Cottenlai_Zhou [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      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.