Crashing and burning as in the business is doing badly and stock is going down, or as in the user base is going nuts over various controversial/irrelevant topics? I have to admit I stay in a safe corner of weibo where fandom is involved...
And semi-illiterate... I would've thought douyin user base would be even worse, since that is a video based format which doesn't even require one to be literate in the literal sense to post sh*t.
The place I am most familiar with in regards to censorship is jjwxc the creative writing site. I know pretty much a lot of old works that were even a little risque got chapters locked. So that nowadays you're pretty much forced to stick to PG rating.
Anything that takes place Qing Dynasty is either brainless romance or heavily scrutinized and takes real skillz to get past the censors. Stuff that takes place in the Republic era are even harder to find. And stuff in early contemporary China no one bothers to write b/c it definitely won't pass censors.
Any work in a modern setting which involves non-Chinese elements always contains some bashing of JPN, KR, USA...such that I assume that any work which talks about these nations positively have probably been censored which is why I haven't seen any.
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Date: 2024-02-15 03:07 (UTC)And semi-illiterate... I would've thought douyin user base would be even worse, since that is a video based format which doesn't even require one to be literate in the literal sense to post sh*t.
The place I am most familiar with in regards to censorship is jjwxc the creative writing site. I know pretty much a lot of old works that were even a little risque got chapters locked. So that nowadays you're pretty much forced to stick to PG rating.
Anything that takes place Qing Dynasty is either brainless romance or heavily scrutinized and takes real skillz to get past the censors. Stuff that takes place in the Republic era are even harder to find. And stuff in early contemporary China no one bothers to write b/c it definitely won't pass censors.
Any work in a modern setting which involves non-Chinese elements always contains some bashing of JPN, KR, USA...such that I assume that any work which talks about these nations positively have probably been censored which is why I haven't seen any.
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