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Mild Rant
Lofter's censorship is immensely brainless. Apparently, pointing out that being "emotionally hurt" by an athlete who could not play due to injury and seeing this as some kind of personal slight against the fan is immensely stupid behavior is considered "too confrontational".
WTF even? I'm suddenly reminded of why I went off of Lofter. This is getting to be Tumblr's level of stupid "discourse".
In other news, second day of New Year's is definitely less cool. Also, do not feel like I've had a holiday when I worked through most of it. I would facepalm, but I did this to myself, so...
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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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Crashing and burning in the business sense. Flaming garbage fire of fandom wankery was just the default state, I think. Of course, it doesn't help that peddling conspiracy theories a huge thing on the platform. And yes, Douyin's straight up illiterate. I guess the semi-illiterate prefers to lecture to the illiterate to feel like they're big wigs or something.
China's intranet is just one giant mess. This is why I VPN onto the actual internet.
I couldn't get much use out of jjwxc. I tried looking for stuff there, but the fandoms I was looking into are really poorly represented and I literally find more Chinese stuff on Ao3 than I can on jjwxc. I really don't understand how Chinese web novels took off when it's censored so heavily and thus everything is just bland paste all the time. Your descriptions do not improve my impression. 😂 It's a shame things are the way they are, but I'll shut up for now in case the VPN is being hacked or something.
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jjwxc I go more for original fiction works. But its search function is horrible and has no decent internal rec function. The way I find fics there is that I see stories recommended on other places like douban or weibo, or in the author notes / comments section of other stories I liked, and then look for good stories that way. It's a pain, but there's really no better way to navigate the place.
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I shouldn't be surprised that there's Star Rail fic and yet...
Yeah, trying to use the jjwxc search was pretty much impossible. I guess you just have to know the right places to look to find stuff, much like how back in the days of LJ or webrings, when everyone made giant fic rec lists because the fic have been scattered across personal journals and communities. Makes me appreciate Ao3 even more.
(Suddenly flashing back to us reading HP fic at your place during uni. What were we even doing? LOL.)