Of course the :reddit-logo: comments were too shitty to dig through.
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I don’t have the energy to go drill down into this shit again, but this sounds like somebody intentionally mixed up the western outrage on China’s new underage online video game restrictions with the other recent policy document about idol culture that had a single mention of a semi-questionable translation of something close to “sissy”
for precarious Americans fearmongering about conditions in China is an attractive way to feel better about your continuing decline
I thought they banned vidya altogether?
Xinnie le Pooh took away my call of doody
They came for your waifus. Specifically
they limited the amount of time that underage people are allowed to play online games, iirc they’re trying to reduce how many kids get addicted to things like gacha games
My understanding is that interpretations that it’s about LGBTQ+ people are Western projections onto what discriminating against K-pop beauty standards means in China. The trend getting targeted is about cishet-presenting male entertainers adopting a particular style in order to appeal to a female audience.
Cishet men suck and Chinese cishet men are often no different.
Ironic since most Western Chuds would have no issue with this if it wasn’t China.
True, altough sadly we also have people on here arguing that policing gender expression is good actually because it’s China and ‘it’s actually about K-pop’ anyway :cringe:
https://chinadigitaltimes.net/chinese/671510.html seems to be the main source. The comments are coming from leaked materials of a CPC-led conference at Beijing International Game Innovation Conference back in September.
http://www.cgigc.com.cn/info/22297.html There’s more info on the guidelines on their official website. For whatever reason it’s currently not loading (possibly due to increased traffic?), but I’ll try uploading the .pdf files of the guidelines to somewhere if anyone knows a good place.
https://tweet.lambda.dance/pengulican/status/1443455893664718855?s=19 The guidelines are translated to English here.
All in all, this really doesn’t look good, and doesn’t seem to apply to only games - apparently various gay shows and books are affected too. Obviously there are some decent guidelines in there like the banning of imperial japan worship, regulation of gacha/pay to win exploitative ‘games’, etc. but it shouldn’t be at the expense of LGBTQ+ comrades :sicko-no:
China digital times is a well known anti-CPC website.
Thanks for letting me know. If this was the only source, I would have breathed a sigh of relief at it just being :cia: propaganda, but unfortunately state-owned media Sixth Tone has corroborated this information over several of their articles, so it does seem to be true, at least the parts regarding the regulations against homosexuality, feminine men, and GNC AMABs.
- https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008389/chinas-ongoing-struggle-against-sissy-young-men
- https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1008587/chinas-gaming-body-to-bar-local-games-on-foreign-platforms
From the last article:
Apart from limiting access to foreign games, the agreement also emphasized the responsibility of gaming companies to monitor users via real-name registration and facial recognition to deter minors from playing. The document also expressed its commitment to combating so-called sissy men and danmei :deeper-sadness:
Not to make light of the situation but
games can allow the player to do bad things but ONLY IF the player later “repents” for their actions
“Press R to Repent” lmaoooo
:michael-laugh: clearly China and America have more in common than previously thought
