A new generation of Internet users held a 2021 “New Year’s Eve Festival” to playfully mock Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist regime. Screenshot of “New Year Festival” video
A group of new Internet activists took advantage of the Chinese Lunar New Year to broadcast a “New Year’s Worship Festival” through YouTube and other platforms to mock Xi Jinping, the Communist Party’s general secretary. Overseas participants of the event believe that the authorities have mobilized national resources to maintain stability across provinces. In addition, a YouTube channel that participated in the event was reported as “infringing” by Chinese video site bilibili (or B Station) and almost blocked, and a Telegram group was stolen and “massacred” by suspected Chinese Communist Party Internet police. Some channel founders denounced B-site as having been ordered to go on a mission and blamed YouTube for kneeling low to Beijing. Some believe that the authorities’ cheap crackdown will only provoke a backlash.
A group of Chinese netizens originally planned to co-organize a live broadcast of the “New Year’s Eve Festival” during the Chinese Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, and broadcast it on online social media platforms and channels featuring spoofs of top Chinese Communist Party leaders, such as “New Clam Society”, “Wall Country Frog Clam”, “Breast Film Xinlian” and “Breast Turbine”. However, these groups have recently been “massacred” (the use of social media rules to drive away audiences) or “blasted” (the so-called “blowing up of accounts” if infringement is reported and accounts are suspended), and some participants have even lost contact with the outside world.
New generations on the Internet organized the 2021 “New Year’s Eve Festival” to playfully mock Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist regime. (Screenshot from the video of the “New Year’s Worship Festival”)
One of the organizers of the joint “New Year’s Eve Festival”, the president and another administrator of the “Lactic Film Xinlian Society” in mainland China, have been out of touch with the outside world since Tuesday (9).
The lost president’s Telegram account suddenly “slaughtered” the Telegram group of another partner of the “New Year Festival”, “Wall Country Frog Clam Clam”, and kicked more than 580 people out of the group at noon that day. Another administrator, “W”, kicked out a large number of participants from the Telegram group of “Wall Country Frog Clam Clam” and was discovered when he kicked out more than 300 people.
The person in charge of “Wall Country Frog Clam Clam” told the station that he suspected that the accounts of the two people who lost contact had been controlled by the Chinese Communist Party’s Internet police. They later moved the interlopers out of the group to prevent the “big group” from being destroyed again. The director believes that this unusual action is the intention of the Chinese Communist authorities to stop the live broadcast of the “New Year’s Eve Festival”.
The director of “Wall Country Frog Clam Clam” said, “The president of “Mammary Film Xinlian” and “W”, the administrator of the large group, should be people who have no real-Life contact with each other, but both of their Telegram accounts were controlled by unknown people who “stole their accounts online” or “confiscated their cell phones”, and then “massacred” the group. It is likely that the Chinese Communist Party mobilized national rather than county and municipal resources to maintain stability in order to investigate and deal with these two individuals in different places.
Wall Country Frog Clam” also told the station that on Wednesday (10) evening, both channels of “Milk Turner”, “Little Anti-Flag” and “Little Pond”, received copyright alerts, and the videos uploaded earlier by the two channels were subsequently removed by YouTube.
After the incident came to light, some netizens suspected that YouTube was also infiltrated by the Chinese Communist Party.
Ltd., the entity that operates the famous Chinese video site Bilibili, complained of copyright infringement. The parties criticized the b site for malicious reporting on purpose, with the intention of stopping the live broadcast of the “insulting package worship festival” held by the two channels. (Provided by netizen)
The screenshot of the “copyright alert” he provided to the station shows that the two channels were complained of copyright infringement by Shanghai Phantom Electric Information Technology Co., the entity operating the well-known Chinese video site “Beili Beili” (bilibili hereafter referred to as B-site). According to YouTube rules, if three copyright alerts are received, the channels will be terminated.
The person in charge of “Wall Country Frog Clam Clam” believes that B website is suspected of “going on a mission by decree”.
The founder of “Wall Country Frog Clam Clam” also pointed out that while the Chinese Communist Party closes its doors and blocks overseas social media, it sends its “diplomatic corps” and mouthpieces to these platforms, and sends its “water army” to use the reporting mechanism of social media to block access and delete accounts of those voices that criticize the Chinese Communist Party. He believes that democratic countries should think about how to deal with the CCP’s shameless tricks.
Some online analysts believe that the incident reflects YouTube’s capitulation to the CCP and the loopholes in its mechanism.
Jin Guo, an international student in the U.S., told us that the incident was a unified crackdown by the Chinese Communist Party authorities, with B-site acting as an accomplice. According to Jin, common sense tells us that there is no way that B-site, which operates on a large scale in China, could have produced original videos satirizing Xi Jinping and the CCP’s dictatorship, and that there is a precedent for YouTube to block Anti-Communist channels on the grounds of rules, suspecting that Youtube has bowed to Beijing. He said that in recent years, a new generation of independent thinkers on the Internet has started to launch an “insulting bag Culture” in social media outside the walls, through secondary creations such as animation and public videos and other black humor, “hanging” (beating opponents hard to fight) and deconstructing the image of Xi Jinping’s “greatness, brightness and correctness” in the CCP propaganda, and the practice is spreading rapidly among the younger generation.
Jin Guo said: The producer did not post the same content on “Beeping Beeping”, and it is not possible that the copyright on “Beeping Beeping” is involved. When “Beep Beep” reported that when it was told to do this from above, it accepted the task and “could not let the image of His Holiness be discredited,” and it did a “lapdog” job. The oil pipe (YouTube) is no longer the truly free platform we thought it would be, and it may have been infiltrated by the red and started to compromise with it. And this is not the first Time, as a large number of videos were also deleted from Hong Kong‘s “Gordon Music Station” before.
Jin Guo lamented that in the early years, there was still room for folk to spread mockery of Jiang Zemin’s “clam culture,” but under Xi Jinping, all dissenting voices were severely suppressed.
Jin Guo said: In fact, more than 10 years ago, there was political humor to spoof Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao, but not with Xi Jinping, who created an authoritative image, the image of the only “savior” of China and the world, and did not allow anyone to “discredit” and suppress the freedom of speech of everyone in the world to comment on him.
Tom Qianlong”, who lives in the United States, has posted a lot of video images and emojis on social media that tease Xi Jinping. In an interview with the station, he said that some administrators of the social media group he created had also had their accounts stolen by the Chinese Communist Party’s Internet police. He criticized the Communist authorities for using cheap tactics to suppress the new generation challenging Xi Jinping overseas, which only provoked a backlash.
Tom Qianlong said: “I am the Qianlong of the “breast bag”. I don’t know why the CCP is using this shitty way to harass our “breastbag co-prosperity circle”, which is another manifestation of the CCP’s and Xi Jinping’s contempt for freedom of expression. We have worked so hard to mock Xi Jinping and build a group to tease him every day, how can the group members in it just say they are gone? Don’t go too far, “Baozi”. The more you ban us, the more we will “breastfeed the buns!
The “Little Anti-Flag” “Little Pond” channel, which features satirical videos, was recently maliciously reported by the b-site for infringement, and the videos were once deleted. On February 11, the channel reopened except for several videos that were deleted (picture left). (provided by netizens)
It is reported that after encountering complaints and infringement storm, “Breast Turbine” emergency response to the crisis, all video temporarily set to private video, effectively preventing the channel was suspended by YouTube. On Thursday night (11), the live broadcast of the “New Year’s Eve Festival” was held. The content of the channels “Little Anti-Flag” and “Little Pond” was redisplayed, and several more satirical videos of Xi Jinping were uploaded on both channels. However, videos such as “Xi Baozi also wants to challenge the king of poetry” and “Welcome to Qincheng”, which were the most widely distributed videos on “Little Anti-Flag” with over one million likes, were permanently deleted.
We wrote to the complaint email address in the YouTube copyright alert, and asked B-site for the reason and basis for their complaint and response to the incident, but have not received a reply by press time.
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