As many of you know, between the end of 2024 and few first months of 2025, a few events involving China shook the western internet: The release of Black myth: wukong, the red note/xiahongshu debacle, the release of Deepseek, the release of Ne Zha 2 and IShowSpeed’s live-streamed visit to China.

Since then, the attitude of western social media users toward China seems to have shifted. There are still the omnipresent propaganda of course, but now there is a pushback against it that just didn’t exist before.

A consequence of that has been the rise of pro-China content on social medias, notably youtube and tiktok. The peoples who went on red note and got outraged by how bad their standards of living are in comparison to China are not falling for the authoritarian surveillance credit score scare tactics anymore. I’ve straight up seen multiple peoples say that censorship and cameras are acceptable if it mean having cheap healthcare, groceries and rent, safe streets and high standards of living and that the US had surveillance and censorship too anyway.

Here are youtube channels that do compilations of pro-China tiktok videos and commentaries related to them: global impulse Comfort for life Unique

This is especially interesting because it is a new pipeline for us to exploit. Peoples having good opinion of how China is managed will make peoples look at how it is governed, which seeing as China is explicitly governed by a communist party, will inevitably translate to interest about communism. In fact, it’s already starting to happen in the case of some of the Channels I talked about: Unique published a pretty good video about Chinese socialist democracy and Comfort for life just a few hours ago, out of the blue, published a video straight up promoting communism.

And the funny thing is that the US state accidentally opened this new pipeline for us pretty much all by itself. xi pointing at the screen

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    This is especially interesting because it is a new pipeline for us to exploit. Peoples having good opinion of how China is managed will make peoples look at how it is governed, which seeing as China is explicitly governed by a communist party, will inevitably translate to interest about communism.

    Yugopnik said in a stream, when directly asked about China, something along the lines of that if Average Person sees the PRC doing something great and sees that as communism, then good. Even if they look at the Nordic Model and think their good choices are “socialism”, great, we can let them get a good impression and correct it later once they’re properly interested in socialism.

    I’m not certain to what degree I align with that position, but the PRC’s online rediscovery is undoubtedly great PR for the socialist movement. For various reasons, and despite all its achievements, even the Soviet Union never reached a level where a typical Western citizen would glance over the fence with envy or longing. Now, we have somewhere any country can point at and say Communism Works™, any gotchas about poverty and famine are more and more outdated.