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Tencent Allegedly Wanted Bigger Breasts and No Black People in Movie It Funded

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Re: Tencent Allegedly Wanted Bigger Breasts and No Black People in Movie It Funded

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Post by hammock »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #3

> Pearce was quick to walk back the allegations by expressing her reluctance to discuss any specific films or games "because I’m so worried about getting sued by Tencent, but this is what I’ve heard — rumors. I’m not sure if any of this is true.” She however said that Tencent has “games that are out where they were like ‘yeah, that character needs to have bigger tits’ or ‘you need to make her skin lighter’ type of sh…

Allegations were similarly raised about the lab origin of covid, called "designed to spark outrage and clicks" and then walked back for fear of political repercussions.

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Post by 6gvONxR4sf7o »

> Pearce was quick to walk back the allegations by expressing her reluctance to discuss any specific films or games "because I’m so worried about getting sued by Tencent, but this is what I’ve heard — rumors. I’m not sure if any of this is true.”

This seems like a non-article.

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Post by Jyaif »

mc32 wrote: post #2

On a tangent, China aims to be a moviemaking powerhouse by 2035[1]. They want to have independence from Hollywood and foreign media influence on their culture. It's not just Hollywood they want to wean themselves from, but (South) Korean programming, among others, as well with their 'ban' on "effeminate men"[2] [1] https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202112/15/WS61b9520aa310cdd3... [2] https://www.voanews.com/a/china-tel…

It seems that nobody in the western world realizes that China already is a moviemaking powerhouse:

- Worldwide Box Office 2020: 3 out of the top 4 biggest movies were Chinese

- Worldwide Box Office 2021: 2 out of the top 3 biggest movies were Chinese

Source:

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2020/

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2021/

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Post by bertil »

DiggyJohnson wrote: post #5

Assuming this is true, that is not only tasteless, some would say evil (I don't really believe in evil, though), but above all: it's out of touch. Doesn't seem like good business, there's so much middle ground between cheap sex appeal and woke reboots. I don't see how this could be a reasonable response to the latter. The article itself isn't exactly seeping with tangible details and sources, though. I don't think th…

I wouldn’t quote this YouTuber for everything, but he was born in South Africa and was a teenager when the country was still under apartheid: if he was horrified by the blatant racism when he was in China, I can’t imagine it was light or rare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtVozQG2Q-4

I’m not really surprised. And I’m scared that might be good business _in China_; whether the effort to go against that trend will pay off internationally remains to be seen.

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Post by _bfhp »

> Within both Activision's and Blizzard's studios, management allegedly both allowed and encouraged "cube crawls", where male employees went from cubicle to cubicle, drinking heavily and making inappropriate advances towards and physically touching female employees. ... A woman employee reportedly died by suicide during a business trip after suffering "intense sexual harassment" in the preceding days, which included employees sharing nude photos of her at a company holiday party. The human resources departments allegedly did not keep reports of sexual harassment confidential, which as a result allowed managers and others to retaliate against employees who reported misconduct, such as by denying them promotions, transferring them to other departments, prioritizing them during company-wide layoffs, or preventing them from working on desirable projects. [0]

Let's fix China tho

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fair_...

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mc32 wrote: post #2

On a tangent, China aims to be a moviemaking powerhouse by 2035[1]. They want to have independence from Hollywood and foreign media influence on their culture. It's not just Hollywood they want to wean themselves from, but (South) Korean programming, among others, as well with their 'ban' on "effeminate men"[2] [1] https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202112/15/WS61b9520aa310cdd3... [2] https://www.voanews.com/a/china-tel…

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Post by AdmiralAsshat »

steelstraw wrote: post #9

Fight Club was recently released on Tencent Streaming. Check out how they edited the final scene: https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1485707293769584641

Wouldn't want their citizens getting any crazy ideas about challenging the social order, after all.

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Post by gowld »

NikolaeVarius wrote: post #3

> Pearce was quick to walk back the allegations by expressing her reluctance to discuss any specific films or games "because I’m so worried about getting sued by Tencent, but this is what I’ve heard — rumors. I’m not sure if any of this is true.” She however said that Tencent has “games that are out where they were like ‘yeah, that character needs to have bigger tits’ or ‘you need to make her skin lighter’ type of sh…

This is how CCP works, though. It's illegal to talk openly about the authoritarian government.

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Post by mc32 »

Jyaif wrote: post #13
mc32 wrote: post #2

On a tangent, China aims to be a moviemaking powerhouse by 2035[1]. They want to have independence from Hollywood and foreign media influence on their culture. It's not just Hollywood they want to wean themselves from, but (South) Korean programming, among others, as well with their 'ban' on "effeminate men"[2] [1] https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202112/15/WS61b9520aa310cdd3... [2] https://www.voanews.com/a/china-tel…

It seems that nobody in the western world realizes that China already is a moviemaking powerhouse: - Worldwide Box Office 2020: 3 out of the top 4 biggest movies were Chinese - Worldwide Box Office 2021: 2 out of the top 3 biggest movies were Chinese Source: https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2020/ https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/2021/

Of course China makes tons of movies (and I think people are well aware of the HK output) Here we are taking them at their own word from official organs of dissemination[1]. They want to eliminate foreign imports so they can control the actual narrative not just the figurative "narrative".

[1]http://english.www.gov.cn/policies/policywatch/202112/15/con...

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