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Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Re: Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

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Post by echevil »

throwaway46e21 wrote: post #148
peteretep wrote: post #65

I don’t know what it means for America, but what it apparently means for China is no more Chinese villains in films for an international audience

Honestly, as an Asian American, I actually prefer the villain characters as opposed to the new “sidekick/background” character trope. Hollywood writers and producers still know how to marginalize these new Chinese characters and unfortunately, it seems the Chinese audience is still naive to it. At least the villains had agency. These new Chinese sidekicks only purpose is to serve the “American” hero.

"Wandering earth" is wildly popular right now. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7605074/

Time to watch some Chinese Sci-Fi instead, with Chinese hero and Russian sidekick

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Post by aylmao »

baroffoos wrote: post #158
SN76477 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new UI feels like a roomful of fresh graduates designed it.

I think my brain has linked together modern ui with slow, broken and full of tracking. I think there might be nothing really wrong with the actual UI of reddit but its all the other things that got lumped in with the redesign. Every time I see an old looking website or program its almost a refreshing feeling that it isn't going to try to suck money and data from me.

> I think my brain has linked together modern ui with slow, broken and full of tracking.

Big +1. Also design that favors metrics. Why did they include this one thing? Why did they remove the other? They're probably pushing you to use the site in a way that increases time spent on site by xx%.

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Post by echevil »

actuator wrote: post #207
theNJR wrote: post #108

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/18/world/asia/ch...

Hey, thanks for that. It was certainly an interesting read and scary. It is scary to think that if this continues there will be people outside China who would have never heard of Cultural Revolution, Famine under Mao, Uighur "re-education" camps, Tibet etc.

People inside China also heard all of those things, just with different perspectives.

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Post by doorbellguy »

icelancer wrote: post #198
doorbellguy wrote: post #162

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I agree, apps like these and previously musically (sp?) are extremely shallow and promote narcissistic traits in gullible teenagers. Glad I was not a teen in 2019.

There were plenty of other mechanisms whenever you were in high school to promote "narcissistic traits in gullible teenagers," a sentence which is probably the most "old man yells at clouds" thing I've heard in a week.

Let me clarify : I did not say this was the "only' thing that distracts teens. Your passive aggressive statement shows that you're having a bad day and want to be rude just for the sake of it. Good day.

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Post by asdff »

bluetwo wrote: post #133

Where are the youth of this generation and why are they not creating the next killer platform?

Technology companies matured into consumer hostile mammoths, no room for small competition anymore. Build something just good enough to sell off to a big guy and move on. It would be impossible for the events leading to myspace/facebook/reddit to happen again today.

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Post by doorbellguy »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #200
doorbellguy wrote: post #163

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Who or what is that?

Marketing professional who has mastered manipulating Reddit audiences for corporate clients.

And they're getting away with it so far?

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Post by peteretep »

pwaai wrote: post #194
throwaway46e21 wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, as an Asian American, I actually prefer the villain characters as opposed to the new “sidekick/background” character trope. Hollywood writers and producers still know how to marginalize these new Chinese characters and unfortunately, it seems the Chinese audience is still naive to it. At least the villains had agency. These new Chinese sidekicks only purpose is to serve the “American” hero.

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> since the first Japanese male actor was a sensation amongst white women ... Asian Americans were erased from mainstream films

Where r/conspiracy and r/redpill meet... Presumably you're talking about Sessue Hayakawa, and the same nonsense appears on his Wikipedia page, supported by citations that don't actually support the assertions.

> The more I study American history, the Japanese interment camps, the racist treatment of Asian Americans, the genocide against 50+ million Native Americans, Opium war, Boxer rebellion, vietnam war, hiroshima

I would recommend studying some Chinese or Japanese history too if you think American historical behaviour is in any way particularly notable, other than an unusual willingness for Americans to want to atone to it, compared to most other countries.

> I'm convinced that Nazi's escaped and helped build the Reich that they could've had

You appear to believe the Nazis were time-travelers, or simply have a particularly weak understanding of the chronology of the items you've listed.

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Post by actuator »

baby wrote: post #185
colanderman wrote: post #150

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Or references to the sovereign nation of Taiwan, or the Dalai Lama or Tibet. Allowing such an oppressive government to control so much of our cultural mindspace is quite chilling.

because you think the US mindset is not controlling a major number of movies? Have you watched American Sniper?

And it does work. Just look at who the French public thinks won them World War 2. Over the years it has shifted drastically in US's favour(1) which I think is probably because of some excellent content from Hollywood, which tells their story really well.

[1] https://www.les-crises.fr/la-fabrique-du-cretin-defaite-nazi...

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Post by peteretep »

throwaway46e21 wrote: post #148
peteretep wrote: post #65

I don’t know what it means for America, but what it apparently means for China is no more Chinese villains in films for an international audience

Honestly, as an Asian American, I actually prefer the villain characters as opposed to the new “sidekick/background” character trope. Hollywood writers and producers still know how to marginalize these new Chinese characters and unfortunately, it seems the Chinese audience is still naive to it. At least the villains had agency. These new Chinese sidekicks only purpose is to serve the “American” hero.

As a British person, I'm mildly annoyed that British villains (and there are many in films) are generally characterized as incompetent or effete idiots. At least the evil Russians and Chinese in films get to be evil masterminds!

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Post by x15 »

lanevorockz wrote: post #55
77pt77 wrote: post #45

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Can you even browse reddit behind the great firewall?

Definitely not like in the west, user interaction tends to be very closely tracked. Although, China became a model that the EU is trying to copy.

Considering that Chinese tech companies have grown dramatically because of the GWoC and have enough money to invest left and right in foreign countries, it would be nice, but utterly unrealistic, if EU could copy that success model.

EU values the privacy of its people, the online interactions are certainly not tracked like in China.

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