Slop.

Anyone that has interacted with Chinese media or Chinese people via rednote in the last year has had their eyes open to this idea of lgbt people being severely repressed as untrue. All of these incidents widely publicised in western-media are usually either extremely rare niche incidents (for a population of 1.6billion) or have pretty unusual and different explanations that go beyond just "they're removing lgbt content".

I can cite netease games full of lgbt content right now and 5 minutes on rednote will show tonnes of extremely cool gay shit. Speaking to lgbt people in China results in very nuanced takes. Walking around in any Chinese city feels safer than walking around in London, which I think is probably safer than any American city.

These nerds are behind the times and trying to perpetuate narratives that are long out of date and frankly not really believed by most people anymore after experiencing a different story with their own eyes and ears. When they try to say this stuff to anyone who has seen differently it actually grossly undermines their narratives because it makes people roll their eyes and shut off to anything else they have to say.

Even in the case of those people that have not directly seen these things... The people are vibes-based and the vibes have turned in China's favour.