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Never once has a DJ stopped a show for a political message in my city. Everyone cheered too.

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[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

It's not, it's Sinophobic because the context of that meme is John Cena apologizing for recognizing Taiwan as a country while speaking Mandarin and also mispronouncing "ice cream" so Western Zoomers made the Cena Mao meme to make fun of him for being a "CCP shill"

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah, I had no idea that was the context. Disappointing. Thanks for explaining.

[-] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago

and also mispronouncing "ice cream"

Beg your pardon?

[-] GaveUp@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

In Mandarin. It's actually really sad. Cena was just sharing a video of him enjoying ice cream and showing off his Chinese progress/skills and all of a sudden millions of kids are making fun of him for his bad pronunciation because China bad

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-cena-speaking-chinese-and-eating-ice-cream-bing-chilling

[-] AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago

Thanks, this had slipped my mind. I first found out about this duringthe chess world championship, the streams were full of "DING CHILLING" referring to Ding Liren.

Westerners are just not that imaginative, even the kids.

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