Jinri Toutiao, the popular aggregator where the 2014 sketch was shared this week, was ordered to shut down several entertainment-focused social media accounts early this year as internet media regulators expanded their jurisdiction over online news.Īt Whats On Weibo, Manya Koetse reports on the massive growth in popularity of rage comics in China, spurred on largely by the efforts of Wang Nima and his recently censored brand, and translates netizen commentary on the censorship:īaoman became more popular in mainland China when ‘Wang Nima’ on Weibo) launched the website (now offline) in 2008, inspired by the success of the webcomics on English-language online communities (Chen 2014, 690). “We’ll stop posting new content and organize for all of our staff to learn relevant laws and regulations.”
“The company will start internal rectification from today,” the statement said. Several people have been detained this year for making disrespectful remarks about the Nanjing Massacre, and Weibo announced that it had shut down 16 accounts - including Baozou Manhua - for joking about civil war and Korean War martyrs.īaozuo Manhua CEO Ren Jian issued a public apology on Thursday. Baozou Manhua is not the only target of China’s ramped-up history wars.
I am an eight-point youth, and this is my eight-point bunker.’” The script was a pun on a KFC sandwich available for a limited time in 2014. He said resolutely, ‘Commander, let me blow up the bunker. In the clip, host Wang Nima dons a rage face mask and narrates: “Dong Cunrui stared at the enemy’s bunker, his eyes bursting with rays of hate. First released in 2014, it joked about two Chinese civil war figures: Ye Ting, an army general, and Dong Cunrui, a People’s Liberation Army soldier who destroyed an enemy bunker in a suicide bombing. The accusation relates to a 58-second Baozou Manhua video clip that was posted to content aggregator Jinri Toutiao earlier this month. At Sixth Tone, Lin Qiqing reports on the clip that violated the law, and the variety show’s (referred to as Baozou Manhua by Sixth Tone) subsequent censorship on Chinese platforms, and other recent punishments under the new law:
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The newly passed law, the Law on the Protection of Heroes and Martyrs, went into effect on May 1 and is seen as a the latest in a series of moves by the Xi administration to combat “ historical nihilism,” or attempts to question the Party’s sanitized account of the past. Baozou Big News Events (暴走大事件), a “ rage comic“-inspired Chinese internet variety show that has swelled in popularity in recent years, has been silenced along with other providers of the genre following the reposting of a four-year-old clip now considered illegal under a new law.
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