Giraffes appear to be on a path to joining the ranks of Winnie the Pooh and Peppa Pig on Beijing's internet watchlist

Pancito , 4 months ago

So all my removed lessons in school were in vain??

Viking_Hippie , 4 months ago

Plain old giraffes haven’t been outright banned from Weibo

Flamboyant young ones, on the other hand…

gnutrino , 4 months ago

“The US government, please help Chinese stock investors,” said another, per CNN on Monday.

That’s certainly an… ambitious request. I’m sure the US government will get right on that.

Shurimal , 4 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SXj_Ecc3y8

autotldr Bot , 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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Investors flooded the giraffe post last weekend with comments complaining about China’s slumping stock market, as Bloomberg, CNN, and Reuters reported.

China’s blue-chip index, the CSI 300, has been tumbling amid weakening confidence in consumer spending after the country endured a yearslong COVID siege.

Its stock market has lost more than $6 trillion in value since 2021 and continues to slip, despite Beijing intervening nearly a dozen times in January to stall the decline.

Irate commenters were copy-pasting the headline of a state media article, published on the same day as the giraffe post, that said the “entire country is filled with optimism.”

Ensuing efforts to censor these references often creates a mental cat-and-mouse that can lead to absurdities like protests with blank sheets of paper or the words “him” and “that man” being banned.

Plain old giraffes haven’t been outright banned from Weibo, though some giraffe-related hashtags, like #TheGiraffeIncident, have been blocked, censorship tracking site China Digital Times first reported.

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