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Chinese youth come up with a fool-proof plan to evade Jinping’s censors

Akshay Narang by Akshay Narang
January 24, 2022
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So, if you show your face in China, you are in danger. The country has a crazy President who doesn’t even spare his party men. So, critics and businessmen are always at risk of being censored by Xi Jinping. This is why Chinese internet users are increasingly using virtual avatars to evade the CCP and this could as well pave way for an online revolution against Xi Jinping.

Virtual avatars pick up in China

Virtual you tubers don’t exist in China, because like all other social media apps, YouTube is also banned in China. But Chinese internet users love virtual avatars.

Read more: Twitter blocks all CCP handles trying to spread misinformation

Virtual hosts are being used to sell cosmetics, skincare products and other goods on e-commerce websites. The attractive virtual avatars and hosts tempt users and buyers into buying goods on e-commerce websites.

The industry is huge. Cheng Weizhong, the founder of a Chinese startup said, “Virtual hosts will become more popular because relying too much on influencers isn’t sustainable.” Cheng added, “The market is huge.”

Crackdowns on social media influencers

You may think that such AI-generated animations lack personal touch. But it does the job for Chinese e-commerce websites.

Hiring social media influencers for Livestream retail sales is quite an expensive affair in China. Influencers demand high commissions of up to 40% of Livestream sales apart from daily service fees running as high as $78,000 in some cases.

And you never know when your hired influencer runs into trouble with government authorities. Viya, China’s queen of live streaming, for example, was handed a fine of US$210 million for tax evasion by CCP authorities in China’s e-commerce hub Hangzhou in Zhejiang. In fact, China’s Livestream celebrities are already running out of business as virtual avatars take over.

How virtual avatars could lead a revolution against the CCP

The advantage of virtual avatars is that they don’t have an identity. CCP authorities can’t identify someone and say- let’s punish him or put him in a detention camp. And this is what makes virtual avatars a possible tool to take on the CCP. Presently, Chinese youngsters are using it for business and tomorrow they could use it for criticising Xi Jinping.

In fact, Chinese censors have been caught napping up on Japanese anime in the past. In 2020, China suddenly realised that two virtual Japanese YouTube hosts Kiryu Coco and Akai Haato had included Taiwan on a list of countries that contributed the most to their subscribers. Even the national flag of the island nation was displayed.

This had enraged hard-line CCP supporters on Chinese streaming platform Bilibili, who flooded the page of the two virtual Japanese characters with angry remarks and requests for apologies.

This is what makes virtual characters extremely dangerous for the Chinese Communist Party. The fun virtual characters, which seem pretty innocuous, can easily turn into tools for expressing dissent against Beijing’s policies.

Presently, China cracks down on any social media celebrity it hates. Zhao Wei, a billionaire Chinese celebrity, is one of the examples. Censors also find it easy. They are given one personality to target and the CCP censors make it a point to delete that personality from the Chinese internet. But you cannot do this to animated characters.

You cannot punish non-living animated characters. And it also becomes a tough task for censors to crack down on anti-CCP animated characters. Imagine thousands of anti-CCP animated characters scattered all over the Chinese internet. Even if the censors delete some of these characters, new characters can prop up quite easily and start exposing the CCP all over again.

Virtual avatars can therefore prove to be a monster of sorts for the CCP. They are already running Chinese businesses and soon they could turn into an uncontrollable revolution of sorts, with an aim to take down Xi Jinping’s evil regime.

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