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kyra PAKC #837 @fishfud_art Oct 7. • chinese animation from 1988 done entirely with ink wash paintings btw 1:19 kit 由仁アリン Arin Yuni @Arin Yumi Oct 5 Chinese anime looked so ass just a few years ago and now it's this... It's over for Japan 0:35 自 304 tz 17K 165K 7.1M @kitkatcloud don't make me tap the sign : N thing, japan thing, china 9:59 PM - Oct 7, 2024 32.9K Views

3w I love how the Japanese targeted this towards Americans, its cute to see how they think we interact. Honestly somewhat would consider Reply Reply 3w edit: its chinese its garbage 73 thing, japan thing, china jesus they werent kidding huh Posted: 1 month ago On: 19 Aug 24 50,713 notes 3 128

u/randomdude Apartment Complex in China u/randomdude Apartment Complex in Japan u/lhaveareddit Attention! CCP propaganda detected. Billions must post Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh comparisons. u/averageredditor F--- off with that CCP propaganda, we ain't being fooled! u/slappablejerk How much are we betting on that building collapsing within a year? u/ihaveareddit Truly an architectural masterpiece by the Japanese u/averageredditor Proof that Japan is living in the future. Such beautiful apartments. I want to live there. u/slappablejerk What isn't there to love about Japan? Even their apartments are way better than everyone else's.

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r/pics People doing something, Japan x2000 1,000,000 -1,234 व 1,312 u/hentailover88 I swear the Japans are good at everything!! People doing something, China u/xXNATOsexualXx 4,000 ▲ Urgent A AUrgent A The CPP has infiltrated Reddit once again! We must fight back by saying "West Taiwan" and "Xinnie the Pooh"

coming down, could you fill your sa.... 1d Replying to @Wirelessly_ A child is polite: wow! such a good kid A child is polite (China): the Chinese are taught from a young age that any individuality will be punished. A child is polite (Japan): This can be explained by the Shinto concept of 10th , a word untranslateable into English, 57 173,420 26.9K #sinophobia #racism #orientalism #china #japan 56,950 notes Mar 6th, 2023 17

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Thing, China is a variation of the Thing, Japan meme that was popularized in the early 2020s. While "Thing, Japan" is a meme that points out how some internet users tend to fetishize Japanese culture, "Thing, China" is used to show how the inverse is true for Chinese culture. Such memes typically comment on how some internet users' opinions on things they like initially can sour when they learn that the "thing" or "place" is from China, often due to their biases against the Chinese government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Origin

On January 18th, 2022, now-deleted X^[3] / Twitter user @mswarcrimes posted a version of the Thing, Japan meme showing a Soyjak angrily ranting about the CCP's history. The post received an unknown number of likes before its removal, however, the meme came to be reposted online for several subsequent years.

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On February 25th, 2023, ^[4]X user @Wirelessly__ posted a comic showing a character initially excited about something but souring after learning that it is a thing from China. The post gathered over 88,000 likes in a year.

IA for exams Wireless @Wirelessly__ thing i keep seeing V thing thing thing, japan thing, china 7:14 PM ⚫ Feb 25, 2023 3M Views •

Precursor

Memes on Reddit that pit Japan against China are often cited as the origin of the "Thing, China" meme, with an October 25th, 2019, post on the subreddit /r/PewdiepieSubmissions^[1] by Redditor /u/MrBeast-Official gathering over 13,000 upvotes in five years.

A similar was posted to /r/memes^[2] by Redditor /u/fat_kitten_CO on September 25th, 2020, gathering over 4,000 upvotes in four years.

Me looking at Me looking at Japan. china.

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On August 22nd, 2023, Tumblr^[5] user @itznarcotic posted a screenshot of X^[6] user @thatfoureyedone's tweet, originally made in reply to @Wirelessly__'s "Thing, China" webcomic. The Tumblr post gathered over 56,000 notes in a year.

Several Redditors on the /r/Sino subreddit also pointed out what they saw to be discrimination and bias in memes that compare China and Japan, with Redditor^[8] /u/ ZeEa5KPul gathering over 900 upvotes on a December 12th, 2023, post. The meme was originally posted to Tumblr^[7] on October 12th, 2021, by user bongjoonheaux.

On October 7th, 2024, X^[9] user @AN6ELST4RS posted the Thing, China webcomic after seeing the negative response to a Chinese animation clip on X / Twitter. The post gathered over 100,000 likes in two days.

the replies: https://t.co/t1efnr102s pic.twitter.com/1kaMQ7nIS2

— naya ☆ #ilovemywife (@AN6ELST4RS) October 8, 2024

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External References

^[1] Reddit – /r/PewdiepieSubmissions

^[2] Reddit – /r/memes

^[3] X – mswarcrimes

^[4] X – Wirelessly__

^[5] Tumblr – itznarcotic

^[6] X – thatfoureyedone

^[7] Tumblr – bongjoonheaux

^[8] Reddit – /r/Sino

^[9] X – AN6ELST4RS

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