Krem
are labubus popular in the west right now? they became a thing in asia like autumn last year? and had pretty much died out a few months ago. it's weird seeing a lot of references to them on western social media.
the inverse of this is i guess the teddy bear from toy story 3 which became weirdly popular like 2022/23? and whose cultural stock value still hasn't completely crashed somehow
i've read several books and they almost all have some conveniently white racist side character that can yell Ns and other racial slurs. and most non-white characters talk in some level of uncomfortable racial dialect that's almost minstrel-level, which is not great when it's like the green mile and it's a rural guy from like the 30s, but becomes absurd when it's a more modern character. the black tower books had a main character with some kind of split personality where one side of her was talking like a 1920s racist cartoon, which was explained in universe as... idk
post history is 90% how the CPC is not perfect and that what the world needs right now is for rural chinese to overthrow their corrupt "patsoc" government (which definitely wouldn't result in another century of humiliation)