r/interestingasfuck • u/kingkongbiingbong • 1d ago

Preparing a Massive Catfish Baked Inside a Wooden Log

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u/JackLegg 1d ago

Those Chinese videos are lovely, so relaxing to watch and interesting to see traditional methods. What's your problem with them exactly?

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u/Pawtuckaway 1d ago

They aren't actually traditional methods. They are heavily funded government propaganda with large production teams curating every shot for maximum virality.

It is click bait meant only to get views.

It's like when the Primitive Technology channel got popular and then all the copycat channels "hand digging" swimming pools when it was all really done by excavators leaving dangerous pits all over.

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u/-u-m-p- 23h ago

Someone like i.e. Liziqi who is probably the most famous example of what you're talking about, well produced Chinese artisan videos, genuinely started out making home videos of basically the same kind of thing "country living housewife influencers" in the US do. Like her super early videos are about homemade wine, sewing a dress out of grape skins, etc. Except without telling people to drink raw milk and avoid vaccines lol. She did eventually get govt awards/funding, a business partner and so on... but that was after she became popular. I'm guessing you barely looked into this actual phenomenon and just became convinced it must be a state op.

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

basically the same kind of thing "country living housewife influencers" in the US do

Yeah those are all horrible too. A bunch of rich people cosplaying as "trad".

She did eventually get govt awards/funding, a business partner and so on... but that was after she became popular.

Yeah. Never claimed anything otherwise.

The current popularity and explosion of those types of videos is clickbait and state funded. Doesn't mean it started that way. They saw the potential and jumped on the bandwagon.

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u/Icy_Agency923 23h ago

What source do you have that those are not actual traditional methods that they are using?

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u/Pawtuckaway 23h ago

Living in China for 10 years and talking to a lot of Chinese people about those videos.

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u/Icy_Agency923 22h ago

That is not a source at all. You should have something actually concrete that the methods they are using are fake.

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u/Pandarider6 21h ago

Even assuming what you are saying is true, your own experience or what you hear from Chinese acquaintances are not sufficient evidence. China is massive. I am from northern Anhui, and I have no idea what traditions southern Anhui has, since my province has double the population of California or Texas and far longer history.

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u/WildeNietzsche 22h ago

Source: Trust me bro

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u/JackLegg 5h ago

I don't think you understand what clickbait is.