A little bit of context (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy)

In 2019, competitive Hearthstone player Blitzchung was removed from a tournament and banned from future tournaments for displaying a sign saying “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” in accordance with Blizzard’s policy against political protest during events

Now that they’ve Targeted Gamers, there was a massive outrage, and the hearthstone community got pissed, so they protested in the following ways:

-Pretending to delete their account

-Preparing for some big protest at Blizzcon

-Some weird scheme to associate Overwatch’s Chinese character Mei with Hong Kong protests, in hopes of getting Overwatch censored in China (obviously didn’t do anything, based on the myth that Winnie the Pooh is banned in China)

-And most importantly, making big posts about how mad they are

Eventually, Blizzcon rolled around, no protest materialized, and they announced Overwatch 2, so everyone let this die, everyone let Hong Kong be forgotten. A stunning example of Reddit activism, I’ll never forget it

  • Ezze [hy/hym,they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I had to stop talking to someone I played World of Warcraft with for several years over this. It was like something broke inside of them, and they began sending Xi Winnie-the-pooh memes to me, and all they could talk about were the Uyghur death camps and how Tencent was subverting American democracy or something.

    I still don’t know what the point of the Hong Kong protests was or what they accomplished.

    (Dr. Mei-Ling Zhou is from Xi’an, PRC, not Hong Kong, and is fiercely loyal to the CCP since they funded her education(as they do for all citizens of China in the year 2070) and provided for her research grants.)