Chinese Bots Flood Twitter With Porn to Distract From Protests
Chinese bots are allegedly trying to hide protest footage and information on Twitter by simply spamming the site with pornographic Tweets.
Published 2 years ago in Facepalm
Chinese bots are allegedly trying to hide protest footage and information on Twitter by simply spamming the site with pornographic tweets. It's hard to tell if there's validity to the claim, however according to the account AirMovingDevice, those who type major cities (in Chinese) into Twitter will only see ads for gambling, porn, and escorts.
Thread: Search for Beijing/Shanghai/other cities in Chinese on Twitter and you'll mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results.
— Air-Moving Device (@AirMovingDevice) November 28, 2022
Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a *significant* uptick in these spam tweets. pic.twitter.com/Ao46g2ILzf
The protests in question have been spreading throughout China after 'No Covid' policies have been (poorly) enforced. So poorly in fact that a building which was locked down for Covid purposes actually caught fire, killing 10 people.
It's theorized that the Chinese bots are trying to hide content from those people searching for information and protest footage. Some spam content is said to have come from accounts that have been dormant for years.
However, a simple Twitter search in English of cities in China will easily retrieve results including protest videos, photos, and seemingly accurate results.
Vintage PS2 Ads That Would Not Fly Today
A viral tweet from fashion company Shreetwear unearths some Playstation 2 ads from the 90s and early 2000s. They’re odd, sexual, surreal and just plain mindblowing.
Published 2 years ago in Wow
A viral tweet from fashion company Shreetwear unearths some Playstation 2 ads from the 90s and early 2000s. They’re odd, sexual, surreal, and just plain mindblowing.
The ads ran in print magazines like Play Magazine UK, being put up all around Europe and Australia. The European standard for what’s appropriate in ads is far broader than the U.S., and these pics really show it. Nudity, drug use, and all-around weird debauchery were an early way for Playstation to make its mark. According to this great writeup by Sabukaru Online, the tagline for many of these ads was “Different Place. Different Rules.” No one can deny that these ads are the definition of different.
Vintage Playstation Ad Campaigns pic.twitter.com/ndiryR9jmC
— Shtreetwear (@Shtreetwear) November 27, 2022
Sony wanted to show potential players what was possible when traditional games (and reality) were thrown out the window, prepping the public for games like Grand Theft Auto and Metal Gear. This Reddit thread offers another grab bag of video game strangeness. They’re pure 90s, evoking surreal movies like Eyes Wide Shut, Trainspotting, and Lost Highway. Filmmaker David Lynch even directed a PS2 commercial, wherein Bambi gets obliterated by a truck driver.
— Shtreetwear (@Shtreetwear) November 27, 2022
In case those don’t impress, there’s even one heavily inspired by The Matrix.
Sit back, watch, and bask in the glory of virtual surreality. Power to the players.
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