The point is, wherever you’re located in the world, seek alternatives and support your local independent creators.
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Reruns, remakes, and repackaging of legacy properties are the modus operandi of the financier-led media corporations. They serve you slop and spend so much marketing on it until they blind you from the alternatives.
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Nezha, Jumbo and IShowSpeed’s streams shows that the rest of the world want to express themselves in their own terms instead of big media’s piss colored filter. Also, if you think that corporate media is on the side of American creatives, then you couldn’t be more wrong!
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Holy perpetual foreigner, Batman! LOL! First, it’s a betrayal of US minorities. Second, why would Asians living in Asia want whitewashed Hollywood representation? They don’t live in US, they’re proud of their own culture!
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Even if big media deigned to throw some bones to the Asian minorities, they would actually find some big-name actors from Malaysia and Hong Kong, like Michelle Yeoh and Tony Leung, instead of actual Asian Americans. Why, because Asians are interchangeable?
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There might be a case for minorities living in US, where the media is monopolized by a handful of media corporations, to demand representation. But they’re just making a Faustian bargain, gentrifying their identity to the corporate media’s palate for scraps of recognition.
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