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Why do so many American gamers seem convinced that Tencent is some mustache twirling evil villain spying on them? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by tired_of_sinophobia@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@lemmygrad.ml

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While disregarding the fact that they use Windows and Android. The mental gymnastics is Olympic quality.

I’ve been a gamer for a long time and did I miss a memo or something? I don’t think I’ve ever seen any credible proof that Tencent has done anything more nefarious or more often than American or Japanese software publishers. So I’m not sure how people are zealot level convinced.

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[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh it's 100% the brain worms they got from all the propaganda.

You can clearly see this when some post on r/gaming or r/pcmasterrace involves China and/or Tencent in any way. There's always blatant sinophobia, propaganda and racism mixed in there.

The weird thing is, that sentiment made it's way here in Brazil too. I don't really remember much since it was 10+ years ago, but I do recall anti-Baidu stuff on the internet, mostly calling it a computer virus and such and even about Tencent much more recently, although not a lot of stuff.

I also have seen gringos making some valid criticism about predatory monetization by Tencent, but it is usually followed with "China bad".

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Well brazil has been a bastion of anticommunism in latin america so it makes sense that hate against anything coming from china gets promoted.