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I'm a bit OOTL on the Winnie the Pooh thing. I always just assumed it was just a bunch of redditors making a racist effigy out of a fake news story, but googling it does give a bunch of (western) news outles, wikipedia pages etc. saying the character was censored/banned. Can someone pill me on this/direct me to a less brainwormed place than wikipedia for learning more?
from what I recall it originated with a meme based on a pic of Obama and Xi together implying Tigger and Pooh. it wasn't long until it was censored by the PRC, because this is pretty easily interpreted as a backhanded way to invoke the N word for Obama (and isn't flattering for Xi either). the Westerners then seized on this censorship by pretending it was primarily to protect Xi from the comparison and pretending Pooh was then banned for this reason.
EDIT: okay I found the pic the meme is based on in this article from 2013: https://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/06/update-on-pooh-tigger-and-the-2-presidents-art-recreates-life-not-vice-versa/276782/ | https://archive.ph/B4Avg
Ah, I see. Thanks!