No, because I’m not a 12 year old boy who freaks out every time he sees a set of tits. She can dress however she wants, it has nothing to do with the quality of her content.
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merc@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The theory is that you can get away with a bit more in China if you have a big western audience. She had a fairly big one and that was protecting her, but the audience is fickle (made more fickle by Musk ruining Twitter) and once her audience declined, she lost that protection.
I guess the real lesson is that if you’re Chinese and develop a Western audience, us that to escape China. Don’t stay behind in China because your big audience is painting a target on your back, and eventually the Chinese authorities are going to ruin your life.
As an aside, did anybody else find her vibe really offputting? I liked her content, but her enormous fake boobs and skimpy outfits were a distraction from otherwise interesting content. If I found a video of hers interesting, it made me not want to share that with anybody because they’d think I was watching it because of her body. I’m all for women’s empowerment, if someone wants to look and feel sexy that’s great. But, with her stuff, it was so extreme that it felt like exploitation. Maybe she was exploiting herself, but it still felt icky.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
lovesickoyster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As an aside, did anybody else find her vibe really offputting? I liked her content, but her enormous fake boobs and skimpy outfits were a distraction from otherwise interesting content.
indeed. I’ve never heard of her and seeing this I wanted to see what it’s all about - one look at her youtube (not even clicking on the video, the thumbnail was enough) and I decided nope, don’t really care.
wahming@monyet.cc 11 months ago
She released a video at some point explaining WHY she looked and dressed that way. It was an interesting PoV, and totally unrelated to her hobby as maker and influencer.
I guess the real lesson is that if you’re Chinese and develop a Western audience, us that to escape China. Don’t stay behind in China because your big audience is painting a target on your back, and eventually the Chinese authorities are going to ruin your life.
She couldn’t, her SO was Uighur and couldn’t get permission to leave.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
She has a video explaining how she became the way she is that address that. Iirc she was raised as a boy by her parents which was a major contributing factor.
merc@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That might explain the ridiculous boobs, but not why she still chooses to wear incredibly skimpy outfits in her videos.
Chriswild@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because it’s her body and she can do whatever she wants with it.
Steve@communick.news 11 months ago
Being able isn’t a reason to actually do something.
A reason would be “Because I feel like it”
merc@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yes and?
jak@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
It actually does. It’s a forty minute video and it was worth it for me, who had never heard of her and doesn’t care about tech at all (sorry lemmy).
Tl;dw: imagine a woman talking about how Freddy mercury’s chest hair makes her uncomfortable because she thinks he’s peacocking for her. That’s you. It’s initially very understandable- you saw something with one known cultural marker and assumed it tracked, I did too. It’s just not the same cultural marker (just like a Chinese person without much international sixty years ago would probably have a very different assumption when looking at a picture of a woman in a western wedding dress).
merc@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I watched the video, it’s unconvincing. I don’t think she’s lying per se, just that her justification for doing all her videos wearing skimpy clothing is pretty thin. She says she’s doing it because she’s a “dee”, but in the videos she shows, she’s the only one who looks remotely like that. She shows herself walking her dog in fairly normal clothing, but claims she can’t do that on her videos. She thinks that unless she’s wearing absolutely skimpy clothing that someone’s going to mistake her for a boy. Sure…
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
She does, in fact, explain it.
merc@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
She really doesn’t. She claims that because she’s a “dee” she has to look like that, but in her videos with other “dees”, she’s the only one who looks remotely like that.