Tencent Allegedly Wanted Bigger Breasts and No Black People in Movie It Funded (opens in new tab)

On a tangent, China aims to be a moviemaking powerhouse by 2035[1]. They want to have independence from Hollywood and foreign media influence on their culture. It's not just Hollywood they want to wean themselves from, but (South) Korean programming, among others, as well with their 'ban' on "effeminate men"[2]

[1]https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202112/15/WS61b9520aa310cdd3...

[2]https://www.voanews.com/a/china-tells-effeminate-male-celebr...

Fight Club was recently released on Tencent Streaming. Check out how they edited the final scene:

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1485707293769584641

Assuming this is true, that is not only tasteless, some would say evil (I don't really believe in evil, though), but above all: it's out of touch. Doesn't seem like good business, there's so much middle ground between cheap sex appeal and woke reboots. I don't see how this could be a reasonable response to the latter.

The article itself isn't exactly seeping with tangible details and sources, though. I don't think this is really telling us anything new.

> Pearce was quick to walk back the allegations by expressing her reluctance to discuss any specific films or games "because I’m so worried about getting sued by Tencent, but this is what I’ve heard — rumors. I’m not sure if any of this is true.” She however said that Tencent has “games that are out where they were like ‘yeah, that character needs to have bigger tits’ or ‘you need to make her skin lighter’ type of shit.”

Worthless article designed to spark outrage and clicks. Dont give them ad dollars

> this is what I’ve heard — rumors

This whole article is just discussion based on a rumor.

> Within both Activision's and Blizzard's studios, management allegedly both allowed and encouraged "cube crawls", where male employees went from cubicle to cubicle, drinking heavily and making inappropriate advances towards and physically touching female employees. ... A woman employee reportedly died by suicide during a business trip after suffering "intense sexual harassment" in the preceding days, which included employees sharing nude photos of her at a company holiday party. The human resources departments allegedly did not keep reports of sexual harassment confidential, which as a result allowed managers and others to retaliate against employees who reported misconduct, such as by denying them promotions, transferring them to other departments, prioritizing them during company-wide layoffs, or preventing them from working on desirable projects. [0]

Let's fix China tho

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Fair_...

But one doesn't come without the other...

/ducks

I got a buzzfeed-style ad for “hottest beach babes of 2021” or similar half way through.

I know the ad is generated by an automated system. But it’s hypocritical that a news site would make claims of righteousness while engaging in very similar sexualization of women.

Hollywood Allegedly Wanted Sexier Womens and No Arabs in Movie it Funded

who's better? i need the media to tell me, i can't make a decision myself

> Pearce was quick to walk back the allegations by expressing her reluctance to discuss any specific films or games "because I’m so worried about getting sued by Tencent, but this is what I’ve heard — rumors. I’m not sure if any of this is true.”

This seems like a non-article.

Let me guess... this is somehow worse than their business practices at Epic...