Peppa Pig is Too Gangsta for China

[Viper 12109]

Surprisingly it has nothing to do with the drunk cookout episode. And the Winnie the Pooh picture below is pretty funny too.

 

https://gizmodo.com/china-bans-peppa-pig-videos-on-social-media-for-being-a-1825676619

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Few people would think of the British cartoon character Peppa Pig as a subversive icon. But don’t tell that to the Chinese government. China has started to ban Peppa Pig from social media for being too “gangster,” deleting over 30,000 videos of the cartoon pig on one platform alone.

The Peppa Pig TV show first started airing in China in 2015. But at some point last year, young adults started co-opting the innocent cartoon as a symbol of subversion, even getting tattoos of Peppa. As SBS News reports, a rhyme that roughly translates to “get your Peppa Pig tatt, shout out to your frat” recently went viral on social media. And the Chinese government won’t stand for it any longer, reportedly wiping videos of the program from the popular user-created Chinese video site Douyin, sometimes called Tik Tok in English.

Peppa is getting purged from social media, but it’s tougher to regulate the character on the streets. Chinese retailers are still selling plenty of Peppa Pig merchandise, with everything from temporary tattoos to watches getting swept up by Peppa-obsessed teens.

How did Peppa go gangster? According to the Global Times, Peppa has been fully embraced by China’s Shehuiren subculture, a word that literally means “society person,” but refers to slackers and other “gangsters” who drop out of society. And now that an undesirable subculture has adopted Peppa, the government wants to rid the country of its corrupting influence.

“Peppa Pig is supposed to teach kids about the importance of family which is quite acceptable to the Chinese culture, but the fact that young people have turned it into something associated with a thug or a gangster, that’s totally the opposite of what Xi Jinping has wanted China to be,” Chinese digital media expert Haiqing Yu told SBS News.

People in China often come up with creative ways to get around government censorship. And turning popular children’s media into something dangerous is nothing new in the ostensibly Communist country.

References to Winnie the Pooh are still banned on Chinese social media since the popular Disney character became a meme poking fun at Chinese president Xi Jinping. Walking along with President Obama in 2013, Xi was compared to the rotund Pooh bear, kicking off a flurry of only lightly disguised ridicule. The word “Disney” was banned entirely for a while, creating quite a problem for a company with two theme parks in the country.

China is incredibly sensitive to how Western culture permeates Chinese media and is making a major effort to push back. As just one example, China recently opened the world’s largest movie studio, the 400-acre, $7.9 billion Qingdao Movie Metropolis, that China hopes will compete with the scale and popularity of Hollywood’s output. China has attempted to use movies as a weapon of soft power in the New Cold War, just as the US does, but has been far less successful.

And that US-China culture war can show up in the strangest places. Chinese consumers weren’t impressed with the flavor of Rick and Morty’s Szechuan sauce when it was released in McDonald’s stores on the mainland. But the Chinese government chalked up the sauce’s American popularity as a win for Chinese culture nonetheless, with state media declaring, “From an internet meme to the extraordinary food of southwest China, Szechuan cuisine has a lot to offer!”

When it comes to other Western cartoons, Peppa Pig’s days in China may be numbered. But even if the Chinese government is able to stop the Peppa Pig trend, there’s surely something else that will arrive in its wake as an icon of cultural defiance.

“If Chinese young people can’t use Peppa Pig as a way to vent their rebelliousness, I’m sure they’ll come up with something else,” Yu told SBS. “Because people’s creativity is endless.”

[Global Times and SBS News and Shout Tattoo]

 

 

 

Edited May 2, 2018 by Viper

[gyroprotagonist 2594]

what do they think about the pimp Arthur memes?

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Edited May 2, 2018 by clapclapclap

[JimmyHoffa 1188]

Peppa Pig kicks ass.  

[mr. sunshine 2827]

1 hour ago, JimmyHoffa said:

Peppa Pig kicks ass.  

This and I love an English accent.  I'll even listen to that show on Sirius with the  English comics even thought they're not particularly funny and their stories are fairly stupid  

[JimmyHoffa 1188]

1 hour ago, mr. sunshine said:

This and I love an English accent.  I'll even listen to that show on Sirius with the  English comics even thought they're not particularly funny and their stories are fairly stupid  

My kids don't watch anymore but I would watch Peppa over most of the other kids show out there. As far as the English accent I also loved them going on "holiday" or going to the "petrol" station.

[RPM 26322]

Ganga?

[mulletpelini 5211]

Gunga.

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[chikin23 384]

My kids don't watch anymore but I would watch Peppa over most of the other kids show out there. As far as the English accent I also loved them going on "holiday" or going to the "petrol" station.

My youngest loves Peppa and uses those same words. She also says "trolley" when we are at the grocery store.

[Hate 20108]

My son outgrew it, but he used to call the backyard the "garden" and wanted to go on "holiday".  There were always kind of mean to Daddy Pig though. 

[Prepuce of Doom 21075]

I was searching for the Surly Dad Thread but found this one in the process, and figured it would be a suitable place to post my question. 

Doomlet is 3 and is really into Peppa. So much that he's now beginning to sometimes lapse into an English accent and overall Peppa-esque style of diction.

Are there any other similar kid's shows anyone can recommend that are decent, entertaining, and not annoying as shit for parents (all qualities that Peppa has) but which speak 'Murican? We don't exactly give a shit, but he's already a little too much like Niles or Frazier Crane for his own good, and this won't help matters if it becomes an enduring personality characteristic. 

Past obsessions have included Tec the Tractor (annoying as shit) and Curious George (decent, but the entire family is burned out on them...). 

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I was searching for the Surly Dad Thread but found this one in the process, and figured it would be a suitable place to post my question. 
Doomlet is 3 and is really into Peppa. So much that he's now beginning to sometimes lapse into an English accent and overall Peppa-esque style of diction.
Are there any other similar kid's shows anyone can recommend that are decent, entertaining, and not annoying as shit for parents (all qualities that Peppa has) but which speak 'Murican? We don't exactly give a shit, but he's already a little too much like Niles or Frazier Crane for his own good, and this won't help matters if it becomes an enduring personality characteristic. 
Past obsessions have included Tec the Tractor (annoying as shit) and Curious George (decent, but the entire family is burned out on them...). 

My 3 year old son has been into Voltron, Avatar: The Last Airbender and (I'm gonna regret this) My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I find all of these tolerable to have on in my house.

[tx ind 7013]

Paw Patrol and Pj masks

[Homercles 10206]

My kids don't watch anymore but I would watch Peppa over most of the other kids show out there. As far as the English accent I also loved them going on "holiday" or going to the "petrol" station.

This. My fuckin ringtone is the Peppa theme and my boy calls SPF50 ‘sun cream’.

Peppa fo life yo

[UT_OB1 2223]

Wild crats and dinosaur train. I hate it, but Daniel Tiger is good too. 

[Dropout 355]

Second Daniel Tiger... based off Mr. Rogers neighborhood

[Prepuce of Doom 21075]

Cool - thanks for the recommendations. 

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[Buffsoldier 1895]

On ‎7‎/‎8‎/‎2018 at 1:56 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

I was searching for the Surly Dad Thread but found this one in the process, and figured it would be a suitable place to post my question. 

Doomlet is 3 and is really into Peppa. So much that he's now beginning to sometimes lapse into an English accent and overall Peppa-esque style of diction.

Are there any other similar kid's shows anyone can recommend that are decent, entertaining, and not annoying as shit for parents (all qualities that Peppa has) but which speak 'Murican? We don't exactly give a shit, but he's already a little too much like Niles or Frazier Crane for his own good, and this won't help matters if it becomes an enduring personality characteristic. 

Past obsessions have included Tec the Tractor (annoying as shit) and Curious George (decent, but the entire family is burned out on them...). 

I think you should try this Canadian one I've heard of called "Caillou".

[Prepuce of Doom 21075]

No. 

[woohorn 1131]

I think you should try this Canadian one I've heard of called "Caillou".

He's dead, Jim.