Thread by @SabinaKnight1

🧵~5.3 million views in 4 days.

"Fragile"《玻璃心》mocks the oversensitivity of cyber-nationalists, internet trolls that guard #China against criticism.

– by Malaysian #Chinese artist activist @nameweemusic 黃明志 (ft. Kimberley Chen 陳芳語)

🧵"It might Break Your Pinky Heart"

Paid cyber trolls: "fifty-centers" (五毛 *wumao*).
Unpaid cyber nationalists: "little pinks" (#小粉红).

The name recalls the color of a popular online nationalist forum. Many are young women.
mothership.sg/2018/01/china-…

🧵references in "Fragile"《玻璃心》(lit. "Glass Heart")

* cotton (picked by #Uyghurs in #Xinjiang labor camps)
* honey loved by Winnie the Pooh (Xi Jinping)
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"Carrying the cotton and collecting his favorite honey. / Common prosperity!"
“扛着棉花踩着它爱的蜜蜂 /#共同富裕”

🧵#Taiwan offers singers & creators a milieu of creative #freedom. Yet none of Taiwan’s own trending pop singers dare compose & sing a song like this one.

Rather it's Australian citizen Chen Fangyu & #Malaysia’s Huang Mingzhi who are brave enough to speak out in Taiwan. Ironic!

🧵"As someone born & raised in #HongKong, for the time being I don’t need to jump the firewall to watch @YouTube. Yet I don't know for how long this remaining #freedom can last. I can only use the time left to listen to this Divine Comedy on repeat."

Kenny Lee on @nameweemusic

The 53K+ @YouTube comments on "Fragile" reveal fear and frustration in #China, #HongKong, #Taiwan & beyond.

Samples in 🧵:

https://twitter.com/SabinaKnight1/status/1450235054479876096?s=20

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#video @nameweemusic:

🧵After #China blocked the #video & suspended Chen Fangyu's Weibo account, she posted an a cappella version with new lyrics:

"I hear the sound of glass shattering all over the floor. . . ."
instagram.com/p/CVFyzS1B_RP/…

🧵Chen Fangyu's a cappella @instagram response to #China:

"I'm sorry I hurt your feelings. It doesn't matter if you delete my Weibo. I hear the sound of glass shattering. No matter. I still have IG and FB... I'm so sorry. We're trending first on YouTube!”
instagram.com/p/CVFyzS1B_RP/…

🧵On "Little Pink" (#小粉红)：

"#China's 'Little Pink' are not what you think," by @anthonytao of @supchinanews: supchina.com/2017/11/15/chi…

Background & partial #translation of a report from @initiumnews (see tweet below).

🧵On #China's "Little Pink" :

The sexist label linked cyber-#nationalists to a literary forum where members barely talk politics & 64% are male.

「#小粉紅」，一個「張冠李戴」的標籤
"'Little Pink': a Case of Mistaken Identity"
by Fang Kecheng 方可成: theinitium.com/article/201711…

🧵Background:

https://twitter.com/SabinaKnight1/status/1450862788826517504?s=20