Month: March 2023

Reviewing the Subject Matter or Medium of Created Works, Ep. 3

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I think palace dramas are also a bit like being easy to get approved, so they have become popular. However, I couldn’t find any relevant evidence, but ancient costume dramas were indeed occupied by palace dramas before, while historical dramas became less and less. This is indeed directly related to censorship, because as long as it is a historical drama, it can use the past to satirize the present.

In order to avoid censorship, the original Danmei novels (homosexual love novels, mainly BL (Boys Love)) based on love were modified into brotherhood. This is a Dangai drama, but even so, it was still restricted.

Internet movies mainly refer to movies that are first released on streaming media platforms. Because they did not need to be filed at the beginning, the scale is larger than that of theater movies that need to be filed. Therefore, after the anti-Japanese drama was restricted, more bizarre Cult films/B movies were transferred to Internet movies… (but this does not mean that Internet movies are all Cult films/B movies)

Source: You can go to ggame to view.

Censorship of Creative Works: Theme or Medium, Ep. 2

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There is even more local content, such as anti-Japanese war dramas, spy dramas, palace dramas, Danmei dramas, and online movies, all of which are genres or types that were born because of the strong influence of censorship.

Anti-Japanese war dramas may be difficult to pass the review because of more bizarre Cult films/B movies, but anti-Japanese is politically correct, so this kind of poor quality, but very gimmicky picture can pass the review, at least in the past it was, because it was later restricted.

Spy war dramas are actually a substitute for crime dramas (crime genre), because the “Notice on Strengthening the Review and Broadcasting Management of Crime Dramas” in 2004 led to the situation that TV stations “do not broadcast crime dramas during prime time”, so spy war dramas filled this market. However, in 2014, someone leaked a number of non-public restrictions drafted by the State Administration of Radio and Television, including the prohibition of seduction, bribery and red assassination, and the Ministry of National Security would participate in the review.

Source, please visit ggame to view.

Review of Subject Matter or Medium of Creative Works

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The censorship pressure in the Soviet Union was very high, but due to the space race and other reasons, the censorship pressure on science fiction works was relatively low, so there was a scientifically explained version of The Lord of the Rings… Perhaps this was a sci-fi adaptation deliberately made by the translator to pass censorship, but this version was not published.

After World War II, Japan was indirectly governed by the General Headquarters of the Allied Powers (GHQ), which implemented strict censorship against militarism and related ideologies, including works with war themes, similar to Germany. Eiji Tsuburaya, the father of Tokusatsu, was fired for his involvement in the production of some war films. It was not until GHQ withdrew from Japan that Eiji Tsuburaya returned to the company, but he did not immediately participate in the production of war films. Instead, he pioneered Tokusatsu films.

Mods for Garry’s Mod

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Garry’s Mod is a game born for Mods (hereinafter referred to as GMod). To some extent, it can be said: “Playing GMod without installing Mods is not considered playing GMod.”

However, GMod only landed on Steam relatively late, and Steam’s Workshop was only added in 2012, so before that, downloading Mods from various Mod websites was standard practice.

These old Mod websites such as Moddb, GameBanana are still running today. Finding a popular Mod from 2001 on them is probably not too complicated. (2001 was the founding year of GameBanana)

Perhaps the Mods were too scattered, so the author of GMod built a GMod Mod site on the garrysmod.org domain, which became the most popular GMod Mod site at the time, but this site suddenly disappeared in 2014. The current website introduction states that the reason for the disappearance was accidental deletion… So data security is really important.

The main content comes from Richter Overtime’s video The Mysterious Disappearance of garrysmod.org, Chinese subtitles version

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The Sunny and Cheerful Kong Yiji

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In March 2023, the “Kong Yiji Literature” became popular on mainland social media. This is a way for young people to ridicule and vent their feelings with statements such as “education is the long gown that Kong Yiji cannot take off”, expressing their low and confused emotions of “graduation equals unemployment”.

On March 16, 2023, CCTV.com published an article entitled “Facing the Anxiety Behind ‘Kong Yiji Literature'”, which mentioned:

The reason why Kong Yiji fell into the predicament of life is not because he had studied, but because he could not let go of the airs of a scholar and was unwilling to change his situation through labor. The long gown is clothing, but also a shackle in the heart.

Obtaining education through studying can… see a broader world, instead of dividing people into different classes and setting rules and regulations for themselves, making education a “long gown” that restricts their hands and feet.

Finally, two graduates from double first-class universities were given as examples of working as cleaners in hot pot restaurants.

As a result, this incident became a hot topic, making the topic of Kong Yiji even more lively. Then, Bilibili user “Gui Shan Ge” released an incomplete version of “The Sunny and Cheerful Kong Yiji” on March 23, 2023.

Then the full version was released on the 25th. The introduction to the incomplete version is: Sell songs and earn some medical expenses, otherwise I can’t even afford to see a doctor. Then the author posted photos of infusions and hospital payments on Bilibili, and said that he had earned more than 1,000 yuan (Bilibili advertising sharing plan).

However, quickly on the evening of March 25, Gui Shan Ge was banned for 15 days, and his two “The Sunny and Cheerful Kong Yiji” videos were deleted.

Source material can be found at ggame.

People Should Not Expose Difficulties” and “Touched But Refused”

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These are two popular words from 2013, but in November 2014, they were severely criticized by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television for fear of misleading minors, and required radio and television broadcasting organizations at all levels to conduct self-examination and self-correction.

More absurdly, many years later, in 2020, the Ministry of Education still remembered these two words. In the “Reply to Proposal No. 3950 of the Third Session of the 13th National People’s Congress”, it stated that the Ministry of Education and the State Language Commission attached great importance to this and took active measures to strengthen guidance, and the scope of guidance was expanded to new media locations such as the Internet.

Source, can go to ggame to view.