"Oh noes, my exorbitantly priced luxury goods! Stop ending poverty!" 😂

"Oh noes, capitalist propaganda and conspicuous consumption banned on social media, how I'm going to sell my exorbitantly priced luxury goods!"

'Douyin — the Chinese version of TikTok — said six kinds of content including “flaunting wealth,” promoting money-worship, and “making fun of the poor” are now banned on the short-video app.'

sixthtone.com/news/1006912/chi

If the US banned flaunting wealth and making fun of the poor, most of its TV shows, movies, celebrities, major influencers, and overall culture would be vaporized.

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Awoo Space

Awoo.space is a Mastodon instance where members can rely on a team of moderators to help resolve conflict, and limits federation with other instances using a specific access list to minimize abuse.

While mature content is allowed here, we strongly believe in being able to choose to engage with content on your own terms, so please make sure to put mature and potentially sensitive content behind the CW feature with enough description that people know what it's about.

Before signing up, please read our community guidelines. While it's a very broad swath of topics it covers, please do your best! We believe that as long as you're putting forth genuine effort to limit harm you might cause – even if you haven't read the document – you'll be okay!