Chinese people arrested for celebrating Halloween on the streets, Little Pinks taunt: Retribution for Taiwanese, typhoon prevents them from celebrating, Chinese influencer curses CCP leadership, banned for using an ant metaphor

The video focuses on Halloween costume events and related restrictions across various parts of China, mentioning school group notifications, a makeup-removal zone in the Guangzhou metro, police deployments in Shanghai and Hangzhou, collective dissuasion in Guangzhou, and the cancellation of performances in Zhuhai, while comparing street activities in Wuhan with overseas costumes. The video also discusses a debate between a Little Pink restaurant owner and netizens, as well as a video by a Chinese influencer using ants as a metaphor being taken down, and plays the communication between the influencer and platform reviewers.

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I am telling you, the existence of certain related discussion topics or related remarks that are not easily discussed on entertainment-type platforms will have an impact.

Yesterday was Halloween, and unfortunately a strong typhoon struck, so many people in Taiwan couldn't go out to cosplay on the day—the moment you went out to cosplay you would get blown away, blown all the way to China.

Last week we released a lot of videos about how many major Chinese cities banned people from cosplaying on the streets, such as even the cosplay events at Happy Valley in Nanjing being shut down. And yesterday, in several Chinese cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Wuhan, quite a few citizens took to the streets to provoke and challenge the bottom line of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). These pro-CCP Taiwanese and CCP language, or dressing up to go out on the streets for Halloween, right? Speaking of the most successful place, it has to be Wuhan. Why? We will talk about this later. Let's first take everyone through some screenshots of the footage and comments one by one.

Chat group record: "Everyone, please give a notice on Thursday not to celebrate foreign holidays. Be careful with how you transmit related pictures and remarks; just notify people in class."

"@All, please note for all student associations that between October 31 and November 3, all associations are forbidden to carry out team-building, recreational, and related activities on campus. If your team needs daily team training, please go talk to this counselor at 8:00 PM on October 31."

What else happened? A makeup-removal zone appeared on the Guangzhou metro, as people with makeup were not allowed to take the subway. Why would a subway station even have a makeup-removal zone? And it was specifically cordoned off with fences and screens because it was Halloween. Then, some Little Pink came out to whitewash it, saying: "I wrote this comment hoping everyone truly understands why transportation does not allow people in special costumes to enter or exit. It's not like what people are saying about controlling everything or scaring children, but rather to prevent wanted criminals, spies, and other people who need to be arrested from taking advantage of the holiday or blending into the crowd to escape, which would cause pressure on police work."

And there is another person called "The Moon Is Gone," who got 11,000 likes. They said: "It feels like this sister has touched upon an aspect we never thought of before." Wow, fantastic, thumbs up, only this comment of yours has convinced me completely. Actually, it's just terrifying and scary, whereas normally even more exaggerated cosplays wouldn't be stopped. Right, exactly, this is a master at whitewashing, where no matter what the party does, it's never wrong; whatever the party does has its reasons, right? We just need to help them think of reasons, ten million reasons, a thousand sad reasons, all of which can be thought up.

OK, next let's show you more. What else did people cosplay as? Working stiffs, the chosen beasts of burden, 40% proficient, I can do typesetting, editing, filming, and copywriting. One point that puzzles me is that if you usually cosplay as your working-stiff identity, as a food delivery worker, and you actually wear a delivery uniform, will the police tell you on Halloween: "Hey, you can't cosplay as a delivery worker," and take you away?

Let's continue watching. Many police cars are parked on this Changning Road in Shanghai, and at the entrance of Zhongshan Park, many orange-clad volunteers and police officers are also on high alert. Citizens are going about their normal exercises, and a bus at the entrance has two character signs posted on it saying troop transport, with another bus carrying police personnel parked on the opposite side of the road. We can see some people cosplaying things like Boss Zhipin and mentally disabled recruitment.

Then this image is of the streets of Hangzhou, where we can see many police officers on high alert, wandering around and checking if anyone is cosplaying. Some people even went to the Chinese Embassy in a foreign country to post an English notice saying, look, the Chinese government prohibits us from celebrating Halloween at certain spots within mainland China, putting it in English for foreigners to see. This is extremely ironic, letting foreigners know, oh, so the Chinese government is this ridiculous, forbidding even celebrating Halloween.

Let us show you this as well: "Students, this week, especially Thursday and Friday, do not walk around on or off campus wearing weird costumes or cosplay outfits, or you will be registered by the police."

Right, let's take a look. Here is footage of a Chinese woman wearing Hanfu being arrested in Shanghai. Next is footage from Guangzhou, with collective persuasion to turn back. Okay, we can see this Halloween in Zhuhai, which says what? "Due to instructions from relevant authorities, there are no performance events at Fuhuali tonight. Thank you for everyone's support and understanding."

Now, let's look at the flip side: why do I say Wuhan is the most successful one? Come, let's watch. Someone in Wuhan cosplayed as the local leader. Let me tell you, how big does an official have to be to be considered big? Next: "Are you planning to send the stray dogs of your village to the Public Security Bureau too, to become police dogs and eat government-funded meals? Ah, want to? What kind of tests can a leader accept? Well, you use this to test the cadres. Hey, right, can you accept it for a moment?" Hahaha.

We can see this is particularly ironic. He says, are you going to let stray dogs enter the Public Security Bureau to eat government-funded meals? What is this cursing? Cursing the police as dogs. Then the police and SWAT officers beside him are also laughing, and then they urge him, hurry up and go, hurry up and go, hurry up and go, do not gather crowds here. So compared to Shanghai, the police here are a bit more humane. Although the orders from above tell you to do this, they turn a blind eye.

We can continue to see that there are still many people performing on the streets of Wuhan. Finally, these actions of theirs attracted some high-ranking officials, likely from the local Public Security Bureau, to come over. And someone said: "Lihuangpi Road, the people least happy this Halloween night. It feels like all the big shots from the police station came out collectively, with serious expressions that remind me of last time's phantom fireworks incident." Some police officers are protecting the leader.

What does being the least happy mean? This is a comedic performance in China; the Green Snake and White Snake characters in it were quite popular last year and the year before. To understand CCP topics, I also have to look at Chinese entertainment shows and absorb them so that I know how to use them more flexibly in my programs.

Okay, after looking at these cosplay conditions within mainland China, let's look at overseas ones, for example, in Manhattan, Japan, and South Korea. Next, looking at Tokyo's, many people surrounded this Winnie, walking like bodyguards, right? Everyone knows that when Xi Jinping goes on tour, there is a bunch of black-clad bodyguard personnel, even tall buildings have them. Xi Jinping is coming here for a meeting, close your windows for me, the police are watching right inside your homes. Anyone who has attended many meetings believes that those living nearby know this very well.

Let's look at South Korea's. Of course, this is only part of it. Some people even cosplay things like Chinese Dabai, SWAT police, and the Chained Woman, all of them, right? Some people even cosplay Peng Liyuan. Moreover, on the streets of the United States, quite a few people play Trump or Biden, completely legally, and no US SWAT police will come to persuade you to leave or arrest you.

Try playing Xi Jinping directly in China. Let's not even talk about Xi Jinping, go play Li Qiang and see, or play Li Keqiang, and you will definitely be taken away, and this will be very serious, much more serious than mere persuasion to leave, and you won't even be exposed. I believe you Little Pinks yourselves know this clearly in your hearts.

Just wait and see if this Christmas there will once again be boycotting of foreign festivals in favor of celebrating Chairman Mao's birthday. School counselors and head teachers will send group notices banning Christmas, banning celebrations anywhere, and forbidding students in the class from gathering in crowds at certain times and dates on December 24 and 25 at any plazas or streets. Schools are also not allowed to hold activities, or they will force you to stay at school or in dormitories. Every year without fail, just wait and see how many such group chat screenshots leak out at the end of this year.

Not only that, a Little Pink opened a restaurant and stated: "If Taiwan does not return to the motherland, I will definitely not take a shop name." But this is already your shop name. As a result, normal netizens retorted: "Seeing the shop name, I feel like this restaurant will scam people blind without remorse. A store with a terrible mental state." Consequently, the store owner snapped back: "Are you an idiot? I didn't ask you to come eat at my place. Without our powerful motherland, you probably would have kicked the bucket long ago, and probably wouldn't even have a place to be buried."

I am very familiar with this sentiment. Many Little Pinks have said this to me when calling into my live stream: "Without the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), we would have all been killed, killed by the Japanese." Of course, many people say those are my actors. So, I suppose this shop was also opened by my actors, right?

Anyway, he continued: "Does it make you unhappy that Taiwan is about to return? Wait until I go to Taiwan and open a shop to make your mental state even worse. Taiwan is already a part of the People's Republic of China, and I can open a shop there right now. There is no issue of whether Taiwan will return or not, just as there is no issue of whether Wuhan will return to the motherland." Right? After all, in your eyes, the administrative buildings in Wuhan, Taiwan, and Beijing are all flying the five-star red flag. Don't deny it; if you deny it, I will report you as a Taiwan independence activist.

At the end of the video, there is another absurd thing. A Chinese influencer made a video on the internet pointing out the behavioral patterns of ants, and as a result, the authorities notified him to take it down. The reason given by the CCP branch was that the video was making veiled allusions. I know what you are talking about, but I won't say it out loud, and you know it too. I know what you are talking about, but we just won't tear off this fig leaf. Let's take a look at what this influencer is saying.

Do you see it? The ants are the ordinary Chinese people, and he himself represents the high-ranking officials and the powerful of the CCP. I can move away, I can move overseas, I can "run," and put your food and money into Swiss banks or open accounts in the United States. Anyway, I will distribute my money to a small group of people to suppress you. Who are those people? Maybe the police, maybe the SWAT police, maybe the People's Liberation Army, or maybe some Little Pinks or temporary workers who are sent to persuade people to return. That is what he said: take a small portion of the food and give it to them, and they will suppress you. This Chinese influencer is quite spot on, but his video was taken down.

Let's look at his phone call with the authorities.

"What was the problem with the work I just posted?" "There are some related topics or comments that are not suitable for discussion on an entertainment platform, and these will have an impact. We have verified this for you, and it is indeed a related issue." "I was talking about ants, how could that cause such a problem?" "You can think back carefully, sir. You used ants, you used these animals to make certain metaphors, and that makes veiled allusions to some other special events or some special related remarks, and these will have an impact, sir. You were just using ants to make a metaphor, sir, but the topics and events you are discussing through these metaphors are not suitable for discussion on an entertainment platform, sir." "I have always emphasized that I am telling an ant myth, and I label every video as purely fictional and for entertainment purposes only. If telling myths is a violation, then at least half of the videos on this platform should be taken down. Journey to the West is also a violation, it's also a myth; Journey to the West even involves going to heaven and earth." "The content you are telling does indeed contain some related suggestive and obscure material. This will indeed easily lead to misunderstandings by others. Although you might be talking about ants, this is just a metaphor, and using ants to metaphorically refer to certain people or situations involves suggestions, suggestive meanings. Once this is detected, it will be considered a violation. It is recommended that you avoid this, sir." "The audit department has re-monitored your account, and indeed, most of your content has this problem." "No, I mean I am telling an ant myth, but how the people in the comment section think or what they comment is none of my business. Why are you banning those comments, all that mess, why are you banning accounts?" "If users have such thoughts, it might not affect you, sir. But if the majority of users see your work and have such thoughts, it means your work does indeed make users, every user, have such related misunderstandings, sir."

"Just like you said, for example, if only one or two users say that these ants are metaphorically referring to certain things and certain people, OK, who said it? Say it like I do. Just tell them directly: 'Oh, you are implying that Xi Jinping wants everyone to have three children, implying that the CCP wants to take that food out to support people like us, and is helping the CCP government persecute you ants.' Just say it out loud. You don't dare to say it, so what exactly are you discussing that needs to be banned? What exactly are you discussing that requires a ban because the ant video you made is alluding to something? Say it."

A few days ago, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials claimed that Taiwan couldn't even tolerate a tiny peanut, yet you cannot even tolerate a fictional ant myth; how do you have the nerve to say that?