So, the Twitter curation team was curating at least Japanese Twitter to be <i>more</i> political?<p>Kind of makes me wonder what American Twitter is going to look like once our regularly scheduled post-election meltdown is over; but if true, $44B to turn Twitter into a smoking hole in the ground might just be the best $44B ever spent.
The latest Gundam series (Witch from Mercury) that borrows heavily from Revolutionary Girl Utena is rather new and interesting take on the franchise, while keeping its signature bleskness and being pretty funny at the same time.
Funny to see this crop up—I've had my explore location set to Japan for the past few years and would strongly recommend it. I hated the explore tab, but don't speak a word of Japanese so it's a great way to avoid news. As such the actual content does even matter so I didn't notice the change mentioned in the article.
Folks knock on CCP's overzealous suppression of political news for political serenity, but it some virtues:<p>>Japanese users have compared this list to previous days where almost all trending topics were political in nature. The user who posted the list called the new trends “peaceful” and joked about how the curation team must have spend their time “sorting out topics like this every day”.<p>I've argued TikTok/Douyin's success is pushing peaceful content - stuff that survives the crucibles of PRC censorship - which unsurprisingly has mass appeal vs polarizing fringe shit fests. Obviously not all platforms should moderate like this, and hopefully not twitter, but it has it's "enjoyers".
It's pretty much always been like this. It doesn't resemble at all what tops the Trending charts in America.<p>I've been checking Twitter Trends here in Japan for the last ~3 months, prior to the Musk acquisition, and I've always thought it was fascinating how there's very little political discussion. I don't think this was related to the curation team being axed at all.
#PoliticalRage<p>Could it be that thanks to Elon we are going to see beyond Truman's Show? What if people only wanted to be happy with their lives and comment their favourite series? Politicians were the nobility/aristocracy, journalist were the ecclesiastic class, etc.<p>They will never forgive Elon for that, he needs to become the antichrist. He needs to be destroyed by the system, otherwise what will happen to western partitocraties?<p>P.D. I wish to be out of the Truman Show too, cannot even picture a society less divided and more focused on its own wellbeing
This kind of news always makes me wonder, what kind of world would we live in if all propaganda was turned off for 4 weeks.<p>We may find out some day if a bad enough solar flare hits the Earth and fries enough electronic equipment.
There's no curation in Taiwan. Since coming here I only see "Taiwan" and #<random Chinese City> + "girl" trending. The latter is selling adult pictures or content or scams.
I think this is the reddit post that started it all and got reposted everywhere.<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/yorypr/very_interesting_thing_going_on_jp_twitter/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/yorypr/very...</a><p>And here is a discussion in Japanese from November 6 on Twitter.<p><a href="https://nitter.it/you629/status/1589379389841879040" rel="nofollow">https://nitter.it/you629/status/1589379389841879040</a>
I feel this really needs fact checking.<p>I'm also confused, why, in Japan, would a Twitter curation team curate for more political topics, and not for anime ?<p>And what's this Moments feature, some way to make sure local news posts would get seen?<p>I don't know, seems we have very little information to go by, and I'm not sure if there's anything to make of this or not.