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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not, it's Sinophobic because the context of that meme is John Cena apologizing for recognizing Taiwan as a country while speaking Mandarin and also mispronouncing "ice cream" so Western Zoomers made the Cena Mao meme to make fun of him for being a "CCP shill"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah, I had no idea that was the context. Disappointing. Thanks for explaining.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and also mispronouncing "ice cream"

Beg your pardon?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Mandarin. It's actually really sad. Cena was just sharing a video of him enjoying ice cream and showing off his Chinese progress/skills and all of a sudden millions of kids are making fun of him for his bad pronunciation because China bad

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-cena-speaking-chinese-and-eating-ice-cream-bing-chilling

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Thanks, this had slipped my mind. I first found out about this duringthe chess world championship, the streams were full of "DING CHILLING" referring to Ding Liren.

Westerners are just not that imaginative, even the kids.