The statement I bolded makes me think this stemmed from Coco(I believe that was the Vtuber's name) mentioning Taiwan being a country and not part of China and showing an info-graph? I am not very knowledgeable about the Vtuber scene(or a lot of the controversies surrounding China so I might be wrong about the Taiwan part), but I recall a lot of drama happening for Hololive CHN(their Chinese branch) and Coco having to retire because of it.@Nova: Just having skimmed over the Reddit post, it looks like the Chinese government passed a bunch of new laws regulating Vtubers. I didn't entirely understand all of it, but it looked like the laws pertain to what they're allowed to discuss, and maybe how much people can donate to them/they can donate to their platforms? There was also stuff in there about the government moderating their posts and encouraging their platforms to use AI/other means to do so.
Thank you for informing me. I had heard it was a mess, but I did not know it went this far.It wasn't that Coco mentioned Taiwan being a country. It was that she said Taiwan period. It's a long story but basically Coco did that(Not with an ill intent mind you) and she (as well as Haato) were forced into a 3-week suspension. Chinese CCP supporters went nuts, to the point that Hololive had to pull out of China. And no it wasn't Coco that had to retire. She's with HololiveJP. What happened is that the entire chinese branch was shut down due to all this.
It was also Haachama too. They both pulled up their youtube analytics pages that listed how they were doing in Taiwan. So when both videos somehow got their way over to mainland China, they got attacked for something Google/Alphabet did. Neither one of them made any sort of comment about politics at all which made the attacks seem really effing stupid to everyone outside of China.It wasn't that Coco mentioned Taiwan being a country. It was that she said Taiwan period. It's a long story but basically Coco did that(Not with an ill intent mind you) and she (as well as Haato) were forced into a 3-week suspension. Chinese CCP supporters went nuts, to the point that Hololive had to pull out of China. And no it wasn't Coco that had to retire. She's with HololiveJP. What happened is that the entire chinese branch was shut down due to all this.
I think this may be fake. I haven't heard such a law for Vtuber. After all,Vtuber market is not that big in China.@Nova: Just having skimmed over the Reddit post, it looks like the Chinese government passed a bunch of new laws regulating Vtubers. I didn't entirely understand all of it, but it looked like the laws pertain to what they're allowed to discuss, and maybe how much people can donate to them/they can donate to their platforms? There was also stuff in there about the government moderating their posts and encouraging their platforms to use AI/other means to do so.