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WeChat is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 28, 2022 and September 18, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “I posted the NPC joke in a language-related chat group on WeChat (China’s F”; “„I posted the NPC joke in a language-related chat group on WeChat (China’s Facebook)“”; “WeChat was created in a very specific Chinese context that simply doesn’t translate to the US”. It most often appears alongside China, Foreign Policy, Scott.
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- Category: Brands
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: April 28, 2022
- Last seen: September 18, 2023
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- China (2 shared issues)
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- Foreign Policy (2 shared issues)
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- Scott (2 shared issues)
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- Stalin (2 shared issues)
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- US (2 shared issues)
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- Xi (2 shared issues)
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- 787 (1 shared issues)
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- adderallposting (1 shared issues)
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- ADL (1 shared issues)
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- aerospace industry (1 shared issues)
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- AI x-risk (1 shared issues)
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- Akins’ Law (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
I posted the NPC joke in a language-related chat group on WeChat (China's Facebook). There were no consequences for two days, because Chinese censors don't waste their time analyzing jokes in English language chat. But after a couple of days the American moderators of the group (resident in China, like me) decided to eject me from the group and break off all communication.
I wrote a piece for Foriegn Policy about why the vision of an 'Everything App' in the US market is essentially impossible. WeChat was created in a very specific Chinese context that simply doesn't translate to the US
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/07/31/elon-musk-wechat-twitter-x-united-states-everything-apps/