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China Meme Report

Acceptable Protest: The 2019 workplace meme that’s thriving on China’s internet

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Photo of a booklet of China's labor laws taped onto the glassdoor of Ant Financial
Anonymous selfie of person giving Ant Financial/Alibaba a booklet of China’s labor laws. Source: 996action GitHub repo.

Internet memes about social issues have a spotty history on China’s internet, where netizens have had to evade, obfuscate and mask their posts in an evolving game of censorship cat…

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Watch This Super Cute Animated Intro to Alibaba’s Personal Finance Product

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It’s pretty great. First, it pokes fun at how people are told to save and not spend. Then it introduces their product which allows people to save AND spend from the higher-than-usual interest rates if customers put their savings there.

Check out Alibaba’s Yuebao 余额宝 for yourself.

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