The Hong Kong Spirit Never Dies: From the streets to virtual life
“Be water, my friend”, Hongkonger Bruce Lee says. This is what Hongkongers have been doing: taking their protests to the streets, and even to virtual life during coronavirus lockdown.
The Nintendo Switch video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a social simulator in which players can decorate their own island and invite others to visit. It has become popular during coronavirus lockdown.
Joshua Wong, a Hong Kong activist, took his protests to the game last week and on Twitter posted a screenshot of his island decorated with protest slogans and his feeling about “Wuhan pneumonia”. The game has been pulled from China's grey market e-commerce platforms after Joshua posted the screenshot. Thus, many Chinese players blame Joshua on different platforms because of his post, without bothering about the fact that it is their government which strips them of their freedom. This weird phenomenon may be attributed to the success of Chinese brainwashing.
In fact, the purpose of the game is for players to relax themselves and realize their wishes in the simulator. Players in Hong Kong have been using the game to help keep alive the flame of the pro-democracy protests. The number of protests in Hong Kong is decreasing due to lots of external factors, but it does not follow that we Hong Kongers are forgetting about our demands and what we have lost in the movement. We are still insisting on the belief in democracy and presenting it on different kinds of platforms, whether in reality or virtual life. It is because we are Hongkongers, we are flexible without losing sight of our identity and pursuits.
As the lasting line in V for Vendetta goes: "And ideas are bulletproof"; we Hongkongers, the freedom fighters, will fight on unto victory, in this life as well as in others.
#HKprotests #Hongkonger #China
#FreedomFighter #Democracy
#AnimalCrossing #NintendoSwitch #JoshuaWong
Source:
https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/status/1248494508146221058
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/nintendo-game-pulled-from-chinese-platforms-after-hong-kong-protest-12631310
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/03/animal-crossing-new-horizons-used-hong-kong-pro-democracy-protesters-demonstrate-12502539/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQWYHHqvIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFfG541MYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJbG3ZFXGw
“Be water, my friend”, Hongkonger Bruce Lee says. This is what Hongkongers have been doing: taking their protests to the streets, and even to virtual life during coronavirus lockdown.
The Nintendo Switch video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a social simulator in which players can decorate their own island and invite others to visit. It has become popular during coronavirus lockdown.
Joshua Wong, a Hong Kong activist, took his protests to the game last week and on Twitter posted a screenshot of his island decorated with protest slogans and his feeling about “Wuhan pneumonia”. The game has been pulled from China's grey market e-commerce platforms after Joshua posted the screenshot. Thus, many Chinese players blame Joshua on different platforms because of his post, without bothering about the fact that it is their government which strips them of their freedom. This weird phenomenon may be attributed to the success of Chinese brainwashing.
In fact, the purpose of the game is for players to relax themselves and realize their wishes in the simulator. Players in Hong Kong have been using the game to help keep alive the flame of the pro-democracy protests. The number of protests in Hong Kong is decreasing due to lots of external factors, but it does not follow that we Hong Kongers are forgetting about our demands and what we have lost in the movement. We are still insisting on the belief in democracy and presenting it on different kinds of platforms, whether in reality or virtual life. It is because we are Hongkongers, we are flexible without losing sight of our identity and pursuits.
As the lasting line in V for Vendetta goes: "And ideas are bulletproof"; we Hongkongers, the freedom fighters, will fight on unto victory, in this life as well as in others.
#HKprotests #Hongkonger #China
#FreedomFighter #Democracy
#AnimalCrossing #NintendoSwitch #JoshuaWong
Source:
https://twitter.com/joshuawongcf/status/1248494508146221058
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/nintendo-game-pulled-from-chinese-platforms-after-hong-kong-protest-12631310
https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/03/animal-crossing-new-horizons-used-hong-kong-pro-democracy-protesters-demonstrate-12502539/
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzQWYHHqvIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNFfG541MYY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJbG3ZFXGw
Twitter
Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 😷
Oh no, Xi Jinping banned #AnimalCrossing in China (apparently because I play it), and these angry gamers are blaming me everywhere instead of blaming their own government lol 🤨🎮🎮
#June4Vigil
You can ban gatherings, but you can't resist people's hearts:
Mourning June 4th on Animal Crossing
The Hong Kong government has banned the Tiananmen massacre commemoration in Victoria Park for the first time in 30 years, on the pretext of epidemic prevention.
However, the public's heart for mourning did not give up. In addition to the mourning activities in various districts, players of the popular game "Animal Crossing" also took advantage of its high degree of freedom to arrange their own islands and organize alternative mourning activities to express their feelings for the massacre.
"Animal Crossing" was previously taken off shelves in China due to its high degree of freedom.
Source: PSHK
#Jun4 #AnimalCrossing #6431Truth
You can ban gatherings, but you can't resist people's hearts:
Mourning June 4th on Animal Crossing
The Hong Kong government has banned the Tiananmen massacre commemoration in Victoria Park for the first time in 30 years, on the pretext of epidemic prevention.
However, the public's heart for mourning did not give up. In addition to the mourning activities in various districts, players of the popular game "Animal Crossing" also took advantage of its high degree of freedom to arrange their own islands and organize alternative mourning activities to express their feelings for the massacre.
"Animal Crossing" was previously taken off shelves in China due to its high degree of freedom.
Source: PSHK
#Jun4 #AnimalCrossing #6431Truth
#Nintendo to Ban Gamers Posting Political Content on #AnimalCrossing
//Nintendo has told players of its hit creation Animal Crossing: New Horizons to stop adding political or commercial content, after a variety of users worldwide started sending their own messages.
In Hong Kong, some players have been creating pro-democracy and anti-government content, including flags with protest slogans such as “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” funeral photographs of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and “villain-hitting” sessions aimed at Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam.
The game has since been pulled from Chinese grey market online shopping platforms.
Activist Joshua Wong told HKFP that he had taken part in a number of virtual protests in the game this year:
“What Animal Crossing represented was not just entertainment during lockdown, but also a reflection of happenings in real life. It provides an alternative when institutional channels of expression are restricted."//
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Nov21
//Nintendo has told players of its hit creation Animal Crossing: New Horizons to stop adding political or commercial content, after a variety of users worldwide started sending their own messages.
In Hong Kong, some players have been creating pro-democracy and anti-government content, including flags with protest slogans such as “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times,” funeral photographs of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and “villain-hitting” sessions aimed at Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam.
The game has since been pulled from Chinese grey market online shopping platforms.
Activist Joshua Wong told HKFP that he had taken part in a number of virtual protests in the game this year:
“What Animal Crossing represented was not just entertainment during lockdown, but also a reflection of happenings in real life. It provides an alternative when institutional channels of expression are restricted."//
Source: Hong Kong Free Press #Nov21