#again this is like petty-level shit that is exacerbated by a lot of the specific factors of this situation

[tonyglowheart]

what other misinformation did xiran post, if u don’t mind saying? I assumed they knew what they were talking about lol

sdfskdn okay first off listen: I know my shit is like, at least one part petty-level, personal one-sided beef shit, like I’m not trying to pretend I have some kind of moral high ground here. THAT being said okay here’s wonderwall

First off, I did follow Xiran once upon a time. Their thread that single-handedly had me unfol and also launched my ire was their “idk why Chinese ppl have a reputation for being docile when we’re so salty” which, okay cool, I’m down with that. But then it launches into a thread of “here are some Chinese folklore, mythology, etc stories, about Chinese ppl being salty.” And it had characters/stories such as Yugong, and Meng Jiang Nv. And all presented in a “see omg they’re so salty” light. And I took that personally lmfao, bc these stories are about persistence and loyalty and perseverance? Not saltiness, or pettiness, for the sake of being salty. It wasn’t “saltiness” that enacted the change or action, but for Yugong it was about persistence and keeping at something even though people laugh at you and tell you it’s impossible, and you can move mountains (also for the record, the version of the story I heard wasn’t a “the gods were so moved that they moved the mountains” it was “and so Yugong and dug and then his sons dug and eventually they moved the mountain. And Meng Jiang Nv is about loyalty, it was her loyalty and perseverance that moved the gods which caused the segment of the Great Wall to collapse and so she was eventually able to recover her husband’s bones to take them back to be laid to rest properly.

And it’s just a pattern of behavior by them? They’re the same brand as like... you know the like tumblr of old - and honestly they’re on twitter now lmfao - fo the BUCKLE UP KIDDOS, WE’RE GONNA TALK ABOUT XX-HISTORY-THING *proceeds to say stuff that is patently untrue* and okay what Xiran says isn’t 100% wrong, but it’s the kind of stuff that is paaartially right, but then partially wrong, or of just like... a completely unreliable context or weird recontextualization (anything for meme, right?) and people take it as truth and also are like “oh they’re like a historian” except they’re not because they absolutely lack the scholarly rigor and like. due diligence towards being informative and educational and truth-finding and also caveating the MISSING context in the info they’re presenting. So no they’re not “like” a historian, imo, their priority seems to be for the memes and viralness. And people thank them for educating them about Chinese culture and Chinese things, and meanwhile I’m like. o(--(

Again yes I know this shit is subjective and whatever, and I’m like, extra salty right now just because you asked and also my ideal is to never have to see or think about Xiran again after muting and blocking them? But because they’re “big” or something and also non-CN/non-Asians love them, I can never seem to be free of them. Plus, also ppl will ask questions like - okay ppl don’t ask me questions bc ppl don’t ask me things lmao, but my friend was like “I think I’m starting to see see why you have beef with Xiran?” bc someone came to them and was like “I saw this in a Xiran tweet, what do you think about xx?” and it was a weird situation bc it’s like... a thing that’s kinda chill if we’re joking about between us Asians, but really weird when a non-Asian is trying to co-opt into it (I think it was some joke about “the dantian is in the ass” so like the spinoff was sth to do with like anal sex or something and the golden core) (lmfao yeah if Xiran wanted an example of Chinese ppl being salty, ya just have to throw ppl who I like want to never have to deal with again in my face. twt being the way it is, every so often there’s a couple ppl whom I dislike Greatly that I can never get away with. Another is Cuchullain, while I’m being salty lmfao, ppl just keep retweeting his shit bc he reposts but he does it without sources (which I hate) and often presents info thot is... wrong.).

Anyway I’m like. annoyed also bc this misinfo shit is literally stuff that ppl have gotten called out about and bullied off twt fandom for, and I agree with some as far as the “this is wrong” not the bullying part, because those ppl are presenting info badly, but like, because Xiran’s whole idpol thing is “omg 12 years ago I didn’t even know English but now I’m a published author who wrote PacRim meets Handmaid’s Tale but poly and Wu Zetian” or whatever other confluence of reasons, people don’t call them out for the shit they do. Because they co-opt into the whole “oh but I’m a REAL Asian” idpol shit, and ppl lap that up. 

Plus, and again, YMMV and this is personal-level, but their shit seems like they write jokes for non-CN/non-Asian ppl, instead of jokes for the ingroup, and it’s like the difference between me going to another Chinese person and going “Asian parents, amirite?” and a white person coming to me and going “oh my god Chinese parents are such tiger moms” the latter of which, as the kids say in their hyperbole, is just like.. making me experience a hate crime lmao.. And the stuff Xiran churns out just feels like it’s pandering more for that crowd, and ppl take it as like, “oh it’s okay for me to joke about x or do whatever,” and meanwhile I’m like...... Big Uncomfy lmao.

Like okay my ire level with Xiran probably hovers at around, like, a 5.7 out of 10 usually, but this just is a confluence of “more mxtx anti shit” and also “big accounts spreading misinfo and then getting no flak for causing garbage in the fandom bc ppl are like oh it’s okay you couldn’t have known whatever whatever, meanwhile ppl who aren’t “big following” accts have literally gotten like harassment campaigns against them for less, so like, I’m more at like a 8.3 or a 8.9 right now. 

Edit: another petty-level shit (if you imagine that one fic of why batman is the way he is and he has an excel sheet and it’s like big stuff and then smaller stuff and then the petty-level stuff) is, she made her mulan 2020 thread into a youtube video but it basically repeats the shallow stuff she put in that thread with no other detail or depth and also the thumbnail is ugly, like it’s not even ugly in a meme way it’s just ugly.