/r/ChonglangTV

/r/ChonglangTV (冲浪TV, literally Surfing TV) is a Chinese-language Reddit community comprised of people from China who hate not only the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party (CCP), but also the Chinese people as a whole. During its period of existence, the subreddit was the headquarters for the làngrén, or (浪人) community, a community of nihilistic Chinese internet dissidents who espoused national self-hatred, and who were formerly based at the Great Wave of Kanagawa subforum of the Baidu Tieba forum (神奈川冲浪里吧).https://www.reddit.com/r/real_China_irl/comments/11mltsg/%E4%BB%80%E4%B9%88%E6%98%AF%E9%BC%A0%E4%BA%BA%E6%B5%AA%E4%BA%BA%E6%88%96%E7%A5%9E%E5%8F%8B/
Since it was banned by Reddit in March 2022, many of its users have moved to /r/CLTV and a variety of Discord channels.
ChonglangTV users have an edgy 4chan-like culture that is heavily inspired by netto-uyoku, the nationalist Japanese right. They use politically-incorrect slurs against Chinese people, make calls to "kill the Chinese" that are of varying levels of seriousness, and often proclaim countries like Japan as their true home. (See ) Like much of alt-right rhetoric, there is room for plausible deniability and dog whistling.
ChonglangTV users express disdain for the CCP, combining legitimate criticisms with outright racism, by associating the party's authoritarianism with the "Chinese nature" as a whole. It also make fun of Falun Gong practitioners and Chinese pro-democracy activists, whom they see as being too weak or too Chinese.
During the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, ChonglangTV users launched the form the Great Translation Movement (大翻译运动). The online campaign seeks to undermine the CCP's foreign-facing propaganda, which portrays the country as peace-loving and a neutral party to the conflict, by translating inward-facing propaganda posts by Chinese state media and nationalistic Chinese influencers that cheer on Vladimir Putin's invasion and posting them on Twitter. The movement has drawn praise from pro-democracy groups normally made fun of by ChonglangTV users, including anti-CCP political discussion websites like Pincong and Falun Gong-linked news organizations. It has also been criticism in linking extreme Chinese nationalists with the Chinese population as a whole, which Chonglang has ironically depicted as "bloodthirsty", thus deserving of extermination.
== Terminology ==
ChonglangTV posts can be hard to decipher for those not well-versed in its lingo, which includes politically-incorrect and controversial terms, modern Chinese internet slang, and variations thereof based on the homophony and wordplay permitted by the Chinese language that are employed to avoid censorship by Reddit administrators, who have, allegedly, become more pro-CCP due to Chinese company Tencent's stake in Reddit. /r/CLTV, which remains on Reddit, uses an automod notification to tell users to avoid the un-bowdlerized versions of the terms. 
* 支 (zhī): derived from 支那 ( or ), an archaic term for China that has now become politically incorrect. 支 may be used as a pejorative adjective to describe something that is, looks, or feels Chinese.
* 支猪 (zhī zhū): literally Shina pig or Ch*nk pig, is a derogatory term for Chinese people. The term is often replaced with homophones like 蜘蛛 (spider), or even the spider emoji, to avoid censorship. 
* 屠支 (tú zhī): this term means "kill [the] Chinese", and may be used in a tongue-in-cheek or deadly serious way depending on the person, with a heavy dose of plausible deniability involved. It is often replaced with the similar-sounding 图纸 to avoid censorship. 
== Positions ==
=== "Killing the Chinese" ===
A common refrain among users of /r/ChonglangTV is calls to "kill the Chinese" (屠支). These calls come with varying levels of seriousness, just like calls for violence against Jews on alt right websites that are often thinly veiled as "jokes" with terms like "in Minecraft". One user on /r/CLTV puts it this way: 
==== Purported real-life actions by ChonglangTV users ====
A few /r/ChonglangTV users have bragged about engaging in real life activities in order to further the cause of "killing the Chinese", although these are often tongue-in-cheek stories in the same vein as 4chan greentexts of dubious reliability. 
One user on /r/CLTV wrote:
This story is most likely just a joke; as one user in the comments points out:
=== Dislike of pro-democracy activists and Chinese dissidents ===
/r/ChonglangTV users have a notable disdain towards Falun Gong practitioners, Chinese pro-democracy activists, and Chinese human rights activists. The common denominator of the groups they dislike is they believe in reforming China to become democratic—as opposed to an 8chan-esque fantasy of Chinese genocide. 
As the (now banned) /r/chonglangTV states in its rules:
== Notes ==
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