/r/ChonglangTV

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'''/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 ''{{w|Rōnin}}'' (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).<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20230309072218/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/</ref>

Since it was banned by [[Reddit]] in March 2022,<ref name=RFA>{{cite news|title=声援乌克兰Reddit中文社区 “冲浪TV”遭封杀 疑涉中共长臂审查|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305102548/https://www.mingjingnews.com/article/409893-14|date=4 March 2022}}</ref> many of its users have moved to '''/r/CLTV''' and a variety of Discord channels.{{cn}}

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 {{w|Jingri}}) Like much of [[alt-right]] rhetoric, there is room for plausible deniability and [[dog whistle|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 [[cuck|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]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Twitter account giving a window into China’s internet|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/great-translation-movement-china-russia-ukraine-rcna25693|first1=Angela|last1=Yang}}</ref> 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 [[Hypocrisy|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 ({{w|Zhina}} or {{w|Shina}}), 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 [[dog whistle|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: 

{{blockquote|这个词这里很多人爱用，但是对于图纸的目的各有定论，甚至魔怔到图纸的目的就是图纸也不少见。图虽然很容易理解但是用什么方式也是各有看法，是选择高效率还是残忍，是组团还是独狼，是无差别还是有选择都看各自理解。而支似乎已经被模糊化了，认通大一统是支，党员是支，菜人是支，讲中文是支，长得像支就是支。搞到这种地步别说要统一概念，哪怕是真约好了线下一起图纸都能在路上吵起来。说到底真图纸的已经死了或者进去了，剩下的其实多半口嗨而已，甚至连小共同体都建立不起来。不必太过在意。<ref name=CB86>{{cite web|url=https://archive.ph/GDv01#selection-1977.0-1977.231|last1=Competitive_Bonus_86|title=关于“图纸”的疑问}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|This is a term that a lot of people here like to use, but when it comes to the purpose of "killing the Ch*nks", they each have their own conclusions—it's not even rare to see the oddball claim that the goal of killing the Chinese is simply to kill the Chinese. 

Although "killing" is easy to understand, people have divergent views on how it is to be achieved, whether it ought to be high-efficiency or cruel, whether it ought to be in groups or as [[terrorism|lone wolves]], whether it ought to be indiscriminate or selective. And "Ch*nk" has seemingly become a blurry term, some people say those who support Chinese unification are "ch*nks", that Communist Party members are "ch*nks", that overseas Chinese<ref group=notes>The poster uses 菜 ("vegetable") due to its similarity to 華, the Traditional Chinese character for "Chinese".</ref> are "ch*nks", that those who speak Chinese are "ch*nks", that those who look ch*nky are ch*nks. 

At this point, if we were to really arrange to meet offline and kill ch*inks together, we'd start fighting each other on the road; much less is it possible to unify our conception of it. To be frank, those who are truly killing ch*nks are already dead or in [jail], and those who remain are mostly just half-joking around; we can't even build a small, unified group around it, so there's no need to take it too seriously.}}

==== 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:

{{blockquote|被强制拉去当大白，准备图🕷️了

在上海某小区做抗原时候给全小区的人共用一根针，爽！ <ref name=unod>{{cite web|url=https://archive.ph/4baQ8#selection-1537.7-1537.9|title=被强制拉去当大白，准备图🕷️了|last1=usernotobserved}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|I got forcibly recruited to be a pandemic prevention worker;<ref group=notes>In the coronavirus pandemic, volunteers working for the Chinese government to enforce pandemic restrictions and lockdowns (which are often onerous and have led to severe violations of human rights) are called "大白" (big whites) due to their white protective suits.</ref> now I'm prepared to kill ch*nks

While doing antigen tests in a neighbourhood in Shanghai, I used the same needle for everybody in the neighbourhood; that really hit the spot!
}}

This story is most likely just a joke; as one user in the comments points out:

{{blockquote|抗原检测是居家自己做的 少鸡吧意淫了 <ref name=unod/>}}

{{blockquote|Antigen tests are done at home; stop dicking around}}

=== 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:

{{blockquote|反五毛、皇汉、民运、轮子、葱、姨、魔怔逼、瞎骂 <ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20220208073453/https://www.reddit.com/r/chonglangTV/ Archive of /r/ChonglangTV]</ref>}}

{{blockquote|We oppose {{w|wumao}}s, Chinese nationalists, democracy activists, Falun Gong practitioners, {{w|Pincong}} users, supporters of Liu Zhongjing,<ref group=notes>[https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8A%89%E4%BB%B2%E6%95%AC 劉仲敬] is a Chinese right-wing dissident who supports not just independence for oppressed ethnic minority groups but also the total balkanization of China, including Han-majority portions of it.</ref> schizoposters, and indiscriminate insults.}}

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