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Note that their treatment on Chinese social media platforms aren't that bad. At least on Bilibili (which is the largest equivalent to YouTube; all other Chinese video platforms have deranged fanbases, are a lot more streaming oriented, and have 90s or longer of pre-roll ads compared with Bilibili which is way more user content oriented (but still more streaming oriented than YouTube) and has no ads in the video player), searching "Africa" leads to government propaganda; for searching "black people" (note that in Chinese this phrase can be a singular noun, a plural noun or an adjective), I counted the following results from the first page:
For content produced by black people or reuploads of these, there was 1 mayor cosplaying as some naruto character 9 singing (3 from some "BLACKSWAN" group) 1 doctor who practices chinese medicine depicted as noble 5 models (3 of which on "Anok Yai") 3 sketches 2 reaction videos on Chinese videos 1 etika 1 first responder 1 karen
For content that was produced by 3rd parties, there were 7 on sports 1 on "black people taking over france and china"? 1 on a black person in a K-pop group 1 of excerpts of a kinda sexual animation called "Axel in Harlem" 1 on greeting gestures 1 on why you shouldn't be racist against black people 2 on actors 1 of a Chinese woman explaining why she romantically loves black people 1 on nelson mandela 1 postively covering interracial relationships 1 on a meme 1 on abroad black students studying in the soviet union abusing women and suffering consequences
In summary there were 4 negative depictions, 7 interlinked with Chinese/Asian topics, and 32 positive others
Also, all types of Chinese social media platforms are only kinda less awful than their pre-Musk English counterparts, so this might be quite a bit better than the rest of the Chinese internet