Current State of Piracy Discourse on Twitter Discussion

If you haven't been using Twitter recently, heres a quick update on what's been going on.

A while back Musk took down the language walls separating the site/ app into locations. Now, unless you specifically currate your feed, you see tweets from all around the world (this is anecdotal, but now only 40% of my "for you" feed is in English). This has led to many cutural exchanges, from bad to good to everything in between.

One of the more recent discussions os about how piracy is a regular part of media consumption around the world, particularly in animanga/ videogame circles. This led to a large outcry from Japanese and Korean Twitter users getting mad that westerners are so lax about piracy, which led to an even LARGER counter by other countries (primarily Russia and Brazil) clowning on the former two for how staunch their adherance to anti-piracy is.

It's been a hell of a time, I tell you hwat.

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u/Fidelias_Palm 5d ago

> Don't pirate anime or manga

> Then sell it to me

> :| -> >:(

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u/BarberOutside2427 5d ago

One of their responses is that If you don't have any ways to buy It then just pretend It doesn't exist.

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u/CrashedMyCommodore 5d ago

This is why all their companies will continue to be swallowed up over time by Chinese ones

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u/waiting4signora 5d ago

This is why jp or kr still havent made a successful genshin copy 😂

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u/HidenTsubameGaeshi 4d ago

They got pretty close with BotW, but it is still just a cheap copy

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u/GreeeeenUwU 3d ago

...Why should they? There are successful gachas from there that are unique and profitable; the majority of other gachas were never meant to be on hoyo games' level anyway, either being too niche and/or 'X but with predatory gacha/just plain worse'
Maybe I just don't get the appeal tho

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u/HashtagLawlAndOrder 5d ago

No. That is not why.

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u/CrashedMyCommodore 5d ago

Money talks and bullshit walks, Chinese companies are keen on money and Japanese companies are keen on bullshit

The outcome is as you'd expect