Chinese influencers take photos location-LARPing they're in the United States.
Maybe they can take a picture of pigeons (or some other local bird) on their balcony and Photoshop the NY skyline into the background:
Maybe they can take a picture of pigeons (or some other local bird) on their balcony and Photoshop the NY skyline into the background:
A content creator is drawing back the curtain on how Chinese influencers are partaking in "trending" American culture and pretending they’re in the U.S. — while being on an entirely different continent.
Dr. Candise Lin (@candiselin86), a cultural commentator and Cantonese/Mandarin tutor with more than 1.3 million TikTok followers, shared a video discussing the artful ways in which "Chinese girls pretend they are in the U.S." and the revelations are surprising.
"How do Chinese girls pretend they are in the U.S.," Lin begins. "They take pictures on this commercial street in a housing community in the city of Changsha." Changsha is the capital of China’s Hunan province.
"Netizens on Xiaohongshu called this ‘American street style,'" she continues. "The entire street is only the length of a swimming pool, but it’s decorated with things that Chinese think of America." These supposedly American things include a bus station, "street signs written in English," signs for fast food restaurants and graffiti.
Also, Xiaohongshu, for those unfamiliar, is a social media platform that’s recognized as "China’s answer to Instagram."
Fascination with the western world isn’t exactly new. In fact, IKEA China allegedly banned influencers from posing in front of store lockers to emulate American high schools.
Similarly, Chinese influencers have also been known to pose outside of Costco in an effort to make it seem as though they’re actually in Los Angeles, Calif. "American farm style" also made its rounds on social media in late 2022.
TikTok creator reveals how Chinese influencers take photos to pretend they’re in the United States: ‘I will never get over how American Core is a real thing’
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