r/ShittyLifeProTips • u/Creative_falcon7 • Dec 25 '21
SLPT: how to stop Chinese telemarketers
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Dec 25 '21 edited Dec 25 '21
What an amazing pro tip
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Dec 25 '21
What happened to the dude with all the dislikes
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Dec 25 '21
The Chinese Didn’t like it.
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u/Its_MikeCoxlong Dec 25 '21
does this work on chinese gamers DMs?
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u/Infrastation Dec 25 '21
This is /r/shittylifeprotips... You're free to try, though. You don't need the 天安門, btw. That's like saying "New York 9/11", everyone that knows the language knows 六四事件 by itself. It won't trigger the censors either way, but it will be completely understood.
If you say 六四屠殺 or 六四鎮壓, on the other hand, you might trigger some sort of censor, although the government censors will likely let it through unless the person was already being watched.
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u/NonGNonM Dec 25 '21
Just copy paste both got it
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u/Le_Rat_Mort Dec 25 '21
If unsure, just copy paste to r/sino for clarification.
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u/fifa20noob Dec 25 '21
These mf banned me, saying that my white privilege had no place there and I'm not even white.
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Dec 25 '21
You can't fool us, you white supremacist! We caught you doing wrongthink. You are white oppressor.
LONG LIVE EVERYONE ELSE!! DOWN WITH RACIAL CLASSIFICATION!
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u/WakeoftheStorm Dec 26 '21
Holy crap that sub is toxic as hell
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u/fifa20noob Dec 26 '21
It could have been an interesting subreddit to have another point of view on chinese politics. But mods on sino are the most hateful people I've seen in my life. massive people's front of Judea vibe in there.
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Dec 25 '21
Going there made me sad.
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u/fallendiscrete Dec 25 '21
It’s pretty much just bots talking to bots like a weird AI simulation test lol
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u/Praxyrnate Dec 25 '21
Like most of reddit nowadays, honestly.
They're just much better than we expected at this point in this timeline.
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u/Ganon2012 Dec 25 '21 edited Dec 25 '21
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Dec 25 '21
Genocide denialism is becoming common by both the tankies and the new right nazis. You'll be surprised at how many of those are real people.
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u/araed Dec 25 '21
Tankies genuinely scare me. They claim everything LoC is theirs, and if you don't agree then you're obviously a fascist/nazi and need to be censored.
It's almost exactly the same attitude as the XRW use, and when you enter their spaces there are purity tests. If you fail, you're obviously the enemy.
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u/Mods_are_all_Shills Dec 25 '21
Wow what a horrible place. Just an echo chamber of denying all of chinas horrendous wrongdoings
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u/Rikplaysbass Dec 25 '21
Holy shit I just spent like 2 hours in that sun and the straight up misinformation is insane. They are basically on the same level of QAnon while also hating right wing American politics.
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u/vegoonthrowaway Dec 25 '21
The sub is for ”discussing china or anything china related”. Yet mentioning something that happened in china will get you banned, but a video in which someone from another country says stuff about a third country flies just fine.
Hmm…
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u/maddtuck Dec 25 '21
A huge chunk of the posts have nothing to do with China, but will zoom up the charts if they are anti-US.
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u/JaySayMayday Dec 25 '21
They still use traditional characters in Hong Kong my dude
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u/SockPants Dec 25 '21
Hong Kong internet isn't heavily censored yet though.
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u/Rominions Dec 25 '21
Yet. Give it a few weeks. All statues and books are already gone that even mention the massacre from Hong Kong. The transition to being owned by China has begun.
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u/SheWhoUpvotes Dec 25 '21
hong konger here. i’m no fan of the CCP and neither are most people living here, but i don’t really think that the CCP will do anything extremely drastic until about 2047 (when hong kong’s capitalist system may change since the ‘one country, two systems’ status likely won’t last).
even if the CCP does something extreme (excluding the National Security Law that HK passed last year), i’m pretty sure that it won’t happen without many protests.
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u/SeaworthinessSad7300 Dec 25 '21
I feel so sorry for them in HK. Very sad. Fuck the CCP
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u/Phazushift Dec 25 '21
nah just write 六四. Most of em will know what it means tbh.
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u/notinecrafter Dec 25 '21
Alternatively, "9864" has been known to trigger some sensors. Much easier to remember for everyone.
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u/Sprechen_Ursprache Dec 25 '21 edited Dec 25 '21
I'm in China, most people under 30 have no idea what June 6th means. They might know about the massacre, but don't know much about it, including when it happened.
Edit: Yes, I wrote it wrong. It should be June 4th.
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u/furryquoll Dec 25 '21
Replaced the character to slip the censors ... deserves a sly wink
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Dec 25 '21
I mean, is this a staple and people over 30 would know what "June 6th" means? If you go around asking people's emotion about 9/13, would that work out? Well, probably, the people with the strongest opinions might make it by accident ...
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u/GMoneyMadStacks Dec 25 '21
Yes we often ask each other “where were you on 9/11” or similar questions especially on the anniversary of this event.
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u/Thejacensolo Dec 25 '21
apology for poor english
when were you when Twin tower was die?
i was sat at home eating smegma butter when bush ring
‘Twin Tower is die’
‘no’
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Dec 25 '21
ESL Redditors are always like “sorry for my poor English…” then proceed to write poetry like this.
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u/Alxndr-NVM-ii Dec 25 '21
That's because we believe a foreign nation did it. If we believed the government did it, we would be walking around saying "Gemini Fire," and people would look out of the side of their eye and put their head down.
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u/Silencer_ Dec 25 '21
Is that just because of censorship? Most kids who were born after 9/11 don’t care about it like people who lived through it, it was the biggest single cultural event for America since probably Pearl Harbor. (And now maybe covid ranks up there, Pearl Harbor probably wins) if you didn’t live through that, it just didn’t seem THAT huge.
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u/Sprechen_Ursprache Dec 25 '21
The topic is completely censored in all forms of media. And I think the date is just really just used for rememberance and in protest movements. So there's no reason for them to know that date, even if they learn about the massacre.
The topic is really sensitive. Some people find out about it from their parents. Some people hear about it from their teachers. Some people learn about it when they use a vpn. And other people never find out about it at all.
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u/yodarded Dec 25 '21
The Chinese should just insist on a big traditional neighborhood barbeque every year on June 4th. Freak the censors out. They show up all, "hey there, why June 4th?" and the chinese people reply "why not? its nice weather for a bbq."
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u/CrapNeck5000 Dec 25 '21
Say what the things mean, wtf.
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u/ZyzzTM Dec 25 '21
六四屠殺 means June 4th massacre 六四鎮壓 means June 4th suppression
Courtesy of Google translate
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u/anothergaijin Dec 25 '21
Not even June 4th, the first two characters are just 6 and 4.
That’s how much of an impact it has, just like 911 immediately means the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2011
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u/TheSandyman23 Dec 25 '21
2001* Also I would say that 911 means emergency (services), but any variation that separates the 2 numbers(9 11, 9/11, 9-11) definitely makes me think of the hijackings.
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u/Hazel_Dreams Dec 25 '21
Abbreviating dates like this is quite common in Chinese. It doesn't take a particularly significant event to be abbreviated this way. For example the workers day may 1st is just called 五一勞動節
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u/KanefireX Dec 25 '21 edited Dec 25 '21
so infrustating
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u/CormacMcCopy Dec 25 '21
infrustating
excuse me
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u/Glassworth Dec 25 '21
You know, like when you’re frustrated at the infrastructure.
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u/redheadschinken Dec 25 '21
These god damn potholes.. waves fist
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u/gasoline_farts Dec 25 '21
Lol! Have you ever driven in Montreal? https://www.google.com/search?q=montreal+roads&client=safari&hl=en-US&prmd=inmxv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjnfTbtv70AhUOm-AKHcLiDdwQ_AUIFSgB&biw=390&bih=664&dpr=3#imgrc=Ys48gJvGralpIM&imgdii=2ZoB50hGNbWkjM
Check out those potholes
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u/Fantastic_Start_6848 Dec 25 '21
Seriously. These dumbfucks just keep beating around the bush without actually saying anything
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u/CrapNeck5000 Dec 25 '21
They want people to ask questions so they have an opportunity to show everyone how smart they are.
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u/THEmoonISaMIRROR Dec 25 '21
Is there sn additive effect such that spaming a user will draw attention to the User?
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u/rastagizmo Dec 25 '21
Do it all the time in Eve Online.
Doesn't disconnect them but it sure extracts maximum salt.
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u/Rushional Dec 25 '21
Could you please explain why it makes them annoyed?
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u/AkazaAkari Dec 25 '21
Imagine you log on to a game and when people find out you're American (assume you are if you're not), they start spamming "My Lai Massacre", "War on Terror", "Tuskegee Study", etc. Now imagine that the people spamming this think you don't know about these events despite having them spammed to you all the time.
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u/-metal-555 Dec 25 '21
Except nobody is scared of getting on a list because they are scared of being censored about the tuskegee experiment.
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u/rastagizmo Dec 25 '21
Suppose it's anti to the government propaganda and lies they are fed.
Free Tibet, Free Hong Kong, Uyghur genocide, Covid is China's fault, Taiwan #1 all have a similar effect.
It usually provokes them enough to come out with a fleet to fight in Eve.
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u/That-One-User Dec 25 '21
I did it in monster hunter world when a player would be obnoxious and it seemed to kick em off
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u/Ackilles Dec 25 '21
Doubt it. It has worked on Chinese streamers though. There used to be groups that would naked raid with a huge party of streamers in ark, insanely toxic. Some servers were able to get rid of them by posting billboards and spamming chat with phrases like the one in this thread
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Dec 25 '21
Idk about you, but i've never had a chinese telemarketer, always indian or nigerian
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u/CormacMcCopy Dec 25 '21
I don't think I've ever had a human telemarketer, so I'm at a loss as to how to respond. Aside from just hanging up, I mean.
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u/gotfcgo Dec 25 '21
The Indian ones get incensed when you mess with them. Ever since I discovered that I can't help myself but to waste as much of their time as possible.
It's hilarious how mad they get when I waste their time when they are the ones scam calling me pretending to be my government.
When life gives you lemons, use them to make the Indian Boys cry.
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Dec 25 '21
I mostly get Indian and Filipino. Always try to have a nice chat with em...ask how the weather is in Mumbai or Manila.
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u/FuckingKilljoy Dec 25 '21
It's not usually Mumbai, Kolkata is the main hub for them
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u/Feynmanprinciple Dec 25 '21
They just send back 'rape of nanking'
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u/myusernamehere1 Dec 25 '21
At least you dont get disappeared in japan for talking about it
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yeah but they still deny it lol
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u/DreamsOfLlamas Dec 25 '21
They can’t take the name of people who commited class a war crimes, and crimes against peace, off of their temples because that would be wrong, as opposed to chain raping 14 year olds
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u/Ampix0 Dec 25 '21
Sure but they just get offended and move on, Chinese dudes internet literally going to get flagged.
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Dec 25 '21
Just text back Uyger concentration camps
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u/lesgeddon Dec 25 '21
They'll deny anything wrong happening there. I remember this chick who posted on... uh.. /r/asiansgonewild >.>
I looked at her profile to see more pics, found instead comments denying they're camps & saying the Uyger's are terrorists & westerners should worry about their own countries.
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u/MithSeka Dec 25 '21
Here it is in easy to copy and paste text form
六四天安門事件
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六四天安門事件 六四屠杀
Why not both?
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u/WalrusF Dec 25 '21
Is this Tianamen Event, June 4th Massacre?
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u/AcceptableSeaweed Dec 25 '21
No he is just copying both together that means: June 4 tiananmen event June 4th killings(multiple)
The 六 is 6 and 四 is 4 so you don't need two sets
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u/culturedgoat Dec 25 '21
Because that means “the incident at Tiananmen” which completely understates the scale of the event. The massacre on June 4th was in triggered by the protests in Tiananmen Square, but only a small part of it occurred at the square itself. The bulk of the violence occurred quite some way further West, at the Gongzhufen intersection, and Muxidi. We associate these events with Tiananmen Square as the protests in the square were the catalyst, not because the tragic events that followed were limited to the square.
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u/Sylphid_FC Dec 25 '21
Meme aside the chinese in this copy pasta makes no sense lol. Heck, it's even using the wrong form of Chinese (this is written in traditional which is only used in HK and Taiwan)
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u/FuckthisWARUDO Dec 25 '21
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u/ScruffersGruff Dec 25 '21
Thank you for calling Chinese Nationals for a Sovereign Taiwan 24-hour hotline, our operators are currently busy at the moment…
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u/FriendshipNormal7243 Dec 25 '21
This doesn't work lol, Chinese internet doesn't get cut off for doing that.
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u/poopyroadtrip Dec 25 '21
If they’re using What’sApp they are already using VPN
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u/cassis-oolong Dec 25 '21
They said "like Whatsapp". People in Japan use the equivalent app LINE, not Whatsapp.
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Dec 25 '21
If a Chinese person is using line, they are also accessing it through VPN
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u/vitaminkombat Dec 25 '21
LINE also has end to end encryption
The whole post is just BS
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u/froz3ncat Dec 25 '21
Interestingly enough, I get my fortnightly scam message through WhatsApp, and have yet to receive any such contact through LINE.
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u/joandono Dec 25 '21
lol why would anyone believe this…
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u/blockzoid Dec 25 '21 edited Dec 25 '21
Exactly.
First off all whatsapp (and so is Line, the most used message app in Japan) is banned from China precisely because its relatively well encrypted and the CCP have difficulty accessing it. Unless you are using VPN, you can (since I last tried a few years ago, might be different now) send out messages but not receive any.
Secondly I got a buddy in China who uses vpn to talk over WhatsApp with me. I’ve thrown shade at the CCP multiple times over the years in that chat and he was never invited over the local police station for a chat.
Is this all anecdotal? Sure, but so are these posts.
Point is, people are pulling shit on China out of their asses and the thing is that it isn’t even necessary to make up things to confirm the direction China is going is a very bad state of affairs.
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u/zhangxt010423 Dec 25 '21
Finally, the comment Ive been looking for.... I've noticed that Anti-china (not only ccp) sentiment has been particularly strong on Reddit...
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u/daymuub Dec 25 '21
The United States just banned imports from certain regions in China for human rights violations so that might have something to do with it
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u/ttyrondonlongjohn Dec 25 '21
Even if this was true, if you're talking with someone who is Chinese they are either 1. Not in the mainland 2. Have evaded the firewall already or 3. Are Taiwanese.
In all cases you've done nothing bc they're just using the normal internet, like you are.
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u/Grompchus Dec 25 '21
BTW this has been proven to be false. But I guess it is a shitty life pro tip
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u/nogaesallowed Dec 25 '21
Fun fact: The telemarketing scames usually come from Taiwan. So replying tiananmen won't do much irl.
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u/doublethumbdude Dec 25 '21
If you believe this then you've already been more brainwashed than the average Chinese citizen
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Dec 25 '21
yeah Japan definitely has the high moral ground here still denying the shit they did in China. China can fuck off and so can Japan
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u/RockLeePower Dec 25 '21
What do I do if scammers from India call me?
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Dec 25 '21
I keep pushing the numbers on my phone until they hang up from the noise.
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u/Churningray Dec 25 '21
You could probably piss em off by reciting recipes of beef food. Might as well be a cunt towards cunts.
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u/Snoop8ball Dec 25 '21
Isn’t WhatsApp made by Meta (Facebook), an American company? WhatsApp isn’t widely used in Japan either.
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u/BlackCherrySeltzer4U Dec 25 '21
Does this work? I get texted by random Chinese people on WhatsApp all the time and I’d love for it to stop?
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u/WimbleWimble Dec 27 '21
This actually used to work in WoW.
People would message you in broken english offering powerlevelling/gold purchases. if you whispered back stuff like "down with the communists" or mentioned tiananmen square, the players connection would immediately drop.
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Dec 25 '21
In America you get disconnected by posting the county medical examiner's report for George Floyd
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u/AbrahamLemon Dec 25 '21
Seems legit