“We do not remove or promote content at the behest of the Chinese government,” Chew said. This is an outright lie. No Chinese company can get away with saying no to the Chinese Communist Party. If the CCP wants something from ByteDance, ByteDance will provide it immediately.

Did they even release scores for the first two seasons? Does anyone remember that main theme? Thank God for the late Jerry Goldsmith’s previous scores.

B-But where were they before TikTok? They don’t remember?

China has loads of money. When they need more, they just print more. For real.

Not a space whale. Space whales are in Star Wars Rebels and The Mandalorian. Tulkuns are Pandoran whales.

Does the MCU stick to real historical events like the SARS 2 pandemic? Would Superman have been able to stop al-Qaeda and bin Laden from the terrorist attacks on September 11? Does this realization make Superman irrelevant?

Evan Rachel Wood named her attacker, the victims of Harvey Weinstein also did. I’m pretty certain Brooke Shields won’t suffer if she names her attacker now in 2023, but she hasn’t and refuses to do so. Isn’t this why there are other victims of sexual predators?

Doesn’t iOS Photo app also have this problem? I’ve seen it a few times when I want to re-edit (by recropping or color tuning) an already cropped photo...

So when will Zuckerberg address China’s National People’s Congress on behalf of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp? Elon Musk on behalf of Twitter? Sundar Pichai on behalf of Google, Google Maps and YouTube? These are all apps and websites banned and blocked by China for decades, not in danger of being banned.

The Buddhist swastika is not the same swastika the Nazis used. It’s flipped horizontally and has been around for much longer than the one the Nazis used.

“What do you recommend?” is not hard to say.

Yep. Fucking GOP.

I sometimes wonder if Prometheus would make sense if they changed all the dumb scenes (of which there are many), because it sure is a beautiful-looking movie shot with 3D cameras.

The Autumn Games instead?

That’s a lot of money for a non-genre rom-com without visual effects and CGI environments. Lot of “cheaper” talent is available, for sure.

Indeed. The moment TikTok is banned, won’t one of the big app developers release a clone that will do the same but won’t be banned except in China?

Why not “the world needs TikTok”?

Does it filter out Chinese extra-toxic masculinity?

A cautionary tale? Hollywood, the entertainment business, the casting couch, sexualization of girls, sexual predators, all these have been around forever. Does Shields regret any of it? Why does Shield not name names when it comes to sexual predators in the business? Did she enjoy the fame nonetheless?

April 18, from what I read elsewhere, is when Shazam 2 streams, less than a month after it was released.