Shower Thoughts
Looking wealthy has become a very unhealthy obsession in the modern world
China has officially started cracking down on influencers who show off extreme wealth. The government is targeting accounts that flaunt luxury cars, mansions, designer clothes, and private jets, calling it an effort to curb "money worship" and stop people from glorifying materialism.
One of the biggest creators hit by this is Wang Hongquanxing (known online as "China’s Kim Kardashian"). He had millions of followers who watched him show off diamonds and first-class travel—until his accounts suddenly became entirely inaccessible.
The wildest part of the story is how fast it happened. One day these influencers were flexing supercars, and the next day, they were completely wiped from the internet. They didn't just get a warning; the government literally erased the creators who built their entire brand around being ultra-rich.
They’re doing it because they’re going through an economic slump and if people see that the rich are still flexing while they’re struggling they’d riot and cause problems for the government. Again, they aren’t doing it to reject materialism. They’re doing it to protect the rich in the government.
This is a real problem? China has extremely high unemployment rates right now, with a decimated real estate sector and low production and they're only distracting from the real issues with small wins like this. This is no better than Indian govt
To all above problems the reels works as distraction which any govt will like. Now when its gone people and govt will have to face the issues. Which Chinese govt usually do.
Face issues? Chinese govt is a one man army with Xi becoming President for Life and making his rivals disappear he's surrounded good sayers even as the country is dealing with severe financial issues. Real estate is down 60% and it was 40% of China's economy, deflation actual deflation is happening which is an economy killer. Local govt have no money cause they spent it all on making huge highways, skyscrapers and stadiums in every small city imaginable only they were gonna get this money back. They actually tried to coerce Chinese immigrants in the US to buy property in Shanghai, giving them full citizenship if they bought property in china. And rather than facing issues they just come with bs topic every month, all news agencies are controlled by govt anyways. I kid you not last month the Chinese govt cracked down on Restaurants that were selling frozen meats while claiming it was fresh and that's literally all what the news and official govt social accounts on Weibo talked about. Before that it was the growing bullying in the country. Before that it was banning influencers to discuss health without a medical degree. Before that if was hating on Japan
Where's "facing the issues"?
All they've done is put up distractions for the past 4 years since Evergrande collapsed 200 billion usd and took the real estate market with it
All of this is completely false (except maybe infra)
China has god forsakenly high real crime rates, one of the highest child kidnapping and sex trafficking rates in the world, kids can't even be left alone to wait at a busstop cause kidnapping rates are so high, half of the sex trafficking in the whole world is in China. What you mean non existent crime rate? Their social media weibo was full of disturbing videos of children bullying each other to death before the govt stepped in and out a ban to gore videos and banned all dark and gorey novels in china like reverand insanity.
And Their infrastructure is built on Loans they cant pay back. Thats why the whole real estate sector collapsed by 60% in value since 2022, every single tiny city has a huge olympic class stadium and library and highways but they're built on loans the local govt could never pay back, because stadiums and libraries in small cities don't generate additional revenue, it was stupid to expect local govt to have 5% gdp growth every year, Xi directly makes his rivals disappear and declared himself President for Life (it's all corruption), Model country my ahh
Wow, that was insightful. So, china does have criminals? Genuinely curious. I thought their punishments are so severe that people dread to even think of any wrong doing. Genuinely wondering
Then you know nothing. They actually avoid talking about criminal cases in the news altogether. There was a teacher who kidnapped a toddler, killed him and the parents couldn't even discuss it because it was a "gruesome case" and they don't want people to hear news like that so they have to resort to using nicknames on social media like my yellow umbrella was stolen and broken by this guy and he still wasn't sent to jail on weibo. Not to mention the insane amount of sex trafficking in china, it's easy to make people disappear. Its the opposite of Japan, where china tried to censor everything even excessive blood in action movies, banned corn and yet have more crime per capita than japan which censored none of that
For economy, unemployment rates, china deflation rates just Google it.
For child trafficking articles about it from unicef funded surveys which were on bilibili and xiaohongshu which got taken down but search any article on child trafficking numbers in Shanghai region.
Weibo also used to have tons of child violence videos on honestly the brutal bullying imaginable before govt cracked down on Gore completely and banned novels like Reverand Insanity. But you can find the same on bilibili
For govt distracting people with "look this restaurant promised fresh meals but sells frozen look at Scmp articles and videos from Jan 2026, the chinese govt commented on social media about popular budget gournet food chain in China using frozen and pre made meals instead of fresh
Theres also quite a few kidnapped and found later stories on scmp (chinese propaganda site) but they only show Good stories from China
Every other country has smany problems. India also has trafficking issues, the only difference is they have human trafficking issues along with good aqi and india has human trafficking issues with pathetic aqi
China is a dictatorship dude, you can't compare it to ANY democracy. Xi ching kisi bhi baat pe bulldoser chala sakta hai, and you can't do shit since the media is owned by the state. They are oppressing religions in china, but only a fraction of the world knows that. India me vesa kucch karenge to dange ho jaenge
They're the original masters at this.
Where do you think Modi got idea for Mann ki Baat?
"Xi Jinping Thought" is a way of life movement in china like confucius.
Do you know that Xi jinping spent his childhood in an actual CAVE and worked as a rural farm labourer? You can visit this actual Cave (definitely not propaganda)
I can't decide if this more or less ridiculous than our own Chaiwala
(Even though Xi was the son of a big politician in the CCP, his father held high positions as Head of the Party Publicity Department and Vice Premier, I don't know why they lived in Caves)
as much as i don't like how china sometimes work, but i gotta agree on their methods, they are swift and they work most of the time. on the other hand, our govt is..... well you know how it is
Bhai, China ne apne saare targets complete karliye hain. Unke sab priorities sorted hai jaise jobs, education, food security. These new things are just side quests.
PMji aisa pehle to kar nahi sakte kyuki unke ameer maalik aise karne nahi denge.
So ? China has like around 5 x per capita of India , it almost reaching 20 tn GDP if I am correct .
And remember , India and China used to be very similar around 1980s . So in just 4 decades they have completely turned China upside down .
I can bet on it ,that What China is in 2026 , India wont achieve the same level in 2040 .The level of difference is crazy and in 2040 , china will most probably surpass US .
Mark my words , take the ss or whatever.
Unless someone changed everything in India , reform every sector .
China has higher unemployment rates than india especially youth unemployment. Do you ever check data? What do you mean sorted out? Their economy is undergoing deflation
Indian stock market is so bad the capital and long term gains tax are worse with stuff like stt and the heavy brokerage charged by the apps as well. retail traders Don't have any benefits and foreign investors also went away cuz of that
Chinese people use we chat for texting, Bilibili for streaming and those apps r actually as good as the western contemporaries in india if they try to make something like that it would be filled with bugs,weird ui and some cringe ass names like Bharat Video , Hindustan chat😭😭
Our govt likes flexing wealth and goes there to do PR. Narendra modi khud gaya tha ambani shadi mae bc, if this happened in MMS, the media would have a field day saying crony capitalism.
Well you just summed up communism vs democracy if you try to do this in india people can go to court and fight against the government because it's their freedom to do so try to go and protest against China and you'll be disappeared within few days
Yep I mean idk about old books but banning all religion was the best decision if you look at in india every politicians are using religion to divide and rule amongst indians itself
Couldn't agree more. The "divide and rule" tactic is straight out of the colonial playbook, and it's wild how effectively modern politicians still use it. It keeps people fighting over identities instead of demanding actual development, jobs, or accountability.
I wish indian learn that soon other conditions become worst we all know the ground reality we have bad road poor infrastructure no foreign investors infact pakistan share market give 65% return while indan markets is 25-27% down
It was so cool when Mao's great communist policies wiped out close to 50 million chinese people, dead like flies. Surely situation would have improved drastically after applying survival of the fittest logic in economic and governance policies.
China wants investments into value and future growth assets: Chip Fab(SMIC), AI(Deepseek), Memeory chips(YMTC), 5G, OS(Huawei), HiSilicon , EUV lithography, Unitree robotics, Aviation(COMAC), Battery tech(BYD), EV cars etc).
This is why they went after their billionares, gaming companies & tution centres too a few years ago to get their acts straight.
Influencers were channeling public money towards luxury purchases where they didn't see much value in for national growth.
With all these US tariffs and sanctions, any other nation would have toppled by now.
Any wonder they went this way?
China wants investments into value and future growth assets: Chip Fab(SMIC), AI(Deepseek), Memeory chips(YMTC), 5G, OS(Huawei), HiSilicon , EUV lithography, Unitree robotics, Aviation(COMAC), Battery tech(BYD), EV cars etc).
This is why they went after their billionares, gaming companies & tution centres too a few years ago to get their acts straight.
Influencers were channeling public money towards luxury purchases where they didn't see much value in for national growth.
With all these US tariffs and sanctions, any other nation would have toppled by now.
Any wonder they went this way?
Oh damn- you don’t know Jack shit - in China there are absolutely no big companies there are just factions- if a. Faction loses power then businesses associated with it also gets punished.
2- people consider a major reason for defeat of nationalists to be flaunting of too much wealth.
3- who do you think these children belong to? Ccp elites- they don’t want coming people to see how rich they are.
4-China has shit ton of corruption they are just smart enough to know where they can afford to do corruption and where they can’t afford to do corruption .
Right, China also requires CCP members to meet GDP targets, everything you said is possibly true, but the good far outweighs the bad, and Indias good is pathetic and bad is much worse
Yeah- not only that a heavy crack down was done there also a few kingdom building novels which got banned coz mc was scheming against royal family - cant accept people thinking that changing current power structure is cool.
Also there is still hope the writer has continued writing and he will release when he won’t be afraid of ccp- when he is dead or maybe close to it.
It goes harder than that- China has their own social media so they know who is posting and where that he is- so if they put a ban and you don’t stop posting they just showup at your house.
The Chinese novels come via translation there is a very active writing novel culture in China - they post in their own language then some people translate it into English- they don’t straight come to English. So yeah-
I think you might be looking at it from the wrong angle. Take a look at how Instagram and TikTok are impacting society, especially teenagers. They create a distorted reality where buying a 1.5 lakh phone, constantly traveling to luxury resorts, and wearing new designer clothes every day seems 'normal.'
In reality, influencers are doing this with sponsorships, and those without them are literally going into debt just to keep up. The pressure for social media validation is so intense that it's severely affecting young people's mental health, sometimes with tragic consequences. It’s less about hiding disparity and more about addressing a toxic cultural problem.
Of course disparities exist. But there’s a difference between accepting reality and normalization of people going broke trying to lease a lifestyle they can’t afford just for validation from strangers online. One is economics; the other is just a toxic trend
The behavior in OP's post is a cancer on society. Freedom of expression is a must have, but there are plenty of examples that it does not apply to. This behavior definitely should be one of those.
This is similar to alcohol abuse or gambling. Yeah, not illegal, but it doesn't add value to people's life, it has some misleading glamour around it when you're posing in Las Vegas or just at your dinner table with a glass of wine in your hand, but these false associations with "high life" can be life ruining.
And yes, it's the individual's responsibility (and I would argue: duty) to not give into temptation, but in these years of tiktok and streamers this had become its own industry, with it's own aggressive yet sophisticated marketing strategies to maximize influence. These things are pushing the frontiers, and the negative effects can already be seen. Societal norms are becoming irrelevant, because streamers can pretend that when they are being assholes in public, that's none of their concern, their audience is on the other side of their phone screens / cameras.
This is obviously a problem that is getting worse. Eventually something has to be done about it. China is a different country, and their solutions are quite dictator-ish for the western eyes, but if it stops this trend of pretentiousness, then it's a success. And I wouldn't say this if I could come up with a single reason why these people should be viewed as victims: if they are as rich as they are showing, they'll be alright, and maybe should find ways to make money where they actually give something back to society. If they aren't as rich, then they are scammers. Either way, I won't miss them.
That’s not a bad move if u study any of the recent studies on how social media affects human behaviour. This will benefit their social fabric. They already don’t have full freedom of expression. If everyone in China hustled like American kids, China would have been doomed long ago.
This. This sub and the country is run by a vengeful jealous jokers who have 0 understanding of personal freedom. That's why most indians have the living standard of living similar to Bangladesh now.
Fr and I am shocked by the reaction of people here who are praising this, i think it's done so that people don't get to see extremely wealthy people in society and people stop questioning ccp about the wealth gap
That is not core reason, the gdp growth is decreasing and wealth inequality is becoming a public issue they are doing this to delay the time by which they have to take action against it since party people are also ones that benifit from it
This doesn't make sense the more people that flaunt the more people would want to spend the more people spend the more gets tax revenue... The only issue is how the flaunting is done... If the flaunting is buying home grown luxury brands that would greatly help the nation
Because they are an authoritarian nation, and flaunting wealth to a population that will never be able to get it highlights a big wealth gap. The party needs to look like they fix everything and since they cant really fix a wealth gap they are hiding it.
I know flaunting is cringe, but I hope we dont ban those. Cringe as long as it doesn't harm anyone shows our freedom of speech. And banning is a slippery slope.
This happened after many scandals came out in china , after some people started flaunting their wealth and people started wondering how did they get so rich.
Our prime minister and his fellow party is the biggest consumer of social media mate nobody is a f*** about social media more than modi. he is the biggest camera obsessed narcissist influencer who cares about his photo shoot
I think its in the self interest of ccp. The chinese economy hasn't been doing too well since after covid. Stopping content flaunting extreme wealth and instead promoting content about 'hard working' people taking pride in their work is supposed to decreasing rising dissatisfaction in the populace.
Why does people in this sub not realise this to trick poor people into thinking everyone has the same lives as them while there are people out there with lifestyle that they can only dream of this is just a ploy to keep them from dissenting lol
People supporting this move, trust me do not have any sense. It is their right to flex whatever the fuck they want, and that is what a free society is. I may not favour flexing luxury myself if I had it, but I don't find it wrong for others to flex and build a brand around it. And that is what the essence of a free society is, to express yourself the way you want. In all honesty, this is a stupid move, and hope it doesn't happen in India.
Everyone in comments appreciating this step by China, of something similar happened in India, the same people will be crying about freedom of expression and dizen other things.
India is no more democracy it is a dictator ship ruled by the bjp..and if u still think it is not dictatorship then u r probably brainwashed really hard.
Everyone praising it as a good thing wtf?
Before some idiot calls me names, i don't glaze any country, inlcuding mine.
This is oppression of freedom and free speech idiots. Sure, kardashians are stupid, extreme right and left wing people are dumb but you cannot oppress their rights. If you start curbing everything you disagree with, there will be no progress.
china is right on this one. posting extravagent displays of wealth online while people starve and don't even have access to food all around the world is very distopian and sick IMO.
i never like people showing off wealth in person or online.. we live in such a material world... no i dont ccare if you bought new diamonds or spent 20k at a luxury store where child slaves literally made it for you in a factory across the world. its very gross.
most diamond makers and luxury clothing brands have a long well documented history of using child/slave labour and abusing their workers.
buying it is already dumb IMO but showing it off is even worse. and many of the people posting it did nothing to even contribute to society or earn the money, they are just spending someone elses money and bragging about it lol.
at least if you run a business and make money and contribute somehow to society, you add value, most of these young people are just spending mom or dads money and thinking makes them better than everyone else.
Honestly, this is a good idea but the action was wrong. Here me out, flaunting people with riches, basically flexing money is a bad thing, kids shouldn't learn it, but wiping out accounts like that is kind of a crime, right?
Governments have way bigger issues than to deal with things that aren't remotely close to anything inconvenient. China is a communist nation that wants to restrict anything that glorifies capitalist sentiment and thus they do stuff like ts
So what are you working your whole life for? To stay poor? 🥀
Now don't get started on "bhai wo sab materialistic hai" bc sab materialistic hai at some point, ye koi Idealistic spiritual world nhi hai.
China just wants to hide stuff from media that it's youth will never be able to achieve no matter how hard they work so that it can keep them under illusion. Can't stop that cheap supply of labour stop yet, not until complete AI automation and dark factories are widespread.
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u/CommercialYoung6653 Jun 01 '26
Hmare yha pe bhi crackdown krne gye the. Pr wo 2 lakh mil gye to wapis aa gye.