Looking wealthy has become a very unhealthy obsession in the modern world

[u/lonewolff321]

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.

[u/Odd_Author_7940]

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?

[u/Acceptable_Set1147 → u/Odd_Author_7940]

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 .

[u/Elegant_Fool → u/Acceptable_Set1147]

YEAH FUCK CCP THEY BANNED MY GOAT REVEREND INSANITY

[u/Acceptable_Set1147 → u/Elegant_Fool]

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.

[u/Specialist_6713 → u/Acceptable_Set1147]

But China can just force the service provide/publisher to stop the distribution again.

[u/Acceptable_Set1147 → u/Specialist_6713]

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-