laowhy86 is about as reliable a source on China as Alex Jones on Sandy Hook. Bottom of the gutter grifting.
Would you mind to elaborate why you consider it bottom of the gutter grifting? Genuinely curious to hear another perspective.
pphysch’s sources could very well be garbage, but I can decide that for myself.
Maybe let people check both out and decide for themselves.
Axios is also known for producing outright disinformation on China via zealots like Allen-Ebrahimian.
The person you're replying to is an occasional poster to that subreddit, who surely knows this already
Honestly I have no recollection of ever visiting reddit Sino subreddit.
I guess what you're trying to ask me is "How do you know that?"?
But rather than trusting any more of my claims, I suggest that you simply visit Reddit and look: You will see exactly the same unusual user name; with the same interests as here in various diverse topics; and the same writing style
Really, I think the initial question about the OP's behavior on Reddit was intrusive and probably out of line in HN etiquette, and the OP could ignore it
But I commented because the OP did engage with that question, and lied. And also because you then replied to OP in good faith, not realizing that you were wasting your time by trying to help someone who is obviously being disingenuous
The two commenters above recommended youtube channels that A. are very low quality, B. repeat state media talking points verbatim, and C. are made by people who don't even speak Chinese, so they don't actually understand what is actually happening around them in their daily lives.
TLDR: he didn't only not get paid, he refused payment. Plus the payment offer was not "we pay you to say this" but "we want to license your content for republication" and "we pay you a fee for the trouble of appearing on our show to give your independent opinions".
I recommend you to watch arguments from both sides and then decide for yourself whether the accusation is right or not.
Dumbshill recently posted a clip of an old video of laowhy86, “exposing” him as a racist… which turned out to be taken extremely out of context and edited to be purposely misleading.
Let people watch both and decide for themselves who to trust.
When they left China it started to sound like highly personalized hate speech. I initially assumed that it was because they were upset at having their livelihoods up-ended and a sense of rejection. But... initially they had great plans for wide-ranging travel documentaries which did not seem to pan out ... so it seems like the next-best thing is Five Minutes Hate against our enemies in East Asia.
Sad to see them degenerate, but not living there now they are not much of a source of information.