Happened on 25th July. Different angle?
Other instances of pistol firing.
Article by indian express. The one who fired the AK-47 was identified and suspended. (But only one of the 3 were injured by his bullet)
SO, I recently came across this meme being pushed accross Indian subreddits. And was curious behind the context. And thus my journey began; since I've already wasted my time on this, It's my duty to vent on my fellow no-lifers xD
// I'll list the major events in roughly chronological order and leave the interpretation to you. Make up your own mind, or save yourself the time and move on (recommended).
1. The Sumin video:
It appears to start with a Korean YouTuber. According to his explanation, he dressed as a pregnant woman in Bangladesh and was harassed. Later, that footage was allegedly edited together with clips of him celebrating Holi in India and circulated online as if it were one continuous incident to propagate hate...
(I can't say much here as i don't understand Korean and has to trust what he wrote in his "explanation post" and other sources. Though the ytber seems like a wierdo to me. Yet to see a normal Korean ytber lmao).context, fact-check(you can find others). ytbers clarification.
Pretty normal incident tbh(for us), can't see how it spiraled the way it did but trust me with this gng.
2. The "Chinese bot" narrative:
Many people started finding the link with the alleged misinformation accounts and Chinese bots/or them being straight-up Chinese. example post. Which solidified the Chinese bot narrative further and allegedly reached the tipping point.
3. Singapore's ban:
Further fueled by the Singaporean ban of accounts(mostly Chinese) for the same(er.. similar also political) reason. context.
4. The "Chinese caste system" memes:
At some point, a Tibetan-Indian user on X reportedly began replying to these discussions by comparing Chinese social hierarchies to a caste system, referring to elites as "Shi" and poorer groups as "Shang."
Whether this person actually started the trend is hard to verify, but the idea spread rapidly. Indian nationalist and meme accounts began posting "Chinese caste system" memes at scale.
5. Hukou and the floodgates opening:
Soon the hukou system was discovered as well and they realised caste system is atleas illegal(enforcement might be balls but its promised) but this is way worse and active in China as normal.
Promptly, the dicovery of r/UnfilteredChina, open flood gates of china Civic sense content as well.
6. The meme avalanche:
As flood gates open, this was the tipping point for the Chinese bot/natniolists as well and the multi-rehetorism started. And different issues and view points jump in... while the Chinese acc and other accounts started different arguments such as the vid(top one) was Indian and how does China svks even matter to the internet/India.
This is where the timeline starts to dilute and becomes hard to follow.
Memers started making memes and dik-stroke themselves, while bots just discredited them and made it more petty then it already was. Thus, the upvote and downwote appocalypses started.
My open-onion: There, is no substence in the argument tbh. Everyone know china might have earned money overall but an average Chinese life svcks and shitting on them does not make the average nationalists life here better either... which svcks equally. So just enjoy the drama , or help me count the downvotes I get lmao.
Btw I have almost 3.3 gigs of total walls now lmao