Good read, in line with what Cory Doctorow had to say almost 15 years ago in The Coming War on General Computation, as well as his more recent If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.

I think the point is that American users are discovering that Chinese users are obsessed with Luigi. On TikTok the two worlds didn’t really collide. I saw a ton of Luigi fit selfies coming from Red Note Chinese netizens.