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SexyCyborg
5y ago
Others have, but I don't want to call them out on that and suggest preferential treatment, poor form.
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5y ago
Yes, unfortunately it's a bit like trying to run a hotel and not being able to take Visa or Mastercard- just Discover Card. Alternatives in this case don't really help, it's marketshare that produces the income.
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5y ago
>its quite obvious that you are well endowed and using it to your advantage Yes, I play the cards I've been dealt. >by wearing revealing clothing. No, the clothing and gender expression predates YouTube and is for other reasons,
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5y ago
It's a little strange, I have the top tech review YouTube channel in Mainland China, one of the top five English channel- and yeah just because they are blocked here, but still it's a big market. And with 1.5m followers still I ca
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5y ago
>No one’s said anything like that. You're right, unfair, painting with a broad brush. It's easy to feel like people are coming at you from every direction when that's not the case.
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5y ago
Thank you, I really appreciate that. And I also know my own role in all this and that my inability to explain myself better isn't helping. I wasn't trying to rally the troops or anything, it was more my own frustration with compan
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5y ago
"She pretends to be some women's rights activist" I'm a mainland Chinese citizen with a high profile on Western Social Media, I can assure you I work very hard to make sure no one confuses me as a women's rights act
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5y ago
Yes, it's a regular occurrence, not the whole channel yet. And technically it's "reduced monetization" but that works out to a 90% drop in income on those videos. And again, before all of HN jumps on me, yes I get why, a
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6y ago
It took well over a year for them to address it, and only after blocking many of the people who raised the issue and denying it was an issue. The nature of the problem meant that people were being detained because Signal was misrepresenting
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7y ago
Yep, thanks
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7y ago
>On further consideration I have no earthly idea who is correct but can't edit it at this point. "Now that I've popped into the conversation just long enough to signal-boost a known smear campaign, I can't be bothered
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7y ago
>her talk of deplatforming reads like a conspiracy theorist. It absolutely does. Even with all the proof- I sound like a nut job, that's why I am so meticulous about the documentation across all three Medium posts- so no one has to
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7y ago
Not arrested. There was a misunderstanding, I cleared it up. In China you are often given the...opportunity to informally deal with these issues. I was not give a choice about the meeting, there is no way to know the intent and duration of
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7y ago
>It looks to me that these people (this Dale figure, the Vice reporters etc) aren't impossible dickheads who belong in jail, but well-meaning people who made (grave) errors in judgment. They deserve "comfortable lives" jus
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7y ago
>Your story has been an amazing and educational one beginning to end, one I can identify with as far as the cross-cultural aspects are concerned. Sorry for what you have been put through. Kudos to you for your amazing skills, energy and
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7y ago
>I mean absolutely no disrespect but as a westerner without any real knowledge of China I only know the stereotype of China being like the wild west where everything gets ripped off. I'm happy to do some research to learn more about
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7y ago
>It came as a pretty big surprise for me that they got some Lepin factories closed down and raided by the Chinese authorities. They are as you say a good example of a company that knows how to work in China. This is becoming more and mor
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7y ago
>The real assholes are IMO the Vice people, and Patreon: There's a whole untold story- but Make contacted Vice, which was what caused all the subsequent events.
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7y ago
>MAKE: magazine had 125,000 paid subscribers and the company had racked up over one million YouTube subscribers." Yeah but they are averaging 10k views a video- which is what you would expect from a channel of about 100k subscribers
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7y ago
>My opinion about supporting Make Media changed after the RealSexyCyborg incident in the winter of 2017: Thanks, the damage was and is pretty bad- and long-lasting. But, "be like water" and all that. I'm slowly pivoting to
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7y ago
Limor is an amazing woman who has been very good to me. I honestly think she does not get enough credit for- A. having viable hardware manufacturing in the US and B. investing in good IP protection in China so that her products have never b
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7y ago
Yeah there's a bit of wobble, I could see that annoying some people.
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7y ago
Thanks Theodores! It's a bit crazy, I'm trying to be very, very careful...
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7y ago
r/cyberDeck/
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7y ago
You can't really see it in my article there, I use a rolling cart with my laptops (Apple or Xiaomi depending): https://i.imgur.com/0OB23tw.jpg Better look: https://i.imgur.com/ydgpMus.jpg I avoid havin
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8y ago
You "introduced yourself" with an irrelevant attack on my appearance that was anything but sympathetic. It was the usual poorly considered lateral aggression from someone clearly educated enough to know better. I wish you had take
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8y ago
>vocally complains when the hypersexualized image she intentionally crafts and promotes gets her treated like a sex object. Bitch was asking for it. Just look how she dresses. Slut.
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8y ago
Covered here: http://medium.com/@therealsexycyborg/shenzhen-tech-girl-naom...
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8y ago
Absolutely was not retaliation.
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9y ago
>She clearly does at least some of the work herself, from her time-lapse videos. I do ALL of my builds myself and keep cameras running from beginning to end to prove it. What other technical help I get is always disclosed in the presenta
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