setheverman:

lesbianmichelmishina:

uglyemo:

i need both of these now

the reason these exist (iirc) is because peppa pig is banned in china for “promoting gangster attitudes”: peppa was popular (for whatever reason) with “shehuiren” (anti-establishment internet users), who made a lot of memes involving peppa and even got tattoos of her because it’s funny. the result of banning peppa is that shehuiren-types liked peppa even more afterwards, and now she’s a bit of a counterculture symbol in china. hence these shirts.

this is the EXACT kind of knowledge i absolutely had no idea i so badly needed

I am Taiwanese and I know what’s up in China. I can confirm this is 100% true.

PS: China also bans Winnie the Pooh because chinese people made an internet meme of this: