What We See from iShowSpeed's Livestream in China
Let’s talk about the internet’s favorite chaos agent, iShowSpeed. Last week, he dropped into China for a livestream tour. And people who watched his livestream suddenly realized they had been deceived for a long time. Speed’s first stop was Shanghai. Shanghai, the most advanced and the most internationalized city in China, is often considered the first stop of a trip in China. Within minutes of hitting the streets, he was ambushed by fans blasting Sunshine Rainbow White Pony on saxophones, a Chinese pop song that sounds… let’s say linguistically adventurous to English ears. Lucily, Speed was famous for his reaction to the song, and he has long been accustomed to the N word homonym in this song. ...