Influencer Compendium

[LaAguilaNegra]

Bald and Bankrupt travels from the Vietnam border to Chongqing:

It seems like all the West's degenerates and subversives are currently descending on China in a desperate attempt to talk it up and make a few bucks in the process. Bald and Bankrupt, real name Benjamin Rich, is a Jewish sex tourist who was once on trial for gang rape ergo of course he took the shekels to glaze the CCP on camera, zero shame. Communism is world's largest Jewish supremacy project ever attempted after all, and all of the 'noticers' on CiK seem to be selectively blind on the matter of Jewish Power and the Chang Project - which runs all the way from backpacker scumbags to billionaire bolsheviks.

Unfortunately Benny isn't nearly as lenient and understanding to the CCP's main self-declared adversary, the US. In fact, in 2023 Benjamin attempted to sanitize, humanize and legitimize the then ongoing migrant invasion of the US by posting a teary eyed and Hollywood-esque production on the suffering of the poor migrants in the Darien Gap, they had to walk for almost 100 kms in 5 days errbody. Totally inhumane and unacceptable. His Darien Gap production was likely funded by the HIAS for what it's worth, sharp commentators noticed online that Benny just kept circling around their facilities in multiple occasions.

It's clear what these clowns are and there seems to be a noticeable uptick in people seeing through the BS. Vibe change is obvious, which in turn explains much of the Chang belligerence on the socials

 

[LaAguilaNegra]

Told y'all. US communist, Mamdani supporter and Antifa sympathizer Hasan Piker just had his interview with CGTN, which is Chinese state media and their main official propaganda channel aimed at foreign audiences. His Chang handler is Li JingJing, one of the top dogs when it comes to mentoring foreign propaganda shills, platinum treatment for big ol' Hasan it seems. Simply put, man's there on a mission. In the interview Piker reads off a set of pre-printed talking points no doubt prepared for him by his handler, not going to bore you with the content yet Piker's glazy eyes are a dead give away.

We have to thank his streaming team for showing us the vile reality of life in China though. Man was literally minding his own business with his crew, and got apprehended by a few zealous Chang jackboots nevertheless. On the basis of looking foreign and speaking English. Kind of a big red flag on international travel to the country, and a massive self-inflicted propaganda L for the Changs to boot. This happened in one of the main tourist attractions in China bytheway, 3 billion tourists trust me on that one.

Piker and his crew had their phones confiscated an searched, the whole nine yards. If it wouldn't have been for Piker's protected status it could very well have ended at the local police station, no memes and VPNs allowed in totally mellow and laidback China. No wonder expectation tried to slide post above so fast, getting pre-emptively searched and your devices broken into for the crime of being a foreigner is not exactly in line with the crap promoted here and elsewhere.

Commie shill Hasan Piker's still touring China on his CCP sponsored glazing tour, China is ackshually totally a fascist system now you must support it against da real bolsheviks in Washington bytheway. Today Piker, who is one of the most influential political commentators in the <30 demographic, was gifted a special edition of Mao's Little Red Book in yet another scripted encounter. Per background information, back in the 60s Mao's Little Red Book was an idea developed by head CPPCC Sidney Shapiro, who was one of Mao's confidentes. Shapiro also translated the book into English.

The soyjak face is real. Piker's crewmember commented that this booklet is more valuable than the Bible - not sure if he meant an actual Bible or the Changmoderated commie Bible they allow in China. Either way Piker's visit is not exactly a good look for the crackpot wumao and their chuddy subscribers, the blind allegiance and gritty defense mechanisms will be a sight to behold though.

 

[Cooper]

It seems like all the West's degenerates and subversives are currently descending on China in a desperate attempt to talk it up and make a few bucks in the process. Bald and Bankrupt, real name Benjamin Rich, is a Jewish sex tourist who was once on trial for gang rape ergo of course he took the shekels to glaze the CCP on camera, zero shame. Communism is world's largest Jewish supremacy project ever attempted after all, and all of the 'noticers' on CiK seem to be selectively blind on the matter of Jewish Power and the Chang Project - which runs all the way from backpacker scumbags to billionaire bolsheviks.

Unfortunately Benny isn't nearly as lenient and understanding to the CCP's main self-declared adversary, the US. In fact, in 2023 Benjamin attempted to sanitize, humanize and legitimize the then ongoing migrant invasion of the US by posting a teary eyed and Hollywood-esque production on the suffering of the poor migrants in the Darien Gap, they had to walk for almost 100 kms in 5 days errbody. Totally inhumane and unacceptable. His Darien Gap production was likely funded by the HIAS for what it's worth, sharp commentators noticed online that Benny just kept circling around their facilities in multiple occasions.

It's clear what these clowns are and there seems to be a noticeable uptick in people seeing through the BS. Vibe change is obvious, which in turn explains much of the Chang belligerence on the socials

Bald and Bankrupt has 4.5M followers on YT alone, so he is not hurting for cash. He is also not the kind of personality to get along with Chinese officials, who are insular and weary of characters like him.

B&B's schtick is pure condescension, his vids essentially boil down to going to distant lands and making fun of locals, his Indian trip reports in particular blew up. He went into China looking for some of the same, any elements to mock local culture. That's why he first went to that dwarf theme park.

However as the rest of his trip unfurled, he was pleasantly surprised by the quality and upkeep of Chinese cities and infrastructure as well as their affordability, showing off his £11 modern hotel room in Chongqing. He was also taken aback by the simple charm and friendliness of the locals he interacted with, like the seamstress in Chongqing, to which he was pretty patronizing, thinking she was hitting on him asking for his marital status, as often done in places like the Philippines, when in fact she was just politely asking about his trip in China.

The contrast between his trips in India, his online bread and butter, and that trip in China is very striking, and must have taken him aback. He went from jam-packed filthy archaic trains in India to state of the art modern comfort high speed trains that put those from his own country to shame. He went from people constantly being pushy and trying to scam him in India to laid-back, polite and friendly people across his Chinese trip, also noting their sense of civic duty, for instance noticing the lack of littering and people taking off their shoes before lying on public benches.

Bottom line, you're the one who is being manipulative here.

Communism is world's largest Jewish supremacy project ever attempted after all, and all of the 'noticers' on CiK seem to be selectively blind on the matter of Jewish Power and the Chang Project - which runs all the way from backpacker scumbags to billionaire bolsheviks.

No, the world's largest Jewish supremacy project ever attempted is modern day America. Blackrock is bigger than the GDP of Germany, Japan and the UK combined.

Modern-day China is the most independent and sovereign country in the world today, completely unsubordinated to any foreign influence. Xi purged the globalists that were in high places over a decade ago.

Once again, your takes here are complete bunk.

 

[Read_Lives_of_Saints]

According to a source I trust, the drastic nature Shanghai lockdown might have been in good part a reflection of the city's political and economic rivalry with Beijing and the central government. It's also a rivalry that played out within the CCP itself between the current leadership and the "Shanghai clique", which was largely neutralized.

I thought maybe because Shanghai was the most advanced and probably the most orderly, they were the strictest on lockdowns due to them being the most competent at carrying out the orders. Just a thought.

Multiple travel videos and testimonies from many sources and many parts of China. This is like the parcel pick up system, which you kind of dismissed as something that occurs during the holidays but is in fact pretty universal in China today.

The videos you linked recently showed normal levels of packages sitting in organized shelves and cabinets designated for particular residents of those buildings and that is totally new to me and definitely a good thing.

You should apply the same kind of scrutiny when viewing or posting sources like serpentza, whose whole schtick is based on making sweeping generalizations from cherrypicked and often outdated video takes.

I do scrutinize Serpentza's and Laowhy86's videos as closely as any others. What makes you think I don't? Have you found any specific errors in their videos? Seems like you just can't accept their overall conclusions.

I've met these guys. I watched all of Serpentza's videos up until he left and almost all of Laowhy86's. They were the most upbeat, high-performing foreigners in China, who always emphasized the good points of the Middle Kingdom until they bailed because they realized their optimism could not overcome the hazards of living there, which eventually happens to nearly all Westerners who have the option to leave.

For example, I knew a guy from New Jersey, Matt Slack, much like Serpentza and Laowhy, who started his own companies in China and became fluent in Mandarin. He was apparently too busy with work to get married while built a few great pizzerias in Guangzhou and Shenzhen (Pizza Factory), which were thriving when I left. The current of anti-foreigner sentiment that I felt before I left became too much for him also, so he left a few years later because the corrupt climate in China was overwhelming.

Matt refused instructions from the city officials during Covid to exclude blacks from service, which was one of those viral outrages that occurred in 2020 that China actually "corrected".

Matthew Slack, originally from New Jersey, operated The Pizza Factory chain in Guangzhou, China, from 2016 to 2022. He left China amid escalating challenges for foreigners during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in 2020 when local authorities in Guangzhou instructed restaurants, including his, to refuse dine-in service to foreigners—especially Black people—due to unfounded fears of imported virus cases. Slack publicly defied these discriminatory verbal orders on LinkedIn, refusing to comply on principle despite risks of business shutdowns, harassment, or regulatory retaliation (e.g., investigations for unrelated issues like taxes). This stance, combined with broader anti-foreigner sentiment, evictions, service denials, and strict zero-COVID policies that persisted into 2022, contributed to a hostile environment for expats. Many foreigners left China during this period, and Slack ultimately closed his operations in May 2022 after 15 years in the country. While he is originally from New Jersey, current records indicate he relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada, where he now runs VENTY, a direct-to-consumer brand for premium products.

There is a consensus of Westerners who've lived there whom I know, who all feel the same way about China, that its problems are extreme and intractable.

One exception is an American Born Chinese from New York, whom I knew in Guangzhou, who had a restaurant and is married to a local, has kids, and he just rolls with everything despite the same awareness I had of all the problems; we talked about it frequently. He just focused on work and family and he might never leave, but he is ethnically Chinese (ABC). High IQ BTW. My guess is over 120. For guys like him, if you don't get distracted by the rampant 'tardation around you, much of life is on easy mode.

Another exception was a Brazillian dude who had nothing back home and built up some companies in China from nothing, and he did it out in the boonies near Guangzhou, which was extremely dangerous. He knows about all the bad stuff in China and he doesn't worry about it because he never wants to return to the favelas in Brazil. He married a much younger Hakka woman with excellent english and (by Chinese standards) good looks. He's happy and has no children. He'll most likely repose there and never think twice about leaving the country.

The outliers are exceptional from white Westerners who get uppity about all the corruption either because they have fewer options or they are ethnically predisposed to the environment, but they are the exception. The vast majority of Westerners only stay until they get scared or burnt out and the cost benefit analysis favors going home.

 

[Cooper]

I do scrutinize Serpentza's and Laowhy86's videos as closely as any others. What makes you think I don't? Have you found any specific errors in their videos? Seems like you just can't accept their overall conclusions.

I've met these guys. I watched all of Serpentza's videos up until he left and almost all of Laowhy86's. They were the most upbeat, high-performing foreigners in China, who always emphasized the good points of the Middle Kingdom until they bailed because they realized their optimism could not overcome the hazards of living there, which eventually happens to nearly all Westerners who have the option to leave.

For example, I knew a guy from New Jersey, Matt Slack, much like Serpentza and Laowhy, who started his own companies in China and became fluent in Mandarin. He was apparently too busy with work to get married while built a few great pizzerias in Guangzhou and Shenzhen (Pizza Factory), which were thriving when I left. The current of anti-foreigner sentiment that I felt before I left became too much for him also, so he left a few years later because the corrupt climate in China was overwhelming.

Matt refused instructions from the city officials during Covid to exclude blacks from service, which was one of those viral outrages that occurred in 2020 that China actually "corrected".

Serpentza and his sidekick lie most of the time, here is an example, where they state that only the top 1% of Chinese travel abroad.:



There are many more, a lot of Serpentza's sassertions on the Chinese are incredibly stupid, like saying that the Chinese have no hobbies, This guy below, who knew them, does a very good job of exposing them.

Nuance

As an American who has travelled extensively and lived in Asia for over a decade, I have come to learn that many things are not as black and white as most may think. There is a grey area that needs to be explored and appreciated in order for us to fully understand each other and the world we...

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I've made a basic point about them that you haven't addressed: their show wall to wall China vitriol, and the Chinese are evil, and their government infinitely worse than ours. It's not just about neocon mantra of the Chinese suffering under communist dictatorship and we need to liberate them, it's just that they are an inferior, despicable people and culture.



Well China is objectively a much better place today than it was a decade ago when they lived there: far less pollution, infrastructure is amazing, the best in the world today, salaries are much higher, housing costs lower (bad for local investors, great for average people, retirees and young families), the country is wealthier and is now on the cutting edge of technology and industry, inflation is remarkably low while it is out of control across every western nation and the rest of east Asia etc.

Yet these two pundits have nothing good to say about China, ever. "C-Milk" is from one of the worst parts of the rust belt, upstate NY, a dump, and here he is harping about how bad everything is in China. Their whole schtick is utterly dishonest.

 

[Read_Lives_of_Saints]

Serpentza and his sidekick lie most of the time, here is an example, where they state that only the top 1% of Chinese travel abroad.:

The problem with the video from Matt Galat of the Nuance channel, and I watched the whole thing, is that it gives a very short clip, without context, and without a link to the original source.

Let me give some background. From around 2013-2016 I watched a lot of YT channels of Westerners in China and made a list of those I liked the most. I was very familiar with all the English speaking "I live in China" Youtubers of any size.

Austin Guidry - laowai in Chengdu

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs9OOZpuqqJduB0kCiocQjw

C-Milk Vivi - local person married to laowai86 translates between the two cultures

Eastern Foraging and Gardening

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

www.youtube.com

China Non-Stop - general news and topics George had to shut it down 20190106

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9g6QGzk1pvnxoAtgMOcalw

Churchill Customs - motorcycle adventures in China mixed with Chinese culture

ADVChina

Adventure Talk Show on Two Wheels - ADVChina Support the show here - https://www.patreon.com/advpodcasts

www.youtube.com

Collin Sphere - best of the "English teacher in China" videos

Collin Abroadcast

Watch as I bargain in the markets around the world!

www.youtube.com

Floating City Shanghai - high quality laowai produced sitcom on Shanghai, 3 eps total

Floating City Shanghai

Floating City is a Shanghai based web series following the misadventures of Jenny, expat and wannabe journalist. Watch her attempt to navigate her life and a career in the transient city she calls home. Wechat ID: floatingcitysh

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GLOBIK - content specific video series on different foreigner abroad topics, with the first on Shanghai apartment rentals

GLOBIK

This channel is my playground. So far it's been mostly vlogs about my life abroad and my travels... But from time to time, you will be served different types of videos going from short films, documentaries, music videos and experimental stuff. I've been living in Asia for nearly 10 years. First...

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Insect Island - a bilingual foreign student in Taiwan

INSECT[昆蟲島]ISLAND

我是姜安蓉，傳說中的白雞蛋：外面是美國人，裏面西呆灣狼～ 希望在這可以把本島的自然美麗跟大家分享！

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irishinasia2012 - easy to watch foreigner from guess where in Jiangsu and his collection of vids on life there

Irish In Asia

On this channel you will find videos about travel, my daily life, and how things are for a foreigner living in China. Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss a video. Thanks for watching! :)

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laowhy86 - channel goes back a long time, but since the vids have been numbered, they've been super good and tightly focused on motorcycle and other adventures of in China

laowhy86

Support my work here - http://patreon.com/advpodcasts China's a wild place. I lived there for a decade, and I have the knowledge and insight to tell you what's happening there now, and to help you make sense of it all. For my live Podcast go on Fridays at 5 PM ET, got to...

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Raising Shanghai - foreigner takes his kids to all the cool places in Shanghai

Raising Shanghai

Raising Shanghai is a family oriented documentary about life in Shanghai as an expat. Every week we bring you a bit of our own lives as well as a view into new location in or around one of the largest cities on Earth. We aim to show our children's perspective of the world and hopefully that...

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serpentza - foreigner in Shenzhen displays his topic-focused point of view on life in his China

serpentza

Join me for the China Show, The best Show about China in the Entire World! A weekly dive into what's happening in China: https://www.youtube.com/advpodcasts And don't forget my secret Monday Show: https://patreon.com/advpodcasts

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Sexy Cyborg - Naomi Wu is local Cantonese DIY unboxing video producer and lightweight fabricator in Shenzhen.

Naomi Wu

I'm a tech and DIY enthusiast from Shenzhen, China. I like to show what life here is like here, review the latest cutting-edge tech from the "Silicon Valley of Hardware" and build awesome things in my livingroom workshop.

www.youtube.com

Shanghai Expat - short videos and news from Shanghai

Shanghai Expat

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Snarky White Guy - foreigner in small town Guangdong displays his topic-focused point of view on life in his China

snarkyguy

I'm "SnarkyGuy", an American living in Shanghai. I make films about what I see in China often with uncurmudgeon-like commentary, perhaps some travel tips, a little splash of scenery, oodles of opinion, and the occasional "dad" joke. Occasionally I even know what I'm talking about. It's cool...

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The Food Ranger

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiAq_SU0ED1C6vWFMnw8Ekg

TMD Shanghai - well-produced video skits about foreigners in Shanghai and culture conflict, as well as humorous parts of Chinese culture

Mythic Picnic

Indie studio, born on YouTube. Aiming for the Silver Screen. Midgies • Straw • Behind • Isleanders • Mamahuhu

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Travel Xinjiang: Far West China shut it down December 2018

Travel Xinjiang: Far West China

This is the now-retired channel of travel author Josh Summers, documenting his decade of life in China's western region of Xinjiang. For most people, Xinjiang is known as the place of concentration camps, oppression and cultural genocide. While this is true, what gets lost in the news is the...

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Wookong - short bits of Chinese history

WooKong

WooKong: Using animation and popular media as a lens to explore history. Thank you so much for watching :) *It takes quite a while to research and put these videos together, sorry for the slow upload schedule but please know I am always working on a new one*

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Matt Galat, an American, now with the channel name of Nuance, started with a channel called JaYoe Nation, and had an accompanying Twitter and a dedicated web site, etc., and I started watching his content because he was recommended by Serpentza, who also recommended many in the above list. In fact, after Serpentza became the top Western youtuber in China talking about his life there, he had many meetups to promote other people and he asked for nothing in return; he did have some kind of subscription for his audience related to those meetups, but not for the other YT'ers.

Matt Galat's content was good and I was already watching two other Westerners who cycled around China, so I began watching his as well. This is reaching back quite a ways and I remember some details, but not everything.

Matt and Serpentza / Laoway86 got into a disagreement, so I watched both of their more than one hour long videos explaining why the other person was a liar and, although I don't remember the details so many years later, I remember that I was convinced that Matt, despite his good content, was a big fibber.

I eventually decided that Matt was one of those content creators I've come across several times over the years on social media who is opportunistic to take advantage of other content creators, cozies up to them, copies them, tries to grab some of their audience, and then attempts to subvert or even steal their online identity. Matt didn't go that far, but I eventually saw a lot of those traits in him.

So my bias is that I trust Serpentza/Laowhy86 and, although I like Matt's content and am impressed looking back now at all that he is done, I do not trust him. So I need the original video where he found Serpentza saying that only 1% of Chinese travel abroad in order to know when he said it and what was the context. Was Serpentza excluding both students and those who only go to Hong Kong and Macau?

For one thing, 1% of China is 14 million people, so how many Chinese travel abroad? How many have passports? How many just go to Hong Kong? I would expect today for the number to be higher than 1%, but what is the correct number?

Here are two of Serpentza's and Matt's collaboration videos, as well as the internet beef videos. I must have watched all these years ago, but I have not re-watched them for this discussion.

Feb. 28, 2017 JaYoe Nation - SERPENTZA and JAYOE NATION EXPLORE SHENZHEN

In today’s VLOG, February 25th, I meet Vlogger SerpentZA in his neck of the woods, Shenzhen and we talk "VLOG" over a walking tour of the city. From New downtown to Old DongMen. Shenzhen’s first McDonalds, Chinese Guardian Lion Mouth Balls, Geoducks, “Handshake” Apartments, SerpentZA’s homeless experience, some cool Shenzhen Locals and we talk about SerpentZA’s next Vlog. Then I ate a hotdog.

Mar. 3, 2017 serpentza - Chinese Netizens will LOVE you or DESTROY you!

There is a very interesting phenomenon in China, sensationalist news articles and web posts can overnight destroy an individual's reputation or skyrocket them to fame and fortune! This is a story of how one of my subscribers very unfairly had his reputation almost completely destroyed, but was able to fight back and claim the moral high ground! Also I meet up with the Jayoe Nation, another China vlogger out of Ningbo!

Matt's take on the situation after a falling out.
Aug. 18, 2020 JaYoe Nation - SerpentZa, Laowhy86, Lies, Deceit & Propaganda

This video is a rebuttal and explanation for the lies and misrepresentations made against me and my friend for the recent trip we took to Chongqing. I hope this clears up some things and allows you to enjoy and understand my upcoming video to Chongqing as well as my friends and fellow travellers’ episodes as well. Please support iChongqing (https://www.ichongqing.info/) and subscribe to their channel ( / @ichongqing ) and media. They are a good honest company run by good people who are passionate about their city and its sad they have had their reputation smeared like this for honestly no good reason.

Jan. 16, 2021 Serpentza & Laowhy86 talk about Matt being a China shill
serpentza - TRAITORS working for Communist Chinese Government?

YouTubers taking money from the Chinese Government, pushing communist party propaganda and constantly attacking the west, are these things connected? Are these guys really Traitors? Is this a misunderstanding or perhaps it's something in-between? Come and find out...
The Article in the times: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/be...

There are many more, a lot of Serpentza's sassertions on the Chinese are incredibly stupid, like saying that the Chinese have no hobbies.

I was also surprised by how few Chinese people had hobbies, but when I saw how much time Chinese children spend in school and doing homework, it makes sense. Almost none of my students of any age had hobbies beyond things like very infrequent badminton playing. They just weren't interested in things the way you see in the West. They're into doing things for luck, like gambling, more than pokemon or corn cob art. I often remarked to other foreigners that "Chinese don't have hobbies" as part of my general description of life there.

Two of my biggest hobbies in China were cycling and Tai Chi (correctly transliterated: taiijiquan), and I did those with Chinese people, but they were so few compared to the population. The per capita hobbyists were rare, but this did increase noticeably during the years I was there because China became wealthier.

I eventually got into rock climbing through some foreign friends and found a lot of Chinese doing that. Never found many swimming, but the only lap pools near me were off limits to foreigners, so I swam in a reservoir, which most Chinese were afraid to use because so much of the fresh water in China is just a cancer incubation pond.

I've made a basic point about them that you haven't addressed: their show wall to wall China vitriol, and the Chinese are evil, and their government infinitely worse than ours. It's not just about neocon mantra of the Chinese suffering under communist dictatorship and we need to liberate them, it's just that they are an inferior, despicable people and culture.

Yet these two pundits have nothing good to say about China, ever.

He and C-Milk/Laowhy86 used to promote China all the time when they lived there, like in this video, and many others:

Oct. 3, 2017
Why you SHOULD COME to CHINA!

You really should visit China, and I'm going to tell you why!
Thinking of where to go on holiday? Maybe you need a change in your life and want to do a stint working overseas? Let me tell you why China is a fantastic place to visit or even move to!

Except for our discussions on this forum, I haven't watched much of Serpentza & Laowahy86 since Covid because the China topic is too depressing for me. However, I agree that their content is toward the far end of the negative spectrum of discussing problems in China. In fact, I have replied to Serpentza's twitter a few times about how negative his takes are, although I'm guilty of the same, so I guess it's contagious.

Overly negative, but not untrue. You pointed this out to me a while back and I acknowledged that I'm guilty of this and I'm trying to be more balanced on this topic. Maybe Serpentza should as well, but he has probably just gotten fed up with the wumao's and their copycats, and has doubled down in his exposé of the dark side of China, albeit truthfully.

Well China is objectively a much better place today than it was a decade ago when they lived there: far less pollution, infrastructure is amazing, the best in the world today, salaries are much higher, housing costs lower (bad for local investors, great for average people, retirees and young families), the country is wealthier and is now on the cutting edge of technology and industry, inflation is remarkably low while it is out of control across every western nation and the rest of east Asia etc.

I am not inclined to believe that they have more productivity and less pollution, but how would you know? When I lived there, we would only pay attention to the AQI pollution meters in the US embassy and consulates and they were always much higher than the Chinese readings.