Viral Chinese mobile game requires players to "applaud" a speech by President Xi Jinping

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/10/20/patriotic-button-mashers.html

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This isn’t the dumbest tappity-tap games that people play. But sadly some small fraction of people don’t realize it’s a game. My main problem with China’s Communist Party is they take everything way too seriously.

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Someone’s testing out the gamification aspects of China’s forthcoming Totalitarian Whuffie scheme.

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But how does it affect my Citizen Score?!

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You would too if you had some of the same oopsies they had in the past.

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Coming next: Trump Edition!

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It’s all good unless you’re the first to stop.

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Slacker.
Mao wouldn’t deliver anything under 5 hours on occasions like this.

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Dear Leader wants your applause. Applaud, citizen.

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So it’s like the Thoughts and Prayers game but with Chinese characteristics.

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“… played nearly 860 million times as of Thursday morning, according to the website What’s on Weibo.”

Uh huh.

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