Protesting Pandas

Is this the world’s first virtual protest? Players of a shared online virtual game world in China gathered together – or, really, their characters (called avatars) did - in the game world itself - to protest certain content in the game they regarded as offensive: specifically a picture of an imperialist Japanese flag in one of the ‘rooms” in the game.

Ten thousand players participated, resulting in one of the largest – and cutest - gatherings of politically motivated cartoon creatures ever.

Why am I posting this? Just as an excuse to show you the pictures.
(Remember - click on the images to get the full effect)






For more detailed info: see this



(Actually there is a serious side – the declining relationship between China and Japan – not good).