I think this is a genuinely strong comparison, especially if we are talking about the MLP fandom at its peak rather than comparing the two original works themselves.
The similarities you listed are real: both fandoms became identity-based communities rather than ordinary groups of consumers...
The 2026 Fields Medals were awarded this week at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia. The four recipients were Yu Deng, Hong Wang, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman.
Two of them, Yu Deng and Hong Wang, are Chinese mathematicians, making them the first Chinese nationals...
As someone from the Chinese Touhou community who has been involved in local offline events and has spent some time observing both Chinese and overseas Touhou fandoms, I think what you are describing is real, but I would not frame it purely as a “hierarchy” problem.
"First of all, you've...
Considering that Touhou is a creator-centered community, I do not think seniority should determine one’s so-called “status” within the community. Or rather, emphasizing hierarchy in a doujin community is a foolish thing to do.
Over the past few years, I have seen many excellent new doujin...
Well, I spent the whole day playing CS2 yesterday, so I only heard about the EOSD remake quite late. The news has caused a huge stir across the Chinese Touhou community, especially since these past few days have also been marked by a controversy involving certain doujin copyright issues.
To...
I oppose the act of registering a fan-created image of Orin as a trademark. Treating the shared tolerance within the fan-creation ecosystem as a commercial asset that can be privately appropriated is deeply unethical within the community, and legally unstable as well. This is not only...
Yes, I agree with this view.
Take Northeast China as an example. It is not one of China’s more developed regions; in some ways, it resembles the American Rust Belt, with substantial population outflow and slowing economic growth. Before 2019, no THO had ever been held there. However, Touhou...
Last year, the Chinese Touhou community organized the "Fumo Drifting Project." The planners mailed their Reimu Fumo plushie to various locations across China, allowing locals to take it on tours of local landmarks and record their personal impressions. Starting from Beijing, the Reimu Fumo...
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