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Q: I think I would love being a wumao...how about you?
i've never met a bona fide wumao...but I bet a big misconception is that they are actually, in their hearts, ultra-nationalistic assholes.
I mean seriously, I bet that your average wumao probably has a pretty good sense of humor about it. How could you not?! You are literally being paid to write biased driivel? NO ONE is naive enough to take that seriously!
I bet they have a lot in common with people who run corporate twitter accounts; the people that have to write things like "Wal-mart has the lowest prices for a great selection of valentines day gifts! Tell us what you're doing for valentines day! #Walmart Valentines"
I mean the poor sap they got writing that knows it's biased drivel...do you think that guys going out and vandalizing Targets because he's such a wal-mart loyalist?
I think I would have a lot of fun with being a wumao. It would be a great chance to flex my debate muscles and also be a huge smartass.
If they would pay me like 20 RMB per post I would totally do it full time. I'd have the whole world worshipping China cause I'd be so persuasive and so deftly shut down the opposition.
I have joked about trying to get a job as wumao with my friends. I would be seriously ultra-nationalistic! Make wild claims that Mao was in my family and that China really invented the airplane, computers, etc.. and it was the foreign devils that came and stole 'our' ideas. Knowing the Chinese as I do, I could have a field day with all the slanted and contrite BS that my mind could come up with. WWII was won by China, Neil Armstrong is part Chinese, The Great Glorious Leader Comrade Xi seduced Obama's wife during her recent trip, god damn I could keep going with this stuff.. After I retired from being a wumao, China would be able to lay claim to EVERY SINGLE human achievement that has occurred since man first learned how to walk (that man was Chinese). HIRE ME!!!
expatlife26:
Right, you got the idea! I'd be laughing all day making absurd claims.
Outsource wumao-ment and we'll take china straight to the top!
I dunno, I just think it's seriously far-fetched to think that any of those people are genuinely passionate about guiding discussion in pro-china directions.
i picture a seriously bored/ashamed 23 year old male in a dingy room who can either have fun with it or just die a little more each day.
I couldn't do it. I'd end up posting anti-China drivel for fun.
expatlife26:
No no it's easy if you stay focused.
In case you haven't noticed i'm like the Tom Cruise of the China Foreign Teacher's Union
I may not agree with everything The Leader teaches, or his taste in television, but I WILL spread their gospel because i'm paid to do so.
And I do a damn good job!
I sadly think some of them are serious. Just look at how sensitive many people are to slight criticism.
sorrel:
me?
sensitive??
Fup off
you don't understand.
If you don't like China, why are you here?
5000 years of history.
it's traditional.
did i miss any?
Scandinavian:
I wouldn't know if you missed any, my foreign body is different. (fit, healthy and such)
expatlife26:
oh absolutely I believe there are oversensitive nationalistic morons here...tons of them.
But I don't think those are wumaos, my hunch is that they're just garden variety losers
again it's hard to be sincere when you are explicitly BSing to guide conversation...even if you do hate america you'd lose your passion pretty quick.
They might write as if they are angry but if they're doing 200+ posts a day they can't stay angry that whole time.
I guess you can romanticise it like the idea of being a cowboy. What a great job! Sleep outside, travel around ... with cows! For crap pay.
Wumaos are often guys with crappy jobs who 'wumao' on the side because they need the money, even though it ain't much.
Yea if you pay me $500,000 a year I'll be the best dishwasher who ever lived!
Sure if they pay you 40x the going rate you'll be great!
Seems to me that many countries don't need to pay people to spread propaganda.
They have people do it for free.
Now, tell me. Who is brainwashed? The people who demand payment, or the people who do it for free? The mercenaries or the righteous?
expatlife26:
You are brainwash!
scotland is nothing but england running dogs!
little scotland is so quick to point to other countries flaws but is not even a country so cannot criticize!
It would fit perfectly with my sense of humour. I would do the job in a heart beat. Reading some of the ideas masqueX mentioned made me laugh. They are great ideas.
How dare you dirty peons even look at our great country!?
The HEAVENLY KINGDUMB is 5000 years old! When we will turn 5001? When we say so DAMN IT! Who are YOU to ask such a question?!
You will eat our oily food and say you love it! You will breath our dirty air and say you love it! You will take our uncomfortable stares and say you love it! You will bang our sexually frustrated women and say... wait... I think I just got fired. 
Where is the "So I slept with a Wumao, now what" thread ?
