This thread was made in August 2022. We are not even three years in and stuff has already changed so fast. Soft power really is fickle as hell. Or maybe it never truly mattered and its just Chinese hard power finally fitting into the shoe.
Take for example Xinjiang which is one of the earliest post. Apparently all these vloggers including a few trollish ones went to xinjiang talking to Uyghurs like there's nothing special and everyone is going, thats what USAID has been wasting billions of dollars harping about?! In fact just a bunch of vloggers or streamers going to China probably wiped out billions worth of anti-propaganda.
Information travels at record speed. You can't use the same boomer cold war tricks like before.