People's Republic of Desire

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Westerners, and especially Americans, should know about YY, the Chinese social network that’s something like YouTube and Instagram Live, but on cocaine. Hao Wu’s documentary is a rare dive into the network, which sports more than 300 million active users (Snapchat reports 187 million users) who exchange virtual roses as a currency, with top users making as much as $20,000 a month for apparently doing nothing more than cam-girling without getting naked. It’s surreal. While Wu seems to be unable to land on a subject, the spectacular strangeness of the way people interact on YY is enough to earn viewers’ attention.
by Chase Burns
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