How the U.S. and China Are Meme-ifying Modern War

ChinaTalk · 1 month ago · 9

Chinese and U.S. military accounts are blending memes and slick, AI-assisted video edits into propaganda that makes warfare feel playful or game-like rather than solemn. The article cites that China’s WeChat has about 1.38 billion monthly active users and notes PLA and U.S. government teams distribute content across social platforms to amplify these remixes. As a result, military messaging increasingly uses animal/animation filters, viral soundtracks, and gamified montages—potentially accelerating the normalization and manipulation of how war is perceived online.