I was looking for Chinese/Mandarin dubs of spongebob on youtube and half the videos were wildly racist sponge-caricatures…
On a side note I was looking for this because I ran across a hilarious german spongebob communist meme, which made me curious to see the dubs in different languages. The Japanese dub of the Spongebob intro is hilarious—the numbers of syllables don’t fit so it’s completely out of rhythm, and it has so many loanwords it feels like fever dream English.
Cue the infographics video “What it’s like to be a Russian conscript” with the guys as literal orcs but drawn with white skin
I was looking for Chinese/Mandarin dubs of spongebob on youtube and half the videos were wildly racist sponge-caricatures…
On a side note I was looking for this because I ran across a hilarious german spongebob communist meme, which made me curious to see the dubs in different languages. The Japanese dub of the Spongebob intro is hilarious—the numbers of syllables don’t fit so it’s completely out of rhythm, and it has so many loanwords it feels like fever dream English.
German Communist Spongebob https://youtu.be/OY-x_Wajxxw
Japanese vs. Mandarin vs. English Spongebob Intro https://youtu.be/R1BAHnPW45o If you don’t use hanzi search terms be ready for A LOT of racism!!!