#'why did the nostalgia bait movie do well in the place people were nostalgic for it' I WONDER

[decepti-thots]

also, speaking of Chinese TF fandom, it's honestly so funny the mythologized 'but WHY did bayverse do SO MYSTERIOUSLY WELL in CHINA, we may never know!!!' narrative persists bc like. there's actually a very simple explanation there. it's the exact same reason bayverse did well in america; G1 was popular enough in China among people who were kids at the time and were in like 2005 or whatever adults who remembered it fondly. that it was a nostalgia bait movie that tapped into 'oh shit, we remember those, i loved that as a kid!' just the same as it did in the US or whatever. so much of the discussion around Bayverse's popularity in China just. ignores that Transformers was just a popular property in China? and also a large proportion of people in the world live there. why did we have endless attempts to 'explain' this for years it's extremely simple