#SEAbros we won....

[michiruze]

NEW DEFUNCTLAND ⁉️ HISTORY OF KIDZANIA ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️

KIDZANIA JAKARTA AT 47:25!!!! FIRST INDONESIA MENTION IN A DEFUNCTLAND VIDEO 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

[michiruze]

a week has passed so here's the three genres of reactions to the new defunctland video:

"kid cities are so dystopian and disturbing! why did kids even enjoy it? it's a capitalistic nightmare full of corporates!" (usually about exchange city/ja biztown/finance park rather than la ciudad de los niños/wannado city/kidzania)

"ok the kids' comments are so funny, scary, and some are based. we really underestimated their capability for imaginations lol"

"la ciudad de los niños/wannado city/kidzania is PEAK y'all are missing out!"

it's so beautiful, i love camping in the comments/twitter search bar to see people doing all three. what a video. kevin perjurer you did again!

seeing people talk abt the new defunctland video is so funny bc i grew up going to kidzania this is all entirely normal to me i loved that place

[michiruze]

Still thinking about the new Defunctland video and I am happy that this time, Defunctland managed to UNITE Latin Americans, Southeast Asians, AND older Americans through ONE video.

The Kid City video felt like Defunctland saw that some of his non-US audiences noticed that his content, while amazing, are very US-centric (though not his fault), and decided to cover a theme park trend that came from outside of the US (and is big outside of the US) this time.

I know that it's probably coincidental. He probably intended the new video to be ABOUT the American theme park chain Wannado but during his research, discovered that the concept of Wannado originated in Mexico and through that, found out about La Ciudad De Los Niños (part of the origin story of Wannado -- which came from Mexico, and is big in Latin America) and Kidzania (which took off in Asia), then....well, the video now is about something that non-US audiences can reminisce for once!

That's MAGIC and now i feel glad that now I can follow Tumblr's Defunctland reaction posts without feeling left out for not being American, for once.

It's also interesting how some Southeast Asians latched onto discussions about La Ciudad De Los Niños with Latin Americans in the wake of this video too. Truly, Kevin Perjurer has ignited a small Latin American-Southeast Asian solidarity moment.

On a more humorous note I see a number of Americans going "wait we do not have this in the US" (since Wannado closed in 2011) and I'm here like "THE TABLES HAVE TURNED, AMERICANS. WE SOUTHEAST ASIANS CAN HAVE OUR DEFUNCTLAND MOMENT NOW"