• PatFusty@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I still remember being paid $2k to just have conversations with a guy in china for 3 weeks because he wanted to pass his conversational part of the TOEFL. He failed 😀

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    6 months ago

    Imagine doing all this just in the hopes of having sex because your personality and hygiene is too repulsive in your native country

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      6 months ago

      Yeah but they’ll definitely be super popular and cool in Japan because they spend a lot of time, arguably way too much time, watching Japanese cartoons.

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      6 months ago

      Also the idea that things will change just because they go to a different country… Like it’s not possible to make decent money or pickup women in America or wherever they currently are, but it would work in China for some reason.

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        6 months ago

        It’s literally just Asian people fetishization combined with a crippling low self-esteem. Sometimes when I’m in a dry streak or feeling down I’ll revisit /r9k/ just to remind myself how much worse it could be