Usually, they only censor the explicit content. But this is the first time that AI tools were used to directly alter the content of the original film.

By the way, the film has been withdrawn from a wide release in China after receiving too many complaints.

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[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The best example of this I'm aware of is the Headhunter item in Path of Exile getting a slightly different skin that still has skulls in it in the Chinese version, but they're less clearly skulls. But the game is still a dark fantasy game so there's tons of skeletons; it's always been a bit of a question mark why they even changed the HH skin when there's skulls everywhere else.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

WoW did it with skeletons in their chinese version, both on bones+skulls in the world and on the undead characters. Couple examples:

https://imgur.com/a/undead-1smvr https://imgur.com/a/female-undead-MPsE3

This is obviously super false and disproveable of course. I actually posted a thread about this when the recent Chinese Wukong game came out: https://hexbear.net/comment/5288533

The decision to self-censor is coming entirely from the western private companies who are acting either on their own bad beliefs about China or on very bad advice. It's not coming from the Chinese government.