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September 17, 2026Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsOpen Access

Between myth and power: global players and the politics of reception of Black Myth: Wukong on Reddit

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TLTingting LiuYXYan Xu

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Overview

Discourse analysis reveals ideological tensions and cultural fascination surrounding Black Myth: Wukong among global Reddit users, highlighting how platformed gaming intersects with geopolitics.

Key Points

  • To investigate how international gamers interpret, critique, and debate the Chinese high-budget action game Black Myth: Wukong on Reddit.
  • Applied Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to evaluate transnational player discussions on the platform Reddit.
  • Utilized automated text scraping paired with computational sentiment analysis to extract and categorize key discursive themes.
  • Identified strong player engagement with Chinese mythological aesthetics that is concurrently hindered by cultural discount.
  • Observed ambivalence toward Chinese soft power, characterized by high aesthetic and technical praise counterbalanced by political skepticism.
  • Highlighted discursive frictions stemming from cultural translation barriers, broader geopolitical distrust, and polarized debates over gender representation.

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Liu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aabb6c75f706d05830e5593https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-026-09039-1
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