What is Tencent? 

Hey guys - I know the video says $15 but the holiday sale has just been extended! This means you can now get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for $11.79 a year. (That’s less than a dollar per month!) Sorry for the confusion. curiositystream.com/polymatter

1:46 "Together abbreviated as BAT" Conspiracy Theorists: Ah yes, it's all coming together

EA is so evil, they constantly trick us spending money in their games Tencent: That's cute

I knew Tencent as the company that owns PUBG mobile

that ending was so abrupt.

You see, when five businessmen argue with each other, they all want to give their 2 cents. That is when TenCent was born

Wendover: North Korea Economics Explained: Norway PolyMatter: *China*

That ending was really anti climatic

This video being cut off where it was is extremely disappointing, I say that as a nebula subscriber. I don’t watch this channel on RU-vid to see part of a video, I want to see the full story. If you want to tell a separate story that is related and plugs at the end of the video sure, but this here is ridiculous

Why do they name themselves “Tencent” ? If their in China they should be named “0.65 Yuan”

For anyone curious about the name: Chinese companies often have official English/Western names that are phonetic approximations of their Chinese name but don't mean exactly what their Chinese name means. This is because asking a non-Mandarin speaker to casually pronounce a Chinese name accurately would be a bit challenging due to the differences between Mandarin and western languages, and a literal translation may not always be the most appealing name for a company. - TenCent's name is a phonetic approximation of the characters 腾讯 (téng xùn), which literally means "soaring news." - WeChat's name is a phonetic approximation of the characters 微信 (wēi xìn), which literally means "micro-letter" ("letter" as in the document and not the alphabet). This is true even for companies that aren't in Mainland China. For example, Taiwan is home to a ton of computer companies whose official Western names are nothing like their Chinese names. Acer's Chinese name is 宏碁 (hóng qí), which sounds absolutely nothing like "Acer."

Damn Im starting to hate Nebula.

Not even a link to the Nebula version of the Video in the description... do you even care ...? And please just tell me before I watch the video that there is a nebula version

First strike Polymatter, dont do this bait and switch shit

Polymatter, I never thought you would do something like this but the ending was just complete sellout. I don't mind ads and stuff but this was just disrespect, you would've at least mentioned that this is just a preview to view the rest elsewhere.

So now you only upload half videoes to RU-vid? And redirect everything else to Nebula? wtf..

To all of those complaining about him releasing extended version on nebula just know that it's only 40 seconds longer.

Waiting to the end of the video before telling everyone the rest is on Nebula is so scummy.

PollyMatter has now basicly became a "Let's find something cool about China" Channel

1:46 "Together abbreviated as BAT." What a coincidence.

Putting parts of a video behind a paywall and calling it "extended version"? I like your channel and respect you as a creator but, really? this is how you do it? I have no problem with exclusive videos just put them in nebula don't release a trailer of it on youtube...

I'm already a nebula subscriber and have been supporting you guys over there for a few months. Making me go over to nebula just for two more minutes of content rubbed me the wrong way. I'm paying for it already anyway, but it would really suck to sign up for nebula based on this ad/recommendation only to find out all you're getting is a few sentences.

either upload the full video or just upload it on nebula. don’t come fishing on youtube

The video is not yet available on Nebula...

Nice. Putting the extra content behind a paywall. Beautiful. /s

My dad started a social network at university, but his view of the government did not leave to officials looking favorably upon his ventures. We emigrated in the early 2000s. Some of his colleagues went on to found tencent.

Thanks for the video. Can you do one on Alibaba and the alleged disappearance of Jack Ma

Fun fact: Ma's nickname being 'Pony' is because the character for Ma means Horse in Mandarin

"Wegame is bigger than steam." Any Chinese gamer: lmao

Says most people don’t know Tencent true gamer analytics be like I’m not sure abt that

I might be wrong but I feel like a lot of people know about Tencent already, even if they've only heard about them in the last few years or so.

Is this new normal to skip content to monetize curiosity of viewers?

China probably wouldn’t like the expression "across the border from Hong Kong".

Aw, cmon i have a sub to nebula, and now must head over there to see the whole vijao?

I see Tencent everywhere and I have come to the realisation that Tencent is all

I still don't know what Tencent it.

Fuk nebula, so buggy and not got fixed for years.

Totally wrong reason to explain why ant group ipo was cancelled by the state. The main reason is ant posted a financial risk to the state financial system and they didnt want to make it even bigger risk with the ipo.

Waiting until the end of a video to say "go here and pay money to see the full video" should be and probably is against RU-vid terms of service and is an immediate turnoff for viewers. Nothing against promoted content and supporting channels, just that this is a very scummy way to do it.

"CCP doesn't control big Chinese companies." Tell that to Alibaba's founder who's disappeared after criticizing monetary politics.

3:37 you forgot to include the fact that it's used for messaging

"The very existence of Alibaba ..... Prove China's willingness to tolerate" *Cough cough Jack Ma....Ant IPO...... Antitrust lawsuits against Alibaba....

Ugh. Subscribed to the channel for effective, meaningful education videos. Not half-shots finishing with an advertisement telling you to pay money if you want to see the whole thing.

The fact that this video got cut off like that is really sad

The BAT abbreviation is merely a coincidence. As a Chinese I can tell you that prior to 2020 barely no Chinese have heard of anything related to bat cuisine, not to mention considering it edible. If anything one can heard at that time, there was a tourism promotion video of Palau, made by the "president" of the "Republic of China" (commonly known as "Taiwan" although these are two very different concepts) Tsai Ing-wen, talking about her experience eating a bat soup there (she has made tourism promotion video to all countries recognizing her government on Taipei as the government of China instead of the one in Beijing, and Palau is just one of them). Bat cuisine is very Pacific thing and has its root in their culture. Honestly I won't blame them (although most Chinese express their hate against bat-eaters since they know their existence in 2020), because that's just how the indigenous find a way of living. Before 2020, every year there are people who either visited those countries or influenced by certain culture, and consumed bats. That's it. It's like you can easily find snake, ostrich, venison, alligator, etc in American butcher shops that is almost exclusively visited by White Americans but most White Americans probably throughout their whole life won't know that one of the butcher that they visited does sell those thing. Most, however, have heard of bamboo rat (a herbivore species size similar to a guinea pig or a rabbit) cuisine, due to an Internet celebrity named Huanong, who is a farmer raising thousands of bamboo rats. Unfortunately after the COVID-19 hit, his farm got eradicated by the Chinese government due to their one-size-fits-all approach, and we miss his funny vlogs about his bamboo rats.

Love Polymatter. They are so calming to watch.

We need to pay to see half of the video. Funny how a guy who knows so much about power and reputation is directly fucking up his own.

Why do we need to pay to watch the rest of the video? I understand big projects being locked behind a pay wall, but a full, regular video goes against what most RU-vidrs believe: always having their main content available for free.

I know one thing, they're worth much more than ten cents

We don't hear about the Chinese giants that often, but man I feel they will soon overcome all the companies we know. The Chinese market is ruthless, much ruthless than anywhere else in the world. Those who survive are the most hardcore competitors.

In China information and media are blocked by government; in America information and media are blocked by having to sign up for a whole subscription service. Capitalism!

1:48 Baidu is no longer considered an Internet giant in China. In 2020 the net worth of Tencent was 1333 billion CNY, while that of Baidu was 332 billion.

6:08 twitter->weibo RU-vid->bilibili Netflix->iqiyi reddit->tieba (belongs to baidu) discord->YY Tencent doesn’t rule them all, and that’s the “truth” you want the rest of the world believe.😅

watch this on x1.25 speed. you're welcome

You forgot to mention that unlike credit card system, the WePay system Tencent created doesn't take a cut of every business transaction, making it even more popular than 'pay with cash' for small business owners -- which turns Tencent into a public good which most American companies certainly are NOT. This gives the chinese government reason to look favorably upon it.

The Chinese people all know that the purpose of enterprises is to develop the economy, and the ultimate purpose is to serve the people. In China, the interests of the people are above everything else. In the Tang Dynasty, there was an emperor named Li Shimin. He said that water can carry a boat and overturn it.

Tencent owns Riot which owns League of legend

Pubg players: This is one of our leaders??

I'm fine with the Nebula begging at the start of your videos, but please, don't lock part of your videos behind a paywall, all it does is making us hate Nebula.

I’m Chinese and I can tell you tencent is nothing but a pure badass jerk

Never thought I'd see a RU-vid video with DLC...

So, the whole video was an ad?

He just applied a Tencent move on all of us and tried to charge the extra for the DLC lmao

"Nebula exclusive content" no thx u ill torrent it

Really sad to lose a part of the video because I'm a filthy RU-vid peasant.

Guess I’ll be cancelling my Spotify subscription then.

6:38 "The very existence of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent show how the state is willing to tolerate monopolies that help it" Jack Ma: *laughs in delisted IPO*

What is a Tencent? A brother of 5cent

"Tencent" is not allowed to be used in the warframe community

So this whole Nebula thing seems like a paywall, in that the moment you get into interesting content for some reason or another you cut it off as a Nebula premier, why even bother with creating youtube content at all? Just create Nebula content if you cba to actually make something for RU-vid that isn't lacking content because that's a part of the Nebula exclusive.... I rlly used to like this channel and Wendover productions, but it seems that these days any content you produce has this caveat that the rest of this wonderful video is behind a paywall...

I was and still am considering giving Nebula a try, but the way this video's ending was treated left a pretty sour taste on me. Not going to boycot it because of that, but this was really disappointing. I hope this doesn't become the norm.

This explain why my foreign student from china seems detach from us I thought they were free from the CCP Turn out CCP still hold them through we chat And yes, all of my chinese foreigner use wechat on their daily online interaction

I went back to Shanghai around 5 years ago after studying abroad for 3 years with a wallet full of cash, thinking I would be covered. And for the rest of the summer I didn’t touch my wallet- there’s no place to use it. Everyone from high end brand to snack sellers on the street are using WeChat pay. People just stared at me when I tried to buy stuff with cash, at the end I had to give up because no one has any change. TLRD: China( or at least shanghai) doesn’t even use cash anymore because of WeChat pay. It’s truly living in the future.

World = America Literally everybody in Asia onows who Tencent is.

3:50 c'mon...we all know that muricans spend more time on social media than their entire life...

So you're telling me.....turtle rock sold my video game to the Chinese? 😡

"certain companies extraordinary freedom" aka they're anti-competition for the sake of the state.

Really enjoyed watching that. It's surprising how few people have heard of a company like Tencent!

Chinese: God Damn TENCENT, It's monopoly.

This whole video was just a preview for the full version on Nebula lol

CCP is easy on it’s companies? Has anyone seen Jack Ma lately?

Although I understand you wanting to push Nebula, this video felt weirdly inconclusive and hence very unsatisfying, and I think this hurts the overall quality of your channel. I would rather you kept releasing exclusive videos there rather than releasing half a video here and them going "to watch the rest go to my service".

Or in another reality, Tencent could be the name of 50 Cent's long lost sibling.

they tell you how much they pay their employees TEN CENT

Man you have me inching closer to getting that subscription. Does curiosity stream have financial educational videos?

now，New “BAT” is Byte dance、Alibaba and Tencent

No amount of wealth is above the law. I think that’s something the US should have learned after 2008. We would be as prosperous as China is today if the govt didn’t just let the wallstreet billionaires destroy our lives, and reward them for it on top of that.

Visa Inc is not a credit card company, it allows transactions of payment between customers and merchants. It operates one of the largest network for payment called VisaNet and its largest clients are Banks such as JPMorgan and Bank of America. It is a company that is extremely profitable and has the largest revenue to net income ratio. It is in the top 10 companies with the largest market capitalization.

Hey PolyMatter! Weird question: I was influenced by your channel to subscribe to Curiosity Stream, but didn't do it via your link thinking Curiosity Stream and Nebula are always bundled together. Now I can't get the package anymore. Is there any way to bundle it afterwards? I can't have 2 Curiosity Stream accounts, can I?

Anyone else hates League of Legends so bad but keeps playing it because it's better than most games

4:06 Can understand why Taiwan island is missing from the map, but Hainan island is missing.

I will never pay for a service that you post whole videos that are effectively ads. Make unique content not paywalling the conclusion

Really? Taking out part of your video and putting it behind a paywall? Such a scummy business move, akin to game developers taking content out of base games and making it paid DLC at launch.

Who else didn’t know that Tencent supposedly controlled Reddit?

3:07 lol imagine asking if this is qq in wechat

Really? The largest companies in the nation that had a bat transfer covid to millions of humans are referred to as... bat. No one thought "hey maybe we need to start using a different acronym?"

Ant has the potential to cause something like depression in 2008 according to its business model and possible abuse of it. It is probably the right decision to call a stop.

1:48 wait a damn minute...

As a Nebula subscriber, I have to say it's really hard to purposefuly go to Nebula to watch something there. No comment section, it looks technologicaly dated, kinda not it generaly. Anyways, whatchagonnado

Tencent do anything that earns money, but do not exactly cares about anything. It's all about marketing and users wallets.