I saw a Shitty Life Tips the other day claiming that if you mentioned Tienanmen Square to the Chinese robocallers that they'll end up on a list.
I only know enough about Mandarin to distinguish it from all the other East Asian languages. Maybe I should have my coworker teach me "fuck off and stop calling me," but what I really want is a Mark as Spam button on my phone instead of just block caller.
That's definitely a bad life tip. The square itself is still call "Tiananmen". Even if the Chinese government censor any mention of the massacre, simply mentioning the name of the location won't trigger it because it's like saying "Capital Mall" -- it's a place people go. For that to remotely work, you would have to actually say "Tiananmen Square Massacre" but I doubt most people would be able to say it in Mandarin. (In Chinese it's called the June 4th incident so Tiananmen isn't even mentioned).
I'm now actually more curious about the meme itself. I wonder if the actual motive is to get non-Chinese people to be more curious about the event. If so, it would actually be a meme or a mental virus. Fascinating to say the least.
I use the Nomorobo app and I also add any spammers that manage to still get through to a contact I titled "DO NOT ANSWER". And as soon as Apple added the option I set that contact to go straight to voicemail. I must have a few thousand numbers in it now - freaking ridiculous.
Sadly with cheap VOIP numbers I rarely get more than one call from the same number - apparently it's too cheap and easy for them to buy new numbers to rotate through.
I only know enough about Mandarin to distinguish it from all the other East Asian languages. Maybe I should have my coworker teach me "fuck off and stop calling me," but what I really want is a Mark as Spam button on my phone instead of just block caller.