What is Tencent?

Audio editing by Eric Schneider
Motion graphics by Vincent de Langen
Everything else by Evan

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[nuomitang]

EA is so evil, they constantly trick us spending money in their games

Tencent: That's cute

[pragyan]

1:46 "Together abbreviated as BAT"

Conspiracy Theorists: Ah yes, it's all coming together

[aq]

I knew Tencent as the company that owns PUBG mobile

[cco]

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

[DamaniR.D]

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 YouTube 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

[ngoctrand.]

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

[ZhangtheGreat]

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."

[the_prime_mover]

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.

[patrickstar]

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

[ProfessorSyndicateFranklai]

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.

[mikopiko]

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.

[loraenkapnaq]

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

[ianaruto]

First strike Polymatter, dont do this bait and switch shit

[KrisHesselmark]

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

[RockHopperOCE]

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

[AshesOfEther]

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

[jonizulo]

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

[WillJackDo]

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...

[TheDuked]

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

[solero_]

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