World of Warcraft Olympic Video: Azeroth does “Beijing Welcomes You”

Forget about the Iraqi’s, what about the Alliance and the Horde from the Land of Azeroth?

World of Warcraft junkies will get a kick out of this Olympics music video. Someone over at Mop with either a lot of creativity or too much free time created an WoW remake of the much overplayed “Beijing Welcomes You” music video. We discovered this at a great new blog called chinaSMACK earlier this week.

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We’ll post the translation of this on a separate post with the original video.

If you haven’t seen the new chinaSMACK yet, please do. It’s our new guilty pleasure. Here’s how chinaSMACK’s blogger Fauna describes the site:

China is a big country, with a lot of people, and has the world’s most internet users (sorry, USA). A lot of crazy stuff happens in China each day and someone will always put it on the internet for everyone to see. The government officially say these things are illegal, immoral, or unhealthy. Sometimes the government and websites will delete these things and stop people from talking about it. But if it is funny, embarrassing, outrageous, or shocking, someone will post it, share it, and talk about it.

The really “hot” stories, pictures, and videos spread quickly onto many BBS forums all over the Chinese internet (I think foreigners call this “viral”). I realized that many of my foreigners do not know about Chinese “viral” things because they do not know how use Chinese websites and cannot read Chinese.

So, I decided to make this website and share a “slice of Chinese life” with English-speaking foreigners. I will collect and repost all of the hot, popular, interesting, outrageous, and shocking things that I see on the Chinese-language internet so foreigners can understand, experience, and enjoy also. Maybe there will be some cultural differences and maybe not every foreigners will understand what Chinese think is funny, sad, angry, or ridiculous but I will try to translate and explain the “cultural context.”

Very “hot“, very “viral“. CN Reviews welcomes you!