AcFun.cn - The red star has arrived in Mainland China

It was only a matter of time until the idea of Nico Nico Douga would be taken up in Mainland China. Now, a website seems to do exactly this:

AcFun.cn takes up speed

You can access the website directly without becoming a member. As you can see, it is still early days. It is a very basic version of Nico Nico Douga. Interestingly enough, most videos seem to be taken from Nico Nico Douga as well. Here is one example, that blew my mind this morning (the video is not embedded, but you can just follow the link):

http://www.acfun.cn/html/zmad/20080602/1983.html

The whole video is taken from Nico Nico Douga. So let's look at its background: The melody is taken from an opening song of a popular Japanese anime. The female singer of this opening song made a promotional music video, and the images you can see are taken from this promotional video (including all the red kitsch). However, the voice is different. In the original version the voice was female (the voice by the girl you can see on the video). What we can hear here is a male voice singing the same melody with lyrics with gay content.

This voice was created on Nico Nico Douga. It's lyrics are gay, because it is mainly used for Abe dance videos. So the voice and the lyrics was created for videos, where a group of three gay avatars dance in a camp way to the same melody. Someone must have taken this voice and the new lyrics, and added it to the original video. Now the original singer sings the original melody, but with a fake male voice and gay lyrics.

This then in turns has been downloaded in China, and then uploaded again on the Chinese AcFun, the new Nico Nico Douga rip-off in Mainland China. A red star produced in Japan, combined with a pretty girl singing with a male voice gay lyrics to a pseudo-Russian melody ... This might indeed gain a whole new meaning in China. I would love to be able to read the Chinese comments on the video!