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On a seemingly must-use “super-app” like WeChat, mastering indirect ways to communicate becomes a way to escape

Speaking in Stickers On a seemingly must-use “super-app” like WeChat, mastering indirect ways to communicate becomes a way to escape Krish Raghav July 11, 2022 share Image: From the series Invisible Poem by Xinjian Lu . Featuring the poem "Tougher" by Mark Talacko. Courtesy the artist. In China, Tencent’s “super-app” WeChat — an instant messenger with grafted-on social media, news, payment, and local services features — has grown to become a stand-in for the wider internet. Social and online life is unimaginable without it. Tencent calls it a “lifestyle app,” and for once this typically empty

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