China’s Slop as Industrial Influence

China is producing massive volumes of cheap, low‑quality outputs (‘slop’) at a scale that saturates global feeds and markets. Those flows act like an industrial export: they reshape what users see, undercut competitors, and funnel attention and revenue toward platform and AI actors that can monetize volume rather than quality. — If true, this reframes cheap cultural/product exports as a strategic economic and informational lever with implications for platform policy, trade fairness, and AI governance.