[wearhere]

What’s MCN?

[est]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-channel_network

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2737059?hl=en

It's an established term to describe org affiliated with youtube/twitch/tiktok/instagram etc.

[gorkish]

It's an acronym which fell too deep into its niche; a check word used to advertise one's legitimacy as a person on the other side of the curtain.

[snovv_crash]

Mainland China? I'm confused too...

[jiggunjer]

HN seems guilty of frequently using obscure acronyms. Is this an SV culture thing? Is it that hard to type things out or use a text-expanding app?

[thiagocsf]

What’s SV? (seriously)

[jml7c5]

Silicon Valley.

[dredmorbius]

People deeply immersed in some technical niche or subculture tend to use acronymms and other jargon unconsciously. That said, unexplained acronyms (I also wondered and found no likely definition in a DDG search) are an exceeding poor communication practice.

[1_player]

As far as I know it's an American cultural thing to use an acronym whenever possible.

[jjgreen]

Particularly military-sounding ones for some reason, MILACS perhaps.