[seanmcdirmid]

Wolf warrior is just a convenient term to describe a very nationalistic Chinese netizen. It sounds way more accurate and better than "wumao". We have westerners (and especially Americans) like that as well, so it isn't a very foreign concept. Everything in the popular press is meme driven these days, that's how they make money. Even Chinese media (GlobalTimes) is getting into that kind of thing, though the verbiage used in Chinese state media is typically driven by the state, so sounds less catchy (Chinese netizens are not under any such constraints, however).

The term MSM is pretty loaded, it automatically flags you as a conspiracy theorist Q-anon Trump supporter even if you actually aren't, if that isn't your intention, you should at least be aware of the picture you are painting to others. It doesn't really make sense from a Chinese perspective, where the TVs are all broken at 7PM showing the same newscast.