Discussion Is there any influence from the international audience

Hahahaha. They're probably happy to see their story reaching distant places. But the writers definitely don't consider the fact that the foreigners may not appreciate it when non-Chinese characters are merely used as dumb-as-a-rock stepping stones.

Killing the goose that lays the golden egg, I suppose.

 

They don't take them into account. It just isn't that significant, neither pay-wise nor viewership-wise.

 

I'm not sure mainland chinese authors could even afford to have international readers in mind, trying to cater to their chinese readers while dealing with domestic censorship is probably already hard enough, so also having to spread their attention to foreign tastes, further censorship related to anything foreign and just the whole question how to distribute the work in a way that generates income makes it seem like it just wouldn't be worth it for the vast majority of authors.
Not sure about HK or Taiwanese authors, though I bet most of those would still focus on their domestic readers as well.
And in fairness most authors in any culture is likely not going to cater to audiences of other languages unless there is already a high likelyhood of the work being translated from the start.