The fashion in the networks that the Chinese government wants to ban: what is it? | the Chronicle

The pandemic ofthe coronavirus generated that people protect themselves in their homes by recommendations from health authorities around the world.

One of the big problems of the world population with these restrictions was the increase in weight and the number of people with health problems due to obesity and the small movement and that is why the Central Disciplinary Inspection Commission of China has encouraged content platforms not to viralize more popular trends such as “mukbang”, in which youtubers e Instagramers they are recorded live eating a large amount of food or drinking drinks nonstop while chatting with their subscribers.

The Chinese regulator said platforms should not be limited in such cases to a simple warning, Instead, they should remove inappropriate content and block the accounts of the authors of those videos.

He also argued that there was a need to toughen the punishment for people who download such content.

“Behaviors such as ‘binge videos’ not only harm the physical health of presenters and lead to food waste, but promote an ugly mindset and seriously damage the healthy ecology of the industry.”, raised the commission, which also states that the authors of the ‘mukbang’ videos earn up to 3000 yuan, or about 458 dollars, thanks to its large audience.

This challenge originated in South Korea, which has become popular in China in China, despite the fact that the authorities in that country launched a campaign from the beginning to end the practice.

In 2018, Beijing accused the content “inappropriate” posted on Kuaishou, a video sharing site, and suspended the account of user Hebei Pangzai, which he shared with surprising regularity with his 400,000 followed programs in which it was broadcast drink large amounts of beer.

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