Peppa Pig is not just a children’s television show character. She’s a cultural icon, best known for being an absolute savage and for being subversive symbol in China.
The latest viral Peppa moment is a bit more macabre. A video posted by Twitte…
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Peppa Pig videos banned on Chinese social media platform for the weirdest reason
Peppa Pig, the sassy anti-whistling British pig of renown, is stirring up trouble in China. She’s been dubbed a “subversive” figure associated with the gangster lifestyle of young Chinese adults, and banned from a social media platform there.
More than 30,000 videos of Peppa that used the hashtag “#PeppaPig” have reportedly been deleted from the website Douyin (“Tik Tok” in English) because, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN, Peppa was “spreading negative social influence.”
Peppa Pig blocked on Chinese video app after becoming a ‘subculture icon’ https://t.co/PYoCCNRGpc by @mikehwalsh with quotes from me pic.twitter.com/jTEU65FIFL
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