Peppa Pig blocked on popular Chinese video app for association with counterculture
Thousands of videos featuring beloved British cartoon character Peppa Pig have been removed from the Chinese popular short-video app Douyin, according to state media tabloid The Global Times. Douyin is an app that enables users to upload, edit, and share short videos with different effects and stickers. The videos of Peppa Pig reportedly started disappearing over the weekend, and around 30,000 videos have now been removed from the platform.
The British cartoon pig is seen as a subversive “gangster” icon associated with “shehuiren” culture, which refers to people who are poorly educated and unemployed. The Global Times notes shehuiren culture is the “antithesis of the young generation the Party tries to cultivate.” Original cartoons of…
