Fake Internet Celebrities in China (yes you know some of them)

This is Concrete Girl, a 2017 internet celebrity who touched many hearts at the time. She was later found to be a fraud who was faking her husband's cancer in order to gain sympathy. And this video is the perfect example of China's fake online streaming culture, a rotating belt faking a production facility. Another one also continuously feeds into, or I guess in this case, fakes how many products are being produced constantly. When in reality, it's all fake. Now, you guys remember Li Ziqi, right? The woman who showcased her extraordinary talent of making everything from scratch and showing off the beauty of the Chinese countryside. Well, yeah, she's got a whole production crew with her as well. Actually, her story is quite sad. When we have time, I'll go into more details on her being screwed over by her agency. So let me know in the comments if you want me to do a full video on Li Ziqi. Today, we're going to be talking about the fake and fraud culture of Chinese internet. If you've ever seen this video, a girl in Beijing did a social experiment for her college project where she tried to live for free in Beijing for 21 days, posing as a fake socialite and rich woman. Along the journey, she got to sleep in hotel lobbies and go to art exhibits, get offered free stuff, have a security guard hit on her assuming she was rich, all the while documenting everything. It's pretty normal for influencers here in the US to travel to beautiful places, get invited to events, prestigious, you know, sort of companies and brands, get free stuff from sponsors and post about them. That's the normal part. But it gets weird because in China, there's a weird obsession with fame and influencers and it reached a new level. Fraud personas. People wanting to get famous so bad that they make up fake stories about themselves. Crafting an entire stage persona is very easy. In this video, the man takes us to explore the many backgrounds you can easily get as a streamer in China. A hospital ward. Classroom. A dorm. A laboratory. Office space. So anytime you see a video of somebody being a teacher or somebody getting captured in the moment doing something, yeah, chances are that could be a fraud story. Now, this is just one of the fraud storyline that's been running on Chinese social media. Everyone seems to be travel influencers who just got back from a particular country and now they're the expert. China, of course, is the land of scams and fakes. And what I want to focus on today is one aspect of that, which is the influencer fraud. Unlike the influencers who fake their personalities online strictly for the purpose of appearing like somebody else, what I'm talking about sometimes are real scams and fraudulent backstories. A lot of these scams actually target middle-aged people, right? You know, instead of the prince from Nigeria or, you know, it's somebody who's stranded on Madagascar. Like, I don't know. I've gotten messages where they say it's like, hey, it's Donald Trump from Madagascar. I've been stranded and I need $500 to get back. Can you Venmo me or something or give me in bitcoins or something like that? You know, that kind of stuff, right? The credit for finding these, again, doesn't belong to me. They belong to a Chinese creator called Zhao Tiezhu. He's basically like doing China fakes everything, but actually in China. Now, this one's quite recent. A woman was fined for essentially faking the ingredients in her potato product. Before we continue, if you haven't subscribed to our channel already and you really like what we're doing here, consider clicking that subscribe button, comment below your thoughts on this particular topic, and like this video as well. Okay, so one of the most infamous case from recently is a girl named Thurman Mao Yibei. She actually has a YouTube channel as well. She once released a short video about some kid leaving their school homework in a bathroom in Paris. And the video really didn't have a lot of storyline to it, except that a waiter delivers these two homework books to her. And she starts posting about it saying, you know, who and so-and-so come get your homework. Now, the video actually went viral in China and even started sort of an internet treasure hunt for the school's name, the boy's name, etc. But as people dug deeper, it turns out this vlogger actually bought homework books online, flew to Paris to film the video with it. And after she was found to have faked this, she came out to apologize. And her social media accounts, totaling 30 million fans, shut down for faking this story. And this was another case. This elementary school teacher singing a song in her class. She filmed it as if she wasn't really aware of, you know, the camera. Also went viral. It really kick-started a series of female teachers singing in class while being filmed from the side looking pretty. And this time though, unfortunately, even though she didn't really fake much, it was that she was using too much beauty filter and that really turned people off. Apparently, I guess people didn't like the idea of you looking different from those filters. Before we continue, here's a sponsor segment from Puritan. If there is one supplement you want to get incorporated into your diet, it's a good omega-3 supplement. It's the best all-around defender for your health. It reduces inflammation, cholesterol, improves eyesight, and reduces risk for heart problems, as well as helps with joint pain, among other benefits. Today, I want to introduce you to Puritan's green vegetables. Puritan gets their ingredients straight from the high mountains of South Korea, and the omega oils are extracted from purslane and perilla seeds. It's 100% vegan. 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And the whole persona was that she was a math lover, perhaps even a math genius who didn't even need to go to college. We've learned now that her tutors fake the math results to enter her into the preliminary round. I'm sure by now you've encountered a lot of these cases where the original video seemed like something that was way too good to be true. There's also some low-level ones, right? I'm sure by now you've encountered some text messages from some pretty Miss Wong from China, or in this case, a Barnett Emily that says, you know, you won't be like my husband that leaves me home, right? Or Una, who happens to live in New York. Hello, system referral friend. Xiaoyu, please ask if we have a common concern friends. Yeah, definitely real people. These are obviously, like I said, some low-level scams from China, but the bigger ones are the ones that you don't even notice or feel like they are. My advice to you is if you do see something that looks, well, really perfect coming from the Chinese internet, just take a moment and think it's probably not real. And these are just fraudulent personalities. All right, let me know if you enjoyed this content. If you do, make sure to subscribe to our channel if you haven't already. Let me know in the comments and also like this video as well. Until next time, bye-bye.