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The fun, the strange, and the what-on-earth-is-this? Trending in Beijing is a wrap-up of top stories in Beijing as told by the trending hashtags, local press, and general power of the internet.
You never know who will become the next idol in the eyes of thirsty netizens. Case in point, a young man known only as Xiao Zhang, who appeared on the human interest news roundup show, 1818 Huangjing, to talk about his arm being injured by shattered glass, only to wind up in a compilation video of handsome boys (watch below).
He may be telling a boring story, but would you look at that face!
Admittedly, Xiao Zhang is, to borrow an expression from Western netizens, cute AF, but based on this hashtag, we expect his popularity may have been inflated due to his injury.
The bigger the cast, the cuter the boy
Last week, a video (watch below) surfaced showing a woman encouraging several children to slip grass through the holes of the fence at a wolf enclosure in the Beijing Zoo. The wolves appear eager to snack on the leaves, though a man behind the camera can be heard saying, "They cannot eat grass! They are carnivores." The children also passed popsicle sticks through the fence.
The children and the woman shoved blades of grass through to the wolves
Luckily, in response, the hashtag #动物园内喂狼吃草女子被列黑名单# (dòngwùyuán nèi wèi láng chī cǎo nǚzǐ bèi liè hēi míngdān, woman who fed grass to wolves at the zoo is blacklisted) began trending on Friday, Sep 25, indicating that justice had been served in the case. Moreover, the zoo added pebbles into the enclosure’s fence to ensure that the wolves could no longer be fed by visitors.
Earlier this year, the Luckin coffee delivery app crashed, but it wasn’t due to an increased demand for delivered cuppas during the COVID-19 outbreak. Instead, it was for fear that the brand would soon be defunct in light of the news that it falsified billions of RMB in sales in order to satisfy investors.
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Images: Weibo, Futurama
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