"Social media platforms were flooded with gifs, cartoons and parody reenactments, with people dressed in red and blue. Some began superimposing footage of her eye-roll on clips of celebrities spouting nonsense.
Liang's image was plastered onto T-shirts and cellphone cases sold on Taobao, China's ever-reactive eBay equivalent.
But China maintains tight control of its internet and is extremely wary of viral stories about politically sensitive subjects like the NPC.
By evening, Liang's name had become the most-censored term on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform.
And on Wednesday, authorities released an "urgent notice" prohibiting all discussion of her in all mainland media outlets.
"Anything already posted must be deleted. Without exception, websites must not hype the episode," according to the US-based China Digital Times, which posted the leaked directive."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-eye-roll-goes-viral-censors-put-lid-100007446.html
Liang's image was plastered onto T-shirts and cellphone cases sold on Taobao, China's ever-reactive eBay equivalent.
But China maintains tight control of its internet and is extremely wary of viral stories about politically sensitive subjects like the NPC.
By evening, Liang's name had become the most-censored term on China's Twitter-like Weibo platform.
And on Wednesday, authorities released an "urgent notice" prohibiting all discussion of her in all mainland media outlets.
"Anything already posted must be deleted. Without exception, websites must not hype the episode," according to the US-based China Digital Times, which posted the leaked directive."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-eye-roll-goes-viral-censors-put-lid-100007446.html