On November 16, Internet celebrity "Xiao Doudou" posted a letter of apology on his online account. The apology letter reads as follows: In order to gain traffic, I pretended to be a rider and staged videos and photos related to food delivery. These videos and photos were circulated on the Internet, causing trouble to the rider community, damaging the image of the rider community, and causing misunderstanding to the public.
I have realized my mistake and hereby delete all related videos and photos and sincerely apologize to all riders. I am sorry and will not do it again in the future.
The content of this apology sparked heated discussions, with many netizens leaving messages: "Stop posing for photos," "Don't hype it for traffic," "It's not easy to be a rider, and the staged videos and photos are really too much," "It's easy to mislead people," and "This kind of posing makes people think about female riders."
On the Internet account of the Internet celebrity in question, various staged videos and pictures wearing delivery employee uniforms are no longer visible.
Previously, on November 5, the Public Security Bureau of Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County in Hainan Province issued an announcement to refute online rumors that "takeaway shops are open late at night and sell beef offal soup noodles for 1,400 yuan and are suspected of providing illegal services." Qiongzhong police said that the store reported online did not provide illegal services, and the picture of the "delivery boy" reported online was pieced together from the Internet.
The picture of the "delivery boy" used in the above rumors is a young woman wearing a rider's overalls and stockings delivering food. This kind of female Internet celebrity who pretends to be a delivery person and poses for photos is nicknamed "delivery girl" by netizens.
Recently, the Secretariat of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission issued a special action notice, proposing to focus on rectifying 7 types of problems. Among them, "stigmatization of specific groups" was listed as one of the problems.
Earlier, on January 18, a special operation launched by the Cyberspace Administration of China also proposed to strictly control the problem of creating various vulgar characters such as "Hotel Girl", "Scenic Spot Girl", "Xue Yuan", "Nong Yuan" and "Takeaway Girl" through vulgar clothing, explicit actions and other methods to promote and attract traffic.