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Wacky live streaming stunts are getting users blacklisted in China

Blacklists ban people from all live streaming platforms like Douyu and Huya for five years

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Live streamers at an event in Beijing in October 2017. (Picture: EPA-EFE/WU HONG)
This article originally appeared on ABACUS
When viral streamer Your Highness Qiaobiluo showed her real face during a live broadcast, revealing herself as a middle-aged woman, she probably didn’t think that it would land her on an industry blacklist that forbids her from live streaming for five years.
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The streamer had previously racked up tens of thousands of followers by using filters that made her appear to be a young woman with a soft, sweet voice. Now she’s been caught up in a tool the government is increasingly using to combat streamers accused of bad behavior.

When it was revealed Your Highness Qiaobiluo looked like the woman on the right, not the filtered image on the left, her follower count went up. (Picture: Weibo/Douyu)
When it was revealed Your Highness Qiaobiluo looked like the woman on the right, not the filtered image on the left, her follower count went up. (Picture: Weibo/Douyu)
Blacklists for live streamers are composed by the Online Live Performance (Streaming) Branch of the China Association of Performing Arts (CAPA), which is run by China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The lists are populated with hosts accused of using live streaming to spread vulgar information, maliciously generate hype, disrupt public order or conduct other activities that are against the law, according to CAPA.
Since the first blacklist was released in March 2018, 122 live streamers have been banned. The third and latest batch released August 6 included 59 new names, Qiaobiluo included.
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Live streamers at an event in Beijing in October 2017. (Picture: Wu Hong/EPA-EFE)
Live streamers at an event in Beijing in October 2017. (Picture: Wu Hong/EPA-EFE)
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