Last week, Chinese press reported on a girl born "post-1995" who was swapping sexual favors with various "temporary boyfriends" scattered across China in a bid to travel the length of the country without spending a dime.
Various Western "news" outlets then picked up the salacious and entirely unverified story as well, lazily reaffirming readers' prejudices about post-90s Chinese — girls in particular — who are often portrayed as shallow, self-serving and thoroughly unprincipled.
According to the "Body for Traveling" story, the buxom 19-year-old was using a previously little-known hook-up app called Youjia to find her "temporary boyfriends," who had to be "good-looking, under 30, over 1.75 meters tall," and, of course, filthy rich.
Unsurprisingly, the whole story has turned out to be a complete fabrication created to promote the Youjia app.
"Post-'95 cutie recruiting nationwide"
The State Internet Information Office has now issued a ruling against the Shanghai-based developers of the app and banned its sale nationwide.
Youjia also fabricated a second news story called "Sex in an Excavator," wherein a 21-year-old banker and 19-year-old student (and part-time model!) meet on Youjia and decide to have three hours of hot sex whilst waiting to be rescued from an earth-mover in a Putuo District construction site, as you do.
"Sex in an Excavator"
“The company crossed the line for promotion,” the information office said in a statement, calling the stories "fake and unethical."
In addition to the dubious stories, Youjia's developers also wrote a guide on how to seduce young women in "three steps" for the app's male users. If only ethical marketing were so easy...
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