Peppa Pig
Peppa pig has garnered accolades all over the world for entertaining an entire generation of youngsters. But, all that pales in comparison to Peppa’s newest achievement – a name on China’s list of banned cartoon characters.
Yes, China has banned the world’s most harmless piglet, and for an outrageous reason at that. Peppa is no stranger to dark fan-fiction. Theories surrounding her death have been making rounds on the internet for some time now. But China has gone a step ahead, associating the piglet with gangsters.
According to the government, a class of people known as “shehuiren” – gangsters, lowlives, individuals with low moral values, etc., began using Peppa to make fun of the state using jokes and memes, videos, etc. This resulted in the government outright banning her and directing the authorities to see to it.
The ban resulted in Doukyin, a popular Chinese video app censoring the hashtag #peppapig and deleting over 30,000 clips of the pink cartoon character.
8 Strange Things Banned In China
Let us begin by asking you two simple questions. First, are you someone who spends a lot of time scrolling through Instagram and can’t even imagine life without it? Second, are you planning to visit or move to China? If the answer to both these questions is a yes, then, unfortunately, you’ll have to give up on one thing – IG or China! Because China has banned Instagram.
Instagram banned. Seems quite irrational, right? Well, not for the Chinese Government that completely censored it starting September 2014 to stop people from sharing instigating images during the pro-democracy protests.
But Instagram is not the only one thing, China has a long list of banned artifacts – from popular websites such as Facebook and YouTube to some peculiar stuff such as cartoon characters and flowers. And we are going to look at some of them in this article.
So brace yourselves for the eight most strange things China has banned for various reasons.