When you’re alone, living in China, starved of companionship and quite possibly a little bit horny, the usual remedy is to go online and tune into some live stream from a young beauty vlogger.
For the 100k or so horny fans of popular Chinese vlogger, “Your Highness Qiao Biluo”, things were progressing as normal. They tune in to the young woman’s stream, she interacts with them, they enjoy the company of their
“cute goddess” and pay her money and gifts for the content. Nothing that unusual.
That is until the beauty cam filter failed midstream for Qiao and revealed that she was not a young beauty queen but in fact a 58-year-old woman.
According to the BBC, the incident happened during a live stream on China’s Douyu platform on July 25. Apparently fans were urging Qiao to show her face but she refused until she got gifts worth 100,000 yuan (about $21,000 Aussie dollars) because she’s a “good-looking host.“
Her horny fans started to oblige as thousands of dollars in donations started coming in, only for Qiao’s beauty cam filter to fail, leaving thousands of fans in shock.
The beauty (pun intended) of this whole thing is that Qiao didn’t realise that the filter had failed until she noticed that her fans had taken their money back and left in droves.
We here at GOAT don’t really have any sympathy towards influencers and the like, but I have to give massive props to Qiao (or whatever her real name is) for this whole charade.
This practice of getting paid to live stream is known as “wanghong” in China and can be quite lucrative for online celebrities, particularly young, attractive women.
So for a 58-year-old woman to successfully establish such a convincing online presence while squeezing out countless dollars from scores of horny Chinese dudes, it’s just an impressive hustle and I’m not even mad that it was kind of a scam.
While this whole saga throws up bigger conversations about beauty standards in China (which is another story for another day), let’s just give a round of applause to this opportunistic 58-year-old vlogger who saw an opportunity to make some moolah and grabbed it with both hands, a microphone and a (malfunctioning) beauty cam filter.