Chinese live-streaming services have banned people filming themselves eating bananas in a "seductive" fashion.
New regulations mean that live-streaming sites must monitor all their
output round-the-clock to ensure nothing untoward is going on, keeping an eye out for any "erotic" banana-eating.
It's not just fruit that's on their radar though, wearing stockings and
suspenders while hosting a live stream is now also forbidden.
The move is the authorities' latest attempt to clamp down on
"inappropriate and erotic" online content. In April, the Ministry of
Culture announced it was investigating a number of popular
live-streaming platforms for allegedly hosting pornographic or violent
content that "harms social morality".
News of the banana ban has prompted thousands of users to chime in on
Chinese social media.
Some are more concerned with the young women choosing to take part in
live streaming, but others are a bit baffled by how the rules will be
enforced. "How do they decide what's provocative when eating a banana?"
one person asks. Another wonders: "Can male live-streamers still eat
them?"
And plenty think people will be able to get around the banana ban: "They
will all start eating cucumbers, and if that's no good, yams," one user
says.
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