Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-29
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

The woman in the photo featuring an auntie-like figure guzzling a meat bun while her umbrella was ripped open by Typhoon Megi said on Thursday that the international media exposure and the subsequent domestic exposure of the photo was just going too far, pleading to the media to stop publicizing the photo or her.

The photo taken by an Associated Press photo journalist was carried by the Wall Street Journal along with a story about the impact of Typhoon Megi on Taiwan. As it was an impressive and vivid photo, it enjoyed wide-spread international media exposure, which has subsequently trickled down to tremendous domestic exposure as well. A great many netizens wondered who this “meat bun auntie” was.

Local media outlets have tracked down the woman in the photo, had interviews with her and continued to write stories about her. On Thursday the woman was identified as “Little Sweet,” the nickname of a woman who has been running a fruit stall near Exit 2 of the Jingmei Mass Rapid Transit Station in Taipei for more than 20 years.    [FULL  STORY]