YouTuber Cut Off From Chinese Market For Calling Taiwan Leader ‘President’

Epoch Times
Date: December 18, 2019
By: Nicole Hao

A popular Youtuber in Taiwan known for his videos on humorous flirting advice has lost his access to China after he addressed the Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen as “president” in a recent video.

Chen Chia-chin, known by the moniker “Potter King,” on Dec. 14 posted a video on Facebook and Youtube of him trying his pickup lines on Tsai during a visit by the president to his media startup. During the interaction, Chen repeatedly refers to Tsai as “president,” which is in fact her title.

The video went viral, garnering more than 4 million views on Facebook within three days, with most users commenting on how humorous it was.

But Chen’s Chinese talent agency, Papitube, did not see it as a laughing matter. The agency demanded Chen take down the post, not use the word in his videos, canceled his contract, and locked him out of his Weibo account, a Chinese Twitter-like platform, without his permission, Chen wrote in a Facebook post on Dec. 15.    [FULL  STORY]