Mike Chen, a popular American food YouTuber, visited Hong Kong to make a food video on the eve of the anti-Sending China campaign. He said Hong Kong has a special place in his heart and will actively speak out for Hong Kong. (Photo credit: Strictly Dumpling YouTube screenshot)
Malaysian funny web star “Uncle Roger” (Uncle Roger), with a spoof of the BBC hostess cooking egg fried rice video popular online. He was recently mobbed by mainland fans after he co-produced a show with popular American food YouTuber Mike Chen, who said Chen had repeatedly made comments criticizing the Chinese Communist Party, opposing the National Security Law and expressing solidarity with Hong Kong. Overseas netizens have criticized “Uncle Roger” for kneeling to the Chinese Communist Party; on the other hand, Chen Xing has been praised for speaking out for justice, and a large number of Hong Kong netizens have flocked to show their solidarity with him, making him deeply moved.
Uncle Roger hastily deleted the video of his collaboration with the anti-communist netizen
29-year-old Malaysian YouTuber Nigel Ng, who played the role of Uncle Roger in July last year, commented in a classic Asian accent on BBC Food Channel hostess Hersha Patel’s egg fried rice instruction, and broke down and spat out Hersha did not wash the rice, added too much water, and even poured the rice in the strainer to “flush the cold water”, which became an overnight internet sensation. His YouTube channel has more than 3 million subscribers and has been viewed more than 160 million times.
However, when he uploaded a video of “Uncle Roger reviews ugliest dumpling ever” (Uncle Roger reviews ugliest dumpling ever) on YouTube on January 10, in collaboration with famous food and travel netizen Chen Xing (Mike Chen), it unexpectedly caused a storm. After the video, it unexpectedly caused a storm. On the mainland social networking site Weibo, a large number of pinkie messages pointed out that Chen Xing had criticized the Chinese Communist Party’s Tiananmen crackdown on June 4, the suppression of Uighurs in Xinjiang and the suppression of Hong Kong with the State Security Law, using the hashtag CCP_is_terrorist (Chinese Communist Party is a terrorist organization), and some people pointed out that he was a Falun Gong practitioner.
Apology to Pinky led to a storm, and Luo Guancong sighed that he had lowered his value
As a result, Uncle Roger quickly deleted the video on January 12 and issued a statement on Weibo apologizing, saying that the video had “caused a very bad social impact” and that he did not understand Chen Xing’s political ideas “and his past incorrect statements about China”, promising that He promised to “strengthen the content management audit”, and stressed his love for Chinese culture, “I hope we can give Uncle Roger, who has just entered China, a chance to improve”! Because the deletion of the film is too fast, some mainland netizens are puzzled by his apology, leaving a message that “I have not eaten the melon to the melon shed to me lifted”. But some fans didn’t let him go and asked him to shoot a personal apology video.
Uncle Roger’s apology drew strong criticism on Twitter for kneeling to the Communist Party, with netizens saying they wanted to cancel their subscriptions and others making fun of him for having knees softer than watered-down fried rice. The former chairman of the founding party of the Hong Kong House of Representatives in exile in the United Kingdom, Mr. Lo Kwun Chung, also criticized him for “lowering himself to the level of the pinkies in order to enter the Chinese market,” saying that he would have to “milk (lick) the Communist Party” to enter the Chinese market in the future. The incident even attracted international attention, the BBC, the Independent, Singapore’s Straits Times and so on have made reports.
Ten million people tracked the netizens praised Chen Xing justice and daring to speak out
Another main character in the controversy, Chen Xing, is a well-known food YouTuber in the United States. His food and travel channel “Strictly Dumpling” has more than 3 million followers, and together with two other channels with more than one million followers and several social media pages, as many as 10 million people follow his every move. He travels around the world to film and introduce his local community. He often travels around the world to make videos about local food, and several of his videos about food at 7-Eleven convenience stores in Taiwan, Japan and Korea have each received over 10 million or nearly 20 million views.
This time “Uncle Roger” apology storm, but he got a lot of Internet users, especially the support of Hong Kong people, have subscribed to him. Some netizens said: “I love your channel, but also respect your political expression, respect!” “Thank you from the bottom of my heart, I am from Hong Kong and we need more people to speak out like you do.” “Thank you for speaking the truth, I know it’s not easy to be vocal as a Netflix.” “I originally subscribed to your channel because of the food, now that I know that your conscience stands with the people of Hong Kong, I have become a more committed fan.”
In Hong Kong’s Lien Deng Forum, netizens found that Chen Xing often spoke out courageously in the past to expose the Chinese Communist Party and support Hong Kong. For example, on June 4, 2020, he posted a memorial to the Tiananmen Square massacre, saying “Hong Kong people are fighting for freedom, democracy and basic human rights in the same way.” On January 6 of this year, he tweeted about the mass arrest of more than 50 Hong Kong opposition leaders, noting that the scourge of national security laws was “just the beginning” and calling on people to join the End the Evil Chinese Communist Party” (End the Evil Chinese Communist Party).
Some Hong Kong netizens, who are fans of Chen Xing themselves, said they learned from his video that he and his parents both practice Falun Gong and that the family came to the United States because of the suppression of their faith. Some netizens also shared that Chen Xing had told the program that he had fallen into depression due to the death of his best friend by suicide during his college years, and that he had once blocked himself from meeting people, and finally came out of his low point by practicing Falun Gong with his parents. Many netizens appreciated that he is a Falun Gong practitioner, saying, “I immediately look at him differently”, “I want to support him”, “I often watch his films! He is the “clear water of the YouTube world”. Some netizens also initiated to help Chen Xing “push the explosion” https://endccp.com/的联署.
Stressing that the Chinese Communist Party does not represent China and calling for a voice for the voiceless
Chen Xing tweeted on January 14, thanking all the support he has received from all walks of life over the past few days, which has been very moving. He said the CCP has adopted many tactics to silence those who disagree with it or challenge it, “They use online armies to bully or intimidate people; they use soft power to make people censor themselves so as not to lose business in China or offend Chinese people. I think this is an example of that this time.”
“My original intention for the YouTube channel was to share my love for Chinese culture with the world, and I love the Chinese people… but the Chinese Communist Party does not represent China, much less should it be equated with the Chinese people. It (the CCP) has committed countless atrocities, from the Cultural Revolution to the Tiananmen Square massacre, and to this day it is still putting millions of Uighurs in labor camps, persecuting Tibetans, Mongolians, Christians and Falun Gong, and jailing pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.”
“But because the Chinese Communist Party is so wealthy and powerful, even many people outside of China are too afraid to speak out. I only have a small platform, but I will always try my best to be a voice for the voiceless in China.” He concluded by reiterating his call for people to co-sign a petition to end Chinese Communist rule.
Chen Xing also said on Instagram that he would not be hostile to “Uncle Roger” Nigel because he understands that it is difficult to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party, “I hope he learns more about the human rights persecution that the Chinese Communist Party is committing because he lives in a free country and can do so. “
Boasts that the clutches of the National Security Law extend to the world Believes that totalitarianism will not last
Chen Xing said in an exclusive interview with Apple Daily on the 14th that this is the first time he has had his cooperation cancelled because of his anti-communist stance, but does not feel sad. The cutting of his seat has made his followers rise instead of fall. He thinks it proves that many people in the world know what is wrong with the Chinese Communist Party, and in fact many people want to hear discussions about the Chinese Communist Party or opposing voices, instead of backing down and apologizing every time. He believes that since the Chinese Communist Party has done many evil things and still has not apologized, we should not apologize to the regime that caused millions of people to die as a result of the draconian epidemic, and we should stand up and unite against it.
Chen Xing, who immigrated to Tennessee from China with his parents at the age of 8 and went to New York after graduation to do non-profit work on human rights in China, started filming on Youtube seven years ago and has become a successful YouTuber. He visited Hong Kong on the eve of the anti-China movement. But after the implementation of the National Security Law, he made it clear on his channel that he would not visit Hong Kong again, “The National Security Law gives them an excuse to restrict the rights of Hong Kong people and to extend their claws to anyone in the world, which I think is very ridiculous and unsafe.”
He told Apple Daily that although there is a chance that speaking out will face suppression by the Chinese Communist Party, many people in Hong Kong are in a more difficult situation than he is, with people like Wong Chi-fung and Chow Ting even imprisoned and losing their freedom, so he has to speak out. Hong Kong has a special place in his heart and cannot be compared to other places. He believes that the totalitarian power of the Chinese Communist Party will not last long and sends a message to Hong Kong people not to give up and continue to fight this long-lasting battle.
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