Sex Tape Filmed in Beijing UNIQLO Dressing Room Goes Viral. But the porn stars got a little trouble with the Red Army, sorry, Commies …
Uniqlo sex video: film shot in Beijing store goes viral and angers government
Police investigate and China’s internet watchdog condemns ‘unsocialist’ behaviour after millions watch x-rated film online
Footage of two people having sex inside the fitting room of a UNIQLO store in Beijing’s busy Sanlitun district has gone viral on Chinese social media.
The very NSFW video, captured on the cell phone of the male participant, has been making the rounds on WeChat this morning after being leaked online last night.
It didn’t take long for intrepid web users to try to dig up the amateur porn stars’ Weibo accounts; although both users deny that it was them featured in the video.
However, a short conversation between the alleged female star and her friend was also leaked online. The message suggested that she and the man in the video had only just met before the seXXXy antics ensued.
It’s unclear who leaked the footage online, although netizens questioned whether the video is some sort of publicity stunt orchestrated by the family-friendly Japanese clothing brand. We truly hope not.
The video has seemingly been removed from the Chinese web but is still floating around WeChat.
As the clip clocked up millions of views and Beijing’s displeasure became clear, the Japanese retailer was forced to react.
“We would like to remind the public to uphold social morality and use our fitting rooms in a correct and proper way,” Uniqlo said in a statement, denying online rumours that it had masterminded the video as a marketing stunt.
“I came here because of the clip,” said a young Chinese man, who asked not to be named while taking a photo of himself in front of the store.
“I never heard of Uniqlo before the clip,” said a university student, shopping for printed T-shirts who asked only to be identified by his last name Zhang.
“It’s definitely a marketing strategy,” said a 17-year-old wearing a red bandana around his head who asked only to be named as Mike. He came to the shop for the first time with two female friends decked out in flamboyant, pop culture-infused outfits.
That intervention failed to spare executives at two of China’s top internet firms an official reprimand for allowing the pornographic film the oxygen of publicity.
“The vulgar video had spread like a virus online and clashed with socialist core values,” Xu Feng, a director at the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), was quoted as saying by the Global Times newspaper.