In early November, pictures stolen from the social media account of a Beijing student with the Weibo name Keshui Aixingren were edited into a video on Douyin describing her as a “ player” from the northeastern Jilin province, who spent 200,000 RMB of her boyfriend’s money, while having affairs with over 100 other men. “I have never done anything to offend anyone in my life,” she says.Ĭases of young women victimized by online rumors, usually falsely framing them as sexually promiscuous or “money-worshiping,” have received increased public attention in recent months. She’s also not sure why she is being targeted. “I feel really unsafe on social media these days,” says Zhang, who was shocked, confused, and repulsed by the revelation that an anonymous netizen has been tarring her reputation and combing through her QQ contact list for apparently over two years.
I didn’t expect you to be this kind of person”-after reading false accusations by the anonymous messenger, Zhang believes. One female acquaintance, whom Zhang added casually on QQ four years ago after meeting her at a jogging club event, but had never spoken with since, blocked her after sending her a single message: “Little bitch, I’ve always considered you respectable. “From the way they described it, I feel the messages were all sent by the same person and all intended to slander me,” says Zhang, who doesn’t know how many of her contacts have received such messages.Īlthough the friends who got in touch with Zhang were suspicious of the messages and tried to warn her about them, she worries that others who don’t know her as well could be fooled by the false allegations.
Zhang, a woman in her 20s from a mid-sized city in central China, recalled two similar incidents from last year, where friends had told her a stranger had added them on QQ, asking if they knew Zhang-and in one case, claiming Zhang had had a one-night stand with him. “She looked like a good girl, and not someone who would just hook up,” the user told Zhang’s cousin in chat records seen by TWOC. Returning home from work on the evening of November 14, Katherine Zhang received a disturbing phone call from a cousin, who told her he’d received a message from an anonymous QQ user who claimed to have been in a “friends with benefits” relationship with Zhang back in 2017.
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