In January of 2022 a video went viral in China on the Chinese version of TikTok. It showed a woman in a small rural town who was being held in a tiny room with a chain around her neck.
A Douyin vlogger exposed the living conditions of this mother of eight in a small village in Xuzhou. Heartbreaking and inhumane – she was literally chained up and left out in the cold. Full story here: https://t.co/AzCHwBU6mU pic.twitter.com/WLLhjpd4Zr
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) January 29, 2022
Here’s the full clip:
To give the full story, here is the original video that caused the social media storm, which is still ongoing today (tw distressing content, not sure why the lock is blurred, as if that is the most shocking thing about this video..) pic.twitter.com/UOA5zrfeQ4
— Manya Koetse (@manyapan) January 30, 2022
People were understandably outraged and demanded to know what…