In recent days, the incident of a man commonly called "Hong Ty" pretending to be a girl, setting up a camera to secretly film sensitive scenes with more than 1,600 men shocked the Chinese public, causing a stir in Vietnam.
According to CQ News, the suspect is a male, 38 years old, who was detained for distributing pornography. This person has met hundreds of men through social networks, lured them into sex and secretly filmed sensitive scenes.
The incident was widely discussed by "Hong Ty" - a 38-year-old man pretending to be a girl, with an un typical appearance but could deceive up to 1,691 guys, many of whom were married.
On social networks, many TikToker and celebrities who are trending " brought gifts to meet Hong Ty", even wore coiffures and clothes like Hong Ty to perform skits. These videos attracted millions of views, many people laughed and joked when Hong Ty's incident was "Vietnamized".
Talking to Lao Dong reporter, cultural researcher Ngo Huong Giang commented that the case of Hong Ty in China received many mixed opinions, some people condemned and criticized it, but others took that story out to "catch the trend".
The expert said: "Currently, it is not possible to be sure about the authenticity of the videos that are said to be victims of Hong Ty. Maybe those videos were staged. However, this phenomenon exposes the truths and hidden corners of the social network system.
Encouraging activities with sexual elements, or imitating scammers for profit is an uncultured act. They even publicly expose themselves to follow a case with buying and selling and fraud elements.
From a moral perspective, those actions are spreading unhealthy cultural products that can affect young people and students."
When searching for the keyword "Hong Ty" on social networking sites, articles about Hong Ty being arrested and prosecuted do not appear, instead there are offensive content such as: analyzing how Hong Ty lured the victim, ripping off Hong Ty's clothes, "squeezing" the victims to Hong Ty's house, listing the items that this man was given to.
Some videos on TikTok attracted nearly 10 million views in the name of " playing for fun" and " Following the trend".
Many accounts impersonated Hong Ty, or Hong Ty's victims used bottles of cooking oil as props to make people laugh, and make jokes.
Expert Ngo Huong Giang affirmed that with Hong Ty's case, if there were no sanctions or preventive measures, there would be many other more serious cases, more distorted.
"With a diverse culture like in China, Hong Ty's actions will have many flows of opinions, from empathy, criticism, acceptance. They may see this as a 'view' story.
But in Vietnam, editing photos and pretending to be a character in the Hong Ty incident will leave many consequences. First, this incident has not yet been decided and the investigation has not been completed. Second, if the online community in Vietnam receives a suspicion from China and distorts it, they turn themselves into a joke just to get attention," the expert shared.
According to Sixth Tone, anonymous features make social media users fall into scams and harassment. However, it is anonymousness that also contributes to spreading toxic content, when those behind the scenes act despite the thought of "no one knows who they are".
