It was announced that BTS JiminChinese fan site, Jimin Bar, has been penalized by Weibo for its recent crowdfunding aircraft announcement. Jimin Bar had planned on the custom plane to celebrate his birthday. You can read more about the project here.
This coincides with recent measures by Chinese authorities to curb what they call idol worship of the “irrational”. Previously, they had planned a magnificent announcement wrapping a plane from JejuAir with Jimin’s birthday banner, something that hadn’t been seen before on K-Pop.
A Weibo ad pronounced the verdict on the Jimin Bar project. Jimin Bar has been banned from posting on the platform for 60 days.
Weibo community announcement:
Since China’s Cyberspace Administration announced “Additional Measures to Clean Up Fandom Chaos,” Weibo has been doing a cleanup related to what was asked of it, posting several announcements to defend celebrity support and to keep order within this community.Web users informed us that in April, an account started a crowdfunding event for a “custom plane” on other platforms, which violated the rules. , posted the results of the event on Weibo. and we removed related Weibo posts.Weibo is strictly against the irrational support of celebrities and is willing to take serious action.Weibo remains committed to fulfilling our responsibilities social and corporate abilities and has strengthened our governance over fans to clean up their online behavior. latform uses the same standards while governing and setting the rules, with no difference. When it is determined that the act of supporting a celebrity is irrational, we will be seriously confronted. In the future, we will continue to make regular announcements about the actions taken. We all need to work together to clean up the fans; our users are welcome to give us advice and feedback on this topic. “
-Weibo
Many future large-scale projects of Chinese fan sites could be in jeopardy as they could face a Weibo ban.
