Week 12

Chinese #A4waist 'fitness challenge'

The BBC was reporting about one of may online beauty craze.

Actress Zhang Li was among many Chinese
to post under the hashtag #A4waist

Chinese online user have posted photos on Istagram, twitter,.. to show that they are ‘paper tin’. The whole idea is it hold up a piece of A4 paper vertically, to cover up the waist. This new hype caused many audience responses. One audience group tried to do the same, but the majority tried to criticize this challenge. Many posted their own photos, arguing that a 21cm (8.3 inch) waist is unhealthy and unrealistic.

A Chinese newspaper called ‘People's Daily’ called it as a ‘fitness challenge’.

The craze began on social networks such as Weibo and WeChat, with users such as actress Zhang Li posting photos, before going global on Twitter and Instagram.

In my opinion this sows how connected everyone with social networks is and how a single person start a stupid challenge. I’m glad that many people arguing agents it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-35862281