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A former preschool teacher who became famous last year when she appeared in a video singing to children, has claimed she has become the target of an online pornography slur.
The woman, surnamed Huang, worked as a music teacher at a nursery school in Wuhan, Hubei province in central China.
She shot to fame in April 2023 in a video clip that showed her singing and using hand gestures to teach her pupils a song called Small Small Garden.
The video was so popular on mainland social media that it had more than 7 million likes on Huang’s Douyin account alone.
People were drawn to the young woman’s attractive smile, saying she was like the girl next door and that the simple song she taught the children was “magic and brainwashing”.
After becoming an online celebrity with 7.6 million followers, Huang quit her job at the kindergarten. She now shares video clips of children’s songs and regularly does live-streaming sessions.