Do you know this man? A global search under way for this mystery owner of SD card lost during 2008 Beijing Olympics
- Luo Xia, accidentally took an SD card in an internet cafe in Beijing where he went to watch the Olympic Games alone in 2008
- He posted some of the pictures on mainland social media recently while reminiscing about that time, sparking a hunt for the original owner
According to the original post on Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, a Chinese social networking and e-commerce platform, the poster, Luo Xia, accidentally took the SD card in an internet cafe in Beijing where he went to watch the Olympic Games alone in 2008.
“I took someone else’s SD card by mistake while uploading images in an internet cafe,” Luo wrote. “I only found out it belonged to a foreigner when I came home; I think he probably had forgotten about his experience in Beijing in 2008.”
According to one of the photos posted by Luo on July 13, the foreigner was wearing a T-shirt with the Chinese character “dragon” printed on the front.
The hashtag: “I got an SD card that belonged to a foreigner at the 2008 Beijing Olympics”, has received over 190 million views on Weibo and many users have posted the search information on overseas social media platforms.
Luo said that his original intention was to share his memories of the time online after finding the photos while sorting through old photographs.