‘Sausage lips’: Chinese influencer cancelled after wasp-eating video stunt that causes public outcry and extremely swollen lips
- An influencer in China is banned from his social media account after a dangerous stunt last week
- In a video he uses a pair of chopsticks to catch a wasp and eats it, exclaiming: ‘Although I am a little afraid, I will eat it anyway’
A Chinese influencer has been banned from his social media account after posting a video of himself eating a live wasp and causing public outcry over dangerous social media stunts.
Wang Can, who had over 560,000 followers on video-sharing platform Douyin, was banned by the site on Sunday after his wasp-eating video went viral late last week.
He suffered extremely swollen lips and had difficulty swallowing after filming the video on Friday, but claimed it had attracted more than 100,000 viewers and had planned to repeat the stunt again on Sunday evening.
His account was shut down right before he was about to perform again.
In the video with the hashtag “Influencer who performed wasp eating left with sausage lips”, Wang used a pair of chopsticks to catch a wasp and put it in his mouth, after exclaiming: “Although I am a little afraid, I will eat it anyway”.
Soon afterwards his lips and eyes swelled up, but he started eating congee, which he had difficulty swallowing, before going to a hospital for treatment.
A warning caption reading: “Dangerous, don’t imitate”, was added to the video, however, the stunt was also labelled a “courageous” and “fearless” challenge by Wang.