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Jonathan White

Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry’s annual China promotional tour has been the talk of social media.
A video, which surfaced on Wednesday, shows the three-time NBA Champion meeting fans in Shenzhen and went viral after it was believed to show him being racially abused.
It was first reported on The Fumble, a YouTube account that has over 1.4 million subscribers.
In the video, entitled “Steph Curry Gets N Word Yelled At Him In China & KD Spotted In NY After Becoming A Free Agent”, host Chris Clarke asks, “Also did that Chinese fan just call Steph Curry the N-word?”


The Fumble then shows the original viral video before showing a slowed down version that was originally shared on Chinese social media and has since been shared on Twitter.
In the slower version it appears that rather than a racist epithet it is actually “thank you” that the fan says.
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Clarke takes that view, as does the fan who recorded the video. A Weibo user calling themselves “Monica” claimed that she also heard “thank you”.
They have since deleted the original video, likely because of the number of responses but also because there are strict laws against rumourmongering in China.
However, both the video and her posts explaining what she heard have been saved for posterity and discussed on Hupu, another Chinese social network.

.@StephenCurry30 showing love to the young fans in China during his Asia tour with @UAbasketball pic.twitter.com/StbE89kETd
— B/R Kicks (@brkicks) June 27, 2019

A Hupu post titled “Curry N word event clarified, indeed misunderstood” has been read by almost 180,000 people.
It has also been discussed on Weibo where one user likened the video to the viral internet sensation from 2015 where users could not agree whether a dress was blue and black or white and gold.
There are also similarities with the May 2018 “Yanny or Laurel” meme, where social media users disagreed over what word they heard during an audio clip.
The Weibo account for the Steph Curry Tieba, Baidu’s popular discussion forum, responded to the posting of the slowed down videos thanking the user for clarifying what was said.

@StephenCurry30 is ready to make a bold statement out on the golf course.
He's in Shenzhen, China this week promoting his upcoming golf clothing line for @UnderArmour. pic.twitter.com/pqvREc4Jn9
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 24, 2019

However, reports that Curry was racially abused remain online and they have garnered equally vitriolic comments in response.
Curry, who is in China on a promotional tour with sportswear brand Under Armour, was in Shenzhen to launch his new golf clothing line. He had earlier visited the headquarters of tech giant Tencent.
The Warriors are China’s most popular NBA team and Curry is the second most popular active player on Chinese social media behind Jeremy Lin. Curry’s Warriors lost the recent NBA Finals to Lin’s Toronto Raptors.

As an entrepreneur and investor, @stephencurry30 wanted to visit Tencent in China to better understand how they've become a global tech giant. Between getting hands on in their experience center and seeing employees showed up in a big way, Tencent didn't disappoint. #RuinTheGame pic.twitter.com/6ZSExRPFtw
— SC30 Inc. (@SC30inc) June 25, 2019



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