Recently, some netizens posted that there is a blogger on a certain video platform who claims to be a delivery boy @ Hello, Takeaway. He posts videos of female customers taking food and makes vulgar and suggestive comments about the customers’ appearance, clothing, etc. Get traffic. Currently, this account and multiple other related accounts have been banned.
Ele.me food delivery platform staff responded to Red Star News and said that the above-mentioned video blogger posted the relevant video after April last year. At that time, the blogger had resigned from Ele.me and was not a rider on the platform.
Red Star News reporters also discovered that many bloggers have recently imitated riders, or marked "scenario interpretation", "plot needs" and other content in obscure places in their videos to interpret "personal experiences". In response, Ele.me staff said they would resolutely crack down on accounts pretending to be riders.
A rider filmed a female customer picking up a meal and used vulgar language. Ele.me said the video was filmed after the rider resigned.
Recently, some netizens posted on social media that the @nihao, takeout video account on a certain video platform was suspected of delivering food. While filming female customers, although the faces of these female customers were mosaic, there were vulgar and extreme comments about the customers' appearance and clothing in the video. After the video was mixed and edited, it was released and "quickly gained fans".
According to the content of the article published by this netizen: "In more than four months, @ Hello, the takeaway video account has uploaded a total of 33 videos, and 5-6 female customers will appear in each video. By posting these videos, he has already Nearly 20,000 fans. "
Red Star News reporter noticed that the account of @"Hello, takeaway" is no longer searchable on relevant video platforms. According to the description in the above-mentioned netizen's tweet, on another video platform, another account named "Huang vlog" posted content that was highly similar to the @nihao, takeout account. Reporters from
found that the account first posted videos in April 2023. "Huang Mou vlog" claimed to be a delivery boy in the introduction and already had more than one million fans. In addition, this account has broadcast live almost every day in the past three months.
reporters found that as of 18:00 on the 24th, the @黄人vlog account had released 201 videos. Judging from the content, the food delivery targets recorded in the video are all young women, and their faces are also mosaic-marked. In the video, after the delivery boy delivers the meal to the female customer, he will immediately give a personal comment on the female customer's appearance, clothing, etc. in the dubbing and accompanying text. Many netizens questioned that the deliveryman's evaluation of female customers was too extreme and contained vulgar and sexually suggestive elements.
related videos quickly attracted public attention. Many netizens believe that the content of the video was secretly filmed without the knowledge of female customers, and that the words contained insults and slanders towards women. In response to netizens' doubts, @黄人vlog added a new label to the recently released video, saying that the content was "deduction of plot, for entertainment only", but this label did not appear in previous videos.
Red Star News reporter noticed that at about 19:00 on the 24th, @黄人vlog account was also banned by relevant platforms.
In response to the phenomenon reflected in the Weibo tweet posted by the above-mentioned netizen, the official Weibo account of "Ele.me Customer Care" publicly responded in the comment area of the article: The platform has zero tolerance for such issues, and we have reported the user @ Hello, Takeaway [banned]. At the same time, we are investigating whether this person is a platform rider as quickly as possible. If so, we will deal with it seriously as soon as possible.
A Red Star News reporter contacted Ele.me’s customer service on the afternoon of the 24th. A staff member responded to the reporter and said: “After verification, Ele.me learned that the rider had left the Ele.me platform in April last year. Currently, Ele.me "Ele.me has reported the rider's behavior to the police." In other words, when the blogger who claimed to be a rider started posting videos, he was no longer a delivery person from Ele.me.
There are still people who are suspected of pretending to be takeaway riders, performing extreme experiences such as "dealing with difficult security guards" and attracting fans
The phenomenon of filming female customers taking food as a delivery rider and giving vulgar comments is not an isolated case.
A reporter from Red Star News searched for "takeaway guy" as a keyword and found that there are dozens of accounts on the video platform that publish videos of the same type as @nihao, takeout.The reporter also found that the bloggers of this type of account all claimed to be food delivery rider accounts, and most of them started recording this type of video around 2023. Some accounts have attracted hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans in the past year. The content posted It also has a higher number of likes.
In addition to filming and commenting on scenes of female customers taking meals, some of the videos also involve violent treatment of customers' meals. For example, one of the video accounts named @ Zhuifeng Laozhang recently released a video: After a customer pointed out that his food delivery timed out, the rider immediately got into a dispute with the customer. In the end, the rider delivered the food in front of the customer. Throw it in the trash and leave. The account calls itself a food delivery rider, wears food delivery clothing with the word Meituan on it, and has posted a number of "personal experiences" in delivering food, including "dealing with difficult security guards, angrily reprimanding unreasonable customers," etc. After the reporter raised questions, the account added the words "plot interpretation" to the previous video.
In response to this group phenomenon, Ele.me’s public relations department responded to Red Star News by saying, “Ele.me will take firm action against illegal activities that impersonate riders, fabricate false plots to attract eyeballs, gain traffic, and damage the image of the rider group and the reputation of the platform. crack down and protect the legitimate rights and interests of relevant parties through legal means.”
At the same time, the Red Star News reporter also asked the staff of Meituan’s public relations department on this topic, but the other party did not respond clearly as of press time.
Lawyer’s Interpretation: The content of the video violates public order and good morals, and the interpretation must also be held responsible
After related incidents have recently attracted public attention, many netizens believe that similar videos have bad guidance, and are suspected of infringing on the privacy rights of others by filming female customers and making vulgar comments. , reputation rights and other issues.
Fu Jian, director of Henan Zejin Law Firm, analyzed to Red Star News, "If the video taken by the blogger contains vulgar comments about the appearance and clothing of female customers, then the video is suspected of bad guidance. If the comment content further involves pornography , obscenity, etc., directly constitutes pornographic behavior.”
After the recent backlash from public opinion, many accounts claiming to be delivery riders urgently added labels to their newly released videos, saying that their videos were “scenario interpretations.” For example, in the above-mentioned video posted by @ Zhuifeng Laozhang, annotations such as "plot needs" were added.
Fu Jian said in this regard, "If the video is a script, even if it is marked 'plot interpretation' or 'plot necessity', if the video content violates public order and good customs, infringes on the rights of others, spreads bad values, and disrupts the order of social networks, you may be subject to administrative liability . If the content of the video is a script but is not clearly marked, it may lead the audience to mistakenly think it is a real event, which will lead to misunderstanding and negative social impact. "
Then, are videos of similar nature marked with words such as "scenario interpretation" and "plot needs". After that, can you avoid responsibility? Fu Jian said, "Marking 'plot interpretation' or 'plot needs' cannot completely avoid supervision and risks. If the video content is actually adapted from real events, but misleads the audience into thinking that it is a real event, it will still It may lead to legal liability. At the same time, if the video content involves candid filming, regardless of whether it is marked, it will violate the privacy rights of others and is illegal.”
Reporters found that some accounts of the same type will indicate in their introduction that their shooting tools are of a certain brand. Sports and underwater camera, this camera is small enough to be clipped to your collar. Some netizens believed that from the perspective of video shooting, it was probably a candid shot.
In response, lawyer Lan Tianbin, senior partner of Jiangsu Fade Dongheng Law Firm, told Red Star News that if the content of the video is secretly shot and is suspected of infringing on the customer's portrait rights and privacy rights, the customer can request to stop the infringement, eliminate the impact, apologize, To compensate for losses, etc., you can also go to court to sue. In addition, if the perpetrator is suspected of violating the "Public Security Management Punishment Law", the public security organs may impose public security penalties on him.
According to Article 42 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law", anyone who peeps, secretly photographs, eavesdrops, or spreads other people's privacy shall be detained for not more than five days or fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days. A fine of not more than five hundred yuan may be imposed.
Red Star News reporter Yang Yuqi intern Wang Shixian
editor Guo Zhuang