Mumu the nude hedgehog
Chinese blog site BlogChina recently held a “Beautiful Blogger” contest in which Chinese web users cast votes for female bloggers who are hosted on BlogChina.
The 20 highest scoring finalists were brought to Beijing to compete in a more traditional beauty contest, for which BlogChina provided free hair styling, make up and beauty treatments.
As well as physical appearance, the contestants were ranked on a variety of other criteria, including the quality of their blog postings and the popularity of their blogs.
The contest ran into trouble and all kinds of bad press when one finalist who blogs under the name “Hedgehog Mumu” posted a number of semi-nude photos of herself (NVSFW) to attract visitors and votes. Though Mumu’s ploy seems to have worked (she received the most votes in the public voting phase of the contest), she was awarded none of the prizes in the finals.
Opinion columnists attacked her for “offending the dignity of women”, but Bo kee refused to remove the photographs because they “do not break state laws”, according to Chinese news portal AnHui Hotline.
Others claimed that the woman in some of the photos was not in fact the blogger, although ‘Hedgehog Mumu’ denied these accusations, the news portal reported.
Via The Raw Feed
Poor Mari….she’s my favorite. If I ever become a j-pop singer and part of the...
Wow that’s an AWESOME bathroom..
Oh yeah and the chick is nice too. XD
June 2nd, 2006 at 12:11 pmHedgehog?..Nude?..Does Sonic or Nintendo know anything about these outrageous goings-on?
(I thought this was a family-friendly site).
What next mystery spam attacks??.
By the way she doesn’t look the slightest bit blue.
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:30 pm[...] Funny, she doesn’t look like Ron Jeremy. [...]
June 2nd, 2006 at 1:35 pmMy guess: Those were not photos of the blogger. Another internet scam.
(by the way, should internet be capitalized or lowercase?) [Long ago, maybe Radio was capped and maybe Television was capped, and maybe Telephone was capped, but now they are all lowercased. Is it time to put the internet in its rightful place and lowercase it? Japundits of the world, what do you Think?]
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:19 pmI’m with you, Danny. Off with its head. Does that make us anti-capitalists?
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:32 pmThat makes us British!
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:00 pmgod help us.
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:12 pmWell it used to be Internet and Web-site.
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:13 pmBut I think it’s internet and website for everybody now. I think capital letters would suggest it’s still new and exciting to you. And have people calling you Grandad and this face —>
Easy there, ghoti…
June 2nd, 2006 at 4:18 pm[...] Mu Mu and Muzi Mei are just two prominent examples of a small but well known (to Chinese audiences at least) bloggers who have used the blogosphere to explore the nexus between sex, storytelling/information sharing, and Internet technology, all at the risk of being censored. Other examples come from a Cai Shangyao article in the Shanghai Star that covers Muzi Mei and Zhuying Qingtong, and Sister Lotus (also translated as Sister Hibiscus — now defunct blog here, reports here, here, here, and here). There is also the slightly different but related episode of a blogger named Hedgehog MuMu (no relation to the Mu Mu discussed above, according to Lonnie Hodge) participating in a blogger beauty contest only to be disqualified for posting nude photos of herself online. (Additional reports here and here). [...]
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:10 pm