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Cas Been's avatar

Please correct me if I am wrong, but didn't the four betel nut influencers become (even more?) famous because all of them started educating people about the dangers of chewing betel nuts after getting diagnosed with cancer?

And were they a group of four people posting stuff together or did their respective followers come up with the group name simply because all of them chewed so much?

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Chinese Doom Scroll's avatar

For at least two of them, they passed away before they ever did any content warning people about the dangers, I think. Their account just suddenly went silent one day, and then a few months later, a family member logged on to explain they'd passed away.

I'm not entirely sure if they were friends with each other or not, I haven't heard of any of these people.

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OmgPuppies's avatar

"so why doesn’t anyone else have this problem?"

Which specific problem is this person talking about? The Xu Bo case seems unusual enough that I find it hard to imagine it being a common issue in China.

fore him -> for him

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Chinese Doom Scroll's avatar

I think they mean, "why doesn't anyone else have bride prices? Why is that a phenomenon unique to China?"

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