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• Images used to spread rumour that restaurant uses food delivery as cover for sex services• Increasing numbers of new graduates turn to ‘risky’ food delivery work as youth unemployment soarsAn online influencer with 430,000 followers has apologised for stigmatizing female food delivery workers by wearing a miniskirt and high heels to pose as one of their number.The influencer, who goes by the name, Xiaodoudou, on Weibo, said on November 16 that she made videos and photos of herself dressing provocatively to hype her account and she had since removed the offending footage.Screenshots from one of her earlier videos, in which she delivers food wearing the food delivery platform Meituan’s uniform along with a black miniskirt, pantyhose and high heels, were used by some people to spread a rumour that a restaurant provides a sex service in the name of food delivery.According to the rumour, a restaurant in Hainan island province, located off the southernmost tip of China, sells beef offal soup priced at 1,400 yuan (US$200) and sends out prostitutes dressed as food delivery riders.The police denied the rumour in early November.A Meituan staff member told Chinese media that the woman’s outfit did not comply with the company dress code.Xiaodoudou was one of many influencers who uploaded videos that featured them wearing food delivery uniforms worn with short skirts and stockings.An online observer said on Weibo that the videos were absurd because “it is impossible to deliver food dressed like that”.According to data from two food delivery giants in China, Meituan and Ele.me, there were nearly 10 million registered delivery riders nationwide as of last year.Source: South China Morning Post
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