Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” Performance at Coachella Gives Chinese Censors Headaches

Megan Thee Stallion’s dangerous performance at Coachella 2022 impressed festival-goers on Saturday but also proved to be a major headache for censors in China.

Monitoring website What’s On Weibo noticed that users of Chinese social media and messaging apps WeChat were illegally streaming the Coachella live stream, censoring attempts to capture moments or performances that violated Chinese censorship rules increasingly and morals. Sadly, Megan T. Stallion’s performance on her hit “WAP” confirmed the repeal of a bad WeChat censor who was accused of using black stripes in videos.

Struggling to keep up with the dancers, the censor was in an enviable position, trying to choose what to censor and unable to censor anything, a black belt running left to right across the entire video. The censorship nightmare was compounded by WAP text, which WeChat users were happy to type and translate in comments. Users also used the comments in response to the censorship, saying they should stop treating children like children.

Some Wags also adapted the song “Wet Ass Puxi” to indicate the area of ​​Shanghai, which is currently experiencing a dragon lockdown due to the rise of Omicron in the city.

Western events like Coachella are not streamed legally across China, but social media users bypass firewalls across the country with VPNs to stream large events illegally.

Coachella is also streamed live on WeChat. Apparently, this piece not only made the censors break a sweat, but they all joked that the song was sung in the Puks district of Shanghai. #MeganTheeStallion # Lock in Shanghai pic.twitter.com/2ltSqzFC9c

-Manya Koetse (@manyapan) April 17, 2022