A few weeks ago, I discussed a Chinese V-Tuber called Porin, a content creator who
disappeared for six months from their Bilibili channel and had released no social media posts explaining why.
After they came back from this hiatus six months later, they made a video where they explained that
they had been human trafficked for the past six months and had only recently been rescued.
Releasing a statement where they explained that a group of people had come after them,
that they were the police, and that Porin must come with them to make a statement,
then taking Porin to a van before she doubted it, taking her to a village so far away she didn't know where she was,
and selling her to a middle-aged auntie who ordered Porin about, beat her, and scolded her if she didn't do well and smoked,
using Porin as an ash-tray. Obviously after Porin was rescued and made their video about this situation,
I and many other creators discussed it, seeing how genuinely concerning this is, how horrifying it is of a story,
and how little human trafficking is talked about surrounding China. Recently, Porin's video about this situation
was deleted from their Bilibili account and their Bilibili account was suspended following this deletion.
Then, Porin's agency released a testimony explaining why this content had been deleted, and saying
they believed Porin had lied about this situation. When translating their post, it reads,
"At 5:05 PM on the evening of May 21st, 2022, the account 'Porin' released a video titled 'About me disappearing
for half a year, I was abducted and sold.' The video of this matter, after verification by the police,
has been determined as not true. It's been taking up social resources and brought adverse effects on society.
And that's why they deleted the video and why Porin's account was suspended.
There's a slight issue here. Many Chinese people who have reached out to content creators in China
and content creators outside of China, like me, I have had comments on my video saying we should take down our
videos about this situation because the situation was "proved" fake. Problem is, situations like this in China
aren't handled very well. If we reference my previous video on this situation, I linked a Wikipedia article
about the chained woman incident that took place in China this year. This was a situation surrounding a video
where a mentally disturbed and imprisoned woman was seen to be chained to a wall and had given birth to eight children.
People tried to investigate this situation when it happened earlier this year and many people were arrested for
investigating this because this was a politically sensitive period surrounding the 2022 winter Olympics.
When this situation reached bigger publicity, local officials dismissed this human trafficking claim saying that
the woman had been "legitimately married to the local man" and was mentally ill. However, when they faced
more public pressure, they conducted a higher level investigation that lead to the arrest of two people suspected of
human trafficking, as well as the woman's husband for illegal detention with authorities also punishing 17 officials,
for dereliction of duty in the handling of this case. What this should say to you and to me is that Chinese officials
often pass off these stories or don't properly investigate them unless they reach a point where they are
viral or otherwise big enough that they can't ignore them or pass them off as if they haven't happened.
Also, if we refer back to the statement that the agency had released surrounding the situation, they say
this has taken up social resources and brought adverse effects to society. By adverse effects, it is very hard
to know what they mean, but I get the implication here that one of the reasons this situation has been passed off
and they said this situation isn't true, is because it has had some sort of social effect. And China is very
well known for their kind of censorship surrounding society in the country. The point I'm trying to make is
it's very hard to know what's truly happened surrounding this situation. As far as we are aware, the police
have said this didn't happen, Porin has said it did, and I see no reason why someone would disappear for six
months out of nowhere with no explanation and then claim they were human trafficked unless there was some
kind of truth behind it. Though, it really is up to you to determine what you believe. In my opinion, I think there isn't
enough evidence to know either way whether this was true or whether it wasn't, but I'm leaning towards believing
that there must be some sort of truth behind this situation, but that we won't know unless more information
comes out about the situation. Which it likely wouldn't, leaving us on a cold trail and I'd hoped more information
would come out, so I waited on making this video, but seeing as nothing new has come out of this situation
I thought it was best to make a video saying that my previous video covered a situation that may or may not be true.
The current situation is an alleged situation that took place surrounding someone who disappeared for six
months with no other reason. China is a very well censored place and cases like this in the past have been passed off
or excused, so who really knows what happened? And I just really don't want people to take the previous story
I had discussed as complete truth, but I do also want to believe that there is no reason Porin would lie
and I want to support someone who may be a victim in this situation. With that being said though, if you
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