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In China, you can go to college to become a social media influencer

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An anonymous reader [share a report](//pandaily.com/in-china-you-can-go-to-college-to-become-a-social-media-influencer/) : As colleges across China approach their final weeks before winter vacation, frequent users of Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) may have noticed a new type of post in their feeds: students asking for likes and followers to pass their final exams. Xu Maomao, for example, posted a video with the hashtag “SOS”, in which she pleaded for 10,000 subscribers to take a course called “Self-Made Media Content Creation and Operation” which she is taking at the University. Zhejiang Communication Authority (CAR). “I am now an ordinary student forced to become a social…

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