Apparently, the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square massacre is such a sore spot for the Chinese regime that the sale of a tank-shaped cake has to be censored. A top livestream salesman in China was shut down after presenting a cake shaped like a mini tank. The authorities deemed it to be a reminder of the June 4 incident.
On the evening of June 3, one day before the 33rd anniversary of the bloody crackdown, a leading Chinese influencer Li Jiaqi and his team were astonished when their livestream was unexpectedly cut off, right after the tank-like cake was shown.
Chinese livestream salesman Li Jiaqi (L) shows off a tank-like cake and gets censored on June 3, 2022, one day before the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. (Twitter/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)
“We are urgently dealing with a technical breakdown on the backstage,” Li posted on Weibo. “Please kindly wait for a while.”…