Chinese social media customers have began a brand new pattern of utilizing pictures of Eternals actor Ma Dong-seok (also called Don Lee) as their profile photos to get higher customer support.
Earlier this week, The Guardian reported that a number of Chinese social media customers have began a pattern of switching their profile photos to pictures of Korean-American actor Ma Dong-seok, greatest recognized for his roles as Gilgamesh in Marvel’s Eternals and Yoon Sang-hwa in Train To Busan.
According to customers on the advice app XiaoHongShu, utilizing Ma of their avatars helped them resolve points extra shortly and acquired them higher on-line customer support.
One person, per The Guardian, claimed that they had been ignored by customer support when utilizing the photograph of a woman as their profile picture. “After changing to the avatar of Ma Dong-seok, the customer service attitude was much more polite, and they even took the initiative to make up the price difference,” they stated.
Another person shared that altering her profile image to a photograph of Ma led to her property supervisor resolving a difficulty that she had beforehand raised a number of instances in a matter of minutes.
The pattern has since unfold to Weibo, a social community much like Twitter, and social messaging app WeChat, that are two of probably the most widely-used social media platforms in China. Users hopping on the pattern embody Chinese actor Li Xian, who reportedly modified his avatar on a gaming website to an image of Ma.
However, some customers have voiced their disappointment in direction of having to vary their profile photos to a celeb to be able to be handled higher. “It’s fun and useful, but it makes me sad that it shows a form of discrimination,” stated one person per The Guardian.
Ma’s subsequent venture is The Roundup: No Way Out, which marks the third instalment of the The Outlaws film sequence. The actor reprises his position as detective Ma Seok-do within the upcoming movie, which premieres on May 31.
Last August, it was introduced that Ma had additionally been solid in an upcoming apocalyptic sci-fi Okay-drama sequence referred to as Hive, based mostly on a well-liked webtoon of the identical identify. However, the sequence’ manufacturing firm has since introduced delays in pre-production because of edits within the script, per Soompi.