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Chinese social media customers have began a brand new pattern of utilizing pictures of Eternals<\/em><\/a> actor Ma Dong-seok (also called Don Lee) as their profile photos to get higher customer support.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, The Guardian<\/em><\/a> 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\u2019s<\/a> Eternals<\/em>\u00a0and Yoon Sang-hwa in Train To Busan<\/em>.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n One person, per The Guardian<\/em>, claimed that they had been ignored by customer support when utilizing the photograph of a woman as their profile picture. \u00a0\u201cAfter 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,\u201d they stated.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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. \u201cIt\u2019s fun and useful, but it makes me sad that it shows a form of discrimination,\u201d stated one person per The Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n Ma\u2019s subsequent venture is The Roundup: No Way Out<\/em><\/a>, which marks the third instalment of the The Outlaws<\/em> film sequence. The actor reprises his position as detective Ma Seok-do within the upcoming movie, which premieres on May 31.<\/p>\n Last August, it was introduced that Ma had additionally been solid in an upcoming apocalyptic sci-fi Okay-drama sequence referred to as\u00a0<\/a>Hive<\/a>, <\/em>based mostly on a well-liked webtoon of the identical identify. However, the sequence\u2019 manufacturing firm has since introduced delays in pre-production because of edits within the script, per Soompi<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n