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Recently, a short video of eight men beating up two victims went viral on the Chinese internet. Local police started an investigation immediately.
The two injured victims were discovered to be famous video game streamers, Shao Yu, with a fan base of 631 thousand, and Xiao Zhang, with a fanbase of 1.33 million. As the investigation deepened, the local police force was surprised to find out that the whole incident was a self-directed farce by the two “victims”.
Police taking another suspect into custody
According to the two streamers, on July 10, they hired eight men to beat them up; so they could use the staged assault as a reason to take a break from streaming. They recorded the whole event and uploaded it to their fan base group chat as an excuse for a short break from work.
On July 11, after a detailed investigation and interrogation, the local police officers officially took the two streamers into custody for “fictitious facts & disturbing order” for 10 days.
In the end, they got their 10-day break.
Source: 163