(The author is Yu Feng, special commentator of Litchi News, commentator on current affairs; this article is an exclusive draft of Litchi News Client and Litchi Network, please indicate the source when reprinting.) )
"Mom and Dad are gone." "Live alone." In the video posted by the video blogger "Mr. Lui Liangshan Trip", a dirty and poor child stands in front of a dilapidated mud house, helplessly telling his "les misérables", accompanied by sad music, which makes people sympathetic and moved. But when netizens wanted to do something for this child, they never expected that this was just a complete "posing".
After verification by the local department, the video blogger Lu Mou came to the local area and let the child go to a dilapidated and idle house, dirty his face, let the child tell his poor life, and distribute him shoes, clothes, and school supplies. The process is taken by it and transmitted to the Internet to win eyeballs and earn traffic. After the public security department found out that Lu mou released relevant evidence such as posing and cheating and winning the attention of netizens, it summoned Lu mou in accordance with the law, asking him to publicly apologize and delete the relevant false video.

The real situation is that the child's father died early and his mother remarried, which is indeed a "de facto orphan", but instead of "living alone" as the video claims, he was raised by his grandmother and lived in a centralized resettlement house on the second floor and one bottom. The family of 4 children, each person can enjoy a monthly subsidy of more than 600 yuan, the township party committee and government has included the household into the category of de facto unsupported children, each person will enjoy another 900 yuan / month subsidy. Compared with children of the same age in normal families, the loss of parental support and love for this child is indeed full of bitterness and sadness. However, in the case of the implementation of the poverty alleviation policy, the local government has achieved poverty alleviation, and such "de facto orphans" can also enjoy basic living security, and the relevant departments have provided help and warmth within their capabilities.
In fact, it is not inevitable to use video to show the appearance and needs of Liangshan children, and we also hope to see their figures and listen to their voices in the short video era. If the video is filmed on the premise of respecting the facts, it is a good thing to let netizens help them. But like Lu Mou, in order to win eyeballs and sympathy, he made up stories and "sold misery" without boundaries, which is completely the use and harm of children. To see a simple child as a tool to grab traffic is not only to teach children to lie, but also to lie to the public and overdraft the public's trust and compassion.
If the true face of Lu Mou is not exposed in time, then he is likely to continue to swindle under the guise of "positive energy love anchor", and the love and support of netizens for children has become his "cash cow". If videos of artificial "posing" and fabricating plots are repeatedly banned, how can netizens distinguish who is really in need of help? The Internet is not an extralegal place, and relying on the publication of false videos to obtain improper benefits and disrupt the order of online public space will be severely punished by the law.
Previously, the short video platform differentiated into "two poles", one is "showing off wealth", one is "selling misery", one evokes people's curiosity and comparison psychology, and the other evokes people's sympathy and love. But in fact, most of these shots have scripts and team operations behind them. Nowadays, "show off" videos have been effectively curbed, and "selling miserable" videos also needs to be more strictly checked by the platform, for example, video creators need to submit relevant information to the platform to prove the authenticity of the content, and the platform needs to increase penalties for accounts suspected of fraud. Kindness is precious, and we don't want kindness to be deceived and wasted, and we also hope that kindness can be left to those who really need help.