Children’s photos transformed into gender-commodified emoticons in ChinaControversy is growing as children’s photos are illegally traded as sexualized emoticons in China on a large scale.
According to Pengpai et al. on the 13th, a recent search for e-commerce platforms in China shows emoticons containing vulgar sexual terms in cute pictures of children.
These children’s photos contain hot texts such as’Let’s sleep with me’ and’Hey, I washed myself’.
Even more shockingly, the price of emoticons varies according to the expressions of the children, and the emoticons with the expressions of a Korean child actor were sold for 1.49 yuan (250 won) per 100 sheets.
This Korean child actor’s emoticon set, containing 520 sheets, is sold for 6.88 won (1,170 won).
One online retailer said it had several sets of children’s emoticons and sold more than 100 monthly sales.
Children’s photos transformed into gender-commodified emoticons in ChinaAs to whether or not it is illegal, the dealer claimed that “it is not illegal because it is all collected from the Internet.”
A Beijing lawyer said, “Many netizens make emoticons using pictures of child actors, and these things are easy to spread on the Internet.”
The problem is that these children’s emoticons are used for sexual purposes in social networking service (SNS) conversations such as WeChat (Chinese version of KakaoTalk).
Chinese media analyzed the reason why children’s photos are sold as sex-commodified emoticons because adults can wrap their passions in children’s cuteness.
One psychological counselor criticized “it’s embarrassing to say” about the deterioration of the sexualized emoticons of children’s photos, saying, “No matter how you wrap children’s pornography, there are legal and moral problems.”
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