Internet mobs hunt Accord Girl

The Chinese Internet is a non-stop source of entertainment if you like following fads, enraged Internet mobs and scandalous young ladies. Here is the latest scandal; thankfully, no one has yet applied the suffix ‘-gate’ to the affair:

A young woman who seems to be a white collar worker in Beijing has been posting videos of herself sitting at a desk discussing various aspects of her life:

– How she thinks anyone who earns less than 3,000 yuan a month is a loser (i.e. most people in China);

– Her disgust with uncouth migrant workers;

– Her love for Japanese cars; her collection of cars and why she drives a Honda Accord when she visits the beuaty salon;

– A boyfriend of hers who has spent hundreds of thousands of yuan on clothes and gifts for her.

You can only see the lower half of her face in the videos. Most of them seem to be shot in an office using a webcam. Her Net name is 雅阁女 or Accord Girl.

Below is a spoof video that combines selections from several of Accord Girl’s videos with footage of Bill Gates speaking in Chinese, criticizing Accord Girl.

Accord Girl’s videos are on the website Qing Yule. While some Chinese Net people are trying to find out Accord Girl’s real identity, others believe that the whole affair has been created by Qing Yule to attract attention to their site. Others are claiming that Accord Girl is a plot by Honda’s competitors to attach negative associations to the brand. Other Net rumors are claiming that Honda has already asked the police to look into it in Guangzhou and that if it is found to be a malicious act by a company, Accord Girl and other people involved could face up to 15 years in jail.