Controversy 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, when a Chinese e-commerce platform is recently searched, emojis containing vulgar sexual terms in cute pictures of children are being traded.
These children’s photos also contain unfamiliar text.
Even more shockingly, the price of emoticons varies depending on the expressions of the children, and the emoticons with the expressions of a Korean child actor are sold for 1.49 yuan (250 won) for 100 copies.
This Korean child actor’s emoticon set, containing 520 sheets, is sold for 6.88 won (1,170 won).
One online retailer said they had several sets of children’s emoticons and sold more than 100 monthly sales.
As to whether it was illegal, the dealer claimed that “it was all collected from the Internet and not illegal.”
A Beijing lawyer said, “Many netizens make emojis using pictures of child actors, and these 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 the deterioration of the sexualized emoticons of children’s photos as “a shame to say” and “no matter what way child pornography is packaged, there are legal and moral problems.”
(Photo = Pungpie Capture, Yonhap News)
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