Specializes in Exposing Fakes hung up on Xiao Mo, looking satisfied.
Two hours later, a video hit the trending list.
The video's title was blunt-"Official response to fake liquor incident: Mimo gives vague response, 'We are actively communicating with the manufacturer.'"
It passed a million views in half an hour.
In the video, Specializes in Exposing Fakes cut his recorded call with Xiao Mo into segments, pausing after each one to dissect it sentence by sentence for the camera.
"Did you all hear that? 'Actively communicating.' I've heard that phrase at least a hundred times in recent years. Whenever something happens, the people involved all say the same thing. What does it mean? It means-I'm stalling. Who knows how long I can stall? Just keep waiting."
He skipped to another part of the recording, where Xiao Mo's voice was calm as he said, "We will give consumers a satisfactory answer."
"Hear that? A satisfactory answer. What counts as satisfactory? Satisfactory to whom? To you or to the consumers? Did he give a concrete plan? No. Did he give a timeline? No. Did he give a compensation standard? Not even that."
Specializes in Exposing Fakes grew more agitated as he spoke, his voice cracking.
"Let me tell you something else. The legal representative of this distillery is named Yan Shixiong. I've tracked down his phone number. It's switched off. I've called at least twenty times. Switched off. What about Wei Zijin herself? I can't reach her. I did get through to her employer, Jiangcheng Television Station. They were even more polite than Mimo. They said, 'We are currently unavailable for interviews.'"
"All three parties are hiding. The manufacturer's phone is off, the streamer is unreachable, and Mimo is spouting official platitudes. Who's taking responsibility for consumers? Nobody."
"If we don't stand