China's "Red Uncle/Sister Hong" Exposed W/ 1600+ Victims But Became The Biggest MEME

Rotten Mango

Stephanie Soo

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 25.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

July 5th, 2025 a predator in Nanjing, China is arrested. He’s been nicknamed, ‘Uncle Red’ and his face gets plastered on the news. Finally. The community can breathe and go about their daily lives, right? No. Netizens instead start a boycott and it works. No future travel into or through Nanjing. Gyms are shutting down. No one wants to visit. Some residents are ashamed to have an Nanjing address. Suddenly the biggest online diss you can throw at someone on Chinese social media is telling them that their husband or father is from Nanjing. It’s clear that after Uncle Red’s arrest, nothing and nobody is the same… but how the hell is an entire city impacted by one man’s arrest? For that, all you have to do is log onto Chinese social media and you’ll see it. I’m talking, screenshots, gifs, full videos, memes, AI parodies of Uncle Red’s crimes... Over a thousand graphic videos that captured hundreds of Nanjing residents in their most intimate moments between them and a partner. They had no idea Uncle Red was recording them. And they had no idea that the partner participating in the videos with them was actually Uncle Red too. Full show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com

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0:00.0	Barbing, baraboo.
0:02.9	The city of Nanjing in China is probably the equivalent to Chicago in the United States.
0:08.5	Just in terms of population, you're talking about at least 9 million residents, which means,
0:14.1	theoretically, if somebody farts or sneezes on one side of Chicago, you would imagine that
0:20.4	at least 8,99,999 people don't
0:26.6	care and don't even hear it, don't even smell it. Maybe unless you're the mayor of the city or someone
0:32.4	with five cans of WD40 strapped to their chest and a lighter. It is very unlikely that one person's
0:40.1	actions in a city as big as Chicago or in Nanjing, China, you're probably not going to impact
0:45.4	the whole city. July 2025, something weird is happening in Nanjing. The ones you know about it
0:51.8	and are talking about it online, they're all boycotting any future travel into and through Nanjing.
0:57.7	Like you would think that there's an outbreak of some sorts.
1:00.0	They're talking about Nanjing online as if something incredibly dangerous, contagious is spreading inside the city with the residents.
1:07.7	Some people online don't even want to come in contact with someone that's been in the
1:11.6	city of Nunjing in the past year. These are people outside of Nunjing. Some people inside of
1:16.8	Nunjing, nothing. They have no idea what's going on. They have no idea what people on the other
1:21.5	side of the country or the other side of the world are saying about their city. In fact, there's this
1:25.8	one guy. He posts online and he's just saying
1:28.7	something weird has been happening. Okay, so he was on the street the other day. He lives in the
1:33.2	city of Nanjing if you need some context, which really isn't that pertinent or so he thought. He was
1:38.8	going to go visit his uncle and he didn't want to go empty handed. His uncle loves fruit. His favorite fruit
1:43.3	is watermelon. He goes to the store purchases the biggest watermelon that they have,
1:47.5	which on second thought might not be the smartest idea.
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