Those who took the Line 5 on the Beijing subway home tonight were greeted with a surprise: big eff yous plastered all over the place.
Chinese news site iFeng shows numerous screens and display read, āWang Peng ni meiā (ēé¹ä½ 妹) or as ShanghaiIst explains: itās literally āWang Peng, your sisterā, but that means something like, āWang Peng, fuck youā in English. (It can also mean a slightly more lighthearted āWang Peng, fuck offā).
No wonder station employees scrambled to cover up the messages.
What isnāt clear is why the monitor system was displaying this message. Did someone hack the system? Is this a disgruntled worker? Who is Wang Peng?
åäŗ¬å°éēµč§å±ę¾ē¤ŗāēé¹ä½ 妹ā å®ę¹č“ę(ē»å¾) [iFeng]
Netizens delighted as Beijing subway screens display profanity while staff struggle to cover them [ShanghaiIst]
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