A week has passed since the incident involving Hotoka Itō, Ko Wen-je, and Tai Hsuan Tsai. Many commentators and writers have offered criticism or defense based on their own values and positions. Today I want to chat with everyone about another detail many might have missed.
You’ve likely already understood the relationship between Tai Hsuan Tsai and Ko Wen-je, at least politically. Tai Hsuan Tsai contributed significantly to Ko’s election, so after Ko won the mayoral race, Ko risked being criticized for nepotism to push Tai into one of Taipei’s lucrative positions—Chairman of the Taipei Yoyo Card Company—though many thought him and the position were completely unrelated.
Behind Tai Hsuan Tsai stands BuzzOrange and TechOrange media. So let’s see what BuzzOrange reported regarding the Hotoka Itō Yoyo Card incident.
I searched BuzzOrange’s database using “Hotoka Itō” as keyword, listing these eight articles:
- It’s the Yoyo Card Company’s self-contradiction pushing Hotoka Itō into public controversy.
- Ten rapid Q&A, instantly understanding the Hotoka Itō endorsement controversy.
- No one dares admit Taiwan discriminates against sex industries, which is why Hotoka Itō is deemed unsuitable as Yoyo Card endorser.
- While society focused on Hotoka Itō, no one saw three women living in dark corners.
- [Sorry this came late] Can’t get through calling Yoyo Card orders? Install “Auto-Redial” to call automatically!
- “Mom, what’s an AV actress?” This mother used this method teaching her child a lesson on gender and critical thinking.
- One Yoyo Card, one mirror showing hypocrisy—reflecting our society’s falsehood.
- The hypocritical convenience store: rejecting AV actress Yoyo Cards but brazenly selling pornographic magazines.
Did you notice?
These eight articles, all content is designed to steer toward the “work equality” and “gender equality” false issues I mentioned in my article “Hotoka Itō, Yoyo Card, Ko Wen-je, Taipei MRT, and How You Should Know About It”.
Behind these articles, you can understand one thing: BuzzOrange’s Tai decided its position—steering the Hotoka Itō Yoyo Card incident toward “normal energy expression” while labeling all opponents as hypocrites, positioning itself as absolute justice.
Yet a group of writers busy labeling people hypocrites, seems like the world’s most absurd thing—hypocrites calling others hypocrites.
Let me again quote my previous article: “The problem was never about Hotoka Itō personally, but what her work represents behind it, and what that significance means to Taipei City!”
A group of writers skilled at theatrical makeup, using habitual meta-positioned rhetoric, distorting the impact of hiring an adult film actress to represent Taipei City. Then another group of netizens rushed to prove others were fake and sanctimonious, yet never directly faced whether the problem stems from their own ideological deviation.
Remember years ago a group shouting against China Times, CTi and Tsai Yen-ming about media monopoly, worried media hegemony would cause biased coverage favoring insiders? That same group now stands completely opposite—Chinese netizens are truly hilarious beyond measure.
BuzzOrange, your selective article stance has already defined your values.
Note: I finally remembered Tai’s full name in this article—time to celebrate.