Woman Pelted with Eggs and Water / Xiao Xiaoru Getting Egged

About

Woman Pelted with Eggs and Water, also known as Xiao Xiaoru Getting Egged, is a viral video of Chinese influencer 张曼如 (Eng: Zhang Manru), known by the internet handle 小小如 (Eng: Xiao Xiaoru), standing on a red carpet when an apparently angry mob throws eggs and buckets of water on her, destroying her set. Xiao Xiaoru then pulls out some makeup products to touch up her face, revealing that the video is an advertisement for one of her beauty products. Online, the clip has been shortened to only show Xiao getting pelted with detritus and has become a reaction clip paired with captions describing situations in which a person angers a mob of people.

Origin

On February 25th, 2023, Chinese beauty influencer Xiao Xiaoru posted a clip to Douyin^[1] in which she is pelted with eggs and water and has her set destroyed on the red carpet. She then pulls out some of her beauty products to touch up her makeup, revealing that the event was staged and the video is an advertisement. On February 27th, Twitter user @jewel2010222 reuploaded the video to Twitter (shown below), gaining over 3.7 million views.

Spread

On March 1st, 2023, Twitter user @HOBITAE uploaded a shortened version of the clip, including only the woman getting pelted but not the reveal (shown below). This clip gained over 18 million views in one week as people adopted it as a reaction video.

Over the following week, the clip grew popular on Twitter, as users paired it with captions describing situations where they feel disrespected or have an unpopular opinion. For example, on March 3rd, user @Uhhmmily posted a tweet with the video describing how she feels when no one asks her what the song she just played is, gaining over 11,000 retweets and 135,000 likes (shown below, top). On March 4th, Left at London posted the clip joking it represented how she felt when she ordered coleslaw, gaining over 400 retweets and 9,000 likes in five days (shown below, bottom).

The clip is also widely used by K-pop fans on Twitter expressing unpopular opinions. For example, on March 6th, Twitter user @JUNIYE0 posted the clip expressing they liked the groups TXT and Enhypen, gaining over 60 retweets and 260 likes in three days (shown below, top). On March 4th, user @dalsogucci used it to express how it felt liking the song "Flip That" by LOONA, gaining over 170 retweets and 1,300 likes in five days (shown below, bottom).

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