The Oldest Live Streamer?

“I’m known as ‘Xiangxi Grandpa Fei’ to everyone on the internet”, the rancher told Xinhua from his home in Yangmu Village, located in Xiangxi Tujia in China’s Hunan Province. CHANGSHA (XINHUA) is like numerous men his age, a gushing granddad.

In contrast to his companions, the 75-year-old is likewise a devoted live-decoration who has collected internet notoriety in China. His old neighborhood Yangmu, found somewhere down in a precipitous zone, had a high neediness pace of 40.5 percent in 2014, yet the town was lifted out of destitution in 2019, with the destitution rate tumbling down to 0.33 percent.

Examining social issues, presenting vacation spots, and promoting nearby strengths, Mr. Peng has pulled in 161,000 adherents on his Douyin account – the Chinese form of Tik Tok – with an excess of 100 million perspectives and 3.45 million likes as of mid-November. With the assistance of nearby authorities, the townspeople got internet access because of the 4G signal in the town.

In mid-2020, Mr. Peng took a course and was given a cell phone. He set up the record “Xiangxi Grandpa Fei” on Douyin in the wake of taking the one-month course, venturing out turning into a live-decoration. He likewise went on a learning excursion to the capital of Changsha in May, the first occasion ever that he left the mountains of Xiangxi.

Mr. Peng developed a group with some post-90ers in September to make short recordings selling rural items on the web. Their recordings received numerous preferences online because of connection with content.