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A Guilin bakery turned a nearby earthquake into a '520' promotion
A Guilin dessert shop wrote 'arriving before 520 is the shake of the 5.2 earthquake' as ad copy. It deleted the post fast; regulators opened a case anyway.
Guilin Qixing dessert shop · 2026-05-19
怎么回事
On 19 May 2026, hours after a magnitude-5.2 earthquake struck Liuzhou, a dessert shop in Guilin's Qixing district posted marketing copy on its WeChat Moments reading, in effect, 'arriving before 520 [a homophone for 'I love you' used for Chinese Valentine's-adjacent promotions] is the shake of Liuzhou's 5.2 earthquake' — turning the tremor into a pun for a holiday sale.
The post was flagged within roughly ten minutes by a customer who told the shop owner the wording was inappropriate; she deleted it and posted an apology on the same account, saying she had reposted the line after seeing it elsewhere without reading it carefully.
The shop's use of the earthquake as promotional material was reported and, by the early hours of 20 May, Qixing district's market regulator confirmed the conduct, opened a formal case against the shop, and said it would be handled according to law. The owner also submitted a written pledge to the regulator.
为什么会这样
- A homophone built for a shopping holiday does not survive being paired with a real disaster hours old — the pun reads as trivialising harm the moment the two are put in the same sentence.
- Reposting a line seen elsewhere without reading it is still publishing it under the shop's own name; borrowing copy does not borrow the judgement that should have caught it.
- Deleting a post within minutes limited its spread but did not undo that it had gone out under a verified business account, which is why a regulator still opened a case after the apology.
教训
A Guilin bakery turned a nearby earthquake into a holiday-sale pun, deleted it in minutes, and still got investigated. A disaster is never raw material for a promotion, however fast it's pulled.
后来呢
The shop owner apologised and pledged in writing not to repeat the conduct. Qixing district's market regulator opened a case against the shop the same night the post was reported.
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