But what if he had done something more sinister?Īn early warning had come with a Buzzfeed video from 2018, where former US President Barack Obama is saying something.but wait, he isn’t saying it! It’s somebody else who pulls off the digital mask half-way through.

His use of Zao too was innocuous: “Every media story came embedded with a clip of him strutting around in a Hawaiian shirt in Romeo+Juliet, and basking in the golden sunset on deck in Titanic,” wrote the South China Morning Post. The boy in that video turned out to be a harmless, 30-year-old games developer based in Auckland called Allan Xia, who could access the app because of his Chinese number. You may have also heard a name being uttered with awe.Zao! A dreaded Han general? A new virus? No, it’s just a new Chinese app that allows its users to do something extremely alarming. Even more unsettling, he was Dicaprio-or at least the characters he played, in those very frames. That puckish, boyish face, unmistakably Chinese, perhaps that of a young brat from one of its glittering coastal cities-but eerily, very eerily, equipped with that equally unmistakable Leonardo DiCaprio mop of blond hair falling over his eyes. He was all over TV news spots and social media clips just last week.

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