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'Meat bun auntie' pleads with media to leave her alone

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'Meat bun auntie' pleads with media to leave her alone

'Meat bun auntie' pleads to leave her alone

The woman in the photo featuring an auntie-like figure guzzling a meat bun while her umbrella was ripped open by Typhoon Megi said on Thursday that the international media exposure and the subsequent domestic exposure of the photo was just going too far, pleading to the media to stop publicizing the photo or her. The photo taken by an Associated Press photo journalist was carried by the Wall Street Journal along with a story about the impact of Typhoon Megi on Taiwan. As it was an impressive and vivid photo, it enjoyed wide-spread international media exposure, which has subsequently trickled down to tremendous domestic exposure as well. A great many netizens wondered who this “meat bun auntie” was. Local media outlets have tracked down the woman in the photo, had interviews with her and continued to write stories about her. On Thursday the woman was identified as “Little Sweet," the nickname of a woman who has been running a fruit stall near Exit 2 of the Jingmei Mass Rapid Transit Station in Taipei for more than 20 years. In an interview with the Central News Agency, she said while attending a customer, “The next day I learned what’s going on from the Internet [exposure] people sent me. The whole Internet was full of me. It was terrible. But it should stop here and now and let me carry on with my business. It’s not good to affect others. I don’t want the sudden fame. Thank you for everybody’s attention.” “As I was walking, I was eating the meat bun that my husband gave me. And I had no idea that my umbrella was going to be ripped open just like that. I had no idea either that it would make me so hot,” she said. A woman buying fruit at her stall jokingly said, “It turned out to be you,” referring to the store owner. A passerby, who apparently is an acquaintance or customer of Little Sweet said, “My husband asked me ‘Is that her?’ I told him that it was her. But my husband said Little Sweet is much better looking and cute than this. I said ‘You couldn’t help, it was the angle.” Little Sweet interposed, “It was a typhoon day.” She continued talking as she turned a bit serious, “I hope everything comes to a stop here. I originally blamed the photographer a little bit, because it went international, not only in Taiwan. But now I don’t blame the person. I personally felt like I was made into the butt of a joke. But it doesn’t matter now because I feel it’s okay to make people laugh, and it’s okay to make me a clown. But please leave me alone from now on, don’t report on me again, and let me go about my business.” During the interview, Little Sweet repeatedly emphasized that she sells fruit not meat buns.