” Austin Li Jiaqi, reportedly returned to a channel on Alibaba’s Taobao Marketplace ecommerce platform where he went about business as usual, showing off home supplies, underwear, and other goods,estimating the streamer amassed some 50 million viewers within two hours.
Li’s warm welcome comes three months after his last show was allegedly cut short, mid-stream, over a piece of cake. In early June, just one day before the 33-year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Li and his co-hostwith chocolate cookies on the sides and a chocolate stick that, if you squint enough, looks like a cartoon tank. The Livestream suddenly stopped, leading many to speculate whether or not Chinese government regulators stepped in to censor the streamer.