Olympic Games Shops are queuing up all night because of a race mask – Bing Dwen Dwen has gotten all over China, but how has it become popular on Twitter?

Rarely the olympic bags of the olympics have been sold out after the first days of the olympics, but the panda mascot of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Bing Dwen Dwen, has gained tremendous popularity among locals. It has already sold out in many places.

A plush and big-eyed panda dressed in space is a coveted toy. The queues tell you in which souvenir shops the mascot is still for sale. Queues of several hundred meters have accumulated in front of the shops even before the shops opened, the newspaper said Washington Post says.

The most eager will queue up overnight to get the coveted race mask.

If you don’t get popular products, you can try to make them yourself. The child learned to write a race mask in Nanchang. Picture: Peng Zhaozhi / ZUMA

Bargain have limited sales of panda products to one per customer as strong demand has also sparked the black market. If the price of the race bag in the souvenir shop is about 25 euros, you may be asked for ten times the price elsewhere.

News agency Reuters told reporters earlier this week that the Chinese authorities have stepped up production at the request of citizens.

“We will pay special attention to this problem and coordinate with the factories to increase Bing Dwen Dwen’s supply,” a spokesman for the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee Zhao Weidong said at a news conference earlier this week.

Zhao said the scarce supply was due in part to the fact that the production facilities were closed for a week as locals celebrated the New Year.

According to Reuters, nearly a million people watched a live broadcast on state media on Wednesday from a factory in Fujian Province where toys are made.

Workers rushed immediately after the vacations to make more mascots in Qidong City, Jiangsu Province. Picture: Xu Congjun / Sipa Asia

Pandan according to designer Bing Dwen Dwen is a winter sports expert of the future and therefore wears a spacesuit. The mascot symbolizes “strength and willpower”.

An article in the Washington Post says that the name Bing Dwen Dwen in Chinese means vitality and purity and that it is a kind of embodiment of positive energy.

The Chinese state media have been happy to confirm Bing Dwen Dwen’s story as the adorable panda distracts from more disgusting things like the tense human rights situation in the US and China with China.

Bing Dwen Dwen jumped into the air as Chinese freestyle skier Eileen Gu dropped gold.

Bing Dwen Dwen’s popularity is a surprise in that the panda didn’t attract much positive interest when it was released in 2019. According to the Washington Post, the mascot was described at the time as “ugly,” “frozen panda,” or “a sesame ball with a stuffing leaking out.”

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Twitter is not available in China, but the mascot is hugely popular on the service. At one point, it had more tweets than the opening or the Winter Olympics as a whole.

Newspaper Sydney Morning Heraldin according to the analysis, nearly 20 percent of the accounts actively writing on Bing Dwen Dwen on Twitter were created in the past month.

Few of the thousands of accounts that tweeted daily about their love for #BingDwenDwen had sent messages before the Games.

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