"Son, You Should Lose Some Weight": Shocked by Explosive Response... 1.8 Million Jump Ropes "Booked"

Jump rope as a school assignment
Promise to jump rope according to the number of 'likes'...stunned by explosive response
"I will keep making him jump rope for his health"

A 7-year-old boy in China is attracting attention online after promising his father that he would jump rope as many times as the video receives likes. SCMP

A boy in China promised his parents he would jump rope as many times as his video received likes, but the video ended up getting more than 1.8 million likes, drawing wide attention.

According to the South China Morning Post (SCMP) in Hong Kong on the 22nd (local time), the story of a boy from Jiangsu Province, nicknamed "Tangdu," has been rapidly spreading through local social media.

Tangdu is 132 cm tall and weighs 45 kg, making him relatively large compared to children his age. According to the National Health Commission of China, the average weight of a 7-year-old boy is known to be between 19 kg and 26 kg.

During the winter vacation, when the boy visited his parents in Linyi, Shandong Province, he told his father that his school assignment required him to jump rope 100 times a day. His father promised to give Tangdu 10 yuan (about 2,100 won) for every 0.5 kg he lost. However, if Tangdu gained weight, he would have to pay his father 10 yuan for every 0.5 kg increase, and he agreed to this condition.

The next day, the father shared another video and asked his son if he wanted to jump according to the number of likes the video received. Tangdu agreed to this new form of motivation.

However, by February 10, the day after the video was released, the number of likes had reached 1.8 million, showing an explosive response. In a recently released video, the father joked, "I'm not sure if Tangdu still thinks of me as his father," and added, "For my son's health, I will continue to guide him to jump rope. I also hope he will understand that promises must always be kept."

Chinese internet users reacted by saying, "I was feeling a bit down today, but when I saw that he has to jump rope a million times, I couldn't stop laughing," and "Internet users are really cruel."

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