Mama's boys and marital strife are no joke in today's China

Tales about wrong Stepmother to have landed China savagely popular ultra-short dramas In worry with official censors.

Authoritarian matriarchs WHO baby their adult son are A clip of THE last entertainment craze among Gen. Z In THE country. They harangue beautiful girls, THE heroines of THE watch, For poor cooking And high electricity invoices.

Sometimes, he gets weird. In A series, THE older women even help her son shower And brush her teeth. Wronged And disgusted, THE young marry plots revenge. In A spectacular final, She revealed her stepmother intimidation has her husband — Or She landfills him And strikes out alone.

On top dramas about family breakups as these help turn bite soaps In A $5 billion industry For Chinese streaming giants. NOW, Beijing East cracking down on THE formats allegedly "inappropriate" plots about marital conflict For fear they will hurt THE Governments campaign encouraging families has stay together And to have more children.

Rising official concern about THE to bribe influence of micro-dramas will probably slow THE meteoric increase of THE industry In China, experts say, And can accelerate the studios efforts has go worldwide.

After two years In which production companies to have on springs up through THE country has take advantage of A emerging orient yourself — Sometimes count on ChatGPT has churn out scripts — THE industry has reached A turning indicate, said Huang Zhongjun, A learned has Zhejiang Normal University WHO has studied micro-dramas.

For Huang, THE format has proven harmful has Company In part because the viewers are fed unrealistic plots that "defame people And amplify Conflicts" In families. Young people, WHO spend more time with their screens that real people, are become “emotionally deficient » And “not wanting has get married Or to have children," he added.

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