Mar 19 2009
Hong Kong Grieve Over “Brother Laughing” (a TV series character)
A TV soap series in Hong Kong recently stirred up mega hype on one of leading characters, Brother Laughing, an under cover cop who weaves between the Hong Kong Mafia and the police. On Tuesday’s episode, Brother Laughing scraficed himself for his fellow insider.
His death became talk-of-the-town amongst HongKongers to an extend a virtual funeral service with over 30,000 people was held yesterday on facebook!
HongKongers (mostly Gen-Y and Gen-X) are (still) mourning the death of “Brother Laughing” and the news was widely spread across all media.
take a look at the screen caps below:
Note: These are just mock up pictures done by crazy viewers but I am sure you can feel how popular this character was.
