The Chinese community app "Jelly" was re-launched and renamed "Bondee". There was a suspicion of leaking personal information about Jelly, and it was removed from the shelves less than a month after it was launched.

(The picture is taken from the official website of Bondee)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Recently, a popular social software "Bondee" has caused a boom in Taiwan. Many people love the software's self-made virtual doll (Avatar).

However, the predecessor of this social software was suspected by the outside world as a well-known Chinese social app "Jelly". After the team relaunched it, it stated that the company was located in Singapore and was jointly developed by the United States and South Korea. Many netizens questioned the company's "washing of production" behavior , and Taiwanese users need to agree to special additional terms, causing controversy.

"Bondee" social software users can choose different characters to "pinch faces" to create their own virtual dolls, and users can also invite friends to join and experience virtual cohabitation life.

"Bondee" has recently swept across Asian countries with its super cute character models. Many netizens on Twitter shared their virtual characters.

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However, some Taiwanese netizens discovered that before using the software, they need to agree to "special additional terms", and the software company marked it as "Taiwan, China".

The additional clause is a personal information specification for Taiwanese users. Since "Bondee" is not available in China, netizens are increasingly questioning the additional clause.

Netizens pointed out that the pronunciation of "Bondee" is similar to the Chinese word "Bengdi". In addition, although the company's address is registered in Singapore, the word "Jelly" can be seen on its software interface, and "Jelly" is actually a product that was launched in China in 2022. social software.

Jelly uses the metaverse as a gimmick to attract a large number of young Chinese to sign up.

At that time, jelly had concerns about leaking users’ personal information. After users provided registered mobile phone numbers, they received malicious harassing calls. They all said that the experience was not good, and many scandal-ridden gels were only on the shelves for less than a month, and they were eventually removed from the shelves.

Faced with the intriguing relationship between "Bondee" and "Jelly", many Taiwanese netizens have boycotted "Bondee", bombarding "it is clearly a Chinese investment, but it is deceived by the joint development of the United States and South Korea."

The parent company of Jelly is Cyber ​​Elephant Group, which is a Chinese Internet company.

It is reported that the Chinese media "Fengwang" was once the largest shareholder of Jelly.

Bondee is cute, just: pic.twitter.com/1MaAbeVgQB

— mumu (@runningmumu) January 23, 2023