CY Leung has racked up over 130,000 angry “reactions” on Facebook, only days after the social media platform launched the new function.
Facebook unveiled the upgrade to the “like” button on Thursday, with users being able to react to Facebook posts with five extra “emotions: “love”, “wow”, “haha”, “sad”, and “angry”.
The chief executive’s Facebook page quickly became a target as netizens swarmed in to show their discontent.
By 9pm on Saturday, Leung’s profile picture had already accumulated 130,000 “angry” faces, making up 93 percent of the total 140,000 responses.
It is understood that only a selected few are permitted to comment on the page, while the public could only “like” posts before the new function was activated, as the SCMP reported.
Unlike comments, the “angry” reactions cannot be removed by administrators.
Different posts on CY Leung’s Facebook page were also swamped with “angry” reactions. Pictures showing Leung at official events and luncheons have accumulated up to 100,000 angry reactions.
Satirical website 100Most compared Leung’s online unpopularity with other world leaders, with Leung’s 28,000 angry faces (as of 9pm on Friday) vastly outnumbered those received by US President Barack Obama and even the controversial American presidential candidate Donald Trump. Netizens have sarcastically called it an “international achievement”.
