A man in China has been live-streamed by his neighbours without his knowledge.
Feng Dianwu, 62, also known as ‘Brother Min’, is understood to be intellectually disabled, and lives alone in a small home in Cangzhou, since his parents died.
Cameras have been set up in most rooms inside his home, which shows him going about his daily activities like feeding his chicken, relaxing, or going shopping.
But it has generated outrage online from people who say his privacy has been invaded.
One person wrote: ‘Feng does not even know he is famous. Have you ever asked if he is OK with being filmed?’
The news bears a close resemblance to the film The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey.
In the film, the main character finds out that his entire life is a scripted reality show, with the whole world watching him unknowingly.
Feng suffered injuries to his face and vocal chords when he tried to defend one of his friends when he was young.
Locals in Cagzhou first started to film him in 2022 when a video of him gathering cabbage was posted online.
Since then, the surveillance of him has intensified and now his almost every move is constantly filmed, according to reports.
While it is claimed the money made off these videos and streams is used to help Feng in order to improve his standard of life, it has raised questions about his privacy.
Following a growing online backlash, it seems that the videos featuring Feng have been removed.
It is understood that Feng has been moved away from the village by relatives, after a post on his home read: ‘No one is home’.
The case bears a close resemblance to a Japanese man who also lived a real-life Truman Show in 1998.
Tomoaki Hamatsu, better known as Nasubi, took part in a game show called Denpa Shōnen, in a segment called ‘A Life in Prizes’.
But it took a disturbing turn when he was taken to a tiny apartment where he could only sustain himself through magazine sweepstakes, which he entered by filling out thousands of postcards.
He had no human contact except for an occasional check-in.
Once he’d earned prizes worth a million yen he would be released and to everybody’s surprise, Nasubi endured the challenge for more than a year, surviving on half-cooked rice and dog food.
He had no clue he was being filmed and broadcast during weekly segments and was told the footage would air at a later date.
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