Falling stars challenge sends China head over heels

Nation embraces internet trend that involves posing face down after apparently tripping over while stepping out of a luxury car or plane

In a video posted online at the weekend, a young woman appears to have fallen out of the driver’s seat of a white car. Her sunglasses are askew and one of her red-soled heels has come off. Tubes of expensive lipstick, a purse, and a shopping bag lie strewn around her. A street cleaner passing by stops and asks: “Hey Miss, you still want this stuff or do you want me to clean it up?”

The woman in the video, posted from Xi’an in central China, was participating in China’s latest internet trend, the xuanfu tiaozhan, or “flaunt your wealth challenge.”

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