China’s Elderly Influencers Go Viral, Captivating Millions of Gen Z’ers

China’s Elderly Influencers Go Viral, Captivating Millions of Gen Z’ers

Elderly influencer. Credit: Alcides OTA / Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0 A 65-year-old former soldier has become one of China’s most-watched elderly influencers on social media, gaining a large following among young internet users. Li Wenshan, known on stage as “Grandpa Shanshan,” now performs stand-up comedy in venues across the country and has attracted more than one million followers online. Li spent more than three decades in the military before reti…