In 2019, a forum administrator named Niu Tengyu (牛騰宇), along with 23 others associated with the forum, were arrested in China for allegedly leaking nude pictures of Xi Mingze on a website called Esu Wiki.[12] Human rights group China Change criticized the alleged use of torture and sleep deprivation to gain confessions from the suspects.[13]

On December 30, 2020, the Maonan District People’s Court in Maoming, Guangdong province, sentenced Niu to 14 years in prison and a 130,000 RMB fine for “picking quarrels and stirring up trouble”, “violating others’ privacy” and “running an illegal business.”