…from entering Taiwan for social-media stunts performed there. Who is the Singaporean, controversy-courting, boobs-proud, and self-proclaimed “top live vlogger” Kiarra Kitty?

Kiaraa Kitty in a live broadcast on YouTube. Screen shot: kiaraakitty/YouTube

She describes herself on Instagram as“台湾最爱的大奶妹 (Taiwan’s most-loved busty miss)”, but she goes by the handle Kiaraa Kitty and is from Singapore. There is, however, nothing feline about the act she was involved in that landed her in scalding soup. According to the Taiwanese wire service 中央通讯社 (Central News Agency), Kiaraa Kitty—a scantily-clad livestreamer by profession—had entered Taiwan for a social visit, with the plan to “PURRade” or “walk across Taiwan in 21 days”, according to her YouTube videos before the jaunt. Like the travel blogger that she attempts to be, she had herself filmed happily traipsing the island. When she got to the port municipality of 高雄 (Kaohsiung) in southern Taiwan, she found herself suddenly pelted with eggs on Sanduo 3rd Road in the district of 前镇 (Cianjhen) by an individual who appeared to be a Taiwanese woman. In the reel, the dowdily-dressed egg-thrower shouted in an unmistakable falsetto voice at the influencer, and accused her of “勾引 (gouyin or seducing)” the former’s husband. The victim, wearing a floppy hat that obscured half her face, scream and screamed, in full Ah Lian outrage (the eggs did not appear to land on her), and pleaded: “我不懂(sic)你老公是谁 (I don’t know who your husband is).” And then the accuser walked casually away.

The 32-year-old shared the video on 9 February,—in fact, 除夕夜 (chuxiye) or the evening of the eve of the Lunar New Year. While it is unlikely that the post would be more enjoyable to watch than the local countdown shows on TV as families gathered for 团圆饭(tuanyuanfan or reunion dinner), her fatuous recording did garner sufficient views, to the extent that it riled the residents of Kaohsiung and aroused the interest of the police. Taiwanese viewers doubted the veracity of the video account, noting that the female attacker’s auntie get-up was exaggerated and that the voice was artificially high-pitched. “Was it all staged?”, went the collective sigh. According to local news reports, the police managed to track down the influencer-livestreamer to determine the truth of the incident. The extent of the investigation is unclear, but the Kaohsiung police did reveal that two days after the video was published, Kiaraa Kitty did not file a report pertaining to the violence levelled against her. The egg wash was nothing.

Living cliché: maid as (play) mate. Photo: kiaraakitty/Instagram

The Taiwanese media was responsive too. When they contacted her, Kiaraa Kitty claimed that although she was not able to identify the egg-thrower, she had made a police report. But the police contradicted her claim. Additionally, they revealed that investigations showed the video to be a hoax. It was uncovered that the said woman with the egg projectiles was, in fact, a man—a compatriot surnamed 薛 (xue; his full moniker has not been revealed). Security videos from the vicinity acquired by the police showed a man changed out of the dress he wore, which he then dumped into a bin. It would not be too hard to guess that the clearly bad acting was to earn views on her sleaze-saturated socials. Kaohsiung folks called her creative output a “自导自演 (zidao ziyan, self-directed, self-acted)” ruse. The video has been deleted from her accounts, but the police released it to the local press. Towards the end of the reel, she alleged—in mock disdain—that she was assailed because she has an account on the adult content website OnlyFans, and posts on it. “做OnlyFans就是这样了 (being an OnlyFan [content creator] is like that),” she yelped, quickly pulling out the occupational hazard card.

When the picture became clearer, the police issued a statement, saying that Kiaraa Kitty’s mindless post “伤害高雄治安 (harmed Kaohsiung’s public security)”. They asked the influencer to record an apology and post it on her socials. She did but that, too, has since been deleted. She shared the reel, filmed after her “arrest”, while waiting for a train on a platform at Chang Hua Railway Station (apparently to leave for 台中 Taichung, 200 kilometres to the north). She apologised, saying in wonky Mandarin that the whole calculated move “是我自己的似乎疏忽 (is my own negligence, pronouncing ‘shuhu’ as ‘sifu’)” and that she 没有想清楚 (did not think clearly) as her performance was really to “搞笑 (to get people to laugh)”. A curious mission to many since Kiaraa Kitty is known for her adult videos and snaps, not the comedic (even if her posts can be unintentionally funny to watch). In the apology video, Ms Cheng, wearing an outfit with a gaping key hole to reveal substantial bust and cleavage, appeared to be crying. So 投入 (touru or engrossed) she was in this video performance that she missed the train and was advised by station staff to board another later .

Kiaraa Kitty (foreground) facing her ‘auntie’ attacker. Screen shot: kiaraakitty/Twitch

According to the police, the influencer and her accomplice were referred to the Kaohsiung District Summary Court and charged under the 社会秩序维护法 (Social Order Maintenance Act) for “spreading rumours affecting public peace” (it was, as we pointed out earlier, the eve of the Lunar New Year). But before the judge’s ruling was made, the two fled, like cowards. The pelted content creator was last seen at the Chang Hua Railway Station. Taiwan’s Immigration Department confirmed that the both of them have left the land (through which port, they did not say). They did also state that, in accordance with the law, the two runaways would be prohibited from entering Taiwan, and it could be a ban of “up to five years”. It is not known where Ms Cheng and Mr Xue were after they left Taiwan. Or, if both have returned home, where eggs are, as we well know, expensive.

On her passport, with which she used to enter Taiwan and then absconded, Kiaraa Kitty is identified as Cheng Wing Yee (郑咏仪 [transliteration per 联合早报, Lianhe Zaobao]). Online, she is also known as Kimchi Cheng or Kiki to her rabid male fans. Ms Cheng is apparently from Hong Kong (whether she was born there or her parents had her here after coming from the Fragrant Harbour is not clear). Her anglicised Chinese moniker points to where she was named. It is uncertain when or at what age (she was born in 2002, according to The Straits Times) she moved to our island. Curiously, on TikTok, she claimed on her profile to be “Chinese mix indo”. On the video-game streaming platform Twitch, she wrote (and we quote verbatim): “Im (sic) a mixed blood asian originally from Hongkong but now in Singaporean (sic). I can speak both Mandarin, Cantonese and English.” She did not elaborate on her racial composition. Or where she learned to speak three languages (with dubious proficiency). No information about her schooling is available. In a 2019 新民日报 (Shinmin Daily News) article, titled “女生弃大学梦当起旅游主播 (girl abandoned varsity dreams to become travel broadcaster)”, it was reported that Ms Cheng apparently dropped out of (unnamed) university after the collapse of her father’s unspecified business.

Sobbing while apologising, Kiaraa Kitty at the Chang Hua Railway Station. Screen shot: kiaraakitty/Twitch

Fame caught up with her when she styled herself as Kiaraa Kitty and began streaming on Twitch, presumably when she could not embark on academic pursuits. While Twitch was her biggest platform, it was also on which she found herself mired in controversy, and was, as a consequence, banned… a staggering nine times (as of December 2023)! Her first was in January 2021, which means she received the many bans in three short years. So astounding it has been that one Twitch user gibed: “Twitch better give her a plaque on her 10th. She deserves it.” The bans, as we gathered, were mostly related to “inappropriate” posts or as one fan gleefully told us, “showing too much tits” or doing squats “so that her arse spreads across your screen”. But, Ms Cheng’s pride in her mammary assets (or gluteal) has not been limited to Twitch. A quick look at Instagram and X is enough to know immediately which route she takes to gain popularity. In most of her photos, she wears barely enough to cover her busy bosoms. So willing to greet the air—even cold—the pair have been that in January this year, while she was in Seoul, even their half-appearance prompted the police there to ask her to stop showing her “underwear” in public. One of her favourite outfits in recent years is the ultra-short cheongsam (a misnomer on her), with an exlarged key hole on her chest, exposing, without fail, a deep and tight 乳沟 (rugou or cleavage) made possible by her breasts squeezed soundly together.

Apart from her OnlyFan page, Ms Cheng has another revenue stream: She sells items that would be considered intimate to her: Used lingerie, bikinis, and stockings (S$300, $300, and S$169 respectively and, presumably, unwashed), and bottled bath water (presumably after she washed herself, $500), as well as—believe it—“Farts” ($300, presumably more than one expulsion). She assured shoppers that “every bottle is made by Kiara exclusively for you, sealed with love~now you can finally know how her farts smell like!” For the purchaser’s peace of mind, she added that the olfactory attack is “handled with care to ensure her farts be transferred into the jug successfully and would be mail to you with lotsa love.” It is not known who’d part with such a large sum to perceive what she discharges gaseously, but the flatulent influencer is dead-serious about her (by-)products. Consider not that her retail venture—or pelted-with-eggs stunt—is a vacuous enterprise. On X in the middle of this month, Cheng Wing Yee wrote, somewhat smugly: “Why do I need a brain when most men think with their dicks. My brains (sic) are my boobs”.