 Online message boards were populated by large threads about the incident, and a satirical work stated that CCTV's website was the number one "very erotic very violent" website on the internet, with some users even creating their own top lists of sites which meet these criteria, the "top 8 very erotic very violent sports events" and even identifying things that are yellow as being erotic (since 黄, "huáng", the Mandarin character for "yellow", also means "erotic").The general consensus is that the girl in the report would not have been able to access such a web page unintentionally.It is thought that the line was actually a form of distortion by the reporters and not actually the views expressed by the girl, trying to make the problem look more serious.