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Little Pink (simplified Chinese: 小粉红; traditional Chinese: 小粉紅; pinyin: xiǎo fěnhóng) is a term used to describe yuong jingoistic Chinese nationalists on the internet, who strongly criticized people who published posts containing negative news about China. Formerly known as Jinjiang Patriotic Girls' Club (晉江憂國少女團) (due to its origin from Jinjiang Literature City (晉江文學城), a literature Internet board which uses the colour pink as their theme colour apart from the female-majority userbase of that board, later the term was replaced by a gender-neutral term "Pinkie"), are different from members of the 50 Cent Party or Internet Water Army, as the pinkies are not paid. In terms of demographics, according to Zhuang Pinghui of South China Morning Post, 83% of the pinkies are female, with most of them between 18 and 24 years old. More than half of the pinkies are from third- and fourth-tier cities in China and are using social media platforms banned in China such as [[File:Twitter.png]] Twitter and [[File:Instagram.png]] Instagram.