It's a meme that came from a picture a few years ago with Xi and Obama. Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/xi-jinping

> Is that a real thing Chinese people get upset about?

Most likely not their people, but their government.

It's a streisand effect thing. Pooh was banned for one stupid meme, which made him a symbol of the ludicrousness of Chinese censorship and oppression. So yeah, it's a real thing in China

No. It is a joke that most people in China did about its leader from a picture of Obama.

It is the leader, who appointed himself as dictator for life, who can't stand this joke. And has forbidden it.

Chinese people laugh at the joke. It is only that the leader finds it not funny at all.

A video game and its publisher both got completely shut down in China over a small reference to the meme hidden in some art:

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/2187566/hit-taiwane...

https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/3/20681075/devotion-china-cen...

An entire company permanently shut down! The CN government takes it seriously.

Yeah it's real https://youtu.be/OubM8bD9kck?t=645

No, Chinese people invented it.

The CCP gets upset about it.