"The media coverage resulted in people snapping up a lot of roughly made counterfeits in the mainland," says Ivan Chen. And where Taiwanese consumers were most interested in gentler love- or good-fortune-themed dolls, mainland interest was more focused on curses and revenge; for these consumers, the dolls were simply an updated version of ancient vengeance dolls.
「不料竟帶動了許多粗製濫造的仿冒品在大陸熱賣，」陳文政說，事實上，在台灣以愛戀、祝福等軟性基調為主的娃娃，在大陸卻轉而以詛咒、復仇為主，簡直成了古代的「草人扎針」翻版。