Some criticized the media for showing enlarged photographs of the tubby girl in a "Popeye the Sailor Man" pose, saying it revealed prejudice against fat girls and the Internet in general. They contended that most cases involving a swindle of only NT $ 50,000 or NT $ 100,000 would never get written up on page three of the newspaper.
有人批評媒體放大刊出胖妹擺出大力水手獨照的姿態，充滿了歧視「胖妹」和「上網」的心態，否則一般人被騙五萬、十萬元是不可能被寫上報紙三版。