The song met with critical acclaim, and sales were brisk, but its biting edge prompted the Japanese colonial authorities to ban it, a harbinger of things to come for the Taiwanese music industry.
不過這首叫好又叫座，反應社會現實的「失業兄弟」，卻被日本政府下令禁售，成了台灣第一首被禁唱的流行歌曲。