Suicide of Fat Cat
2024 suicide in Chongqing, China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 11 April 2024, at 4:43 AM,[1] a 20-year-old Chinese male gamer known as "Fat Cat" (simplified Chinese: 胖猫; traditional Chinese: 胖貓; pinyin: Pàngmāo) committed suicide by jumping off the Shibanpo Yangtze River Bridge after transferring RMB 66,000 (US$9,000 at the time) to his girlfriend, who wanted to break up with him. The incident gained widespread media attention the following month, especially in Southeast Asian countries.[2][3] The incident has been called the Fat Cat Incident (胖猫事件), the Fat Cat Jumps into the River Incident (胖猫跳江事件) and the Fat Cat-Tan Zhu Incident (胖猫谭竹事件).