China Banned Its Biggest Show Over Spilled Milk

In the spring of 2021, Youth With You was the biggest show in China. Four months later, the entire genre was illegal. What happened in between involved 270,000 bottles of milk poured into a ditch, a karaoke bar in Chengdu, and a generation of teenage girls who were told that loving someone meant paying for it. This is the story of how China banned the idol survival show — and what it cost the people nobody was filming. CHAPTERS 00:00 Cold Open 00:46 Chapter 1: The Rules 02:17 Chapter 2: Zero For Six 04:04 Chapter 3: The Second Scoreboard 06:04 Chapter 4: The Price 06:50 Chapter 5: The Dig 07:33 The Fallout