A Dutch influencer says a Chinese TV show used a photo of her and her boyfriend but replaced her face with the star of the show

• An influencer claimed in a viral TikTok that a Chinese TV show used her photo but edited it.

• Rianne Meijer wrote in a comment to the post that the show’s crew has since apologized to her.

• The show is called “Summer Again” and premiered in July on the streaming platform iQiyi.

A Dutch influencer says that a Chinese TV program used a photo of her and her boyfriend without permission – and edited her face out of the picture to replace her with the star of the series.

Rianne Meijer has over 94,000 followers on TikTok and 1.5 million on Instagram, where she often shares photos with her boyfriend Roy Atiya, a doctor with over 45,000 followers on the platform.

In a 22-second TikTok uploaded this Wednesday, Meijer compared the original image to a screenshot from the show, “Summer Again.” The original photo was posted on Meijers Instagram in February 2019 and shows Meijer and Atiya posing in front of a bright skyline and sparkling river of water. The location of the post says it was taken at the Park Hotel Vitznau in Vitznau, Switzerland.

The image in “Summer Again” is almost identical and shows another woman posing next to Atiya with her arm curled around her neck, in the exact position of Meijer in the original photo. The TikTok video has over 3.7 million views and 665,000 likes.

“Summer Again” centers around a ballet dancer who adapts to life in a small town after living in a big city, according to the Chinese streaming platform iQiyi, who aired the show in July. The woman in the edited photo is the show’s main character, played by actor Li Borong, according to the Chinese social media news site WhatsOnWeibo.

Meijer wrote Thursday in a comment to her viral TikTok that the “crew on the show” later sent her an apology.

“They are so sweet and it gave us a good laugh,” she wrote.

It was not clear if it was iQiyi employees or “Summer Again” production officials who had allegedly apologized. The show was produced by Xi’an Qujiang Film and TV and Aim Media, according to a Wiki page about the series.

“The Internet is a fun place,” Meijer wrote in the caption.

Meijer wrote in a comment to the TikTok video that she found out about the picture because a “girl who saw the show and recognized the picture” sent her a DM on Instagram warning her.

Meijer, Atiya, and iQiyi did not respond to requests for comment.

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