Transportation

London's Male Commuters Have Caught China's Fancy

Photos of attractive riders featured on a British site are trending in Guangzhou and Shanghai.
Sima Weibo

A friend of mine met her now-serious boyfriend on public transportation, when she saw him at a bus stop and initiated a conversation. That's one way to go about dealing with an attractive person on a bus or a train. Another, less well-adjusted way is to take a smartphone photo of that person and submit it to a website that showcases cute commuters.

That's the schtick of tubecrush.net, a British site that features photos of handsome men taken with or without their permission on London's metro. The site has now caught the fancy of people in China, according to the BBC Trending blog: