A Buzzfeed editor named Matt Stopera has become an internet sensation in China over the Spring Festival, as his missing iPhone connected him to a man from Guangdong.

It all began when Stopera noticed selfies of a random Chinese guy next to an orange tree appearing on his Cloud. He had no idea where they came from, but thought it was pretty funny and wrote about it in this post: “Who is this man and why are his photos showing up on my phone”.

This evidently tickled someone in China who translated the piece where it went viral, instantly. The article received hundreds of thousands of reposts in China and Stopera himself started getting tweets about him and ‘Brother Orange’, as the man in the photos had been dubbed.

Furthermore, the excited Chinese netizens who loved the ‘romantic’ story, decided to track down Brother Orange and unite him with his ‘long-lost brother’. This didn’t take long and Brother Orange and Stopera are now in contact via Weibo with the help of Google Translate. Brother Orange has invited Stopera to come visit his hometown and try some traditional home-cooked Hakka food and Stopera is now making plans to cross the pond to visit.

Source: New York Times

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