In August, Chinese star Huang Zitao, aka Tao, announced his engagement to singer Xu Yiyang, 27.
Since then, the 31-year-old singer has been basking in pre-marital bliss, often appearing in Yiyang’s live streams and posting vlogs of their time together.
The couple’s videos see them teasing each other, joking around with their viewers, and just having a grand ol’ time.
If you know of Tao as a funny guy, you wouldn’t be surprised to know that his fans are an equally humorous and cheeky.
Fans screen-captured shots from Tao’s recent live stream with Yiyang, and some of those pics turned out, well, more unglam than others.
It certainly didn’t help that Tao was more than willing to strike funny poses like a kid high on sugar.
A few fans of Tao thought it a good idea to do a comparison of his recent pics to those from his days as an EXO member.
We’ll just say he looks different.
Tao soon caught on to his fans’ antics and went on social media to jokingly ‘warn’ them with this message: “Stop posting these comparison pics. Just post the current one by itself…. Next time, if you guys want to post a comparison photo, make sure I look more handsome.”
He also decided to clear the air on why he looked slightly, um, chonkier in those newer pics. “I haven’t gained weight. There’s a problem with that lousy shirt. I’m never going to wear that again,” he quipped.
While some of his fans decided to post photos from Tao’s younger days to appease him, others proceeded to completely ignore him.
One fan even did a side-by-side comparison of Tao’s side profile to a pic of a chubby Ultraman.
Some also compared him to his former bandmate Luhan, with one savage netizen writing: “You look more like Lu Han’s uncle now.”
We’re not sure how Tao would feel about that comment, but if history is any indication, he’ll likely have another witty reply up his sleeve.