Left-wing streaming star and self-described socialist Hasan Piker went to China with the explicit goal of showing his millions of impressionable young viewers why they shouldn’t believe the “Western propaganda” about the authoritarian nation. However, just days into his trip, Piker accidentally did the opposite — showing his audience, and the world, the truth about life under the Chinese Communist Party.

It all started when Piker went, while live-streaming, to an event at Tiananmen Square honoring the infamous dictator Mao Zedong. (Some historical estimates suggest that Mao is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler.) While joking about how much they loved China and Mao, one of Piker’s friends held up his phone to display a meme that depicts Piker as Mao with the text, “Closely follow the great leader Chairman Mao forward in the revolution!”