On September 13, a netizen posted on Douyin saying she is a 2026 undergraduate graduate carrying 60,000 yuan in student loans, that she had been job hunting in Guangzhou for three months without success, and had finally ended up working in a factory. On September 26, she posted a comparison photo of her graduation gown and her factory uniform, saying, “Four years of undergraduate study came to nothing; now I’m a general worker in an electronics factory.”