Cyberbullying · Full chronicle and history

Economist Yao Yang, Dean of the Dishui Lake Advanced School of Finance at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, said in a video posted on "Yao Yang Shuo" that about 100 million people in China actually pay individual income tax, that an annual income of 100,000 to 120,000 yuan puts one in the top 10% by income, and that an annual income of about 300,000 yuan puts one in the top 1%. The bottom 10% of earners account for only 0.4% of all income and have negative net wealth, and around 600 million people nationwide still earn less than 1,000 yuan per month.

After the stall owner's river-jumping incident escalated, the person who originally posted the negative review deleted their account and fled. Unable to find their cyberbullying target, a large number of netizens turned their sights on innocent netizens using the same screen name, sparking a new wave of cyberbullying.

On October 17, a Douyin blogger complained that young people are told to abandon the “student mindset” as soon as they enter society, asking why honest people should reflect on themselves after being taken advantage of, and saying that those who cheat and deceive are the ones who should truly reflect. The post struck a chord with netizens, who left comments in共鸣.

Chinese auto media platform Dongchedi has been accused by some Chinese netizens of being a “foreign force.” It is currently unclear the specific reason, but tweets show that this accusation is related to content published by Dongchedi or its stance.

A netizen inside the Great Firewall shared records of fines imposed on their family by the Chinese Communist Party. The fines covered a wide range of items, and the specific items were not detailed in the tweet.

On October 13, the Qingfu Town Government of Gao County told China Newsweek that police are investigating the case of female street vendor Ms. Hu, who took her own life after receiving a bad review. The Gao County Public Security Bureau said it responded at the first instance and is handling the matter jointly.

After the announcement of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, remarks Mo Yan made years ago on Kevin Tsai's show criticizing the Sino-Vietnamese War and military literature were dug up by netizens, came under concentrated condemnation online from Little Pinks, and were labeled as those of a reactionary intellectual.

Luo Yonghao has come under attack from some Chinese netizens for failing to remove an interview with Kevin Tsai that went live on April 29 of this year, and for not responding publicly. Some have questioned his stance on Taiwan, saying the two are "on the same side." The program has still not been taken down.

On October 6, photos circulated on Weibo showing multiple people holding black-and-white photos of Mu Shecheng on Jianghan Road in Wuhan, with the participants accused of being fans of Wang Lujie.

On October 6, a customer in Gao County, Yibin, Sichuan, who had purchased 10 yuan of self-selected fried dishes without potatoes, posted warning posts on multiple platforms; female vendor Ms. Hu subsequently took her own life and died.

On October 5, 2026, under the strong deterrent of police filing cases for investigation and intense attention from media across the entire network, major domestic social and content platforms launched a special rectification and cleanup campaign, concentrating on banning accounts and posts involving fake AI obscene image collections of "CC Who Collects Phones," face-swap video cloud-storage download codes, and malicious doxxing. At the same time, the legal department of Zhuanzhuan, on behalf of the company and the victimized blogger, publicly issued a rights-defense notice, announcing that it had formally entrusted a well-known Beijing law firm to initiate comprehensive cross-platform civil lawsuits and criminal reports, pursuing judicial accountability against key black-market personnel who maliciously generated, first released, and resold fake image collections both within and outside China, resolutely pursuing economic compensation and criminal liability from lawbreakers, and building a legal shield for the victimized employee.

On October 2, YouTube creator Bumingbai Podcast released an episode, gathering letters from eleven listeners to discuss various experiences of feeling inferior while living in China.

On October 1, 2026, as the rights-defense video of "CC Who Takes Phones" trended across the entire internet, a number of authoritative mainstream media outlets, including Sina Technology, Tencent News, My Drivers (Quick Technology), and China Youth Daily, followed up with in-depth reports and special investigations. Legal scholars and senior criminal lawyers, in interviews with the media, made clear that using generative AI technology (DeepFake) to synthesize fake, indecent photos and videos of others is by no means an ordinary civil infringement of portrait rights or reputation, but a serious illegal and criminal act that crosses the bottom line of the law: a person who uses AI to generate obscene image collections and sells them across platforms for profit is already suspected of constituting the crimes of "insult," "defamation," and "profiting from disseminating obscene materials" under criminal law; combined with malicious doxxing (human flesh search box-opening) behavior, this further raises suspicion of the crime of "infringing on citizens' personal information." The legal community is calling on judicial authorities to step up the crackdown and sever the black-and-gray industrial chain that uses open-source technology to fabricate pornographic rumors for profit.

Starting October 1, multiple media outlets including Sina Technology, Tencent News, Gamersky, and Kuai Technology reported that “CC Who Collects Phones” was smeared with a pornographic rumor and called the police. The reports said her video “Smeared With a Pornographic Rumor for 2 Months, I Called the Police” surpassed 3.21 million views and received 14,000 comments. According to the video she posted, the company’s legal department has assisted in collecting evidence.

After "CC the Phone Collector" posted a video of calling the police, comments such as "support leaving the internet to defend rights" and "I'll support you once you resign" repeatedly appeared in the comment section, and some people asked for related images under the name of "collecting evidence." Teacher Li Is Not Your Teacher compiled this situation on X.

CC, a Bilibili uploader with 970,000 followers who buys used phones, was hit by fabricated pornographic rumors; AI face-swapped pornographic images and comics spread across the internet for two months. Unable to endure it any longer, she reported to the police and on October 1 released a video publicly blasting the rumor-mongering keyboard warriors.

On September 30, 2026, "Shou Shouji de CC" officially released a rights defense recap video titled "I've been a victim of AI-generated pornographic rumors for 2 months, and I've called the police!" on platforms including Bilibili and Douyin. Holding the case acceptance receipt issued by the police, the vlogger, teary-eyed but firm, fully exposed the entire journey and truth behind the events—from the graphics card recycling dispute in July and the satirical comics in August, to being targeted by black-market AI face-swapping for pornographic rumors and malicious doxxing in September. The vlogger stated firmly in the video: "All pornographic images, private photo sets, and videos circulating online are 100% fake. I have completed the notarization of all evidence and will never settle!" Within 24 hours of its release, the video surpassed 3.21 million views, quickly topping the trending lists on Weibo and Bilibili, and triggering a strong public condemnation of AI face-swapping rumors and cyberbullying.

On September 30, Bilibili blogger and Zhuanzhuan recycler “CC Who Collects Phones” posted a video saying that over the past two months she had been targeted by sex rumors, AI porn images, and the leak of her home address, phone number, and ID card information. With the assistance of her company’s legal team, she collected evidence, filed a police report, and obtained a receipt.

Tech blogger "CC the Phone Buyer" was targeted by rumor-mongers who used AI to synthesize explicit content and spread it in the comments section and private messages for as long as two months. On September 30, he released a video announcing that the police had accepted the case, saying he would pursue the rumor-mongers' legal liability through civil litigation. The topic trended on Weibo's hot search.

Recently, Hong Kong singer Jackson Wang was accused on Threads of unearthing a netizen's comment from a month ago and using his public figure influence to direct cyberbullying against a female private citizen. Fans praised him for having a 'human touch,' which subsequently led a large number of netizens to flood his comment section, turning it into a platform to discuss public issues such as gender rights, labor, June Fourth, and the White Paper Movement.

The police report receipt shown in the video indicates that Zhuanzhuan recycler and Bilibili blogger "CC Who Buys Phones" filed a report with the public security authorities at 18:14 on September 17, 2026, and the police have registered the case. On September 30, she posted a video making the matter public.

On September 17, 2026, facing the continuing spread of AI deepfake pornographic image collections, face-swap videos, and malicious doxxing attacks, the blogger "CC Who Buys Phones," accompanied by the professional legal team of his employer Zhuanzhuan, formally went to the local public security bureau to file a report and defend his rights. At the scene, the legal team assisted the blogger in submitting to the investigating officers a complete set of notarized electronic evidence gathered from across the internet, covering Telegram black-market groups, posts on X, doxxing threads on forums, fake AI porn image file packages, and a large volume of harassing communications. After several hours of intensive recorded statements and evidence collection by the investigating officers, the public security bureau formally completed the case acceptance registration at 18:14 that day and issued a Case Acceptance Receipt in accordance with the law, opening an investigation into a series of criminal leads involving suspected defamation, insult, and infringement of citizens' personal information.

On September 17, a netizen uploaded an AI short film to Douyin in which a young person runs desperately while carrying a basket on their back containing their parents, only to be criticized for falling behind, sparking widespread resonance and discussion among netizens about the heavy burden of family.

On September 16, 2026, while AI-generated fake pornographic and face-swapped image sets drew malicious crowds, some rumor-mongers and vile netizens, using excuses such as “asking for the images and resources” and “verifying the person’s real information,” carried out a malicious doxxing and “box-opening” campaign against “CC who buys phones” on an illegal overseas social-engineering database channel. The blogger’s real name, national ID number, private mobile phone number, home address, and family members’ information were maliciously published to groups and forums both inside and outside China. This was followed by a flood of anonymous insulting and abusive calls and harassing text messages containing obscene words, while comment sections and direct messages were inundated with vulgar remarks such as “asking for resources” and “box-opening victory,” leaving the blogger’s daily life and mental state in severe panic.

On September 16, 2026, someone online fabricated chat records to spread rumors about mainland Chinese actor Wang Hedi, and a blogger created a related topic entry to spread them further; Wang Hedi's studio completed notarization of the evidence that same day, reported the case to Beijing police, and issued a statement saying it would pursue legal responsibility in accordance with the law against those who fabricated and spread the rumors.

Around September 15, 2026, the harassment of "Shou Shouji de CC" (CC who buys phones) by cybercriminals and malicious netizens escalated into serious crimes of spreading pornographic rumors. Overseas Telegram groups, X (Twitter), and adult forums began grafting others' nude photos onto claims of being "CC's private photos." Subsequently, black market gangs quickly followed up by using open-source AI face-swapping algorithms (DeepFake) and facial LoRA models to batch-generate hundreds of highly realistic fake AI indecent images, face-swapped nude photos, and forged videos based on the blogger's publicly available facial features. These fabricated image collections were packaged and sold under sensational titles like "The CC Scandal" and "Full Unreleased Video Set" to drive traffic. CC later publicly denounced the rumor-mongers on social media, solemnly declaring that all circulated images and videos were malicious grafts and AI-generated fabrications.

According to the Bilibili blogger “CC Who Buys Phones,” after pornographic comics appeared in the comment section in August, starting from September 15 someone began linking nude photos of other women to her, followed by images she identified as AI-generated and spliced videos. She said all of this content was fabricated.

Hu Ermei, a street vendor who had been selling fried potatoes in Gao County, Yibin, for more than 4 years and had two children, jumped into the river and took her own life after being unable to bear the pressure of online abuse. Netizens expressed their sorrow one after another and voiced anger at the abusive netizens.

On August 18, 2026, a commercial dispute over graphics card buyback prices began to fully degenerate into mass personal attacks and gender-based insults. On Tieba, Hupu, NGA and the comment section of Bilibili, some extreme netizens completely ignored the blogger's explanation about the time difference, instead directing their fire at CC's female identity, her appearance and figure, and her image at work wearing black-framed glasses and work clothes, referring to her with the highly mocking and obscene nickname "the mysterious glasses woman." Some rumor-mongers even maliciously drew vulgar comics and memes with obvious sexual innuendo and disparaging intent based on video screenshots, which spread virally in major digital hardware discussion groups, showing online violence sliding toward vulgar pranks and personal humiliation.

On August 16, 2026, "Shou Shouji de CC" officially released a graphics card recycling video, previously recorded in July, on mainstream video platforms including Bilibili. Upon its release, the video caused a sensation in the hardware and digital community, with views exceeding one million in a single day. However, due to a sharp surge in spot prices in the graphics card market in mid-August, the recycling prices shown in the video were severely "inverted" compared to the current market rates. Numerous netizens flooded the comments and bullet screens, accusing the blogger and the platform of "unscrupulous recycling" and "maliciously suppressing prices for novices." Facing the overwhelming backlash, CC posted a long pinned update that evening to clarify, explaining that the video was recorded in early July and only edited and uploaded in mid-August. There was a time lag of over a month and significant market volatility during this period, and the quotes were calculated according to the system rules at that time, not by intentional price suppression.

"CC Who Collects Phones" (the mysterious woman in glasses), a Zhuanzhuan second-hand platform employee who became an internet celebrity through an ad, was hit by a fabricated sex rumor. She reported the case to the police to defend her rights but did not receive widespread sympathy from public opinion. The incident sparked discussion about the rights and obligations of influencer employees and their companies, as well as how public relations should be handled.

The doorstep collection video it released in August drew accusations of lowballing because it quoted 13500 yuan for an RTX5090 and 6000 yuan for an RTX5080. She explained that the video was filmed in July and published in August, and that graphics card prices rose during that period, causing a gap between her quotes and market prices; after that, pornographic comics and other cyberbullying content began appearing in the comments section from August 18.

After Black Sea shipping routes were disrupted, China turned to South and North America for emergency spot purchases of grain, with international grain traders charging an extra $42.5 per ton.

China's total retail sales of consumer goods rose 0.6% year-on-year in July; retail sales of automobiles fell 13.2% year-on-year from January to July.

In May 2026, China's total retail sales of consumer goods fell 0.6% year-on-year, marking the first monthly decline since December 2022, with sharp drops in sales of automobiles, home appliances, building materials and other categories.

In May 2026, the total retail sales of consumer goods in China fell by 0.6% year-on-year.

After 1949, a large number of Chinese social elites left China; related accounts regard this as the starting point of the subsequent changes in social structure.