2026-11-11
Recently, the China News Service announced the winners of the 36th China News Awards. The 'Xi Sayings' column won a first-place prize. Netizens mocked it in the comment section, calling it 'full of lies,' after which the comment section was scrubbed, leaving only 4 comments.
2026-11-11
After Dongqiudi reported on the controversy surrounding Infantino seeking a third consecutive term, the most clicked emoji in the comment section was 'hiss'. Others clicked the emoji of a person holding a book with the word 'study' on it, sarcastically implying that term limits are merely nominal.
2026-11-09
On November 9, netizens filmed streets near an unfinished construction project in Chengdu filled with police cars and tight security, with police appearing drowsy inside their vehicles. In the comments section, netizens used images to show solidarity with the excavator driver in Xi'an who recently demolished a building to demand unpaid wages.
2026-11-08
On November 8, a film instructor teaching in Hong Kong asked why Chinese students always like to conduct moral judgments on film characters instead of exploring the meaning behind the creation, sparking discussions among netizens about censorship, black-and-white education, and the psychology of power.
2026-11-07
Xiaohongshu user 'Archengist', who initiated the Melbourne memorial event, was questioned by some netizens for 'smuggling private agendas' (suspected political demands). However, most netizens were unaware of his specific remarks and kept asking around, with one netizen jokingly calling it a 'Mbappé-style mystery'.
[Follow-up · November 9, 2026] The individual involved, Archengist, responded via social media, stating that in his speech at the Sydney rally, he accused the Labor government of cutting public housing, which led to a surge in homelessness and random violence, and claimed that HungryPanda is unscrupulous because it is backed by a 'red family'. He mentioned that his speech was interrupted when someone in the crowd heckled him while he was speaking about transnational repression.
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2026-11-06
Recently, netizens in many places posted on social media platforms that they had received calls from 12340, the national social sentiment and public opinion survey hotline, where staff asked about their satisfaction with local public security and their daily living conditions.
2026-11-03
In the group photo of the banner presentation reported by the media, none of the 8 people were frontline sanitation workers wearing uniforms. Netizens in the comment section questioned the act as making life difficult for the grassroots while leaders take the credit.
2026-11-02
On November 2, police in Saihan District, Hohhot, reported that a netizen surnamed Wang had been administratively detained for posting false information regarding the Shengle International Airport on social media and disrupting public order. The police did not disclose the specific content of his remarks, leading netizens to question and demand to know what exactly he had said.
2026-11-01
On November 1, a Weibo blogger posted a Xinhua News Agency report about record-high egg prices in Japan. Netizens left comments mocking the state media for caring about the livelihoods of other countries, and referenced the old meme of Taiwanese people mocking mainlanders for being unable to afford tea eggs.
2026-10-30
On October 30, a netizen posted that after sharing a photo on WeChat Moments of a "Bushuila" drink featuring a portrait of Kylian Mbappé, all social functions of their account were temporarily restricted four minutes later.
2026-10-29
On October 29, the People's Daily commentary account 'People's Sharp Review' posted on Weibo, criticizing claims such as 'young people can no longer afford to support the elderly' and 'the pension system is about to collapse' as inciting confrontation. It stated that there is no precedent for public pension bankruptcy, but the comment section was set to 'creator-selected,' leading netizens to mock the post under other reposts.
2026-10-28
On October 28, comments supporting Mbappé appeared in the comment sections of multiple videos related to him on Douyin. Some praised him for "loving to tell the truth," while others questioned why there were only condemnations without seeing the original controversial remarks.
2026-10-28
Recently, multiple netizens have been selling Mbappe's "original words" as commodities on the second-hand trading platform Xianyu, sparking widespread discussion.
2026-10-27
On October 27, a netizen posted on Weibo discussing “What did Mbappé do? Was he wrong?”, and the AI auto-reply robot “Comment Robert,” which has over 2 million followers, generated a voice message saying “He was just telling the truth — some people simply don’t like hearing it.” Netizens commented “The AI is out of control” and “The AI is not beyond the law.”
2026-10-27
On October 27, a Hebei netizen purchased a "Buchongla" drink printed with a portrait of Mbappé at a Lawson convenience store. At checkout, the clerk took the product back on the spot and refused to sell it, citing portrait rights issues. The video sparked heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-25
On October 25, a netizen shared their experience taking a ride-hailing car in Guangdong: because of a GPS positioning error that wasted the driver’s time, they were berated. The netizen casually said “It’s all America’s fault,” and the driver immediately turned to seriously criticizing America, and the tension subsided.
2026-10-24
Around October 24, netizens posted multiple sets of comparison images, claiming that the doll character "Lime," created by Chinese illustrator Slimes in 2019, plagiarized the early design of Wirt, the protagonist of the American animated series Over the Garden Wall. Slimes responded that it was fan art drawn while at work.
2026-10-23
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.
2026-10-22
A blogger posted a video of interviews at a night market. The stall owners’ fields of study included environmental monitoring, auto repair, finance, preschool education, and garment patternmaking. Netizens commented that the promise of education changing one’s fate had fallen flat.
2026-10-22
Anhui official media publicized a new policy on urban-rural resident pension insurance: after parents pay their own premiums for the current year, their children may make additional contributions on their behalf, with a maximum limit of 9,000 yuan per person per year, sparking complaints from netizens.
2026-10-22
On October 22, a dormitory inspection was carried out at the Xinjin campus of Chengdu New Oriental Senior Technical School in Sichuan. An auxiliary police officer entered the dormitory to check students' belongings, take photos, and verify ID cards. A school official, "Principal Xue," said the operation was aimed at screening out "lawbreakers." After footage of the inspection was exposed, it was questioned by a number of netizens.
2026-10-21
After several mainland netizens posted reflections containing specific homophones on WeChat Moments, their Moments feature was restricted until November 20 or their WeChat accounts were banned.
2026-10-20
Two Xiaohongshu posts titled “A Life of Upward Sacrifice That Was Never Cherished” describe how those without power hand over resources, labor, and dignity to those in power in exchange for recognition. The author recalls offering up a sheep’s kneecap during childhood as a public contribution, only for it to be damaged and thrown away. The reshared post received 100,000 likes.
2026-10-20
Recently, an illustrator on Xiaohongshu posted an illustration titled “Discourse Power,” depicting the communication predicament of children having their voice stripped away in a dominant family atmosphere. It received 34,000 likes. Netizens interpreted it as a metaphor for ordinary people’s public discourse power, online bans (“夹了”), and unequal power relations in the workplace and on campus.
2026-10-20
On October 20, a netizen posted a video sharing the plight of a sharp drop in income, with his monthly salary falling from 4,800 yuan in 2021 to 2,800 yuan now. He mocked himself for having become a joke, and at the end of the video his eyes filled with tears. Many in the comments section said they were unemployed or had been owed wages for months.
2026-10-20
On October 20, a boy recorded a video saying he wanted to educate Japanese people about Chinese oranges. He ate the orange peel, saying it was sweet, sour and nutritious, and threw away the flesh, saying it could not be eaten and was very bitter, accompanied by subtitles such as "refuse" and "beware of poisoning," sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-19
On October 19, the Weibo topic “Why young people don’t pay social insurance” trended on the hot search list. Netizens generally attributed it to low incomes, and called for the implementation of an eight-hour workday, no fewer than eight rest days per month, strict punishment for wage arrears, and compensation guarantees for layoffs.
2026-10-19
On October 19, a netizen posted a video saying that in first grade his teacher told him he was a successor to communism; years have passed and the central authorities still have not sent anyone to discuss the succession with him, so he has been quietly lying low at the very bottom of society, sparking follow-up posts and memes among other netizens.
2026-10-18
A Douyin blogger posted a video interpreting the U.S. Declaration of Independence and translations such as "justice delayed," "Labor Day," and "jury," arguing that official translations distort the original meaning, and saying that if the government does not do well, the people have the right to bring it down. Netizens in the bullet comments joked that the translators are state-level.
2026-10-18
On October 18, Chinese state media collectively reported that a 23-year-old worker in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, said that because of rising vegetable and meat prices he only eats once every two days, linking this to Japan's weak economy. In the comments section, netizens sarcastically remarked that Chinese people never get time off.
2026-10-18
On October 18, a netizen posted that at 1 a.m. at a food stall, an elderly person asked for an empty mineral water bottle and then ate someone else's leftovers. The netizen offered to treat them to a meal, but the elderly person replied, "I want to eat dumplings." Since there were no dumplings at the night market, the netizen instead bought fried noodles with meat to give them.
2026-10-18
On October 18, a Douyin blogger posted a spliced video, first showing footage of ants circling in a death spiral, then cutting to an aerial view of a campus where students formed dense phalanxes while running drills; sarcastic comments appeared in the bullet comments and the comment section.
2026-10-17
According to a tip-off from X user @LeiYang8964, a mainland Chinese netizen was sentenced by the authorities to three years and six months in prison for the crime of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" after posting remarks on an overseas social platform that defamed and attacked the country's leaders and the national system. This incident reflects the Chinese government's severe control over and punishment of domestic netizens' speech on overseas platforms.
2026-10-17
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.
2026-10-16
On October 16, a netizen published an article titled "If criticism of a country's prime minister can only be built on vulgarity, is it clarity or sorrow?", criticizing some media for vulgarizing the diplomatic interactions of female politicians and replacing discussion of foreign policy with gender stereotypes; the article received 64,000 likes.
2026-10-15
On October 15, a retired soldier and father of triplets who had been discharged for 8 years posted a video saying he had spent two years seeking medical treatment in Shanghai for his seriously ill daughter and was pleading for social assistance, but the comment section was met with sarcasm and mockery from some netizens.
2026-10-15
After the netizen posted a video mocking social insurance back-payments, their account avatar and ID were reportedly cleared. Netizens in the comments section sarcastically remarked, among other things, "In the midst of laughter and talk, the avatar vanished into thin air."
2026-10-15
On October 15, a blogger uploaded a video on Douyin: in a park, several elderly landscaping workers sat on mats by the roadside eating, while nearby old people were dancing square dance. The caption lamented that the gap in life among people of the same age was too great, and netizens in the comments section left messages such as "those who hand over grain to the public and those who eat grain from the public."
2026-10-15
On October 15, a blogger posted a video of an urban village in Guangzhou on Douyin: buildings on both sides pressed close together and the alley dim, claiming "Guangzhou's sunlight needs to be paid for." Netizens in the comments section mocked with remarks such as "So the sky was blocked, I thought the light was gone."
2026-10-14
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.
2026-10-14
Recently, netizens uploaded a video on Douyin showing two men, one carrying the other on his back while operating farm tools, with the caption "my legs hurt." Bullet comments teased with phrases such as "thank you, leader, for spurring me on," "state-owned enterprise," and "empowerment," garnering about 30,000 likes and 33,000 shares.
2026-10-14
On October 14, the Nanshan Branch of the Shenzhen Social Insurance Fund Administration set up a consultation booth at the entrance of a park, carrying out social insurance publicity under the themes of "Everyone Fulfills Their Duties · Everyone Enjoys the Benefits" and "2026 Social Insurance Services Go Into Every Household." Netizens commented sarcastically that they should set up at company entrances and have employers pay social insurance for their employees.
2026-10-14
On October 14, netizens noticed that in the new-store opening promotional page of the Huazhu Club mini program under Huazhu Group, the image accompanying "Nanjing" was actually the Taipei landmark Taipei 101, prompting sarcastic jokes from netizens.
2026-10-13
A netizen shared a video of a university graduate's job interview: the HR recruiter belittled the graduate's educational background and grades and demanded unpaid overtime. After the job seeker refused, the recruiter subjected them to personal insults, and also said that they should not view the interview with a sense of discrimination. The video attracted widespread attention from netizens.
2026-10-13
On October 13, a netizen uploaded to Douyin a video of a person squatting beside a roadside trash can eating. The comments section posted a screenshot of an interview bearing the CCTV logo saying "Right now I am nothing but happiness, just happiness" along with memes, satirizing the contrast between official happiness propaganda and reality.
2026-10-12
On October 12, a netizen posted a video saying that when using a domestic AI tool to remove passers-by from the background of a photo, the software indicated that the image contained sensitive information because the background included the Five-Starred Red Flag and could not be processed, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-11
On October 11, a Douyin blogger posted an animation in which a mole gets beaten in a whack-a-mole machine to earn money and support its family, with the caption "the pillar of the family, the offcut of society." The video received more than 170,000 likes and over 60,000 shares, and netizens in the comments section left messages mocking themselves.
2026-10-10
On October 10, a user posted a screen recording of the game Minecraft on Douyin, questioning why NetEase's chat system flags the number “64” as a violation when other players can send it normally.
2026-10-09
On October 9, Chinese netizens posted videos showing many Chinese people in Russia waiting at customs to return home; other netizens, worried about the risk of the epidemic spreading, demanded that all returning personnel be rounded up and quarantined.
2026-10-09
On October 9, a parent in Jiangxi posted a video in which a boy says that the motherland mother is more important than his own mother, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-10-07
On October 7, Matilda Tao recently commented on a program that Kevin Tsai thinks things through carefully before acting, which Chinese netizens interpreted as speaking up for Kevin Tsai and supporting Taiwan independence, sparking heated discussion on Weibo and drawing criticism and boycotts.
2026-10-07
On October 7, a Douyin user uploaded a video in which a Winnie the Pooh doll is repeatedly slapped; all five visible comments in the comment section were clapping, thumbs-up, or "666", and a search suggestion appeared asking "what does a Winnie the Pooh plush toy symbolize".
2026-10-06
After the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was announced, some local media outlets and official accounts in China ran reports with headlines such as "Linyi-born scientist Xue Qikun regretfully missed out," and netizens in the comments sections mocked: "regretfully missed out means I signed up too."
2026-10-06
On October 6, a Douyin blogger posted a video waving the national flag, claiming it could enhance netizens' 'magnetic field.' A large number of netizens left sarcastic comments, complaining about real-world difficulties such as low wages and overtime.
2026-10-04
On October 4, a netizen posted a photo of a Chinese-language warning sign photographed on a street in South Korea. The sign reminds people not to smoke, not to litter, and not to spit, and states that violators will be fined and charged for cleaning costs. In red letters it reads: "Please have the high cultural awareness of Chinese people." After the photo was posted, it sparked discussion among netizens.
2026-10-04
On October 4, Heyuan Radio and Television Station posted a video claiming that 12-year-old Chen Zixi found two dinosaur egg fossils in a flower bed near his home and handed them over to a museum, praising him for knowing the law and following regulations. The video received 50,000 likes, and sarcastic comments such as "the young master has been recommended as xiaolian" and "something handed down for 15 generations in the family has been handed over" appeared in the comments section, questioning the true origin of the fossils.
2026-10-02
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.
2026-09-28
On September 28, a Douyin blogger released a video titled "No Good Employer Has One-Day Weekends," questioning the claim that taking one less day off means earning more money, arguing that many monthly salaries are padded out by extending working hours, and saying wages should be evaluated by hourly rate, sparking heated discussion among netizens.
2026-09-26
On September 26, Weibo user "Xinzhisonggu" posted a tribute to Liu Huan, lamenting that with his passing the common denominator of art has disappeared, which resonated with many netizens and drew over 3000 reposts.
2026-09-22
On September 22, CCTV.com published "CCTV Quick Commentary: Strive to Make the Lives of the Vast Number of Farmers Happier and Better," focusing on Xi Jinping extending Harvest Festival greetings to farmers across the country, and proposing to protect grain-growing returns through measures such as prices, subsidies and insurance; netizens commented sarcastically that it "sounds nice."
2026-09-21
On September 21, after multiple netizens posted comments such as "call for legislation" and "respect life" in the live stream of the "Greater Bay Area Mid-Autumn Concert" gala, they were collectively restricted from commenting by WeChat Channels, with one person banned from commenting until October 21.
2026-09-16
On September 16, a pair of sisters who had lived in mainland China and Taiwan respectively and had not seen each other for ten years reunited at the airport. After the video was released, netizens compared the mental state and attire of the two elderly women, sparking widespread discussion and political metaphorical interpretations regarding the social environments and living conditions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
2026-09-17
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.
2026-09-09
Starting September 9, 2026, the Wansui Mountain Wuxia City in Kaifeng, Henan began trial operation of a marriage registration point, prompting netizens to leave various sarcastic comments in the comment section.
2026-09-10
The Shanghai Sports Bureau announced that Liu Xiang chose to seek employment independently, after which the official Weibo account enabled the comment selection feature, triggering mockery from netizens over the official's inconsistent words and actions.
2026-09-02
On September 2, 2026, Hebei's official Great Wall New Media posted a video criticizing Real Madrid's moment-of-silence caption related to China, and its comment section was flooded with collective sarcastic replies from more than 14,000 netizens using the same sentence structure, citing places such as Chengdu in China's Sichuan Province.
2026-08-29
On August 29, 2026, after the video released at a State Council Taiwan Affairs Office press conference explaining Taiwan's prospects after peaceful reunification was published, the comment section was mocked by netizens on both sides of the strait over 996 and benefits, and the original 3,000-plus comments were subsequently deleted down to 25.
2026-08-07
On August 7, 2026, Yangshipin published a report on rising vegetable prices in South Korea. Over 10,000 comments quickly appeared in the comment section, mocking the low-income situation at home, with the number of comments far exceeding the number of likes; afterwards, the comment section of the video was entirely wiped clean by the platform.
2026-07
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.
2026-07
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.
2026-07
Recently, netizens photographed several people staging photos of doing sanitation work, and the photos drew comments such as “Doing it well is not as good as photographing it well.”
2026-06-16
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.
2026-05
In May 2026, the total retail sales of consumer goods in China fell by 0.6% year-on-year.
2025-11-19
A domestic media outlet released a photo showing a Chinese official with his hands in his pockets and a calm expression, while a Japanese official bows his head and listens respectfully. In the comments section, netizens criticized the Chinese official for being arrogant and rude.
2023-08-18
On August 18, 2023, France's 20 Minutes reported on a parody video that face-swapped Mbappé with Mao Zedong and set it to the red song "The Sun in the Sky Is Red"; the meme originated as fans' satire of his outsized influence within the team.
2023-07-04
Sima Nan attended an Independence Day event at the U.S. Embassy in China, where he took photos with the U.S. Ambassador and sampled food, sparking mockery from netizens who accused him of 'anti-Americanism as a job, but living in America as a life.'
2011-11
Around the third anniversary of Yang Jia's execution on November 26, 2011, Chinese netizens launched memorial activities online, and many reposted his line, "If you don't give me an explanation, I'll give you one." NTD's report noted that the netizens' commemoration was mainly an expression of dissatisfaction with autocratic privilege through Yang Jia.
2011-07-23
On the evening of July 23, 2011, CRH trains D301 and D3115 on the Ningbo–Taizhou–Wenzhou Railway collided in Wenzhou, sending several carriages off the bridge; much of the information was sent out by passengers via Sina Weibo.
1949
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.