On November 8, a netizen posted a video on Douyin showing several workers using wooden poles to carry an 1,800-jin elevator main unit for Tenglong Cave on their shoulders, with some of them having gray hair. After the video sparked heated discussion, it was removed by the platform. Netizens left comments questioning why the working people only get to be censored.
On October 19, a food delivery rider in Hubei reportedly died suddenly while riding an electric bike. Wearing a helmet, he remained seated, slumped over the roadside railing; passersby called out to him but he had already stopped breathing. Netizens said the e-bike he was riding was rented.
In the early hours of October 18, a female guest checked into the Milo River View High-Altitude Hotel in Hubei and discovered a staircase leading to an equipment room hidden behind a painting in her room. The hotel front desk claimed the stairs led to a room housing water heaters, promised a full refund of the room fee, and requested that the guest delete her related posts.
On October 15, a netizen posted that the Hubei Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security had launched the "Sheyin Loan" service as early as June 19, 2025, drawing attention.
An audit report from Hubei disclosed that in 14 cities, 159 employees received duplicate maternity allowances and salaries totaling 3.5966 million yuan, while another 154 insured individuals were entitled to but did not receive maternity allowances totaling 3.5484 million yuan.
A minor netizen in Hubei said that police came to their home and over the following days took away their collection of chemical experiment materials and equipment, also took their fingerprints and interrogated them.
On October 2, a netizen in Hubei posted a video saying that nearly 20 police officers came to their home one after another, and the next day more than a dozen vehicles arrived to confiscate all of their chemistry experiment materials and equipment; after fingerprint collection and questioning, they were able to go home because they are a minor.
On September 26, a Hubei netizen posted that freshmen at a certain university (suspected to be Wuchang University of Technology) were not given a Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, but were instead gathered to attend a gratitude education-themed class meeting, where calculation tables showing 'how much you owe your parents for growing up' were displayed on site.
On July 16, the Qilinguan Tunnel on the Hubei section of China's G59 Expressway collapsed, with the cause suspected to be the absence of steel reinforcement. Netizens mocked the incident, saying, "The world-renowned 'infrastructure maniac' doesn't need steel to build tunnels."
On September 17, a ride-hailing driver from Hubei who claimed to be a veteran of Unit 38263 of the PLA Naval Aviation posted a video lamenting that despite working hard, he still could not pay off his credit card debt and was struggling to make ends meet. After the video was posted, the comments section was quickly censored, and netizens questioned the disappearance of comments and expressed concern over the treatment of veterans on other channels.
18-year-old freshman Fang Yuxiang lost both legs in a car accident; on September 7, he entered Hubei University with a score of 586, and completed movements sitting on a small stool during military training.
On the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong's death, a freshman in Hubei laid flowers and wept before a statue, expressing gratitude, which triggered a large number of netizens netizens in the comments section to engage in irony.
Workers at the CCCC Tianjin Dredging Co., Ltd. Green Building Materials EPC Base in Jianshi County, Enshi, Hubei, slept on the ground in front of the company gate to collectively demand unpaid wages after experiencing long-term wage arrears and multiple broken promises by the employer.
A video appeared on the overseas social media platform X showing a post by "Donghu Youli," an account under Hubei Daily, criticizing the idea of "closing the door to do construction" and praising Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening up.
An account under Hubei Daily called "Donghu Youli" published an article stressing the importance of opening up to the global market and praising Deng Xiaoping's reform and opening-up policy, which was interpreted as a veiled criticism of Xi Jinping's contractionary policy.