Douyin launched a chat bubble decoration in its personalized store featuring a figure holding a sign. Netizens associated it with the 2022 White Paper Movement and began posting messages while imitating the gesture. After the discussion fermented, the decoration was removed.
A netizen was permanently banned from WeChat, Xiaohongshu, and Douyin after posting a taboo nickname for Xi Jinping, "getting used to the recent plain and ordinary days" (a pun on Xi Jinping's name), on their Moments.
On November 3, a netizen posted a video demonstrating that when using a certain domestic Android phone to dial the 120 emergency number, the screen failed to enter the call interface. Instead, it popped up 'shake-to-open' ads for Douyin Lite, Meituan, JD.com, etc. The slightest movement caused automatic redirection, making it difficult to close.
On October 29, netizens discovered that searching for "Mbappé" on Douyin and Bilibili only returned results from official media and media accounts, with videos from ordinary users nowhere to be found. Only by searching for "Mbap pé" or "Mbap" could videos from ordinary bloggers be found.
Around October 29, a video on Douyin showed a child sitting at a desk with tears in their eyes while laughing uncontrollably. The parent captioned it saying they dared not tutor the child anymore, and netizens left comments expressing sympathy for the child.
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.
A video recently circulated on Douyin showing a shirtless, emaciated elderly person bending over to rummage through a roadside trash can. Commenters left sarcastic remarks, saying this is the older generation of farmers who handed over their grain quotas — this is what “care in old age” looks like.
On October 26, a netizen said that they had been permanently banned from the Moments feature after posting "getting used to the plain and uneventful days lately" in their WeChat Moments, and that their Xiaohongshu and Douyin accounts linked to the same phone number were also successively permanently banned.
On October 24, netizens reported that sending words containing specific Chinese characters, such as 'xuexi niux', in Douyin comment sections was intercepted by the system with a violation warning.
On October 24, netizens reported that while comments like 'awesome' or 'math is awesome' can be posted on Douyin, 'Xi is awesome' or 'learning is awesome' fail to post due to content violations. It is suspected that the consecutive characters 'Xi is awesome' trigger the sensitive word filter related to Xi Jinping. Netizens are mocking this by splitting the characters or using phrases like 'Shaoyu is awesome' instead.
A netizen posted real photos of Shenzhen on Douyin; three hours later, sharing was restricted and the post was taken down, with a notice saying it was under review, and the account was immediately permanently banned, suspected to be triggered by the words "Xijiu" and "1988" in the photo.
On October 21, a Douyin blogger posted a video of a vendor waiting at her stall on a rainy day: a woman holding an umbrella guards a few bunches of Chinese chives, sold at 1 yuan per bunch, having made no sales since early morning; the blogger said that selling liquor, they too had only made 10 yuan.
On October 20, while answering a question about social insurance payments, a Douyin blogger recounted how he bought an annual music membership card on a second-hand platform, actually received only one month, and the seller cancelled the account, concluding that "anything requiring payment before you enjoy it is most likely a scam"; shortly afterward, the video was deleted.
According to a post by X user QuanLujun and a shared link, on October 18, 2026, an unusual livestream appeared on the Douyin platform, with more than 2,000 users watching the moderators' working status online, drawing netizens' attention and discussion.
A video circulating on Douyin on October 18 shows a delivery rider sleeping overnight on his electric scooter in an outdoor passageway, wrapped in a quilt, with the caption: "Only the weak complain about their environment; the delivery king never picks his surroundings." In the comments section, netizens responded with sarcastic remarks such as "Even Xiangzi never lived on a rickshaw."