L abubu – the hottest toy of 2025 – is making headlines everywhere these days. The little creature is all over TikTok, and ...

Trending in China This is a brief update from our curated roundup of what’s trending in China this week. A version of this ...

The ‘green tea bitch’ (绿茶婊) is a new term launched over the Chinese Internet to describe a certain ‘type’ of woman. It is one amongst a series of new terms (milk tea bitch, black coffee bitch, etc) ...

O ver the past two days, everybody on Chinese social media is talking about an incident that happened at a BBQ restaurant in Tangshan, a prefecture-level city in the northeast of Hebei province. A ...

A Love Never Lost: The Historical Drama That Took Five Years (and a Run-In with Censors) to Finally Air The Chinese historical drama A Love Never Lost (人生若如初见) has been getting a lot of attention on ...

A specific genre of political satire has been gaining popularity on Chinese social media lately, with some images even making international headlines. While political satire mocking Chinese ...

China’s Social Trends & Digital Culture – by Manya Koetse 📌 China’s online conversations move fast, and understanding them takes time.We help you follow what matters. What’s on Weibo is an ...

What are Weibo’s “Super Topics” (超级话题) and what makes them different from normal hashtags? Over the past year, Weibo’s so-called “Super Topics” (超级话题) have become more popular on the social media ...

W hatever possessed the female driver of a Land Rover to go against traffic, cut in line, and assault another driver? A recent incident in Qingdao, Shandong, has gone viral on Weibo and other Chinese ...

A TikTok video showing a mother of eight living in a small hut with an iron chain around her neck has sent shockwaves across Chinese social media. According to local authorities, the woman is ...

It is confusing even for Chinese netizens and journalists: why does Donald Trump have multiple names in Chinese? And which is the right one to use? What’s on Weibo explains. In the Chinese translation ...