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crittertheboy.bsky.social
Taking Bilibili's INSANE 100-question entrance exam where internet cats lick hair & '2333' means LOL Part 1/3 of my struggle through mistranslations, "screen lashes," and decoding Chinese net culture.

#Bilibili #ChineseInternet #vtuber #envtuber

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I Took Bilibili’s Test So You Don’t Have To
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April 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
simplychina.bsky.social
China’s meme culture is one of the most interesting windows into digital life in the country. This video explains how Chinese internet humour works, why it can be hard to translate, and what it reveals about online culture in China. #China #Memes #InternetCulture #DigitalChina #ChineseInternet
July 30, 2026 at 8:01 PM
resou-report.bsky.social
A hospital in China has a marriage registration office on its directory board.
So does a subway station.

It is not a prank. It is policy — and this month a bank branch opened one too.

resou.report

#China #ChineseInternet #marriage
Editorial cover in cream and ink reading "Marriage registration: between a hospital and a subway", with a blurred screenshot of the hospital sign pinned in the corner. A screenshot of the video: a hospital directory board that lists a marriage registration office among its departments, with the poster's caption translated beneath. A translated comment showing two news cards: marriage registration became portable nationwide in May 2025, and a bank branch in Tianjin opened a registration desk in August 2026. Editorial cartoon: patients waiting on hospital chairs — one with an arm in a sling, one on a drip — and among them a bride and groom, while a doctor at a desk hands over a red marriage certificate.
August 20, 2026 at 9:16 PM
resou-report.bsky.social
On Aug 26, a glacier collapse buried Gyirong Port — the Tibet–Nepal border
crossing — in minutes. China's comment sections responded with physics,
counting, and prayer. All of it translated:

https://resou.report/hot/tibet-nepal-mudslide

#China #Nepal #Tibet #ChineseInternet
August 27, 2026 at 10:36 AM
resou-report.bsky.social
A woman in China opened her app to find a man in her contacts list picking out
a wife — grading her friends like an emperor reviewing concubines.

The comment section did not argue with him. It filed evidence.

resou.report/hot/pu-xin-nan-harem/

#China #ChineseInternet #语言
Editorial cover in cream and ink reading "He went shopping for a wife in her contacts", with "a wife" highlighted in pink, and a tilted screenshot of the original Douyin post pinned in the corner. A dictionary card for the Chinese word 普信男, pu xin nan, glossed "so ordinary, so confident" — built from 普通 ordinary plus 自信 confident plus 男 man — above a translated comment reading "I have opened a book entitled 普信男", 6,071 likes from Chongqing. The original Douyin post, translated: she opens her eyes to find a 普信男 in her Moments picking out concubines, with a note explaining that 选妃 means selecting imperial concubines. A WeChat chat screenshot, translated: a primary-school classmate she had not heard from in years asks whether she knows any single women and tells her to push one his way.
August 26, 2026 at 11:37 PM
resou-report.bsky.social
The joke lasted about a day. Then someone did the costing:

"Capital has discovered that human tokens run cheaper than AI ones."

Sixteen years of pre-training, and the afternoon rate is two coffees.

resou.report/hot/human-vs-ai-tokens/

#China #ChineseInternet #AI
Editorial cover reading "Capital has discovered human tokens run cheaper", with a blurred screenshot of that comment pinned in the corner. A translated comment, 399 likes, saying capital has discovered that human tokens run cheaper than AI ones. Two translated comments: one pricing human pre-training at sixteen years minimum, one noting that AI must be paid before it works while workers will pay out of their own pocket. Editorial cartoon: two office workers on drip lines from overhead jars of token coins, one jar full and one nearly empty, with a printer between them extruding a red page showing a rising chart.
August 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
resou-report.bsky.social
An office worker in Shanghai published her own inference costs: high-quality tokens in the morning, the cheap tier by afternoon, and once those run out she just starts making things up.

It refreshes overnight.

resou.report/hot/human-vs-ai-tokens/

#China #ChineseInternet #AI
Editorial cover in cream and ink reading "Human tokens are finite too. Please be advised", with a blurred screenshot of the original chat pinned in the corner. A translated chat screenshot: the author explains that her morning tokens are high quality, that she downgrades to the cheap ones after noon, and that when those run out she starts making things up. Two translated comments about the hashtag itself, with a note explaining that the four characters are artificial intelligence in Chinese with the first and last swapped. A typographic card reading: you are not lazy at four in the afternoon, you are out of context window.
August 18, 2026 at 9:16 PM
resou-report.bsky.social
An office in China ran the AC for one hot afternoon. By morning, the switch was in a locked box.

The internet's reply wasn't sympathy — it was an audit: rationed soap, thermometers as evidence, staff paying for the water.

#China #ChineseInternet #translation #worklife
Editorial cover in cream and ink: "AC ON YESTERDAY. LOCKED TODAY." with a photo of three air-conditioner control panels sealed inside locked clear boxes. A Weibo post, usernames blurred: three AC panels in locked acrylic boxes, stickers above them reading "summer: 25C or hotter" and "off after hours". Translation beneath: "Yesterday we ran the AC for a bit because it was hot. Today the switch lives in a locked box." A translated post showing an office soap dispenser with a restrictor clamped over the pump. Comment: "Come look at my office's hand soap." Reply: "Is this right?" A photo of an office working in darkness with the lights banned, and the follow-up comment: the rule quietly died after a coworker leaked the complaint to the general manager.
August 17, 2026 at 10:48 AM
bruces.bsky.social
*Hey, that's swell. #humans #machines #ChineseInternet #deadmedia

*Do you want to place bets on whether my version is exterminated before your version is exterminated
June 27, 2024 at 2:36 PM
profweiyu.bsky.social
New year, new edited book! Glad to share the exciting news that The Sage Handbook of Chinese Digital Media and Communication has now been published. Grateful to the two leading co-editors & the authors of 37 chapters! us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-…#chineseinternete#Chinan#chinesemediaia
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM