Trump's got a new nickname on Chinese social media. Although his old 'Comrade Trump' nickname is still popular (and relevant), meme creators on Douyin & Bilibili have now crowned him the Tariff Beauty. We explain it here: ➡️whatsonweibo.com/chinese-new-ni…

AI short film: Pizza Galaxy 🍕✨ The result of my experiment with Midjourney V7 & Runway Gen-4. 🎬 Wytse Koetse 🎨 Midjourney 🎥 Runway 🎵 Suno + ChatGPT 🎙️ ElevenLabs

First thing I thought when I saw the trending hashtag “Li Gang Arrested” on Weibo was: wait, that Li Gang from the infamous “My Dad is Li Gang” meme?! Turns out, many had the same reaction, but the real news was even bigger. Quick write-up here: whatsonweibo.com/do-you-know-wh…

Just another 2025 street scene: real dog meets UDO (unidentified doglike object). #seenonweibo

Sent out the Weibo Watch newsletter today, including a deep dive about online Russian army recruitment ads, China’s censorship apparatus, and how Western media sometimes guess Beijing’s stance by reading between the wrong lines. You’d think it’s obvious, but apparently it’s

BREAKING: Massive -- really, massive -- electricity outage hits Spain, which large part of the country suffering blackouts (including Madrid and Barcelona). Data from Spain's national grid shows a lost of >10 GW of demand, from ~26GW to ~12GW in a few seconds. Reason unknonw.

More about that here: whatsonweibo.com/the-liaoyang-r…

A deep dive on online Russian army recruitment ads, China’s censorship apparatus & how some Western media guess Beijing’s stance by reading between the wrong lines. Apparently, it’s not obvious: China is not censoring its social media to please the West🔗 whatsonweibo.com/china-is-not-c…

The latest online ad for China's Yili featuring IShowSpeed is SO all over the place, I can't 😂 It's such a rollercoaster.