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1	Jul 27, '24	Already the cutest pic of the day...Chinese divers Chang Yani and Chen Yiwen after grabbing China's second gold at the women's synchro 3m springboard 💯	123×	4.2M	76k	4.9k	4.9k
2	Sep 16, '19	Wow, this is quite the way to test out the best sunscreen (Via Weibo beauty blogger 乐乐团长).	69.2×	0	25k	17k	3.2k
3	Oct 2, '25	This incident at the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday has been trending on Weibo. A woman repeatedly shouted during the match, ignoring warnings even after the umpire asked her to cal	66.6×	2.2M	3.3k	442	1.2k
4	Jan 27, '20	How to survive staying indoors during #coronavirus lockdown according to these very important videos making their rounds on Chinese social media. Firstly: don't be afraid to expres	50.6×	0	32k	7.1k	1.2k
5	Sep 1, '22	Some scenes from Chengdu before city-wide lockdown.	45.9×	0	24k	7.4k	1.4k
6	Jan 10, '18	This boy walks to school alone in the freezing cold for 4.5 km on a mountainous track, while his parents are away from home working in the city. The trending photo of this Yunnan "	41.5×	0	16k	13k	1
7	Jan 1, '23	People in Nanjing welcomed 2023 at Xinjiekou🎈	34.8×	1.2M	1k	151	45
8	Aug 1, '24	Chinese divers Chen Yuxi and Quan Hongchan have become meme-worthy due to their expressions. After they won gold, the British team, who took bronze, apparently first congratulated	30×	1M	4.9k	733	669
9	Mar 8, '24	Weibo is flooded with tribute art honoring Japanese manga artist & Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama today. The famous artist, who passed away at the age of 68, holds a special pl	25.6×	863k	52k	6.5k	1.9k
10	Dec 1, '22	40 cases in one Wuhan community: 39 humans + 1 dog. As owner tested positive, dog managed to break free and go play outside. Anti-epidemic staff went looking for him, chased him do	25.4×	0	12k	6k	309
11	Jul 14, '24	Some Chinese netizens joke that Trump's right ear being pierced makes him like Chinese panda Abao, who is missing part of his right ear after being bitten by another panda.	25.4×	854k	1.5k	91	92
12	Jan 6, '23	China Post just launched its annual zodiac stamps ahead of Spring Festival, and this year's blue rabbit stamp caused quite the commotion as many think it looks like a rabbit from h	22.3×	750k	5.1k	930	237
13	Nov 26, '22	Amazing photos coming from the Communication University of China, Nanjing, where students are protesting, making their voices heard at a time of growing unrest in light of zero Cov	21.1×	0	12k	3.5k	406
14	Nov 1, '25	A noteworthy moment during Saturday's meeting between Xi and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung. China gifts South Korea Chinese Xiaomi flagship phones for Lee and his wife (with	18.5×	625k	2.9k	424	742
15	Aug 22	Regardless of how you feel about Niu Lai, we can all agree on one thing: something extraordinary has happened in Chinese cinemas this month. A mother-and-son duo’s animated 3D film	17.2×	580k	2.3k	190	646
16	Jan 28, '20	Seven: Despite restrictions, there's always a way to still have a party together.	16.3×	0	12k	1.7k	347
17	Aug 12, '24	China is celebrating its best-ever performance at an overseas Olympics (40 gold, 91 medals overall), but I just did a Where's-Wally-style search on this Eurosport tribute poster an	15.4×	520k	6.9k	950	337
18	Jul 20, '21	The videos shared on Chinese social media about the floodings in Henan following the heavy rain really show the severity of the situation. These are some of them.	14.3×	0	4.6k	3.3k	442
19	Jan 27, '20	Three: exercise your body and brain to combat stress and anxiety.	13.1×	0	9.6k	1.4k	251
20	Jul 8, '24	Foreigners misbehaving on a Chinese high-speed train and ignoring train staff orders. Of course, they could've expected to be on social media.	12.6×	424k	1.3k	186	194
21	Jan 12, '25	Are wildfire responses a measure of state power in the U.S.-China rivalry? Trending hashtag on Weibo today: "Why Didn't Los Angeles Learn From the Chongqing Firefighting?" (洛杉矶为何学不	12.4×	419k	1.3k	191	264
22	Mar 31, '25	Hang on. Wtf just happened?! During the Chengdu livestream, a girl just came up to IShowSpeed and said: "I am racist, I am a ni*** killer. I am so sorry about that, I am racist." W	10.2×	344k	612	44	210
23	Apr 5, '25	IShowSpeed in Shenzhen: He was out buying three Huawei Mate XT phones just now. At least he tried to, but WeChat Pay declined because he couldn’t spend that much on a foreign accou	9.7×	327k	4.6k	292	354
24	Sep 8, '23	Amid discussions over draft law banning clothes harmful to the "spirit, feelings of the Chinese nation," this incident sparked discussions: Chinese wearing Tang clothes were denied	8.6×	291k	766	188	117
25	Nov 19, '23	I can't 🤣 Over the past year, frog sellers in China have emerged as a social phenomenon, and their numerous interactions with local police and security officers have formed a dist	8.1×	274k	1.6k	316	254
26	Jan 21, '23	A zoo in Shanxi did a little ceremony for the handover from the Year of the Tiger to the Year of the Rabbit (虎兔交接), picking the biggest rabbit and the smallest tiger, but still the	7.6×	257k	949	276	85
27	Jan 27, '20	Six: practice chanting to release acute stress (more effective when done with many people).	7.3×	0	5.3k	700	248
28	Jul 20, '21	Subway passengers trapped in the water.	7.1×	0	2.2k	1.2k	210
29	Jan 5, '25	I've been tweeting about the NY celebrations in China, but the tweet I didn't send out was the drone show in Shanghai. There were no Chinese-language sources or evidence of the sho	6.6×	221k	608	95	166
30	Jan 29, '22	A Douyin vlogger exposed the living conditions of this mother of eight in a small village in Xuzhou. Heartbreaking and inhumane - she was literally chained up and left out in the c	6.4×	0	2.6k	1.3k	195
31	Apr 17, '22	Coachella is also being livestreamed via WeChat. Apparently, this performance not only made censors sweat, everyone was also joking that they're singing a song about Shanghai Puxi	6.2×	0	2.9k	907	315
32	Dec 4, '24	Gosh, what a beautiful farewell note left by 86-year-old Taiwanese writer Chiung Yao (琼瑶), who chose to leave this life behind and passed away today. She wrote: "To all my dear fri	6.0×	204k	3.2k	800	1.6k
33	Jun 3, '22	"Going to March, at Tiananmen Square" - "Why?" "Why? I think it's my duty." This is the 1989 video providing context to the "It's my duty" slogans on Weibo and bicycle emojis this	5.2×	0	2.5k	986	217
34	Jan 24, '20	Medical staff at the dedicated isolation ward of Wuhan's People's Hospital wish everyone a Happy New Year, saying: "We're here, don't worry [and celebrate Spring Festival]" - a has	4.9×	0	1.8k	829	67
35	Oct 16, '22	One of the delegates at today's #20thCPCNationalCongress is the 105-year-old Song Ping, who is older than the Communist Party itself. Born in 1917 - what a century he's witnessed.	4.5×	0	3.2k	391	129
36	Jan 27, '20	But (five): also don't forget that setting clear boundaries is essential to a healthy life.	4.4×	0	3.5k	387	71
37	Oct 30, '23	This is the best Halloween costume! Laoganma's Tao Huabi is the queen, I need to remember this for next year 🤣	4.0×	136k	1.1k	140	63
38	Apr 2, '25	China’s top Trump impersonator Chen Rui appeared on IShowSpeed’s Chongqing stream just now. It’s Speed's 5th 🇨🇳 livestream, and it's more&more resembling a CCTV Gala: a tight	3.9×	132k	693	43	59
39	Aug 1, '23	This young man rescuing a family of three (plus dog) in Beijing with his front-end loader is being praised on social media as one of the "ordinary heroes" risking their own safety	3.9×	130k	879	173	39
40	Aug 28, '23	While China-based Japanese restaurants are doing all they can to distance themselves from Fukushima, this Shinjuku place allegedly placed a sign saying: "For Chinese [customers]: a	3.3×	111k	611	128	48
41	Nov 7, '21	The first heavy snow to fall in China is bringing some trouble, but the fun it's also bringing is just contagious 👏	3.2×	0	2.3k	258	48
42	Oct 16, '21	The Dutch online influencer Rianne Meijer recently discovered a photo of her boyfriend was used in a Chinese TV drama. They photoshopped Rianne out and instead featured actress Li	3.1×	0	1.5k	522	87
43	Jul 20, '21	This video was shared on Weibo earlier tonight.	2.9×	0	1.1k	613	47
44	Oct 29, '25	Seems like a Dutch charm offensive in China 😂 Some Dutch guys swapped roles with a local jiàofū 轿夫 (sedan chair carrier) in scenic Zhangjiajie and still paid him anyway. Just saw	2.9×	96k	847	40	104
45	Sep 1, '22	Feel bad for the people, but also for the chickens.	2.8×	0	2k	321	16
46	Sep 1, '22	This lady apparently ran to the supermarket straight from the hairdressers' place. Priorities.	2.7×	0	2.1k	265	10
47	Nov 27, '22	Happening on Twitter at the moment at a time of unrest/protests taking place in various places across China. When trying to find the latest posts on situations in various places (i	2.6×	0	1.2k	470	53
48	Dec 16, '21	Opinion ▶︎ The 'canceled' Chinese actor Zhang Zhehan is still being punished every day for a crime he never committed. A contribution by @teddyfoxfluff:	2.4×	0	958	524	109
49	Jul 2, '18	Beijing's most famous stray cat has suddenly passed today, shortly after Palace Museum staff called out for help on #Weibo for a much-needed blood transfusion. They did their best,	2.3×	0	1.3k	394	10
50	Feb 6, '20	We've reached a point where people are starting to wear inflatable costumes on the streets to protect themselves against the #coronavirus. According to Chinese media, a medical exp	2.3×	0	975	440	67
51	Sep 1, '22	Someone joked about this scene of Chengdu residents waiting for the meat to be cut that it looked like feeding lions and tigers at the zoo.	2.2×	0	1.4k	315	38
52	Apr 1, '22	This maskless, smoking guy in Shanghai seemed to be on a mission for trouble amidst epidemic panic and he ended up going viral on Chinese social media today.	2.2×	0	905	254	124
53	Jul 20, '21	More footage from Tuesday 7.20 in Zhengzhou, where some people were trapped in an underground mall and people worked together to get them out.	2.1×	0	1.1k	396	31
54	Jan 6, '23	Taobao also initiated a ceremony to launch the stamps where the blue rabbit appeared as an actual mascot costume. It did not help.	2.1×	70k	750	119	11
55	Oct 30, '21	Here's a video posted by Xinhua News on Weibo yesterday. It's.. interesting. 😅	2.1×	0	692	223	156
56	Feb 14, '20	Getting your priorities straight in times of #COVID19.	2.1×	0	896	378	28
57	Apr 6, '22	Shanghai dog owners faced a predicament when they were taken away for quarantine. Leave our dog inside, afraid it will starve? Let it outside, hoping it can live? They did the latt	2.0×	0	608	517	46
58	Aug 25, '22	Chongqing is dealing with a lot: the wildfires are burning, the power cuts are leaving parts of the city in the dark, meanwhile the Covid tests are ongoing. (Image on Weibo, it say	1.9×	0	1.1k	276	58
59	May 2, '22	This is the video everyone's talking about today, showing how a Shanghai nursing home resident is taken away to the morgue in a body bag. At around 38 sec in the video, the staff m	1.9×	0	753	327	96
60	Sep 16, '19	FYI the "Allie" brand that comes out as one of the best in this test is a facial sunscreen by Kanebo.	1.8×	0	1.2k	155	113
61	Jul 20, '21	If you see these kinds of videos going around Weibo and elsewhere you realize just how many incidents occurred today apart from the bigger ones. This family of three managed to be	1.8×	0	1k	300	27
62	Nov 26, '22	People chanting f*ck you at Shanghai's Wulumuqi (Urumqi) Road.	1.8×	0	1.1k	252	50
63	Aug 12, '24	This criticism of the poster not including any Asians was already pointed out by the superpopular Japanese Takizawa Gareso (滝沢ガレソ) @tkzwgrs account (2.7 million followers)	1.7×	59k	653	42	20
64	Jan 25, '21	The Dutch riots in a video on Weibo by Chinese media outlet Guancha. And the comment sections fill up with sarcasm, "isn't the free and civilized Europe great?" #rellen #avondklokr	1.7×	0	614	268	43
65	Apr 6, '25	Mao's great-granddaughter visits his birthplace to pay respects with her father Mao Xinyu (Mao's only living grandson) and the rest of the family for Tomb-Sweeping Day.	1.7×	57k	698	55	93
66	Jul 31, '21	Heartbreaking. This man is known on Chinese social media as "raincoat dad." He's the father of one of the 14 passengers confirmed dead after the Zhengzhou subway flood. He has put	1.7×	0	1.1k	241	28
67	Jun 24, '19	There's a recent Chinese social media trend of people mocking the wannabe cool Sanlitun rich kids who are walking the streets like it's their catwalk while pretending to be spotted	1.7×	0	1k	247	25
68	Nov 13, '20	Weibo post that's nearing 70,000 likes: "There's this online rumor which some foreigners believe, that China operates this system of "credit points" similar to Sesame Credit and th	1.7×	0	826	178	123
69	Aug 21, '21	Tao Huabi is one of China's hottest women. She's the founder of Lao Gan Ma chili sauce, and it is her face you see on the label. Her journey to becoming a billionaire is such an ex	1.6×	0	850	199	109
70	Jan 30, '22	To give the full story, here is the original video that caused the social media storm, which is still ongoing today (tw distressing content, not sure why the lock is blurred, as if	1.6×	0	635	283	89
71	Jul 7, '19	What a wonderful book dedication.	1.6×	0	1k	236	12
72	Apr 30, '22	As of today, many Chinese social media platforms (incl Weibo, Zhihu, XHS, and others) display users' geolocation, a function that can't be turned off. Funny to see that Bill Gates	1.6×	0	906	223	52
73	Jul 20, '21	Earlier in this thread there was a video of people helping those trapped in lower levels. There is more footage showing other places in Zhengzhou where citizens also joined forces	1.6×	0	811	301	26
74	Jul 20, '21	Several cities including Zhengzhou were hit by downpours, leading to extreme scenes.	1.6×	0	740	323	17
75	Sep 1, '22	Getting ready for combat.	1.5×	0	1.2k	146	8
76	Jul 20, '21	You know it's bad when the fish are swimming across the streets.	1.5×	0	798	254	51
77	Nov 26, '22	Here's Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts! More photos/videos are coming out. One commenter writes: "Tonight is the night when students are flooding the internet, their fire [torch] will b	1.5×	0	1k	186	14
78	Sep 1, '22	Looks like some people are looking forward to their stay at home time (without risking a pandemic pregnancy)	1.5×	0	1k	145	16
79	Dec 5, '18	When you're so excited to meet Xi that it makes you drool 🤤 😄	1.4×	0	568	261	34
80	Jun 11, '22	Everyone is talking about an outburst of violence against female customers at a Tangshan BBQ restaurant that happened on Friday morning. This moment shows how one of the guys invol	1.4×	0	632	204	45
81	Mar 29, '20	Lele the Wuhan cat is going viral on Chinese social media. The pregnant cat was left alone for 40 days while her owners were quarantined for corona. They came back to find Lele ali	1.2×	0	751	199	5
82	Apr 13, '22	This 'shouting warrior' is praised on WeChat today for shouting out to visiting officials that they can't get food, they can't order food, they don't know what's going on. Literall	1.2×	0	593	182	46
83	Sep 1, '22	Some people found nothing but empty shelves.	1.1×	0	912	109	4
84	Mar 15, '20	Thanks to the latest press conference on #coronavirus measures, we now know what Dutch sign language is for "no hoarding" or "stop panic shopping" in Dutch ("niet hamsteren" / don'	1.1×	0	577	226	19
85	Nov 29, '22	Video on Weibo. Older guy in Baoding has apparently had enough, yelling at the people downstairs: "Just wait, once the pandemic is over, you'll regret this, you will be judged by h	1.1×	0	608	134	63
86	Jul 21, '21	This video is going viral Weibo and making its rounds on WeChat today. Nothing but praise for the people who see this unfold and do not hesitate a single moment to jump in. 🙏	1.1×	0	590	190	15
87	Oct 16, '22	The times we are living in..	1.1×	0	679	142	27
88	Jul 19, '19	The tshirts that every tourist in Beijing should get on their first day 👍	1.0×	0	603	166	13
89	Sep 1, '22	For more on this, read 👇:	1.0×	0	657	138	34
90	Jul 20, '21	Just before midnight, over 150 people (kids and teachers) were rescued from a flooded kindergarten in Zhengzhou. Glad to see some of the kids and firefighters smiling during the re	1.0×	0	569	173	15
91	Feb 24, '22	One popular Weibo blogger giving an 'unpopular opinion', saying: don’t know why so many people support Russia & laugh at Ukraine while China has also been invaded by foreign po	1.0×	0	624	103	31
92	Jun 27, '22	It seemed like a good idea.	1.0×	0	780	81	9
93	Nov 13, '20	It's not easy to be a not-so-tech-savvy senior in this Chinese digital age. This shopkeeper helped an old lady set up her digital health code, and she came back to thank him with..	1.0×	0	640	85	19
94	Jun 18, '22	When you're just sitting down for a bit and everyone starts showing you their Health Code	0.9×	0	602	127	19
95	Jul 20, '21	A kind gesture in these terrible times. This youth orchestra pulled out their instruments and performed for all those other passengers who are stranded at the Zhengzhou East Statio	0.9×	0	639	119	11
96	Aug 12, '24	@itszedmiew But there are African and American athletes. And Snoop. Even Tom is there.	0.8×	26k	718	1	2

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