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Waiting for Karma in the Maskpark Scandal

From Telegram to Shaolin Temple, the two scandals that rocked Chinese social media this week.

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1 year ago

August 3, 2025

What's on Weibo Team

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Earlier this month, a female Weibo user nicknamed “The Armpit-Haired Dude” (@腋毛大汉) posted an exposé on Weibo, revealing the existence of a large-scale anonymous Chinese-language sex exploitation and voyeuristic content community on the encrypted messaging app Telegram.

In this Telegram network, called “Maskpark Treehole Forum” (面具公园树洞论坛), participants shared hidden camera footage, non-consensual intimate videos, and fetishised depictions…

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fred dijs

August 4, 2025 at 12:40 pm

best stuk weer… barstens vol informatie… en mooi open eind… ‘…hope that karma will come for them, too…’

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How Chinese AI Videos Turned Foreigners into Villains

How viral AI videos turn racialized outsiders into threats and violent Chinese heroes into defenders of social order, China’s first nationally broadcast AI drama, and why a newspaper is being sold for 50 times its original price.

Published

2 weeks ago

August 3, 2026

Manya Koetse

Welcome to China Trend Watch (Week 30–33 | 2026), where I bring you the latest trends, memes, and debates driving conversation across Chinese social media. Subscribe here to receive future editions.

Over the past few weeks, a noteworthy amount of AI-related news has been trending on Chinese social media, which is reflected in this week’s edition.

Now that AI has entered every corner of media consumption and online life, related discussions seem…

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China’s CITIC Tower Crash: The Story That Never Trended

How information surrounding the CITIC Tower crash was managed, from a five-day media blackout to a sixth-day official narrative.

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2 months ago

July 2, 2026

Manya Koetse

🔎 Originally published in Eye on Digital China.
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The story that never went trending was undoubtedly the biggest story of the week. On June 26, an incident at the Beijing landmark CITIC Tower (aka China Zun 中国尊) in the Chaoyang central business district sparked disbelief online. At 5:55 pm local…