Netizens' reactions are mostly perplexed, though: SBS 개표방송 미친ㄴ거아니냐곹ㅋㅋ pic.twitter.
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Some netizens even used blockchain technology to preserve the story.
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Netizens injured themselves for stunts, by accident, and on purpose.
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Ah, no wonder, China's netizens decided: a pesky foreign reporter.
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But they are allowing netizens to vent rage at South Korea.
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His rant seems to have struck a chord with many netizens.
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Naturally, Hong Kong netizens weren't going to let the incident slide.
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"Chinese netizens, please be rational," a user in Taiwan fought back.
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Thai netizens voiced outrage about the clips showing the child's killing.
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TikTok's 15-second clips are all the rage among teenage netizens.
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Ng's coming out post has been received largely positively from Chinese netizens.
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"Disgusting" Some Chinese netizens are unimpressed with the commercialism of the day.
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However, many Chinese netizens online seemed unfazed by the high-profile bust.
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China's rabidly nationalist netizens have even called for a boycott of Marriott.
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Netizens had previously been using VPN apps to bypass China's internet restrictions.
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Netizens have been hailing Mr Guo as a champion of consumer rights.
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Mobile web access accounted for a record high proportion of total netizens.
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Most netizens were surprisingly positive about the girls' decision to document their experience.
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Netizens have made no secret of how they feel about Ms Choi's impeachment.
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But certain netizens just amass, swap, and source them like any other collectible.
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Netizens have fought back, accusing their governments of being lazy, brutal and greedy.
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Netizens have praised Bule posthumously for her showmanship and dedication to her art.
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Chinese netizens began to push for transparency, accountability and the rule of law.
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Since the video has gone viral, netizens are also gushing over the man's kindness.
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Internet censors have been deleting any doubts that netizens have been raising about Xiongan.
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Under Mr Karimov, netizens would have faced reprisals for discussing such a sensitive topic.
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Netizens have since taken to Twitter to voice their outrage towards the Chinese government.
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As a result, netizens often use the term "our rabbit" to refer to China.
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Following the announcement, netizens have been quick to crack jokes on Facebook and Twitter.
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Netizens speculated that television bosses had been ordered to yank him from the series.
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"A lot of infuriated netizens say I am bribed by the government," he said.
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Chinese netizens and businesses will only be encouraged to get worked up more often.
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Chinese netizens were quick to condemn the trainers, with many expressing sympathy for the animal.
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He has moved his pets into his official residence, much to the delight of netizens.
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Since Yamato's disappearance made national headlines, netizens have expressed their outrage toward the boy's parents.
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Many netizens have criticised the challenge for encouraging women to have unhealthy body image issues.
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Get on Facebook and ask netizens to share their eclipse experience with him, of course.
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" Indignant "netizens" subscribe and then cancel their subscriptions, "ranting on forums / about my prudish act.
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"We sincerely accept netizens&apos criticism and advice and apologise to the public," it said.
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Some netizens express sympathy, noting that the couple were heeding government calls to have children.
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Chinese and Taiwanese netizens spotted the opportunity and went to town with footage from the debate.
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The woman's lengthy post on the KDS online forum caused quite a stir amongst Chinese netizens.
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Simply sharing or "liking" commentary that the regime deems subversive has landed hapless netizens in prison.
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The photos of such behaviour has since gone viral on Weibo, inviting ire from Chinese netizens.
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Vietnam's active community of bloggers and netizens have recently become the target of censorship and arrest.
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Netizens online are bemoaning the iPhone news by sending the meme to its sad, untimely death.
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Vietnam's active community of bloggers and netizens have recently become the target of censorship and arrest.
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Despite this, Chinese "netizens" — or people on social media — were up in arms about the proposal.
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Thais are avid netizens, spending an improbable ten hours online each day, according to the government.
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But instead of inciting envy among people, Chinese netizens have criticised the man for his crass behaviour.
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Some Weibo netizens expressed sympathy for the street vendor, based on the earlier reports of her age.
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The murder of Kim Jong Nam unleashed a torrent of ridicule towards his country by Chinese netizens.
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Netizens quickly became aware that many of those killed were children, who were crushed in their schools.
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After the photos were posted online, outraged netizens criticised the university for letting the hazing take place.
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The images have gone viral on Chinese social media site Weibo — where some netizens weren't exactly sympathetic.
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According to People's Daily, the couple's devotion to one another has touched the hearts of Chinese netizens.
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The new rules have drawn criticism from netizens, many of whom say it's unfair to the cleaners.
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The photos have since gone viral and netizens are praising the grandmothers for their elegance and poise.
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Some netizens also called for harsher punishment on the managers and technical staff who made the ordering system.
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Many netizens have accused the authorities of being patronising and negligent in their handling of the recent scandal.
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As replacements, Chinese netizens instead use homegrown equivalents, like Youku for video streaming, and Baidu for web search.
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Even as the authorities try to tighten controls, netizens devise new ways of airing their views more freely.
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Though Mao Baohua is still very much alive, he had angered netizens enough to depict him as dead.
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"Cyber" is the futuristic-sounding prefix early netizens used in terms like cyberspace, cyberpunk, cyberculture, and yes, cybersex.
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He became a national hero—and a rare rallying point for Chinese netizens to brazenly voice dissent online.
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It caught on with the meme-makers in forums like 4Chan, and netizens remixed their own Pepes for years.
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Yet in terms of language, including what the state allows Chinese netizens to say online, a shift has occurred.
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But instead of fanfare, the slide has attracted negative remarks from netizens, who have raised concerns about its safety.
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Chinese netizens have turned to blockchain to share a censored news story about faulty vaccines given to small babies.
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Netizens are outraged that Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen received a clock on Sunday during her stopover in Houston.
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When the image first appeared online, Chinese netizens began posting photos of Xi in, what they considered, similar poses.
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But internet companies have often ignored them (albeit cautiously), hoping to attract more readers among the country's 700m netizens.
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" Some netizens expressed sympathy for Pugh, while others accused her of being a selfish attention-seeker crying "crocodile tears.
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What if your audience is a billion-plus angry netizens, and one of the most powerful governments in history?
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Some netizens however praised Absolut for its innovative approach, noting that the ad was a celebration of South Korean democracy.
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Netizens have criticised the university's sexist attitudes towards women and rejected its excuses that the post was written in jest.
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Online, many young netizens are vocal about supporting new blood, nontraditional politicians who could bring a fresh take to government.
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Netizens responded by calling for a boycott of Apple - a company widely regarded as being representative of the United States.
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However, several netizens are skeptical of whether the video is real, given how tightly choreographed the moves appear to be.
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Since the video went viral, netizens have started weighing in on whether the lion was trying to attack or play.
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Zou's strength and courage in her time of grief has touched many of Yang's fellow soldiers and netizens in China.
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But he said that today, a minute fraction of netizens click on ads, and many of them do it accidentally.
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Chinese netizens embarrassed by their countrymen's disrespectful attitude in a foreign country have taken to Weibo to voice their displeasure.
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Netizens on social media site Weibo were mostly amused with the development, with many questioning the viability of the service.
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All netizens must, therefore, be educated on the proper use of 2FA, and this requires federal grants for research and training.
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As soon as the pics went viral, Chinese netizens called upon local authorities to arrest the two tyrants and punish them.
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Other netizens in the Chinese blogosphere worried about the pace of infections, and called for even more up-to-date reports.
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That means either overseas Chinese are involved, or netizens with access to online tools that allow them to vault the firewall.
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Many Chinese netizens scoffed at athletes who turned up in Beijing for the Olympic Games in 2008 wearing air-filtering masks.
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Since the 50-second video was posted online, netizens have been criticising the company for "brainwashing" its employees, reported The Paper.
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Netizens and environment groups alike quickly protested the announcement, with an online petition organised by environmentalists reaching more than 170,000 signatures.
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In spite of the ongoing debate concerning data privacy, netizens in China appear to have taken the system's kinks in stride.
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Since Addiction was taken offline, netizens have taken to their Weibo accounts to express their disappointment and anger toward China's censorship.
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Aided by Chinese companies, an oyster resistance campaign is in full force in China's cyberspace, mobilising tens of thousands of netizens.
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Outraged netizens were quick to demand a proper explanation and wanted to know if they would get refunded on their memberships.
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While most of the Internet instantly took to the romantic concept, many netizens couldn't resist the running gag #followmeto presents either.
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The initiative encouraged netizens to tweet at Cook asking him to get rid of the gun emoji on all iOS products. .
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Chinese netizens found a discrepancy between the Chinese and English versions of a list of measures deemed ineffective against COVID-19.
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Chinese opinion is hardly monolithic, but it is not hard to find netizens impatient to see snooty, ungrateful Hong Kongers crushed.
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Thai netizens voiced outrage about the clips of the child's killing, which were uploaded on Monday, the first at 4.50 p.m.
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The organization gave Russia an overall score of 62 in its 2015 report, labelling the country as "not free" for Netizens.
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While Myanmar netizens were preoccupied with a routine flu outbreak, hospitals recorded more than 2000,21 cases of dengue, according to state media.
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Although, Chinese netizens have reacted positively to this publicity stunt, it seems that other Chinese authorities are not sharing the people's sentiments.
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Chinese netizens are pretty used to garish shows of wealth, but this lavish wedding is still managing to raise eyebrows on Weibo.
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By the end of 2018, 648 million Chinese netizens regularly watched short videos, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
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Several netizens have remarked that the salary appears to be on the low side for the average full-time job in Singapore.
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Some netizens who remain unfazed by the critics have even gone a step further by using smaller notes to complete the challenge.
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The call on Weibo was met with a flood of 15,000 comments from Chinese netizens, who volunteered to "eat them to extinction".
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Despite a swarm of organisations and brands pulling the same trick every year, most netizens seem pretty convinced by the company's statement.
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Since Ji's moving story went viral, hawk-eye netizens have managed to decipher Ji's bank account details from pictures to make donations.
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The scene was widely shared online in China ahead of Taiwan's closely-watched general election with some netizens branding her a separatist.
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With an estimated 73% of China's 1.355 billion population aged 15 to 64, the country may eventually have about one billion netizens.
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Posted by People's Daily, China on Saturday, February 20, 2016 Many netizens are questioning the woman's actions after the pictures went viral.
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Rising nationalism, stirred up by Mr Xi and embraced with zeal by mainland netizens, may prove a bigger problem than trade tensions.
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Without destinations like eBay on board, average netizens will have fewer opportunities to be exposed to Libra's potential to eliminate transaction fees.
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"Crowdsourcing is providing an all-round perspective for netizens to fact-check the authenticity of a large amount of information," he said.
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Instead of vast public festivities, on Friday it was mostly netizens who declared their support for him, proffering hashtags of salute online.
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"The reason why workers, students, and netizens actively participate in the protests is not because they are influenced by anyone," the article stated.
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Many Chinese netizens, far from abhorring his leaks, appear to relish them—if, that is, they are able to dodge the hyperactive censors.
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Thai netizens have since identified 25 expensive luxury watches that the former general has worn but not declared to the anti-graft body.
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In response to censorship, netizens develop hidden messages and slang to circumvent authorities, in addition to investing in VPNs to counter the firewall.
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EVERY DECEMBER millions of Chinese netizens vote for a word and phrase that best capture the spirit of the preceding year in China.
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During the trip, Zhang took over 600 photos and posted some of them on his Weibo account, which drew interest from Chinese netizens.
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Outraged netizens disseminated photos of the incident, forcing Mr Phuc to apologise—a rare step for a senior official in Vietnam's authoritarian regime.
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Since news broke, netizens have praised Tian for his dedication to teaching his students and his ability to think out of the box.
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In less than 24 hours, outraged netizens have called for the dismissal of Phua, citing that her remarks as racially discriminating and derogatory.
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Netizens on Weibo are tweeting about the brand's likeness to Under Armour, and many are slamming Uncle Martian for its lack of creativity.
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Guided by its "user oriented" business philosophy, Tencent achieves its mission via the delivery of integrated internet solutions to over 1 billion netizens.
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Netizens are buzzing about a Chinese woman who jumped into a two-metre deep lake in Beijing, China to retrieve her iPhone 5.
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For example, Burberry's Chinese New Year campaign in 2019 featured stoic, heavily stylized family portraits, which Chinese netizens found creepy and tone-deaf.
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Harry Harris, Washington's envoy to South Korea, has been subjected to heated vitriol on social media and by anonymous netizens for his mustache.
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After the disaster, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan blamed Chinese tour operators for disregarding Thai safety regulations, prompting a backlash from Chinese netizens.
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On Chinese social media platform Weibo, netizens were unsupportive of the move, according to What's on Weibo, a blog providing social commentary on China.
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When the controversy erupted last year, a Disney spokeswoman told CNN that the company shared the same concerns as many netizens and movie fans.
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But many netizens accused Mr Xu of trying to besmirch the country's ancient fighting techniques: how, they asked, could a single fight prove anything?
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The video was viewed more than eight million times and got repeatedly shared by outraged netizens, before foreign media picked up on the story.
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In February, netizens were angered when Chinese censors abruptly pulled popular gay drama Addiction off air, three-quarters of the way into the series.
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Netizens are divided over who should bear the blame for the death of a teenager in Singapore, who died while attempting a Snapchat stunt.
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Pictures of her dressed up in a mermaid costume and posing by the poolside have recently gone viral thanks to Chinese netizens on Weibo.
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Some netizens took Hawking's presence on Weibo as a triumphant move over Facebook, which is seen as a "foreign" service trying to enter China.
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This whole incident has left netizens feeling torn over pitying Cirk and wondering why he even bothered to wait and neglected his own health.
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Some Chinese netizens also called on those attending Thursday's game to carry the Chinese flag into the stadium in a demonstration of patriotic solidarity.
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For instance, French fashion house Dior received some backlash from Chinese netizens when it appointed actress Zhao Liying as its brand ambassador last year.
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In the cases involving Marriott, Gap and several of the airlines, it was Chinese netizens who sounded the alarm about the firms' categorisations of Taiwan.
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There are also 25,12.53 accounts around sports (including distinct sub-clusters for cycling and horse racing) and 17,000 accounts of netizens, technologists, and software developers.
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Amid escalating protests in Hong Kong, Chinese netizens on Saturday swept Facebook and Instagram to denounce secessionist posts and show support for Hong Kong police.
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In July, the company removed several VPN apps from the iTunes store that helped netizens circumvent China's internet firewall, citing a violation of local laws.
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The outraged response of many netizens in China to the African skit suggests a growing awareness at home that bigotry is a Chinese problem, too.
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After being noticed by Chinese netizens, the removals were reported by the Hong Kong Free Press and The Stand, two Hong Kong-based news outlets.
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Chinese netizens have been left in shock after footage of a road rage incident between a bus and car in Shandong, China, was posted online.
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A video showing a middle-aged Chinese man repeatedly slapping and hurling abuse at a young delivery courier has gone viral, and netizens are enraged.
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Other social posts from incensed netizens on Weibo showed people letting their kids defecate in the bushes, and others trampling on manicured lawns for photos.
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Netizens went nuts for this adorable photo-op of a 4-month-old golden retriever named after the former vice president posing with his namesake.
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Upon spotting the uncanny similarity, Thai netizens immediately jumped at the chance to show off their new It-bag, without the same Balenciaga price tag.
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Netizens who have been using obscure characters for secret or playful language to avoid government scrutiny can expect to have fewer words to hide behind.
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Chinese netizens on Tuesday evening took to Weibo to discuss Skype's disappearance, which many criticized for being overly restrictive, despite the existence of local alternatives.
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"We are highly concerned after some netizens pointed out the work may have been a copycat," the organizing committee said in a statement on Tuesday.
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The man's comments "incited the righteous indignation of netizens and has caused a seriously adverse social impact," Shenzhen police said in a statement on Monday.
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He acknowledged that the government was not as good at creating viral content as "vulgar" netizens, but he also offered that it was getting better.
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An Instagram post by the Singapore government has sparked outrage, after asking netizens if the process of childbirth was worse than going through military service. Gov.
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China appears to be shrugging off Donald Trump's barrage of insulting tweets, but Chinese netizens are getting some laughs from the U.S. president-elect's Twitter-diplomacy.
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The incident sparked off several rounds of mudslinging between Henan locals and other Chinese netizens on Weibo, who accused Henan people of a history of dishonesty.
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Some Chinese netizens have called for more timely reports on infections, and some experts have said China has been slow to respond to the human outbreak.
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But if some netizens disliked what they saw of the process, many more were captivated by the electoral drama and, especially, by one of the candidates.
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Over a million netizens responded to her poll, posted on Weibo, the country's largest microblog platform, asking what followers think of foreign brands that "insult China".
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The section underwent restoration in 2014, but its new look came to public attention only recently, after outraged Chinese netizens started sharing photographs on social media.
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In state media this week, netizens applauded the swift shutdown of a planned unlawful protest against what activists described as excessive violence by Hong Kong's police.
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Beckham posted a video of Hong Kong on Instagram and Facebook, saying he had a "great 48 hours in China" — something netizens quickly picked up on.
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A video of a fistfight between a group of high school students and their teacher in class has gone viral and left Chinese netizens in shock.
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But now most netizens live elsewhere—China and India are home to the greatest number of them—and most traffic no longer passes over American cables.
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The tendency of netizens to form self-contained groups is strengthened by what Eli Pariser, an internet activist, identified five years ago as the "filter bubble".
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Cheeky netizens in China have often linked Pooh to Xi, claiming there is an uncanny resemblance between the two and provoking the wrath of Chinese censors.
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Some netizens suggested the video could put pressure on Chinese telecoms equipment provider Huawei Technologies Co Ltd , which uses Leica lenses in its flagship high-end phones.
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However, the apology came only after the company, Shanghai Leishang Cosmetics, initially brushed off criticism from foreign media and netizens, labelling them as "sensitive", reported The BBC.
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The original (on the left) and the re-released version (on the right) That however, did little to deter Japanese netizens, who have snapped up the toy.
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In January, when Tsai Ing-wen, a Taiwanese politician who leans toward independence, was elected president, Chinese netizens flooded her Facebook page with negative comments and pictures.
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"I didn't make my remarks 'on an impulse,' or 'instigated by the DPP government' as suggested by some Chinese netizens," she wrote on her Facebook page Sunday.
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Were the wall defeated, Chinese netizens, intellectuals, dissidents and activists could gather in a virtual public square to express their views, and compare and debate two ideologies.
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This leap from the virtual to the real reflects a cultural shift in which we, as global netizens, acknowledge the connection between the online and offline worlds.
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This time, despite talk of wireless charging, advanced touch screen and facial recognition technology, Chinese netizens are yet to replicate the online mania around previous iPhone launches.
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"Right now it's very difficult to determine whether the software operator's collection of human facial data and authorization are malicious, but netizens' concerns are understandable," it wrote.
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Some netizens suggested the video could put pressure on Chinese telecoms equipment provider Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, which uses Leica lenses in its flagship high-end phones.
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"Would the girl still be alive today if the majority of netizens on her Instagram account discouraged her from taking her own life?" he said in a statement.
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Gorgeous as the lights are, the tradition has been criticised by netizens, who say it's the cause of hundreds of fires across cities and countryside farms in China.
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Pooh has represented Xi to Chinese netizens since another meme compared the pudgy bear and his lanky friend Tigger to Xi and then-president Barack Obama in 2013.
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According to new rules published by China's main internet censor last Friday, netizens who want to post comments online will now have to register with their real names.
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While the tourists looked like they were having the time of their lives dangling raw meat with hungry crocs circling below them, netizens criticised the farm for negligence.
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The latest craze among Chinese netizens has been taking place mainly on WeChat, the country's largest messaging app, and QQ, which are both owned by internet giant Tencent.
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After the footage of the glass incident went viral, netizens called for parents to keep their children in check and also for galleries to ban children from entering.
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Chinese netizens are also debating the safety of the railings, because this is the third time that a person has died after getting caught in one of them.
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Reports of the case didn't go viral, but many netizens on Chinese social media platforms such as Weibo and WeChat were quick to give their thoughts about it.
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Most of the dozens of complaints dealt with catfishing, a practice where scammers pretend to be romantically interested in other netizens in order to trick them into sending money.
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Its owner posted the 30-second long video on Facebook with the caption: "How lazy can you get?" and netizens are empathising with the cat more than its owner.
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Since Wenwen's story went viral, some Chinese netizens have expressed concern for the girl's welfare and argued that she should be in school with her peers instead of traveling.
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China has around 210 million internet users — who type a mind-boggling 2003 billion words every day, according to the latest survey examining the behavior of the country's netizens.
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An Instagram video of Trump's 5-year-old granddaughter, Arabella Kushner, went viral on Chinese social media after the surprise result of the presidential election, and netizens are charmed.
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Ren, number two at the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), recommended using identification systems for netizens who post fake news and rumors, so they could "reward and punish" them.
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Netizens have in the past likened Pooh's appearance - namely his portly stature - to President Xi. A small number of people have even used Pooh as a symbol of resistance.
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Chinese netizens have even set up online organizations that attempt to block Africans from coming to Guangzhou, such as Chinese Against Illegal Africans and the Anti-Black Africans Alliance.
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Netizens have criticised the company for its "immoral" treatment towards its staff and are demanding for the unnamed manager to be fired for the public humiliation he dished out.
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Since Wint was fired, outraged netizens have swamped the middle school's Facebook page with critical comments, demanding that Wint be rehired and making their fair share of vagina jokes.
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Netizens took the two characters of Mr Chan's stage name, Cheng ("become" or "accomplish") and Long ("dragon"), and stacked them one above the other to create a new character. Brilliant.
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Yang's comment that his encyclopedia will be a "Great Wall of culture" echoes the "Great Firewall" that limits what areas of the web that Chinese netizens are allowed to peruse.
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Still, China is the only country on the list of Facebook incubators that actively censors the social media site and offers its netizens tempting alternatives like WeChat, QQ, and more.
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Since then, Fahmi's images have gone viral, and many Malaysian netizens angered by the government's lack of action, have banded together to share versions of the now infamous clown imagery.
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Mobile subscribers are expected to outnumber those with electricity or running water at home by 2020, by which time the ITU hopes three-fifths of the world will be netizens.
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But instead of resigning himself to fate, the 26-year-old, who goes under the pseudonym of Shandianzhililiang on Weibo, came up with an idea that has bewildered Chinese netizens.
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China's State Administration of Radio and Television ordered the app to be taken down permanently in a post on Tuesday for low values that had "caused strong disgust amongst netizens".
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Thanks to this man's street style photographer grandson, who goes by the name of Jesse (小野杰西), Chinese netizens are raving over the farmer's sartorial sense of style.
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People around the word share their bizarre and terrifying creepypastas, hoping that the tales will gain popularity and become classics, often quoted or cited by horror fans and frightened netizens.
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"Would the girl still be alive today if the majority of netizens on her Instagram account discouraged her from taking her own life?" he said in a statement to Reuters.
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Young netizens said they were old enough to make up their own minds, just as they did when the king urged them to vote for the right sort of politician.
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Quick trolling by China's netizens uncovered the fact that the first reporter (Reporter with the Interminably Long Question, henceforth RILQ) was from an outfit called AMTV, or American Multimedia Television.
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Some netizens posted it would put them off eating at the chain, though others defended the firm and pointed to how sensitive foreign brands were to any potential food scares.
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This latest wave of censorship efforts has been the subject of much online ire, as netizens fear that the government can reach them even in the gray area of the web.
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Chinese netizens on Weibo are commenting how realistic she appears at a glance, but some pointed out that her stony facial expressions and mechanical hand movements make her seem pretty creepy.
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But instead of striking fear in the hearts of Cambodians, the three-minute video titled "Using rights in an anarchic way" has been ridiculed after netizens spotted a major boo-boo.
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Unless you're willing to publicly out yourself as an enigmatic chicken foot litterer, one whom half a city hates, you probably have a thing or two to learn from Shanghai's netizens.
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Top videos with 10 billion views in 2017 were the subject of ridicule on the internet, as netizens mocked Chinese platforms for having fake views that exceeded the total human population.
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Although the 30-year-old Liu Zhongjie is not the first Chinese man to manage the feat, his marathon theme "for belief and for her" has touched the hearts of netizens.
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Brennan views the charges against him as "outrageous and absurd" and says that if he is found guilty, they could pose a threat to all journalists and netizens in the Philippines.
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National mood Chinese netizens across the country hailed Liang's honesty, with many saying the moment represented a collective national eye roll over the scripted news coverage of the rubber-stamp NPC.
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The collision at sea that left 10 U.S. Navy sailors missing on Monday was met with "applause from Chinese netizens, " according to an unsigned editorial that ran in Beijing state media.
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That "Your Name" was made in Japan was not lost on Chinese netizens, some of whom questioned its popularity after years of ad hoc movements to boycott Japanese goods whenever disputes arise.
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It's hardly alone though, with Apple facing militant criticism from Chinese netizens over its iPhone presentation and Facebook finding its application for a corporate entity on the mainland being returned and rejected.
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Netizens are trying to track down a young Rihanna fan after a video of her nose twerking to the singer's song "Work" made it on to the Rihanna Philippines Facebook fan page.
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"The Autobots" drew ire from netizens in China when it was released last year, with some pointing out similarities with Disney's 2006 film "Cars" starring Owen Wilson and its sequel in 2011.
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Singaporean netizens are having a field day with Satan jokes and puns after the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced on its Facebook page the launch of five new bus services on Monday.
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In the video titled "An urgent cry from Hong Kong", Chow details how Hong Kong's political affairs have changed over the years and asks netizens to spread her message to the world.
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Many people use VPNs several times each day to jump the country's "great firewall", as its system of online censorship is often called in English (Chinese netizens have adopted the acronym GFW).
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"Netizens say that in private firms, if a mobile phone is switched off for a month or if there is no way of contacting, there is the risk of dismissal," it said.
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More likely than not, Chinese netizens will find a way around this ban once a photographer snaps a shot of Xi that even mildly resembles a scene from the Hundred-Acre Wood.
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The conflicting reports over his condition only exacerbated public grief among Chinese netizens who largely considered Li, 34, to be a hero for his early attempt to raise awareness of the coronavirus.
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The finished VR experience casts groups of players as internet users — netizens, in the parlance of the film — who have ventured into the digital world to help Ralph and Vanellope with a mission.
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But Chinese netizens don't just pay attention to his words; they also scour the bookshelves behind Xi, analyzing the titles and authors found there to try and gain some insight into his mind.
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Generous Donations have flooded in from netizens sympathetic to the plight of a small food stall owner in Indonesia, who was broadcast on national TV in tears as government officials raided her premises.
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Last month, Chinese netizens took to their Weibo accounts to vent their frustrations when the popular online gay drama Addiction was abruptly yanked off air without any explanation, three episodes before the finale.
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Although traffic was allowed to resume after the bride and groom were well on their way to their wedding, pictures of the parade made its way online, inviting the ire of Chinese netizens.
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Earlier this month, the reveal of NBA star Steph Curry's sneaker collaboration with Under Armour resulted in snide comments from netizens about how it resembled shoes only dads would be caught dead in.
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The hashtag #Hooyah was also hugely popular with Thai netizens wanting to show their support for the hundreds of rescuers, including divers from around the world, who helped to get the boys out.
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The term, however, is usually used in negative news headlines as the second-generation is seen as spending extravagantly and as keen to show off on social media, stirring public anger among Chinese netizens.
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This week netizens have turned their rage on Mack Horton, an Australian swimmer who won gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, because he called Sun Yang, his Chinese rival, a "drug cheat".
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As President Xi Jinping's China has taken a more muscular stance on the global stage, to the discomfort of many in the west, some academics and many netizens have urged a more modest approach.
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A separate Global Times editorial published Sunday emphasized that China is able to defend itself from drone attacks, contrary to Chinese netizens' fears that targeted strikes from drones could one day threaten the country.
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And while netizens are surprised that even Ronald McDonald can have a run-in with the law, some Weibo users have hinted that this could be the act of a rival fast-food restaurant.
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Although the video has been positively received and widely shared by Chinese netizens on Weibo, it's worth noting that the video has also received its fair share of thumb-downs and negative criticisms on YouTube.
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Chinese netizens say they find colouring therapeutic and relaxing, and a Chinese cultural critic and professor at the Peking University said a rising middle class in China has been turning to the activity to destress.
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While Ying has received an outpouring of sympathy from Singaporean netizens since her post went viral, one Facebook group, KFC - Kaki Friendship Club, has decided to turn Ying's photos into a series of hilarious memes.
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Netizens registered their outrage at the "unfair treatment" on Facebook: Yip's prize money this time round is already higher than the S$100,000 (US$73,594) she got for her gold at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.
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The videos, which drew nearly half a million views before they were taken down, sparked outrage among netizens and prompted questions about how Facebook's reporting system works and how violent content can be flagged faster.
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The rumors provoke a huge outpouring of grief and anger among Chinese netizens, many of whom already saw Li as a tragic figure after he contracted the virus he had tried to warn others about.
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Much like the misremembered phenomenon of the non-existent Sinbad movie Shazam that people insist was real, there are still netizens that claim to have seen her on a talk show or winning a typing competition.
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These livestreams boast a relatively candid view of life in the wild, and have become increasingly prevalent as enthusiasts discover that netizens can't get enough of peering at wildlife from the safe distance of their screens.
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Writing in the Diplomat, an online journal, Dingding Chen of the University of Macau reports that many Chinese netizens like his brash, outsider image and his questioning of America's military alliances with Japan and South Korea.
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As the video went viral, and the online furor escalated over what was interpreted as an affront to China, netizens scoured Yang's online presence for personal details, a process known in China as "human flesh search".
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The move comes after the event, the Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars, last year became a lightning rod for questions about Taiwanese independence, sparking a debate between Taiwanese and mainland stars as well as netizens.
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But those media reports have triggered a wave of criticism on China's social media sphere, as many netizens responded furiously claiming the alleged threshold is set too low, especially considering China's first-tier cities' soaring living costs.
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Apple's products are vastly popular in Singapore, with products like the iPhone usually launched here on the same day as the U.S. Singapore netizens have been calling for years for the online radio station to be launched.
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Last year, companies ranging from Delta Air Lines to Muji were criticised by the Chinese government and netizens for the language they used to describe Taiwan, a self-ruled, democratic island that Beijing considers a wayward province.
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Like Xi, Pooh has a rotund face and nose, and netizens have been taking split-screen pics of the two making similar poses, including one of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shaking hands with Xi looking downtrodden.
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The Paramount-distributed movie which stars Hollywood heavyweights Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker and Jeremy Renner released several posters on the movie's Facebook page on Tuesday, but an error on one of them has aggravated Hong Kong netizens.
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The move would mark a rare departure from China's long-held stance on the internet, where many foreign websites are banned in the name of maintaining social stability, a restriction dubbed by netizens as the "Great Firewall".
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"Amid the current scandal, while netizens are free to condemn the drug company, news articles and social media posts that showed the Chinese government in a critical light continue to be censored," HRW said in a statement.
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Mr. Chao said that when Ms. Tsai wrote her Tiananmen anniversary messages, "there were a lot of Chinese netizens that posted comments saying, 'We hope you can help encourage China to become democratic,'" while others were critical.
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Meanwhile, ash fall has spread all over Metro Manila and Central Luzon, prompting netizens to warn their friends and share tips on how to stay safe from the harmful effects of coming into contact with the ash.
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Despite Trump's anti-China rhetoric on the campaign trail, his election win initially won quite a bit of support from Chinese netizens, because his rival, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, has often been portrayed as bad for China.
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Last year, companies ranging from Delta Air Lines to Muji were criticized by the Chinese government and netizens for the language they used to describe Taiwan, a self-ruled, democratic island that Beijing considers a wayward province.
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They rarely resort to the "hard" censorship of crude deletion, but rather give a suite of "softer" monitoring and management tools to steer public discourse and discourage all but the most dogged netizens from accessing undesirable content.
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The move comes after the annual event, the Chinese-speaking world's version of the Oscars, last year became a lightning rod for questions about Taiwanese independence, sparking a debate between Taiwanese and mainland stars as well as netizens.
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In this telling, if young Chinese netizens are easily offended, it is because they have spent their formative years cut off from the world behind a Great Firewall of digital censorship, and pounded by a drumbeat of nationalism.
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On Reddit, some netizens debated whether the paper mask he wore in some pictures was adequate coverage, and some pointed out that his clothes may have picked up radioactive material that would later pose health issues if inhaled.
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Netizens now have an entire framework through which to examine the world—from using charts to analyze rumors that Prince William cheated on Kate to tying the release of the Mueller report to a full moon in Libra.
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Moving beyond bricks in the wall Our rich digital ecosystems can only thrive and innovate via learning from and evolving with the disparate digital communities and netizens beyond our perimeters, even if this means occasional friction and conflict.
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Eagle-eyed netizens soon pointed out the error and took to Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, asking Marriott to make adjustment, with many accusing the American company of disrespecting Chinese sovereignty, and some calling for a boycott.
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While many Chinese netizens have been tickled by the repeated comparisons between Xi and Pooh, the humor is lost on the Chinese Community Party, which sees these memes as demeaning to Xi, the general secretary for the CCP.
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Deng is one of at least 27 activists, artists, and netizens who have been detained, questioned or disappeared since the start of May, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a coalition of Chinese and international human rights NGOs.
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Deng is one of at least 24 activists, artists, and netizens who have been detained, questioned or disappeared since the start of May, according to Chinese Human Rights Defenders, a coalition of Chinese and international human rights NGOs.
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Though a spokesperson from the company has reportedly not seen an uptick in disinformation since coronavirus became a worldwide problem, angered netizens in places like Indonesia have launched racist hashtags that have already gone viral, such as #TolakSementaraTurisChina (#TemporarilyBanChineseTourists).
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As the state's online monitoring apparatus has grown in recent years, netizens have found ways to take jabs at the government through wordplay, the use of mutated or ancient characters, and nonstandardized electronic scripts developed in places like Taiwan.
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Technology-news outlets and meticulous netizens who had combed through the terms of its user agreement found that by signing up, users had granted ZAO "completely free", "irrevocable" and "perpetual" rights to all content they uploaded to its platform.
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First, the act of defacing symbols of the Mainland serve little purpose but to inflame Beijing and the scores of netizens it has captured in the net of its overarching narrative that the protests are a threat to stability.
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"Kuaishou had to hire hundreds of in-house censors to monitor all of its content," adds Zhicong Lu. But while tattoos and curse words have disappeared from the platform, Chinese netizens are quite crafty at finding ways to avoid censorship.
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According to People's Daily, some Chinese netizens have even gone as far as to compare "Dog-carrying Day" to the controversial Yulin dog meat festival, claiming that the dogs look uncomfortable being placed on the wooden chair and paraded around.
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Over the last half decade, the Japanese netizens have issued a veritable torrent of tracks across their web, most of it falling under the general umbrella of "electronic music," but beyond that vague descriptor, they seem interested in just about anything.
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Chinese journalists and netizens recently found that Apple Music's Chinese streaming service censored a song by Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung that references the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, an extremely politically sensitive topic for the Chinese Communist Party.
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Netizens in China are hailing Huo as a Kung Fu master, not least because of his surprising athleticism, but also because the incident happened in Foshan town, Guangdong province — the famed birthplace of the martial arts legend Wong Fei-hung.
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She was immediately a target of renrou sousuo: The state-owned media depicted her as an unpatriotic traitor belittling the homeland, while angry netizens spread everything they could find out about her, including the address of her family back in China.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The head of Ant Financial Services Group, the payment affiliate of Alibaba Holdings Ltd, apologized on Tuesday following backlash from Chinese netizens over a social feature in the company's payment app that critics say enabled a sexually explicit dating service.
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While Liu has no experience in the securities business and his curriculum vitae reads much like Xiao's - and other previous heads of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) for that matter - some superstitious 'netizens' are pinning their faith on his birth sign.
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Their efforts to repost an investigative piece about a large vaccine maker were largely thwarted by internet monitors, but by sticking the story within the metadata of a cryptocurrency transaction, netizens have been able to outsmart the censors, as first spotted by TechNode.
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FENCE OFF COMMUNAL AREAS IN LITTLE INDIACommunal areas in Little India such as playgrounds and void decks should be... In less than 24 hours, outraged netizens have called for the dismissal of Phua, citing that her remarks as racially discriminating and derogatory.
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On Freeweibo, a website that automatically publishes censored posts on Weibo, a Twitter-like service, Mr Guo's name is the most searched-for term (reflecting interest among Chinese globally, including netizens in China who have found ways of tunneling through their government's block on Freeweibo).
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Later that month, some young netizens were frustrated when Bojack Horseman, an animated American TV series about a half-man/half-horse former sitcom star, and popular among the "sang" generation for his self-loathing and cynicism, was pulled from Chinese streaming site iQiyi.
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"Amid the current scandal, while netizens are free to condemn the drug company, news articles and social media posts that showed the Chinese government in a critical light continue to be censored," Sophie Richardson, China Director of Human Rights Watch, wrote in a post.
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New netizens naturally gravitated to the social network used by most of their friends and family, which reinforced Facebook's advantages—in much the same way that a booming city attracts new residents because of the opportunities created by the large pool of people already there.
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Chinese netizens are furious over the March 1 incident on flight VS250, in which a Chinese female passenger claims she was racially abused by a white male passenger, then threatened with removal from the plane by a flight attendant after she reported the abuse.
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In June he made a great show of paying a fine which netizens thought should have been slapped on him for failing to wear a motorcycle helmet during a public ride-about publicised on his Facebook page (he is pictured arriving at a police station).
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The report sparked speculation among China's netizens over how Wang Sicong had racked up so much debt, as he had courted publicity in the past by posting photographs on social media of a $400,000 karaoke bill, and seven iPhones he bought for his dog.
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The report sparked speculation among China's netizens over how Wang Sicong had racked up so much debt, as he had courted publicity in the past by posting photographs on social media of a $400,000 karaoke bill, and seven iPhones he bought for his dog.
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Aha... we've seen the latest online trending #TetrisChallenge where netizens from other countries get a look at their respective emergency responders' sprawl of equipment and guess what, we in The Life Saving Force simply could not resist sharing with you what we have too!
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BEIJING/KARACHI, Feb 27 (Reuters) - China will not be sending ducks to Pakistan to chomp through a plague of locusts after all, an expert from Beijing's troubleshooting team said, disappointing netizens who had been rooting for the birds after news of the idea went viral.
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"The Communist Party should immediately stop investigating the people they believe are behind the letter demanding that Xi Jinping resign, and cease the abductions, harassment, and investigations of media personnel, commentators, and netizens, and their family members," he wrote in a statement published Sunday on Chinachange.
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If necessary to get around the censors, netizens can also divide pàng 胖 ("fat") into yuè 月 ("moon") and bàn 半 ("half"), thus jīn sān yuè bàn 金三月半 ("Kim / gold March / three months half") = Jīn sān pàng 金三胖 ("Kim Third Fat").
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Instead, this looks more like the regular rumblings of the government's under-the-table negotiations with the country's large companies — a series of public and private statements that Chinese netizens know won't meaningfully or at least immediately threaten their ability to watch their favorite live-streaming anchors eat fast food in their pajamas.
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NBC isn't even streaming the Winter Olympics opening ceremony until 8pm ET tonight, but in the time since the event happened live yesterday in Pyeongchang, Korean netizens have made enough fan art and memes out of the ceremony's man-faced bird that it's trending nationally on Twitter, and hitting #83 on Yahoo!
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"As the world moves from citizens to netizens and is becoming more interconnected, digital security is a key parameter in measuring the safety of a city," Simon Baptist, chief economist and managing director at the EIU, tells CNBC Make It. The U.S. lags behind in other major safety metrics, however, the report notes.
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" Xi Jinping's vision for China is not likely to thaw for the next six years of his term, but more meaningful change is happening far away from the two sessions, which some young Chinese netizens have dubbed the "stupid sessions" — a pun in Mandarin where another word for "two" has a slang meaning of "dumb.
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JJ Lin, a well-known Singaporean singer-songwriter who is hugely popular in China, was receiving treatment at a hospital in eastern Jiangsu province on Saturday, when a post surfaced on the Chinese messaging app WeChat inviting netizens to bid on a drip bag and syringe that had reportedly been used in the treatment of the singer, according to the state-run People's Daily.
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The image in question is indeed from a work by Azzam, which in fact goes back to 2012, but it is a digital composition in which different parts of bombed out buildings are assembled together to resemble French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's statue; it is also possible to tell from simple observation that the image is not real (though some netizens, like political scientist Ian Bremmer, apparently could not).
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