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2009·Early YouTube

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Comments that fly across the picture, pinned to the second they were written.

An early online video

The story

What this was

A Chinese video site built on danmaku — scrolling comments overlaid on the video at the moment they refer to — so watching is watching everyone who watched before. The home of a generation of Chinese internet culture.

It first appeared in 2009, during early YouTube.

You were there

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The same internet

Early YouTube

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Related

Nothing related yet. Relationships are recorded where evidence supports them, not inferred from similarity.

Behind the record

Where it came from

There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

What happens
A Chinese video site built on danmaku — scrolling comments overlaid on the video at the moment they refer to — so watching is watching everyone who watched before. The home of a generation of Chinese internet culture.
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