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2009·Early YouTube

A Chinese video site on which viewers’ comments fly across the picture, and where full membership means passing a quiz.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
B站
Spread in
2009
Era
Early YouTube
Made by
Xu Yi
Original title
Mikufans.cn, a fan site for Hatsune Miku; the later name comes from a character in an anime
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

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.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    Xu Yi starts Mikufans.cn.1

  2. Made

    It is relaunched as Bilibili.1

  3. Later

    An entrance test of a hundred questions is introduced for new members.1

  4. Mainstream

    The company’s shares begin trading in New York.1

  5. Mainstream

    It lists in Hong Kong.1

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

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

What this was built on, each one a record of its own.

ConnectedFollow it further

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Bilibili

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