The Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, is limiting users under the age of 14-years-old to just 40 minutes of use time a day. This move is part of China’s aim on tackling internet addiction that’s happening among teenagers. Earlier this month, Beijing began limiting the time teenagers were allowed to spend playing games on both their phones and computers. The ...
Rural content is a new trend among the farmers on Douyin (China’s version of TikTok). A village-born livestreaming farmer, Jin Guowei, has made his name known from being deeply in debt back in 2018 to making RMB 300 million (US$ 46 million) of sales in 2020. He then founded Brother Pomegranate, accumulating over 7.3 million followers and once sold RMB ...