Tan was used to his videos receiving dozens, sometimes a few hundred, likes from his audience on Chinese social media. “Before my grandfather joined me, my account was just an ordinary one about food and was unnoticed on the Internet,” Tan told the South China Morning Post. The country’s top two short video apps Douyin – known as TikTok outside China – and Kuaishou each have more than 400 million monthly active users. Jiang Minci, an 89-year-old retired railway engineer in the southern city of Guangzhou, shot to fame in the past four months after releasing short videos on leading social media website bilibili.com. Jiang said she became interested in short videos after seeing her 16-year grandson watching them on the Internet and laughing a lot.

Source: The Star September 14, 2020 00:56 UTC