Tianya Club () was one of the most popular
Internet forums in China. As of 2015, it was ranked by
Alexa
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as the 11th most visited site in the People's Republic of China and 60th overall. It was founded on 14 February 1999 and provided
BBS, blog,
microblog
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and photo album services.
Politicians have used Tianya Club to campaign, answer questions from constituents, and gather grassroots support.
The website has been offline since 26 April 2023.
Notable incidents
Tianya Club has been involved in Chinese news stories such as a revival of the 1995
Tsinghua University
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poisoning story about
Zhu Ling.
* Tianya Club was the progenitor of the
Hanxin hoax and was involved in the exposure of the
2007 Chinese slave scandal. Tianya Club is also famous for its
social search
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, nicknamed the "
human flesh search engine
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" (''Renrou Sousuo'', meaning "human flesh search" literally, extended to "by hand" or "not computer aided"). For example, during January 2008 of
Edison Chen photo scandal
The Edison Chen photo scandal was a 2008 show business, showbiz scandal in Hong Kong that involved unlawful online distribution of stolen private erotic photography, intimate photographs of Hong Kong Canadian, Canadian-born actor Edison Chen wit ...
, the Tianya Club users searched out and identified the woman involved, based on a silhouette in a newspaper.
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Xiao Yueyue: Viral Marketing campaigns. In an effort to promote Tianya ahead of its
IPO
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, writer Xu Jiayi (a novelist and fourth-year University of Shanghai drama student who volunteered at the
2010 Shanghai Expo) concocted an elaborate account of a "stupendous girl's"
National Day vacation adventure to the Expo.
See also
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4chan
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website. Launched by Christopher "moot" Poole in October 2003, the site hosts boards dedicated to a wide variety of topics, from video games and television to literature, cooking, weapons, mu ...
*
Futaba Channel
, or Futaba for short, also sometimes called 2chan, is a Japanese imageboard. Users of the website can upload pictures and discuss a wide variety of topics, from daily personal problems to sports, ramen, otaku and underground culture.
Origin ...
*
2channel
, also known as 2ch, Channel 2, and sometimes retrospectively as 2ch.net, was an anonymous Japanese textboard founded in 1999 by Hiroyuki Nishimura. Described in 2007 as "Japan's most popular online community", the site had a level of influe ...
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Microblogging in China
Weibo () is a general term for ''microblogging'', but normally understood as Chinese-based mini-blogging services, including social chat sites and platform sharing.
Weibo services make it possible for internet users to set up real-time informatio ...
References
External links
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Chinese Internet forums
Internet properties established in 1999
1999 establishments in China
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