Social Media Explained
Language patterns from WeChat, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, Douyin, and comment sections.
Chinese platforms have their own verbs, comment habits, and ways to manage attention. These pages explain what people are asking for when they save, follow, lurk, repost, move to private messages, or leave a deliberately unfinished comment.
A useful question: What action does this comment or platform phrase invite from other people?
社恐
A casual self-label for feeling intimidated by a social situation, often exaggerating a wish to avoid it, rehearse first, or get help. It is not a diagnosis and not simply another word for introversion.
已老实求放过
I surrender; please stop coming for me—a deliberately dramatic admission that your defense has collapsed.
已读不回
Seen but unanswered—the app shows that the message was opened, while the reply never arrived.
吃瓜
Watching the drama from the sidelines—curious about what happens, but not joining the fight.
码住
Saving this for later—a public bookmark under something useful enough to revisit.
插眼
Marking my place—I want to come back and see how this develops.
蹲一个
I’m waiting for one—an answer, update, link, resource, or sometimes a person.