Chang Che ✓

@Changxche · joined 22 Oct 2011

writer covering China | words in @newyorker ex @nytimes |🇯🇵🇨🇳🇺🇸| follow my writing and updates on Substack: https://t.co/DwXYrsVmQb

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1 733Following

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166.8KViews on collected posts

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Chang Che ✓@Changxche19 Aug

China has some of the most extensive AI regulations in the world, and yet their approach to AI's frontier risks—ways that the technology could cause large-scale existential harm—is severely lacking. So how did Beijing become the adult in the room? My latest for @NYMag on how 6.2K views · 34 likes · 9 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche13 Aug

A Chinese tech entrepreneur, with a PhD in clean energy tech, sent me this. Every year on his birthday, the Chinese local government sends him a cake. Where else does this happen? https://t.co/Dijg2VqdzJ 3.4K views · 18 likes · 1 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche17 May

The most notable mistranslations of the Trump-Xi summit. (or just slight infelicities) 1) At the banquet speech, Trump begins: "I want to thank President Xi, my friend, for this magnificent welcome — and it really was a magnificent welcome like none other — and for so 2.8K views · 15 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche15 May

This is great. Refreshing to see a sensible, and accurate, view of Chinese artificial intelligence platformed. Kudos @kyleichan 2.9K views · 6 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche26 Apr

@Changxche @NewYorker Nice piece! Here’s a brain rot tldr if you’d like (but everyone should still read) https://t.co/P8CHF4clXm 451 views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche25 Apr

Full article: https://t.co/Ygf7W4QvDb 3.5K views · 20 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche25 Apr

4/ it’s become very clear that in China this kind of AI replacement is almost a necessity of survival (competition is so fierce) while there is much more resistance in the US, which is exemplified by one executive at FlareFlow a microdrama popular platform that said they’re 4K views · 13 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche25 Apr

3/ it’s still that story but halfway through reporting, the story changed. ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 in February, which one microdrama exec called the “the ChatGPT moment for video.” When I called my contacts again at the companies, most of them had pivoted either 2.9K views · 15 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche25 Apr

2/ microdrama borrowed a lot of the scripts from webnovels, as well as a commercial logic: user feedback and ruthless data iteration. It is kind of a culmination of China’s invention of short-from video and live shopping on TikTok (get ready for microdrama ads.) Now young Chinese 4K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche25 Apr

1/ I first started reporting this as a reverse-cultural-flow story: microdramas come from Chinese web-novels, which is a very mature and thriving industry in China. if you ever fly on a plane with a lot of Chinese, you’ll find a lot of them prefer to read web novels over watching 5.4K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chang Che ✓@Changxche25 Apr

New piece in @NewYorker on the microdrama boom — the vertical, minute-long soaps originating in China and dominating the world. Roughly a tenth of humanity has watched one, and new ventures are sprouting up in almost every major country. The industry is still young, but it may be 131.4K views · 168 likes · 27 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

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Alcance, %43.84%esta cuenta3.62%mediana de 10K–100K

Interacción, %0.69%esta cuenta1.52%mediana de 10K–100K

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

131.4K25 Apr

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3.5K

45126 Apr

2.9K15 May

2.8K17 May

3.4K13 Aug

6.2K19 Aug

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.16%25 Apr

0.22%

0.33%

0.56%

0.38%

0.60%

0.67%26 Apr

0.28%15 May

0.67%17 May

0.65%13 Aug

0.72%19 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes51.3%315 in total

Reposts6.8%42 in total

Replies2.4%15 in total

Quotes1.1%7 in total

Bookmarks38.3%235 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

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