Muslim Life Guide China: Muslim Community, Anti-Muslim Hate Accounts and Social Media Timeline
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Summary: This timeline explains how anti-Muslim hate accounts developed online, from early forum culture to major social media platforms, showing how rumors, selective incidents, and algorithm-driven outrage shaped a hostile online environment.
Based on my many years of experience fighting anti-Muslim hate accounts, I will summarize the development and growth process of anti-Muslim hate accounts.
We use 2010 as a dividing line. The Internet was not perfect 10 years ago, and the spread was not as fast as it is today, so we ignored it 10 years ago. Black dogs really began to appear on a large scale on the Internet probably around 2012. At that time, they mainly appeared in forums and Baidu Tieba, because these two platforms are more disseminating than one-to-one real-time chat tools such as QQ. At that time, the editor was mainly active on Baidu Tieba. At that time, the more famous anti-Muslim hate accounts included [Old Monster of Deep Sorrow], [Old Man of Iron-Blooded Justice], [Dream of Devon], [Sky of Central Asia] and other anti-Muslim hate accounts who spent all day on Tieba. To be honest, among these people, I admire [Old Weird] quite a lot. This person is not like other anti-Muslim hate accounts who will throw tantrums, cry and scold their mothers if they can't argue. This person should have real talent and knowledge. No matter whether you win or lose in an argument with him, he will not behave like a mad dog and will even argue with you politely. Then [The Sky of Central Asia] is slightly inferior. As for [The Iron-Blooded Righteous Old Man], [Dream of the Devonian] and other little ones, they are just the kind of people who just debate, post pornographic pictures, and post all kinds of disgusting pictures on the forum floor...
After the Kunming Railway Station incident in 2014, anti-Muslim hate account ushered in an explosive growth. Every day when I opened Tieba, anti-Muslim hate account’s replies were 99+. At that time, anti-Muslim hate account gradually became large-scale and had precise goals. After the Wei Zexi Incident in 2016, Baidu Tieba began to decline, and netizens began to move to platforms such as [Sina Weibo] and [WeChat public pages] that were more timely and spread to a wider audience. A group of people named [Xi Wuyi], [Yang Liulang], [Tao Lina], and [Shen Dianqi] gradually became popular on Weibo, and these people basically have various titles - scholars from the Academy of Social Sciences, doctors from a certain hospital, well-known travel bloggers, etc. As a result, their anti-Muslim hate account remarks were widely disseminated as "facts" by some netizens who did not know the truth, leading to the current chaos on the Internet.
Now as the short video industry breaks out, anti-Muslim hate accounts are also timely switching to short video platforms. This time, many anti-Muslim hate accounts are just behind the scenes, supporting some mouthpieces to act as facades. If something goes wrong, just push those facades out, they can still escape and sit firmly on Diaoyutai.
This is what I have summarized about the development and growth of anti-Muslim hate account over the past ten years of fighting with anti-Muslim hate account. Of course, there must be many characters or events that have not been included, but the general development path is like this. You can just take a look at it for your after-dinner entertainment.
Summary: This timeline explains how anti-Muslim hate accounts developed online, from early forum culture to major social media platforms, showing how rumors, selective incidents, and algorithm-driven outrage shaped a hostile online environment.
Based on my many years of experience fighting anti-Muslim hate accounts, I will summarize the development and growth process of anti-Muslim hate accounts.
We use 2010 as a dividing line. The Internet was not perfect 10 years ago, and the spread was not as fast as it is today, so we ignored it 10 years ago. Black dogs really began to appear on a large scale on the Internet probably around 2012. At that time, they mainly appeared in forums and Baidu Tieba, because these two platforms are more disseminating than one-to-one real-time chat tools such as QQ. At that time, the editor was mainly active on Baidu Tieba. At that time, the more famous anti-Muslim hate accounts included [Old Monster of Deep Sorrow], [Old Man of Iron-Blooded Justice], [Dream of Devon], [Sky of Central Asia] and other anti-Muslim hate accounts who spent all day on Tieba. To be honest, among these people, I admire [Old Weird] quite a lot. This person is not like other anti-Muslim hate accounts who will throw tantrums, cry and scold their mothers if they can't argue. This person should have real talent and knowledge. No matter whether you win or lose in an argument with him, he will not behave like a mad dog and will even argue with you politely. Then [The Sky of Central Asia] is slightly inferior. As for [The Iron-Blooded Righteous Old Man], [Dream of the Devonian] and other little ones, they are just the kind of people who just debate, post pornographic pictures, and post all kinds of disgusting pictures on the forum floor...
After the Kunming Railway Station incident in 2014, anti-Muslim hate account ushered in an explosive growth. Every day when I opened Tieba, anti-Muslim hate account’s replies were 99+. At that time, anti-Muslim hate account gradually became large-scale and had precise goals. After the Wei Zexi Incident in 2016, Baidu Tieba began to decline, and netizens began to move to platforms such as [Sina Weibo] and [WeChat public pages] that were more timely and spread to a wider audience. A group of people named [Xi Wuyi], [Yang Liulang], [Tao Lina], and [Shen Dianqi] gradually became popular on Weibo, and these people basically have various titles - scholars from the Academy of Social Sciences, doctors from a certain hospital, well-known travel bloggers, etc. As a result, their anti-Muslim hate account remarks were widely disseminated as "facts" by some netizens who did not know the truth, leading to the current chaos on the Internet.
Now as the short video industry breaks out, anti-Muslim hate accounts are also timely switching to short video platforms. This time, many anti-Muslim hate accounts are just behind the scenes, supporting some mouthpieces to act as facades. If something goes wrong, just push those facades out, they can still escape and sit firmly on Diaoyutai.
This is what I have summarized about the development and growth of anti-Muslim hate account over the past ten years of fighting with anti-Muslim hate account. Of course, there must be many characters or events that have not been included, but the general development path is like this. You can just take a look at it for your after-dinner entertainment.
