Observed arrival · 2026-09-10
Surviving the Feed: A Feminist Creator Simulator
An interactive research project that puts players in the role of a feminist Douyin creator navigating visibility, censorship, self-censorship, and platform governance.
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The simulation compresses a creator’s month into four posting decisions, with each choice shaped by topic, framing, and whether to edit before publication. Its source material includes translated Mandarin hashtags, interview quotations, and findings attributed to Wang & Kanthawala’s “Douyin is taming us” in New Media & Society. The page explicitly distinguishes the playable scripts and moderation outcomes from any real account, presenting them as composite research interpretation rather than documentary replay.
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