Douyiner

plural Douyiners

1. A user of the video-sharing social media platform Douyin.

   In May 2018, ‘Black Face V’, a popular ‘Douyiner’ with 26.37 million followers, posted a 13-second video entitled ‘I want to tell you’ on Douyin, in which the watermarks of ‘Douyin’ and ‘ID: 145651081’ were embedded.

   2019 October 8, Tian Lu, “Beijing Internet Court: whether a short video is original or not has nothing to do with its length”, in IPKat, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2019

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   Douyin’s influence has even extended offline, as many users identify themselves as ‘Douyiner’ (“抖音人”) and socialize with each other using jargons in real life. […] They also learn from such prattles and use them in their real life for romantic relationship, as noted by P6, a female high schooler: “I really enjoy watching this Douyiner. His voice is nice, and he always posts videos in which he is narrating beautiful prattles to us.[…]”

   2019, Xing Lu, Zhicong Lu, “Fifteen Seconds of Fame: A Qualitative Study of Douyin, A Short Video Sharing Mobile Application in China”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media: Design, Human Behavior and Analytics; […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 11578), Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 233–234 and 238

   Beyond the Douyiner’s motivations, Lu and Lu’s study [6] revealed the content categories the users engage in. […] Although not being representative, the category “prosocial behaviour” of humans was named by the Douyiners as important due to its association with “positive energy.”

   2020, Aliaksandra Shutsko, “User-Generated Short Video Content in Social Media. A Case Study of TikTok”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media: Participation, User Experience, Consumer Experience, and Applications of Social Computing; […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 12195), Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 112