Anime streaming site Bilibili goes down briefly, driving China’s Gen Z crazy on other social media

Bilibili blamed server problems for a brief outage Tuesday night that had the platform’s young users speculating about the company on Weibo. The video-streaming site, known for its anime offerings, has grown in influence with China’s Gen Z Internet users as it pivots to become a YouTube-like platform. — SCMP

Chinese video-streaming platform Bilibili had a brief outage on Tuesday night, which it blamed on server issues, driving millions of Generation Z users to bemoan the service disruption on microblogging site Weibo, where it became a top trending topic.

Posts about the outage started appearing on Weibo around 11pm – the peak time for online entertainment in China – as users complained about the loss of their nighttime entertainment. Some users had been receiving error messages such as “404 Not Found” or “Sorry, the page is not available now”, screenshots posted online show.