World & Society

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

What's trending on social media outside the US?

晒完年终奖，从此互联网圈查无此人 — 'show your bonus, vanish from the internet forever' after Tencent staffer fired for leaking 3.17m yuan bonus

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

What's actually trending on social media right now?

The Ariana effect — fans say staying with a partner who mistreated you reads as low self-respect and hurts brand-deal prospects.

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

Which youth attitudes differ most sharply between Western and Chinese social platforms?

躺平 is migrating from 'I won't grind at work' to 'I won't even date' - 不婚不育 becoming 不谈不约

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

Which social issue is gaining the most momentum?

Petition energy is anti-ban, not pro-ban — mainstream framing assumes child-safety consensus, crowd data shows the opposite direction of momentum

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

What cultural shift is quietly reshaping daily life?

Crowd's own word is "underconsumption core," not "quiet luxury" or "slow living" — framed as resistance to buy-pressure, not aesthetic.

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

How are people building meaningful community in a digital age?

The bottleneck isn't finding people, it's the 40-messages-in-minutes overload that leaves posters unable to reply and looking like ghosters

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

What policy or cultural change is most affecting the LGBTQ+ community?

Crowd splits policy vs culture into two separate tracks: courts rolling back rights while peer-level acceptance among younger users feels like it's rising

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

Where are human rights advancing or under threat?

"Detention roulette" — Judge Ho's phrase for ICE court-hearing arrests is becoming the crowd's shorthand for due-process erosion

World & Society · SWEPT JUL 2026

What's becoming acceptable now that wasn't a few years ago?

'CheatGPT' epidemic: 94% of UK undergrads admit using AI on assessed work, 12% paste raw AI text in