About
Bilibili (stylized in all lowercase), nicknamed BSite (Chinese: B站, romanized: B zhàn), is a Chinese online video sharing platform based in Shanghai. Users can upload, view, and comment on videos, including through danmu (弹幕, "bullet curtain"), a system of overlaid on-screen comments. The platform originally focused on animation, comics, and games, but later expanded into documentaries, variety shows, and original programming.
Bilibili hosts videos with various themes, including anime, music, dance, science and technology, movies, drama, fashion, and video games, but it is also known for its extensive kuso-style parodies by subcultural content creators. Since the mid-2010s, Bilibili began to expand beyond its original audience, a niche market that focused on animation, comics, and games (ACG), and has become a well-known Chinese over-the-top streaming platform serving videos on demand.
Bilibili is known for its scrolling danmu commenting system. Bilibili also provides a live-streaming service where the audience can interact with streamers and games, mostly ACG-themed mobile games, such as Azur Lane and the Chinese version of Fate/Grand Order.
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Early life and education
- Date not recordedChengdu University of Information Technology3
Education efforts
On 26 June 2019, Bilibili announced that it has achieved cooperation with "Teach for China" to build an elementary school in a village of Dali, Yunnan. Bilibili also announced it would support schools in providing curriculum resources for science, innovation, literacy, and video course art resources.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bilibili decided to partner with a local educational charity foundation in Shanghai (where its headquarters are located) to build a Bilibili Dream Elementary School in Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. The school is expected to enroll low-income farming and working families in underdeveloped rural areas. Bilibili also asked high-quality content creators on its website to provide tailor-made "Dream Courses" in the form of video lessons.
In 2021, at Bilibili's 12th-anniversary speech, Vice Chairman and COO Li Ni announced the establishment of the Bilibili Happiness Scholarship to support educational development in impoverished rural areas. The initial investment for this scholarship will be 4,194,172 RMB; the number 4,194,172 comes from the total number of "hahaha" and "2333" comments sent on content by community creators who won the annual Community Happiness Award in 2020–2021. The Bilibili scholarship aims to support children in rural towns and to provide them with more extracurricular trips and group activities.
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Career
Occupation: entrepreneur.5
Personal life
Philanthropy
Bilibili Video Satellite
Bilibili Video Satellite was launched on 15 September 2019. This satellite was developed by CIOMP, becoming the first video remote sensing satellite to be customized by a Chinese internet company. Bilibili uses this satellite to aid uploaders in video production, particularly in the technology and humanities spaces, with the goal of raising scientific awareness among young audiences.
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Legal issues and controversies
Cai Xukun
Cai Xukun, a Chinese artist and singer, was chosen as a spokesperson of the NBA in January 2019. Following his introduction video from Idol Producer showing him playing basketball receiving attention, hundreds of parody videos appeared on Bilibili satirizing the original video. Cai issued a lawsuit notice asking for Bilibili to remove the parody videos. Bilibili responded that they believed the videos were not illegal and refused to penalize the users who uploaded the videos. To prevent potential backlash and spam from users, Bilibili temporarily halted the verification of new accounts.
Servers in Taiwan
In September 2019, Bilibili was found to be renting servers illegally in Taiwan. The National Communications Commission required provider Chief Telecom to cease the tie-up immediately after the issue was discovered by a Taiwan-based think tank. Video on demand services based in mainland China are forbidden to operate in Taiwan due to national security concerns.
Source code leak
In April 2019, a repository called "Bilibili website back-end codes", with a large number of usernames and passwords, was published on GitHub. The repository was taken down by GitHub due to "excessive use of resources". The repository amassed more than 6,000 stars in just a few hours. However, copies could still be found on GitHub and other platforms. Bilibili responded that the leaked code was from an older version of their website and that they had taken "defensive steps to ensure the accident won't compromise user data security".
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Authority misuse
On 12 January 2025, a Bilibili user claimed that an employee exploited their position to insert malicious code into the platform's web version, causing the user's account to display blank pages and repeated messages stating, "Your account has been banned." The user also shared chat logs showing the employee threatening to ban their account. The employee, identified by his surname Ni (倪), reportedly engaged in doxxing and personal retaliation after a disagreement with the user.
On 16 January, four days later, Bilibili confirmed the misuse of authority, terminated the employee in question, reported the case to regulators, and issued a public apology. The company has since removed the malicious code, disciplined related supervisors, and offered the affected user a one-year premium membership as compensation.
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