China's new social media craze: Paying people to shower you with over-the-top compliments
March 19, 2019 at 01:55 AM EDT
Chinese social media users are paying the equivalent of a few dollars to be part of social media groups on platforms like Tencent's WeChat where they are given praise. The groups known as "kuakuaqun" — Mandarin for "praising groups" — could be a response by users fed up with hatred online.