Ģ017 was a tough year for AcFun as it ran into trouble with the regulators multiple times for not having the correct licenses for supplying certain types of video content. In November we reported on the platform shutting down after which AcFun staff told us it may have been due to a cyber attack.
The company has seen a high turnover of management and previous financial and regulatory difficulties. Popularly known as A Station (A 站 ), AcFun was previously the largest ACG content video platform in China until Bilibili surpassed it. Previous to that, its Weibo feed had been its run-of-the-mill content postings. This followed its 00.12am announcement: “”. The company itself said at 9.50am this morning via Weibo: “ We want to live for 500 years”. (Image credit: TechNode)Īccording to local media (in Chinese), the platform’s channels became unresponsive around 10.30am this morning. AcFun’s official Sina Weibo announcements just before its service went offline. Rumors yesterday suggested the company’s servers had been or would be switched off. Attempts to reach the website return errors citing unresponsive servers and the app is not loading.
“The more control of the media there is, the more ordinary Chinese tend to believe in speculation and innuendo,” he says.First and formerly foremost ACG (anime, comic, games) video site, AcFun, has gone offline again following rumors that it was struggling to pay the bills.
Lam says that Chinese President Xi Jinping “wants stability above all else in this sensitive period,” but that ultimately censorship could backfire. Willy Lam, a professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong’s centre for China studies, tells TIME that Beijing has steadily tightened the screws on expression ahead of the Chinese Communist Party’s 19th Congress, due to be held around October. An announcement by China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television said the sites hosted “many politically-related programs that do not conform with state rules,” and authorities are trying to “create a cleaner cyberspace,” according to AFP.Įarlier this month another regulator, the Beijing Cyberspace Administration, ordered internet companies to terminate social media accounts that cater to “the public’s vulgar taste” and disseminate celebrity gossip, AFP reports.
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