ChinaSMACK


chinaSMACK was a blog based in California, United States, that covered Chinese internet culture, trends, and discussion. The majority of its content was composed of trending Chinese-language internet news articles, social media posts, and Chinese netizen comments that have been translated into English, making it accessible to audiences who could not read Mandarin Chinese. It was known for its raw, unfiltered, and often controversial coverage of what becomes popular on the Chinese internet and trends in Chinese netizen sentiments on a broad spectrum of subject-matter.
Its first post was published on July 9, 2008. Since then, the site had launched sister blogs, koreaBANG, indoBOOM, russiaSLAM, and japanCRUSH which adopted chinaSMACK's editorial mission and format for their respective countries and netizen populations.
Notable media and publications that have sourced and cited chinaSMACK including the New York Times, BBC, CNN, AFP, Wall Street Journal, Time, The Economist, and The Colbert Report.