In this post, I’m going to show you
the homepage,
a few videos,
the user interface, and
the main features (some of them quite weird).
Hopefully, by the end, you will have a feel for what it’s like to be a regular user of Bilibili.
But before we delve in, I’ll give you a bit of background about the platform and how it began.
I tackled this topic a few years ago in a 13-minute video. This blog post is an updated and revamped version of that original video.
Bilibili’s Beginnings
Bilibili started as a site about anime, comics, and gaming (ACG) culture, which accounted for most of the content on the platform.
bilibili homepage
Nowadays, there’s quite a bit more on there.
A great deal of the content is related to philippine cellphone number entertainment: dance, music, having fun, and these kinds of things. But you can still get that ACG vibe from the way it looks and feels.
Even in its ACG days, Bilibili has always had a lot of user-generated content, noticeably more than other platforms.
Besides, Bilibili, China has quite a few different video platforms: Tencent Video, Youku, and iQIYI, to name just a few.
The main page of Tencent Video looks like this:
The main page of Tencent Video