Bilibili, nicknamed B Site (B?, B Zhan), is a video sharing website based in Shanghai where users can submit, view and add overlaid commentary on videos.
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28 Facts About Bilibili
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Since the mid-2010s, Bilibili began to expand to a broader audience from its original niche market that focused on animation, comics, and games, and it has become one of the major Chinese over-the-top streaming platforms serving videos on demand such as documentaries, variety shows, and other original programming.
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Bilibili provides a live streaming service where the audience can interact with streamers.
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Bilibili is known for its scrolling danmu commenting system.
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Bilibili spent three days creating a prototype website named Mikufans.
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In December 2017, Bilibili purchased an e-sports team originally called IM for League of Legends and renamed it to Bilibili Gaming.
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In January 2018, Bilibili purchased the broadcasting rights to the spring competition season of LPL, League of Legends World Championship, and League of Legends Rift Rivals.
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On 23 March 2019, Bilibili announced at AnimeJapan that they had partnered with Sony-owned American anime distributor Funimation to jointly license anime titles for both the U S and Chinese markets.
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Bilibili began its foray into original programming by joining the production of a fourth season for Informal Talks.
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In December 2021, Bilibili had announced that subsequent seasons for Voice Monsters, Informal Talks, and Rap of Youth would be released in 2022.
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On 3 February 2021, Bilibili announced it had acquired Shanghai Yarun Culture Communications Co.
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On 29 March 2021, Bilibili was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at an opening price of HK$790.
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Besides hosting video content, Bilibili's main feature is a real-time captioning system that displays user comments as streams of scrolling subtitles overlaid on the screen, visually resembling a danmaku shooter game.
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Bilibili's platform offers a feature called "advanced subtitles", where users can use an ECMAScript-based API to control video playback, dynamically change danmaku subtitles and draw shapes on the screen.
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Bilibili is experimenting with HTML5 video playback technology and has released smartphone apps for video playback on iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
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Bilibili is free to use, with its main revenue coming from webpage advertisement and affiliate marketing.
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On 19 May 2015, Bilibili reduced the number of questions to 50, with 20 questions on internet comment etiquette.
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On 26 February 2017, Bilibili reinstated the 100-question test, with a passing threshold of 60.
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On 9 October 2016, Bilibili launched a premium membership subscription service on the site, costing around ¥25 per month, or approximately US$2 per month on a long-term subscription.
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From 1 January 2018, Bilibili extended its early access programme to premium members, giving them early access to certain episodes of animated series, with regular members needing to wait a week to watch them.
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On 15 June 2017, Bilibili launched a "discipline committee", allowing members to arbitrate reports of violations in some communities and decide whether the behaviour is illegal, and vote on the penalty.
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Bilibili collaborated with Taobao in December 2014 as part of the 12 December Online Shopping Festival.
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Bilibili responded that they believed the videos were not illegal, and refused to penalise the users who uploaded the videos.
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In September 2019, Bilibili was found to be renting servers illegally in Taiwan.
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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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Bilibili responded the same day that the employee was feeling unwell since the afternoon of 4 February 2022 and completed a standard nine-hour shift that day, ruling out the possibility of excessive work as the cause of death.
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