The fierce little y
On September 7, a天涯netizen with the IP address of "the fierce little y" posted a thread titled "Oh, my fierce and gorgeous sofas, who wants to PK with me?", which contained screenshots proving that "the fierce little y" had successfully grabbed the first reply (often referred to as "sofa" in Chinese internet slang) in various forums. The poster invited netizens to come and challenge.
In just three short days, this post attracted over 1.5 million clicks and views from netizens. Afterwards, "the fierce little y" issued another declaration on天涯entitled "Announcement to all of天涯: I will reply to every post, and any post with the name Little Y must be replied to, continuing the fierce streak", challenging netizens that if they summon Little Y, she will appear. Even more surprising was that the click count for Little Y's sofa-grabbing post broke through 1.7 million.
Due to her fierce behavior and style, many netizens began to strongly support Little Y, spontaneously forming the Little Y party. Some netizens changed their online names to "little y since young", "Little Y's Uncle Three", "Y's Legend", "Y's Fierceness"... There were even netizens who started a human flesh search ("reversing" personal information) on "the fierce little y" to find out who she really was. In just one week's time, "the fierce little y" had become the hottest IP on天涯.