On May 19, the first day of the national mourning, Audition, a well-known online game in China, encountered an unprecedented wave of criticism and pressure. Tens of thousands of posts demanded that Audition and its Tieba forum on Baidu be shut down. Subsequently, after the incident where a woman from Liaoning insulted the people of Sichuan, Audition was once again pushed to the forefront of public opinion. In response to the attacks and demands for a ban coming from all sides, 9You (the company behind Audition) stated that these accusations during the national mourning period are suspicious and seem to be manipulated by someone with malicious intent.