Weibo's announcement led to the anger of China's LGBTQ community as well as many other Chinese citizens. A Weibo user called “"Zhu Ding Zhen" ” made a post, saying, “"I am gay, what about you?" ” This post was read more than 2.4 billion times and shared by about 3 million users, commented by 1.5 million users, and liked by 9.5 million users in less than 3 days. On April 16, Weibo posted another announcement to reverse its previous decision, stating that Weibo would stop banning pieces of contents related to homosexuality and expressed thanks to its users’ “discussions” and “suggestions.”