Ready Player One

On June 3, a newly opened account on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform, attracted close to 2,000 follow-ers in just nine hours. In the Weibo account's first post, a student named Hua Zhibing, greeted netizens and told them that she would soon begin as a student at the computer laboratory of Tsinghua University. In the accompanying video, a young girl wanders around the campus while a female voice introduces herself.