A short-cut boy who was very popular on Douyin before was Liu Jianguo.

Douyin is a music and creative short video social software incubated by ByteDance. The software was launched on September 20, 2016. It is a short video community platform for all ages.

On the afternoon of January 18, 2019, CCTV held a press conference with Douyin Short Video, officially announcing that Douyin would become the exclusive social media dissemination of the "2019 China Central Radio and Television Station Spring Festival Gala" platform, the new media actions for another happy year of CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2019 were announced at the meeting. Douyin will carry out all-round and in-depth cooperation with CCTV Spring Festival Gala in the fields of short video promotion and social interaction to mobilize the majority of young groups and target Chinese people around the world. Use participation instead of comments, use participation to guide attention, and help spread the Spring Festival Gala.

On July 30, 2020, the Beijing Internet Court issued a verdict and determined that Douyin App had infringed on users’ personal information. On September 14, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced that there is a large amount of bad information and behavior in the Douyin APP that induces minors to participate in cheering and ranking, spend large amounts of money, and incites and incites young fan groups to fight and abuse each other. In September, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Market Regulation convened the heads of six Internet companies, including Douyin, to hold an administrative meeting on the implementation of the ban on arrests and non-chain disconnection of e-commerce platforms in the Yangtze River.