The 5 Stages of Big Fat Fish Going Viral: How the DeepSeek Community’s “Whale Girl” Fan Creation Became a New Product Culture Topic
Author’s note: From the character’s birth, the relay of fan-created works, and the image controversy, to AI Agents entering Bilibili comment sections as “Big Fat Fish,” this article lays out the complete timeline, data, and product-culture takeaways behind the DeepSeek Whale Girl phenomenon. In late October 2026, a batch of accounts with similar avatars and…
