Viewer discretion: depiction of domestic violence.
This is the staged formula that reliably prints impressions on Douyin right now.
We do not condone the violence. We are pointing at what the Chinese short-video market currently rewards.
The pattern is consistent: The algorithm does not care whether the conflict is real. It only cares that people pick a side and stay.
It says more about the current attention economy than it does about any individual skit.