{"id":986100,"date":"2026-01-17T10:53:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986100"},"modified":"2026-01-17T10:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:23:32","slug":"what-is-chinas-are-you-dead-app-and-why-is-it-going-viral-heres-how-the-platform-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/what-is-chinas-are-you-dead-app-and-why-is-it-going-viral-heres-how-the-platform-works\/","title":{"rendered":"What is China&#8217;s \u2018Are you dead\u2019 app and why is it going viral? Here&#8217;s how the platform works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new app that everyone in China seems to be talking about. Called \u201cAre you dead\u201d, it is designed to check on people who live alone and has suddenly gone viral, drawing tons of downloads and widespread chatter on social media.<\/p>\n<p>This sudden popularity has pushed the app&#8217;s creator to introduce a subscription fee and rebrand it with a new name to make it more suitable for users outside China, as it prepares for a global audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new app that everyone in China seems to be talking about. Called \u201cAre you dead\u201d, it is designed to check on people who live alone and has suddenly gone viral, drawing tons of downloads and widespread chatter on social media. This sudden popularity has pushed the app&#8217;s creator to introduce a subscription fee and rebrand it with a new name to make it more suitable for users outside China, as it prepares for a global audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}