I've noticed the use of WeChat has changed quite a bit for over the past 4 years: Use of the 'Moments' function (a photo-orientated miniblog) that was quite po

I've noticed the use of WeChat has changed quite a bit for over the past 4 years: Use of the 'Moments' function (a photo-orientated miniblog) that was quite popular when WeChat was newer has declined significantly and is not mainly focused on self-promotion (selling products, often food products) via WeChat, the odd personal post, photos of the odd teambuilding exercise. Groups popular for colleagues, ex-colleagues, ex-classmates to keep in contact with each other, even this use-case has been cracked down on especially international companies. The demographic for these friends/colleagues is mainly 20s-40s professionals in business services or IT; out of ~500 contacts there'll typically be 10-15 Moment posts. In chats people ask about VPNs and such things offline. Political discussion for younger people happens much more on Weibo than WeChat. For older people I see using on the bus or subway Groups are still a big social thing, and this group isn't going to be very anti-government as they're the generation that's benefited from the housing and associated booms of the last couple of decades. Two anecdotes that partially answer your question.