Formal text wise Chinese is still a very comprehensive language. However in terms of user-generated content it has degraded severely especially in the past ~5 y

Formal text wise Chinese is still a very comprehensive language. However in terms of user-generated content it has degraded severely especially in the past ~5 years. Internet slangs in English can be confusing too, but users have a choice in whether to use them or not. On Chinese social media using abbreviations/homophones has become practically baseline for certain common terms because these platforms do so much preemptive self-censorship due to the government's near-invisible red line that fluctuates constantly.