It was a normal day in Shanghai; This was a normal street in Shanghai, but something abnormal is happening.
A crowd had gathered here since the early morning
As the day went by it grew larger and rowdier.
They were waiting for someone
Then he finally showed up, this homeless man who had collected garbage and lived on this street for more than a decade.
He also happened to be one of the most viral internet stars in China.
But who was this man. Why was he famous? And what did all these people want from him, someone who seems to have nothing to give?
Today I will tell you a story about a promising young man who became homeless
a homeless man who became famous
and a famous man who walked away from the spotlight, and some say, to become homeless again
It’s a true story so I cannot promise a happy ending. But I do guarantee its quality, and I hope it inspires you to ponder about this collective experiment that we call modern life
Childhood
Shen Wei was born in 1967 into an average family in Shanghai.
He grew up with tension at home, especially with his strict father.
In particular, Wei loved drawing and reading history as a child, but for some reason his father hated it. As a result Wei had to figure out ways to get books himself and read in secret.
This was when Wei first began collecting garbage
He started finding things like broken glass and orange skins, then sold them to recycling collectors for spare change which he then used to buy books. His classmates at school made fun of him for it, although he never understood why.
To Wei he was putting in honest work to collect something people were willing to pay for.
He said
“When someone begs for money people give them sympathy. Yet when I put in honest labour, people laughed at me for it. It confuses me to this day”
但那个时候我就很纳闷，怎么讨饭的人不做事情，反而都同情他。而我付出了劳动，反而被讥笑。最有趣的是，我捡的橘子皮有专门的人收，为什么还遭人笑话。直到现在我都没搞懂。
Wei didn’t know it yet, but this wouldn’t be the last time collecting garbage would bring trouble to his life
Early Adulthood
In any case this is how Wei grew up, getting laughed at in school, then reading in secret at home, and not having an easy time fitting in anywhere.
Eventually Wei graduated college, and began working at the office of the district auditing bureau.
This was the best sort of job to get in China. A government post with stable paychecks, and supposedly job security for life. Still Wei managed to get himself suspended from it.
The problem again came down to his inability to fit in, in this case, at work.
It was not due to a lack of trying on his part though. He always had a desire for human connection but just didn’t have an easy time getting it.
He said
“I once printed out a hundred business cards. When I met someone I seemed to connect with, I gave them one of my cards, hoping to continue the connection. But no one ever called.”
His colleagues found him strange, especially when he began collecting garbage at work
Wei noticed that people were throwing away scrap papers at the office. These could be pages that only had prints on one side, while the other side was still blank and perfectly usable.
So Wei began taking these pages out of the office trash bins, then took them home for writing and drawing.
But his coworkers did not like that behavior.
For context, this was the 1980s where the philosophy of environmentalism was not as widespread in Chinese culture, so recycling wasn’t seen as this trendy “eco-friendly” habit the way it is today.
China did have recycling back then, but it carried a much more negative stigma. Recycling work was mostly done by the poorest people, who collected garbage, sorted them then sold them for small profits. It wasn’t “green”. It was low status.
Meanwhile Wei was a white-collar government worker, one of the most “respectable” jobs you can get. So when his colleagues saw him digging through the office trash bins, they didn’t interpret it as frugality or eco-friendliness. They thought Wei was weird, that there was something wrong with him.
People began shunning him at work. Eventually his workplace sent him home on the excuse of a “long-term sick leave” telling him to stay home until he recovered from his “mental illness”.
That was 33 years ago, so it’s fair to say that his workplace never wanted him back in the first place
In any case it wasn’t all bad. Being on ‘sick leave’ meant Wei could still receive some money from work, about 2000 yuan per month, or about 300 USD by today’s exchange rate.
After Leaving Work
Having been dismissed from work Wei spent the next several years drifting around. He moved back home a few times, but still could not fit in with his family. They fought constantly. When he couldn’t take it anymore, he moved out.
He then rented an apartment in Shanghai, but continued his habit of digging through garbage. He went to public garbage dumps, took out items he deemed useful and took them home.
This behavior troubled his neighbors who did not like seeing all this trash taken into the apartment building. So the neighbors reported him, eventually causing his landlord to kick him out
He moved a few more times after that but could not stay for mostly similar reasons; either a landlord or neighbor or someone he lived with did not like his habits with garbage.
So eventually Wei thought “fuck it imma just be homeless now”
He didn’t actually say that but I think he felt it in spirit.
Philosophy of Recycling
So around the early 2000s Wei formally began living on the streets of Shanghai as a homeless man.
Ironically, being homeless was the first time in his life where he could dig through garbage in peace without people caring.
You might be wondering why he would go so far for garbage though. I mean the desire to avoid waste was admirable and everything but is it really worth getting fired and becoming homeless?
From what I’ve read Wei seems to have a unique philosophy around garbage, one he arrived at independently from the Western environmentalism school of thought
He believed there was no such thing as garbage, only misplaced items (“没有垃圾之说，只是它们被放错了地方”).
He talked about nature and how it never produces garbage; even when animals produce excrement it would still be turned into fertilizers for plants. But humans came around they started throwing things away and calling them garbage.
Wei also often challenged the negative connotations society places on the word garbage
“I don’t understand what the word ‘garbage’ even means” he said, “Is it a noun? A verb? Or an adjective?”
In practice, Wei thought there were too many useful things that people were throwing away, and he wanted to pick them out (“我就是觉得垃圾里有这么多好东西被丢掉了，有的可再利用的垃圾不应该丢，丢了太可惜，我要把它捡起来”).
In his own way, he wanted to make some contribution to reducing the amount of waste in the world: “这些年，我发自内心地就想为垃圾减量做点贡献”.
Homeless Life
In any case his life as a homeless man had officially begun
“I’m quite adaptable” he said, “I can fall asleep right away while lying down on the side of the road. In winter, I curled up to sleep, but I often woke up shivering.”
“Eating was the simplest thing for me. In today's society, food is the easiest thing to scavenge, since it’s the most heavily wasted; something many people don’t treat as precious.”
我适应能力很强，在马路边一趟下就能睡着。冬天时，我会蜷缩着睡，但经常被冻醒。吃饭是最简单的事。现在的社会，吃是最好捡的东西，也是被浪费最严重的东西，是很多人不以为珍贵的东西
This is one of the places he slept. He would often have extra food which he gave to stray cats in these bowls
He was most often seen around the Yang Gao South Road station in Shanghai’s Pudong district.
He spent his days doing two things: digging through garbage and reading.
He said he got almost everything he needed from garbage, but he did spend money to buy books
The “Homeless Man Who Reads”
I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a homeless man read. It’s certainly a rare sight in China.
So eventually, people began to notice, this strange homeless man who read. A homeless man with no signs; did not drink or beg for money, but just sat on the sidewalk and absorbed in books.
Eventually some curious strangers went up to Wei and began talking to him.
“What'd you got there, bro”
“What are you reading”
“What do you like about that book”
To their surprise the homeless man did not speak gibberish. Instead, lucid and eloquent thoughts came out of his mouth.
People watched as this disheveled homeless man casually began quoting Shakespeare and Sun Tzu in the same sentence, and piecing them together into a coherent narrative that was both pertinent and actionable in the present
The homeless man was making sense
Words began to get around that there was this ‘wandering scholar’ who roamed the streets of Pudong.
People started coming to Yang Gao South Road station just to look for him. When they found him, they came up to him, followed him around as he went about his days and asked questions
As far as I can tell people from all walks of life just came up to our guy and basically asked whatever was bothering them, so the range of questions was wide. But whatever they asked, Wei seemed to always have something thought-provoking to offer.
For example this is a clip where I think someone asked him about hiring:
Wei replied that there are 4 types of people for hiring. Those with both hearts and skills should be hired first. If you don’t have access to them, then hire those with hearts but no skills. The last sort of people you want to hire are those with skills but no hearts. In other words, hearts should be prioritized above skills when it comes to hiring
Literary Chinese
Now Wei was eloquent but of a particular type.
He did this thing a lot when he talked, where he would mix in snippets of literary Chinese with the modern standard Chinese that he spoke.
Literary Chinese, sometimes called Classical Chinese, is the writing standard for Ancient Chinese texts. It’s a language that’s been around for about 2000 years and is no longer used in modernity
You can still use classical Chinese when you speak. Most people, including Wei, do this to reference ancient Chinese texts and phrases.
It’s effective communication because classical Chinese is much denser informationally. It allows you to communicate a lot of depth with just a few words.
But it’s much harder to do because you’d have to have some education in literature to be able to reference ancient texts in modern speech in a way that’s coherent and relevant.
So it’s kind of jarring to see a homeless man do it, and do it so naturally and effortlessly.
How Wei Learned Classical Chinese
But how is Wei doing this? Wei attributed what he knew to the books he read. In fact he often urged people to read the books directly instead of asking him questions.
He had read a lot of books at that point, many of those were history books, and a lot of those were original historical texts written directly in literary Chinese hundreds to thousands of years ago. And that is likely where he got his informal literary training in Classical Chinese.
Rise to Fame
At some point people started recording Wei talking with their phones, then posting those clips onto social media
Online viewers who were used to their algorithmic cocktail of brainrots, would often do a double take when they came across Wei’s clips when scrolling on their phones
Somehow this contrast of a disheveled homeless man speaking like a literature professor was intensely interesting, and much different from whatever TikTok dance challenge the viewers just came from.
So instead of scrolling away people stayed and watched. Sometimes rewound to watch again, then paused to contemplate what Wei said.
These viewer behaviors were all the signals the algorithm needed to push Wei’s clips to even more people.
Eventually Wei went viral.
How viral you might ask? Well I think we’ve caught up to the beginning of this video
Being Famous
People from across the country flew into Shanghai just to see him.
For days this huge crowd surrounded Wei, from morning to night, refusing to leave even when he begged them to.
Wei recalled that there would sometimes be a group of people standing in a circle around him watching before he even woke up in the morning (“沈巍说在他还没醒的时候这些人就已经围观在这里。”) which seems kind of creepy to me
A sanitation worker recalled that he once saw Wei begin talking to his fans since the early morning, and kept talking to them until 2 in the afternoon, not having had even a moment to eat or drink that entire time, and looked completely exhausted. A shop owner nearby couldn’t take it anymore and took Wei inside his shop, and locked the door to give him a moment to rest.
The Dark Side of Fame
Despite the overzealous manner and exaggerated size of these crowds, one could at least find comfort in the fact that these were people who appreciated Wei’s thoughts and intellect right? Isn’t that the good news?
Well unfortunately the truth here is a bit darker.
You might notice many people in the crowds came yielding phones, cameras, mics and other recording devices.
They were not there to see Wei. They were there to work.
These were influencers. Sometimes organized ones deployed by influencer agencies. Many of them were live streaming in real time.
It was unclear whether they cared about Wei at all or whatever came out of his mouth. They just wanted to capture it on camera.
Wei had become too famous. Any clips with him in it were getting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of views online. And in the attention economy, views are money.
Where there is easy money, there is a gold rush. And that is what Wei had become in the eyes of these influencers.
Like vultures they closed in on Wei, fighting over each other to get their piece of the viral internet money.
As the competition for the gold rush intensified, influencers had to get creative about how to monetize Wei’s fame.
One girl began to stand next to the crowd and shouted for Wei to marry her, while holding a sign that included the name of her social media account
Another guy sat next to the crowd and pretended to be a reading homeless man too. It was unclear how long he lasted.
Was Society Sick, or Was He?
Looking at all this, I wonder: Did Wei fail to fit in in the past because there was something wrong with him? Or because there was something wrong with that which he was trying to fit into
In any case Wei was not oblivious to the crowd’s nature. He caught on that the people coming up to him cared less and less about his answers, and more about filming them.
Nevertheless he tried to be patient and give his attention to whoever sought it, but occasionally he did have to set boundaries.
One night when the crowd would not disperse despite it being quite late; Wei began to worry about the commotion disrupting the residents in the area who were trying to sleep. He said this:
High-Class Vagrancy
After days of being besieged by the crowds in this manner, Wei couldn’t take it anymore.
Witness recalled that Wei was escorted into a car one day and left. When asked where he was going, he replied “to seek refuge”
A sign was left at Wei’s usual spot that read “Mr. Shen is exhausted, both mentally and physically, and will be away for a while. Thank you!”
That night, Wei went to a hotel, and proceeded to spend the next month in what he called “high-class vagrancy”, an experience he later described as mentally exhausting but materially comfortable.
He slept in hotel rooms paid for by a combination of his old classmates, potential business partners and followers. He also showered, shaved, got a haircut and bought new clothes.
He spent his days being chauffeured from place to place, and attending various lunches and dinners.
There seemed to be a lot of people who wanted to host him for a chance to meet him.
During this time Wei thought about going back to his old life. Sort of leave the hotel room one early morning and head to the nearest dumpster; maybe read some books after. But he knew that that was no longer possible. His life has completely changed
Ironically the human connections he had struggled to get before now seemed to be flooding in.
Random friends of friends suddenly had his number, and old classmates who never called now wanted to meet up and have a reunion.
Companies wanted to sponsor him, and influencer agencies wanted to manage him
Not to mention the large amount of people who seemed to just want to “help” him, to hold his phones, organize his schedules, run his accounts, or with whatever endeavor he wanted to partake next
Wei knew however that most of these connections did not come with pure intentions
Out of instinct he turned down the offers for sponsorship and management. He tried to keep his distance with people too. But some of those people were persistent and a few of them managed to get close
Xiao Fei
Xiao Fei was one of those people. An e-commerce entrepreneur from Xinjiang, Xiao Fei came to Wei hoping to piggyback off his fame.
But unlike others, Xiao Fei announced it outright, both to Wei and to the world on streams
This radical honesty got Wei’s attention. It also helped that Xiao Fei was incredibly attentive and capable.
Pretty soon Xiao Fei became Wei’s assistant, and began to manage all the logistics that came with Wei’s fame.
As the two grew closer they also started living together. At this point their relationship had evolved that of a figurative father and son
This was what Wei had always wanted. Wei always wanted a close relationship with his father; since he never had that and now was much older, Wei wanted to have a great relationship with a son instead. To him Xiao Fei was filling that role
He said to Xiao Fei that he was ready for this whole ‘becoming famous’ thing to lead to nothing, but since he met him through this experience, that alone was enough for him.
Streaming
At Xiao Fei’s urging, Wei created an account and began livestreaming on the Chinese platform Kuaishou, which is basically like TikTok
Wei would go live about an hour every night, where he talked, answered questions and interacted with fans. He basically did what he used to do in front of the crowds except now virtually.
The numbers got big fast. His Kuaishou account reached a million followers and live streams were pulling in 10s of thousands of concurrent viewers.
I’m not sure how much Wei enjoyed actually live streaming. He felt awkward staring at himself on a screen, since he was used to looking at people’s faces when he talked to them. He also compared live streaming to advanced begging, referring to the system where streamers rely on viewer donation for monetization. But Wei also saw streaming as his “only way not to detach from society”, and also a way to maintain a platform with which to spread and defend his belief and philosophy, so he kept doing it.
For a moment, everything was working.
His streams were popular and generating a lot of money while Xiao Fei took care of all the digital and physical logistics behind the scenes
That was until things began to go wrong
Haters
Haters spawned like mosquitoes after a rain, and began creating rumors about Wei out of the most benign materials
A photo was taken of Wei making a phone call on the street. Rumors then began spreading that he was calling his co-conspirators to divide up the loot, whatever that meant
In another instance Wei was accused of being unfilial for not visiting his mother, but when he did visit his mother on Mother’s Day, they criticized him for putting on an act
Xiao Fei was also dragged into the online hate. Rumors began spreading that he had a prior criminal record, and used to sell products online but never ship them to customers.
The most toxic rumor I found was one insinuating that Wei and Xiao Fei were having a sexual relationship in secret.
During this time Wei felt that his every move was being watched and criticized online. He developed a sense of fear for saying the wrong things, not just when he was streaming, but also in private, since his text messages were often leaked to the public and over-interpreted to the nth degree
The Economics of Haters
You might feel that all this hatred was coming out of nowhere
Like… I thought Wei was well loved?
He was the homeless guy who read books, and quoted classical Chinese, people loved him, right?
Why did they suddenly hate him now?
As it turns out, what happened to Wei wasn’t an isolated incident. Rather it follows a pattern that was predictable, if not procedural.
There’s an investigation published by Economic Reference News(《经济参考报》) that looked at these “ordinary person going viral” phenomena in China and describes the business model behind it.
When you go viral, you become a pool of free attention. And the moment there’s free attention, independent influencers and influencer agencies show up like scavengers seeking to capture some of that attention and monetize it.
They are trying to “ride the wave of your virality” so to speak, and they do this through 3 different strategies:
positive riding, negative riding, and hard riding. (“正蹭 / 反蹭 / 硬蹭.”). No pun intended with that last one.
Positive riding is when the influencers wrap themselves in good vibes and say “positive” things about the viral star as a pretense to be near them and piggyback off their fame.
This happened to Wei at first when he was still kind of niche and not many people knew about him. People filmed him talking, then posted those clips with captions like “wow look at this amazing wandering scholar and his profound wisdom #sunshine #rainbows”.
But that market became crowded pretty quickly. As Wei became more famous too many people were trying to film him. So at that point the crowd moved onto the 2nd strategy: hard riding.
Hard riding is value-neutral. It doesn’t matter whether the content is framed positively or negatively. In fact it doesn’t matter whether the content is relevant to the viral event at all. The only goal is to brute force yourself into the proximity of the viral star. As long as you are in the frame, you can steal some heat.
We saw hard riding on full display during the days the huge crowd besieged Wei. The girl who shouted for Wei to marry her, and the guy who pretended to be a homeless reader were both hard riders. I even saw someone dressed up as Wukong and livestreaming near the crowd. What did the Monkey King have anything to do with Wei? Nothing at all. That’s hard riding for you.
But then Wei left the streets and began streaming from home, hard riding was no longer feasible. Unless you are breaking into his house, there was no way to brute force yourself into his vicinity.
With positive riding being too competitive, and hard riding no longer accessible, the influencer crowds moved onto the final strategy
Negative riding (反蹭) is the opposite of positive riding: instead of spreading positivity around the virality they spread negativity. They mock, stir conflict, create rumors and conspiracy theories. Truth and facts are irrelevant here. The goal is drama and clickability. Inventing fictions out of thin air was fair game so long as it generates views. After all, hateful attention is still attention, and attention is money
That is the underlying market incentives that drove this sudden rise of online hate towards Wei. People were making hateful content because it was now profitable to do so; the last profitable niche to exploit before this viral well ran dry
Being at the centre of all this hate incentivized by the market dynamics of the attention economy itself was pretty crazy. To call it crazy is probably an understatement actually.
The Breakup
I don’t know how much all this contributed to the eventual collapse of Wei and Xiao Fei’s relationship. But in any case… their relationship eventually ended.
Wei doesn’t talk about the details of how this relationship ended in interviews, at least none that I could find.
However the haters online ate it up. Rumors about what happened between the two began to spread like wildfire. Some read literally like dramatic fan fiction. Since I cannot find proof that any of them are real, I won’t entertain them here.
What I do know is how much the end of this relationship affected Wei.
Functions can be replaced I think. If you lose an assistant you can hire a new one. But some relationships are not replaceable. When it ends, parts of ourselves die along with it. We can heal but the scar tissues can remain forever
I think that is what happened to Wei when Xiao Fei left.
In a documentary released about a year after the duo’s relationship ended, there was a scene of Wei at a dinner looking at a photo of Xiao Fei on his phone under the table.
In the same documentary, Wei concluded: “Maybe I’m just not meant to have close relationships with people”
Leaving the Spotlight
Perhaps all this online hate eventually became too much for Wei.
On May 22, 2020, about a year and 2 months after Wei’s initial rise to fame, Wei took down all the videos on his Kuaishou account and published an open letter to his 1.3 million followers.
In the letter he announced that he would withdraw from publishing content indefinitely. The reason he gave was online violence which left him quote “mentally exhausted, humiliated and heart broken”. He said that with Literary Chinese
He said he might stop posting for a week, or a year, or permanently. And that seemed to have been the last of Wei.
As time went on and as Wei continued to stay quiet, the internet eventually forgot about him, and moved on to whichever unfortunate soul to go viral next.
Did Wei Become Homeless Again?
Around the middle of last year however, about half a decade after Wei’s open letter, new clips of Wei digging around public garbage bins began circulating online.
These clips seemed to have reawaken the rumor machine. Soon many more clips like this came out, with captions describing how Wei had once again become homeless.
I’m not sure how many of these clips contained real footage of Wei digging through garbage in 2025, or just repurposed old clips of Wei digging through garbage back in the day, reuploaded with new captions, or downright AI-generated.
In any case people were eating it up. If you look at the comments of some of these clips, most people weren’t questioning ‘whether it was real’, but went straight to moral conclusions. They say things like, “Why does our society let a man of this talent sleep outside?” “How come a scholar like this is unable to feed himself?” “He should be given dignity.” Etc.
For the sake of my own sanity I did some research to see if Wei did in fact become homeless.
I found this report from Red Star News (红星新闻) which is a mainstream outlet based in Chengdu. The report came out in May of 2025, and got their information by interviewing Wei himself.
In the report Wei claimed that he had a place to live and was not homeless. He was indeed digging around the public garbage bins but he did so out of his anti-waste principles not because he was forced to out of poverty
To corroborate the above I also found this Douyin account. Now during the height of Wei’s fame there were many fake social media accounts claiming to be Wei. But this one does look real. It has over 1 million followers and the very first piece of content on this account was a video posted in 2019 where Wei read the account’s number out loud to confirm that it is his real account.
The average deepfake from 2019 had some obvious tells and this doesn’t look like that as far as I can tell
Now Wei does not publish content consistently here. He posted just 10 pieces of content in total last year, and only 1 piece of content the year before. And this content was mostly minute-long short clips, or sometimes just pictures.
Despite this inconsistent posting schedule, I did not see any recent content in which Wei looked homeless. They usually show him traveling somewhere and meeting people. The latest one from this account was posted on Feb 7th, 2026. It shows a poster of a calligraphy event in Shanghai which Wei was planning to attend.
So it’s relatively safe to say that Wei is not homeless. He isn’t posting regularly as a content creator. But he is aware that he has an audience and engages with them from time to time.
I don’t know if this is a strategic decision on his part to post less in order to not become too famous again. But he appears to be doing well with this quieter, lower-profile life.
And as The Last Samurai puts it, “I’d like to think he may have at last found some small measure of peace that we all seek and few of us ever find”
I think I’ll end on one of his quotes:
“We are all actors” he said “actors on the stage of life. Sometimes I wonder, is my life even real, or has it all been an illusion”
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