Bright and Sunny
By posting attention-grabbing snippets on China’s short video platform Douyin, it took an account going by the name Hainan Boy only eight months to grow a following that evolved from three in November 2020 to 72,000 on September 6.
The account comes courtesy of Los Angeles native Tommy Coleman who has been living in China since 2006. The videos he uploads, in which he speaks standard Chinese, Hainan dialect as well as English, usually go pretty heavy on the tongue-in-cheek humor. All in good spirits.
The content is mainly based on Coleman’s life in
