Sogou Wenwen, a Tencent-owned Q&A platform, to cease operations today after nearly 20 years and over 100 million users
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Sogou Wenwen, a Q&A community under Tencent, along with its Wenwen Mall, will officially cease operations at 23:59 on November 7. Following the shutdown, the relevant pages will no longer be accessible, the Wendou redemption function will be discontinued, user accounts will be automatically canceled, and any unused Wendou will be cleared in accordance with the law after the deadline. Wendou is a virtual point system on the platform with no cash value; it cannot be exchanged for cash or transferred across platforms. Users are advised to back up their personal content before the service ends; after the shutdown, the platform will delete or anonymize the relevant content in accordance with the law. Sogou Wenwen was originally launched as SOSO Wenwen in 2007. It was integrated into the Sogou system in 2013, renamed Sogou Wenwen in 2014, and returned to Tencent along with Sogou in 2021. At its peak, the platform had over 100 million users and had resolved more than 260 million questions cumulatively. In recent years, however, its activity declined significantly, affected by shifts in netizens' internet habits and competition for attention from short videos and interest-based communities.