{"id":164033,"date":"2023-05-16T16:24:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/midjourney-china-launches-then-its-announcement-disappears"},"modified":"2023-05-16T16:24:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T21:24:55","slug":"midjourney-china-launches-then-its-announcement-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/midjourney-china-launches-then-its-announcement-disappears","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Midjourney China\u2019 launches \u2014 then its announcement disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/midjourney-china-launches-then-its-announcement-disappears2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After igniting a global obsession over generative art, ten-month-old Midjourney appears to be entering the Middle Kingdom, the world\u2019s largest internet market.<\/p>\n<p>In an article posted on the Tencent-owned social platform WeChat late on Monday, a corporate account named \u201cMidjourney China\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mp.weixin.qq.com\/s?__biz=Mzg4MDkxMjM2Mg==&mid=2247483739&idx=1&sn=1590cf2d0f1364ca46a91d1b8fd7af71&scene=21#wechat_redirect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it has started accepting applications for beta test users. But the account soon deleted its first and only article on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear why the post disappeared after receiving an overwhelming reception in China. Applications would only be open for a few hours every Monday and Friday, the original post said, and users quickly filled up the first quota on launch day. TechCrunch hasn\u2019t been able to test the product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After igniting a global obsession over generative art, ten-month-old Midjourney appears to be entering the Middle Kingdom, the world\u2019s largest internet market. In an article posted on the Tencent-owned social platform WeChat late on Monday, a corporate account named \u201cMidjourney China\u201d said it has started accepting applications for beta test users. But the account soon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}