刷屏

• Pinyin: shuā píng
• Hanzi breakdown: 刷 (swipe/refresh/flood) + 屏 (screen) -> fill the screen.

Meaning

To flood a screen or feed with repeated messages or posts.

It can describe one person spamming or many people posting about the same topic. The tone may be annoyed, excited, or observational.

Examples

1. 群里被表情包刷屏了。 The group chat was flooded with stickers.
2. 决赛结束后，朋友圈全被刷屏。 After the final, everyone's feed was flooded.
3. 别一直刷屏，大家看不到重点。 Stop flooding the chat, everyone can't see the main point.

Usage Guide

Context: chat groups, social media, live events

Tone: observational, sometimes annoyed

Do Say

• 新闻一出，相关消息开始刷屏。（After the news broke, related posts flooded feeds.）
• 别用同一句话刷屏。（Do not spam the same sentence.）

Don't Say

• 把正常频率的讨论说成刷屏。（刷屏 implies overwhelming repetition.）

Common Mistakes

• Using it for simply scrolling; it means flooding the visible feed.

Origin & History

From 刷, "swipe/refresh," and 屏, "screen," in chatroom and platform usage.

Cultural Context

Era: 2000s-2020s

Generation: All internet users

Social background: Online communities

Regional notes: Common across Mainland digital platforms.