Tan Zhouhai is a frustrated villager in Hunan,     1     (attract) potential customers for his agricultural products by uploading short videos in Douyin — known as TikTok outside China.     2     , he only received dozens of likes from his audience last year. That changed when he uploaded a video of his 83-year-old grandfather dancing     3     a popular song called Little Apple,     4     gained 10,000 likes.     5     (inspire) by this unexpected success, Tan asked his grandfather to perform     6     (regular) in videos featuring the 30-year-old cooking for the elderly man, who has lost all his teeth, wearing a pair of round sunglasses for added comic effect. With 1.6 million fans, the account     7     (accumulate) at least 3 million likes up to now.

“Before my grandfather joined me, my account was just     8     ordinary one about food and was     9     (notice) on the internet,” Tan told the South China Morning Post. “With my grandfather in my videos, my account expresses family love and companionship. Many of my fans have said     10     are touched.”

Tan's grandfather is just one of a number of elderly people, who have taken Chinese social media by storm by breaking the public stereotype of the typical senior citizen.