In March 2018, Tim Dudu Tim (hereinafter referred to as Tim Dudu) learned about the existence of B station for the first time. After watching the video above, he found it very interesting, so he patted his thigh and said to his wife who had not yet married, "I want to be the UP master." There are some videos of cats on Bilibili, which happened to be Tim Dudu also keeps a cat. With local materials, soon, a video taken from the surveillance camera was uploaded to B station. In the video, the cat took advantage of the owner being away from home, opened the door of the cage and looked out. A few days later, Tim Dudu uploaded several videos one after another. Tim Dudu recalled: "After the video of Seaweed Dance became popular, it gave me a lot of confidence." In this way, Tim Dudu's cute pet UP master's road began.
Three and a half years have passed. As of July 2021, Tim Dudu now has nearly 800,000 fans, and the average number of single video views can exceed 500,000. At this time, Tim Dudu had quit his original college job for more than a year and became a full-time UP host.
Tim Dudu is one of the cute pet UP owners who grew up with B station in the past few years, and cute pet videos have always been one of the fastest growing categories on B station. According to official data, from June 2020 to May 2021, the number of cute pet videos increased by 83% year-on-year, second only to the three categories of science popularization, humanities and social sciences, and emotional videos.
In January 2021, as the number of cute pet submissions and playbacks increased, Bilibili upgraded the animal circle channel, which was originally affiliated to the living area, from a second-level partition to a first-level partition.
Ao Di is a cat who joined B station during this period. In February 2020, Ao Di's first video was officially released. In just over a year, he has accumulated nearly 120,000 fans, and the cumulative number of views of 36 videos has reached 11.5 million. Like Tim Dudu’s choice, after the number of fans reached 50,000 in mid-2020, he decided to start working as a full-time UP host.