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Here's the actual protesting: https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues

Some translations for flavor:

Issue: "10 5 5 imperialist American code peasant sneaks out of work"

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues/1738

Issue: "The last two weeks we've had morning meetings at 7am, leave work at 11pm, no breaks on the weekend...I'd like to ask, how much does a trip to the ICU cost?"... "About 8,000RMB / day"

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues/1752

Issue: "2:00, clock out, go home, shower, sleep"

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues/1732

Issue: "(Foreign Enterprise CTO Position) Australian Tech Unicorn Seeks Chinese-Area Leadership"

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues/1700

Issue: "Support this, 996 is inhumane and must stop, but always there's someone who needs to perform, work overtime for the boss to see"

https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues/1742

Notably, the repo has set records in terms of GitHub Stars in a day: https://github.com/trending

Likely because of the Star button the webpage proper.

What’s the old record?

I believe it was freecodecamp (or something like that), because they had a github tutorial that told people to make an account and star their repo.

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