Chengdu and Chongqing are the most typical "Douyin internet celebrity cities", with user activity far exceeding that of Hangzhou, which is also a new first-tier city, and on par with the first-tier city Guangzhou. Chongqing's Douyin user activity ranks third among all cities, surpassing Guangzhou and Shenzhen, second only to Shanghai, and ranks first among new first-tier cities. Douyin users are concentrated in first-tier and new first-tier cities, and there is a step-by-step gap with second-, third-, fourth-, and fifth-tier cities, which is due to the absolute advantages of city size and volume.

The size and development level of cities have distanced people in terms of space and economic scale, but it has also stimulated people's basic psychological demands for social behaviors such as communication, resonance, and belonging.

Douyin's continued accumulation of traffic to a certain extent represents the curiosity and acceptance of urban people for new and trendy things.