Some Weibo results appear hidden?

As someone who uploads a lot of gacha games and therefore needs to browse through Chinese sites to get them, in particular official art that often appears on Weibo, something I've noticed recently is that not all accounts get indexed in the search bar. Even if a post has some hashtags that I browse through, I check the actual hashtag and the post never shows up, even though it's been hours since it's appeared. Is this something anyone has or currently deals with, and is there a way to get those posts to show up?

ETA: I've actually noticed this is just a wider problem with Chinese site searches in general. Xiaohongshu also has trouble surfacing some results. Given a recent post and a hashtag, going to hashtag barely - if at all - shows that post.

Generally, both of these sites are much easier to navigate on mobile. I noticed the Weibo algorithm also tends to suggest less game screenshots and cosplays using the app while viewing hashtags I end up liking a bunch of posts on mobile in my free time, then move to PC and upload later in the day when there's time for tagging. Keep in mind that liking a singular cool screenshot or cosplay will put 50 more on your feed almost instantly for whatever reason. Not even Twitter is this bad...

Official art isn't that hard to find for me usually. You probably noticed this by now but you can always find the official accounts directly by appending the copyright name to the end of https://weibo.com/n/, e.g. the official Wuthering Waves page will always be at https://weibo.com/n/鸣潮. This works for artists too, since you can only have one instance of each display name

In terms of fanart I've been finding it by spam liking good art I find regardless of copyright. Since the hashtag system is so bad, you need to find an artist and stick with them by checking back frequently. I started off with one artist I liked, followed them to get access to their following, and went down the follow list liking posts/following whoever I enjoyed the art of. I constantly see "[name] follows" above really good art from a lot of copyrights. If you like enough posts in the same genre, same devs, or with fan overlap you'll eventually get the things you really like. Character birthdays and release days are the best time to get spam likes in since you can easily go to the hashtag and like all of the top posts (and there's a much smaller chance of it being reposts from other social medias). I saw a bunch of Buling while writing this since she just got released

There's also "super groups" that are basically group fanpages. You can join these and their posts will show up on your feed. Like the user profiles, there's a consistent direct link to them - https://huati.weibo.com/k/, so the Wuthering Waves super group is https://huati.weibo.com/k/鸣潮. Sometimes fans will make super groups for things like siblings, friend pairings, and romantic pairings. Art will only get published under that lots of the time, so don't forget to check there too (I see a lot of this with HSR). There's an option to sort through the group's album which makes art searching a lot easier, and it gives you a better likelihood of finding more hidden art since you don't need to keep switching pages and it goes in date order. The only bad part is I see the most AI and reposts here

If there's a rich fan or the copyright is big enough in China there's also fan accounts/fan pages on normal accounts which commission people and host little events. Right now there's a "counting down the days before their birthday" event for a few characters that I need to upload soon. The only annoying thing is they very rarely credit artists and when they do credit someone it's the person who paid for the art, not the actual artist so you're going to end up with a bunch of artist request

This ended up being a slightly off topic 📜 but I assumed it may be even mildly helpful to someone. Xiaohongshu has too much going on for me to help on that. That site even being accessible by foreigners is a miracle

For the sake of a specific example - post #10412943 (an official commissioned artwork, which was posted as post #10411134 to official accounts) does not show up no matter which hashtag I search, fan page I enter or anything (which is why I never ended up posting it despite it being posted only 2 hours after the official accounts posted it). Though if I go to the link or account itself, it shows up.

I have a good feeling some big Chinese sites have separate algorithms for mainland people and overseas. I don’t know how to entirely fix it but I follow hundreds of people which makes life slightly easier due to the recommendations. I saw this post before the official uploaded it because I follow that artist, and it probably showed up at the top during my searches because of that