HTX Studio

He Shijie (; born April 1999), better known as He Tongxue , is a Chinese content creator and technology reviewer, whose English YouTube channel is named HTX Studio. He began publishing technology-focused videos on Bilibili in 2017 and gradually gained a following. He rose to prominence in 2019 after releasing a viral video reviewing 5G networks, which led to him winning Bilibili's "Uploader of the Year" award in 2020 and being named a "Top 100 Uploaders" in 2021. His YouTube channel gained over a million subscribers within a year.

Career While in his final year at Shanxi Experimental Secondary School, He produced a commemorative video for his class. The positive reception sparked his interest in video production, and he hoped to pursue a related field in university. However, as he had not taken the , he enrolled at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) and was assigned to the Telecommunications Engineering and Management program. After the college entrance exams, he opened his Bilibili account , initially to learn filming and editing, but later began uploading his own tech product review videos.

In February 2018, He created a video about his experience with a full suite of Apple products, which garnered over 100,000 views in a short period. From then on, video production became his main focus outside of his studies. In February 2019, his review of AirPods was shared and endorsed by technology KOLs such as Zhu Haizhou, Product Manager for OnePlus' Mobile Software, which helped him build a following in Bilibili's digital technology community.

On June 6, 2019, He produced a video testing the 5G network on the BUPT campus. The same day, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the first 5G commercial licenses. The video quickly gained widespread attention, receiving over 5 million views overnight. Official media outlets such as People's Daily, CCTV News, Xinhua News Agency, and the Communist Youth League of China reported on it. The outlet Guancha also praised the video.

Following this, He's popularity soared. Within a year, he participated in the recording of CCTV's Voice, and had opportunities to speak with Microsoft's CPO Panos Panay and Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun.

In February 2021, He released a video interviewing Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook. China's diplomat Wang Wenbin shared the video on Facebook, praising the spirit of "helping each other in a time of need" in the video.

In July 2021, He completed his undergraduate studies. He had earlier established his own studio, "Hangzhou He Tongxue Cultural Media Co., Ltd." (, now Hangzhou Jihe Digital Cultural Creative Co., Ltd., ) and registered several trademarks, becoming a full-time video creator. In 2022, He moved his studio from Beijing to Shanghai.

Failure to credit open-source code In November 2024, He was embroiled in a controversy over the alleged misappropriation of open-source code in his video "I Made an Animation with 360,000 Lines Text in Notes." In the video, released on November 15, He claimed his team had "specifically written a software" to optimize the animation generation process. However, programmer and content creator "epcdiy" pointed out that the code used was adapted from an open-source project on GitHub called "ASCII-generator", which is licensed under the MIT License. The team had also removed the original author's attribution information, leading to accusations of plagiarism.

On November 19, He responded that the code was indeed based on the open-source project and had been modified to "optimize character generation ratios, image cropping methods, and parameter passing." The video was updated to say, "we modified this open-source software." While some viewers expressed their willingness to believe him, others accused him of intellectual theft and deceiving his audience. Shen Zhao of the Yangtse Evening Post noted that He's video was a sponsored commercial project, and removing the original author's credit not only infringed on the author's rights but also lowered his audience's expectations for original content.

The statement quickly drew backlash on Chinese social media, with critics labeling him "arrogant" and "lacking empathy", arguing that he was ignoring the drivers' reliance on positive reviews. Related topics trended on Weibo, and his Bilibili account reportedly lost tens of thousands of followers. He later deleted the post and had not made any further public comment.

Media outlets, including The Beijing News, commented that while He was exercising his consumer rights, the way he publicly articulated his reasoning could be perceived as an elite perspective that was inconsiderate toward service industry workers.