When a group of several dozen mainland Chinese media organizations voted on the ten top cultural figures for 2001, "Slicker" Tsai (Tsai Chih-heng), a wildly popular young Internet author from Taiwan, was ranked second. His work has touched off a wave of interest in online literature on the mainland.
千禧年，大陸數十家媒體共同票選的十大文化人物，台灣網路作家痞子蔡（蔡智恆）榮登第二，開啟了大陸的網路文學風潮。