Wangwang Cover
Contents
  1. Tap a button, and your phone sets up the calendar for you
  2. Four places where you can keep her
  3. Pick the calendar you normally use
  4. Can't open it inside Facebook or LINE?
  5. Android: one tap and it's set
  6. Pass her story on to one person
  7. Send it in a language they can read
  8. Not sure what to say? We've written it for you
  9. Link got lost? Just ask them to search

Keep June 28 for Wangwang

Reading her story, you may feel angry, sad, unable to look away. So did we.

Everything we are doing today — sharing, forwarding, spreading the word, putting her on street billboards — may, three months from now, slowly be forgotten.

Wangwang, this brave mother, deserves to be remembered. She was not of our species, but her devotion to life, and her courage as a mother, were the same as ours.

So we chose something slower, but harder to forget: the calendar in your phone. Set June 28 once, and it rings every year — and everyone in the world who remembers her is reminded on the same day.

Left: Wangwang still giving an appeasing smile while being beaten. Right: her curled up with her three newborn puppies.
(Left: beaten 50 times within two minutes, all Wangwang could do was tuck her tail and smile, begging the person to stop — she never bit back, never fought, never ran.)
Wangwang could have bitten. She could have fought back. But as the stick came down, again and again, she didn't — she just smiled like this, lowered her head, and begged to be let go.
Because three pups, their eyes not yet open, were still waiting for her to nurse them.

Tap a button, and your phone sets up the calendar for you

No matter where you enter from, you will end up at these four buttons.

All four entry points lead to this same row of buttons
All four entry points lead to this same row of buttons

When you see this screen, just tap the one that matches your device: iOS for iPhone, Google for Android, Outlook for Outlook on a computer, and .ics for any other calendar app. That one tap adds June 28 to your calendar.

If nothing happens when you tap, you are probably inside a social app's built-in browser — scroll down to "Can't open it inside Facebook or LINE?" You are only one step away.

Four places where you can keep her

All four entry points do the same thing: every June 28, they remind you of Wangwang. Pick whichever feels most natural.

First

The cover

Stays on this page

Open the story's front page. Right below the cover you'll find "Add to calendar: Remember June 28".

Tap it to open the remembrance panel, then tap once more in the middle of the panel to reach the calendar choices.

The add-to-calendar button below the cover
The add-to-calendar button below the cover

Second

Little Wangwang peeking out of the story

Leaves the story

While you read, a little Wangwang peeks out from the bottom-left corner of the screen, with the words "Tap to light it for her".

This one is different from the other three: tapping it leaves the story and takes you to the light page. That page is a short letter from Wangwang to you, and the four calendar buttons sit right below the letter — no extra step in between.

Little Wangwang peeking from the bottom-left corner of the story
Little Wangwang peeking from the bottom-left corner of the story

Where the second one lands

The light page

The four calendar buttons are right below the letter, and a persistent "Add to calendar" bar sits at the very bottom of the page.

To return to the story, tap "Read her story" at the bottom of the page.

If all you want is to ask one person to keep this day — without asking them to read the whole story first — this page is the shortest thing to send.

The light page: a short letter, then the four calendar buttons
The light page: a short letter, then the four calendar buttons

Third

When you reach the final scene

Stays on this page

When you reach the finale, an "Add to calendar" bar floats up from the bottom of the screen and stays there as you read.

Tapping it opens the same remembrance panel as the one on the cover.

The floating calendar bar below the final scene
The floating calendar bar below the final scene

Fourth

The reading menu

Stays on this page

Open the menu icon in the top-right corner: alongside language and point of view, there is a calendar button, with the three share buttons right below it.

This is the only entry that is there the whole time — you can reach it from any scene.

The reading menu: language, calendar, and sharing all live here
The reading menu: language, calendar, and sharing all live here

Pick the calendar you normally use

The first, third, and fourth entries above all end at this screen.

The top half of the remembrance panel
The top half of the remembrance panel
The four calendar options, with the share area below
The four calendar options, with the share area below
OptionWhat happens when you tapWorth knowing
Google CalendarOpens Google's official event-creation pageYearly repeat already included — just save
Outlook / Microsoft 365Opens Outlook's official event-creation pagePlease set it to repeat yearly yourself
Apple CalendarDownloads and opens a calendar fileYearly repeat already included
Universal .icsSame as above, for any other calendar appYearly repeat already included

Outlook's event-creation page does not accept the yearly-repeat setting we pass along, so after it opens, please choose yearly repetition once yourself. The other three don't need this.

This is an all-day event, not an alarm for a specific time. When it reminds you depends on your own calendar's notification settings.

Can't open it inside Facebook or LINE?

This part matters most. Many people get stuck here and give up when nothing seems to happen — when they were only one step away.

When you open a link inside social apps like Facebook, Instagram, Threads, LINE, WhatsApp, or WeChat, it doesn't open in your phone's real browser but in the app's own built-in, stripped-down browser. It has no download manager, so the calendar file may not save.

The fix is simple: hand this page over to your phone's real browser first, then tap once more. Below are the full seven steps for iPhone (the screenshots start from inside LINE; other social apps put things in slightly different places, but the method is the same).

  1. 1

    Tap the menu in the bottom-right corner

    Inside the social app's built-in browser, look for the three dots or a similar menu icon at the bottom right of the screen.

    1. Tap the menu in the bottom-right corner
  2. 2

    Choose "Open in browser"

    This hands the same page over to Safari. Only after you jump out do you get full download capability.

    2. Choose "Open in browser"
  3. 3

    Confirm you're in the browser

    When an address bar appears at the bottom of the screen, you've made it out.

    3. Confirm you're in the browser
  4. 4

    Tap the "iOS" button

    The second of the four. Apple Calendar uses a standard calendar file.

    4. Tap the "iOS" button
  5. 5

    Tap "Continue" when prompted

    This is your iPhone asking whether to download it and add it to your calendar.

    5. Tap "Continue" when prompted
  6. 6

    Choose which calendar to put it in, then tap the checkmark in the top right

    You can first create a calendar called "Wangwang Remembrance Day", so every year's reminder is kept there. After choosing, be sure to tap the checkmark in the top right — only then is it really saved.

    6. Choose which calendar to put it in, then tap the checkmark in the top right
  7. 7

    Done

    Back in your calendar, you'll see her name on June 28 as an all-day event.

    7. Done

If you opened this page in your phone's browser to begin with, just start from step four. The first three steps are only needed inside a social app's built-in browser.

Android: one tap and it's set

After you choose Google, the event's settings are filled in automatically — nothing to adjust by hand.

"All-day" is already on, the date is June 28, and repeat is set to every year — all three are filled in for you. Just tap save. That's why it will remind you next year, the year after, every year: you only set it once.

All-day, the date, and yearly repeat are filled in automatically
All-day, the date, and yearly repeat are filled in automatically
The description field carries her story and the link
The description field carries her story and the link

The description ends with this: if this link is ever gone, search for "Wangwang's story". Even if the site one day disappears, someone will still think of her on that day.

Pass her story on to one person

Every additional person who remembers her gives a little more strength to "You do not have to love every animal. Just do not harm them." The share buttons live in three places, and they are the same everywhere.

ButtonWhat happens
ShareBrings up your phone's share sheet. What goes out is a short introduction plus the link — not a bare URL
Copy linkCopies that same "text + link", so it stays intact wherever you paste it
Social buttonsOpen that platform's share window directly
Invite by emailOpens your mail app with the subject and body already filled in
  • What gets shared is always the story's front page, never the scene you happen to be reading — this is deliberate, so the person you send it to starts from the beginning.
  • The text and the link are sent together as one piece. Some apps keep only the URL and drop the text, so we put both in the same block.

Send it in a language they can read

Her story exists in eleven languages. You don't have to build the URL yourself.

Switch the language in the menu, and the URL automatically becomes that language's version. Then just tap share or copy link — what goes out is that language's URL with that language's text.

After switching to Japanese, the URL automatically becomes the Japanese version
After switching to Japanese, the URL automatically becomes the Japanese version
LanguageStoryLight page
繁體中文StoryLight page
EnglishStoryLight page
TürkçeStoryLight page
DeutschStoryLight page
EspañolStoryLight page
FrançaisStoryLight page
日本語StoryLight page
한국어StoryLight page
РусскийStoryLight page
ไทยStoryLight page
Tiếng ViệtStoryLight page

The light page also exists in all eleven languages. If you just want to ask someone to keep this day, sending the light page URL is the shortest path.

The Japanese version of the light page
The Japanese version of the light page

Not sure what to say? We've written it for you

Write what you want to tell that person, pick a language, and tap copy — the URL attaches itself at the end.