The news first originated on Weibo.
A verified user from a certain internet company with the Weibo handle @IAmZhangTao posted: "You all would never believe what I just saw! Holy sh*t! One of the math problems which had troubled the Mathematics world for several decades now, Dale's Conjecture, has been solved! It was solved by Zhang Ye! It's not someone else with the same surname and given name, yes! It's that Zhang Ye that many of you know about! The whole place is in chaos now! It was too awesome!"
Following that, a few others also posted onto Weibo.
@BrotherFengIsInvincible: "What the f**k! It really has been proven!"
@AhMianAhYu09: "Teacher Zhang Ye is too awesome!"
