Sympathy seeker refers to someone's status updates on social networking sites like Weibo, WeChat Moments or Facebook that are solely for the purpose of gaining sympathy from followers.

Sympathy seeker指有人在微博、微信朋友圈或者脸书等社交媒体上发布的纯粹为了获取圈里朋友安慰的那种个人状态，即“求安慰帖”。

This kind of updates usually include expressions like "so sad", "unhappy", "too frightened", or, they would write something pretty vague, for instance, "not knowing what to do", in order to draw attention and comments from followers.

这种帖子一般都会有“好伤心”、“不开心”、“好害怕”等字眼，或者，就是写一些意思非常模糊的句子，比如，“不知道该怎么办”，目的就是吸引粉丝的关注和评论。也就是我们说的“钓鱼”。