En {{Dato|2019-03-26}}, la 996.ICU deponejo kaj retejo estasestis kreitakreata. La deponejo deklaras ke la nomo "996.icu" signifas ke se vi daŭras toleri la 996 laboran horaron, vi riskos vian propran sanon kaj eble bezonos resti en Unuo de Intensaj Zorgoj ([[angla lingvo|angle]]: '''I'''ntensive '''C'''are '''U'''nit) iam. La slogano de la movado estasestis "la vivoj de programistoj gravas" ([[angla lingvo|angle]]: "developers' lives matter").<ref name="icu_info">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/blob/5a9758795661b0f38ea4b8f2cb0f015bff91d884/README.md|title=996.ICU/README.md|website=GitHub|date=2019-03-30|accessdate=2019-03-31}}</ref><ref name="icu_3">{{cite web|url=https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3003691/developers-lives-matter-chinese-software-engineers-use-github|title=‘Developers’ lives matter’ – Chinese software engineers use Github to protest against the country’s 996 work schedule|website=South China Morning Post|author=Yingzhi Yang|date=2019-03-29|accessdate=2019-03-31|language=en|dead-url=no|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331011739/https://www.scmp.com/tech/start-ups/article/3003691/developers-lives-matter-chinese-software-engineers-use-github|archive-date=2019-03-31}}</ref><ref name="icu_6">{{cite web|url=https://www.inkstonenews.com/tech/china-tech-workers-protest-996-working-schedule-github/article/3003800|title=China’s tech workers protest brutal work culture with communist jingles|date=2019-03-29|access-date=2019-03-31|language=en|website=Inkstone|dead-url=no|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331012201/https://www.inkstonenews.com/tech/china-tech-workers-protest-996-working-schedule-github/article/3003800|archive-date=2018-03-31}}</ref><ref name="icu_7">{{cite web|url=https://www.oschina.net/news/105515/developers-lives-matter|title=No sleep, no sex, no life，程序员这次忍不了了|author=局长|website=开源中国|date=2019-03-29|access-date=2019-03-31|language=zh|dead-url=no|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331182921/https://www.oschina.net/news/105515/developers-lives-matter|archive-date=2019-03-31}}</ref><ref name="icu_8">{{cite web|url=https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/follow-chinas-996-work-hours-and-youll-end-icu-says-chinese-developer/article/3003702|title=Follow China’s "996" work hours and you’ll end up in an ICU, says Chinese developer|author=Xinmei Shen|website=Abacus|date=2019-03-28|access-date=2019-03-31|language=en|dead-url=no|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331183121/https://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/follow-chinas-996-work-hours-and-youll-end-icu-says-chinese-developer/article/3003702|archive-date=2019-03-01}}</ref><ref name="icu_9">{{cite web|url=https://radiichina.com/github-protest-chinese-tech-996/|title=GitHub Protest Over Chinese Tech Companies’ "996" Culture Goes Viral|website=RADII|author=RADII China|date=2019-03-28|access-date=2019-03-31|language=en|dead-url=no|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331183128/https://radiichina.com/github-protest-chinese-tech-996/|archive-date=2019-03-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/2/18291035/chinese-developers-github-protest-long-work-hours|title=Chinese developers use GitHub to protest long work hours|last=Liao|first=Shannon|date=2019-04-02|access-date=2019-04-09|website=The Verge|language=en|dead-url=no|archive-url=https://archive.is/V0AME|archive-date=2019-04-09}}</ref>
Du tagojn poste, en {{dato|2019-03-28|}}, la deponejo estis ricevinta 50 mil stelojn, kaj 100 mil stelojn en {{dato|2019-03-30|}}, kiu fariĝis pinta tendenca deponejo en GitHub.<ref name="icu_1">{{cite web|url=https://36kr.com/p/5189654|title=用代码抗议996加班：集结在github上的程序员，正在进行一场社会实验|website=36氪|author=橙皮书|date=2019-03-28|accessdate=2019-03-30|language=zh|dead-url=no|archive-url=https://archive.is/PyFmA|archive-date=2019-03-31}}</ref> La deponejo ricevis 120 mil stelojn en {{dato|2019-03-31}}, kaj 200 mil stelojn en {{dato|2019-04-09}}, fariĝanta dua plej starigita deponejo en GitHub. La ekblovo de aktiveco rezultis ke la "issue" paĝo de la deponejo estasestis spame inunditainundata, kaj tail fermis. Ĝi estis diskutata je [[Zhihu]], [[Sina Weibo]], kaj [[WeChat]].<ref name="sixthtone-996">{{cite web|author=Xue Yujie|url=https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003771/chinese-developers-protest-overwork-on-github|title=Chinese Developers Protest Overwork on GitHub
