The platform economy or “platform capitalism” has expanded rapidly and globally over the past two decades. Such an economy has not only generated tremendous wealth and new employment opportunities, but brought about a new social class, gig workers or “platform precariat.” As this new class grows, it is expected to play an increasingly important role in influencing sociopolitical development as well as labor relations in many countries. While there are some studies on the types of the precariat’s resistance designed to protect their interests against platforms. Nonetheless, almost none of them is done from the perspective of political science. Such an absence could lead to an incomplete understanding of political motivations and implications of the precariat’s resistance. In addition, almost none of these studies are conducted based on a representative sample of platform workers, and hence the findings from these studies seem limited in their generalizability. To help close these gaps, based on a representative sample of food delivers in the four largest megacities in China, this study explores the magnitude, forms, and motivations of the precariat’s algorithmic resistance or “algoactivisim.” Our findings suggest that different types of the precariat’s resistance are variably motivated by both political and non-political factors. The findings have significant implications for the sociopolitical impact of precariat’s resistance.