Abstract: The present application discloses a method for displaying a bullet screen of a video, an electronic device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, wherein the method includes: creating a bullet screen layer including a transparent data layer and a transparent view layer between a video presentation layer and a user interface operating layer of the player, where the data layer is used for displaying characters, and the view layer is used for displaying images; dividing acquired bullet screen data of the current playing video into a character bullet screen and an image bullet screen according to class identifiers included in the bullet screen data; and sending the read character bullet screen to the data layer for display and the read image bullet screen to the view layer for display.